Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Your Life, Inc Part 4-5

We actually have a spent a couple more weeks talking about the will. It has ben a great study to learn just how important a role the will plays. 

We spent the last two weeks talking about the sacrifices that must made to accomplish our purpose. The flesh always wants to take the easy route. The problem is the easy route rarely leads to anything great in life.

If you really want to get into a specific college you will need certain grades. Maybe you are a B- student and it will take A- to get in. There are going to be certain sacrifices you will need to make to get to that goal. The flesh will tell you it's no big deal if you don't make it into that college. You can always take a year of or just go to the community college (not that there's anything wrong with community colleges. But if your dream was Princeton...). 

It will take the Spirit in you to be in charge and to tell the will that he is not going to listen to the flesh or emotions when making its decision. 

This week we have our very own Fred Weaver who will be guest speaking. Then next week I will wrap up this series with a message about seasons in our lives and how to adjust to each season to get out of that time all that God wants you to get.

Wednesday - Hanging out With God

I've ben teaching over the last couple weeks on Wednesday nights about how to have a real relationship with God. It' all about communication.

We spend, on average 14-18 hours per week keeping in touch with our friends via texting, calling and instant messaging. What if we started devoting even a small portion of that to our relationship with God?

Many do not begin this relationship because they feel they don't know how. The great thing about God is that He will communicate with you in whatever way you are comfortable communicating. If you like to talk in eloquent King James prayers, great. If you want to talk to Him like you would your best friend -- very informal -- that's also great. God just wants the communication.

We've talked about how we talk to God as well as how He talks to us. Sometimes there is a still, small voice and sometimes there isn't. But He always speaks to us through His Word. We can open up the Wod and read a lineage out of Leviticus and somehow God will speak to us through it if we truly want Him to.

Next week we will spend more time discussing how our communication with God works.

Sunday - Your Life Inc. Part 3

The last two weeks we have been talking about another of the employees in our company, the will. The will is powerful in that is generally the decision maker. It takes all the information from the other employees about a decision and decides which decision is in its best interests.

The problem is that our will does not always line up with God's will. This is yet another reason why the Spirit of Christ in us needs to remain the CEO of our company.

The flesh never wants to do anything that is going to be work. The emotions never want to do anything that might hurt. The mind doesn't want to do things that don't make sense. But, so often God's plan for us might be all of those things.

We looked at Jesus is the garden of Gethsemane. He is honest with Himself and His Father that what He had to do was not His will. But He knew that Gods will was His purpose (see Isaiah 53:10). Because of this He chose not His own will, but God's will.

We looked at how purpose is the true source of will power. Just like Christ enduring the cross, when we choose to step into our Godly purpose we will find all the power (supernatual if necessary) to accomplish that purpose.

Right now, as teens, your purpose may simply be to be successful in school and/or be a great son/daughter and brother/sister. But whatever the case, operating in purpose will bring the power to follow through.

No matter how much you love Krispy Creme Doughnuts, if a doctor told you that if you didn't stop eating them you would die, I guarantee I could not shove one down your throat. Purpose will do that. So connect to purpose and find the power to accomplish things greater than you.