The Unstoppable Power of Christ

Okay, y'all are going to have to pray for me, because I just finished eating a piece of cake and I had pizza for lunch and dinner. Ummm...........is that on the eating plan, Kari? I didn't think so either. :( Tomorrow is a new day!

Church on Sunday was awesome! One thing that made it exciting is that we had someone who played this drum thing. I don't know what you call it, but you sit on it and it looks like a box and you beat on it and it sounds like a drum. It really added to the music and made it sound great! He also had a cymbal too. That box thing has been sitting on stage, but I didn't know it was actually an instrument. Ha! Another fun thing was our Pastor got up on stage and sang a song. I didn't even know he could sing and that was a neat surprise. We also had a full house too.......so neat to see our church growing!

We started One Prayer, so we watched a video sermon from Steven Furtick of Elevation Church in NC. It was called "The Unstoppable Current of the Power of Christ" and I am always amazed that every Sunday our sermon always seems to be on exactly what I need to hear!

All last week, I was in a funk and convinced that there was no point of us going to church, that I have nothing to offer, and most sadly, I just felt things were not getting better and I was just exhausted. Clearly, my thinking was all messed up. It was just one of those weeks where I was really missing my Mom and flat out angry that I don't have anyone in my life who can encourage and support me, or just be my best friend, like she was. I know you can probably all relate to times in your life where something was taken away from you and that panicky feeling where you feel you just can't catch your breath. Well, even almost 6 years later, I still feel that way without my Mom.

Then, after thinking about it, I realized something. Our Pastor said that he was going to pray for God to mess us up, so I'm blaming this all on him. Haha!! Any time there is potential for the Lord to do great things, the enemy will be right there planting his lies and I believe that's exactly what he was doing. Like Denver Moore said in "Same Kind of Different as Me"........."if the devil ain't messin' with you, he's already got you."

So, then we had this awesome message at church and of course, a great party day after church, and I felt much better. But, I'm just being honest in telling you that every day of this new life I have, there is a battle going on and it is hard.

One Prayer is all about a bunch of churches coming together from all over the country so that we can be known for what we're FOR and not what we're AGAINST. Unstoppable means rising up and shining for the glory of God. It's about coming together to create change for God's glory.

The main message of this sermon was about God's unstoppable current of the power of Christ.

When we want what God wants for the same reasons God wants it, we're unstoppable!

The unstoppable power resides in every believer. We looked at Acts 3: 1-10. It's the story of a beggar outside the temple gate who asks Peter and John for money as they are heading into the temple. All he asked for was money, but Peter and John told him they had no money, but what they did have was the power of Jesus Christ. So, they told him to get up and walk and he did and they had healed him with what they did have! The beggar asked for money, but received a miracle instead.

The pastor said he tells his church that the sermon actually starts in the parking lot. We can't depend on the preacher to do the work of the gospel. The pastor is there to build up the body of Christ so that they can go out and do the work. The power of God flows through ordinary men. It is possible that God can use you to do a miracle in someone's life before the sermon even starts. Are you making yourself available for God to use you outside the temple gate?

You are a connector to the current of the power of Christ!

You're not "just a" volunteer or "just a" greeter. You're not "just a" anything in Jesus! You represent the unlimited God of the universe! We don't expect much when we go to church service. God will enable us to exceed every expectation though!

What DO you have? All that you have is all that He needs to do what He wants to do in your life. Don't limit your future on what you don't have. Look at what you DO have.

We often say to think outside the box. But that box often limits you. When we think outside the box, we think of things we can do IF ONLY.............if only I had this, if only this hadn't happened, etc. We think of what we would do if we could do........ But, the unstoppable power of God is INSIDE the box. It's what you CAN do. The same is true of the story of Jesus feeding thousands with a few fish and loaves of bread. He didn't look at what he didn't have, he looked at what he did have.

When you do what you CAN do, He will do what He can do. When you give God all that you have, it is all He needs to do everything He wants to do through your life. Stop telling God what you don't have and start offering Him what you do have!!!