Number one, put God first
Put God first in everything you do
I didn't always stick with him, but he always stuck with me
So stick with him in everything you do
Can you say without hesitation
That God is first in your life
It's silly to say that we don't have time
For God and if we don't have time for him then he's not first in our lives
Do you think about God and His goodness in your life
Do you take time to thank God for your blessings even little ones
Live to please the Lord
Make decisions that are pleasing to God
So are you trying to find a place to put God into your schedule
Or would you be willing today to say God from now on you're gonna be first and I don't care what else has to go
or what I have to change what I have to
make an adjustment in
I want to keep you first in my life
in everything let me tell you being a Christian just does not work out right
If God is a sideline in your life
Never meet with other people
Before you meet with God
If you'll take time to acknowledge God say God I need you today
Lead me guide me. Keep me on the right path
Not only will your day go better, but God will keep you from making mistakes
But until you find Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior there will be always something missing
You can't rely on you because you will fail you every single time just about
It's not about me. It's not about my ability. It's not anything about that. It's all about Jesus
It's not about what you have or what you don't have what you wish you had or what you wish you didn't have
it's all about Jesus that no matter where you are in your life right now if you ask
God to forgive you of your sin and you repent of your sin
God will come into your life forgive you of your sin. You'll receive his life his blessings
his life
eternal and his life
life's plan for your life
Not my plan. I don't want my plan
Sometimes we just need to get over ourselves and actually realize that sometimes God actually has a better plan
God allows things that we don't understand but I want you to know if you hold on to him
He'll hold on to you
If you trust in the Lord with all your heart
Even when you cannot walk he'll carry you. When you don't get a miracle you can still be a miracle
But this is what I've understood in life some people don't need you to preach a sermon. They need you to live one
And so when they see you living it
They can connect and identify with that
One of the ways that you can take an ordinary life and make it extraordinary
Is to learn to do every single thing that you do
With and for God
Raise your kids for God
Let your marriage glorify God
Let your attitude glorify God let God into
everything that
you do God believes in you. He's got hope for you
He's got a future plan for you. And no matter how many times you messed up
God is willing to give you another chance and another chance and another chance if you'll just be serious about your relationship with him
Don't listen to the lies of the devil
Don't listen to the lives of the enemy as he would try to whisper to you
God's not for you
God's against you
That's a lie from hell. I Got News for you. God is for you
He's not against you
He loves you
He's on your side
Intellectuals are now jabbering that God and heaven are far removed and far away
God is as close as your next prayer
Ask him for things are impossible because with God nothing is impossible
Ask him to defeat the Giants in your life because our God is a
Giant killer ask him to divide the sea before you and to bury Pharaoh and watch him turn your enemies into fish food
Ask him ask him to send fire from heaven as it did for Elijah and he will ask him to walk with you in the fire of
the fiery furnace
And be the fourth man in the fire
and he will he said you will walk through the fire and the fire will not burn you he will walk through the water and
The water will not drowned you ask him
He's the God who cannot fail he's waiting to show you great and mighty things. Pray pray
Pray God in heaven wants you to have that power
That power is the ability to move mountains out of the way
Too little
is spent in prayer
and too much time is spent in talking about the problem
If people would just start to pray and stop talking about the problem, we would see phenomenal things take place
Prayer is the key that unlocks the gates of heaven and closes the gates of Hell
Prayer has the power to cure sickness and disease prayer can shatter the shackles of misery and habit that are
Tormenting your life or the life of your son or daughter or the life of your husband or wife
Prayer does not need proof prayer needs practice
People need to worship more you need to take more time not going to God in prayer Oh God oh Lord
We've got this problem that problem this problem that problem forget about your problems
Go to God and just begin to worship Him begin to exalt him begin to extol him
Begin to call him by his names talk about his greatness
Talk about how awesome he is. Talk about how mighty he is
All Giants seem larger than they really are
You think you'll not be able
to get control over
Whatever that giant is it seems larger than it really is
It's not larger than our God
It's not larger
Than your Savior
Remember these five words
The battle is the Lord's the battle is the Lord's
There is no giant so great that he is not greater
still
It matters not where the road took you in this year or how your year turned out
I'm encouraging you tonight by the Word of God. The Spirit says call on God one more time
One more time we have if we're here today if you're here tonight
It is testimony that you have a new opportunity. You've got a fresh start right here right now
We get to reboot
We get to do it again
We will not cure what happened in the past for the past
is irretrievable, but the future is available
See the older I get the more I realize
That you can't take life nor moments for granted
I can deal personally I can deal with death better than I can deal with regret
Whatever I gotta say to you I'd rather say it whatever I want to give you
I want to give it whatever I need to express I want to express it because the next second is not promised
All you have is the fierce urgency of now right now
This present moment, you don't have long to get over whatever you're gonna get over climb over your inhibitions or fear
The clock is ticking while you are thinking about it. You are running out of time there is a rush
to do it
When you woke up this morning God gave you an
opportunity
What could be a better gift than to get an
opportunity and what a tragic waste it is to have an opportunity and not use it
Not maximize it not live it to its fullest and to assume
You have tomorrow
how arrogant of you
to assume
that you have tomorrow
When in fact all you have for sure
Is right now
Right now get it right right now
Get it sad right now get it done right now
Open your heart right now
Write the letter right now
express the love right now because if you don't
I can tell you from experience
Coffins can't hear
You know don't don't ever waste a day
You know, there's something really interesting about time. We all get the same amount in a day every day is 24 hours
some people are
Very very fruitful and effective and some people just waste their time day after day after day
That's a choice that we make but there's one thing about time
Once it goes by you never get it back
So how tragic it is to waste
Any day
Of your life. I think we need to live every day like it was our very last one
and live it to the absolute fullest
that we can live it
And anything you want good
you can have
So claim it
Work hard to get it
When you get it reach back pull someone else up
each one teach one
Don't just aspire to make a living
Aspire to make a difference