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Is Purity for today?



The media is brainwashing the generation with a barrage of Sexual stimulus.  The music industry is aggressively promoting an anti-Christ message with strong Sexual marketing.  Parents do you examine your children's music? Are you willing to set an anti-Satan stance to reject the anti-Christ music being played in your home? 

The family in America is being devored by divorce and as a result more and more youth are left to raise themselves with little or no supervision or sustained physical and emotional contact with a Godly role model.  Where do we turn for help when absent parents assume their children are perfect little flowers but yet the facts state otherwise? 
 
How are youth to find their way when they witness dysfunction at home.  How are youth to find their way when they are rejected by the hospital because they do not have life insurance.  How will the youth practice purity when all day long they feed their lusts either intentionally or unintentionally with the saturation of sensuality flowing through the media and music industry.  How do we promote purity when parents embrace casual sex.  How do we promote purity when parents give their children condoms as if they were candy.  I'm asking how because the how is in God and as long as we as a community dance around obedience and submission - reform is a strange land away. 


Purity permeates or leaps from the scriptures nearly from every page.  What does exposure to sensuality and worldliness attack?  Our affinity to seek God through quality and intimate time by reading the Holy Scriptures.  Purity is not diluted.  Casual exposure to the world and ungoliness will dilute the word of God in your life.  Purity is the quality in the believer of not being diluted.

What does worldliness attack?  Our mind.  We need to guard our mind gate: which consists of your ears, eyes, and mouth!  Our minds need a daily redemptive cleansing.  In 2 Peter 3:1 Peter states; (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder).  The word pure here literally means "tested by sunlight."  The light of the scriptures exposes our flaws.  If we stay away from the sunlight we can easily convince ourselves that we are o.k.  The word pure describes metals with alloys and liquids unadulterated with foreign substances.  God calls you to live free from falsehood.  Be pure, and without hidden motives.  

Shallowness



Shallowness is shallow just as death is dark and permanent.  The secular and dark culture engulfs the vulnerable, the weak, the influenceable souls who are empty and thirsty for God but refuse to run to God because they rather eat their own vomit.  The war rages and the light exposes the darkness.  Are you holding on to your desire to disobey God?

  Do you cling to rebellion by forcing your mind not to acknowledge the truth as found in Christ Jesus.  How long will rebellion love its double mindedness?  Do you clap in church and shake your rear end for cheap thrills and are engulfed in your sensual thrills.  Do you pray to erase the games you play with dirty little boys with dirty little toys.  Do you tease boys and play mommies little innocent girl.  Are you a young man who tempts little girls by luring them into dark corners, how long will struggle endure?  My heart breaks. The sad part, God longs to save this lost generation.  Yet, this generation might be lost because they like resisting God and mocking Him to his face.

Trusting God



Trusting God only depends on your ability to trust Him.  He is trustworthy can you believe that?  If you believe that believe that, He is trustworthy.  I trust God for real, do you?  Do you really believe in God's promise?  His promises are true.  Do you believe God is true?  When we look to God He alone is able to deliver us from all of our fears.  God is the only one who can save us from all of our troubles.  Are you willing to cry to God for help?  When you cry to God He is moved to help you.  Cry out to God and He will send help. (Psalm 34).

THE F WORD

 

What word do you have in mind?  Faith? Fear? The "F" word I have in mind is Failure.  

I'm writing today to let you know that you're not a failure.  You're really not a failure unless you believe you're a failure.  Often times we think failure is the end of the story.  In God's kingdom failures are turned into triumphs if you allow faith to move you forward!  

Do you suffer from fear of failure?  I don't! I can't fail.  Let me explain, as long as I believe God and obey God, I can't fail.  Even if I fail, I still can't fail, because my future is ahead of me not behind me and my future is not even in the present moment.  There will always be momentary set backs but that does not make you a failure.  

Failure for me has always marked new beginnings.  If you fail the test at school you'll have a new tomorrow to study for the next test.  How often do we invest our identity in trying to become what the whole world wants us to become and we never discover who God has already made us in Christ.

The sooner you stop trying to please everyone the sooner you'll be able to please God.  it is simple!  God has never failed nor will He ever fail.  Failure is trying to please people!  You will fail 99.9% of the time when you try to please other people.  People pleasers are failures because they fail to please God.  

In God's own special way of treating His precious children success requires a willingness to yield to God's will, which sometimes means falling short as we discover the journey ahead.

Never write yourself off.  People pleasers are easily written off because their confidence and assurance comes from others and not God alone.  If God alone becomes your source of success then nothing you do will fail because it has God's approval and sponsorship.

Faith is the "F" word that eliminates "Failure".  Place your confidence in God and all your failures will end in triumph

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Christ Fulfills the Law



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Expecting the Presence of God

Friday was a prelude into this Friday's "Love is" service!  I'm expecting the tangible presence of God.  That means we all experience God's presence in an intimate way through faith.  I know worship will be sweet.  I'm expecting it!  An important aspect of faith is our expectation level.  What are we expecting from God?  What do you expect from God?  
I try to expect what God tells me to expect through the Holy Scriptures.  The promises of God are free through faith in Jesus Christ.  But without faith it is impossible to really expect God to assist you.  Expectation is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.  You can command your future in the present through faith.  You hope for what you do not see but the evidence will be your faith carrying you into the future evidence of the things not yet seen.   

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The Choice is Ours



You have the power to make the right choice.  The question is not can you choose, but rather will you choose to live completely to God?  You can make the right choice if you choose to.  The choice is yours.  Pleasing God is choice by choice.  Sometimes we make the right choice sometimes we make the wrong choice but it always boils down to choice.  Choosing is choice and choice is freewill.  We can either choose God or refuse God.  The choice is ours.  What choice will you make today over and over?  The right choice or the wrong choice? The choice is yours.

The Pursuit


I believe in you. With faith we overcome the world! Demonstrate faith by believing God.

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