5-11-16
After a whole month, my work schedule allowed me to actually go to church tonight!! praise the lord! Man it was good! If anyone needs a church, come on out to High praise off of slate stone in summerville,sc. Its small but its so homey and everyone is so welcoming. The nusic is good, the sermons are better, and the prayers are the best. I just wanna share with some of y'all our semone tonight.
The young man who had the honor of giving this sermon is named Cody. He started off with a passage from Matthew 14:22-33. This is a story im sure were all familiar with. It was when jesus walked on water and called out to peter. Towards the end, jesus questioned peter and everyone on why they had so little faith. He went on to say that peter had a trend of essentially thinking his faith was on point, then he would be shown that it really wasnt. No ones it. There are times in life where even we ourselves think 'oh yeah. I got this!' But like peter we get a good old reality check. Hiw can we call ourselves 'christians' but always lose our focus and start to sink just like peter did when he lost his focus off Jesus, which "caused him to sink, and he cried out to Him to save him".
What do you think could happen if the church and christians as a whole could actually focus on the word and what it actually said? Right now it seems like everyone and their mom(im totally paraphrasing by the way) has add or adhd. More and more children are being considered and taught to just go 'oh sorry. I have add.' And it seems like everything is ok. Now no one was saying its all made up. If you follow my dream blog its quite obvious probably i legit have adhd myself hence the name lol. But really. Its like everyone is being taught this. They're pushing every medication under the sun down our throats. Squirrel..back on track kacie. Lol thats funny cuz this post is about focus xD. Anyways. Add. Its on the rise. Everyone had it. BUT we can focus on things we actually WANT to focus on. Friends, tv, favorite novel, music, etc. why is it we can't focus on God like that?
We SAY we can focus in faith, but how is there a way to STAY focused and learn the powerful wisdom of his word? How can we dig deep and learn all those hard hitting questions non-believers ask. Just READ. Its all in there. You just have to actually read, pray, study, take notes. Focus completely on Christ and see how your focus can shift and open your eyes to see clearly the answers. It all begins and ends in His word. If an olympic athlete can focus only on a medal and ignore his/her surroundings. Why cant we do that for God? Even if He wakes you up at 3am just to pray. Why not?
Ya know back in olden times. Miracles were a normal thing. Overtime we seemed to have lost more and more focus, which seems to have given us a decline in these blessings and miracles. Or at least so it seems, that weve heard and read so much about since sunday school.
The last thing mentioned was, all the problems we have now. If instead of arguing, yelling, telling people theyre 'going to hell'(which isnt christian like anyways cuz who are you to judge? Youre not God); We forget to pray. We forget to pray, and let God do our fighting. Just gunna add in here, if it's just us, its gunna be a hard long battle. If GOD is with us. You best believe the devil is gunna be runnin outta dodge. Because "with God, ALL things are possible'. If we get focused and become a praying nation, oh my brain done got started. Oh if we became a praying a nation. Can you even begin to IMAGINE the things by keaps and vounds we could accomplish?! Can you imagine how much more better our society would be?! Our children could actually go out and play with out us worrying about a kidnapping, or a school being shot up, the amazing possibilities are endless on how mich better things could be right now. But, as my dear friend Cody said, us alone and our lack of focus and our poor mindset. One day were gunna have to be face to face with God on that.
When that happens,i ask, are you gunna be able to look at God and go. 'Yes Lord. I stayed focused'? If you said yes kick yourself lol. No ones perfect and God doesn't expect you to be. But you better well have been trying your hardest just as peter did.
After a whole month, my work schedule allowed me to actually go to church tonight!! praise the lord! Man it was good! If anyone needs a church, come on out to High praise off of slate stone in summerville,sc. Its small but its so homey and everyone is so welcoming. The nusic is good, the sermons are better, and the prayers are the best. I just wanna share with some of y'all our semone tonight.
The young man who had the honor of giving this sermon is named Cody. He started off with a passage from Matthew 14:22-33. This is a story im sure were all familiar with. It was when jesus walked on water and called out to peter. Towards the end, jesus questioned peter and everyone on why they had so little faith. He went on to say that peter had a trend of essentially thinking his faith was on point, then he would be shown that it really wasnt. No ones it. There are times in life where even we ourselves think 'oh yeah. I got this!' But like peter we get a good old reality check. Hiw can we call ourselves 'christians' but always lose our focus and start to sink just like peter did when he lost his focus off Jesus, which "caused him to sink, and he cried out to Him to save him".
What do you think could happen if the church and christians as a whole could actually focus on the word and what it actually said? Right now it seems like everyone and their mom(im totally paraphrasing by the way) has add or adhd. More and more children are being considered and taught to just go 'oh sorry. I have add.' And it seems like everything is ok. Now no one was saying its all made up. If you follow my dream blog its quite obvious probably i legit have adhd myself hence the name lol. But really. Its like everyone is being taught this. They're pushing every medication under the sun down our throats. Squirrel..back on track kacie. Lol thats funny cuz this post is about focus xD. Anyways. Add. Its on the rise. Everyone had it. BUT we can focus on things we actually WANT to focus on. Friends, tv, favorite novel, music, etc. why is it we can't focus on God like that?
We SAY we can focus in faith, but how is there a way to STAY focused and learn the powerful wisdom of his word? How can we dig deep and learn all those hard hitting questions non-believers ask. Just READ. Its all in there. You just have to actually read, pray, study, take notes. Focus completely on Christ and see how your focus can shift and open your eyes to see clearly the answers. It all begins and ends in His word. If an olympic athlete can focus only on a medal and ignore his/her surroundings. Why cant we do that for God? Even if He wakes you up at 3am just to pray. Why not?
Ya know back in olden times. Miracles were a normal thing. Overtime we seemed to have lost more and more focus, which seems to have given us a decline in these blessings and miracles. Or at least so it seems, that weve heard and read so much about since sunday school.
The last thing mentioned was, all the problems we have now. If instead of arguing, yelling, telling people theyre 'going to hell'(which isnt christian like anyways cuz who are you to judge? Youre not God); We forget to pray. We forget to pray, and let God do our fighting. Just gunna add in here, if it's just us, its gunna be a hard long battle. If GOD is with us. You best believe the devil is gunna be runnin outta dodge. Because "with God, ALL things are possible'. If we get focused and become a praying nation, oh my brain done got started. Oh if we became a praying a nation. Can you even begin to IMAGINE the things by keaps and vounds we could accomplish?! Can you imagine how much more better our society would be?! Our children could actually go out and play with out us worrying about a kidnapping, or a school being shot up, the amazing possibilities are endless on how mich better things could be right now. But, as my dear friend Cody said, us alone and our lack of focus and our poor mindset. One day were gunna have to be face to face with God on that.
When that happens,i ask, are you gunna be able to look at God and go. 'Yes Lord. I stayed focused'? If you said yes kick yourself lol. No ones perfect and God doesn't expect you to be. But you better well have been trying your hardest just as peter did.
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