Our Purpose Requires A Response

William Marsten, a prominent psychologist, asked 3000 people, "What do you have to live for?" A full 94 percent responded that they had no definitive purpose for their lives. Sadly, Marsten's survey proves that so many people live what Thoreau called "lives of quiet desperation" - enduring, waiting, wondering what their lives are all about, hoping their purpose will suddenly become clear to them in a divinely inspired moment. Meanwhile, they simply survive, mechanically going through the motions of living without ever experiencing the spark of aliveness! They grow cold, begging to lose color, and slowly fade away. They watch their dreams slip through their fingers and become increasingly fearful that life will completely fizzle out before they experience any true joy or deep sense of purpose. God has set us up for success; our role is to respond.

F.I.R.E

Listen to these definitions of Fire -

Luminosity, Brilliance, Liveliness, Enthusiasm, Excitement, To Burn, To Ignite, To Detonate. These are all so powerful. Think about it for a minute, something happens when Fire is around, we naturally look at fire - Camp Fires, Yard Fires, House Fires, Car Fires, and even the T.V. broadcasts raging forest fires.

Hebrews 12:28-29 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, [29] for our "God is a consuming fire."

Everyday let's remember to F.I.R.E. - Fire The Inside Revolution Everyday.

Our God is a consuming fire and He consumes every part of us. Let's not hold in that consuming fire power of God, but let it out.

Jeremiah 20:9 his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.

I am ready to see people completely changed by God's incredible power.

Smiley Faces

My mom is a smiley face pheen! She is into myspace and loves putting a smiley face on every comment that she sends out. So I have been thinking about smiley faces a ton!

Psalm 16:9 says "I am happy from the inside out, and from the outside in, I'm firmly formed. (message version)

We have a huge reason to SMILE. Jesus Christ is enough to keep you smiling for the rest of your life. Others can tell when you don't feel awesome inside because it shows on the outside. If you are truely smiling through the way that you live your life, others will catch that and begin to smile themselves. Let's smile the way that God intended from the beginning of our life, and enjoy the Joy that we have!

New Insight

Denis Waitley (American Motivational Speaker) Said “All the top achievers I know are life long learners, looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing, they are simply not moving toward excellence.”

Guy Finley Said “Don’t go through life, grow though life”

Johann Wolfgang Said “Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”

E E Cummings Said “It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”

Roger Von Oech Said “Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and Second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”

Just Some Thoughts I Thought You Would Enjoy

T.O.R.C.H. "Taking Opportunity Represent Christ's Heat"

T.O.R.C.H. Someone today! Now that doesn't mean burn someone (lol!) it means Today, Take The Opportunity To Represent Christ's Heat!
Matthew 5:14-16
You are the light of the world—like a city on a mountain, glowing in the night for all to see. [15] Don't hide your light under a basket! Instead, put it on a stand and let it shine for all. [16] In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father. (NLT)
Jesus is saying “Be Fantastic!” Shine! Take the Opportunity to Represent Christ’s Heat! Give This World The Supernova Treatment, So that those who are Cold, can get Hot, & Those who are Lost, can be Found. Maybe it's been a long time since you have helped someone else. Take today and TORCH SOMEONE.

T – Taking
O – Opportunity
R – Represent
C – Christ’s
H – Heat

RE - PURPOSED

The average person lives 40 million minutes. They spend 1.5 million minutes in the bathroom, roughly 1 million minutes on the phone, but just 300,000 minutes with God. How often do we convince ourselves that something can wait because, "I've got time"? Others of us wonder "if only I had more time." We spend more time figuring out what time it is or how to manage our time than we do trying to leverage the time we have. We have missed the true value of time. The value God places on our time. What would it look like to leverage our time in a way that would honor God? If need be, take the time and RE - PURPOSE the day.

The Great Gamble

MOST OF US WANT TO LIVE LIVES OF PURPOSE. We want to give ourselves to a worthy cause. But years of bombardment by the message of a self serving culture have confused us. Indulge Yourself. Fulfill Your Desires. Satiate Your Appetites. Pursue Plesure.
It's All About You. The thought that I have for the day is what would happen if we decided that we took 2008 and used it as a year to grab the servants cloth, drape it over our arms, and serve others with joy and gladness? Think about it, maybe risk it a little, and give it a shot.