di Youth First Team
We need the power, presence, presents and the Person of the Holy Spirit. We can't live a life of faith without the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit isn't just beneficial, He is essential. Without the Holy Spirit there wouldn't be faith. Without the Holy Spirit there wouldn't be the Bible. Without the Holy Spirit there wouldn't be a resurrection. If Jesus needed the Holy Spirit so do we!
As you'll hear in this message and throughout this series called Saints & Ain'ts we recognize that every SAINT has a past, but every SINNER has a future. We also acknowledge that religious people are known to throw stones, but God uses them to build His Church. the Bible is clear that we're not supposed to judge people because it doesn't help lead people to Jesus, but grace does. I think we all need to come to the honest conclusion that we all need grace. Unfortunately, many of us are good judges of other people's sin, and even better lawyers of our own. In this message we learn that our job isn't to judge, but to witness and testify.
"If it's in the Bible, you need it in your life." This is my biblical stance on every promise in God's Word because if God thought it was necessary to be mentioned in the Scriptures then it must be beneficial and vital for your life. We need to Be Filled with the power, presence and Person of God the Holy Spirit.
Resolutions alone will not resolve the issues in your life. Setting goals alone is not the solution to your situation. But hard work, working out your salvation can bring forth life changing results. We do this by creating a workout plan for our life, a plan that requires us to set the right kind of goals, to set real goals, to set good goals, to set God goals, to make our goals big and our steps to achieve them too small to fail. It's time for a workout plan!
Age is inevitable, but growth is optional. However, we should all be growing because healthy things grow. Truth be told, if we're not growing, we're dying. That's why it's time to grow! We think we all need to rest in the fact that real growth takes time, the best things in life take time, and we need to steward the time we have well because we don't have a lot of it. So I ask you what are you doing with time? How are you investing it?
It is important when God speaks because after the first time He spoke it was followed with the first attack against His Word, which was a question of doubt... "Did God really say?" So as we continue to give you tips on how to talk to God, how God talks to us and how to talk to each other, in this message God's Word reveals to us how to talk to Satan and how we need to quote Him because God only does what He says, not what we say.
We believe God speaks, He is still speaking, He wants us to talk to Him through prayer, and God talks to us through His Word and when we align our words with His Word some amazing things take place. Especially when we say what God says.
Don't you hate fake?! I hate fake jewelry, fake friends, fake shoes, fake social media accounts, wrestling because it's fake, Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny because they're fake! We hate fake, but the real issue we is that at times we act as fake as the things we hate... But we're not doing this no more!
We're always believing God to do more than what we're asking for. To do more in us, through us, with us and for us, and the truth is God will fill whatever we give Him. If you want God to do more in your life, what are you willing to give Him to fill?
You don't change your life by making changes in your life alone... We change our life by letting God change our mind. We need a new mind, a renewed mind because our life follows our thoughts., and where our mind wanders our life follows. So we need to repent, to change the way we live by changing the way we think.