Encouragement

Just Do It

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Just Do It – moments

Have you ever actually thought yourself out of doing something? That is you really wanted to do something but after you started to think about it, you second guess yourself and the end result equalled no action at all.

I love this guy in the Bible called Peter from the time he thought about an action until the time he stepped out and did it was a pretty short interval.

The passage about Peter walking on the water is a classic

Matthew 14:22-33
28 “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”
29 “Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus.

Peter didn’t debate it with the others in the boat “should I or shouldn’t I” or “has anyone ever walked on water before” no the thought in his head was “JUST DO IT” and we are glad he did otherwise the moment would have been lost.

The Day of Pentecost is another classic JUST DO IT MOMENT, after the Holy Spirit fell on the disciples in ACTS 2, they could have decided “let’s stay in the upper room and experience more” or “before we share this experience we need to analyse it, scrutinise it, rationalise it, then draw up some theology around it all, then just maybe share what’s happened” – but not Peter, this was a JUST DO IT MOMENT for him. Acts 2:14 (NIV)
14 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say”.  The result 3,000 were saved and the New Testament Church was born into an atmosphere of faith and power.

We all need to take hold of more JUST DO IT MOMENTS in our lives, that’s where the miraculous meets the natural, and get some Holy Spirit adrenaline flowing.

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Speaking Hope

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def. Hope – A confident expectation of the future

I’m talking to you today about speaking hope, every one of us has people in our lives that need to have hope spoken over them, like your children when you say I’m proud of you, you’re going to do great, – you have just spoken hope over their lives and future.

The moment you speak it, you release hope into their future.

Just like you pull back a bow and shoot an arrow you are releasing blessing.

You can literally shape their destiny through your words of hope.

One word of approval can place hope and destiny in some ones heart.

Think of some one who has done that for you.

Someone has spoken hope over your life, now who are you doing it for, don’t just have one-way traffic on this.

You have words of hope locked up on the inside of you words other people need to hear.

When you help someone else rise higher it’s a seed you are sowing and God will ensure there will be some-one to help you rise higher also.

People will rise to what you speak over them. Don’t say I won’t say it until I see it

So where can I give hope today or more accurately – to whom can I give it.

Bless someone this week with your words, express a confident expectation in their future.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 (TMNT) 11So speak encouraging words to one another. Build up hope so you’ll all be together in this, no one left out, no one left behind. I know you’re already doing this; just keep on doing it
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The Power of Fresh Hope

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I was speaking in our 10am Service last Sunday about fresh hope. Hope is one of those things we can’t do without , it so easily ebbs away or is some how diminished through day to day life. Some one once described hope as “a confident expectation in the future”

The challenge is to draw our hope from the right place, lets be honest you probably won’t draw fresh hope for each day from the 6 o’clock news. The Bible talks about hope in 1 Corinthians 13:13 there are three things that are not going to pass away – Faith Hope and Love. Don’t let hope be robbed from your life by the circumstances you are facing right now. Know that God is with you, He hears your prayers and some of those prayers will be answered this week.

We had a lady come forward for prayer in one of our services several week ago she had been diagnosed with an enlarged heart, we prayed and that following week after more scans and tests the cardiologist told her her heart was now normal size again. The point is if she didn’t have fresh hope that God could heal her that day would she have even come forward for prayer, – fresh hope opens the door in your life for miracles.

The Apostle Peter quoted David in the Old Testament when he says in Acts 2 (The Message)

25 David said it all: I saw God before me for all time. Nothing can shake me; he’s right by my side. 26 I’m glad from the inside out, estatic; I’ve pitched my tent in the land of HOPE

So pitch your tent in the land of hope this week

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