Sunday, November 15, 2009
You are a letter. AN e-mail. A message Youreveryday life is more than just a story being written. Your very life is a letter! You were created to recieve and send a message intentionally into the lives of people who you do life with daily! Simply stated, you were made to know life more abundantly, and life abundant happens when you live beyoud yourself. No longer is it enough to aks the question, "what am I supposed to do with my life?" In fact, "no longer is it appropriate. Your life was never intended to just be about you! It's never enogh to simply ask questions about you, with regard to "what you are supposed to do." or what you want most to do. Maybe a better question would be this: "What's my oart in this epic called humanity?" The people whom we encounter EVERYDAY actually need you. They need you, and YOU need them! We all need each other. To know each other. AND, our lives both complement and supplement one another. That how humanity works. TOGETHER! I am of short changed, in fact, when you are not all you were intended to be in relationships with me. You are short changed when I am not all I was intened to be relationship with you! It could even be said that I don't love you if I don't deliver into your life the message written in me through me. That's how love is demonstrated and how relationships happen and how people find abundant life as they were intended to find it. The sender (God) delivered His message to us and then He sends us. We are HIs love letter of love into the culture around us to the people whom He loved enough to die for. He asks us now to love the same way. Is your story sitting in the out basket yet to be sent! Would you live sent? Live your life as if Jesus Christ has sent you into a world to speak love into a loveless world!
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
The Authority of Truth
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you —James 4:8
It is essential that you give people the opportunity to act on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual— you cannot act for him. It must be his own deliberate act, but the evangelical message should always lead him to action. Refusing to act leaves a person paralyzed, exactly where he was previously. But once he acts, he is never the same. It is the apparent folly of the truth that stands in the way of hundreds who have been convicted by the Spirit of God. Once I press myself into action, I immediately begin to live. Anything less is merely existing. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will.
When a truth of God is brought home to your soul, never allow it to pass without acting on it internally in your will, not necessarily externally in your physical life. Record it with ink and with blood— work it into your life. The weakest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is liberated the second he acts and God’s almighty power is available on his behalf. We come up to the truth of God, confess we are wrong, but go back again. Then we approach it again and turn back, until we finally learn we have no business going back. When we are confronted with such a word of truth from our redeeming Lord, we must move directly to transact business with Him. "Come to Me . . ." ( Matthew 11:28 ). His word come means "to act." Yet the last thing we want to do is come. But everyone who does come knows that, at that very moment, the supernatural power of the life of God invades him. The dominating power of the world, the flesh, and the devil is now paralyzed; not by your act, but because your act has joined you to God and tapped you in to His redemptive power.
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you —James 4:8
It is essential that you give people the opportunity to act on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual— you cannot act for him. It must be his own deliberate act, but the evangelical message should always lead him to action. Refusing to act leaves a person paralyzed, exactly where he was previously. But once he acts, he is never the same. It is the apparent folly of the truth that stands in the way of hundreds who have been convicted by the Spirit of God. Once I press myself into action, I immediately begin to live. Anything less is merely existing. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will.
When a truth of God is brought home to your soul, never allow it to pass without acting on it internally in your will, not necessarily externally in your physical life. Record it with ink and with blood— work it into your life. The weakest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is liberated the second he acts and God’s almighty power is available on his behalf. We come up to the truth of God, confess we are wrong, but go back again. Then we approach it again and turn back, until we finally learn we have no business going back. When we are confronted with such a word of truth from our redeeming Lord, we must move directly to transact business with Him. "Come to Me . . ." ( Matthew 11:28 ). His word come means "to act." Yet the last thing we want to do is come. But everyone who does come knows that, at that very moment, the supernatural power of the life of God invades him. The dominating power of the world, the flesh, and the devil is now paralyzed; not by your act, but because your act has joined you to God and tapped you in to His redemptive power.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Praying for Miracles!
I've been praying every Tuesday with a small group of people at my church now for about 6 months! I have invited community leaders from Crestview, other Pastors from around the area! Only a small group have been faithful during this time frame! What a blessing we have had during this time of prayer that God would move among us! This year has been awesome! Central has grown in many ways, we have had blessings and miracles daily! What if more were praying? What if more were committed and did whatever it took to reach just one person this year? What if? What a question that needs an answer! What if? Tonight I pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out more workers! The harvest is plentiful and ripe! We meet every Tuesday at Central Baptist located at 951 S Ferdon Blvd in Crestview, Fl. Between 6-7pm everyone is welcome! What if?
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Monday, November 02, 2009
As I was reading Gods word the other day. I realized that we can unleash a miracle by first of all understanding that whatever I'm holding onto, the stress, lack of funds, anger, hurts, and habits that are bad. All I have to do is place those things into the hands of Jesus Christ and He will take it, bless it, break it and give it away! Just like in the parable in Luke when His disciples only had 5 loaves of bread and two fish! Jesus had told them to feed the crowd of 5000 and the disciples realized they only had enough bread and fish for a few fish sandwiches. They put what they had into the hands of Jesus, he took it, blessed it, broke it, and gave it away! So whatever you have, give it to Jesus! Put "it" into the masters hands and he'll take it, he'll bless it, he'll break it, (which by the way may hurt) and then he'll give it away! Now the cool thing about Jesus when he's finished with you you'll have enough left over to bless others! God is good!
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