Set your minds on...

Colossians 3:2 "Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things." we should focus completely on things from above: Serving, relationships, Jesus, etc. Don't let your mind get stuck on earthly things!! Heavenly things are all that matter!

Our God.

Psalm 86:15 "But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness." Even though we let him down all the time, our God is compassionate and gracious towards us. He's slow to anger, and overflowing with love and faithfulness. What an awesome example that is to us...

Closer...

James 4:8 "Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded." God is waiting on you. The closer you put yourself to God, the closer he will put himself to you! Wash your hands from the sin in your life and draw near to God!!

Without LOVE...

1 Corinthians 13:3 "If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing." You can do all kinds of good things, but unless you have LOVE, you are gaining nothing!! Love EVERYBODY!!

Live FULL of LOVE...

1 Jn. 4:16 "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them." GOD IS LOVE. Everyone who lives their life FULL of love - for God and EVERYBODY ELSE, lives their life full of God and He is in you!! Live FULL of love today!!!

3 Things to Help You be More Like Christ.

Colossians 3:13 (MSG) Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you." Three things to help you be more like Christ: 1. Be even-tempered. Don't let yourself be an emotional roller coaster! 2. BE CONTENT WITH SECOND PLACE!!! You don't always have to be the best at everything!! Let someone else have first place! 3. Forgive QUICKLY and COMPLETELY!!

Walk by Faith. Give Him the Reigns

Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." When you give yourself to Christ, the life you lived before is long gone!! You are then dead to yourself and Jesus takes the reigns of your life...don't try to take the reigns back!!! Just live by faith in the one who died for you!!!

The Love of Christ <3

Ephesians 3:17b-18 "And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ." It is so hard for us to even fathom the love of Christ...how wide, long, high, and deep it really is!! Let's not be small minded!! We need to at least try to understand the enormity of Jesus' love for us!!! There's no other love like His...

Saved by GRACE.

Ephesians 2:4-5 "But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved." We were DEAD in our sin and our merciful God made us alive in Christ!!! It is by GRACE we have been SAVED. It's not anything that we did that saved us - it's all God's love!!! Thank you Jesus for saving me from my sin!!

Grace: (dictionary.com) the freely given, unmerited favor and love of God.

The Good of Those Who Love Him

Romans 8:28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." If you love God, then He is always on your team. He will work things out for the good of those who have been called by him!! We never have to worry about any situation we will face, because God will take care of it!! He cares about us!! 

You are Gods Masterpiece.

Ephesians 2:10 "For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." We are God's MASTERPIECE - created to do the good things that God prepared for us, way before we were even born!! We can't have our own plan!! God made us to do something specific! Get ready!!

Normal is Overrated

"Normal" is so overrated. So many people say they just want to be normal...but truthfully, I don't think anyone has a true desire to be "normal" or "average" - I think it's more that we have a fear of what people might think if we step out of the box. It's so much easier to just do the average thing - wake up, go to school or work, eat, sleep, and repeat. But what's the point of that? We need more than normal people to change the world! We need to be Jesus crazies! People want to follow people who stand out, not fit in!! I have a challenge for everybody who's reading this - this week, practice stepping out of the box. No! Don't JUST step out!! When you are out, pick up "the box" and chunk it!! Throw it as far away as you can... And never go back to average!! Don't let your fear of what your friends might think keep you from stepping out!! BE CREATIVE and BE YOURSELF (and "yourself" is not normal)!! :) I'm ready! Are you?