LIVING THE CHRIST LIFE

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OCTOBER 29-30, 2010

Praise God! we are so excited for this conference,

 please keep us in your prayers as we prepare for this event.

God bless!

First of all the youth ministry would like to thank all of the people involved in last saturday’s PARENTEEN SEMINAR, to all the young people involved in the preparations and our partner ministries, thank you so much, God is indeed good.

Praise God for our event last saturday, there was a good turnout of parents and their teens to attend the sessions. we would like to give God all the glory because of how he has moved in everything. especially in the area of provisions. we will be posting the talks here in the blog very soon we just have to arrange and edit a few things. thank you also to all of you who prayed for us, your prayers were felt and they sustained us all throughout the preparations.

Thank you and God bless.

Praise God!

One week to go for our upcoming Parenting Seminar! Please pray for us as we continue to prepare for this activity and we hope to see you there as well!

As mentioned in an earlier post, here is the exhortation from Pastor Bobi Tayag of THE WAY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES.

Living Insights:

Jesus said in John 10:10 that the life He came to give us all is life abundant.

Television commercials, claim that the abundant life goes along with drinking, wearing certain kinds of clothes or shoes, or driving a certain type of car. You can’t find abundant living in a can or in a bottle or an attire and accessories or a car. You can’t find abundant life in a capsule or a pill or in cocaine or marijuana or any kind of drug. John 10:10 says that abundant living is only found in Jesus.

John 10:10 says the thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill and to destroy. Through the devil’s empty pictures of fame, money and drugs, he steals from, kills and destroys people. But God’s idea is different. Jesus says I am come that they might have life, and they might have it more abundantly.

If someone is living an abundant life, what does it look like, and how does it look different than other people? I can’t answer these questions unless I have a clear understanding of what the word abundant really means.

So, how do we understand this word abundant? In John 10:10, Christ uses the Greek word “perissos” pronounced ‘per-is-sos’. In this context, it means ‘superior in quantity or quality’ ‘exceedingly’ ‘very high’ ‘advantage’ ‘beyond measure’. This is the exact same word that Paul uses in Ephesians 3:20 “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us.” A clue to our understanding of this word is to think about whom Paul is speaking of—God.

To us who are already saved, abundant living is not just living well-off materially. It is not merely being comfortable or healthy. Being saved is great. It’s vital. But it’s not the end—it’s the beginning. There’s so much more that will fulfill us, complete us, satisfy us, and make us to be all that God designed us to be in Christ Jesus. It is receiving and living God’s best in this life.

INTRODUCTION:
According to the dictionary, emotions refer to an intense feeling. This definition therefore suggests that emotions can be applied to things and people. And most of the time we user our emotions when we feel something for other people.

And most of the time our emotions are a bit off target when it comes to putting them into what really matters.

You see, if there is one point that I would like to make today, it is this. Whether you believe it or not, emotions are not trivial, as a matter of fact they are very important in our lives and that we are actually investing our emotions and what we invest in today will reap its dividends in the future.

And so in our talk this afternoon I would like to hopefully show you where you should be investing your emotions, and this begins with a Biblical view of your current status in life which is called “singleness”

SINGLENESS REDEFINED:

Many Christians and Non-Christians define singleness as “an empty bus station in the middle of nowhere”. Now if you think about it, that’s not too encouraging. If you’ve ever been stranded before, you know what I mean.

And yet, if singleness is such a burden, why did God allow us to experience this season in our lives. A season where we experience the most intense emotions and somehow have the most energy and passion for things? And this question if you are paying attention, has a very obvious answer.

Our singleness was not designed by God to be a burden, but rather it is the season in our lives where there is an enriching of our relationship with the Lord. Sadly however many of us fail to maximize this time and rather than seeing it as a time of growth we see it as a time to court.

AN EXCELLENT INVESTMENT:

I would like for you to think about this for a moment, “who is the greatest “single” in history and where did that person invest his life? The answer is JESUS! “How amazing it is that God would come to earth and carry out his entire earthly ministry as a single man!” another person who we can see had a great impact on history and who invested his emotions on the right things was Paul.

According to Scripture (Colossians 3:1-11) we must set our minds on things above not on things on the earth because our lives are already hidden in Christ. And so the question begs to be asked, “Where are you investing your emotions in?”

> many young people today invest their emotions in fashion
> many invest their emotions on computer games
> many invest their emotions in looking for romance
> many invest their emotions in school
> many invest their emotions in sports

we invest our emotions in so many things that there’s nothing left, we give God the leftover emotions, how wrong is that!

Scripture tells us to set our minds (emotions) on things above, which basically means our relationship with God and yet many of us find it silly or ridiculous or to use a stronger term, many of us find the things of God as stupid.

But what is more ridiculous? Wasting our emotions on the things of this world that take more from us than satisfy us? Or investing our emotions in God and knowing Him and having our emotions satisfied and reciprocated to us to the enth fold?

> I believe its time for us to realize that the only way that we will not waste our emotions is by giving our all for the Lord.
> But I believe that many of us if not all of us know this already but I believe that the problem lies in our perception of what is a waste and what is not.
> You see until we come to realize, truly realize that we waste our emotions on so many trivial things we will not truly live our lives to the full.

PRINCIPLES:

> but of course that is another topic altogether, so let us go to some principles about how not to waste our emotions.

1. The sovereign hand of God has placed each of his children in his or her present status. (1 Corinthians 7:17).

> This principle tells us a very important fact of life and it is this “RELAX! GOD IS IN CONTROL!” and that God has placed us where we are right now for a specific purpose, and that is to serve Him, love Him and glorify Him.
> But this is the deeper perspective that we fail to see. What we see is I have to be cool, I have to be popular, I have to be beautiful and I have to have everything. And we waste our emotions on these things.
> But if we are truly Christians and we love the Lord, we will see to it that this time of our lives will not be wasted. And if we have this kind of perspective there is an encouragement for us and it is this, “with God’s providential positioning comes supernatural enabling”. This means that God gives us the ability to do His will and to know His will and to love His will.

2. Using our emotions to glorify God.
(1Cor. 7:7)
> How do we use our emotions to glorify God? good question.
> We glorify God in our emotions by using these emotions, these passions and channeling them towards loving God, trying to express the most intense love for Him that we can.
> Explain channeling of emotions.

3. Our present situation should be shaped by an eternal perspective

> (1 Cor. 7:29;31) Paul is urging us too live in the ongoing reality that the eternal future is pressing into the temporal now. He is concerned that we live undistractedly in joyful anticipation of the approaching kingdom. And that call is given to those who want to make a difference.
> We must realize that though we are in this world we are not of this world, and it would do us well to remember what Paul said, that we are sojourners (tourists) in this world and that our citizenship is in heaven.
CONCLUSION:

For my final point I would like to state this principle, WHAT CONCERNS US DEFINES US. If your emotions are invested in the right things what concerns us will be the affairs of the Lord, how we can please God in our lives. And our aim will be a whole hearted devotion to the Lord (1 Cor.7:32-35). This whole hearted or undivided devotion to the Lord is the essence of what it means to not waste our emotions.

“it is rooted in the sovereignty of God who places people in appropriate situations for the best possible reasons. It is steeped in the love of a God who uses even the most difficult of situations for the greatest possible benefit. It is sustained by the wisdom of a God whose timing is perfect and whose guidance is true.”

End with John’s story.

So how has everybody been? it has been a very busy holiday season, haven’t been able to post that much but hopefully i’ll be able to upload new stuff.

To “theobserver”,

On behalf of our team, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for your comments and suggestions. And we will continue to strive to “excel still more” in this ministry that the Lord has entrusted to us. And in response to your other comments we will be posting articles regarding them very soon. Thank you again and God bless.

Hi guys, its been quite a while since my last post and i am very very sorry for that, my laptops keyboard was malfunctioning and i couldn’t use the letters “r” “y” and “u” and its was so frustrating for me to type up new articles. anyway, i hope to be able to post more articles in the next few days to make up for lost time. just an update however, please pray for us because we plan to have a sequel to our first parenting seminar and we hope to have it in november. so please pray for us and i hope that you will continue to support our blog.

Thanks for your comment and support, and i am humbled that you have read our youth ministry’s blog. anyway, i wish i could post more often, but i have a job as a teacher and it can get really really busy sometimes. anyway do continue to support our blog and watch out for our future post! God bless!