Sowing Seeds

John 10:10 tells us that God desires for each one of us to live and walk in life abundantly. We desire that too, but very few of us can admit to living such a lifestyle of fullness through abundance and increase. We get so wrapped up in the lies the enemy feeds into our head. You're not pretty enough, you'll never meet the one, you're not smart enough, God will never use you, you will never walk in financial freedom, you're too fat, you've messed up, you missed God, He will never speak to you, you'll never get that job, the lies go on. Why is it so easy to believe one lie instead of numerous truths and promises that God whispers in our ear all day long. In order to reap abundant life, we must learn to sow into abundant life, God's Word, over the enemy's word.

"We are going to believe and become what we rehearse."

Therefore, we can either believe God's promises and start walking in it. Or we can continue to rehearse the one lie Satan that has been dangling over our head and never experience the life God desires for us to have. Take one scripture or one promise and begin to sow into that by rehearsing it over and over again. You will then begin believing it, walking in it, and reaping a life of increase and abundance. HAPPY THURSDAY!

Tuesday Night 6:30PM

True Picture of Worship

Let the words of this song consume your heart this week. Most of us desire so badly to do nothing but please God. We please Him most when we worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. What does that look like?

Worship is defined as:

extravagant respect of admiration for an object

or

devotion to an object

What are we giving our devotion to?

What do we admire more than we admire God?

Work? School? Friends? Cars? Home? Kids? Spouse? Relationship? Material things? Food? Internet? Church? Ministry? Exercising? Sports?

I Have Just One Question

Have you ever been around a small toddler that has a MILLION questions? And not just a question or two here or there, but all day long you get asked the question "Why?" No matter how you answer the question, there is always a "why" that proceeds out of that little mouth. They want to know everything! If you haven't experience a conversation such as, then God is sparing you from lots of border-line patience and frustration. If you have been a victim from the mini-culprits, you may have a deeper understand of how the Lord feels when He is bogged down with all the questions we pose for Him about every circumstance in our lives. Lord, why did you let that happen? Why don't I have a bigger house? Why haven't you allowed the "one" to come into my life? Why did you make me go through that? Why are my family members sick? Why do I only have two children? Why do I have this disease? Why don't I have more money? Why did my husband loose his job? Why cant I get a job? Why? Why? Why? Why? Instead of asking God SO many questions about everything that is going on in your life, trust that He knows what He is doing. He is working out all things for our good. Is it wrong to ask Him questions, NO! However, questioning God is displaying very little faith. If we trusted that every decision that He decides to make for our life is for our good, then we wouldn't be so inquisitive all the time.
Lets try to avoid giving God looks like these and trust that He is in total control of our life. Hes making the BEST decisions for you right now. Think of it this way....if we could see the big picture like He does, we would make the same choices for ourselves. But since we cant and only HE can, we seem to think we know the best decisions for our current place in life. God looks at the big picture of each of our lives, and His orchestrates our paths according to what will benefit us in the big picture. Our ways are NOT his. So lets trust that He knows whats BEST. We all want and desire the best, so why not just move out of the way, let Him work, so we can receive it.

Tuesday Night 6:30PM

Verse A Day....

Keeps the ENEMY away......

So many of us desire to know God's word intensely and apply it to our daily lives. It is not an easy thing to do. The enemy will steal our time, our focus, our motivation, etc. to keep us from gaining the ONE thing that helps us fight against him. If you are walking with the Lord and live your day to day schedule to making His name known.....the enemy is after you! When your feet hit the floor every morning, you are stepping into a new day on the battle field. Scripture tells us that we do not battle against flesh and blood, but against spiritual powers and dark forces. What better way to fight this battle than with a weapon that is sharper than any two-edge sword.... God's Word. If you are making a better attempt or striving to learn more of God's word, here are a couple options that may help motivate or help strengthen the weapon that is necessary in battling this thing called life.

Bath Crayons

Most of us shower every day, if not, every other day...hopefully. Therefore, buy some cheap bath crayons at Wal-Mart, they should be in the bubble bath section, and write a verse or two on your shower wall. While your shampooing your hair, read these verses over and over again. Before long, these verses will be engraved on the tablet of your heart and ready to be used in the moment the enemy tries to attack.

Spiral Note Cards

Notecards can be taken with you everywhere. Put them in your purse and pull out the verses at any point of your day...... red lights, grocery store lines, treadmill, watching TV, etc.....

Dry Ease Markers

Write a verse on your mirror in your bathroom. We spend at least an hour or more in front of it every day...what better way to put on your make-up or straighten your hair while reading a short verse or two.

How much more effective could we all be if we made a more conscious effort to study God's word and apply it to our day. Try it and see how it works for you.

HAPPY MONDAY

Bringing in 2009

Worship, Fellowship, Food, and Games

Special New Years Company

We had an extra special New Years with our awesome friends from Virginia. Terri, Mary Ruth, Carrie, and Dave traveled 12 hours on WHEELS to be with us this week. For of those of you who are not familar with these wonderful people, these ladies serve on staff for the 700 club and David is a youth pastor in DC. They have been such a blessing not only to the ministry, but to our lives. They arrived in Birmingham Saturday night and headed back early Thursday morning. They simply came to visit us for a vacation, which allowed a lot of one-on-one time with each of them. Those of us who were able to spend quality time with them were extremely blessed by their wisdom and love for the Lord. Each of them are deeply rooted by their love for Christ, and their compassion and devotion to making His name known is inspiring and encouraging. We love yall! We're looking forward to spending more time with you soon.

Tuesday Night News Clip

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