Pursuing Love - Prayers that Transform YOU

Romans 12 - talks about being transformed by the renewing of your mind - and the transformation that is talked about here is about your "whole" being - being made new, becoming a new creation in Christ.

This week I want to give you a specific tools to help you bring that transformation in your life - the tool is prayer, faithful, believing prayer,  believing God can do great things prayer. Prayers that come from your heart for the hearts and souls of others, prayers that will move mountains, bring healing in the fa...ce of disease, hope in the face of despair, love into a world of hate. Pray these kinds of prayers.I want you to encourage you to pray these kinds of prayers:

Pray - joyfilled praises when you are blessed - when you see the blessing
Pray - believing God will intervene when you are in trouble prayers
Pray - knowing that when you are sick you will be healed prayers - for you, for others.
Pray - understanding that you may be the answer when you see a need. - that the need would be met prayers
Pray - believing that God's graces is enough for forgiveness prayers- when you sin and when you are sinned
           against
Pray - authentic prayers of blessing when your enemies are working against you - for them to be loved and
           respected and then love and respect them.
Pray - for power and effectiveness believing God will work miracles through you- sharing good news and
          becoming all that God has created you to be

I believe that if you pray like this your life will be transformed in the moment - and when your life is transformed, your world will be transformed. 

Pursue Love this week - by praying!

Pursuing Love - Fully Surrendered - Fully Living

"Present your bodies as a living sacrifice -

                   Holy and acceptable to God - your spiritual worship."   Romans 12:1

 

"and the truth is this:  We all live surrendered to something or to someone."

Powerful isn't it?  Because it is true.  We don't like it necessarily - but we know that it is true.  Think about the people in your life and ask yourself:  "What are they surrendered to?

It's easy to see in some isn't it?  Hard to hide being surrendered to a job, a lifestyle, a salary.  Harder to see in other situations but still not too easy to hide. 

But now ask that question about your life?  What are you surrendered to?  Don't know how to tell? Then let me give you three ways to check.

1.  Look at your calendar - where do you spend your time?
2.  Look at your checkbook register or your online bank account statement -  
          where do you spend your money?
3.  Look at what you have in our life - what do you collect - things or friends?


These three things will help ou know - and if you still can't tell ask a friend - an honest friend.  They will tell you.  If we are a Christian we have each said we are surrending to Chirst.  Ask:  Is Jesus really in charge of our clandar or is it filled with what you want?  Is Christ in charge of ur checkbook and finances or are you still holding the purse strings?  Is your life filled with things you have collected or people you have loved and are loved by?

Surrender!

Your Pastor Dude!
 

 

Pursuing Love: Living Like a child of God!

Pursuing Love:

Do you live life like you are the precious child of God, lived, died and resurrected for - or do you live like Jesus is a figment of your imagination? If you really want to pusure love in your life - live like you are the recipient of a great and wonderuf gift - because you are!

One of the best ways to live this way is to live in relationship to the one who gave the gift. And there is no better way to do this than to really develop your prayer life. I know, I know - a prayer life sounds boring, it sounds dull, it sounds like something "you gotta do."

And maybe it is - but I think our relationship with God is just like any other relationship - if we don't work at it - if we don't think about creatively, spend time with it, encourage it, then we are going to lose it.

Spend time this week developing your relationship with God. Let God love you, fill you, encourage and inspire you.

Have a great week!