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Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
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Offense
Matt. 24:10-13 in the end times many will become offended and grow cold in the faith.
We live in the most offended times in the world!
OFFENSE - A SPIRIT OF SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS. You are right and your rights are most important.
Here is a thought: you can be right… and someone can be wrong - and you can still have an attitude of offense.
YOU CHOOSE TO BE OFFENDED…
“I’m right… but this is right… this is how it’s done”
Love holds no record of wrongs
Logozamai - illogical -
CYCLE OF OFFENSE/BITTERNESS
- We live in a broken world
- We become offended
- We nurse the offense
- We live offended and offend others and God
- We justify our offense
- We forget who God is and forget we live in a broken world (repeat)
*We forget who God is… what does that mean?
We forget he is our righteousness…
People who get offended are self righteous - they don’t need God they just simply need to be treated right and up to their standard of how special and perfect they are.
Pain and unforgiveness leading to a spirit of offense causes control and performance issues.
Every area of unforgiveness is a place of protection for the satan to work in your life.
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
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Who is the last person in the world you would ever expect to accept Christ?
Your sinful stuttering alcoholic boss.
Your neighbor who has a different woman over every night?
Your old high school buddy who is now a drug dealer.
The muslim at the local corner gas station.
What about your father in law who is an atheist and constantly nags on you about believing in God?
You never know!
I was training a young man at my gym a few years ago. His father was a military guy… a lifer. In for 25 years and getting to retire in about 3. He was a military guy… hard nosed, disciplined… the military had taught him a few words that I had never heard of. On the outside he was the last guy who would have ever come to Christ in that season of my life. So what happened? Last time I saw him was at the gym… he came up and hugged me and thanked me for leading him to Christ… and then on top of it God gave him a word of knowledge for me. Hit me right between the eyes!
You never know.
Luke 9:10 Now there was a disciple in Damascus named Ananias; and the Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.” And he said, “Here I am, Lord.” 11 And the Lord said to him, “Get up and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying, 12 and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him, so that he might regain his sight.” 13 But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he did to Your saints in Jerusalem; 14 and here he has authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.” 15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;
You never know.
Ananias was seeing God and hearing God in the supernatural but still thinking in the natural. HELLO? Did you catch that? He is in the presence of God in the supernatural, but still thinking in the natural. How many of us have heard or seen God and know he is asking us to do something… and while we are hearing and seeing God in the supernatural we are reasoning with our natural minds.
We all want the easy fruit. The guy who asks US… how do we come to know Christ. I have had a few of those. I walked into a laundry mat to wash my huge comforter and there was a guy in there who said hello. I said hi, how are you today? He unloaded… life was bad, his wife was sick and he had no hope. I didn’t share much of a testimony, I just simply said would you like to give your heart to Christ and allow him to take over. He said yes, we prayed, God moved on him. He came to Christ and now worships him fully.
Just had another guy at Sams club introduce me to his girlfriend and say this is the guy who led me to Christ.. it was very much the same way….
But there have been a few… well that just don’t seem right, or obvious… or should we say “have any chance at all to be open to Christ”.
I have friends who were both previously married. Then found Christ, and got married to each other. The mans ex wife was a terror. She constantly berated him for not enough money, how he handled the kids, she would come over and scream at him in front of his new wife … it was truly horrific. One night he came home and found his wife with his ex wife sitting at the kitchen table crying… and praying. His wife had led his ex wife to Christ. And it was a truly powerful conversion. Now on the outside… she was definitely a Saul… but now in just seconds she had become a Paul.
you never know.
You know that person who just has no chance of ever coming to Christ? You never know… they just may be the person Christ has chosen to be a key instrument in his plan for eternity.
You never know
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
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Jeremiah 8:20 Harvest is past, summer is ended, And we are not saved.
The prophet is overcome with grief as he foresees the tragic end of the nation. The people wonder why God their King does not save them. God replies that it is because of their idolatry. They now realize that they can no longer expect his salvation (18-20). Nothing can heal Judah’s spiritual sickness now; the end has come. And nothing can heal the wounds of grief in Jeremiah’s heart as he sees his people suffer (21-22).
Idolatry
According to Easton's Bible Dictionary, Idolatry is "image-worship or divine honour paid to any created object.”
Other areas in scripture point that idolatry is worshiping anything other then God, be it a deity, person, object etc…
Paul describes the origin of idolatry in Romans 1:21-25: men forsook God, and sank into ignorance and moral corruption (Romans 1:28).
The steps taken:
You look away from God
You no longer serve him
You now put your faith in other created beings or objects
There are people who worship the government… they will save us. They are so smart and always have our best interest in mind…
Your pastor is your savior… unless he falls to corruption, adultery or new age doctrine… and then you fall away because you worshiped him
Your political stance is your savior.
Your quasi mix of religious and cultural accepted norms are your religion.
Your “Spiritual”
Your agnostic
You are atheist
You are a satanist…
HERE IS THE BIGGY…
You just simply worship you. What you want, what is easy for you, what works for you, what makes life understandable and allows you to fit into the crowd, the system the circle of friends and the work crew.
You worship comfort… oh, but you are the first one to blame God when things don’t go right… Just like the children of Israel.
Im not sure where America is on the end times timeline… but I know we are getting closer to being cleared off the face of the earth.
what do I mean?
We are not mentioned in the end times. So as we covered a few months ago the options for the US are simple
Nuked to ashes
Taken over by another country by force or by bankruptcy
Given up to the European nations to be saved by our corrupt and bankrupt country.
And or the final one which could happen along the lines of any of these others…
We are raptured and those left must be taken care of by another country.
But I know this… I am torn. I want God to come back, but I also want more time for those who do not yet know him… oh and selfishly I would like our once great Godly and great country to Godly and great again.
So lets us repent, pray and share the love of Christ…
Summers almost over.
Friday Aug 13, 2021
Friday Aug 13, 2021
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Risk it like a biscuit
risk…
On June 18, 1971, the founder and current CEO of FedEx, Frederick W. Smith founded the company Federal Express (FedEx) with his $4 million inheritance and raised an additional $91 million in venture capital such that it could potentially deliver packages overnight to anywhere in the world. This is something that, at that time, had never been done.
Unfortunately, three years after the company began, because of the rapidly rising fuel costs,Federal Express was on the verge of bankruptcy, losing over $1 million a month, with no one willing to give them any additional loans nor any investors interested in contributing capital. Smith reached a point when the company’s account had only $5,000 and he couldn’t afford to refuel the planes that delivered FedEx’s shipments. Smith made a final pitch to General Dynamics for more funding, but was refused, leaving FedEx more or less dead on the ground when they would not be able to fuel their planes the following Monday.
Still, Smith refused to surrender. He took the last $5,000 and flew to Las Vegas, placed the company’s remaining money on Black Jack bets over the weekend and won an additional $27,000 by Monday. It wasn’t a huge windfall, but the total $32,000 was enough to refuel the planes and keep the business running for a few more days. After a few days Smith successfully managed to raise $11 million to keep the company afloat and, by 1976, Federal Express made its first profit of $3.6 million.
If he had given up, and didn't take the risk of gambling, there would be no FedEx now.
Risk…
Why do we risk?
Personality
Up bringing
Peer pressure
Experienced the high of risky behavior- we become addicted to it
How do we risk?
Financial
Physical
Boredom
Fame
What does Jesus say about Risk?
2 Timothy 1:7 “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”
Risk isn’t stupidity… it is a calculated risk. So God gives us the formula
NO FEAR + Power + Love + Self control = a calculated step of risk.
Now if you are missing any of those… you are just being foolish!
No risk no reward - but even more so - no risk, no maximum growth, no great stories… No move of God, and basically no faith.
Faith is spelled R.I.S.K.
Do you realize all the great stories in the bible come down to one basic ingredient - God told someone what to do and they took a risk and obeyed God… and now we have a great story.
How do we overcome the enemy?
Rev. 12:11
They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY - STORIES OF RISK!
Ecclesiastes 10:8 “When you dig a well, you might fall in. When you demolish an old wall, you could be bitten by a snake.”
There is always a reason to not take a risk…
But there is always someone still willing to take the risk
Today may that person be you!
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
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What is YOUR job description
Have you ever been given a horrible job description?
or one that is just so long and tedious it literally makes you think to yourself… no one can do this.
Ever want to write your own? Well hang on Francis…
What is the worst job description ever given? I am sure you have heard stories that make you cringe. What about the tale of Ernest Shackleton’s job posting in his local paper to travel with him to the Antarctic circle.
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in event of success.”
Ernest shackleton
But I want to challenge you with a thought that many have missed taking advantage of, and that is this: What is YOUR job description? Truly, what is the job description you have given yourself for your life?
MY job description says even when I am tired I still do the work, even when I don’t know what to do, I figure it out, even if I don’t have the money I run after it, and if it is a challenge than I choose to love it. My job description says I take the blame and the responsibility. I choose to plan and rework and plan and rework until it works. I think you get the idea.
Your inner values were built while you were a child. From these values you subconsciously have built a daily job description.
It might be as simple as to hold a grudge when people hurt you, don’t forgive. Give up when you are overwhelmed, or remind yourself that you are not good enough. Look for excuses and blame problems on others and of course always feel like everyone else is lucky and privileged.
Whats holding you back? Maybe it’s as simple as the wrong job description.
On the other hand you may have realized you ARE the Boss of your life. Remember as a kid snapping at someone “You don’t get to tell me what to do”. We believed it… (back then). Maybe it’s time we start to walk in that mindset again. We should all take time to write out our job description for us, for our future, for our life. Remember “you don’t get to tell me what to do… only I do”!
Joshua 24:15 15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
What Joshua is saying here…
Hey there are people who want to write your job description for you: Your ancestors, the other gods of the amorites…
Or let me put it this way… there are others out there who will write your job description for you… Your co-workers, boss, neighbors, spouse, in laws, parents, the media etc… you can live by their job description or you can live by Gods job description. You choose.
I read Gods word daily not just for spiritual knowledge but also to have insights to what my job description is for me. God what have you called me to do… and guess what? It almost always flys in the face of what others want for me and my life. AND I WILL ADD it many times flys in the face of what I want.
But when I do follow Gods job description… it ultimately brings freedom, blessing and a much deeper faith.
So what’s your job description?
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
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Vitamin R
REV 2:1 "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:
These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands: 2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
REV 2:4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. 5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first (Repeat). If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. 6 But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
REPEAT
IF A FRIEND ASKED YOU WHAT THEY SHOULD DO TO GET THE FIRE BACK IN THEIR LIFE - WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO DO?
Simple; remember back to when you were on fire for God and do it again!
Amazingly John does not give some incredible advice. He simply says after you repent you must go back to what you had done in the beginning to get your fire back.
Repetition is the best teacher! You may not want to practice your sport or instrument but you must continue to do this to make it a pleasure giving habit!!
When I was most in love with Jesus “head over heels” in love… I found it easy to go to church, worship, pray, read my bible. And when I don’t feel head over heels in love with jesus, I have learned to still do that because feelings come and go.
The point is - Jesus is not saying “go by feelings, but rather when you did feel on fire what did you do… now do that. And keep doing that!
I always ask people who are struggling with their faith or their walk with Christ this question. If a friend came to you and said my spiritual walk is feeling flat… what should I do? What would you tell them?
Ok, now do that.
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
III. REPENT
I JOHN 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and refusing to accept the truth. 9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong. 10If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.
Confession and repentance of sin are a constant mark of the person walking in the light of fellowship with God.
When someone begins to talk about repentance we always have
a little lawyer who steps out into our mind and says,
“I OBJECT… MY CLIENT ISN’T SO BAD –
WHY LOOK AT HIM/HER OR THEM”.
He immediately begins to rationalize and defend our actions.
But if we truly want all God has for us we must be willing to ask God to search us and tell us where we are truly at.
Repentance The Romans sometimes compelled a captive to be joined face-to-face with a dead body, and to bear it about until the horrible effluvia destroyed the life of the living victim. Virgil describes this cruel punishment: 'The living and the dead at his command Were coupled face to face, and hand to hand; Till choked with stench, in loathed embraces tied, The lingering wretches pined away and died. Without Christ, we are shackled to a dead corpse -- our sinfulness. Only repentance frees us from certain death, for life and death cannot coexist indefinitely. Paul Lee Tan, Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations
How long will you stay attached to your sin! REPENT!
Monday Aug 09, 2021
Monday Aug 09, 2021
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Vitamin R
REV 2:1 "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:
These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands: 2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
REV 2:4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. 5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first (Repeat). If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. 6 But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
REV 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
Intro
Do you know someone in love for the first time?
They are goofy, silly, crazy for that person.
Do you remember when YOU were first in love?
I. YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN YOUR FIRST LOVE – for one another and for Christ
revelation 2:4
Paul had once commended the church at Ephesus for its love for God and others (Ephesians 1:15),
EPH 1:15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, 16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.
Why did they lose their zeal for God?but many of the church founders had died, and many of the second-generation believers had lost their zeal for God.
They were a busy church—
the members did much to benefit themselves and the community—but they were acting out of the wrong motives. Work for God must be motivated by love for God, or it will not last.
John writes about the three R’s that are the VITAMINS that keep our spiritual walk ablaze with passion.
II. REMEMBER
Remember what new love is like?
Remember how in love you used to be?
Are you as in love with Jesus as you once were?
Just as when a man and woman fall in love, so also new believers rejoice at their newfound forgiveness. But when we lose sight of the seriousness of sin, we begin to lose the thrill of our forgiveness (see 2 Peter 1:9).
I Peter 1:9 But those who fail to develop these virtues are blind or, at least, very shortsighted. They have already forgotten that God has cleansed them from their old life of sin.
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE IN LOVE HEAD OVER HEELS FOR JESUS?
What were you like?
What did you think about?
What were your spiritual disciplines?
Who were your friends?
What was your conversation like?
Mother Theresa was once being followed by a reporter who was doing a story on her. Mother Theresa was more then happy to let the young woman follow her, she was hoping that the coverage would help bring attention to the needs in India! One day the woman was standing on the street corner watching Mother Theresa clean a beggar dieing with AIDS. The reporter was taking pictures and becoming nauseous at the site. She quietly whispered “you couldn’t pay me a million dollars to do that”. Mother Theresa without looking up said “you couldn’t pay me a million dollars to do this either!”
Our faith must go beyond what we believe; it must become a dynamic part of all we do, resulting in good fruit and spiritual maturity. Salvation does not depend on good deeds, but it results in good deeds. A person who claims to be saved while remaining unchanged does not understand faith or what God has done for him or her.
Psalm 51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
In the first steps of your Christian life, you may have had enthusiasm without knowledge.
Do you now have knowledge without enthusiasm? Both are necessary if we are to keep love for God intense and untarnished (see Hebrews 10:32, 35). Do you love God with the same fervor as when you were a new Christian?
Heb.10:32 Don’t ever forget those early days when you first learned about Christ. Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering. 33Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things. 34You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail. When all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew you had better things waiting for you in eternity.
35 Do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord, no matter what happens. Remember the great reward it brings you! 36Patient endurance is what you need now, so you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
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Many times in our lives its not blatant sin that messes us up… but rather certain things that cripple us. We don’t realize it, but we limp in certain areas of our life, we are stunted in others.
These 3 things can cause us to be crippled.
- Disappointment
- Resentment
- Fear of man
Why or how does this happen… well
The truth is only God can create… because satan can’t create he cripples. By that I mean he distorts us, our gifts, how we see ourselves and our weaknesses and others.
Many times the deception is carried further by giving the crippling affect some type of a virtuous name.
This is where the real twisted works of the enemy throw us off our game. We legitimize it or increase its power in our life but defining a crippling defect as a “way of life” or even a positive in our lives.
When we are angry we say things like I can’t stand injustice… no you are just a hothead.
We strike out at others and say “well I tend to overprotect the ones I love”.
Here is a good one… well yes I struggle with porn, but its better than having a real life affair.
Hey skippy- not in the eyes of God. but anyway…
To make things worse (can they get worse? yep!) The fear of man creates an unusual appetite for approval of man.
You see it easier to accept the approval of man then to put in the hard work of accepting God and his redemptive work. We don’t like to admit it, but it is work to serve God, and work is sometimes hard.
So in the end we have our pet sins, we don’t want the world to hate us, or think we are weird or out of touch so we rename them or excuse them and we walk around stunted in our Christian faith.
If you came to my house and I had poisonous snakes all over and my family and grandkids were always getting bit, and in turn getting tragically sick and some even dying… you would call me out on it- right? How stupid would I sound if I said well they are not snakes, they are actually slip and slides and they help keep the mice away.
Call it what you will, but you have crippled not only you but your family.
As my grandpa used to say “you can paint a pig whatever color you want… but it’s still a pig”.