Week One "Rescued From An Ordinary Life"

So yesterday we kicked off our new series "Rescued From an Ordinary Life" and it went awesome! How can we help our kids move beyond the ordinary? What changes in their lives do they need to make? Part 1 of the message was about watching out for the thief the adversary of God. In John 10:10 it says "A thief comes to steal, kill and destroy; I came so they can have real eternal life a better life than you've ever dreamed of." The devil wants nothing more than for us settle for the life we have. For each of us to remain in neutral. He doesn't want us to know that God has the fuel that kick starts our lives and that we can live life full throttle in Him! Just like the end of John 10:10 a better life than you've dreamed of! There are so many times that the enemy wants to steal our joy and derail our lives. For our kids there is so much temptation that this world gives it's overwhelming at times. For some the worlds way is better and so everything it offers they take in. It becomes all they know. How can our kids be rescued? First things first they need to recognize there need to be saved. Romans 10:9

For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved”. It's important that youth know that God wants to totally invade their lives! He wants to be apart of everything we do. The other part is that they need to acknowledge that the thief is going to tempted them. What choices will they make? Will they give in or put there trust in Christ alone? They will be tempted, but what better person to learn from than the one who's been tempted Himself(Matthew 4). Next they must depend on Gods strength not there own. We can't do anything without Christ. Unfortunately we tend to do things on our own that only God himself can do and in doing so we hit walls... Hard! Gods strength and power is our source towards a better path. It is the path that leads to righteousness and not destruction. On Wednesday I told our youth that they each should take what the thief wants to do to them personal. And we all should. We each have a personal adversary. Here's somebody that wants our life to stink, we ought to take that personally! It's going to get interesting these next 3 weeks. It is my prayer that as we continue this series that a real revival breaks out in our kids lives! Not just in their lives, but at their campuses as well. God Bless and Peace out!