TRANSFORMED
a series of recalibration for your body, mind and spirit
Series Scripture:
ROMANS 12 Therefore, I urge you,(A) brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,(B) holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform(C)to the pattern of this world,(D) but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.(E) Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is(F)—his good, pleasing(G) and perfect will.
FROM THE MESSAGE:
ROMANS 12: 1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
3I'm speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it's important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.
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HEBREWS 12
Discipline in a Long-Distance Race
1-3Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!
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START RUNNING - Today, do you know where you are and how you got here?
No Spiritual Fat - No Parasitic Sin - These are seen in Attitude and action as apposed to typical physical evidence.
(ex. Laziness, Bad Tude, inability to breakout of Sinful behavior and lifestyle.)
NEVER QUIT - Just keep showing up!
YOU'RE NOT RUNNING A 100 YD DASH AND IT'S NOT EVEN A MARATHON.
THING OBSTACLE COURSE - THE "TOUGH MUDDER".
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To sustain such a life you have to make a choice and stick with it!
What kind of a live are you living?
Are you living your best life?
How you see the church AND its role in your life will effect how you run your race
- How well you run.
• Most people see the church as a Cruise Ship,
We have the Band,
The Buffet,
Child care,
Events to entertain, Bingo ANYONE!
When you "Jump on Board" their is a party atmosphere.
• Others see the church as a Hospital - Mercy Ship - a floating Hospital.
• The "Intrepid" is a floating Museum - It looks like a Aircraft Carrier It is BIG and Impressive looking from the outside but all the important parts are missing or rendered useless.
[no Holy Spirit = no Power]
[no Prayer = no Direction]
[no Word = no Endurance]
• The Church is a Battleship!
*The weapons of our warfare are Prayer,
*Studying the Word,
*Personal Excellence of Personal Spiritual Growth,
Growing Spiritually is the number one determining factor to
the Success of your Run with God,
*Moving in the Power of the Holy Spirit,
*Healing, and Loving People.
We need to be plugged in to God daily in prayer,
Step #1 PRAY, PRAY, PRAY,PRAY,PRAY,PRAY then repeat step #1
How else do we get the battle plan update.
We are storming the gates of hell.
We are crossing into enemy territory. - Go into the world!
To recruit - Make Disciples
To retrieve - That not one would be lost
To restore our wounded prisoners taken captive
- He lead Captivity Captive.
To return our dead , because Our God brings the dead back to life.
**The Traditional Church has a bad habit of shooting and burying our wounded.
Galations 6: 9 Let us not become weary in doing good,(O) for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.(P) 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good(Q) to all people, especially to those who belong to the family(R) of believers.
The Wrap Up:
We are building an Army of believers, we call them disciples
They are your friends, your family, co-worker, classmates.
You have a family you are born into in the flesh.
You also have a family you are adopted into in the Spirit of God!
Cultivate that family!
Life will be abundant, full, life giving!
Announcement reminders
Woman's Group - Monday
Connect - Thursday
Baptism - Next Sunday
Next Sunday - Communion Sunday
