This week I want to talk about 2 different types of brokenness...one that so many people are and the other the type of brokenness God calls for us to be in order for him to mold us into the person he wants us to be!!
See being broken can be a good thing and it can be a bad thing, it all depends on whose perspective we looking through...and anytime we are looking through the worlds perspective it is always a bad thing, so what we want to do is begin to look at our lives and the things in our lives through God's eyes.
Before we can do that we have to become more like him...so, take this time and spend it in prayer and seek for more of God!! We will come back tomorrow and talk about brokenness and I hope that by then you will have set aside some time to get closer to God! We won't be able to see things from his perspective without first getting to know Him better!
God Bless,
Nathan
Monday, August 31, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Blogging....
So yeah blogging can take alot out of you....sometimes you just don't have much to say so I'm blogging today to say nothing, cause I have nothing to say today!! May blog a little over the weekend...we'll see!!! Im trying to get in the habit of blogging everyday.
Taking my wife out tonight for our 3 year anniversary, excited about that...Have a good weekend!!
God Bless,
Nathan
Taking my wife out tonight for our 3 year anniversary, excited about that...Have a good weekend!!
God Bless,
Nathan
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Break The Mold 3 (Things we can control)
Yesterday we talked about the things that we cannot control that contribute to molding us into the person that we are right now, we went over some hurts and it was tough!!! Today we will be going over the things that we can control...this might hurt a little so put on your steel toed boots, cause I am going to step on some toes no doubt!!
Everyone makes mistakes no doubt, I make them all of the time! But when you begin to let the mistakes that you have made begin to define who you are that is when you succumb to failure and let the enemy succeed at what he aims to do, John 10:10 - The theif cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. In the end the choice is ours, the Bible says that Life and Death has been set before us, so choose life so that you and your children might live!! So even though the enemy has plans to utterly destroy you, it is ultimately your choice!
Choose your friends wisely, they are a direct reflection of who you are or who you want to be.
Choose your movies, music, magazines, and TV shows wisely because Junk in = Junk out, and if you want to be more like God than you are going to have to apply the scriptures to your life.
Philippians 4:8 - Finally, brethern, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of a good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
You can apply this to every part of your life, the way you dress, the way you talk, the things you listen to, the things you watch, the things you read, etc. Let's "Break The Mold" as young people go against the grain and make a stand for God!!!
God Bless,
Nathan
Everyone makes mistakes no doubt, I make them all of the time! But when you begin to let the mistakes that you have made begin to define who you are that is when you succumb to failure and let the enemy succeed at what he aims to do, John 10:10 - The theif cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. In the end the choice is ours, the Bible says that Life and Death has been set before us, so choose life so that you and your children might live!! So even though the enemy has plans to utterly destroy you, it is ultimately your choice!
Choose your friends wisely, they are a direct reflection of who you are or who you want to be.
Choose your movies, music, magazines, and TV shows wisely because Junk in = Junk out, and if you want to be more like God than you are going to have to apply the scriptures to your life.
Philippians 4:8 - Finally, brethern, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of a good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
You can apply this to every part of your life, the way you dress, the way you talk, the things you listen to, the things you watch, the things you read, etc. Let's "Break The Mold" as young people go against the grain and make a stand for God!!!
God Bless,
Nathan
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Break The Mold 2 (Things out of our control)
So when we talk about things that are out of our control we have to understand that there are so many things that are out of our control...think about it, loss of a loved one, abusive situations, parents that are not active in our lives or not present in our lives, where we are born, the economic status we are born into, and so on and so on!!! We can't control the way we look, the genetics that were passed on to us from our parents, we cannot control the sins that our parents were apart of and may still be apart of now!!
I want you to know this before I type anything else, God cares for you, he loves you and if you have been hurt or if you have mad a mistake he wants you to give that to Him, the Bible says, 1 Peter 5:7 - Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. So I want you to know that God cares for you and He wants to take your mistakes and your hurts and He wants to mold you and make you into a vessel of honor!!!
But I want to remove from you the excuses...see the Children of Israel had the same problem, they always used the excuse that the generations before them did it this way or were always dealing with these certain sins so we are just going to fall to them too...they were removing the blame from themselves and blaming their parents and grandparents. In Ezekiel 18 we see that God was fed up with their excuses and so he said this through His prophet, Ezekiel 18:2, 3 and 20, 21 - 2 "What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying; 'The Fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge'? 3 "As i live." says the Lord GOD, "you shall no longer use this proverb in Israel..." 20 the souls who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. 21 "But if a wicked man turns from all of his shins which he has committed, keeps all of My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die... What the scripture is telling us is, yeah God knows there are some things out of our control, but it doesn't matter what has been done to you, you are responsible for your actions!!! Don't use the hurts of your past as a license to sin and live like you want to today!!!
In summary, you can't control other people's actions, but you can control your reactions!! So give God your hurts and your mistakes and let Him mold you and make you into a vessel of honor meet for the Master's use!!!
God Bless,
Nathan
I want you to know this before I type anything else, God cares for you, he loves you and if you have been hurt or if you have mad a mistake he wants you to give that to Him, the Bible says, 1 Peter 5:7 - Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. So I want you to know that God cares for you and He wants to take your mistakes and your hurts and He wants to mold you and make you into a vessel of honor!!!
But I want to remove from you the excuses...see the Children of Israel had the same problem, they always used the excuse that the generations before them did it this way or were always dealing with these certain sins so we are just going to fall to them too...they were removing the blame from themselves and blaming their parents and grandparents. In Ezekiel 18 we see that God was fed up with their excuses and so he said this through His prophet, Ezekiel 18:2, 3 and 20, 21 - 2 "What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying; 'The Fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge'? 3 "As i live." says the Lord GOD, "you shall no longer use this proverb in Israel..." 20 the souls who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. 21 "But if a wicked man turns from all of his shins which he has committed, keeps all of My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die... What the scripture is telling us is, yeah God knows there are some things out of our control, but it doesn't matter what has been done to you, you are responsible for your actions!!! Don't use the hurts of your past as a license to sin and live like you want to today!!!
In summary, you can't control other people's actions, but you can control your reactions!! So give God your hurts and your mistakes and let Him mold you and make you into a vessel of honor meet for the Master's use!!!
God Bless,
Nathan
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Break The Mold
Going to start a new blog series this week and I am going to be basically blogging the message that I preached Friday night at the Conference. Typing it out it would be quite a lengthy blog so I am going to break it up into bits and pieces. Just so you know what is to come, I am going to give you the basic rundown and then I will go into detail with each point as we progress.
1. Know the internal and external forces that form me into who I am.
2. Here is the hardest part, being broken, we must be humbled before God.
3. Allow God to put us on the Potter's Wheel. (God is in control)
4. When we go through the fire of trials, know these are only solidifying us as the vessel of honor that God is making us to be!!
You ever seen the commercial where there are all of these people on these conveyor belts, women on one side and men on the other, at one point on the conveyor belt there is this machine that comes together around these people and when they come out on the other side they are all the same, the woman is blond hair, blue eyed? The guy is brown hair, green eyed, that is what the enemy does he uses those inside and outside forces in our lives and attempts to do the same thing to every person. The Bible says, John 10:10 - The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. So you can see that the enemy wants to put us all into that same mold, the destroyed mold!! But God wants you to break that mold, because he has life for you and it's an abundant life!!!
We will go into detail a little more tomorrow on the things that are out of our control that contribute to forming us into who we are today!
God Bless,
Nathan
1. Know the internal and external forces that form me into who I am.
2. Here is the hardest part, being broken, we must be humbled before God.
3. Allow God to put us on the Potter's Wheel. (God is in control)
4. When we go through the fire of trials, know these are only solidifying us as the vessel of honor that God is making us to be!!
You ever seen the commercial where there are all of these people on these conveyor belts, women on one side and men on the other, at one point on the conveyor belt there is this machine that comes together around these people and when they come out on the other side they are all the same, the woman is blond hair, blue eyed? The guy is brown hair, green eyed, that is what the enemy does he uses those inside and outside forces in our lives and attempts to do the same thing to every person. The Bible says, John 10:10 - The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. So you can see that the enemy wants to put us all into that same mold, the destroyed mold!! But God wants you to break that mold, because he has life for you and it's an abundant life!!!
We will go into detail a little more tomorrow on the things that are out of our control that contribute to forming us into who we are today!
God Bless,
Nathan
Monday, August 24, 2009
What an amazing night!!
If you missed the Conference on Friday night it was completely your loss!!! There was an incredible amount of FREE stuff given away, there was GREAT music, there was a teaching session that was amazing, there were two people that shared the personal testimony of abuse and that was one of the most moving parts of the conference, real people talking about real things that matter to you!!! That is what Without Dilution is really all about...being relevant and being efficient in that relevance.
So, I want to hear back from you, what was your favorite part of the conference??? Leave us your feedback as a comment and share that with us!!
God Bless,
Nathan
So, I want to hear back from you, what was your favorite part of the conference??? Leave us your feedback as a comment and share that with us!!
God Bless,
Nathan
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
2 Days...
We are 2 days away from Without Dilution Student Conference '09, wow that is really long we should really look into shortening that don't you think??
Anyways, very excited!! We are going to have a great time and hope to see you there...there will be a ton of free stuff, T-shirts, CD's, information, and all kinds of stuff!! We are going to have an incredible Praise and Worship band, great anointed speakers, and most importantly I believe that God will be in that place!! Be there, it starts at 7, but come early 6:30-6:45 to walk around and check out some of the tables that will be setup!!
God Bless and we'll see you there,
Nathan
Anyways, very excited!! We are going to have a great time and hope to see you there...there will be a ton of free stuff, T-shirts, CD's, information, and all kinds of stuff!! We are going to have an incredible Praise and Worship band, great anointed speakers, and most importantly I believe that God will be in that place!! Be there, it starts at 7, but come early 6:30-6:45 to walk around and check out some of the tables that will be setup!!
God Bless and we'll see you there,
Nathan
Friday, August 7, 2009
2 Weeks!!!
We are officially 2 weeks away from the Student Conference, I hope you are excited as we are, and are ready to see God do some awesome things!!! It is overwhelming the response that we have received for this years Conference, there are people all over the area that when talking to them realize who we are and say, oh yeah our youth group is coming to that!!
We are also excited about the number of people that are partnering up with us to make this possible and to make it a great night! There will be a licensed and certified counseling service on site, in case there are young people that are seeking counseling services. There are a couple of other organizations that will be there or providing information for the young people, to help them navigate the seas of life, because they are people that are passionate about young people and know that the teenage years are hard!!!
If you haven't registered yet, you need to, you don't want to miss out on what God is going to do in the lives of young people that are ready to come and receive from God!!
God Bless,
Nathan
We are also excited about the number of people that are partnering up with us to make this possible and to make it a great night! There will be a licensed and certified counseling service on site, in case there are young people that are seeking counseling services. There are a couple of other organizations that will be there or providing information for the young people, to help them navigate the seas of life, because they are people that are passionate about young people and know that the teenage years are hard!!!
If you haven't registered yet, you need to, you don't want to miss out on what God is going to do in the lives of young people that are ready to come and receive from God!!
God Bless,
Nathan
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