I said before and I will say it again! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way our leaders at Elevation are challenging us. Get ready church because I along with the help of a few others am putting together a video to help promote the Elevation Youth Group and we intend on challenging you even more with that as well!
Quote of the month for me so far comes from Phil's message today. "Christians are not sinful because they are living in the world, Christians are sinful because the world is living in them". How astonishingly true is that?
Phil also asked what are you feeding yourself? He used the analogy of a lion vs. lion fight!
If you feed one lion the best meats, and keep it healthy, and you starve the other lion, which one is going to win the fight?
What are you feeding your flesh? Are you feeding it spiritual things or are you feeding it desires of your flesh?
Read Colossians 3 and ask yourself if you have put to death things of this Earth! It was kind of neat to hear his sermon today, because some of what he addressed is in the same direction that I am feeling led to take with this video we are making for the Youth Group!
He also read.....
James 4:4
English Standard Version (ESV)
4(A) You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Who wants to be an enemy of God? Not me I will tell you that! I have friends that are worldly and I still want to be friends with them, but at what cost or for what purpose? Do I do it for the attachment of the world still, or do I do it because I love my friends and I want to see them gain the same love that I have in Jesus? Ask yourself that question! Test yourself!
The passage from 1st John today basically says "Do not desire things of the world because they are not of God! If you do you do not love God! Because God is not of this world!"
I love God. The more time I spend soaking in his word the deeper and deeper I fall. The more I spend time at home worshipping Him through praise either by listening to music or playing it on the guitar the more and more I want to draw closer to Him. I want to live a life that revolves around the very essence of who God is "LOVE", that displays what Jesus is and was all about "SERVING", and is totally filled and consumed with what the Holy Spirit is about "A Burning Desire to draw nearer to the Father, while being led in my heart from the very presence that is God". I want MORE, MORE, MORE but make no mistake about it, it's not more earthly stuff I am seeking, but MORE OF JESUS! MORE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND MORE OF THE ALL ENCOMPASSING POWER THAT IS OUR FATHER GOD!
Take the time and spend it getting to know your Father, His Son (Jesus), and allow the Holy Spirit to enter your heart and change your life forever!
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