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I really like how Romans 12 reads in the Message:

Rom. 12.2 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.

In a world where it seems more and more difficult to fix our attention on anything for any length of time, we get a challenge and promise from the Scriptures. The Apostle Paul tells us, that if we stay focused on the things of God, and make his primary concerns our primary concerns we will be changed from the inside out. This is the kind of change we need.

You see, God wants to bring the best out of each and everyone us, but the question remains, are we quickly responding to His still small voice?

In what area do you need to concede, and say God I will do it your way? What has God asked you to do, and you haven't responded to?

These are just few questions I am chewing on.....

Josh. 1.1   After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide:  2  “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them — to the Israelites.  3 I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses.  4 Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates — all the Hittite country — to the Great Sea on the west.  5 No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
Josh. 1.6    “Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them.  7 Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.  8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.  9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”
Josh. 1.10   So Joshua ordered the officers of the people:  11  “Go through the camp and tell the people,  ‘Get your supplies ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own.’”

Wanted: Leaders

As I sit back and survey all that is going on around me, inside and outside the church world, I see an incredible need for leaders. Not people with titles. People who are willing to leverage their God given influence to spread God's fame. In the workplace. In the neighborhoods In the church house. In their families.

Leaders are needed to step up to the plate and begin to use thier influence to bring hope, healing, and restoration to the people we come in contact that are being hit from every direction with this thing called "life".

As Christ-followers, we have an incredible opportunity and privilege  to bring the real message of hope to many who have no hope at all. Will you be the one who steps up to the plate and prays that simple prayer, "God, here am I send me?" That is a prayer God will not deny!

Lead on for God's fame.

breakfast song

On the lighter side....

"Now I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, what God in his kindness has done through the churches in Macedonia. They are being tested by many troubles, and they are very poor. But they are also filled with abundant joy, which has overflowed in rich generosity.

For I can testify that they gave not only what they could afford, but far more. And they did it of their own free will. They begged us again and again for the privilege of sharing in the gift for the believers in Jerusalem. They even did more than we had hoped, for their first action was to give themselves to the Lord and to us, just as God wanted them to do." - 2 Corinthians 1-5 (NLT)

The Best Present Ever....

Here is a great piece of writing from Maddie Dawson, one our 3rd graders who attends Harvest:

"The best present I ever received was God. The reason why God is my favorite present is because God listens to your problems no matter where you are. Another reason why God is my best present is because he is always there with you. The other reason I like God is because God always loves you no matter what you did. The last reason I like God is because he died for our sins. I love God without God we wouldn't be here."

I think Maddie gets it..... our relationship with God is our BEST present ever.