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We had an awesome Men’s Breakfast here at C3 North Shore last Saturday morning with pastor Greg French as our guest speaker. Greg heads up the ministry Real Men based out of Sydney and runs conferences in many different nations each year.
This coming weekend Greg is speaking at the Real Men Conference being held at C3 Church Hibiscus Coast, 57 Florence Ave, Orewa, first session Friday Aug 13th 2010 7.30pm, – you can visit their website for more details www.c3coast.org.nz or register at the door on the night |
Hebrews 11:1 “Now FAITH IS the substance of things hoped for , the evidence of things not seen”
Today a short encouraging and challenging thought about the concept of FAITH from Hebrews 11:1.
I want to focus on, – FAITH IS – notice it doesn’t say ” FAITH WAS” or FAITH WILL BE“. Faith is right now, currently what you are thinking, believing, feeling,- today not what you were believing yesterday or hope to believe tomorrow.
Your FAITH today will effect your tomorrow, A small amount of FAITH NOW, – equals huge results in your future.
Faith is always in the now
Apply some FAITH now, today, – to your words and prayers, and see your tomorrow transformed.
Barry
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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