Devo 1/21/10

Pastor Jeremy Johnson

Sermon on: January 20th, 2010

Discussion on: January 21st, 2010

It’s My Life; Now or Never!

If you don’t step out, then your friends and family may not make it. What if someone else’s eternity is dependent on whether or not you realize that your mouth is a weapon?

It’s your life, not your parents life, or anyone else’s life. You make your own choices. No one can steal your life away from you.

God’s looking for a now or never generation. It’s not now or later, or now or sometime in the future... It’s now or never.

We don’t have to wait until we get to heaven to have complete joy. We’re a generation that brings heaven to earth. We silence all of heaven because God desires to hear you worship Him. God is waiting for this generation to start proclaiming that it’s now or never

John 12:23-28

Your life is not just your body. Your life is not determined by what you have, the clothes you wear or what you look like. Maybe it would be if the only thing you had was a body.

Three parts to your life:

1. One part Spirit. (When you die, the only thing that will carry on will be your Spirit.)

2. One part Soul. (Your soul is made up of your mind, will, and emotions. And you’re in charge of these things.)

3. One part Body. (Your Spirit lives inside your body, and you have a soul.)

The enemy, since he can’t attack your body, will attack you through your emotions. Inside your mind is every war that you will ever fight as a human being. He attacks you through your mind because the Bible says that with your mind you will serve the Lord. He loves us so much that He gave us choice, and we can choose whether or not to serve Him.

What you put into your mind will come out of it. If the enemy can put anger into your mind, that anger will eventually have to come out. Whatever you think about enough will come out of your mind, that’s why you have to be careful what you put in your mind.

If you tend to lose your friends, it might be because you have too many buttons to push and no one will ever measure up. We blame others for doing something to you. Which they might have, but it was already in you. They simply pushed a button that was already formed inside of you.

When you stop “feeling” God’s love because you’ve made a lot of mistakes, your emotions say that you don’t want to go to church, they tell you that God can’t love you. If you feel like that, you can know that you’re a threat to the enemy. The more you feel like your mind is taking control, the more you are making a difference.

God’s not looking for your feelings, because your feelings will waiver. He wants your will, because true love is a choice. It’s based on your will.

There is a battlefield inside of your mind. When you give Him your will, He renews your mind. He starts to change what you let your mind control, and you begin to trust Him and His will for you.

You aren’t promised tomorrow, you have one day. Today.

How are you going to use it?

Jesus is asking you to give Him your life. It’s a daily offering. Once you give God your life, and hand over your will to be obedient to Him, your emotions will have to follow up with what your will is doing.

Jeremiah 15:19

Metanoia: “To change one’s mind. If you repent or change your mind.” You have the power to change your mind. With the power of your words you can say you changed your mind, and can do it!

Feelings can be horrible masters, but wonderful servants.

Questions:

1. What are the buttons in your life that set off your emotions? How do you plan on getting rid of them?

2. How has your will been affected by your emotions, and what needs to change?

3. How can you stop listening to your emotions, and listening to your will? What is living in your mind currently that needs to die? How can you kill it?