Tweetable Truths

I have been listening to Tree of Life podcasts of their Sunday words in anticipation of visiting in April. My cousin, Gabe is the Pastor of this church. I love hearing what God is saying to him and his congregation. I like to call his words, tweetable truths. Everything is so on point and can be condensed to 140 characters. He keeps it real. Each of his messages will speak into your life, challenge you, and encourage you in your relationship with God. I know it is challenging me. I am so encouraged to have a cousin that is a man of God and providing a great example to all of us primos under him.
(Trust me... there are a lot of cousins in my family.)
Feel free to tweet out any of the truths that I have gotten from his words. 

• You will often experience breakthrough outside of your comfort zone.
• God never changes, so my future is secure.
• When I understand that God is a person, I will be more personable with him.
• If you teach, people will come to learn. It doesn’t matter where you are. 
• There is nothing too difficult for God. God is all powerful.
• We treat people based on their value to us.
• God is a promise keeper.
• You don’t fail, you just keep taking the test again.
• Jesus did not come to modify your behavior, He came to modify your thinking.
• In the kingdom of God you receive first before you do anything. 
• No one can tell you who you are but God. 
• God is not finished with you yet. He will never give up on you. 
• Righteousness is correctness of thinking. 

What does the Bible say about PRIDE?

My favorite thing to do when I hear a little nugget of truth is to go here and type in the subject. Recently it has been pride. OUCH. The nugget of truth that led to this was,
"The more you admit you can't do something, you stab pride and kill it."
I am someone who likes to control of what I do the majority of the time. I am not one to easily admit that I can't do something. I will work hard to figure it out on my own. I have a hard time delegating. I enjoy hearing a "good job" or "wow, what you did is great!" (I mean who doesn't like to hear that?) But all those compliments feed my pride when God is taken out of the equation. 

Proverbs 10:17
The road to life is a disciplined life;
    ignore correction and you’re lost for good.

Proverbs 11:2

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

Proverbs 29:23

Pride lands you flat on your face; humility prepares you for honors.

The opposite of pride is humility. Humble yourself unto others and God. He will give you grace to wipe away the pride. The more I honor God with what I do and use my life for Him the less it becomes all about me. 

John 3:30 
He must increase and I must decrease. 
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you.
Luke 14:11
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Breakthrough in my PJs

Church was cancelled this morning due to illness, but that didn't stop me from having church. I woke up with such a desire for something new and fresh for my life. I remember saying to my friend on January 1, "It just feels like another day. I know it's a new year but it doesn't feel any different to me." God has shown me that I cannot curse my 2013 by looking back at 2012. What happened last year, happened last year. It is a new year, a new beginning and God has some incredible things in store for me and for this nation in 2013. 

I tuned into The Ramp for their morning service and had such a breakthrough! The minister Jason Adair spoke from Deuteronomy 11. I had such a visual of what God has for me in 2013 after hearing his word. 

^{Deuteronomy 11:10-12 (the message)} 

^10-12 The land you are entering to take up ownership isn’t like Egypt, the land you left, where you had to plant your own seed and water it yourselves as in a vegetable garden. But the land you are about to cross the river and take for your own is a land of mountains and valleys; it drinks water that rains from the sky. It’s a land that God, your God, personally tends—he’s the gardener—he alone keeps his eye on it all year long.

Because Egypt was a desert, in order for the Egyptians to get water they had to dig their feet into the ground and drag the soil to get the water their seeds needed. God is bringing us to a land where God will water our seeds. Our seed is our relationship with God. The God given desire within us to live out His kingdom on Earth. 

It's no longer going to be a fleshly act by me to water my seed. No longer will it be a struggle to obtain the water in order for me to grow. God's presence is going to rain over my life and cause my seed to grow.

 ALL YEAR LONG!