# LLMs-Full.txt - Full Content for Project Pages # Generated on: 2026-06-28T11:01:34.438Z # Total pages: 506 --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/finding-joy-in-the-valley ### Title: Finding Joy in the Valley ### Page ID: 5898438 ### Content: # Finding Joy in the Valley ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***1 Thessalonians 5:18 “Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.”***   This verse does not say to be thankful *for* every circumstance. It says *in* every circumstance.  God never expects you to be grateful for evil. God never expects you to be grateful for the pain in your life. We do not give thanks *for* pain. But, we can give thanks while we are *in* pain. There is a difference—an important one. In fact Jesus himself said, in ***John 16:33, “******I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”*** You will have trouble. You will face challenges. You will experience pain in this broken world. But, our hope isn’t in the fact that following Jesus will help us avoid pain. Our hope is in Jesus himself. He has overcome the world, and he PROMISES to be with us in the valleys of life. ***Psalm 23:4 says, “Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me. Your rod and your staff protect and comfort me.”*** Why are we unafraid? “Because God is close beside me.” He promises to be WITH US in the middle of our pain. THAT is what we can be grateful for in every circumstance. He is with us. We know God is with us in the darkest valley. ***Philippians 4:4 Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again—rejoice!”***   What do I rejoice? I rejoice in the Lord. I don’t rejoice in my circumstances. I rejoice in the Lord. ***James 1:3-4 “For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.”***  When we are going through a problem we have two choices. We can pray, “Lord, make this easy.” Or we can say, “Lord, use this for good in my life and use it to make me more like Jesus.”  I don’t know what problems you might be facing today. It could be a financial problem, it could be a physical health problem, maybe you’re looking for work, or maybe you have conflict in your family, maybe you’re struggling with thoughts of fear and doubt.  But without even knowing them I know one thing is true. That while Satan means it for bad, God means it for good. He is the only one who can bring good out of bad.    God doesn’t waste your pain if you allow him to work in the midst of it. He can create a purpose for every problem in our lives. He can create hope in the most hopeless of situations.  We can have joy in the valley, because He is with you, and He will not leave you there. 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It is accurate, authoritative, and applicable to our everyday lives.     Through His Holy Spirit, God lives in and through us now.     Nothing in creation “just happened.” God made it all.     Grace is the only way to have a relationship with God.     Faith is the only way to grow in our relationship with God.     God has allowed evil to provide us with a choice; God can bring good even out of evil events and God promises victory over evil to those who choose him.     Heaven and hell are real places. Death is a beginning, not the end.     The church is to serve people like Jesus served people. God is the Creator and Ruler of the universe. He has eternally existed in three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. These three are co-equal and are one God. ([Genesis 1:1](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Gen%201.1), 26-27, [Genesis 3:22](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Gen%203.22), [Psalm 90:2](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Ps%2090.2), [Matthew 28:19](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Matt%2028.19), [I Peter 1:2](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/1%20Pet%201.2), [II Corinthians 13:14](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/2%20Cor%2013.14)) Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He is co-equal with the Father. Jesus lived a sinless human life and offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all people by dying on a cross. He arose from the dead after three days to demonstrate His power over sin and death. He ascended to Heaven's glory and will return again someday to earth to reign as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. ([Matthew 1:22-23](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Matt%201.22-23), [Isaiah 9:6](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Isa%209.6), [John 1:1-5](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/John%201.1-5), [John 14:10-30](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/John%2014.10-30), [Hebrews 4:14-15](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Heb%204.14-15), [I Corinthians 15:3-4](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/1%20Cor%2015.3-4), [Romans 1:3-4](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Rom%201.3-4), [Acts 1:9-11](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Acts%201.9-11), I [Timothy 6:14-15](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/1%20Tim%206.14-15), [Titus 2:13](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Titus%202.13)) The Holy Spirit is co-equal with the Father and the Son of God. He is present in the world to make people aware of their need for Jesus Christ. He also lives in every Christian from the moment of salvation. He provides the Christian with power for living, understanding of spiritual truth, and guidance in doing what is right. He gives every believer a spiritual gift when they are saved. As Christians we seek to live under His control daily. ([II Corinthians 3:17](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/2%20Cor%203.17), [John 16:7-13](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/John%2016.7-13), [John 14:16-17](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/John%2014.16-17), [Acts 1:8](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Acts%201.8), [I Corinthians 2:12](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/1%20Cor%202.12), [I Corinthians 3:16](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/1%20Cor%203.16), [Ephesians 1:13](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Eph%201.13), [Galatians 5:25](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Gal%205.25), [Ephesians 5:18](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Eph%205.18)) The Bible is God's Word to us. It was written by human authors, under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit. It is the supreme source of truth for Christian beliefs and living. Because it is inspired by God, it is the truth without any mixture of error. ([II Timothy 3:16](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/2%20Tim%203.16), [II Peter 1:20-21](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/2%20Pet%201.20-21), [II Timothy 1:13](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/2%20Tim%201.13), [Psalm 119:105](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Ps%20119.105), [Psalm 119:160](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Ps%20119.160), [Psalm 12:6](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Ps%2012.6), [Proverbs 30:5](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Prov%2030.5)) People are made in the spiritual image of God, to be like Him in character. People are the climax of God's creation and the supreme object of His love. Although every person has tremendous potential for good, all of us are marred by an attitude of disobedience toward God called "sin." This attitude separates people from God and causes many problems in life. ([Genesis 1:27](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Gen%201.27), [Psalm 8:3-6](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Ps%208.3-6), [Isaiah 53:6a](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Isa%2053.6a), [Romans 3:23](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Rom%203.23), [Isaiah 59:1-2](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Isa%2059.1-2)) Salvation is God's free gift to us but we must accept it. We can never make up for our sin by self-improvement or good works. Only by trusting in Jesus Christ as God's offer of forgiveness can anyone be saved from sin's penalty. When we turn from our self-ruled life and turn to Jesus in faith we are saved. Eternal life begins the moment one receives Jesus Christ into his life by faith. ([Romans 6:23](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Rom%206.23), [Ephesians 2:8-9](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Eph%202.8-9), [John 14:6](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/John%2014.6), [John 1:12](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/John%201.12), [Titus 3:5](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Titus%203.5)) Because God gives us eternal life through Jesus Christ, the true believer is secure in that salvation for eternity. If you have been genuinely saved, you cannot lose your salvation. Salvation is maintained by the grace and power of God, not by self-effort of the Christian. It is the grace and keeping power of God that gives us this security. ([John 10:29](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/John%2010.29), [II Timothy 1:12](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/2%20Tim%201.12), [Hebrews 7:25](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Heb%207.25), [Hebrews 10:10](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Heb%2010.10), [Hebrews 10:14](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Heb%2010.14), [I Peter 1:3-5](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/1%20Pet%201.3-5)) People were created to exist forever. We will exist either eternally separated from God by sin, or eternally with God through forgiveness and salvation. To be eternally separated from God is Hell. To be eternally in union with Him is eternal life in heaven. Heaven and Hell are real places of eternal existence. ([John 3:16](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/John%203.16), [John 14:17](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/John%2014.17), [Romans 6:23](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Rom%206.23), [Romans 8:17-18](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Rom%208.17-18), [Revelation 20:15](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/Rev%2020.15), [I Corinthians 2:7-9](https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/1%20Cor%202.7-9)) Beliefs are not worth much unless they are translated into actions. Based on what the Bible teaches, we feel very strongly about the following seven practices: ***"All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right." (2 Timothy 3:16)*** Since God's Word is the only completely reliable and truthful authority, we accept the Bible as our manual for living. Our first question when faced with a decision is, "What does the Bible say?" We practice daily Bible reading, Bible study, and Bible memorization. The Bible is the basis for all we believe. ***"Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body." (Colossians 1:18)*** Christ is the recognized head of our church, not any person, group, or religious organization. While recognizing the value of associating and cooperating with other groups of Christians, we believe every local church should be self-governing and independent from any denominational control. ***"He has made us a Kingdom of priests for God his Father. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen." (Revelation 1:16)*** ***"For you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God." (1 Peter 2:9)*** The Bible teaches that every Christian is called to "full time" Christian service, regardless of his or her vocation. We practice the truth that every believer is a minister by encouraging every member to find a place of service and ministry. Every believer has direct access to God through prayer and Bible reading. ***"One tenth of the produce of the land, whether grain from the fields or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord and must be set apart to him as holy." (Leviticus 26:30)*** At Seminole Church we practice tithing for the support of Christ's Body, the church, as God commands. We recognize that giving 10% of our income is the Biblical standard of giving. ***"For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead." (Colossians 2:12)*** We practice baptism by immersion under water - the way Jesus was baptized, and the way the Bible commands. ***"\[Jesus said\] Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing." (John 15:5)*** We believe the only way possible to live the Christian life is by God's power within us. We seek to practice a daily dependence on God's spirit to enable us to do what is right. **"If someone asks about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it." (1 Peter 3:15)** It is the responsibility of every Christian to share the Good News with those whom God brings us into contact with. We practice personal sharing about Christ and inviting friends to church. Copyright 2023 Seminole Community Church. 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Our weekend services are designed to provide you with a predictable, casual worship environment where you can come as you are and feel at home.  If you are a first time visitor at Seminole Church, you can expect to see the "New Here" tent out front. At the "New Here" tent, we have a small gift bag for you! There will also be a few volunteers there ready to greet you and direct you to your next step, whether that's checking in your child to KidZone or Discovery Zone or walking into service.If you would rather just walk in, you don't have to stop by the "New Here" tent. Totally your preference. It's there if you need any direction. We have indoor and outdoor seating options available. Outdoor seating can be accessed through the main hallway inside our church building, or you can find a paved walkway on the left side of our building. If you need help finding a place to sit, you can always find someone with a "Here to Serve" badge, and they will be happy to help you. We believe that worship is what we were created for. But, worship music styles can vary drastically from church to church. To give you a good idea of what you can expect to hear on a Sunday morning at Seminole Church, [CLICK HERE](/sermons) to watch worship and a message. When you visit Seminole Community Church you can expect to hear a positive, application-driven message that always points us back to Jesus. [CLICK HERE](/sermons) to watch a message. Our weekend services are for you—so come dressed however you feel most comfortable.  Every Sunday at Seminole Church you can expect to be served coffee and donuts after each service under the pavillion behind our building. There will be signage to help direct you.During this time, we just hang out. It's a great opportinity to connect with people in a relaxed setting. We'd love to connect with you, but if it's your first time and you don't feel ready to stay after service, that's okay too! There's no better way to say it: You can expect your kids to have fun at Seminole Community Church. Our goal is to make church fun and exciting for children of all ages while showing them who Jesus is. We also have high school and middle school breakouts on Sunday Mornings. Middle school meets over in our Children's Building during both services. High School meets in our portable classrooms after worship during the second service only. If your student wants to join these breakouts on a Sunday morning, let someone know and they will be happy to help them find their group. Copyright 2023 Seminole Community Church. 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God calls each and every one of his followers to minister to others in our workplaces, our homes and in our communities. Here are some of the ways Seminole Church is currently serving our local community. Sometimes we will do a one-time service project depending on the need in our community. If you'd like to volunteer or support any of these existing outreach initiatives, please email kristin@seminolechurch.com. These our the regular Outreach Ministries at Seminole Church. If you're looking for areas where you can serve IN your church, [CLICK HERE.](/serve) Seminole Music Lessons offers scholarships for bass guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keys and drums. We believe giving kids and youth access to music lessons not only gives them an incredible life skill, but it could also be the catalyst to lead them into a worship band environment one day. We'd love every student who learns an instrument to be able to plug into and serve at a church wherever life takes them! This ministry is led by Joe Sharrow, one of our Worship Leaders here at Seminole Church. How can you help? If you'd like to give toward the scholarship program, click the "Give Here" button below and select "Music Lesson Scholarships" in the drop down. Here at Seminole Church, we offer counseling scholarships to people who need grief counseling, marriage counseling, mental health therapy and more. How can you help? If you'd like to give to this ministry, please click below and select "Counseling Scholarship Fund" in the drop down. Our Appliance Ministry provides used appliances to people in our community. This ministry has served many single moms in the area, families within our church, and people who have never even heard of SCC who happened to find themselves with an emergency need. How can you help? Donate your used appliances or let us know if you know someone in need! We take washers and dryers, refrigerators, stoves and dishwashers. Our Appliance Ministry Team is happy to pick up any used appliances directly from you when we have storage space available. Our team also repairs the appliances before we take them to a new home. If you have an appliance that could be donated, please contact Kristin Sharrow at kristin@seminolechurch.com. We provide Easter Baskets for the teens who reside at the Methodist Children's Home in Deltona. This ministry was put on the heart of our Pre-School Director, Sarah, a few years ago and now the teens a tthe children's home look forward to this every year! Want to help with Seminole Community Outreach's Easter Baskets? When Easter is close, check back here for a link to the registry. (Please only items from the registry, as they have specific needs and restrictions for the children's safety). Every Easter our church throws a huge Easter Eggstravaganza with animal encounters, a family photo booth and chances to win additional prizes and gift cards. It's fun, but this event has a bigger purpose! We have seen many families who didn't have a church home get connected with SCC through the Easter Eggstravaganza. How can you help? Volunteer and invite. We need your help to pull off an event like this! When Easter is getting close, look for a volunteer sign up. Also, invite your neighbors. You never know who is looking for a church or maybe God is at work in their lives. All it takes is an invitation. Every Year on Mother's Day we honor moms. But, what you may not know is we give the single moms connected to Seminole Church a card with a small gift. How can you help? You can donate to our outreach. Click the button below and select "SCO - Outreach" in the dropdown. VBS is one of the best things we get to do as a church every year. We love getting to see kids have so much fun learning about Jesus. VBS is our Vacation Bible School program for children who are going into Kindergarten through going into 5th grade, and VBX is for students that are going into 6th grade through students going into 8th grade.  How can you help? Volunteer. We need over 100 volunteers to make VBS happen. When Summer approaches look for a VBS Volunteer form! It is one of the most rewarding things you can do with your time this summer. Every year between Mother's Day and Father's Day we have a baby bottle drive to support the Sanford Pregnancy Center. How can you help? We'll provide you with a baby bottle for this campaign. You then fill it with change over the course of a few weeks and bring it back to us. We give all of the baby bottles to the Pregnancy Center to help support local moms and babies in need. At the beginning of August Seminole Community Outreach gives each teacher who attends SCC a small gift. We also have a gift and note of encouragement for all of the educators who attend SCC. From coaches and teachers to homeschool moms and school admins, SCO honors, prays for and cares about those who dedicate their lives to pouring into the next generation. How can you help? You can donate to Seminole Community Outreach to help purchase the gifts we give to teachers. Click the button below and select "SCO - Outreach" in the dropdown. We have many nurses connected to our church, including Pastor Josh's wife, Katie Walsh. She works in high-risk pregnancies down at Advent Orlando, and saw a need for bereavement baskets, as nurses were going down to the gift shop on their lunch breaks to purchase gifts for moms experiencing loss to bring any comfort possible. When they run low on baskets at the hospital, we will have a registry open to donate items to put in these baskets. These baskets are then given to the nurses at Advent Orlando to then give to grieving mother's who have just experienced an unimaginable loss. When you help with this outreach initiative you are sharing the love of Jesus with a grieving family and with a nurse who is caring for that family. One of the best ways to support someone who has just undergone surgery, delivered a baby or who is facing an unexpected hardship is by bringing them a meal. This ministry exists to serve families who are connected at Seminole Church who find themselves in need of a Meal Train. When you sign up to be a part of this team, you are not automatically expected to bring a meal when a new Meal Train is created. When you sign up, you will simply be notified every time there is new Meal Train opportunity here at SCC. From there, you can decide to opt in to bring a meal. Our Annual Trunk-R-Treat event is a big deal in our community! Kids can come, dressed up and safely enjoy decorated trunks, a petting zoo, a family Photo Booth, immersive decorated walk-through experiences and TONS of candy! But, there's always a bigger purpose behind our fun events. We have seen many families who didn't previously have a church home get connected with SCC through Trunk-R-Treat. How can you help? Host a trunk! Your warm and welcoming interaction with someone could be just what they need to feel comfortable coming to church and learning about Jesus. Plus, this is a great event to get to know fellow SCC members on a deeper level. Every Thanksgiving Seminole Community Outreach has a goal to provide Thanksgiving Meals for 25 families in our community. This initiative is coordinated by Michele Davis, one of our Worship Band members. How can you help? You can pick up a Thanksgiving Bag in November under the Next Steps Tent (out front).These bags have a shopping list attached so that you can go shopping, fill the bag and then bring it back to us. These Thanksgiving bags will be delivered to a family in need. Christmas Village is by far the largest event at Seminole Church all year, and it takes place on several evening ins December. We have a Santa take photos with kids, but you know, as always, this event serves a bigger purpose. Christmas Village has connected many unchurched families to SCC, as well as get many new people to our Christmas Eve services where they hear the Gospel Message of Jesus and accept Jesus for the first time, AMEN! More families get connected here at SCC through Christmas Village than any other event we do. So, how can you help? From cooking and serving food to helping with games, prizes or crafts, to monitoring s'more stations or helping with face painting, there are *many* opportunities to serve. Volunteering for Christmas Village is a great way to serve our community AND to get to know and grow closer to your church family! We have over 250 volunteer positions to fill over several nights, so whether you can serve one or multiple nights, we need your help! Every year, during the holiday season, we partner with Open Door Haiti to bring joy and the love of God to children in Haiti who are connected with ODH's school and orphanage. In the past, we have done this through Hope Boxes. This year, we have created a gift registry to provide each child a gift that ODH has suggested as the most meaningful to the children of Haiti. For many of these kids, this is the ONE gift they get all year. Our Benevolence Fund exists to assist those who find themselves in an emergency need. Sometimes we can support someone with a physical or financial need through our Benevolence Fund. How can you help? If you'd like to give toward the Benevolence Fund, click the "Give Here" button below and select "Benevolence Support" in the drop down. If God has put something on your heart, you should do something about that. We want to encourage you that, you don't have to be a pastor to minister to others. In fact, we believe that every member here at Seminole Church is a minister. If you are passionate about a particular need, reach out to us and let us know how we can support you. Sometimes we can partner with you for a one-time outreach project, other times we can add your outreach to our regular outreach schedule, and often times we can direct you to another trusted ministry that has the infrastructure already in place to meet the need you are interested in meeting (this often applies in disaster relief). We are here to pray with you, support you and partner with you. Together we can reach our community, meet needs and love people into a relationship with Jesus. That is the goal. 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Housed in the same building as the adult worship center, the Discovery Zone wing is just steps away the main auditorium. With moms and dads just a beeper call away, kids can enjoy their own age-appropriate activities in spaces outfitted with cool new toys and playmates their own age all under the supervision of loving and qualified caregivers. When it comes to our children, we’re sticklers for the three “S’s” - security, safety and sanitation! We want parents to be able to relax and enjoy the church service knowing that their little ones are being looked after by kind, caring adults who are trained to follow careful guidelines. To make sure that everyone’s time at Seminole Community Church is a pleasant experience, we strive to provide the very best childcare possible by keeping our kids safe and secure and happy to be there. Discovery Zone classrooms are open for all our weekend services with workers available and ready to check babies and kids in about 10 minutes before the start of each service. Check in for Discovery Zone is to the left of the front doors of the main building. Copyright 2023 Seminole Community Church. 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[Events](/events "Events") - [Blog](/blog-2 "Blog") - [Podcast](/hope "Podcast") - [Devotion Sign Up](/videos-devotion "Devotion Sign Up") - [Newsletter Sign Up](/newsletter-signup "Newsletter Sign Up") - [Prayer](/prayer-2 "Prayer") - [Events](/events "Events") - [Event Gallery](/event-gallery "Event Gallery") - [Sermons](/sermons "Sermons") - [Watch Live](/live "Watch Live") --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/kidszone ### Title: Kidszone ### Page ID: 4462274 ### Content: # KIDZONE ## KidsZone: K-4th Grade on Sundays ### [SEMINOLE COMMUNITY CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) If you are in elementary school, this is the place to be! With fun music and a cool video, KidsZone is an experience tailor-made for kids in Kindergarten through 4th grade. It’s their very own age-appropriate church service in their very own kid-sized auditorium adjacent to the adult worship center. No more boring adult services to fidget through. Kids can enjoy worshiping with their peers and are encouraged to move around and participate if they Of course, there are plenty of capable (and energetic) adults on hand to keep everything safe and under control, and parents are always welcome to join in the fun, too. After the main event show, kids break down into small group time with other children around their own age to enjoy a time of dialogue facilitated by a qualified, caring discussion leader. The KidsZone auditorium is open for all of our weekend services with workers available and ready to check kids in about 10 minutes before the start of each service. 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Power Up exists to give kids a space to gather with friends during the week and learn about Jesus together. Power Up meets in our Children's Building on Wednesday nights from 6:30-8:15 for K - 4th graders!  If you are new to Power Up, our Children's Building is to the left of the main building. There will be someone in front of the Children's Building to check your child in. Our Middle School (which includes 5th grade) & High School youth programs also meet on Wednesday night from 6:30-8:15pm. Middle School & High School check in is in front of the main building. If you have any questions about where to go, whether it's checking in your child or finding a classroom, feel free to visit the check in table in front of the main building, and a youth leader will be happy to direct you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Community Church. 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Single, married, on an infertility journey, walking through loss, a house full of kids, empty-nesters and everyone in between! We are all on a journey, and we need each other.  Whatever you’re facing we know your heart will be encouraged through our Women's Ministry programs and events. From Bible Studies every Spring and Fall and events like Paint Night and Women's Nights of Worship, we want to connect you with an incredible community of women. One of the best ways to connect with other women is through a life group.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Community Church. 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[Events](/events "Events") - [Blog](/blog-2 "Blog") - [Podcast](/hope "Podcast") - [Devotion Sign Up](/videos-devotion "Devotion Sign Up") - [Newsletter Sign Up](/newsletter-signup "Newsletter Sign Up") - [Prayer](/prayer-2 "Prayer") - [Events](/events "Events") - [Event Gallery](/event-gallery "Event Gallery") - [Sermons](/sermons "Sermons") - [Watch Live](/live "Watch Live") --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/serve ### Title: Serve ### Page ID: 4463377 ### Content: # SERVE ## **Every Member is on Mission** ### [SEMINOLE COMMUNITY CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) We believe that God has given each person unique talents, passions and a purpose. One of the most fulfilling ways to use those talents and passions is through volunteering and serving in your church. There are so many ways you can volunteer in an area you are passionate about here at Seminole Community Church. If you would like to get involved in what God is doing here, take the next step by clicking below to fill out the contact form. We will help you find a place to serve! **CHAIR TEAM:** The chair team meets every Saturday morning to set up the chairs for Sunday morning service. **AUDIO/VIDEO TECHNICIANS:** This team sets up and monitors the sound for music activities. Members on this team also record the services, work the cameras for online streaming and maintain the slides during the service. **WORSHIP TEAM - SINGERS:** This is an opportunity for singers to use their gifts in the worship services. **WORSHIP TEAM - MUSICIANS:** This is an opportunity for those with musical abilities to use their talent to play instruments during the worship services. There is also a band for younger musicians to play with on Wednesday nights for youth. **FOLDING TEAM:** This team makes sure that all the Worship Guides are folded, name tag and inserts are included. They work in the church office on Friday mornings. They also label postcards when applicable. **KIDSZONE - ELEMENTARY:** This team serves over in our Elementary Kids program on Sunday mornings. They help with activities, games and group discussion.  **DISCOVERY ZONE - PRESCHOOL:** The Discovery Zone team serves by rocking babies, teaching an age appropriate lesson to toddlers, to teaching a Sunday School lesson to Preschool aged kids.  **POWERUP - ELEMENTARY:** PowerUp is our Wednesday evening program for Elementary aged kids. People on this team help with games and a Bible lesson on Wednesday nights. **WILDFIRE – MIDDLE SCHOOL:** This team serves Middle School students on Sunday morning, leading a small group or on Wednesday nights helping to connect with students, lead a discussion and games. **LIMITLESS – HIGH SCHOOL:** This team serves the high school students, from leading a small group to helping setting up games or snacks. There are also opportunities to lead a devotion on Sunday mornings during second service.  **EXPERIENCE TEAM:** This team exists to make people feel welcome through greeting, handing out worship guides, and working stations to help guide people from the street to their seat. **CLEANING TEAM** – This team partners together to clean the church and buildings each week, normally on Friday morning.   **COFFEE/DONUT TEAM** – Two teams are assigned to each Sunday. First service team sets up coffee, donuts and bagels, cleans tables and prepares trash containers. Second service team refills coffee as needed and cleans up coffee pots, Many volunteers are needed for each event. Volunteers are notified by email of the upcoming event and sign up to help in different areas – grilling, set-up, food, serving, parking, clean-up, etc. Copyright 2023 Seminole Community Church. 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EVERYTHING I’VE EVER DONE WRONG IS FORGIVEN.** ### **2\. I LEARN GOD’S PURPOSE FOR MY LIFE** ### **3\. I GET A GOD’S STRENGTH FOR DAILY LIVING** ### **4\. I AM GUARANTEED ETERNAL LIFE.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) We are currently in a series on Sunday mornings called "Daring Faith." What are the benefits of putting your faith in Jesus? What does Well, I could give you fifty benefits of putting your faith in Jesus, but let me just give you four. Everything I’ve ever done wrong is forgiven. Because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross in dying for your sins and mine God forgives you That’s the second big benefit. I learn the purpose of my life, God’s purpose. If we don’t know our purpose (and most people don’t know the purpose of their life) we end up drifting through life.  I get God’s strength for daily living. I used to think this wasn’t a big deal. But I’ve realized this is the number one problem most people have today. For most people the number one problem isn’t worry, or fear, or guilt or boredom or bitterness. Their number one problem is The most famous verse in the Bible talks about this:   ***John 3:16 (NIV) For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.*** The Bible says this is what God wants you to do. He wants you to believe in the one that he sent. So what does it mean to *really* believe in Jesus?   A lot of people THINK they believe, but really they don’t. They are going to miss heaven by eighteen inches because they got it here in the head but NOT here in the heart. They have head knowledge about God but they don’t have a heart commitment to God. I was talking about faith and believing to a guy over coffee one time. I said, “Let me ask you: How do you know you’re going to heaven? How do you know?” He goes, “Because I believe in God.” I go, “Good for you! Any other reason why you think you might be going to heaven?” He said, “Because I believe in Jesus. I believe Jesus died on the cross for the sins of the world.” I said, “That’s great. Would it surprise you if I told you that believing there is a God and believing that Jesus died on the cross is NOT enough to get into heaven?” He said, “Are you kidding me?” I said, “Let me ask you this: Do you believe in the devil?” He goes, “Oh yeah.  Evil is obvious in the world. There’s a lot of evil. I believe in the devil.” I said, “Do you think the devil is going to be in heaven?” He goes, “Of course not!” I said, “The devil believes in God and the devil believes in Jesus. The devil knows Jesus Christ is the Son of God. That’s why he put him on the cross. He wanted to kill him. He wanted to destroy the Messiah. Do you think Satan is going to be in heaven?” “No!” “So obviously believing in God and believing in Jesus as the Son of God is not enough to get you into heaven because even the devil believes that.” He goes, “Where is that in the Bible?” And I showed him this verse: ***say you have faith, for you believe that there is one God. Good for*** ***you! Even the demons believe this, and they tremble in terror.*** But you’re not going to find them in heaven. Why? Because it’s more than just a head knowledge*.* We’ve got to go back to what the word believe” *actually* means. In the Greek the word “belief” actually means more than just knowing ABOUT something. It means to *trust* *in*, o *cling* *to*, to *rely* *on*, to *adhere* *to*, or to *commit* *to*. Big difference. It’s a heart commitment. We all know that there are various levels of knowledge. For instance there’s real shallow knowledge. We all know about celebrities. I know about Jonny Depp. I don’t know Jonny Depp personally, but I know who he is. I believe he exists. But I’ve never given my life to Jonny Depp. I just believe he exists. And a lot of people believe that Jesus exists. They’ve just never given their life to him. If you’re married, you know your husband or wife. That’s the kind of knowledge and intimacy. When I say, “I believe in my wife,” it’s more than just I believe that she exists. It’s I trust in her. I’m committed to her. I rely on her. And I love her with all my heart. That’s the kind of meaning *believe* means in Scripture. It means to *trust* in, *cling* to, *rely* on, *adhere* to. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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They had prayed for God to intervene and heal a family member, but the family member died. They also had prayed for God to keep their parents marriage together, but their parents split up anyway. They even had prayed for God to heal their pet, but the dog died anyway. The conclusion they came to was that God either didn’t care or that they just didn’t have enough faith.   I’ve met a lot of people who have been Christians a long time and wonder why God doesn’t answer our prayers. They wonder why God doesn’t come through for us. Somebody told you that if you just have enough faith, you can move a mountain. But then, in your experience, you felt like your faith wasn't enough. It wasn't "working for you." The mountain didn't move. I think it's important that we understand what faith is and isn't. Today, we are going to break down what faith is NOT, and tomorrow Faith isn’t Star Wars. Faith isn’t karma. Faith isn’t, “If I believe, I’ll receive, if I believe enough, if I can get enough faith.” Faith isn’t something that stands outside of God. Sometimes faith is presented this way. Here’s me, there’s God, and over there is faith. Somehow, I’m going to tap into the power of faith and faith is going to throw a lasso around God’s neck and then faith is going to pull God in my direction and I will be able to get God to do something. That is not what the scripture teaches. Faith is not a power that we tap into. Faith isn’t something we harness.  Faith isn’t something we dip into, tap into, meditate ourselves into. Faith is none of those things. Not Biblical faith. It doesn’t matter how much we have. In fact, Jesus taught one time if we have little bitty pea-sized faith we can do great things. Because the issue is not the size of our faith it is Faith isn’t something that we figure out and once we get it figured out then God does things for us.  “Prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer, go to church. Nope. That wasn’t the combination. Prayer, prayer, go to church, prayer, fast. Nope. That wasn’t it either.”  Prayer’s not a formula. It’s not, “If we, then God.” If we do enough then God will, and the more we do the more God does. That’s not biblical This is really important because we use the words faith and believe in a way that is synonymous with the word confidence. For example we say, “I believe my team is going to win. I have faith in my team.” That’s the same as saying I have confidence in my team. We use those English words interchangeably. Biblical faith is not simply confidence.  “I believe I’m going to get the deal. I believe he’s going to ask me out. I believe we’re going to win. I believe. I have faith. I just know it.”   Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Faith takes it a step farther. Let’s go back to the story of Noah to look at this. He built an ark to save his family. ***Hebrews 11:7 It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the*** ***flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never*** Did the story go like this? Noah is looking around going, “Boy, I think everybody in the world is evil. Let’s get the family together.  We’re going to pray. ‘God, we just pray that you would kill everybody. We pray that you would like rain, rain down on everybody and to show you how much faith we have in you we’re going to build a boat.’ Then, God’s going, “Well, I really hadn’t thought of that but gosh, look at their faith. They’re building that boat, I don’t feel like I have any choice. Okay, Noah, tell me when you are ready.”  No! The story went nothing like that. Who initiated the whole deal with Noah and the Ark and the flood? *God* did. That wasn’t Noah’s idea. But look what the text says, “It was by faith that Noah built a large boat.”  Noah built the Ark by faith. Not hope. He didn’t just hope God was going to do what he said he was going to do… he had faith. “I believe this is your idea and I believe it’s going to rain. Let’s get building.” That’s a picture of how you do something by faith.  **The BRIDGE between hope and faith is the PROMISE of God.**   That the bridge between what we can hope for to what we can trust God for is the promise of God.  Noah built an Ark because God made a promise. “It is going to rain.” Noah said, “I believe you.”   **Faith: is confidence that God is WHO He says He is and that He WILL DO everything He has promised to do.**   That’s all faith is! That’s what Noah acted on. “I believe you are who you say you are. If you say it’s going to rain, I think you can make it rain. You want us to build a boat? 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Today’s trouble is enough for today.*** This verse is saying, “don't borrow trouble for tomorrow. I'm going to give you enough grace for today. I'm not going to give you the grace for There's a couple reasons why we should only live one day at a time. First, when we worry about tomorrow's problems, we miss all the blessings of today. Some of us, we got something coming up in two weeks or a month and it's scaring us to death and we're making it worse because we're ruining every day between now and then by worrying about it. We're missing today's blessing. Some people are so worried about retirement, they're not enjoying today. They're missing the blessing of today. He says, “I don't want you doing that. Take it one day at a time.”  The other reason is we cannot solve tomorrow's problems with today's power. When we get there, tomorrow, God will give us the power and the perspective and the grace and the wisdom. He'll give us what we need we get there. The Bible does not say, "Give us this day our weekly bread." No, we're to pray, "Give me today my *daily* bread. Give me just enough strength to make it through the day." He wants us to depend on him one day at a time. It's okay to plan for tomorrow. It's okay to plan for the future, just don't worry about the future. Planning is good. Worrying is bad. And, it doesn’t help you one bit. We can plan for tomorrow but we can't live in tomorrow. We can only live today. Now I know that the future can often seem very overwhelming. God graciously divided it up into 24 hour segments so we don't get all the future at once. We get it 24 hours at a time. ***Matthew 6:34*** ***(MSG) Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The Bible says in Colossians 2:7, *“Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then* *your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness”* (NLT). How does God grow a strong faith like that within us? The first way God grows your faith is through his Word. He wants you to know the Bible—to read the Bible, listen to the Bible, study the Bible, memorize the Bible, and talk about the Bible. Why? Because God’s Word says, *“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”* (Romans 10:17 NKJV). If your faith is weak, you’re likely not in the Bible very often. But the more you’re in God’s book, the more it will feed your soul. The second way God grows your faith is harder—and that’s through circumstances that test you. While you may read the Bible only a little bit each day, you have things happening all around you 24 hours a day. Your circumstances are what God most often uses to grow your faith and Faith is like a muscle. You don’t grow muscle without some sort of resistance. The only way you grow a muscle is by stretching it, testing it, and putting weight on it. The same is true with faith. You don’t grow faith just by sitting around and saying, “Oh, I want more faith.” Faith needs to be tested. So God allows circumstances in your life to build your faith muscle. Because God cares so much about your faith, you can know that he will always answer this prayer: *“Increase our faith”* (Luke 17:5 NIV). Make that your prayer as God grows your faith through his Word and through circumstances that test you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then* *you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can nderstand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in* Scripture tells us to pray about *everything*. But, do we actually? Perhaps you only ask God for the “big stuff” and not the “small stuff.” Guess what? Everything is small to God. None of your requests are big in God’s eyes. You’re not bothering God when you give him your requests; he’s the one who set up the system of prayer in the first place. That’s why the New Testament tells you more than 20 times to ask for whatever you need in prayer.  **Matthew 7:7** says, *“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you”* (NIV). Sometimes, instead of asking God for something, we just worry about it. But if it’s big enough to worry about, it’s big enough to pray about. Worry won’t solve anything, but prayer can. If you’re not expressing your needs to God, how can you grow in trust?  When you ask God, he will always prove his goodness. Sometimes you’ll have to wait patiently for God’s timing to deliver. And, sometimes, he changes your heart over your situation. But, God will not fail you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. I encourage you to take your needs to God in prayer. Then watch for the ways he answers your prayers and meets those needs. You’ll learn to trust that God is reliable and that you can count on him, no matter what. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He is the Good Shepherd who feeds you, leads you, and meets your needs. You don’t have to look anywhere else. You don’t have to look to Wall Street. You don’t have to look to the government. You don’t have to look to your spouse, If you’re going to put your faith in something, you need to put it in something that can never be taken from you. You can lose your health. You can lose your job. You can lose your good looks. You can lose your family. You can lose your life. You can lose your mind. You can even But God is never lost. And there is nothing you need that God can’t supply. Philippians 4:19 says, *“God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus”* (ESV).  So why do people worry so much? Worry may be the most common sin on the planet. It is the direct result of forgetting that God is good all the time. When you forget God’s goodness, you panic instead of pray; you worry instead of worship. The Bible says, *“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?”* (Matthew 6:25 NIV).  Clearly, God doesn’t want you to worry about anything. Yet it’s hard to stop the worry habit. It’s part of human nature! As Philippians 4:6 says, *“Never worry about anything. But in every situation let God know what you need in prayers and requests”* (GW).  Take  your concerns to God in prayer instead of worrying about them. Remember: The best way to stop worrying is to start praying. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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While you’re waiting, God is working. Don’t think that a season of waiting means that God has stopped working. God is never in a hurry. He’s eternal! He is watching. He is working. He is seeing how and when you will trust him as you’re waiting. You’re saying, “When, Lord? When is it going to happen?” And God’s saying, “You can trust me with this.” The problem with waiting is that our human nature and our society say, “Don’t wait! Get things as quickly as you can.” That’s the way our culture is wired, but it goes against God’s blessing in our lives, because God’s blessing comes through these times of waiting. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says God *“has set the right time for everything”* (GNT).  Are you in a time of waiting? Maybe it’s for school to end. Maybe it’s for the “right person” to come into your life. Maybe it’s for a marriage to happen or a baby to come or a new job opportunity to arrive. And you may be frustrated with how slowly things are happening. We’ve all been there. There’s a promise in the Bible that tells you not only that God is working but also *how* God is working, and you need to claim it while you’re in your time of waiting: *“I am the Lord, and when it is time, I will make these things happen quickly”* (Isaiah 60:22 NCV). That’s how God worked when he sent Jesus into this world. The world waited thousands of years for Jesus to come the first time. And he came We’ve been waiting 2,000 years now for Jesus to come again. When will that happen? At just the right time—God’s time. That’s when he’s going You can apply this to your time of waiting and remember that a delay is not a denial. When you think God is saying no, he may just be saying, Micah 7:7 says, *“I trust the Lord God to save me, and I will wait for him to answer my prayer”* (CEV). Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But have you shared that gift with Faithful people share their faith. Today’s verse comes from the story in Matthew 9 about a man who was sick and paralyzed. His friends wanted him to be healed, so they brought him to Jesus by lowering him on his mat through an opening in the roof of a house where Jesus was. Notice Matthew 9:2 says, *“When Jesus saw their faith.”* It was not the paralyzed man’s faith that led to the healing—it was the faith of his friends. When Jesus saw that these friends cared enough to bring their paralyzed friend, he said, “Those guys have great faith. They’re not just asking; they *expect* me to heal their friend,” and he did. You have friends who are spiritually paralyzed and can’t get to Jesus. They are paralyzed by fear, guilt, doubt, pain, or maybe even resentment over being hurt in some church in the past. They are paralyzed, and they can’t get to Jesus on their own. God is watching to see if you will be faithful enough to bring them. And if you are, God will honor your faith. He’ll not only heal your friend; he’s also going to bless you. It’s a blessing of faith. As long as a church will keep reaching out to more unbelievers, God will keep blessing it. The moment a church’s members say their church doesn’t need to grow anymore, they’re saying they don’t care about the world—an attitude that’s inconsistent with God’s priorities. But as long as we keep bringing spiritually paralyzed people to Jesus, God will bless our churches and our lives. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Faith always requires risk. Faith means you obey even when you don’t understand. You start taking a step in the direction you think God is telling you to go, even if he hasn’t given you the next step. Even if it doesn’t make sense. I think a lot of Christians never take the first step, because they’re still praying God will show them HOW it will all work out. Remember when you were a kid and your parents told you to do something that didn’t make sense to you? But now you can look back with 20/20 hindsight and understand your parents’ perspective.  Proverbs 3:5 says, *“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding”* (HCSB). You never know the whole picture, but God does.  The Bible gives a great example of this in the story of Gideon in Judges 7. Gideon took 300 Israelites to battle 135,000 enemy soldiers. The odds were 450 to one. God had the soldiers take torches, trumpets, and clay pots—a command I’m sure Gideon thought was ludicrous.Then God told Gideon to put the clay pots over the torches so the light couldn’t be seen at night and go surround the enemy’s camp. God’s instructions were something like this: “When I tell you to, blow the trumpets, break the pots, and let torchlight suddenly shine out in the darkness. It will look like a huge army is surrounding the camp. It will cause mass confusion, and the enemy soldiers will end up fighting each other.” Gideon obeyed, even though it didn’t make any sense. The Israelites blew their trumpets, broke their pots, and revealed the light from their torches. The enemy soldiers woke up in shock and started fighting each other instead of the Israelites. Because Gideon did what God told him to do—even when he didn’t understand it—the Israelites won the battle. Sometimes God tells you to do something that appears foolish—like going into battle facing overwhelming odds. 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When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown.  When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.*** This verse reminds me of the three Hebrew children, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego who walked through the fire. God walked through it with them. When they came out the ropes were burned off. They were protected. We're all going to go through a fire. Some of you are going to go through difficulty this week. None of us can predict the problems we're going to face, but one thing we can be certain of: God's going through it with us.   God is with us! When I'm worried, God is my confidence.   God told Moses one day, “You're going to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt into Israel.” Moses started making excuses, "God, I can't do that! I'm insecure! I'm nothing! I can't speak!" God gives one answer to his excuses, "I will be with you. My presence will go with you. I will be your confidence." The truth is, God knows about our weaknesses and our shortcomings and he says, so what? As if we could help him on our best day anyway! He still wants to use us. It’s not about our abilities, it's about God’s abilities, always. This truth should give you confidence. It should take a weight off your shoulders. God is with you. He is able. God is your companion. When you are worried, God is your confidence. You can relax. ***Psalm 16:8-9 I know the Lord is always with me.*** ***I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice. My body rests in safety.*** It gives me stability. It's a stabilizer. It's a stress reliever. I have confidence because I know *"I can do all things* ***through Christ*** *who strengthens me."* He's with me. I can handle anything. I can even handle death.   ***Psalm 23:4 Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me.*** That kind of confidence does not come from psychology. 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I ASK him to be my shepherd every day.*  ### *2\. I PUT him first place in every area of my life.*  ### *3\. I GIVE him my worries in prayer*.  ### *4\. I TRUST him for one day at a time.*  ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***John 14:1 (CEV) Don’t be worried! Have faith in God and have faith in me.*** How do we do that? How do we trust God to meet our needs? Every time we worry is a wasted second of our life. It's wasted energy. God says it doesn't change anything. It's unreasonable. It's unhelpful. It's unnatural. It's unbelief. It's unhealthy.  Well, the Bible says we do four things. Number one, we do this every day. It's not a one-time thing.  Every day, I ask Jesus to be my shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd. If I ask him to be my shepherd, then he's going to feed and he's going to lead and he's going to meet my need in that day.   What do you do? You do this every morning. When you get up, you sit on the side of your bed and you say, "The Lord is my shepherd. Jesus Christ, I'm expecting you to feed me, to lead me, and to meet my needs today. I will trust you today." I start every day by saying, "The Lord is my shepherd. You're a good God." Then I say it throughout the day. Every time we go into a meeting, "The Lord is my shepherd. He's going to help me in this meeting." We’ve got a parent teacher conference, "The Lord is my shepherd. What I'm about to hear, I may not want to hear, but he's going to feed me, lead me, and meet my needs." We’ve got a major decision to make, "The Lord is my shepherd." We might say it 10 or 15 times a day. If we'll start saying that phrase, our worry will go down.  ***John 10:14-15 I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me, just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep.***  *"The Lord is my shepherd."* Who is that? Jesus says, "I am the good shepherd and I know my own sheep and they know me and I lay down my life for my sheep." That's what he did on the cross. He gave his life for you. If he loved you enough to die for you, he certainly loves you enough to feed, lead, and meet your need.  Every day we need to pray the prayer that David prayed in  ***Psalm 28:9 (CEV) Come save us and bless us. Be our shepherd and always carry us in your arms.*** Do you remember when you were a little kid and your parents would go on an outing, you'd go on a picnic or a hike or you'd go to Disney World and at the end of the day, your little legs are so tired, mom or dad has to carry you out to the car? Your legs give out as a little kid. That's what happens during the week sometimes. You say, "God, I am worn out. I don't think I can put one foot in front of the other. I need you to carry me right now. Carry me to the car. Take me home. Get me home." He says, "I'm your shepherd. I'll care for you. I'll bless you. I'll protect you. I'll save you. I'll guide you. I'll direct you. I'll discipline you when you need it. I'll defend you. I will do all of these things. When you're worn out and you're tired and you can't put one foot in front of the other, I'll carry you. Just hop on and I'll take you to the car. I'll take you home."  That's what you do. Every day, ask him, "Will you be my shepherd?"   This is extremely important that I give Jesus first place in every area of my life. Now, if we're a believer, we've given him first place in our life as a whole, but there's different parts of our life that are not under his control unless we give him access. He needs to be Lord over every area. Lord over your family. Lord over your free-time. Lord over your work, your spending habits, your time online, your hobbies. Each area we put God first in, he will supply our needs in that area.  ***Matthew 6:32 Your heavenly Father already knows all your needs.*** Let me stop right there. Our Heavenly Father perfectly knows already what we need. God allows needs in our life so we'll come to him, so he can answer that need, so we'll trust him. Anytime we worry, that is a warning light that that particular area of our life we have not given him first place. Every time we worry, we go, "Oh, that's an area where God's not number one." Any area of our life where God is not number one, we're going to worry about it. Any area of our life where God's not number one, that's going to be a source of insecurity in our life, our job or anything else. When we make Jesus Christ number one in every single area of our life, it really simplifies our priorities and it also gives us a whole lot less to worry about. When we give it to God, then we don't have to worry about it.  God wants us to relax. He wants us to give him our worries in prayer. We say, "Jesus, just take these things I'm worried about," and we just hand them over to him.  We also need to make a list of worries. Sometimes you may have this sense of, "I just feel anxious. I have this general anxiety. I feel a little nervous. I don't really know what's causing it." Well, you can just say, "God, I give you my generalized worry," but it's even better to stop and go, "What is it that's really bugging me? Am I worried that somebody's going to disapprove of me?" You write that down. You write them all down, and then you give God your worries. You say, "Here's the list, Lord. Here's some stuff that's on my mind. I'm not going to keep them. I'm going to give them to you." ***1 Peter 5:7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.*** We relax and we give him our worries. We just say, "God, here are the things I'm worried about." Earlier we read that verse where Jesus said, "Don't worry about anything. I'm going to meet your needs." Well, right before that, he had said this.  ***Philippians 4:6-7 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand.***  The Bible calls this the peace that passes understanding. What is the peace that passes understanding? It's when we're at peace and we have no logical, rational reason to be at peace. I just lost my job. Somehow I'm at peace about it. Why? *The Lord is my shepherd.* We just got the dreaded word and report from the doctor. It's cancer. For some reason, I got peace about it. Why? Peace that passes understanding because *the Lord is my shepherd.* I just found out some bad news that a dear friend of mine just died. Somehow I'm at peace about it in my heart. Why? Because *the Lord is my* *shepherd.* **He feeds and he leads and he meets my needs.**  ***Matthew 6:34 So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.*** *Each day has enough trouble of its own."* We don't need to borrow trouble. He's saying, “don't borrow trouble for tomorrow. I'm going to give you enough grace for today. I'm not going to give you the grace for tomorrow until you get to tomorrow. You don't need it today.” There's a couple reasons why we should only live one day at a time. First, when we worry about tomorrow's problems, we miss all the blessings of today. Some of us, we got something coming up in two weeks or a month and it's scaring us to death and we're making it worse because we're ruining every day between now and then by worrying about it. We're missing today's blessing. Some people are so worried about retirement, they're not enjoying today. They're missing the blessing of today. He says, “I don't want you doing that. Take it one day at a time.” The other reason is we cannot solve tomorrow's problems with today's power. When we get there, tomorrow, God will give us the power and the perspective and the grace and the wisdom. He'll give us what we need we get there. The Bible does not say, "Give us this day our weekly bread." No, we're to pray, "Give me today my daily bread. Give me just enough strength to make it through the day." He wants us to depend on him one It's okay to plan for tomorrow. It's okay to plan for the future, just don't worry about the future. Planning is good. Worrying is bad. Jesus highly recommends planning. There's a whole book in the Bible about planning. It's called the book of Proverbs. God says it's foolish not to plan. Only a fool would go all the way through life unprepared for something you know is inevitable called death. Planning is good. Worrying is bad. We can plan for tomorrow but we can't live in tomorrow. We can only live today. Now I know that the future can often seem very overwhelming. God graciously divided it up into 24 hour segments so we don't get all the future at once. We get it 24 hours at a time. If God gave us all the future at one time, it would overwhelm us but we're not there yet. We're not ready for it. God gives it to you in 24 hour increments. ***Matthew 6:34 (MSG) Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Absolutely! But many people don’t live like they believe it. It can be hard to believe in God’s goodness for many reasons, including when you’re in pain. When you’re in conflict, you forget about it. When you’re depressed, you think his goodness is for everyone except you. And when you’re worried or stressed out, you can’t seem to find—much less think about—God’s goodness, even when it’s right in front of you. God’s Word, the Bible, reminds you of his goodness over and over. **Psalm 100:5** says, *“The Lord is always good. He is always loving and kind, and his faithfulness goes on and on to each succeeding generation”* (TLB).  Choosing to focus on God’s goodness is so important to your life. It gives you perspective on your darkest days when you need it the most. When you forget God’s goodness, you lose perspective and can only see the difficulty you’re facing. So how can *you* experience God’s goodness? You can learn about God’s goodness as you read the Bible or hear a message about it—but you actually *experience* God’s goodness when you worship him. Nothing helps you focus like worship!  The Bible says in **Psalm 34:9**, *"Worship GOD if you want the best; worship opens doors to all his goodness"* (The Message). The way you experience God's goodness is through worship—when you praise God and thank him for who he is and what he has promised you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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If you don’t live a life of love, then nothing you say will matter.** #### **2\. If you don’t live a life of love, nothing you know will matter.** #### **3\. If you don’t live a life of love, nothing you believe will matter.** #### **4\. If you don’t live a life of love, nothing you give will matter.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Scripture explains in Galatians 5:6: ***“If you are a follower of Christ Jesus . . . all that matters is your faith that makes you love others”* (CEV).**  God is not impressed by how many times we picked up our Bible this week if we were rude to everyone around us, put ourselves first and didn’t love the people he placed in our path. In fact, if we do anything “good” without love, God says it’s worthless. The sad truth is, there are a lot of religious people who claim to be Christians who are some of the most unloving people we know. But, the *true* mark of a Christian isn’t religious perfection (or more like the appearance of perfection)… it’s *love*. Today we’re going to look at the most famous chapter in the Bible on love, 1 Corinthians 13. In the first few verses of this passage, the apostle Paul gives some examples of things most people would deem as “good” or “noble,” but without love, these things don’t matter.   ***“If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal”* (1 Corinthians 13:1 NLT).**  We’re really impressed by great speakers. If someone says something in a unique and interesting way, it grabs our attention. But God says, “I don’t care how good of a communicator you are. Are you living a life of love?” If you’re not, then nothing you say will matter. Words without love are just noise. Even speaking the truth without love is just a clanging symbol. ***“I may have the gift of prophecy. I may understand all the secret things of God and have all knowledge . . . But even with all these things, if I do not have love, then I am nothing”* (1 Corinthians 13:2 NCV).** We live in a world where knowledge is exploding. We’ve advanced in so many ways. We are smarter than we’ve ever been. But even in 2021, in this advanced culture, we still have the same problems: crime, abuse, prejudice, violence. Why? Because the world doesn’t need more knowledge. It needs more love. You may be a genius. But God says if you don’t have love in your life, all that you know is worthless. The Bible says, ***“Even if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move,* *I would still be worth nothing at all without love”* (1 Corinthians 13:2b TLB).** There’s a myth that being a follower of Christ is just a matter of believing certain truths. Nothing can be further from the truth! Following Christ is about living a life of love. The next verse says, ***“If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing”* (1 Corinthians 13:3 NLT).** Love isn’t always the motivation for giving. Some people give just to get back or out of guilt or for control or prestige. You can give for a lot of wrong motives, but the Bible says if you’re not doing it out of love, none of your giving counts to God. What are some ways you can show love to someone you find hard to love? I encourage you to ask God to help you see that person with his eyes so that you can show him or her God’s love this week. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The Bible doesn’t say God *has* love; it says God *is* love. Love is his nature; *God is love*.  **1 John 4:19 *“We love each other because God loved us first.”***   God is always first in everything. He takes the initiative. The only reason we can love God or love anybody else is because God first loved us. He howed that love by sending Jesus Christ to earth to die for you. He showed that love by creating you. He showed that love by everything you have in life; it’s a gift of God’s love. We love because God first loved us.   Sometimes I’ll talk to people who grew up in church who are kind of down on themselves. They always feel like they’re not measuring up. They feel like they’re not pleasing God and God is always angry with them.  They always carry a load of guilt around the whole time. I’ve heard many people say this: “My problem is I just don’t love God enough.”   I say, “No, that’s not it. Your problem is not that you don’t love God enough. Your problem is you don’t realize how much he loves you. If you realized how much God loves you – extravagant, irresistible, unconditional love – you would have to love him back. You could not, *not* love God if you understood how much he loves you. You would automatically be attracted to him.  The reason you don’t love God, you don’t care about God, you don’t serve God, is you don’t understand or feel how much he loves you.”   So, God is love, and we love because God loved us first. Here's one more verse about love that I think is important to remember. **1 Peter 4:8 *"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."***  Love *covers* a multitude of sins. Notice that the verse doesn't say love exposes a multitude of sins.  When you find out someone is struggling through sin, this verse can be a reminder that you can go to them **in love** and you can go to them **confidentially.** This means, we don’t always have to expose their sins to everyone else (yes, there are situations in which sins like abuse must be brought to light). But, in most cases, we can be confidential when it comes to loving people through their sin struggles. We can encourage them. In conversations, if you hear that person’s name come up, you can “cover” for them by putting an end to gossip.  A love that covers a multitude of sins means you are willing to overlook their past and their flaws in order to keep loving them and keep helping them as they turn to Jesus (who is the ultimate source of help). ***Colossians 3:13 "Make allowance for each other's faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others."*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But here’s the truth: without proper rest, you’ll struggle to be who God wants you to be. Rest is so important to God that he even put it in the Ten Commandments: ***“Remember to observe the Sabbath day*** ***by keeping it holy. You have six days each week for your ordinary work,*** ***but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the LORD your*** When you’re anxiously working from early morning to late night, you’ll burn out—and that’s not what God wants for you. He wants you to In 1 Kings, the prophet Elijah needed some serious rest after a confrontation with 450 pagan prophets of the false god Baal. King Ahab and Queen Jezebel were leading the nation of Israel to follow these gods. In a dramatic moment before all of Israel, Elijah asked God to send down fire to consume a sacrifice and, thus, prove he was the one God sent the fire—but the experience left Elijah emotionally and physically drained. Then he heard that the queen planned to assassinate him, so he ran away and hid in a cave. Elijah became so discouraged and What was God’s solution to Elijah’s depression? God gave him food and then let him go to sleep. Then God woke him up, fed him some more, and sent him back to sleep. Elijah ate and slept, ate and slept. Sometimes taking a nap is the most spiritual thing you can do. Today, if you are so tired—so fatigued that you are barely holding on—don’t give up. ***everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow*** ***tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out. He gives*** ***power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak”* (Isaiah 40:28-29 BSB).** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Notice he didn’t say, “Blessed are the religious in heart.” It’s blessed are the *pure* in heart. Some of the most unhappy people I know are religious in heart. They’re just miserable. Do you know people like that? Their whole life is a bunch of rules. All those rules are Don’ts. They want us to believe that the Christian life is just Don’t, Don’t, Don’t, Don’t, No, No, No. They want us to think that’s what life in Christ is all about. But ***John 10:10 (NIV) I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.***  Not that we might have religion, but that we might have life.   **Jesus doesn’t want me to be *religious*. He wants me to be *real*.**   *“Happy are the pure in heart.”* Not the religious in heart. In John 11 we read about the time when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. I want us to look at this for a moment, because there’s a truth here that we need to discover. Remember the Bible doesn’t just tell us the things that God ***Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” And the dead man came out, his*** ***hands and feet bound in grave clothes, his face wrapped in a head*** ***cloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”*** It says his hands and feet were bound with grave clothes and his face was wrapped with a head cloth. There’s significance there. That means that nothing that binds us up and keeps us from fullness of life, nothing that trips us up as we try to follow Jesus, nothing that covers us up and keeps us hidden from the rest of the world – none of that can  When we gave our life to Christ, the Bible says he brought us from death into life. It’s just like Lazarus – we were brought from death into life. But there are still things in our life that keep us from Jesus said, “I came to give you fullness of life.” But there are things that bind us up, that hold us back, that restrict us, that keep us from finding or reaching our full potential in life. There are things that still trip us up as we try to follow Jesus – old ways of thinking, old behavior patterns, addictions, all of that kind of stuff. Things that trip us up as we go along.  There are still masks that we try to hide behind because we don’t want people to see the real me. Jesus says, “I want to set you free from all of this stuff. It’s not just enough that I’m bringing you from death into life, but I want to bring you into Notice toward the end, *“Jesus said to them…”*  Who are the “them”?  “Them” are the disciples, his followers. Jesus said to his followers, “*you* unwrap him and *you* let him go.” Jesus does it through his people. That’s why it’s so important for all of us to be in relationship with other followers of Christ. That’s what a small group is all about. It’s about people helping other people to walk into freedom to get free from the things that hold us back and trip us up and cover us up. Jesus says to his followers, “loosen and let him go.” Notice he doesn’t say, “loosen and then wrap him back up in another bunch of stuff.” He says, “let him go.” ***John 8:36  If the Son sets you free, you are truly free.*** It’s important to understand that we cannot make our own heart pure. Good behavior does not purify the heart. We can’t just say, “I’m going to clean up my act and behave myself and then I’ll have a pure heart.” **Good behavior does not purify the heart. But a pure heart will change our behavior.** Repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness. Repentance is what we do because our forgiveness has already been paid for. ***Romans 5:8 God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners*** He didn’t wait for us to clean up our act. While we were sinners, Christ died for us. The only way to have a pure heart is through the blood of Jesus Christ, shed on the cross for our sins. Purity of heart is the gift of God’s grace. We cannot earn it. We cannot buy it. The only way to get a pure heart is to surrender to him. Give our life to Christ. Let him forgive us of our sins and purify our heart, to give us Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Why me? Why is this happening?” Even, “Why is God allowing this?” or “If God wants me of people think God’s number one purpose is for us to be happy. I am sorry if I am the first person to tell you, but it’s not. say things like, “God just wants me to be happy.” Have you ever heard anyone say that? Nowhere in the Bible does it say that God’s purpose is God has a far higher purpose for our lives than making us feel happy.   were created to become like Christ. God wants to make you like his Son. When you understand this everything in life will make more sense. The sooner we come this realization the better for us. Life is a lot less frustrating once you realize everything you face in life is not designed ***God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his*** ***Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and*** ***Ephesians 4:15*** ***“Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ,"***  ***Colossians 1:15*** ***“Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.  He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation.”*** isn’t new. This truth goes all the way back to creation. When God decided to make the first human being this is what he said: ***Gen 1:26*** ***“Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us.”***   has always been God’s plan. This has always been God’s purpose. God wants to make us like himself. Do not misunderstand me. You will never America we have a phrase “Like father, like son.” God wants you to become like him.  The Bible says that we are meant to become like Christ in character. So, what does it mean to become like Jesus? The Bible calls it the fruit of the Spirit. There are nine qualities: is a perfect picture of Jesus. This is the perfect picture of what God wants us to be.  God wants our life to be filled with love. And he wants our life to be filled with joy and peace. And he wants our life to be filled with patience. This is what it means to become like Christ. So how does God make us like Christ? This is called sanctification. is just a big word that means to become like Jesus. The way God produces the fruit of the Spirit in your life is by putting you in the instance, love. How does God teach me to be loving? It’s easy to love people who are like you. It’s easy to love people who love you. It’s easy to love people who are lovely. If God is going to teach you real love, he’s going to put you around people who are hard to love. That’s how you learn love. Anybody can love people who will love you back. But Jesus in the Bible says, “I want you to even love your enemies.”   does God teach us peace? In times of stress and conflict. It’s easy to be peaceful when everything goes your way. But if you’re going to become a man or woman of peace, God will have to put you in times of conflict.  about patience? Where do we learn to be patient? By being forced to wait.  When we wait in lines. When we wait for an answer to prayer. God Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It can be one of the hardest decisions you’ll ever make. It’s possible that you are carrying some deep wounds that you’ve carried for months, maybe even years. When you think about the person who hurt you, it’s still as fresh as if it happened this morning. The pain is still there, and you’re still filled with resentment.  You may even say, “Why in the world should I forgive that person who hurt me so much? You have no idea how much they hurt me. Why should I You will never have to forgive anyone else more than Jesus Christ has already forgiven you. Remember that you haven’t always gotten what you deserved, either. God has been gracious with you. Now choose to be Scientists tell us that resentment is the unhealthiest emotion there is. It always hurts you more than anybody else! Resentment will not change the past, and it won’t solve the problem. It doesn’t even make *careful that none of you fails to respond to the grace which God gives,* *for if he does there can very easily spring up in him a bitter spirit* *which is not only bad in itself but can also poison the lives of many* *if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly* *Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their* *sins, your Father will not forgive your sins”* (NIV). Jesus says we cannot receive what we are unwilling to give. If you say, “I could never forgive that person,” then I hope you never sin. If you just don’t feel like doing it, do it anyway, because it’s the right Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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There is always something to be thankful During certain seasons of life, we may not *feel* thankful. And, that's okay. But, you can *choose* to be thankful, even though your feelings don't match.   Your feelings matter... but they are often not the *full* truth. I encourage you to recognize your feelings, then take it a step further ***“After our parents left Egypt, they took your wonders for granted,*** ***forgot your great and wonderful love. They were barely beyond the Red*** ***Sea when they defied the High God –the very place he saved them! – the*** ***place he revealed his amazing power! …but it wasn't long before they*** ***forgot the whole thing, wouldn't wait to be told what to do."***    how short their memory was. In Egypt, God does ten plagues and the children of Israel forget it because a couple days later they're at the Red Sea and saying "We're all going to die!" They've forgotten what God's just done. God does a miracle and opens the Red Sea. They walk through to the other side and immediately forget that miracle.  "We're going to die of thirst!" God provides water miraculously. They forget that and complain, "We're going to die -- no food!" They were always But we should not be too quick to judge them because we do the exact same thing. When a delay occurs in our lives we start acting like God's What have you been forgetting about God, how He's helped you so many times?  There are over 7000 of them in the Bible. Whenever I have a problem, I try to find a promise. When I face a problem, I look for a promise. The promises are always greater than the problems you're facing.   ***Ps. 103:2 (NLT)"Praise the LORD, I tell myself, and never forget the good things he does for me."***    ***2 Pet. 3:3-8.  "The Lord is not being slow to carry out His promises but He is being patient with you."***   So many things in life are out of your control... but choosing to be thankful isn't. Gratitude can transform how you see a situation. 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It’s impossible!  You really can’t forget a hurt in your life. And the truth is that God doesn’t want you to forget. Instead, he wants you to trust him and see how he can bring good out of the hurt. *That* is possible. That’s more important than forgetting. When you see God bring good out of a bad situation, you can thank him for that good work. You can’t Romans 8:28 says, *“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”* (NIV). It doesn’t say that all things are good—because all things are not good. Disease is not good. Broken relationship is not good. War is not good. Abuse is not good. There are a lot of things in life that are evil. Not everything that happens in this world is God’s will. But God says he will work good out of the bad things in life, if you will trust him. You can go to him and say, “God, I give you all the He will take your pieces and instead give you peace in your heart. This peace will come when you realize you can forgive, even if you don’t understand the hurt in your life, because you know God will use that You don’t have to forget the wrong thing someone did to you. You couldn’t do it even if you tried! But God says you don’t have to forget it. You just have to forgive and then see how he will bring good out of Who have you not forgiven because you haven’t wanted to forget or let go of what they did to you? What do you need to do today to forgive that person and move on? How does it help knowing God doesn’t expect you to forget? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It looks great.” When I told them it was perfect, I didn’t mean that it was a Picasso. I loved what they had created because it was perfect for that stage in their lives.  God doesn’t wait until you’re mature for him to start loving you. He doesn’t wait for you to clean up or straighten up to think you’re good He knows how weak we are and welcomes us and receives us just as we are — because He loves us and wants to help us. Think of it this way. When you are sick, does the doctor tell you he won’t see you until you’re healed? No, of course not. Your doctor is there to help you, and accepts you just as you are in order to diagnose As Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick” (Luke 5:31). ***“I am certain that God, who began the good work within*** ***you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when*** You are a work in progress. Your spiritual transformation—developing the character of Jesus—will take the rest of your life.  ***“God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him”* (Philippians 2:13 NLT, second edition).** It is the Holy Spirit’s job to produce Christlike character in you. Becoming like Jesus is a process. It’s a lifelong process. We never “arrive” to full spiritual maturity this side of Heaven. God is always This is why we have to be patient with other people’s progress, especially if we have been a Christian for a long time. We need to celebrate how far people have come rather than judging them for how far Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The Bible tells us that, in this world, there will be times of trial and testing. It’s guaranteed! Since sin entered the world, nothing works perfectly. Everything on this planet is broken—the weather, the economy, your body, and even your best plans. Nothing works perfectly in this life because sin broke everything on Earth. Okay, so life is hard. Now what? How do we continue on, knowing life will have trouble and feel at peace?  Look, I don’t know what trouble you’re going through right now, but I can tell you three things about the trouble you’re facing: ***”We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance”* (Romans 5:3 NLT).**  Alright, you might be thinking, “Really? Rejoice for my sufferings?” But, the thing is, whether you have God in your life or not, you will go But, when you DO have God in your life, he can bring good out of your troubles. He doesn’t waste your hurt. He has promised us an eternity where suffering no longer exists through his grace and his son Jesus ***“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” (Psalm 30:5, MEV)*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Or, was that my own thoughts?” When an idea comes into your mind, you may question if it’s an instruction from God, a deception from Satan, or just something you want to do. But it’s important to know how to discern God’s voice. When you’re wondering whether you’re hearing God’s voice, the first question you need to ask is, “Does this thought line up with what God God will never contradict his Word. So, you can ask yourself: “Does that idea in my mind right now agree with the Bible?” God is consistent. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. He will never tell you to violate a principle that he’s already given in his Word, the Bible. If what you’re thinking contradicts something that God has already said in the Bible, then you know it’s not his voice. Jesus said in Luke 21:33, ***“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away” (NIV).*** God’s Word is eternal, because truth never changes. If something was true 5,000 years ago, it was true 1,000 years ago, it is true today, and God won’t contradict himself. So, when you’re trying to recognize his voice, the best starting place is to ask yourself, “Is this idea in John 10:27 tells us, ***“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.”*** The more time you spend with God, the more you will know his voice. Just like, if a loved one calls you on the phone and they begin speaking, you recognize their voice. How can you recognize their voice Spend time with God daily, and you will learn to know his voice. You will be a John 10 Christian, a sheep who knows their shepherds voice. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The verses from Matthew 22 start with, ***“One*** ***of \[the Pharisees\], an expert in the law, tested Him with this*** ***question: ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’*** ***the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.’ This is the*** ***first and greatest commandment. The second most important is similar:*** ***‘Love your neighbor as much as you love yourself’”* (TLB).** words. Jesus said there are two things that are more valuable in life than anything else: loving God and loving each other. Love God. Love others. That’s all there is to it. Everything else hangs on these two commands. Life is not about acquisition, accomplishment, or achievement. It’s not about all the things the world tells you it’s about. You’re not taking your career to Heaven. You’re not taking your car to Heaven. You’re not taking your house to Heaven. But you are taking your Earth for 80 to 100 years so you can learn to love him with all your heart and learn to love others. 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And what does*** ***the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk*** This is a command to all Christians. Act justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. What does it mean to 'love mercy?" How does mercy play into the everyday life of a follower of Jesus? Mercy is like a diamond; it is multi-faceted. Today we’re going to look at seven facets of mercy. How do you get more patience for your kids, spouse, or friends? The Bible says in **James 3:17, *“The*** ***wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle*** ***at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy”* (NLT).** The wiser you become, the more patient and merciful you become. You cannot love your neighbor as yourself without being merciful. **Proverbs 3:27 says, *“Whenever you possibly can, do good to those who need it”* (GNT).** But God is not simply watching what you do. He’s watching your attitude: ***“\[When you\] show mercy, do it cheerfully”* (Romans 12:8 NIV).** When somebody hurts us, we normally want to get even or write that person off. But the Bible says, ***“Stop*** ***being bitter and angry and mad at others. Don’t yell at one another or*** ***curse each other or ever be rude. Instead, be kind and merciful, and*** ***forgive others, just as God forgave you because of Christ”* (Ephesians 4:31-32 CEV).**  Mercy is giving people what they need, not what they deserve. Why should we do it? Because that’s what God does with us: ***“Love*** ***your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to*** ***get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be*** ***children of the Most High, because \[God\] is kind to the ungrateful and*** ***wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful”* (Luke 6:35-36 NIV).** You’ve got to be more interested in winning people to Christ than in winning an argument. **Jude 1:22-23 says, *“Show*** ***mercy to those who have doubts. Save others by snatching them from the*** ***fire of hell. Show mercy to others, even though you are afraid that you*** This is what I call premeditated mercy, because you intentionally build friendships with people who don’t have friends or who are not When the Pharisees questioned why Jesus ate with tax collectors and other unpopular people, Jesus said, ***“‘I*** ***want you to show mercy, not offer sacrifices.’ For I have come to call*** ***not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are*** **Romans 13:10 says, *“Love fulfills the requirements of God’s law”* (NLT).** If you want to show mercy, put people before policies. Put their needs before procedures. Put relationships before regulations. Choose love Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Valleys are a part of LIFE.**  ### **2\. Valleys happen to EVERYBODY.**  ### **3\. Valleys are UNPREDICTABLE.**  #### **THREE THINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN IN A VALLEY** ### **1\. Remember I'm not alone. God is WITH ME!** ### **3\. Remember that the reward will last forever!** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***Lord is my Shepherd, I have everything I need. He makes me lie down in*** ***green pastures; He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He*** ***leads me in the right paths for his name’s sake. Even when I walk*** ***through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you*** God is God, not just of your "mountaintop experiences", he's the God of the valleys too. The lows in life. The dark seasons.  I don't know what kind of valley you're going through right now. It may be a financial valley. You're going through a real tough spot. Maybe you're in a relational valley. Maybe you're going through a physical illness in a valley of disease or sickness.  They're a part of life. In other words, they're inevitable. They're a part of normal life. We can't avoid them. They're going to happen. We can count on them. We’ve either just come out of a valley or we're in the middle of one right now or we're headed into another one. God's plan for our life actually contains both hills and valleys.  ***1 Peter 4:12 Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you.*** Don't be surprised. They are a part of life. He says it's going to happen. You have problems in your life, not because you're a bad human. You have problems in your life because you *are* a human.  Valleys happen to everybody. They're inevitable. But not only are Good things happen to bad people and bad things happen ***Psalm 34:19 The righteous person faces many troubles, but the Lord comes to the rescue each time.*** A lot of people they go, "I got problems in my life, it's just part of being part of the human race. We're in a world that is broken and is fallen, so we have problems. Nobody's immune, nobody's insulated from pain, nobody is isolated from sorrow. We all go through life with problems. Nobody sails through life problem free. This is not new news. Bad things do happen in life. Being a Christian, being a follower of Jesus does not exempt us. Valleys are a part of life and valleys happen to everyone. In fact, Jesus said in  ***Matthew 5:45 God gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.*** Everybody goes through the exact same things in life.  That's part of what makes them a problem, is we can't predict them. We can't time them. Problems typically catch us off guard.  ***Proverbs 27:1 Don’t brag about tomorrow, since you don’t know what the day will bring.*** Okay, problems are inevitable. Valleys are impartial and valleys are unpredictable. We are going to go through valleys in life. We've been through them in So what do we need to remember when we're in one of these valleys, the valley of failure, the valley of fear, the valley of conflict, the valley of dryness, the valley of grief, the valley of trouble. What do Regardless of the valleys that I go through, what do I need to remember? *“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me.”* Three things God wants us to remember in a valley.  ***Psalm 23:4. "Even when I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me."***  the valley is temporary. We don't stay in the valley, we walk through it. We're not going to live our entire life in the valley, we're going to walk through it. It's temporary. That's "You are with me." You're not going to walk through it alone. God is with you in the valley. ***you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be with you. When*** ***you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown! When you walk*** ***through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up – the flames*** I don't know what valley you're going through but the antidote is  ***Psalm 73:28 As for me, how good it is to be near God! I have made the Sovereign Lord my shelter.*** If God is the Sovereign Lord of your life, he is your shelter. I don't have anything else; as for me, God's presence is all I **2\. Remember that God has a good PURPOSE for my valley!**  God cannot do evil. It's impossible for God to do evil. God can only do good in our life. God has good plans for our life. So I remember that even in the problems I'm going through, the valleys I'm going through, the valley of conflict, or grief, or fear, or failure, ***can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know*** ***that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of*** ***character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.*** ***And this hope will not lead to disappointment.*** \****For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.”*** \* God is building character when you're going through that valley. That character is going to outlast everything else.  ***Hosea 2:15 I will transform the Valley of Trouble into a Gateway of Hope!*** Some of you need that verse. The valley of trouble actually is a valley. It's the Valley of Achor. It's mentioned twice, in Joshua and in Hosea. We're going to go through the Valley of Achor too, the valley of trouble. God says, *“I will transform the Valley of Trouble into a Gateway of Hope!”* a doorway to hope.  ***also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so*** ***you will have all the endurance and patience you need.*** He’s not just going to give his presence. He's going to give us his power. I remember. I remember that I'm not alone and I remember that God has a purpose, a good purpose for the valley I’m in. We're going to be rewarded for being faithful to Christ in the valley of failure, in the valley of fear, in the valley of conflict, the valley of trouble and all the other valleys that are in Scripture. ***our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. 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But, It’s important to remember *why* prayer is possible. Prayer is possible because Jesus Christ has removed the barrier between us and God—a barrier caused by our sins. What God did for you at *“Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?”* (Romans 8:32 NLT) When Jesus Christ died for you on the cross, he solved your biggest problem... your separation from God. Now, because of Jesus, there is nothing you can’t bring to God in prayer. He loved you enough to die for you, and he loves you enough to answer your prayers. The Bible says, “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in You’re not bothering God when you give him your requests; he’s the one who set up the system of prayer in the first place. That’s why the New Testament tells you more than 20 times to ask for whatever you need in prayer. 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He is aware of your pain, and he cares. And he even shares the pain with you. The Bible says, ***“The one who formed their hearts understands everything they do”* (Psalm 33:15 GW).** In other words, God is never shocked by your emotions or your thoughts. He understands why you do what you do better than even you understand. Jesus, God’s Son, shares your pain because he suffered it on Earth. **Hebrews 4:15 says: *“Jesus understands every weakness of ours, because he was tempted in every way that we are”* (CEV).**  He understands emotional pain, like abandonment, loneliness, criticism, discrimination, rejection, and betrayal. Jesus also understands physical pain. Can you imagine being on the cross and carrying the guilt of every evil thing done throughout history? His death on the cross was the worst kind of physical pain. Where is God when you’re in pain? He’s grieving with you. He’s standing by you. He knows what it’s like to suffer, and he has He’s not some distant God who says, “Oh, I’m sorry you’re hurt.” That’s sympathy. Empathy says, “I hurt with you.” Psalm 34:18: ***“The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit”* (ESV).** You’re never closer to God than when you have a broken heart. He is there, he cares, and he shares your pain. You might feel like God is a million miles away. But your feelings and reality don’t always match. The truth is, God is with you right now. He is the God who meets you where you are. He meets you in your pain. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Again ### Page ID: 4787863 ### Content: # When You Sin... Again ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) What do you do when you sin? You go to God. You confess. You don’t hide. You let go of your pride and you say, “God, here I am again.”  ***“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble*** ***themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,*** ***then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal*** Many people hesitate to admit their sins because they think they’re going to get punished. But God already knows about all your sin! He knows every mistake you’ve made in your entire life. He just wants you When you humbly confess your sin, God is quick to forgive. He gives grace to the humble. **Daniel said, “*We have sinned and done wrong,”* but he didn’t just stop there: *“We*** ***have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your*** ***commands and laws. We have not listened to your servants . . . Lord, you*** ***are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame”* (Daniel 9:5-7 NIV).**  Knowing that the Israelites didn’t deserve God’s blessing, Daniel threw himself on the grace of God. When you humbly confess your sin to God, you are surrendering your will to his. You are acknowledging your weakness and asking for God’s mercy. When you come to him in humility, ***“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble*** ***themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,*** ***then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal*** If you haven’t already done this today, how can you make time to talk to God and confess your sins to him? He loves you, and he is faithful Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The first step in that process is confessing your sins to God. But to get *over* your sin and get on with your life—to be emotionally healthy—you need to take a second step. You need to tell You may ask, “Why does God want me to drag somebody else into this?” Here’s why: God knows that the root of your problem is relational. You often don’t even realize that your broken relationships with other people are the root of your problems. Instead of being honest with others, you disguise who you really are. You act like everything is That behavior isolates you from other people. It prevents intimacy. And it keeps you from the deepest level of love. You cannot love fully This doesn’t mean that you have to broadcast your sins to *everyone*, but someone should know what you’re struggling with. A trusted friend in your small group. A mentor. Someone in your church family who can love you, encourage you and pray for you. That’s where true healing is found, through confessing your sins to one another. A lot of people don’t do this step, because of shame. They confess to God, but they don’t confess to anyone else. Shame grows in the darkness, but when it’s brought to the light, it has no power anymore. If you want healing, you’ve got to stop concealing. What’s the thing in your life you don’t want anybody to know about? That’s the area where God wants to give you the most grace, mercy, and Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You think it all depends on you. ***my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in*** ***heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my*** yoke is a single piece of wood that brings two farm animals together, so they can share the burden of a load. With a yoke, you team up two or more animals, so the load is shared; it’s lightened. A yoke makes life Jesus tells you to take his yoke upon yourself, it’s like he’s saying, “I never meant for you to carry all your problems by yourself. Let me help you! Team up with me, partner with me, and I will help you carry If you feel stressed right now, it means you are not yoked to Jesus Christ. Stress is a warning sign. It tells you that you’re trying to control things and carry too much on your own. time you get disconnected from Jesus, the stress goes up in your life. You may even be a follower of Jesus Christ, but if you’re feeling overloaded at this moment, you are not yoked up to him. Jesus told his disciples that they must “abide” (or remain) in him, daily. He is the vine. He is the source of our peace. Are you abiding in Every time you get reconnected and yoked up, Jesus helps you pull the load. And your stress goes down. tempting to think that the antidote to stress is escape. But the problem is that stress is in your mind—so you take it with you wherever you go. You can be just as stressed lying on a white sandy beach as you The answer is to give up control, to accept the yoke of Jesus. And when you do, God will give you peace. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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By going directly to the source: the heart. Have you ever said, “I don’t know what got into me—I’m not that kind of person”? Well, the truth is, it wouldn’t be coming out of your mouth Matthew 12:34 says, ***“For whatever is in your heart determines what you say”* (NLT).** What you say, reveals what’s really inside. Sometimes, it isn’t pretty. If your tongue reveals an angry heart, then ask God to heal your hurting heart with his love. As you begin to feel accepted in God’s love, your heart will change and produce the fruit of patience and kindness. God promises, ***“I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you”* (Ezekiel 36:26 ESV).** Consider making this part of your morning prayers: ***“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer”* (Psalm 19:14 NIV).** As God transforms your heart, the way you talk to others will begin to change. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The Christian life isn't even about following a moral code or teachings.  The Christian life is about following a person. A person named Jesus who, through his resurrection on the cross, has taken us from death to life. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Uncontrolled anger, lust, addiction, spending, drinking, or ambition can create enormous problems. But the greatest destroyer of relationships is an uncontrolled tongue. In the Bible, James compares the tongue to a tiny spark because that’s all that is needed to create a great forest fire. ***“The tongue is a small thing, but what enormous damage it*** ***can do. A great forest can be set on fire by one tiny spark. And the*** ***tongue . . . can turn our whole lives into a blazing flame of*** A careless word can ignite your relationships and make them all go up in smoke. Their words are dangerous. They use words of discouragement, disappointment, accusation, criticism, sarcasm, condemnation, or Gossip is especially destructive because it spreads like an airborne virus. Careless words have destroyed careers, friendships, and families. Instead of heading in a destructive direction, you can choose to use your words to build others up. Catch people doing something right and tell them about it. Affirm their character when they make difficult decisions. Lift them up with words of encouragement. Building others up with your words isn’t difficult, but in our world, it is uncommon. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone”* (****Romans 12:16-18 NIV****).** Circling back to verse 18. **Romans 12:18 (NIV)** **says, *“If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”*** Easier said than done. That’s why you need the love of God in you. You allow God to love people *through* you. It’s HIS love, and you are the vessel. *That’s* how you love the hard-to-love people in your life. It is impossible to love others well, especially those who are hard to love, without the love of God in you. This isn’t something you can do out of your own will-power. Here are some practical ways to love difficult people this week:  And, **PRAY FOR THEM.** It is harder to have negative feelings toward someone that you are actively praying for. 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And, how do you know if you’re really trusting God well in your life? **Isaiah 55: 8-9 says, *“****For my thoughts are not your thoughts,* *neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens* *are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my* Are you talking to God constantly throughout the day and seeking truth from his Word? If you’re not, you are depending on *your* wisdom and not God’s. Are you walking in the strength of the Lord? Do other people see God’s strength in you. *he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made* *perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my* *weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake* *of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships,* *persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”* *who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up* *with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk* How well do you wait upon the Lord? Are you taking matters into your own hands, or are you waiting patiently on God’s timing? **Romans 12:19 says, *“****Dear friends, don't try to get even. Let God take revenge. In the Scriptures the Lord says, ‘I am the one to take revenge and pay them back.’”* When somebody says something mean to you, do you immediately retaliate? Or, do you let God handle it? *do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we* *drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these* *things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.”* Are you nervous or full of worry because you think you don’t have enough to get by, or are you depending on God to meet your needs? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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We exaggerate our DIFFICULTIES.** ### **2\. We UNDERESTIMATE our own abilities.** ### **3\. We get DISCOURAGED.** ### 4\. We start to GRIPE about our lives. ### **5\. We eventually give up and we BLAME GOD.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) I want us to look at what happens when we see with eyes of fear, rather than with eyes of faith. A good example of this is in the Old Testament in the Book of Numbers, Chapter 13 and 14. Here is the background of Numbers 13-14; Moses has led the nation of Israel to freedom. He's got them free from Pharaoh and the Egyptians; they've crossed the Red Sea. They've been traveling for about two years, from Egypt, and they're coming up to a place called Kadesh. At Kadesh, they're getting ready to cross the Jordan and go into the Promised Land. This is the land that has been promised to them for 400 years. When they get up to the edge of the water, before they go in, twelve spies are chosen by Moses and they are sent in to go visit the land. When they come back, they give a mixed report. Two of the spies say, "It's incredible. It's ready for our taking. God has given us truly the Promised Land." Those two spies were named Joshua and Caleb. The other 10 spies come back and said, "Yeah, it's a great place, but…" and they have a whole list of problems on why they can't go in. They're not seeing with eyes of faith, they're seeing with eyes of fear. And because they failed to see with eyes of faith, that entire generation missed God's purpose for their life in God's will. In our own lives, what happens when we see with eyes of fear, instead of with eyes In the story, God has just delivered them from Egypt, the most powerful nation in the world and now they're worried about some local tribe. They've just defeated Pharaoh and now they're worried about How quickly we forget. When we look at our problems with eyes of fear, they get bigger. ***can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!” So they*** ***spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we*** ***traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live*** The majority report of the spies was negative. Only two of the spies have faith, Joshua and Caleb. Here's the problem – negative attitudes are contagious. When they walked up there to the edge, everybody was excited about going into the Promised Land. It was only when 10 come back and said, "We can't do it," that everybody changed their mind and they began to get infected with a negative attitude. ***Numbers 33:13 Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what they thought, too!”*** They have been slaves for 400 years, they have been freed for 2, but they're still mentally enslaved and they still see themselves as helpless and they still see themselves enslaved. They're enslaved not by a Pharaoh now but by an idea, by an image, by a self-concept. We overestimate the problem and we underestimate our abilities. Third thing that happens when you see with eyes of fear… ***Numbers 14:1 Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night.*** They had a giant pity party. “Poor us!” Now they're crying and weeping because they don't get to go into the Promised Land. What's keeping them out? Their fear. They're not living by faith. We get discouraged. Then quickly, we move to number 4 and that is, we move We gripe about everything that's going to go wrong in our lives. ***voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If*** ***only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they*** First, they cry and now, they complain. We do the same thing when we are looking at our circumstances through eyes of fear. ***Numbers 14:3 Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? …Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?*** Notice, they're blaming God for not letting them go in the Promised Land. God isn't holding them back. It's their fear that's holding them back. They're second guessing. Now, all of a sudden they're remembering the good old days of Egypt. Good old days? What's the good old days? Four hundred years of slavery, why would anybody want to go back to There is no real freedom without taking risks. Safety and freedom are on opposite ends of the continuum. We're either moving more towards safety and slavery or we are moving more toward taking risks and What are you looking at with eyes of fear instead of eyes of faith? God made us to live by faith. Don't live your life in the desert, just Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Each day has enough trouble of its own”* (Matthew 6:34 NIV).** Here’s the truth about worry… worry has never changed *anything*. It’s different from problem-solving. Worry is worthless! It can’t change the past. It can’t control the future. Instead, worry just robs you. It robs you from peace and joy. In fact, every moment of your life you spend worrying is wasted. If you’re going to break that habit of worry in your life, you’re going to have to learn how to focus on something else. Here’s what the ***brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is*** ***right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if*** ***anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” (Philippians 4:8)*** Redirect your thoughts to think about things that fit into those categories. You will need the Holy Spirit’s help to do this, and he will ***people’s thinking is controlled by the sinful self, there is death. But*** ***if their thinking is controlled by the Spirit, there is life and peace”* (NCV).** If you’re going to think your way, you’re going to get worried, fearful, and anxious. You are going to have anxiety because you’re controlled by your sinful nature. When you’re focused on God, and you have God’s Spirit in you, you don’t worry. That leads to life and peace. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Sanctification is just a big word for becoming holy, or set apart. It’s a transformation process to becoming like Jesus, in our character, Although no one can be perfect like Jesus, the Holy Spirit can help us glorify God in our lives. The Holy Spirit helps us live holy, or set ***“As the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him.”* 2 Corinthians 3:18 (TLB)** ***“God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.”* Philippians 2:13 (NLT)** It’s the Holy Spirit’s job to produce Christlike character in you. But what role do *you* play in the transformation process? You cooperate with the Holy Spirit. You let him lead you. You say yes in The Holy Spirit *does* the transforming, but you do have a role to play. God doesn't force heart change. You can spend your life Choose to do the right thing; then trust God’s Spirit to give you the power to do it. 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And, it’s not just a one way street, God can speak to us during prayer, as well. But, have you ever run out of words when you’re praying? How do you know you're praying "God's Will" for your life? When you’re not sure what to pray, you can use the promises of God to help give words to your prayers. There are over 7000 promises in the Bible to choose from, and as you learn to pray in faith, claiming the Why should we pray his promises back to him? Doesn’t he already know what he promised? Yes, but praying back God’s promises to him reminds US of his promises. When you pray God’s promises you are praying scripture back to him. And, there is *power* in God’s Word. You're declaring God's promises over your circumstances and aligning your heart with his Word. You are also praying truth. And, when you pray God's promises, you are Your prayer can look something like this, “God, your word tells me not to be afraid. And, though my life looks uncertain, I will choose to trust in you. When I go through hard times, you promise that you are with me. So, I know I am not alone. You comfort me and you will never leave me or forsake me. I will choose to trust in you and follow you every step of the way, even when I cannot see how it will all turn out, I Here’s a list of just a few of God’s promises in the Bible. Try praying some of them, and watch your faith increase as you see God keep Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Don’t be intimidated; I* - *am your God. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will support you* - *with my victorious right hand”*(Isaiah 41:10 GW). - *“The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still”*(Exodus 14:4 NIV). - *“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”*(1 John 1:9 ESV). - *“It is the Lord who goes before you; He will be with you. He will not fail you or abandon you. Do not fear or be dismayed”*(Deuteronomy 31:8 AMP). - *“But my God shall supply your every need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus”*(Philippians 4:19 MEV). - *“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I* - *fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they* - *comfort me”*(Psalm 23:4 NASB). - *“You willingly forgive, and your love is always there for those who pray to you”*(Psalm 86:5 CEV). --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/myth-god-only-helps-those-who-help-themselves ### Title: Myth: God Only Helps Those Who Help Themselves ### Page ID: 4788024 ### Content: # Myth: God Only Helps Those Who Help Themselves ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Have you ever heard the phrase, "God only helps those who help themselves?"  Did you know that's not in the Bible. 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But, it is important to note that God has *not* promised that you will always *feel* his presence. There are times when he *appears* to be missing-in-action in your life. You may not always “feel” like he is right there with you. This is a normal part of the testing and maturing of your relationship with God. Every Christian goes through it at least once. It can be painful and confusing, but it is absolutely vital for the development of your faith. If this is where you are at right now, keep running the race. Do not give up. Remain faithful. (And, perhaps seek encouragement from another believer who has been there).  This knowledge gave Job hope when he could not feel God’s presence in his life. He said, *“I* *go east, but he is not there. I go west, but I cannot find him. I do* *not see him in the north, for he is hidden. I look to the south, but he* *is concealed. But he knows where I am going. And when he tests me, I* Having a faith based off feeling alone is a dangerous faith. You don’t follow Jesus because of your feelings, you follow Jesus because he Yes, God wants you to sense his presence, but he’s *more* concerned that you trust him than that you feel him. We live by faith, not by sight or by our feelings. The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God. They look for a feeling, and if that feeling happens, they conclude that they have worshiped. But God often removes feelings so you won’t depend on them. Instead, he wants to draw you into a deeper relationship with him. Will you trust him even when you can't *feel* him? Are you depending on HIM or your feelings?  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Here are Six things. I could give you dozens, but The first thing that I do when I begin to see things from God's viewpoint, it shrinks my problem. It gives we a new perspective. See, when we see our problem from God's point of view, then everything gets a whole lot more manageable. When we realize that we have a big God, our ***Luke 1:37 Jesus says, “For nothing is impossible with God!”*** Faith can move mountains. If we study the Bible and if we study history, we find that every time God moves on earth and does a miracle, it's because somebody believed. Faith opens the door to miracles. ***Jesus said to the disciples, “Have faith in God.  I tell you the truth,*** ***you can say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into the*** ***sea,’ and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen*** ***and have no doubt in your heart. I tell you, you can pray for anything,*** ***and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours.*** What is Jesus talking about here? God has set up the universe in a hierarchy of laws and the law of faith is actually a higher law than the laws of nature. That's where miracles come in. Does God still perform What's the mountain in your life? What's the mountain that needs to be moved? Faith opens the door for miracles. Faith moves God to act on my behalf. Now, don't get me wrong when I say this, it moves God to act on my behalf. I do NOT believe God becomes a genie where we rub the bottle and we pray the prayer, and then we hit the jackpot. No, God is NOT your genie. He is not there to cater to our ***Matthew 9:29 Then he touched their eyes and said, “Because of your faith, it will happen.”*** God says, “You get to choose how much I bless your life. According to your faith, it will be done to you.” I We've talked about this many times. There are over 7,000 promises in the Bible from cover to cover, over 7,000 promises. ***2 Corinthians 1:20 For all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!”*** All of the promises that God has made in his Bible, in His word, in His Scripture are "Yes" in Christ and faith unlocks the promises of God. **The promises of the Bible only apply to those who know the author.** To those who know the name of Jesus. All the promises are "Yes" in Christ. When we know him personally, now we know the guarantor of all the This is so important. The Bible is full of people who had God-given dreams. Abraham dreamed of being the father of a great nation. Moses dreamed of setting the people free. Joseph dreamed of saving the nation and his own family. Daniel and Paul and David, over and over and over, all through the Scripture, all kinds of people who were inspiring ***Ephesians 3:20 (MSG) God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams!*** God is able to do far more than we could even dream of. We limit God by our unbelief. I want to push us to believe God a little bit more than we ever have before because God is able to do far more than we would *ever imagine or guess or request*.   Why is this one important? Because faith doesn't always take us out of the problem. Faith often takes you *through* the problem. Faith doesn't always take away the pain. Faith gives us the ability to *handle* the pain. ***are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are*** ***perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never*** ***abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.*** Where do we get resilience like that? Faith. 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Here's what Jesus says about believing in one another. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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People who say untrue things about you. People who attack you and these circumstances, your natural tendency will be to fight back. When you’re misunderstood, you’ll want to defend yourself. When you’re attacked, you’ll be tempted to launch your own attack. When people insult you, you’ll want to hurl back your own insults. You can’t control other people who do these things. But, you have more control than you think. You can control your response. Every time you are attacked, criticized, ridiculed, or misunderstood, you have two choices: You can defend yourself, or you can let God Which will it be? Who do you think can do a better job defending you? You or God? Of course, God can. *\[Jesus\] was insulted, he did not answer back with an insult; when he* *suffered, he did not threaten, but placed his hopes in God, the* let God defend him In the face of his unjust conviction and persecution. Jesus didn’t fight back. He trusted God to defend him and bring King David was criticized and attacked his entire life. In fact, people repeatedly wanted to kill him because they were jealous of him. *depend on God alone; I put my hope in him. He alone protects and saves* *me; he is my defender, and I shall never be defeated. My salvation and* *honor depend on God; he is my strong protector; he is my shelter”* (Psalm 62:5-7 GNT). Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It also strangles your spirit. When you have bitterness in Bitterness will only weigh you down and depress your spirit. Proverbs 27:3 says, *“A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier”* (NLT). Choosing bitterness is like choosing to carry around a huge weight with you everywhere you go, all the time. It’s an unnecessary load, but Sometimes you may think you can hurt the person who hurt you by holding on to what happened—that by staying mad, the other person will But bitterness is a worthless weapon. It doesn’t hurt the other person. It only makes *you* miserable. The person that hurt you is probably not even aware that you’re thinking about them all the time. You may have been hurt by someone a long time ago, and I’m sorry you had to experience that pain. But here’s the good news: They can’t hurt you anymore! The only way they can continue to hurt you is if you choose to hold on to the hurt and replay it over and over in your mind. The Bible says in Job 18:4, *“You are only hurting yourself with your anger”* (GNT). You don’t have to hurt anymore. Let go of your hurt. Surrender it to God, so that He can begin to heal you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Personal application. What is application? It’s when you take the truth of God and apply it to your life. Satan doesn’t care if you study the Bible—as long as you don’t apply it to your life. Just knowing God’s Word isn’t enough. You experience The Bible tells us in **James 1:22: *“Be doers of the word, and not hearers only”* (ESV).** To receive the blessings of the Bible, you have to respond to it and let it change you. If you haven’t practiced intentionally responding to God’s Word, it might be hard to know where to start. Here are some questions you can So, the next time you read a passage of Scripture, don’t be satisfied with just studying the passage. Instead, respond. Do something. Apply it. Then you’ll start experiencing the blessings God promises to people Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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And Remember It ### Page ID: 4788128 ### Content: # Read Your Bible... And Remember It ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***“I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.”* Psalm 119:11** Hide the Word of God in your heart! What does this mean? To hide God’s Word in your heart means you read it often enough to memorize it. You can recall scripture at a time of need or remember God’s promises during a time of prayer or speak words of truth to If you’re serious about being spiritually strong and mature, the greatest habit you can develop is memorizing Scripture. You don’t have to try to memorize chapters at a time or even read chapters at a time. In fact, a little portion of scripture well digested is of greater value to you than a lengthy portion scanned hurriedly. Memory is a skill you can learn. It’s a muscle you can strengthen. 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When you’re 3. witnessing to someone who doesn’t know Jesus, is under stress, needs 4. comfort, or is in a crisis, there’s usually not a Bible around. You need 5. God’s Word in your mind so you can remember it and review it right when 6. you need it. 7. **You can meditate on Scripture wherever you go.** You 8. can’t review God’s Word unless you remember it. If you’ve memorized 9. Scripture, you can think about it when you get into bed at night or as 10. you drive to an appointment. You can think about the Bible because 11. you’ve memorized it. That’s called meditation. The only promise of 12. prosperity and success that God gives us in the Bible says that 13. meditating on his Word is the key (Joshua 1:8). --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/when-you-feel-hopeless-pray ### Title: When You Feel Hopeless... Pray ### Page ID: 4788137 ### Content: # When You Feel Hopeless... Pray ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***“From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God.”*** **Jonah 2:1 (NIV)** Have you ever felt swallowed up by life? Maybe you were surrounded by depression, conflict, worry, or guilt—and you felt hopeless. I hope you’re not feeling that way right now, but at some point you will. You might lose a loved one, your job, or your health. When you’re faced with a hopeless situation, think about what Jonah did. After Jonah had run from God’s mission for his life, God prepared a great fish to swallow him up. As he sat in that great fish, Jonah looked In fact, the entire second chapter of this book is Jonah praying while he sinks into the ocean and gets swallowed by a giant fish. It’s a lesson to us that when we’re feeling overwhelmed, we need to look up to Some problems in life will never go away unless we learn to look to God in prayer. In Mark 9, some of Jesus’ followers had been trying to drive a demon out of someone, but they couldn’t. They asked Jesus why. Jesus responded: ***“This kind can come out only by prayer”* (Mark 9:29 NIV).** Some problems are so deeply rooted that only persistent prayer will solve them. It’s not just about just a one-time prayer, either. If you only care about something enough to pray about it once, you don’t really care about it. If you truly want to see something happen in your life, God wants to see whether you want it desperately enough to keep on praying! He’s more interested in building your faith than he in If you’re feeling hopeless today, look up to God and keep praying. Never give up! Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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And that creates stress. But God has an antidote to indecision. Psalm 23:3 says, *“He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake”* (NIV). The way to handle the stress of decision-making is to let God guide you. You may be thinking, “But I’ve tried this!” You asked God to guide you, but then you became more confused than ever before. You still couldn’t figure it out, and you wondered why knowing God’s will is so Is God playing games with you? Of course not! God wants to guide you. He wants you to know his will more than you want to know it. But sometimes you look for the wrong thing when you’re trying to find God’s Some of us look for a feeling. Some want a formula or recipe to follow. Others take a magical approach and look for God to show us a But these ways only lead to frustration and can cause you to miss God’s will. Here are six steps to help you when you’re confused about what decision to make: And, remember, God rarely gives us all the steps at once. You may not get to know the end-result when you take the first step. But, God still Take a step. Ask for guidance. Take another step. Ask for guidance. He *will* guide you, step by step. This is his promise, and you can believe it to be true: *“He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.”* Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Before you do anything else, get God’s perspective on the issue. *“A man is a fool to trust himself! But those who use God’s wisdom are safe”* (Proverbs 28:26 TLB). 3. **Get the facts.** 4. There is no contradiction between faith and fact. Find out everything you can before you make a decision. Proverbs 13:16 says, *“All who are prudent act with knowledge”*(NIV).  5. **Ask for advice.** 6. Talk to somebody who’s made a similar decision and to friends who know your weaknesses. *“The more good advice you get, the more likely you are to win”*(Proverbs 24:6 GNT). 7. **Calculate the cost.** 8. Every decision has a price tag; it may cost you time, money, energy, reputation, talents, or resources. Proverbs 20:25 says, *“It is a trap to dedicate something rashly and only later to consider one’s vows”*(NIV). 9. When people pressure you to make a decision, it’s okay to say, “I’ll 10. get back to you.” It’s more important to make a wise decision than a 11. quick decision.  12. **Prepare for problems.** 13. In 14. faith, expect the best. Expect God to work in your life. But also 15. prepare for the problems that are part of every decision. Solomon said 16. in Proverbs 22:3, *“A* 17. *prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the* 18. *simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences”* (TLB). 19. **Face your fears.** 20. Perfectionism paralyzes potential. God has always used imperfect people in imperfect situations to accomplish his will. Ecclesiastes 11:4 says, *“If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done”*(TLB). In spite of your problems, doubts, or fears, trust God and start moving in the direction of your dream. --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/are-you-connected-to-the-vine ### Title: Are You Connected to the Vine? ### Page ID: 4788139 ### Content: # Are You Connected to the Vine? ### **ON PLANTS, a disconnected branch can’t BEAR FRUIT** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Jesus says that being spiritually connected, it’s like being attached to a vine. It’s interesting that Jesus, right before he goes to the cross, he says this in John 14, 15, 16. He’s giving his last minute instructions to the people following him. Of all the things he could ***in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if*** ***it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you*** He’s saying you’re not going to have any fruitfulness, any productivity in your life if you’re out there on your own. You’ve got to ***Romans 8:16 For his Spirit joins with our spirit*** \[that’s that connection. He joins himself to our spirit\] ***to affirm that we are God’s children.*** I’ve been a friend with Jesus Christ now for decades. Nothing could sway me from that. Why? Because I have a connection. It’s not just about what the Bible says. It’s not just about what happens in the church. I have a connection to Christ. That connection is so real.  I want you to have that kind of connection to God. It is the deepest prayer of my heart as your pastor and as somebody who loves you that you will have that connection that you go, “There’s no way I could not believe in God. I’m connected to him all the time. I talk to him and he speaks to me and I hear him. I hear his voice.”  He’s saying, “I want you to be connected and I want you to be joined to me.” You not only don’t have the support, you not only start to wither and die, but you don’t have any productivity in your life if you’re not spiritually connected. He says you’ve got to be connected to have fruit. ***“The fruit of the Spirit is this*** ***love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.”***   I don’t know about you, but I’d like to have those nine things in my life. I’d like to be more loving. I’d like to be more joyful. I’d like to be more at peace no matter what happens to the economy. I’d like to be more kind to people who are mean to me. He says that’s called the Here’s the point. The evidence that you are spiritually connected is you see those nine things in your life. If you are not seeing yourself grow in love and more joy and more peace and more patience and kindness and more self control and more all these things, guess what? 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The foolish man builds his house on sand. When a storm comes, the house falls with a great crash. The wise builder, though, builds his house on the rock. When rain and winds come, his house stands firm. Jesus says: ***“Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock”* (Matthew 7:24 NIV).** Jesus says people who hear his teachings but don’t put them into practice are like that foolish builder. It’s one thing to say you follow Jesus. It’s another thing to DO what Jesus says to do. THAT’S building You can’t become all that God wants you to be on a faulty foundation. Here are some of the faulty foundations you may be tempted to build If it doesn’t work to build your life on popular culture, tradition, reason, or your emotions, what should you build your life on? The first chapter of the book of James concludes with three examples of how you can know that you’ve been effectively putting God’s Word into Those things, James tells us, are evidence of your faith. In John 13:17, Jesus tells his followers: *“Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them”* (NIV). The blessings of the Bible come when you put its teachings into practice. You should read your Bible! But, then… do what it says. Popular culture changes, traditions grow stale, reason can be faulty, and emotions lie. Yet God’s Word—his truth—never changes.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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If - it’s popular, that’s what they’ll do too. Yet what’s popular today won’t - be popular tomorrow. Basing your life on popular culture is like - building a house on a constantly moving foundation. It doesn’t work! - **Tradition.**Other - people build their lives on what has always been done or whatever their - parents did. That does make a little sense; tradition becomes tradition - because it works. But no tradition lasts forever. It eventually wears - out, becomes obsolete, and is invalid. In Mark 7 Jesus tells the Pharisees never to put tradition before truth. It’s a good reminder for all of us. - **Reason.**God gave us the ability to reason; we need to use it. But our reason isn’t infallible. **Proverbs 16:25 says, *“There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death”* (NIV).** Even the smartest among us will falter sometimes. It’s to be expected. Only God can be trusted all the time. - **Emotions.** Some - build their lives on a feeling. If it feels right, they do it. But - feelings lie—they lie all the time! You lie to yourself more than anyone - else. If you live by your feelings, you’ll spend your life manipulated - by your moods. 1. You’ll have a controlled mouth: ***“Those who consider*** 2. ***themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their*** 3. ***tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless”* (James 1:26 NIV).** 4. You’ll have a caring heart**: *“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress”*(James 1:27 NIV).** 5. You’ll have a clean mind: ***“keep oneself from being polluted by the world”*(James 1:27 NIV).** --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/an-open-ended-conversation-with-god ### Title: An Open-Ended Conversation with God ### Page ID: 4788157 ### Content: # An Open-Ended Conversation with God ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) If you want a close relationship with God, it can’t be done by just attending church once a week. It also can’t be done solely with daily Bible reading or what we call a daily “quiet time.” Of course, both of these habits are beneficial to your relationship with God. But, He wants more than an appointment in your schedule. He wants to be included in *every* activity, *every* conversation, *every* problem, and even *every* thought. Sounds like a lot, right? It’s actually not overly complicated or even time consuming.  It’s simply integrating God into all the slices of your life, rather than just having a “quiet time” slice. Your time with God and your conversations with God carry over into all the slices of your life, not just the 15 minutes you read the Bible. A common misconception is that “spending time with God” means being *alone* with him. Of course, as Jesus modeled, you need time alone with God, but that is only a fraction of your waking hours. *Everything* you do can be “spending time with God” if he is invited to be a part of it and you stay aware of his presence. Scripture instructs us to, ***“Never stop praying”* (1 Thessalonians 5:17 NLT).**  You can carry on a continuous, open-ended conversation with God throughout your day, talking with him about whatever you are doing or thinking *at that moment.* The habit of “praying without ceasing” from 1 Thessalonians 5:17 means conversing with God while shopping, driving, working, or performing any other everyday task. It’s being aware of God in *every* area, not just your “quiet time” area. Time with God isn't limited to reading your Bible or a corporate worship service.  You can marvel at his creation when you notice a sunset. You can check in with him at any time during the day. You can ask him to reveal his heart toward an issue you face.  You can share with him your emotions and frustrations.  You can unload your worries onto him the moment they pop into your head. There’s countless ways to be aware of God and include him in your everyday life. And, he *wants* you to connect with him throughout the day. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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In every circumstance give thanks—because it’s God’s will for your life. That’s real gratitude. How can you be thankful even in difficult circumstances? You can thank God in every circumstance because these things are true, no matter what you’re going through: He is in control. He can bring good out of evil. He can turn around the worst mistakes you’ve made. No matter what happens, God isn’t going to stop loving you. You can find a hundred things to be thankful for in any circumstance, even when the circumstance is hard, bad or unplanned. You don’t have to be thankful FOR the bad circumstance, but you can choose to still have a heart of gratitude IN the circumstance. You don’t have to pretend to like your circumstance or fake it. In fact, don’t do that! Unload your worries, fears and your pain on God. The Bible says, “Cast all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.” (1 Peter 5:7 Be honest with God. He cares about you. But, then, no matter the circumstance, choose to give thanks to him, because of who HE is. He is Let us *“enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with* *praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the LORD is good and* *his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all* Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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WORRY ABOUT NOTHING.**   ### **2\. PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING.**   ### **3\. THANK GOD IN ALL THINGS.** ### **4\. THINK ABOUT THE RIGHT THINGS.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Tomorrow is the 4th of July, otherwise known as Independence Day! As your pastor, I pray that you have a FUN and SAFE holiday with your As we celebrate our independence as a nation, I just want us to remember that sometimes dependence can be good... in fact, it is so necessary. Dependence on God is key, especially in this day and age when God tells us that he wants us to depend on him and trust him every day. And saying we depend on God is one thing, but actually following through and depending on him in uncertain times is another. Do we *actually* spend our lives depending on God? Do we really trust him? Or, do we try to take control or worry?  The Bible says the way to depend on God is one day at a time. He says, “I want you to trust me one day at a time. We’ll worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. We’ll worry about next week, next week. We’ll worry about next month, next month. I don’t want you worrying about that. In fact, I don’t want you worrying at all.  I want you to take it one day How do you do that? How do you trust God just for today? There are four things that you do to depend God on a daily basis. ***Philippians 4:6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done***   That’s the first step: worry about nothing. He says, “I don’t want you worrying about anything.”   Why is worry such a big deal? Why does God say “I don’t want you worrying?” Every time you worry you’re saying, “God, I don’t believe your promises. God, I don’t really believe you love me.God, I don’t believe you’ll take care of me. God, I don’t believe you’ll meet all my If my kids came to me when they were small and said, “Dad, we’re worried about the house.” I would say, “*You guys don’t have to worry about it. I’m going to pay for the house.”*  “Dad, we don’t think you can do that.  Dad we’re worried about whether we’re going to have a meal tonight.” “*Don’t worry about it. I’ve got it taken care of.”*  “Dad, we don’t think you’re competent to take care of that.”   When you worry, it’s saying, “God, I don’t really believe you.” He says, “Here’s the alternative: I don’t want you worrying. I want you praying.” Worry about nothing, pray about everything. You’ve got two choices. You can worry or you can pray. Every day you’re doing one or the other. Every time you worry, you’re not praying. Every time you pray you’re not worrying.  You can either pray or panic. Worry has never solved a problem. It’s never solved a single problem. It’s stewing without doing. It is the most useless emotion. But prayer ***Romans 8:32 “Since God did not spare even his own Son*** \[in other words he sent Jesus to die for us\] ***but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?”***   Notice the word “in.” It doesn’t say, “For all things give thanks.” It says “In all things give thanks.”  You don’t have to be thankful for bad things in your life. You should never be thankful for evil. You don’t have to be thankful for cancer or a car accident or a rape or war or abuse or any of those other bad things in life. God doesn’t say be thankful *for*everything. There’s a lot of things that we hate in life, we dislike in life. But God says *in* everything give thanks. Why?  Because I know that God’s going to take care of me. I know he’s going to meet my needs. I know he’s going to help me. I see him as my source and I trust him one day at a time, he’s going to take Worry about nothing, pray about everything, thank God in all things, think about the right things. 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I complain and tell God what I think is unfair or painful.**   ### **2\. I appeal to God’s nature.** ### **3\. I remind God of what he said.** ### **4\. I express my total trust in God.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) The Bible talks about a kind of prayer called a *lament*. Most people don’t know how to lament. A lament is a passionate complaint to God. God doesn’t want you just to praise him. God wants you to lament to him. It’s actually an act of worship when you complain *to* God. It’s an act of rebellion when you complain *about* God. God cares about your complaints. He cares about you. So, how do you lament to God? This is a form of prayer. You’ll find that in many of the laments of the Bible, the complaints are usually in the form of question. “God, why are you allowing this? God, why don’t you do something? God, when are you going to answer my prayer?” The complaints often take the form of a question.   I tell God what I think is unfair or painful. This is the start of a lament. Let me give you an example. David says, ***cry out to the Lord; I plead for the Lord’s mercy. I pour out my*** ***complaints before him and tell him all my troubles.  When I am*** ***overwhelmed, you alone know the way I should turn.”*** In a lament, the tone can be very different. You can lament out of anger. You can lament out of frustration. You can lament out of fatigue. “God, I am so tired. And I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” You can lament out of disappointment. You can lament out of fear. “I’m scared to death God, help me. I don’t know what’s going to happen this week and I’m scared to death. Help.” When Moses complained to God, God answered. When the children of Israel complained, they got stuck in the desert. So, there’s a right way and a wrong way to complain to God. What’s the right way? You do it in faith. You complain in faith. In other words, "God, this is how I feel... I am sad, mad or scared. But, I know you are good and I When you read the Psalms you read David and other people complaining to God and at the same time saying, “but you’re a good God and you’re a loving God and God, you’re kind and God, you’re fair. I don’t like what’s going on but God, you see everything!”   Abraham was arguing with God over Sodom and Gomorrah. He appealed to God. “God, you’re a fair God.” Moses complains to God and he appeals to God’s nature. David does it, Hezekiah does it. Several times in the book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah goes, “God, you’ve promised to do this, and you’ve promised to do this, and you’ve promised to do this; and if you don’t do this, you’re going to This is exactly what Jacob did. He’s scared to death to go back home, to have his family reunion with his brother who wants to kill him. Notice the prayer that Jacob prays. He reminds God of what he’s said. He said, “You’re the one who told me to go home. So you’ve When you see David’s Psalms, almost every Psalm ends with no matter how much he’s railed on God, he goes, “but I’m still going to trust you. God, I don’t like this and I don’t like that and that didn’t turn out the way I wanted, but I’m still going to trust you.” I express my total trust in God. This is what you end your prayer with. A great example of this is: ***though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the*** ***vine; and even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and*** ***barren; and even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle*** ***barns are empty,* \[they’re in a terrible drought, a terrible depression\] *yet I will still rejoice in the Lord! I will be joyful in the God of my salvation. The Sovereign Lord is my strength!”*** So what do I do about the stuff that’s out of control? I give them to the person who does have the power to control. “God, you’re in control and I know you care. 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Ever since Adam’s sin in the Garden of Eden, the world has been broken. Your body doesn’t work perfectly, the weather doesn’t work perfectly, the economy doesn’t work perfectly, no relationship works perfectly. And, life is full of losses. In order to face life… the real, raw, hard and unavoidable seasons of life that we will ALL go through (because we are all human) and we live in a fallen world… we need to understand some truths about life and There is this myth that Christians should be always smiling, always happy, always cheerful. In fact, the Bible says, *“****There is a time for everything,*** ***and a season for every activity under the heavens . . . a time to weep*** ***and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance”* (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4 NIV).** Sometimes the only appropriate, logical response to life is grief. Expressing grief isn’t lack of faith. Expressing grief is healthy. The Bible says you are to grieve over your losses, including your disappointments, your sin, the suffering in the world, and your friends who are spiritually lost. God doesn’t expect you to be happy all the time. In fact, he wants you to be intentional in your grief.  Grief is a painful emotion, but it’s also a healthy and helpful emotion. It can be valuable when you allow yourself to grieve. Maybe you were hurt many years ago growing up. Maybe your parents divorced. Maybe you were abused. Maybe you were hurt by something somebody said about you. As a child, you didn’t know how to grieve in a healthy way, so you just pushed it down deep inside you. You need to go back and grieve over it. Why? Because if you don’t grieve, you get stuck emotionally, and you spend the rest of your life reacting to something that happened a long time ago and taking it out on David talked about this in **Psalm 32:3: *“When I kept things to myself, I felt weak deep inside me. I moaned all day long”* (NCV).** The bad things that happen to you are not your choice. But grief is a choice. Jesus grieved.  You may say, “I don’t like feeling sad.” Not everything that’s helpful and healthy feels good. You’ve got to let yourself mourn losses so that you can move on with your life and receive God’s blessing. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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(Psalm 46:10)*** When was the last time you were just "still?" Not still on your couch watching Netflix, but still and aware of God. Sitting still in his I believe that the reason why so many people never feel God's presence is because they're too busy. They never get still. They're too distracted. They've always got their radio on. Too much noise.  How do you tune in to His presence? Take little breaks during the day to be quiet and recognize that no matter where you are, God is with you. It could be in your office chair. It could be in nature (being in Be still. Rest. Stop moving. Stop worrying so much. Stop trying to fix it all on your own. God wants us to be still and get to know him. He wants us to rest, but more than just rest. He wants us to rest IN HIM. in ***Matthew 11:28*** Jesus ***says “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.”*** Even Jesus felt the need to come meet with God daily through prayer. If He felt the need for it we need it too.   ***Mark 1:35 Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place*** ***to pray.*** I encourage you to make a daily appointment with God. If God is going to be first in our family, in our life, we need a daily appointment with God. It doesn't matter when we do it. We just need to do it. It doesn’t have to be a whole hour (it certainly can be) but daily, ten, fifteen minutes. Get quiet and meet with the I love this last verse. It's words from our Savior, Jesus: ***(Matthew 11:29-30) "Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”*** When you meet with the Lord, he will give you rest for your *soul*. Do you need that right now? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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God doesn’t just force change on you. He is powerful enough to force change on you, but he doesn’t work that way. He is not controlling. Instead, He waits for us to cooperate with him. So, we actually have a Let’s be clear: effort has nothing to do with your salvation, but it has much to do with your spiritual growth At least seven times in the New Testament we are told to “make every effort” in our growth toward becoming like Jesus (Luke 13:24; Romans 14:19; Ephesians 4:3; 2 Timothy 2:15; Hebrews 4:11; Hebrews 12:14; 2 Peter 3:14). You don’t just sit around and wait for it to happen. ***Eph. 4:23 “Let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.”*** “Let” the Spirit. It takes cooperating with the Holy Spirit. You have a part to play in your transformation process. Again, God is not controlling. I think some of us grew up thinking of God as controlling. The truth is, God won’t MAKE you do anything… even though he has the power to. He wants us to allow him access so that he can change us. Here are three ways to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in order to grow spiritually. **First, we must choose to let go of old ways of acting.** “Everything — and I do mean everything — connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it!” (Ephesians 4:22 MSG) **Second, we must change the way we think.** “Let the Spirit change your way of thinking” (Ephesians 4:23 CEV). The Bible says we are “transformed” by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:2 NIV). The Greek word for “transformed” is metamorphosis (used in Romans 12:2 and 2 Corinthians 3:18), and it’s used today to describe the amazing change a caterpillar goes through in becoming a butterfly. It is a beautiful picture of what happens to us spiritually when we allow God to direct our thoughts: We are changed from the inside out, we become more beautiful, and we are **Third, we must put on the character of Christ by developing new, godly habits.** Your character is essentially the sum of your habits; it is how you habitually act. The Bible says, “Put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:24 NIV). When you partner though life with the Holy Spirit and listen to him and allow him to transform your thoughts and heart, you will experience real, lasting change. You don't have to "try harder," to change. Just listen for his voice (and you learn to hear his voice by spending time with him in his Word and through prayer), allow him access to work in He will guide you and transform you... if you let him.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Jesus said, ***“Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples”* (John 13:35 NLT).** Jesus says the world will know we are his followers not by how much we read the Bible or go to church… but by the love that we have for one So, how do you learn to love people better? By spending time with them. Working through differing views with them. Exercising patience with them. You can’t learn to do these things in your own little bubble. You have to put time into relationships with others in order to learn God wired you so that you have to be connected in his family in order to grow. If you follow Christ, it’s important to be committed to a specific group of disciples. This means being intentional and seeking relationships with other believers, even if you're busy. This means not hopping around from church to church when relationships get a little hard. Relationships with people can be messy, but they’re worth working through. (This isn’t to say you need to keep yourself in a toxic or ***“Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another*** ***to show love and to do good. Let us not give up the habit of meeting*** ***together, as some are doing. Instead, let us encourage one another all*** Here’s the truth: Christians need each other to grow. Many people think spiritual growth is a private matter, but God calls believers to live out their faith in community. You can’t develop a deep faith in pastor, I encourage you to find your people. If you're not in a Life Group, this fall would be a GREAT time to get into one. You can fill out this Life Group form as a first step to getting connected to one that Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He's the only one who can do that. He brings good out of evil. He has a way of turning things around. The stuff that happens to you, it's not all good. There's a lot of bad stuff that happens to you, but God says, "I can turn it around. I can God can turn our hurts into holiness. He can use pain to make us more like Jesus.  One of the most famous verses in the Bible is Romans 8:28. We keep coming back to this verse. Why? Because we keep getting hurt. We have guilt, we have grief, and we have grudges and so we need to understand that God says, "Yes, I know that happened, but I can bring ***we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of*** ***those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.*** Let me stop right there. This is not a promise for everybody. It's a promise for those who love him and have been called according to his purpose. We know that not everything that happens to you is good. Can God take the bad things people do to me, to do against me, and use them for good? Yes. Can God even take my own sins and bring good out of them, my own mistakes and bring good out of them? Yes. Can God take my own weaknesses and my damaged will and my damaged mind and my damaged heart, my emotions and the way I think, can God work even in that for good? Now, Romans 8:28 is a wonderful promise, but it makes no sense at all unless you read Romans 8:29, the verse right underneath it which explains why God uses everything for his purpose. What is his purpose? His purpose is to build our character. He uses the conflicts and the crises to change our character. ***God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his*** ***Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and*** God wants a family for eternity. God wants you to be his child. He sent Jesus to show what a child of God is like. You want to know what God wants you to become like? Look at the character of Christ. God is far more interested in our character than he is in our comfort. This life is preparation for the next. In heaven, there's no sorrow, there's no suffering, there's no sickness, there's no sadness, there's no people When we go through tough times, we should never ask, "Why is this happening?" I'll tell you why. Romans 8:29, to make us like Jesus. The question we should ask anytime we go through any difficult time is "What? What do you want to teach me, God? What character development do you want me to grow like?”  We're going to be comfortable for endless years in heaven. Right now, he wants us to become like Christ.  often, it's our biggest hurts and pains that turn into our biggest ministries in life. God can create good out of your hurt, if you allow him to heal you and allow him to use it to transform you so that one day Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so*** ***that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”*** You were made to make a contribution, not just to consume. God made you to make a difference. And what matters is not how long you live, but how you live. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of your life. On this planet, nobody gets a free ride. The Bible says we're created to serve, we're saved to serve, we're gifted to serve. We're commanded to serve God.   Now whenever God gives us an assignment to do something, He never gives it to us without equipping us first. ***1 Peter 4:10 (NIV) "Each of us should use whatever gift he's received to serve others!***   You weren't put here just to take up space, consume and get a free ride through life. You were put here to serve God and the way you serve God is by serving other people. Now, some people want to serve God; they just don't want to serve others. But you can't do that. The only way Now the Bible has a word for this, it's called "ministry". This is a misunderstood word.When I say the word "minister" most people think of a priest, a pastor or a rabbi. But the Bible says every believer is a minister. Now not every believer is a pastor, but every believer is a All of us are called to ministry, including you. If you are called to salvation, you are called to serve. To be a fully devoted follower of Now the good news is that God not only created us for service, He gave us a model. He came to earth Himself and said, "This is how you do it. I want you to watch Me". So he came to earth in the form of a man, Jesus Christ, and He said, "This is what I want you to do with your life". You were created to be like Christ. What did Christ do while He was here on earth? He served. Notice the next verse,  ***Matthew 20:28 (NLT) "For even I, the Son of Man, came here not to be served but to serve others.”***   Jesus said to give your life away in order to find it. The greatest thrill in the world is to be used by God, to be used in serving Him.   **are the church... at your place of work. On your campus. In your home.** **At the store. On social media. In your neighborhood. To the other people** **you go to church with. How can you "be the church" and serve others where God has placed you?**  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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We all go through difficult seasons in life. Seasons of loss. Seasons of grief. Seasons of struggle. Sometimes we will hear people say, “Well, you just gotta have hope and give it to God!” And, yes, give it to God. But, sometimes responding to someone's pain in that way can do more harm than good. Sometimes the It’s okay not to be okay sometimes. Some things in life aren’t okay. Abuse. Death. Sickness. These things aren’t okay. That's why our hope Hope isn’t just “positive thinking” or “optimism.” Hope doesn’t overlook the facts that something is wrong or that something hurts. Hope ACKNOWLEDGES the real, painful, difficult times in life and then says, but nevertheless I trust God. I know God is good, and I have hope in HIS Here’s what hope is. Hope is the absolute confidence that every part of your life ultimately makes sense *regardless* of how it turns out *this* side of eternity. From our vantage point, life looks like a mess at times. But God’s view from Heaven isn’t the same as ours. You can’t even imagine the good that God has in store for your future. In **Jeremiah 29:11b God says, *“I have good plans for you, not plans to hurt you. I will give you hope and a good future”* (NCV).** Hope means, *in the end*, I know God is in control and he *will* make everything okay, even if it’s not okay here and now. God promises us that he will do that. He always keeps his promises.  ***“'He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will*** ***be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone*** One day there will be no more sickness. There will be no more evil and abuse. One day there will be no more funerals. There will be no more Your future is in God’s hands — and there’s no better place for it to be. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Showing mercy is how we will stand out in this world as Today we’re going to look at seven facets of mercy. How do you become more patient with your kids, spouse, coworkers, or friends? The Bible says in James 3:17, *“The* *wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle* *at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy”* (NLT). The wiser you become, the more patient and merciful you become. You cannot love your neighbor as yourself without being merciful. Proverbs 3:27 says, *“Whenever you possibly can, do good to those who need it”* (GNT). And, to add to this, God is not simply watching *what* you do. He’s watching your attitude: *“\[When you\] show mercy, do it cheerfully”* (Romans 12:8 NIV). You can do charity work all day long with the wrong motive and the wrong attitude, and it doesn’t count. Your heart matters when it comes When somebody hurts us, we normally want to get even or write that person off. That’s what culture tells us is acceptable. The world tells us, it’s your right to cancel them or cut them off. But the Bible says, *“Stop* *being bitter and angry and mad at others. Don’t yell at one another or* *curse each other or ever be rude. Instead, be kind and merciful, and* *forgive others, just as God forgave you because of Christ”* (Ephesians 4:31-32 CEV). Mercy is giving people what they need, not what they deserve. Why should we do it? Because that’s what God does with us: *“Love* *your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to* *get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be* *children of the Most High, because \[God\] is kind to the ungrateful and* *wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful”* (Luke 6:35-36 NIV). This doesn’t mean to have no boundaries with people and be a doormat. Giving people a second chance is about your heart toward them. You can make allowances for their shortcomings and you can prayerfully ask God for direction in proceeding with that relationship. You’ve got to be more interested in winning people to Christ than in winning the argument. Jude 1:22-23 says, *“Show* *mercy to those who have doubts. Save others by snatching them from the* *fire of hell. Show mercy to others, even though you are afraid that you* This is what I call premeditated mercy, because you intentionally build friendships with people who don’t have friends or who are not When the Pharisees questioned why Jesus ate with tax collectors and other unpopular people, Jesus said, *“‘I* *want you to show mercy, not offer sacrifices.’ For I have come to call* *not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are* Romans 13:10 says, *“Love fulfills the requirements of God’s law”* (NLT). If you want to show mercy, put people before policies. Put their needs before procedures. Put relationships before regulations. 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You should read what the Bible says, directly, for For much of Christianity’s history, only priests had Bibles. As a result, they were the only ones to interpret Scripture. Everyone else Then, around 1440, Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press. For the first time, common people had regular access to Bibles. And people sometimes discovered, “What the priest is telling me YOU, yes you, are capable of reading the Bible. Find a translation that is easy for you to understand, and start. You don’t have to be a To understand and grow from the Bible, you have to read it. If you don’t have a regular Bible reading habit, I encourage you to start *Why* read the Bible? To grow closer to God and to grow spiritually. To apply it. To point you to Jesus. To help you know how to Some people can read the Bible, check of off their list, and they never grow from it. You can read the Bible cover to cover and not grow Your “why” matters. If you read the Bible and you allow God to speak to you and you do what it says… you *will* experience growth. If you read it, set it down, and then never apply it, you might as well stick to the sports page. I love this verse: ***“Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law” (Psalm 119:18 ESV).*** Word will change your life if you put what you learn in practice — but it all starts with your willingness to study his Word. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It’s one of the great truths of life. If you please group A, group B will be upset at you. And if you please group B, you’ll upset group A. Even God can’t please everyone. Think of all the sporting events where people on both sides pray for a win. Only one team can win the game. One person prays for rain. Another prays for sun. Only one gets If even God can’t please everyone, it would be illogical for us to think that we could please everyone. Everyone’s approval *can’t* matter to us if we want to have peace… why? Because that’s *stressful*. Like we just established, pleasing everyone is an impossible task. So, who do we aim to please? Whose approval are we to live for? Whose opinion should concern us? Living for the approval of God is the only way to feel at peace. Living for the approval of people is a good way to get stressed out. We all need to ask ourselves this question from **Galatians 1:10:** **“For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? 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(Part 1) ### Page ID: 4788456 ### Content: # How Does God Actually See Me? (Part 1) ### **I AM ACCEPTABLE.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) What does God see when He looks at you? What does He think about you? What’s His heart toward you? let’s set aside how we see ourselves for a moment and take a look at the truth about how God sees us. Many of us spend our entire lives trying to be accepted by others. We want to be acceptable to our parents, to our peers, to our enemies, to Our desire to be accepted influences the way we dress, the kind of car we drive, the kind of house we live in, the career we choose and many other things. People will do the craziest things in order to be Remember as a kid when you were dared to do something. It was stupid but we went ahead and did it anyway. Why? We wanted to fit in with the Even if we are perfect, people are going to reject us. The Bible says Jesus was perfect, yet He was despised and rejected by men. He was rejected by His own people. The problem was not perfection, the problem was with them. Jesus tells us that this issue of acceptance is settled Notice there is no condition. It doesn't say, "Christ will accept you if you go to church every week." It doesn't say, "Christ will accept you if you promise to be perfect.” No, it's unconditional, because it's Maybe you've accepted Christ, but have you ever realized that God has accepted you? God has accepted you just as you are without any Some of you grew up with an unpleasable parent. No matter what you did, it was never good enough. If you got C's, they wanted B's. If you got B's on your report card, they wanted A's. If you got A's, they wanted straight A's. If you got straight A's they wanted you to take extra curricular activities. 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(Part 2) ### Page ID: 4788465 ### Content: # How Does God Actually See Me? (Part 2) ### **I AM VALUABLE.** ### **I AM LOVABLE.**   ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) When you begin to see yourself as God really sees you, you will be healed from the pain of rejection because it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks if God says I'm acceptable and valuable and lovable. You are valuable because of His grace. You are valuable. You are worth something.   How much do you think you're worth? I'm not talking about your net worth.  I'm talking about your self worth. There are two things that determine value in life. One, who owns it? Two, what is somebody willing to pay for it? Those two things create First, the ownership determines the value of something. We all know that something that's owned by a celebrity is far more valuable than something that's owned by me. For instance, would a car owned by Elvis sell for more than my car? How about a pair of tennis shoes owned by Michael Jordan rather than a pair of my tennis shoes? Any difference? The fact is, the owner of something adds value to something that is Imagine your value. When you come to Christ and say, "Jesus Christ, I accept Your gift of salvation, I accept Your gift of saving grace,” and you step across that line, God puts you in His family. That means you're priceless. You're valuable because of whose you are. You're a child of God. God says you're not only acceptable, you are valuable. You The other thing that determines value is what somebody's willing to pay for it. **1 Cor. 7:23*" God paid a high price for you, so don’t be enslaved by the world.”*** The greatest ransom ever paid was when Jesus Christ paid for your sins,  and you were bought with a price, and God exchanged His own son for you. God said, "You are valuable enough that I will give My own Son If you want to know your value, look at the cross. Jesus with outstretched hands says, "This is how valuable you are. This much. I’d When people say to you, "You're worthless. You don't amount to much," they're dead wrong. God says you matter this much. Jesus died for you You're not only acceptable, you're valuable because of God's grace. God says you are acceptable and valuable.   You may need to say this one out loud. “I am lovable!” ***‘For the mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then my*** ***faithful love for you will remain.  My covenant of blessing will never*** **There are two characteristics that make God's love different from human love.**   Most of us have experienced inconsistent love because we live with human beings. We're all inconsistent. We grow up with inconsistent love.  Inconsistent love produces insecure children. God says, "My love is We give conditional love. We grow up with conditional love and we give it to others. When you say, "I love you if you love me" that's a condition -- conditional love. When you say, "I love you, if you'll marry me" that's conditional love. "I love you if you meet my needs" -- conditional love.  Obviously when those needs stop being met, what But God says to you, "I love you period! No conditions. No qualifiers. Just in My grace." You don't ever have to ask, "I wonder if God's going to love me today? I wonder if God's going to love me tomorrow? I wonder if God's going to love me next week? Did I pray enough? Did I do enough right things? Is God going to love me now because I had a quiet time?" His love is not conditioned upon your performance. There’s nothing you can do to make God love you any more and there’s nothing you can do to make Him love you any less. That's grace. We always get into trouble when we doubt God's love. God says, in Christ, I am acceptable, I am valuable, and I am lovable.   Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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God is not changing His mind every moment saying, "I like you," today 3. and "Get lost!" tomorrow. God is not unpredictable. 1. **God's love is unconditional.** It's not based on 2. performance. It's not based on you measuring up. As human beings, we try 3. to give unconditional love, but we can't do it all the time because 4. we're imperfect. --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/the-truth-about-when-god-feels-distant ### Title: The Truth About When God Feels Distant ### Page ID: 4788466 ### Content: # The Truth About When God Feels Distant ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) God has promised repeatedly, ***“I will never leave you; I will never abandon you”* (Hebrews 13:5 GNT).** Yet God has *not* promised that you will always *feel* his presence. There are times when he *appears* to be missing-in-action in your life. This is a normal part of the testing and maturing of your friendship with God. Every Christian goes through it at least once. It is painful and confusing, but it is absolutely vital for the development of your This knowledge gave Job hope when he could not feel God’s presence in his life. He said, ***“I*** ***go east, but he is not there. I go west, but I cannot find him. I do*** ***not see him in the north, for he is hidden. I look to the south, but he*** ***is concealed. But he knows where I am going. And when he tests me, I*** When God seems distant, you may feel that he is angry with you or is disciplining you for some sin. And, in fact, sin does disconnect you from intimate fellowship with God. (see Psalm 51; Ephesians 4:29-30; 1 Thessalonians 5:19; Jeremiah 2:32; 1 Corinthians 8:12; James 4:4). But often this feeling of distance or separation from God has nothing to do with sin. It is a test of faith, one all believers must face: Will you continue to love, trust, obey, and worship God, even when you have no sense of his presence or visible evidence of his work in your The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God. They look for a feeling, and if that feeling happens, they conclude that they have worshiped. But God often removes feelings so you won’t depend on them. Instead, he wants to draw you into a deeper relationship with him. I will end on this promise. **“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13)** Those who seek him will find him. If God feels distant, keep seeking him. This season will not last forever. He is with you, always.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But, sometimes we may hesitate to forgive someone who has really hurt us, because we aren’t ready to trust that person again. Did you know that it’s okay to forgive someone and still not trust them? Forgiveness does not mean there needs to be an instant restoration Forgiveness is instant; trust must be rebuilt over time. Forgiveness is based on grace; trust is built on works. Forgiveness is returning to God the right to take care of justice. **Forgiveness is letting go of anger, bitterness, and the desire to get even.** It is honestly wishing God’s blessings upon those who have wronged you.  But, restoration of a relationship and restoration of trust takes far more than forgiveness. It takes repentance. It takes restitution and a Forgiveness is only your part. You can start the process of forgiving someone who has wronged you right now. It doesn’t depend on whether the other person asks for your forgiveness, responds to your forgiveness, or recognizes they need your forgiveness. You forgive for your sake. You don't let bitterness in your heart poision your life. Are you stuck in unforgiveness? Begin the process of forgiveness today. Then take all the time you need to rebuild trust. These steps are necessary for healthy relationships and a healthy soul. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It can be one of the hardest decisions you’ll ever make. It’s possible that you are carrying some deep wounds that you’ve carried for months, maybe even years. When you think about the person who hurt you, it’s still as fresh as if it happened this morning. The pain is still there, and you’re still filled with resentment.  You may even say, “Why in the world should I forgive that person who hurt me so much? You have no idea how much they hurt me. Why should I You will never have to forgive anyone else more than Jesus Christ has already forgiven you. Remember that you haven’t always gotten what you deserved, either. God has been gracious with you. Now choose to be Scientists tell us that resentment is the unhealthiest emotion there is. It always hurts you more than anybody else! Resentment will not change the past, and it won’t solve the problem. It doesn’t even make *careful that none of you fails to respond to the grace which God gives,* *for if he does there can very easily spring up in him a bitter spirit* *which is not only bad in itself but can also poison the lives of many* *if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly* *Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their* *sins, your Father will not forgive your sins”* (NIV). Jesus says we cannot receive what we are unwilling to give. If you say, “I could never forgive that person,” then I hope you never sin. If you just don’t feel like doing it, do it anyway, because it’s the right Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It’s guaranteed! We can expect trouble. Since sin entered the world, nothing works perfectly. Everything on this planet is broken—the weather, the economy, your body, ***land suffers for the sins of its people . . . \[they\] have twisted the*** ***laws of God and broken his everlasting commands . . . The earth has*** ***broken down in utter collapse.”* (Isaiah 24:4-5, 19 TLB).** This Earth is not heaven. That’s why Jesus taught us to pray the Lord’s Prayer*—****”your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”* (Matthew 6:10 NIV).** Heaven is a perfect place with no sorrow, sickness, sadness, or stress. One day we’ll get there, but we’re not there yet. Here’s the hope: When you live in light of eternity, you don’t get discouraged as easily by trouble. You don’t give up because you know what is coming is the best gift you’ve ever been given.  through whatever trial you’re facing right now. Soon enough you will marvel at all that God did in the midst of your trouble as you look at This doesn’t mean you have to “pretend everything is fine” here on Earth. It’s not fine. Death isn’t fine. Sickness, abuse, pain… all of these aren’t fine. Take all of your hurt and pain to God. Be honest with him, so that he can help you get through whatever you’re going through. You need more than positive thinking to survive in this world. You need hope. Jesus offers you the hope of heaven.  The Bible says, ***“Be truly glad. There is wonderful joy*** ***ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little while. These*** ***trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire*** ***tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than*** ***mere gold. 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Make it your primary objective. Make it your greatest ambition. Make it your life purpose. Don’t say, “One of the things I want in life is loving relationships.” Don’t just put it in your “Top 10.” Make it number one! Here are four truths about Real Love (the real love that God is talking about, not what the world says love is) God commands that we love each other: *“Love means doing what God has commanded us”* (2 John 1:6 NLT). You can’t always control an emotion, and God would never command you to do something that he doesn’t give you the power and the ability to The Bible says in ***1 Corinthians 14:1, “Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does” (The Message).*** If you “go after” something, that means you make a choice. Love is a choice. We choose to love or not to love. Love is not a feeling, in fact, we can choose to love in spite of our feelings. Love is an action. Love is something you *do*. The Bible says, ***“Let us stop just saying we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions”* (1 John 3:18 TLB).** Every day God puts opportunities around us to demonstrate love. The problem is most of the time we’re too busy. How many times have you thought, “I need to make a call; I need to encourage that person at work; I need to help my neighbor,” but then you missed the opportunity Love takes advantage of opportunities to serve others. The Bible says in ***1 John 4:16, “God is love. If we keep on loving others, we will stay one in our hearts with God, and he will stay one with us” (CEV).*** Our relationship with God is largely affected by our relationship with other people. If we commit to love, then we will keep in one with our hearts with God, and he’ll stay one with us—because God is love. ***“Everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another”* (John 13:35 NIV).** The distinguishing mark of a Christian is not a cross, a crucifix, a dove, or a fish on a bumper sticker. The sign of a Christian is love. How many people know you’re a Christian because of your loving lifestyle? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Here’s how scripture says Christ followers should respond to offense… **“Make allowance for each other’s faults and forgive anyone** **who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive** Making allowance for other people’s faults means choosing to be proactive about forgiveness. It means choosing to be a peacemaker. Now, being a peacemaker doesn’t mean we always avoid conflict. That would be unhealthy. Jesus didn’t always avoid conflict, but he knew how to diffuse it, resolve it and restore relationships.  **“If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.” (Romans 12:18)** Have you done everything in your power to live at peace with those around you? Your family? Your friends? People you work with? And let me just say, living at peace with everyone doesn’t mean that you can’t have Jesus said it like this in Matthew 5:9, ***“Blessed are the peacemakers”* (NIV).** People who actively seek to make peace will be blessed. This is more than just being a "peace lover." A lot of people say they love peace, but aren't willing to act on it. Being a peacemaker means you are willing to lay down your offenses and seek peace. It means sacrificing your right to get even. Jesus says you will be blessed if you are a One of the greatest things you can do with your life is be a bridge builder, not a wall builder. When you choose to love people, even when they hurt you or offend you. That’s hard! But, it’s Christlike. You will need Jesus' help to **You are most like Jesus when you are reconciling relationships. That’s exactly what Jesus came to do!**  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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One of my passions as a pastor is helping people But, I think a lot of times we confuse our “calling” with our “career path” or our “assignment.” We want to know “what degree should I get, so I can fulfill my calling?” or “has God called me to be a missionary?” God doesn’t usually reveal your lifelong assignment all at once. So, how do we discover our *calling*? One. Day. At. A. Time. Walking with the Lord, connecting with him and following his direction. **Here’s what you should know about your calling that applies to today:** We are ALL called to Jesus. That’s your calling. We are all called into a relationship with God. Pursue *that* calling, and he will direct your steps, day by day. He will give you the specifics as you need them. He often only gives you the “next step.” ***“In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.” (Proverbs 16:9, NIV)*** The most important calling on your life isn’t to something you do. 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Several chapters earlier, in John 8:32, he says, ***“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”* (NIV).** Two of the things that Jesus sets us free from is guilt and shame. Many people think that Jesus is the one who causes guilt in our life. This is not true at all. Jesus is our advocate. He didn’t come to condemn the world, but to save it. To set us free from guilt and shame.  ***“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” (John 3:17)*** You know what guilt feels like. Guilt robs you of happiness. It causes depression. It can make you physically sick. Shame keeps you stuck. Shame can make you feel totally alone and isolated. Neither of ***we tell Him our sins, He is faithful and we can depend on Him to*** ***forgive us of our sins. He will make our lives clean from all sin”* (NLV).** If you turn to God, you are fully forgiven. He is faithful to forgive. He isn't sitting there waiting to pile on guilt and shame. He's ready and willing to forgive you. God wants you to turn to him, so that God tells us, ***“I will forgive their sins and I will no longer remember their wrongs”* (Jeremiah 31:34 GNT).** Not only does he forgive, he decides to “no longer remember.” This means he won’t bring up your past every time you make a mistake. He forgives you fully, then never uses your past against you. That's great Satan wants to keep you weighted down under the burden of guilt. He wants to keep you bound up so you can’t live in God’s freedom. But Here’s how God works: You ask for forgiveness. Then God forgives you. But then, he goes a step further and actually forgets what you’ve done It’s like God takes your sins and puts them in the deepest part of the ocean—and then he puts up a “no fishing” sign. God won’t pull up your sins again, and he doesn’t want you to, either. He wants you to be Are you feeling the burden of guilt today? 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Come back TO CHRIST.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Have you messed up? Either in a big way or you've just slowly drifted away from God? How do you mend things? What do you do with your guilt? ***Romans 8:1 "There is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus."*** There's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. To be clear: This is NOT a promise for everybody. It's NOT saying anybody can do whatever they want to do and there's no condemnation. It says for those who are in Christ Jesus. If you are a genuine believer in Christ, you've put your trust in Christ, accepted His grace, there is Notice it also does NOT say there are no consequences. It says no condemnation. There are a lot of consequences. When I get out of God's will for my life, when I blow it, when I intentionally don't do what God wants me to do, when I ignore His will there are major consequences.   Same thing for you too. Every time you disobey God, every time you ignore His will, every time you don't follow His instruction you lose. That’s one of the big regrets a prodigal faces. Decisions are made in selfishness that hurt others in our lives. It would be great if only we had to pay the consequences of a Prodigal Path but it doesn’t work that way. Husbands pay, wives pay, children pay, parents pay when we travel down the wrong path. We hurt ourselves and we hurt other people. We lose When a Christian sins, what happens? We lose our fellowship with God. We lose our effectiveness on earth. We lose rewards in heaven. We lose our joy here on earth. The miserable people on earth are not unbelievers but believers who know better and are acting like unbelievers.  ***Jeremiah 15:19a "If you return to Me, I will restore you so you can continue to serve Me."*** Return to Christ. He will restore you. Lay your sin at the foot of the cross. 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God wants you to focus on *doing* what he tells you to do, not on just *hearing* what he tells you to do. He calls you to be an active follower of Jesus, not just a passive listener. The Bible says, *“Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves”* (James 1:22 ESV). The truth is, you can listen to sermons and study the Bible for decades. But if you never *do* anything about what you’ve heard and learned, you’re deceiving yourself and not really growing more like Christ. The Bible says, *“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,* *and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for* *instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete”* (2 Timothy 3:16-17 NKJV). That verse points to four things about God’s Word. It shows you the path to walk on; that’s doctrine. It shows you where you got off the path; that’s reproof. It shows you how to get back on the path; that’s correction. And it shows you how to stay on the path; that’s instruction The problem is, most of us know a lot more than we actually put into practice. You say you believe in forgiveness, but do you forgive the people who’ve hurt you? You say you believe in waiting on God, but are you patient? God doesn’t want you to just take notes and say you believe things about his Word. He wants you to be a *doer* of his Word. Jesus said in Matthew 28:20: *“Teach them to do everything I have commanded you”* (GW). He didn’t say, “Teach them *to know* everything I commanded you” or “Teach them *to think* about everything I commanded you.” He said, *“Teach them to do.”* Don’t fool yourself into thinking that hearing God’s Word also means you’re applying God’s Word. Make plans to do something about what you hear, not to earn his love (he already loves you), but so that you can Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Jesus said, *“‘Love* *the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.’ This is the* *first and greatest commandment. The second most important is similar:* *‘Love your neighbor as much as you love yourself’”* (Matthew 22:37-39 TLB). communicated that there are two things in life that are more valuable than anything else: The “first and greatest” is loving God. Then, the “second most important” is loving other people. If you get those two Love God. Love others. *That’s* what matters *most* to God.  The Bible is very clear that God put you here on Earth to do two things: to learn to love God and to learn to love other people. about acquisition—how much you get. Life is not about accomplishment—how much you do. And it’s not about achievement—how much you earn. It’s not about all the things the world tells you it’s about.  You’re not taking your career to heaven. You’re not taking your car or your house to heaven. But you *are* taking your character. You’re taking *you*. God put you on Earth for 80 to 100 years so you can learn to love. In fact, he cares how you treat others and love them more than he cares if you read your Bible every day. What use is Bible knowledge if you aren’t even going to apply it and love people like Jesus says we says, “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 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.” In other words, without love, nothing counts in the eyes of God. You can say the right thing to someone, but without love, it doesn’t matter. Life is about learning to love well. Your relationships are also meant to help teach you to love well. Your marriage. Your relationship with your kids. Your family. These relationships are laboratories to That’s what life is all about—learning to love God with all your heart and learning to love everyone else too. With this truth in mind, ask yourself this: In what ways am I making the most of my time here on Earth? If life is one giant lesson in love, what do you need to stop doing so that you have more time to practice showing love to others? How can you partner with the Holy Spirit to help you love others well? Your family. Your kids. Your co-workers. The lady in the drive-through. How can you show love like Jesus this week? That's what matters to God.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Worry is just an attempt to control the future and it doesn't work. When we worry about the future we somehow think we're going to control Fortunately the future does not come to us all at once. The Bible doesn't say, "Give us this day our annual bread." It says "Give us this God wants you to depend on him one day at a time. He will provide *everything* you need—for today. Because he is a good God, you can trust that you will lack nothing. Jesus said, *“Don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have its own worries. Each day has enough trouble of its own”* (Matthew 6:34 NCV). Why should you only live one day at a time? First, when you worry about tomorrow’s problems, you miss the blessings of today. Second, you cannot solve tomorrow’s problems with today’s power. When tomorrow arrives, God will give you the power, perspective, grace, and It’s okay to plan for tomorrow. But don’t worry about it! Trust God for each day as it comes. 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Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you.*** ***Pray for those who hurt you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer*** ***the other cheek also. If someone demands your coat, offer your shirt*** radical love that Jesus is talking about goes totally against our human Love your enemies? Who does that? Yet, Jesus tells us that’s what we as his followers are to do. ***pay back evil with more evil. Do things in such a way that everyone can*** ***see you are honorable.  Do all that you can to live in peace with*** What you’re taught in our society today is if somebody punches you, you punch them back and you hit them harder. Society says: Don’t get But, Jesus teaches that we should do the opposite. We should actually pray for those who hurt and offend us. We forgive them, even though What happens when you do that? You get the smile of God on your life.   When you refuse to retaliate and instead respond in love at work or with somebody who doesn’t like you, God will be pleased. And you’re ***blesses those who are persecuted for doing right, for the Kingdom of*** ***Heaven is theirs. God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you*** ***and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because*** ***you are my followers. Be happy about it! Be very glad! For a great*** ***reward awaits you in heaven”* (Matthew 5:10-12 NLT).** Yeah, but is this really realistic? How can you actually “love your enemies?” How can you *love* someone who has hurt you? You need the love of Christ in you to help you. You need the power of the Holy Spirit. Only then can you love the hard-to-love. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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And may they be in us so that the world*** Our unity as God’s family, the church, is our greatest witness to unbelievers. ***new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I*** ***have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people*** ***will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”***  By *this* all people will know that you are my disciples. By what? **By our love for one another.** Not by how much we go to church. Not by how many Bible verses we know. Not even by living a life of good morals. The world will know we belong to God’s presence in your life should make you a *more loving* person—not harsher or more opinionated or more stubborn, but more loving. I know many Christians who have lost sight of this. For some, it seems the more Bible knowledge they acquire, the more judgmental they become rather God says when we have unity within the church and when we love each other, we ae showing the world that we belong to Jesus. Our unity and our love is a testimony of the power of Christ to transform lives. This doesn’t mean we agree on everything all the time, but it means we care more about other people than we do our own opinions. Also, when we submit our opinions to God and let *him* transform our hearts and minds from the inside out, we typically find that we start to agree with other believers more (because he is transforming our minds to think like Him), or you’ll find that you have more patience and understanding for those who don’t agree with you. Either way, you can do *your* part in striving for unity and peace. ***“If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone****.”* Romans 12:18, NIV So, what’s your role in unity and peace? The verse says, "*As far as it depends on you."* That means, just do your part. You can't control others, but you can do your part to try to live at peace with those around you.  I pray that Seminole Church is a church that loves people well, and lives at peace with everyone, as far as it depends on us. It is impossible to live at peace with everyone, because we can't control their responses… but we can do OUR part to take a step toward peace. We Our job is to keep loving each other and the community around us, and continue to tell the greatest true story ever told, the story of Jesus Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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How do you learn how to handle pressure and build up endurance? You experience situations that build it. When we allow God to work in us, trials can actually build up our endurance. They can You see, the enemy wants to use your problems to defeat you, but God wants to use your problems to develop you.  YOU get to choose how you respond to problems. Will you allow them to defeat you, or will you choose to let God develop you? Regardless, you ***have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this*** ***world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."*** Jesus is saying, “problems are part of life here on Earth, but take heart (thank goodness for that part), I have overcome the world.” In other words, this isn’t the end for us. This isn’t heaven, and we can’t expect it to be. BUT, heaven is coming, thanks to Jesus. ***“These little troubles are getting us ready for an eternal glory that will make all of our troubles seem like nothing.”*** **2 Corinthians 4:17 (CEV)** One day we won’t face problems, experience pain or sickness or death, because he has overcome all of that. ***know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those*** ***who love God and are called according to his purpose for them”* (NLT).** God’s purpose for you on this earth is to prepare you for eternity. This life is preparation for the next. We are here to develop our character to look like the character of Christ, because we take our God is using everything in your life—the good, the bad, and the ugly—to get you ready. When you understand this, life begins to make a Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But, God is Always Good ### Page ID: 4788642 ### Content: # Life Isn't Always Fair... But, God is Always Good ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Life here on Earth is not exactly a walk in the park. Whether you are a believer or not, you will experience pain and problems here on Earth ***“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In*** ***this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the*** So, Jesus doesn’t promise his followers an easy life. And, in many cases, life isn’t fair. None of us are exempt from suffering, loneliness, discouragement, or criticism, because God is developing in us the character of Christ. In order to do that, he takes us through some of the same struggles that Jesus experienced during his time on Here’s the encouraging part. The good news is that Jesus *overcame* the world, and it won’t always be this way for those who follow him. This isn’t the end of the story, Heaven is. One day there truly will be no more pain. No more suffering. No more cancer. No more sickness. No But, in addition to the hope and promise of Heaven, even now, *during* our time here on Earth, God is working things together for good. God can use dark and stressful times for good. He can give you an unexplainable peace in the midst of trouble. And, He’ll use troubles to show us how to help others, to teach us to trust him, and to draw us The apostle Paul and the people around him found this to be true. Paul says, ***“He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others”* (2 Corinthians 1:4 NLT).** And then Paul goes on to explain how he and his companions learn to trust God through hard times: ***“We*** ***were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we*** ***thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die. But*** ***as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only*** ***on God, who raises the dead”* (2 Corinthians 1:8-9 NLT).**  Through their struggles, they became closer to God but also to other believers: *“****You*** ***are helping us by praying for us. Then many people will give thanks*** ***because God has graciously answered so many prayers for our safety”* (2 Corinthians 1:11 NLT).** We *all* go through difficult times. The difference for those who believe in Jesus is our confidence in God’s promise to be with us, grow us in spiritual maturity, and use our difficulties for good. God proved his goodness through his Son, Jesus Christ. The Bible says, ***“For*** ***God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that*** ***everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life”* (John 3:16 CSB).** When you choose to have God in your life, he will not waste the pain you've experienced in your life. He can bring good out of it.  ***Romans 8:28 says, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who******\[a\]*** ***have been called according to his purpose."*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It’s such a simple command, yet most Americans don’t even know their neighbors—and you can’t love somebody Did you know that God enjoys watching the people he created have fellowship with each other? In Zechariah 3:10, he says, *“Each of you will invite your neighbor to come and enjoy peace and security, surrounded by your vineyards and fig trees”* (GNT). You probably don’t have vineyards in your backyard, but you might have a flower garden, a fire pit, or just a patch of grass. The point is not to have a pretty place to offer, but to make the choice to be One reason we never host our church’s Trunk’R’Treat on the same date as Halloween is because we want to encourage our congregation to get out and meet their neighbors. Even if Halloween isn’t your thing, you can still be a friendly neighbor while everyone is out. This is a unique time that offers a lot of opportunities to get to know the people around you. 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The great commission. Every believer has this calling. The great commission can be found in Matthew 28:16-20: *“Then* *the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had* *told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some* *doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and* *on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all* *nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of* *the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded* *you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”* The Bible says, *“Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!”* (Matthew 4:19 NLT) We are all called to become “fishers of men and women.” To tell people about the hope found in Jesus. To tell them the Good News of the better than anything this world could offer. It’s better than the cure for cancer, AIDS, or any other sickness. When you point people to Jesus, you offer them eternal life. That’s loving people. You show them how to have their past forgiven, a purpose for living, and a home in heaven. **Jesus commands it.** Like I said at the beginning of this blog post, Jesus’ Great Commission is clear: *“Go and make disciples of all the nations”* (Matthew 28:19 NLT). But, sometimes we get wrapped up in caring more about what others think than what God thinks. We are more worried about our reputation than the salvation of others. But Jesus commands us to share your hope. **You love God and people.** The Bible says, “*Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that \[he\] died for all*” (2 Corinthians 5:14 NIV). People often ask me, “What motivates you year after year at Seminole Church?” I tell them, “It’s because I love Jesus Christ with all my heart, and I love people.” Christ’s love compels me to tell others about the hope I have in him. That’s what we are called to do here at SCC, **You will be rewarded in heaven.** Proverbs 11:30 says, *“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise”* (NKJV). Do you want to bear fruit and be wise? Bring people to Jesus. Do you want to leave a legacy? Make sure the people you know will be with you Right now, think of one person in your life who doesn’t know Jesus yet. I encourage you to pray for opportunities to share the Good News with them. Pray he will give you the words and the courage to share this Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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We are entering a season where we pause and give thanks. A season centered But, what if you don’t *feel* thankful this Thanksgiving season?  What do you do during Thanksgiving if you are in a season of waiting? Waiting for a promise to be fulfilled. Waiting for a prayer to be answered. How can you be grateful in the middle of a delay? How can you feel grateful when you feel lonely? When you're not spending the upcoming Thanksgiving season surrounded by the people that Here’s the truth. You don’t have to be grateful FOR all situations, but you can be grateful IN all situations. There is always something to be thankful for. During certain seasons of life, we may not *feel* thankful. And, that's okay. But, you can *choose* to be thankful, even though your feelings don't match.  Your feelings matter... but they are often not the *full* truth. I encourage you to recognize your feelings this Thanksgiving, then take it a step further and choose to be grateful for something. Anything. Choose to seek the truth. If you feel alone, choose to take a step toward connecting with someone this holiday. If you are in a season of waiting, choose to look back and remember all the things God has done ***“After our parents left Egypt, they took your wonders for granted,*** ***forgot your great and wonderful love. They were barely beyond the Red*** ***Sea when they defied the High God –the very place he saved them! – the*** ***place he revealed his amazing power! …but it wasn't long before they*** ***forgot the whole thing, wouldn't wait to be told what to do."***   how short their memory was. In Egypt, God does ten plagues and the children of Israel forget it because a couple days later they're at the Red Sea and saying "We're all going to die!" They've forgotten what God's just done. God does a miracle and opens the Red Sea. They walk through to the other side and immediately forget that miracle.  "We're going to die of thirst!" God provides water miraculously. They forget that and complain, "We're going to die -- no food!" They were always But we should not be too quick to judge them because we do the exact same thing. When a delay occurs in our lives we start acting like God's What have you been forgetting about God, how He's helped you so many times?  There are over 7000 of them in the Bible. Whenever I have a problem, I try to find a promise. When I face a problem, I look for a promise. The promises are always greater than the problems you're facing.   ***Ps. 103:2 (NLT)"Praise the LORD, I tell myself, and never forget the good things he does for me."***   ***2 Pet. 3:3-8.  "The Lord is not being slow to carry out His promises but He is being patient with you."***   You ask, Why isn't God fulfilling the promise in my life? God's never in a hurry. God is never late, but seldom early. He can do things immediately, but He's working on a larger agenda. The delays that come in your life do not destroy God's purpose. They fulfill God's purpose in What is it you've been waiting on God to do? For Him to turn a problem around? To answer a prayer? To make a way in a place where it seems impossible for there to be a way, financially or physically or any other way? Maybe you've been waiting on God to bring that right person along. Maybe you've been waiting on God to turn a crisis into a God hasn't forgotten. And a delay is not a denial. “Not yet,” is not the same thing as, “No.”   I know the holidays can be difficult when you don't feel happy or thankful for what is going on in your life. If this is a hard I encourage you to seek the truth and intentionally find something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season. So many things in life are out of your control... but choosing to be thankful isn't. Gratitude can transform how you see a situation. It can transform how you see your spouse, and actually make you happier in your marriage. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Studies have shown that gratitude produces chemicals in your brain—dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin—that make you feel peaceful and happy. The Bible says, *“In everything you do, stay away from complaining and arguing”* (Philippians 2:14 TLB). complain about something, how does that help you? If you complain about the weather, does it change the weather? If you complain about the way you look, does it change the way you look? If you complain about your spouse, your children, or your job, does it change any of those things? Complaining is a total waste of time. Complaining will never make you feel better. Instead, God wants your life to *“overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done”* (Colossians 2:7 TLB).  people will say to me, “You know, Pastor Jerry, I just want to know God’s will. What does God want me to do in my relationship? What does he want me to do in my career? What does he want me to do in school?” *“Always be thankful, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus”* (1 Thessalonians 5:18 TLB). That’s God’s will for your life. That you would have this attitude of gratitude on a daily basis, no matter what situation you find yourself in. This aspect of God’s will is Biblical, and it’s step Why would God teach you step two when you haven’t done step one? If you want to know God’s will on who to marry, God wants you to do step one—always be thankful—and then you can move on to step two, then step If you want to live an overflowing life rather than an overwhelmed life, stop complaining, and start being grateful.      When you are tempted to complain this week, think about a specific way God has been good to you. What difference do you think it will make? As your pastor, I encourage you to ACTUALLY do this.This won't happen "naturally." It will absolutely take intentionality. 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Their trust should be in God, who*** ***richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment. Tell them to use their*** ***money to do good. They should be rich in good works and generous to*** ***those in need, always being ready to share with others. By doing this*** ***they will be storing up their treasure as a good foundation for the*** This is a very, very important verse. First, who's it talking to? ***"Teach those who are rich.”*** Who does that involve? If you're an American you fall into that category by the world’s standards. If you live in America, you are in the top 2% of income of the world. So, this verse is talking to us.   be wealthy and not be materialistic? Yes! It's possible to be wealthy and not materialistic. Being materialistic is an attitude. You can be poor and greedy or rich and greedy. You can be poor and an attitude, not the amount that God's talking about here.   you to have when you give? It starts with your heart. God is a lot more interested in your willingness to give than your wealth, because he’s interested in what’s happening in your heart when you decide to give.  *must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don’t give* *reluctantly or in response to pressure. ‘For God loves a person who* *gives cheerfully’”* (NLT). This verse talks specifically about four key heart attitudes you should have when you give. give impulsively. The most spiritual kind of giving is when you think about it and pray about it and make up your mind about it. Why? Because we plan anything that’s important in our lives. God wants your giving to just say, “I have to give! If I don’t give, God’s going to hit me with lightning or something.” Give because you know God’s going to do something big in your heart when you become a generous person.  time you’re pressured by a person to give, don’t give. God’s not going to bless it anyway. But every time you feel challenged by God to give, **Give cheerfully.** Give with joy! One of the Greek words for offering is the word “hilarious.” God wants you to enjoy giving to him and to others. ***Acts 20:35 "You should remember the words of the Lord Jesus: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.”*** If we know that, that is a mark of maturity. If we don't know that, it's a mark of immaturity. It's thrilling, as parents, when our kids grow up to a point that they get more excited about what they're giving at Christmas than what they're getting. That's get more excited about what we give away that what we get, that's a mark of maturity. When God looks down on us and sees us sharing what He's blessed us with other people who are in need, it blesses His heart. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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So is God. God loves it when his kids learn to be generous. Every time we’re generous – we’re not selfish. We give away money, we give away time, we give away energy, not for our own benefit God goes, “That’s my boy!  You see how generous he was? That’s my girl! You see how generous she was? They’re my kids.” God takes pride. Why? Like Father, like son. God is the most generous person in the universe and he wants his kids to be the same way. God is watching us every day of our life to see what we do with what he’s given us. He’s watching to see how generous we are. This is the premise behind the greatest promise in the Bible. He’s ending the book with this promise. When you are like these Philippians who were noted for their generosity, God says when you give out of gratitude, when you give to become more like Jesus, when you give to stretch your faith, when you give to invest in your home in heaven, when you give to show what really matters most, and when you give to please God then God says, this promise, then  ***Philippians 4:19, “God… will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.”***   *“Then God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.”* This is one of the greatest promises in the Bible. How many needs will God meet? *All* my needs. That’s a verse you ought to write on a note card, put it on your refrigerator, put it in your car visor and you keep reading it. It’s a great antidote This week when you go, “God, I don’t have enough time to get all this done!” remember: *“God will meet all my needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus,”* Philippians 4:19.  “God, I’m not feeling good today. I need strength, I need energy.” *“God will meet all my needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.”*  “God, I need peace of mind. I’m so stressed out.” *“God will meet all my needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.”*  But you’ve got to remember the premise before the promise. God says, “I’m watching to see if you’re generous.” Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But when you can thank God even in the bad things, your faith grows and your spiritual roots go In the Bible, the prophet Habakkuk was going through tough times. He said, ***“Though*** ***the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though*** ***the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no*** ***sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the*** ***Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior”* (Habakkuk 3:17-18 NIV).** Habakkuk wasn’t thanking God for all the things that had gone wrong in his life. What was his cause of gratitude? *“I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.”* The Lord himself was the cause of Habakkuk’s gratitude. He wasn’t just grateful for what God has DONE (Which God has done countless things for you that you can be grateful for) but he was grateful for God No matter how bad things are, there is *always* the fact that you can be thankful to God just for being God. 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But, for others, the coming holiday season is a reminder of how we wished things were different. For many, the holiday season highlights the empty nest that didn’t used to be empty, or it reminds us of the loss we’ve experienced in our lives. For others, it might just feel Whatever boat you find yourself in this holiday season, I want to encourage you. First, I want to say that, if you woke up feeling lonely this morning, **Jesus understands.** Jesus was despised and rejected by the people he created. He experienced loneliness throughout his entire life. During his final hours, Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray. This was an emotional time for him. He knew the very next day he would be crucified on the cross, separated from his Father. Since Jesus had a need for human companionship, he took his three best friends—Peter, James, and John—with him into the garden. He said to them, ***“I’m very sad . . . Stay here and keep alert with me”* (Matthew 26:38 CEB).** What did they do? They fell asleep! Jesus came back and said, ***“Couldn’t you stay alert one hour with me?”* (Matthew 26:40 CEB)** If you’re lonely today, Jesus understands and he wants to give you relief. The ultimate way that Jesus can relieve your loneliness is by making you part of his family. Through his own lonely death and then his Resurrection, Jesus made it possible for you to belong to God’s family. When you’re part of God’s family, you still may face seasons when you feel lonely. But you will never truly be alone again. Second, I want to encourage you that, if you feel lonely this holiday season take the hard first step (or uncomfortable step) to reach out to others. **Initiate**. Don’t wait around for an invitation. Invite someone over. You may be surprised to find other people in the same boat as you. Instead of thinking, “I’m so lonely,” say, “Father, help me be a friend to people who need a friend. Help me to help lonely people.” You can help others become rich in relationships by giving them the gift of *you*. Invite someone to coffee. Throw a get-to-gether. Go serve somewhere. Volunteer at church. Join a team. Initiate connection. This is hard to do when you have that looming feeling of being alone... but it's the Genesis 2:18 says, ***“It is not good for the man to be alone”* (NIV).** Community is God’s answer to loneliness. I pray that you find that within your church family this holiday season.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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They’ve got their own agendas. If you’re serious about being used by God, I encourage you to pray, “Lord, what do I need to let go of? What do I need to cut out? What barriers are holding me back, keeping me from running the race you have One of the biggest barriers is distractions. Jesus said in Luke 9:62, ***“Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God”* (TLB).** Here are a few of the many things that might be distracting you from your life mission: **The expectations of other people.** You’ve got to decide who you’re going to please first in life. You can only have one “number one.” **Hobbies.** There’s nothing wrong with having hobbies. They can bring us balance. But *if* they distract you from the most important things, then you need to reevaluate.  and you’re holding on to guilt, resentment, or grief. Here’s the problem with that: When you’re stuck in the past, you can’t get on with the present—and you certainly can’t get on with God’s future for you. Your past is past. It’s over! So, I encourage you to let it go and move The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 10:23, *“****‘Everything is permissible,’ but not everything is helpful”* (HCSB).** What does that mean? In other words, many things aren’t necessarily wrong; they’re just not necessary. Life is often a choice between “Am I going to do something good?” or “Am I going to do what’s best?” Here’s one final thought… If the devil can’t corrupt you, he’ll make you busy. He’ll get you so busy that you don’t have time for the important things—ministry, mission, and time alone with God. You can’t do it all. So, do what matters most! Simplify your life and eliminate distractions so God can use you. How can you simplify your life this Christmas season so that you can be used by God to love and serve people? 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We hit the holiday parties, visit the relatives, buy gifts, and basically run ourselves ragged. We may sing about “Peace on Earth” during the Christmas season, but most of us aren’t experiencing it. You need rest for your soul. How do you get rest for your soul? The antidote to our overloaded soul isn’t a time-management program. It’s not a philosophy. It’s not a ***me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take*** ***my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart,*** ***and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my*** How can we exchange our panic for God’s peace? These verses give us three important clues. don’t do this just once — you do it every single day. No matter what the problem, no matter how deep the hurt, you bring it to Jesus. If you are feeling impatient with your kids, pause and come to Jesus. Let him give you the inner peace you need to get through your day.  says we must yoke up with him. The yoke is a piece of wood that puts two cattle together to pull a cart. It makes a load easier because the two cattle are sharing it. Jesus doesn’t want you to carry all your burdens. You weren’t designed to do that. He wants you to “yoke up” with him. He wants to share your burdens. Partner with Jesus in all things, not just in your quiet time... to get the house clean, to be kind to your family, to get your tasks done. Include him in your day and partner wants you to learn from him. And as you do, he’ll change you in the process. He may not always change your circumstances, but he will change your heart and give you the inner peace you need if you let him.  The Bible says, ***“You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you”* (Isaiah 26:3).**   Are you tired of being stressed out? Are you ready to have true peace that only comes from Jesus? It’s yours for the taking. It’s a free gift to you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Pray for your friends and family.** ### **2\. Serve someone.** ### **3\. Start a Christmas discussion group at work.** ### **4\. Invite someone to SCC this year.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) When Jesus was taken up to heaven, he left us with the Great Commission. A command to tell others the Good News.  So, how often are you sharing the Good News? I know a lot of people who are enjoying the Good News but rarely take the time to tell others the Good News. The main reason is we’re too busy. We’ve got too But, what if we made time and a plan to share the Good News with others this holiday season? What does that look like practically? Here are four ways to share the Good News this Christmas. Do you pray for your friends and family? Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Yet many of us miss this basic part or our sharing the Good News. Make a list of people that you would like to hear the Good News for their life. You should already have one or two or three people on that list. Who are three people who are friends or family of yours who don’t know the Good News in a personal way? Get them in your mind right now. “Dear Father, help \_\_\_\_\_ to experience the Good News of salvation and Christmas this year. Help them to connect with you and state a relationship with you. Show me my role in helping them come to Make a list and take the time to talk to God about them because you care about them to hear the Good News that’s made a difference in your Jesus tells us that He did not come to be served but to serve. What better way to celebrate Christmas than to serve someone? There are a thousand ideas out there. Let me give you just a couple ideas to get child in Haiti for only $25/mo. We have over 500 kids at Open Door Church. Every family can afford to sponsor one. It costs less than a **Give Gift Cards –** Some of you have been bringing by gift cards to the church office. I’ve been giving them out to families who have been struggling. These gifts are truly changing their family’s Christmas. Every family has said, “Thank you so much.”  I want to thank those of you who have given the cards. You’re making a difference in the lives of others this year. season is a joyous time of celebration with loved ones. For others, the holiday season is difficult, because they are alone. Maybe they lost a loved one, maybe this is the first Christmas they are spending alone, maybe their family lives far away and they couldn’t be with them this holiday season. Whoever that person is in your life, invite them over. Make some room at your table this Christmas. Serve them. Serve someone this Christmas. Find someone who’s hurting and tell them the Good News of Christmas. Jesus was born into this world to let hurting people know that there is hope. One of the things that bothers me about Christmas and probably bothers you too is that during this time of the year that Jesus came to say, “I give you There’s something about Christmas that turns up the volume of whatever we’re going through in our lives. If things are good it makes them seem even better. But when things are bad it makes it feel even more hopeless. We can change that. Let’s change that. Just one person at a time this Christmas. Find someone who’s without hope and share with You could grab a book like Lee Strobel’s The Case for Christmas and say, “Let’s get together once a week. We’ll read a chapter and get together and talk about what we read and what Christmas is all about.” You can invite followers of Christ at your place of work or people who want to learn what it means to follow Christ. Just get **Christmas Eve Services –** Christmas Eve is coming up. Don’t come alone. Invite somebody to come with you. 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I MAKE THE FIRST MOVE**       ### **2\. I Ask God for Wisdom** ### **3\. I Begin with What's My Fault** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) There's no such thing as a perfect family. What decisions can you make to bring peace into your holiday celebration this year? Are you ***Matt. 5:9 “Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God.”*** Over the next two blog posts I want to give you seven steps according to God’s Word for resolving conflict and restoring broken We make the first move. We don’t wait on somebody else. We take the initiative. God expects us to make the first step. That’s what’s called being a peacemaker. Not a peacekeeper. But a peacemaker. God cares about reconciliation. Here’s what Jesus said in Matthew 5:23. This is still in the Sermon on the Mount. ***if you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the Temple and you*** ***suddenly remember that someone has something against you, 24leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God.*** How many of you have ever had an argument with somebody on the way to church in the car?  The Bible says it would actually be better for us to sit in the car and work out that disagreement than for us to come in to church. It’s that important. Reconciliation takes priority.     The Bible says in James 1 that if we ask God for wisdom God will give it to us.   ***James 1:5. If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.*** So the first thing we do is we make the decision, “I’m not going to go along with this unresolved anymore. I’m going to take the first step. I’m not going to wait on them.” Then I say, “God I really need your We don’t start with what they’ve done wrong. We don’t start with a bunch of accusations. We’ll get to that. The conflict may be 90 percent their fault. But we can find something to confess. We can find something that was our mistake even if it was our poor response, maybe even in our defensiveness. And instead of accusing, attacking and blaming, I first look at what’s going on inside ***James 4:1 What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you?*** The conflict that you’re having with other people is inside of you. It actually starts in you. When I’m at peace inside, what’s outside Here’s the point. God is saying we need to confess our part of the conflict first. I’m realistic and I’m asking myself, “Am I being insensitive? Am I being over sensitive? Am I being over demanding?” You just do an honest evaluation. What are my blind spots? Then once you’ve done that, you confess your part in the problem. Tomorrow we will continue this blog devotion with part 2.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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I LISTEN FOR THEIR HURT & PERSPECTIVE**   ### **5\. I SPEAK THE TRUTH TACTFULLY!** ### **6\. I FIX THE PROBLEM, NOT THE BLAME** ### **7\. I FOCUS ON RECONCILIATION, NOT RESOLUTION.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) What does it mean to become a peacemaker? This Christmas season commit to becoming an agent of reconciliation in a world filled with conflict. Become a bridge builder not a wall builder.  If you missed part one of this blog series, CLICK HERE. How many times have you heard me say, “hurt people hurt people?”   The people who need love the most are those who deserve it the least. The people who are most obnoxious and irritating and you don’t want to be around them, those are people who need massive doses of love. Hurt If you want to connect with people you must start with their needs, their hurts and their interests. ***James 1:19 “Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.”***   If we are quick to listen and we are slow to speak we will be slow to get angry. God gave us two ears and one mouth. We should always listen Always, always, always, always listen before speaking. This is the key to defusing conflict.   Speak the truth tactfully. The truth sets us free, but we’ve got to say it with love. We’ve got to say it with kindness. We’ve got to say it Many people proudly say, “I just tell it like it is!” That’s called being rude. Don’t be proud of that. The truth is not enough. It’s not just what we say; it’s how we say it. If we say it offensively it will be received defensively. Truth without love is resisted. Truth with love is received. ***use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and*** ***helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear*** That’s one of the greatest verses on parenting we can ever learn. Or marriage or friendship. Don’t use harmful words. This is the sixth key to resolving conflict and restoring relationships. Fix the problem not the blame. We need to learn to attack the issue, not each other. The blame game is a waste of time. Stop fixing the blame and start fixing the problem. You got a problem with finances in your marriage? You got a problem with your in-laws? Stop fixing the blame and start There’s a big difference. Reconciliation means reestablishing the relationship. We’ve buried the hatchet. It doesn’t mean you’ll remarry if it’s with an ex, it just means we’re at peace with each other. I’m not holding onto any hurt, you’re not holding on to any hurt; we’ve Resolution means we resolve every disagreement. And that isn’t going to happen. 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We have to replace the urgent with the significant.** ### **2\. Replace the physical preparation of Christmas with spiritual preparation.** ### **3\. We need to replace self-absorption with personal reflection.** ### **4\. We’ve got to replace the superficial this Christmas with the supernatural.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) I want to look at a short Bible story, only four verses long. It’s about "capturing the moment." There two different people who approach an encounter with Jesus very differently. One misses the moment. The other doesn't. ***Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem, they came*** ***to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her*** ***home. Her sister, Mary, sat at the Lord’s feet, listening to what he*** ***taught. But Martha was distracted by the big dinner she was preparing.*** ***She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, doesn’t it seem unfair to you that my*** ***sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come and*** ***help me.” But the Lord said to her, “My dear Martha, you are worried and*** ***upset over all these details! There is only one thing worth being*** ***concerned about. Mary has discovered it, and it will not be taken away*** We see in these four verses a battle for a moment. We see someone winning the moment and we see someone losing the moment. As ***Luke 10:39 Her sister, Mary, sat at the Lord’s feet, listening to what he taught.*** Why was Mary able to do that when Jesus came to visit? She was able to separate the urgent from the significant. I imagine when news came to this home that Jesus was going to stay there Martha was like, “We’ve got to get ready for Jesus!” Mary’s like, “Great! I’ll help you get ready.” But when Jesus came knocking on the door that was when the preparation had to stop, the urgent tasks had to stop and Mary was to sit with Jesus, connect with Jesus, interact with Jesus, listen to Jesus and engage Him and not miss that moment.  I love this verse from the paraphrase the Message. It talks about being in the moment.   ***what God is doing right now. Don’t get worked up about what may or may*** ***not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things*** I acknowledge there’s always a time to prepare. We have real responsibilities. But, there are also times to stop.   The time to stop is when a moment arrives. How do I define “a moment?" A moment is when something happens that could enhance your relationship with God and people. That’s the essence of the story here with Mary and Martha. Preparation needed to stop. Mary chose what is better. an opportunity to enhance her relationship with God and her sister. ***dinner she was preparing. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, doesn’t it*** ***seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I do all the*** ***work? Tell her to come and help me.”*** Then I imagine a real heavy sigh!  *Vs 41-42* ***But the Lord said to her, “My dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these details! There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it, and it will not be taken away from her.*** Martha focused on the external side of things. Jesus focused on the internal side of things. Martha focused on what is pressing. Jesus focused on what is needed. We are often like Martha He says**,** ***“My dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these details! There is only one thing worth being concerned about.*** will enhance your relationship with God and with people. Those moments are going to boil down to choices. You choose one thing or the other.  The Bible says Jesus describing Mary to her sister Martha says this *“Mary has discovered it, and it will not be taken away from her.”* Mary was not going to leave that encounter without regret. I don’t want you had done it differently or engaged God or people differently, heading ***is what the Lord says: Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom, or the*** ***powerful boast in their power, or the rich boast in their riches.  But*** ***those who wish to boast should boast in this alone: that they truly know*** ***me and understand that I am the Lord who demonstrates unfailing love*** ***and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth, and that I*** ***delight in these things.  I, the Lord, have spoken!*** This Christmas I encourage you to slow down and focus on what truly matters when the moment comes. Don’t miss “interruptions” that could lead to strengthening your relationship with God and with other people. Your kids. Your family. 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Have you felt unsettled and concerned this year? As we come to the end of 2023, you’re likely pretty tired. Many people I know are worn out physically, mentally, and spiritually. What As we head into 2024, the Lord specifically wants to give you three different kinds of peace. **Peace with God.** This is spiritual peace — and it’s the most important. It affects everything else. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:18, *“God … sent Christ to make peace between himself and us”* (CEV). God doesn’t want us to live disconnected from him. Peace with God doesn’t come from something we do. Peace with God comes from *what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross.* God wants to give you that important peace this Christmas season. **Peace within.** The Bible has a word for this: emotional peace. It’s called the *peace of God.* When I have peace *with* God, then I get the peace *of* God inside me. Colossians 3:15 says, *“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts”* (NIV). God wants his peace to rule in our lives. I don’t know what the new year will hold for any of us, but I do know that, no matter what, God can offer you and I an inner peace that doesn’t rely on peaceful circumstances. And, we need that in this world today. There is very little external peace in our world. We need the inner peace that only Christ, the Prince of Peace offers us. **Peace with others.** Then the Lord offers relational peace. The Bible says in Ephesians 2:16, *“Together* *as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death* *on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death”* (NLT, second edition). The further we are from God, the more our relationships with others are messed up. If you want to strengthen your relationship with others — like your spouse or your kids — strengthen your relationship with God. It’ll pull you together. The only way to have lasting peace with others is to be united as children of God. This Christmas, as we sing and talk about peace on Earth, know that God wants to give you real and lasting peace in each of these three Peace isn’t an unattainable dream. It’s a free gift from God. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Yet some of us have gone Christmas after Christmas and never opened the best gift of all: God’s gift of salvation. Why even celebrate Christmas if you’re not going to open the biggest gift? It doesn’t make sense to leave unwrapped the gift of your past forgiven, a purpose for living, and a home in Heaven. **Colossians 1:15 says, *“Christ is the visible image of the invisible God”* (NLT).** People all around the world celebrate the little baby in the manger because that child is God, come to live with his people. If you want to know what God is like, take a look at Jesus. But Jesus didn’t come simply to live. He came to die for your sins so that you can spend eternity with God. Why was this necessary? Because even though God is a God of love, he is also a God of justice. Justice demands wrongs be righted. It demands that the debt of sin be paid for. And, heaven is perfect, but we’re not. Because of that, we need a Savior. God gets imperfect people into heaven through grace. The Good News of Christmas is that God gave the gift of his Son to pay for everything you have ever done wrong and offer you the grace to enter heaven. The Bible says, ***“When \[Jesus\] served as a sacrifice for our sins, he solved the sin problem for good—not only ours, but the whole world’s”* (1 John 2:1 The Message).** That gift will beat anything under your tree this year. You just need to accept it. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Do you wonder how he feels about you? You may say, “You don’t understand. Isn’t God going to scold me? I’ve been away from him for months, years, decades.” Here’s what the Bible says God will do when you come back to him: ***“With deep love I will take you back”* (Isaiah 54:7 GNT).** Here’s the truth: No one will ever love you more than the Creator who made you. God the Father created you, Jesus the Son died for you, and God’s Spirit wants to live in you. Christmas is proof of God’s love for you. You have to decide whom you’re going to believe. Are you going to build your life on what everybody else thinks about you? Are you going to listen to what the critics say about you on social media? Are you going to listen to your own feelings? Or are you going to listen to what God says about you, which is the truth? **Acts 3:19 says, *“Now it’s time to change your ways! Turn to face God so he can wipe away your sins \[and\] pour out showers of blessing to refresh you”* (MSG).** You’re deeply flawed, but you are deeply loved, and you are infinitely valuable. You may have come to the end of yourself and feel like you don’t have anywhere to turn. But there is always Someone to turn to. It's not too late. You're not too far gone. With deep love, God will take you back. Just turn to him.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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What does it look like to “step out” in faith? I like the word "step out" because faith is action. Faith is not just believing something. Faith is action. You can believe a plane is safe to fly, but you don't have faith in it unless you get on board. You can believe a chair will hold you up, but you don't really have faith in it unless you sit down in it. It's an action step. It's more than just saying, "I believe." It’s more than just believing IN Jesus. I mean, the devil believes in Jesus. You must put your FAITH IN Jesus. There’s a difference. Faith means more than just knowing about Him; it means committing yourself TO Him, letting God be number one in our life, calling the shots, the CEO, the chairman of the board, helping us make the right decisions.  ***Joshua 1:9 This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.*** You have no way to control the future. We don't even know what it is much less control it. But the good news is, God is in control. So, this New Year, you can make the choice to “step out” in faith. Start heading in the direction that you feel God is leading you… even without all the answers… even if all you see is the “next step”… take it. Still unsure where God is leading you? I encourage you to stay in God’s Word. There’s lots of direction in the Bible. If you need a place to start, start there. Then, be in tune with the Holy Spirit each day, praying for guidance and direction every step along the way. He will be faithful to lead you as you step out in faith daily. He may not give you the next ten steps, but if you take the first one, he will continue to be the Good Shepherd and lead you along the right path. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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What word, what phrase would you use? Would you say, “My number one goal in life is to be happy?” Or “My number one goal in life is to be loved?” Or “My number one goal in life How would you answer that question? It’s very important. If you haven’t ever thought it through, you should, because however you answer that question is what I call your dominant life principle. Everybody’s got a dominant life principle. It’s the most important value in our life. Every time we make a decision, every time we have a choice, we decide what we’re going to do based on our dominant life value, our dominant principle of life. If my dominant life principle is comfort, then I’m going to tend to choose the easiest thing to do, what’s the most convenient thing. If my dominant life value or principle is safety, then I’m going to tend to make every decision in life based on what’s the safest choice. If my dominant lifestyle is to be approved, to be affirmed, to be applauded, then I’m going to tend to choose things in life where I get the most affirmation. It’s extremely important that we think through what is going to be the most important value in our life. ***1 Corinthians 14:1 “Let love be your highest goal!”***   He says, let love be your highest goal. Not status, not success, not possessions, or power or privilege or prestige, not comfort, not money. He says we should make love our highest goal. Why does he say that? Make love the highest goal of our life. Why? Because God is love and he wants us to be like him.  Love is also how the world will know we belong to God. ***John 13:35 “Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples."*** Not our good deeds, not how well we keep the “rules,” not by how much “christian activity” we participate in. Rather, it’s the love we show to others. The Bible tells us that God created everything in the universe in order to love it. Because God is love. It doesn’t say he has love. *He is love.* He created us as an object of his love. And God wants us to be like him. **So he created us to learn how to love.** One day Jesus was walking down the street and a guy came up to him and he said, “Lord, what is the most important command in the Bible?” Jesus said, “I can do that. I can summarize the entire Bible for you in two sentences. If you get these two things you get it. You get what life is all about.” It’s called the Great Commandment. We’ve looked at it many times. ***Mark 12:30-31 (Jesus) “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your strength. And love your neighbor as yourself. No*** That’s pretty clear. He said nothing in the Bible, nothing at all, is more important than these two things. Learn to love God with all your heart and, by the way, learn to love everybody else. He said, “If you get those two things, you’ve got it. You understand what I put you on this planet to do.” Life is all about learning to love. Everything else is excess. Everything else is secondary. Make love your highest goal. One day we’re going to stand before God and he’s going to say, “Did you learn to love me? That’s why I sent Jesus Christ so you could learn to love me. And did you learn to love other people? Because that’s what I put you on earth to do.” If you miss that, *wrong answer!* It’s all about love. Life is all about love. Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself. That’s what it’s all about. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You choose to love—and you choose not to love. Today we’ve bought into this myth that love is uncontrollable, that it just kind of happens to you. In fact, even the language we use implies that we can’t control how we love. We say, “I *fell* in love”—like it was a ditch! “I was just walking along one day and—bam!—I fell in love. I just couldn’t help myself.” But is that really “love?” No, what someone really means when they say they “fell in love” is that they were attracted to someone. Attraction and arousal are uncontrollable—no doubt about it. But attraction and arousal are not love. They can lead to love, but they are not love. During a wedding ceremony, a man and a woman stand before each other and say their vows. They say to the other person, “I choose you above everybody else in the world, and I choose you for the rest of my life.” They make a public statement of their choice—that’s a commitment. You can’t force somebody to fall in love with you, and you can’t force him or her to stay in love with you. Why? Because love is a choice. Love cannot be forced. This is true of all relationships, including your relationship with God. Deuteronomy 30:20 says, *“You can make this choice by loving the LORD your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him”* (NLT). Just like in any other relationship, you must choose to love God. God isn’t going to force you to love him. Love is a choice. In what relationships do you need to choose love today? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God” (1 John 4:7 NLT).***  Love is a skill. If you struggle to love well, here’s some good news: Love is learned!  That means the more you practice, the better you will become at it. No matter how you’ve loved or been loved in the past, you can become God wants to help you love people like he loves people. God’s Word and the Holy Spirit will teach and enable you to love others. You have to continually be filled up with his love in order to have enough love for everyone else around you.  So, God will help you love others. But to become extraordinary at it, you need to practice it over and over again. How do you do that? How do you practice loving people?  God puts us in relationships with other people to practice. Marriage is a laboratory for learning to love. Family is a laboratory for learning to love. This is one of the great reasons to be connected with a church family. You will have lots of opportunities to practice loving people, even people who are hard to love. And others will have an opportunity to practice loving you, even when you are being hard to love. In a church community, you’ll be able to practice forgiveness too.  This is how we become more like Christ. Learning to love, forgive and extend grace to others. Extending grace and forgiveness to someone else might mean that they hurt you. Yep. But, it’s all part of the process as we become more and more like Jesus.  In fact, living life isolated from others or only having surface-level relationships with people doesn’t make us more like Jesus. You can’t practice love and forgiveness in isolation.  ***"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:35)*** Scripture tells us that the world will know we belong to God because of the love that we have for one another. That’s how they’ll be able to tell who is a Christ follower. 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You don’t earn his love. He doesn’t wait until you’re mature for him to start loving you. He doesn’t wait for you to clean up or straighten up to think you’re good enough for his love. This doesn’t mean you’re not a work in progress, but he loves you*, as you are*. He isn’t waiting to love the “finished product” version of you. We should love other people the same way, being patient with people’s progress and loving them every step of the way. I think a lot of Christian circles expect people to have an overnight “behavior transformation” once they accept Jesus into their life. And, while salvation and becoming spiritually alive through the power of the Holy Spirit *is* immediate, God likes to work on people’s character through a transformation *process*. The thing about processes is, they are almost never complete overnight. *am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue* *his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus* He knew God was doing a good, long work in the lives of the people in the Philippian church, and he was patient with their progress.  always expecting perfection in people before you can enjoy them, then you’re never going to be happy, because nobody’s perfect—including you. If you want to have happier and healthier relationships, then celebrate how far people have come rather than judging them for how far they still have to go. We’ve got to be patient with people’s progress. you to choose to love those around you with a love that is patient. Your family. Your kids. Your spouse. Your co-workers. Pray that God would work in their lives, and be patient with their progress, loving them Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Think about the way you see other people. This is a great test of your spiritual maturity—better than asking how much of the Bible you know, how often you go to church, or whether you serve, tithe, or pray. ***“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers,*** ***and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.”*** This is saying, if you do something without love, it doesn’t count. Love is the most important thing to God. In fact, life is all about love and relationships. So, if you want to gauge your spiritual maturity, think about how you see other people. Let me ask you some pointed questions. How does God see your spouse? Valuable. Acceptable. Lovable. Forgivable. Is that the way you see your spouse? How about the stranger at the grocery store? The person who cut you off in traffic? The beggar on the street? What do you see when you look at other people? Do you see them as irritations or burdens? What about the people you work with? Do you see them as enemies? Competition? Or do you see them the way God sees them? How about people who have wronged you? All people matter to God. It doesn’t matter who they are, what they’ve done, or even what they believe. Christ died for them. Jesus loves them. God has a plan for every person, and he wants them to have a relationship with him. The Bible says in Mark 6:34, *“****When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd****”* (NIV). That’s the way Jesus sees people. And that’s the way you can grow to see people too. I encourage you to ask God to transform the way you see and love people around you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Why?  Why me? Why is this happening? Why are we going through this?” Even, “Why is God allowing this?” or “If God wants me to be happy, why is his happening?” Lots of people think God’s number one purpose is for us to be happy. I am sorry if I am the first person to tell you, but it’s not. People say things like, “God just wants me to be happy.” Have you ever heard anyone say that? Nowhere in the Bible does it say that God’s purpose is to make you happy. God’s not really in the happiness business. God has a far higher purpose for our lives than making us feel happy.  We were created to become like Christ. God wants to make you like his Son. When you understand this everything in life will make more sense. The sooner we come this realization the better for us. Life is a lot less frustrating once you realize everything you face in life is not designed to make you happy. ***Romans 8:29 “For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters."*** ***Ephesians 4:15 “Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ,”*** ***Colossians 1:15 “Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation.”*** This isn’t new. This truth goes all the way back to creation. When God decided to make the first human being this is what he said: ***Gen 1:26 “Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us.”***  That has always been God’s plan. This has always been God’s purpose. God wants to make us like himself. Do not misunderstand me. You will never be a god. But God wants you to become *like* him. In America we have a phrase “Like father, like son.” God wants you to become like him. The Bible says that we are meant to become like Christ in character. So what does it mean to become like Jesus? The Bible calls it the fruit of the Spirit. There are nine qualities: This is a perfect picture of Jesus. This is the perfect picture of what God wants us to be. God wants our life to be filled with love. And he wants our life to be filled with joy and peace. And he wants our life to be filled with patience. This is what it means to become like Christ. So how does God make us like Christ? This is called sanctification. Sanctification is just a big word that means to become like Jesus. The way God produces the fruit of the Spirit in your life is by putting you in the exact opposite situation.  For instance, love. How does God teach me to be loving? It’s easy to love people who are like you. It’s easy to love people who love you. It’s easy to love people who are lovely. If God is going to teach you real love, he’s going to put you around people who are hard to love. That’s how you learn love. Anybody can love people who will love you back. But Jesus in the Bible says, “I want you to even love your enemies.”  How does God teach us peace? In times of stress and conflict. It’s easy to be peaceful when everything goes your way. But if you’re going to become a man or woman of peace, God will have to put you in times of conflict. How about patience? Where do we learn to be patient? By being forced to wait. When we wait in lines. When we wait for an answer to prayer. God is teaching us patience. He’s making us more like Christ. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He takes the initiative. The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. God has shown us his love in so many ways. He showed his love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you. He showed his love by creating you. He showed his love by giving you everything you have in life. We love because God first loved us. If you want to learn how to love other people, you’ve got to first understand and feel how much God loves you. When you feel his unconditional love, you’re going to start cutting people a lot more slack. You’re not going to be as angry as you’ve been in the past. You’re going to be more patient. You’re going to be more forgiving. You’re going to be more merciful. You’re going to show other people grace. The reason why you see people who are judgmental, sarcastic, angry, self-righteous, and always putting other people down is because they don’t really grasp how much God loves them. And that usually means they don’t feel good about themselves because they don’t feel loved or forgiven. They haven’t fully understood God’s grace, and so they feel guilty and bad about themselves. And if they feel bad about themselves, they certainly don’t want you feeling good about yourself. Here’s the truth: You cannot give to others what you have not received yourself. Unlovely people are unloved people. Hurt people hurt people. If you’re filled with anger and impatience and you don’t feel loved, guess what? You won’t be able to love anybody else. You have to learn how much God loves you and let it heal your heart so his love can flow through you. It is impossible to love others until you really feel loved yourself. The Bible says, ***“We know and rely on the love God has for us”* (1 John 4:16 NIV).** Do you know the love of God? Do you rely on the love God has for you? You will have an easier time loving other people when you have God’s love Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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If you want to genuinely become a kinder person, you must be willing to do two things: Kindness doesn’t happen on *your* schedule. It happens on *their* schedule. That’s why they need kindness. At that moment, you’ve got to drop everything and stop. Love is often inconvenient, and kindness takes time. Think of the excuses the Good Samaritan could have given to the wounded man on the side of the road. God intentionally puts hurting people in your path so that you will learn kindness. When you encounter these opportunities today, how will you respond? Will you blow it off? Or will you seize the moment? Many times, your own fears can keep you from being kind. Just imagine the legitimate fears the Good Samaritan could have had. He could have said, “What if I go over to help this guy, and the robbers are still here?” or Today, we might say, “What if he sues me?” or “What if I can’t really help him? I’m not trained in first aid.” How many times have you not helped somebody because you thought, “I don’t know what to say”? But we’ll never learn how to truly show kindness until we move past our fears and extend God’s love to people who are hurting. The Bible says, *“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out all fear”* (1 John 4:18a ESV). It’s God love, in fact, that first helps us heal from our own hurt so that we can then show that love to others. It’s God’s love that helps us move past our fears so that we can learn to be kind. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Love and kindness always begin with the eyes — the way you observe the world and are sensitive to the needs of other people. In Luke 10:33b, it says of the Good Samaritan, ***“When he saw \[the man’s condition\], his heart was filled with pity”* (GNT).**  Notice that “he saw.” That is the starting point. If you want to learn to be a kinder person, you’ve got to change the way you look at the world. You’ve got to become more observant of the needs around you. Business is the death of kindness. If you’re going to learn to be a kinder person, you’ve got to slow down! When you’re always distracted with other things, you don’t have time to be kind. If you were to take a cross-country trip, there are several ways you could get from one side to the other. A plane would get you there fastest, but you wouldn’t see much of the country. You could take a train or even a car, and both would give you opportunities to see even more. But if you really wanted to take in as much as possible, you’d walk. That’s because the slower you go, the more you see. The Bible says, ***“Look out for the good of others”* (1 Corinthians 10:24b NCV).** The first step to kindness is to ask God to give you spiritual radar to be on the lookout for people around you who are hurting emotionally, spiritually, and physically. It’s not always easy to see the needs of other people, especially when they’re on the other side of the road. But it’s the starting point of kindness. What people do you pass every day who are sometimes more difficult to notice? What are some intentional ways you can slow your life down so that you can more easily see the needs of people around you? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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One of my passions as a pastor is helping people discover and live out their God-given purpose. But, I think a lot of times we confuse our “calling” with our “career path” or our “assignment.” We want to know “what degree should I get, so I can fulfill my calling?” or “has God called me to be a missionary?” God doesn’t usually reveal your lifelong assignment all at once. So, how do we discover our *calling*? One. Day. At. A. Time. Walking with the Lord, connecting with him and following his direction. **Here’s what you should know about your calling that applies to today:** We are ALL called to Jesus. That’s your calling. We are all called into a relationship with God. Pursue *that* calling, and he will direct your steps, day by day. He will give you the specifics as you need them. He often only gives you the “next step.” ***“In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.” (Proverbs 16:9, NIV)*** The most important calling on your life isn’t to something you do. Your most important calling isn’t to a role. It’s not to regulations, rules, or rituals. It’s not even to a religion. Your first call, above all else, is to a person. A relationship with Christ. ***Romans 1:7 says, “I am writing to all of you in Rome who are loved by God and are called to be his own holy people” (NLT).*** So, I encourage you to focus on your relationship with God, and he will not only reveal your unique calling, he also will show you how to do what he wants you to do. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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That’s called taking “a step of faith.” And, we often have to take that initial step of faith WITHOUT all of the answers. That can be hard for us sometimes. But, when we ignore what God has asked us to do, we miss out.  Sometimes, when it feels like we are waiting on God to do something in our life, he Is actually waiting on us. Are you waiting on God to change a situation? For answers? Do you want to feel closer to him? Hear his voice? If that's you, then I suggest thinking back and asking yourself, “Did God ask me to do anything that I haven’t done yet?” If you don’t know, ask him. Go to him in prayer and ask him if there is anything he wants you to do. Then do it. Even if you don't have all the answers, choose to obey him. Often we try to offer God partial obedience. We want to pick and choose the commands we obey. We make a list of the commands we like and obey those while ignoring the ones we think are unreasonable, difficult, expensive, or unpopular. I’ll attend church but I won’t tithe.  Yet partial obedience *is* disobedience. Wholehearted obedience is done joyfully, with enthusiasm. The Bible says, ***“Obey him gladly”*** **(Psalm 100:2a TLB).**  This is the attitude of David: ***“Just tell me what to do and I will do it, Lord. As long as I live I’ll wholeheartedly obey”*** **(Psalm 119:33-34 TLB).** James, speaking to Christians, said, ***“We please God by what we do and not only by what we believe”*** **(James 2:24 CEV).** God’s Word is clear that you can’t earn your salvation. It comes only by grace, not your effort. But as a child of God you can bring pleasure to your heavenly Father through obedience. Any act of obedience is also an act of worship. Why is obedience so pleasing to God? Because it proves you really love him. Jesus said, ***“If you love me, you will obey my commandments”*** **(John 14:15 GNT).** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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John 10 tells us that His sheep listen to His voice. But, *how* do we listen to his voice? How do we know it’s God and not our own thoughts? Learning to discern God’s voice is similar to how we learn to recognize anyone else’s voice… by knowing them and spending time with them. If someone close to you calls you on the phone, your child or your mother, or someone you are very close to and they start speaking, you know their voice. You recognize it immediately. If you want to learn how to recognize God’s voice, it starts with growing your relationship with him. Through prayer and through reading His Word. He will often speak to His followers through prayer or through what he has already spoken in scripture. You don’t hear God when your mind is filled with a thousand other distractions. The Bible says, ***“Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10 NIV).*** Sometimes we are too busy to hear that God is even speaking, or we are preoccupied with scrolling on our phones. We have to slow down enough to listen. We have to sit alone and just be quiet with our Bible and say, “God, is there anything you want to say to me?” God speaks to people who take the time to listen — not just for a day but also on a regular basis. This is called a quiet time, and it is when we can have an intimate conversation with God.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Open Door Orphanage is currently caring for over 50 children. Every year Open Door has increased enrollment at their primary schools, with over 800 students in their schools and feeding programs. The medical complex we support in Bois De Lance provides the only health care for a village of over 20,000 people. ***With your help, we’re changing Haiti, one life at a time.*** Here’s a little bit about the Missionary Families that are connected here at Seminole Church! If you feel led to help support any of these missionary families, you can click the support under any of their bios and then search "Missionary Support" in the fund drop down. Then, find the name of the missionary family you'd like to help support. Doug and Jennifer Holliday serve our local church community and minister to people all over the world. Doug Holliday is the president of Sonlife Ministries where he focuses on disciple-making training and youth ministry training, and he is the founder of Doug Holliday Ministries. Doug’s international ministry travels have taken him to Haiti, where in partnership with Pastor Wiljean Compere he has founded Open Door Haiti and launched the School Of Youth Ministry. Phil and Elin Henderson have served with Ethnos 360 for over 18 years. They serve in Mozambique which is in Southeast Africa with the Indian Ocean as its main boarder. Their ministry focus is Church planting among unreached people groups. They live and work among the Mwinika people group. When the Hendersons arrived, the Mwinika had no written language. So, not only did they have to learn this language, they also devised a way to work with the Mwinika to create an alphabet. Thanks to this work, the Mwinika now have God’s Word (the Bible) and Bible lessons in their language. Brion and Annette Kendzora have a desire is to see the Word of God change the lives of unreached people groups who previously have not had access to it. Right now, their role is in the Personnel Department at Ethnos360, making sure their new members get to the field and are well equipped when they arrive. Brion also serves missionaries by walking with them through difficult times in their ministry in order to see them refreshed and able to return to their ministry among the unreached. Ron and Terresa Hiebert are part of the support team of Ethnos360 at the Home Office. Ron heads up the Maintenance Team, planning remodels and maintenance of the home office apartments and workshops. Terresa works with the Int’l Ministries Team and church planters all over the world, giving assistance with translation software, uploading New Testaments to the Digital Bible Library, and answering a variety of questions from inside and outside the mission. If you’d like to give a gift to help support these missionaries you can give below. Select "Missionary Support" in the fund dropdown to select a missionary family to support. 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But, even though we mess up, the truth is that God doesn’t intend for us to live under a load of guilt. Yet, many of us do. So, what do we do with our regrets? How do we move forward and get back up again every time we fall? *Psalm 51:3 (NIV) For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.* *Psalm 32:5 Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide my guilt. I said to myself, “I will confess my rebellion to the Lord.” And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.* This is the most painful step in getting rid of our regrets. We don't like to accept responsibility: "I was wrong." When we admit it to God, we're not going to shock Him. He's not surprised or shocked. He knows it's happened. He just wants us to admit it. Admit our guilt to God. We have two options when we have a regret. Confession or condemnation. We can confess it to God and get it off our chest, get it out of our life, or we can go around in condemnation. One of the problems we have in confessing is we often try to bargain with God when we've done something wrong. That doesn't work. "God, if you'll just forgive me, I'll never do it again!" As if God is going to be moved by our bargaining. We don't have to bargain with God. God says just admit it. Confess it. So many people do Step One and never get to Step Two. Accepting God's forgiveness. I see people all the time who are continually confessing their sins and still don't feel forgiven. They don't go to Step Two -- accepting God's forgiveness and letting God forgive them. *Romans 8:1 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.* Would you like to live with no condemnation, guilt-free, without regrets? *"There is no condemnation for those who live in Christ Jesus."* When you commit yourself to Christ and say, "God, take all my life -- the good, the bad, the ugly.  Take it all." then God wipes the slate clean.  Remember etch-a-sketch?  When you made a mistake you flipped it over, shook it up, turned it back and it's clean! This is the etch-a-sketch verse of the Bible. God wipes it out. Start over. Clean slate. No condemnation.  One of the most important words in the book of Romans is the word "justified." The Bible says that Jesus Christ died for us so that we could be justified. It's a theological term that simply means "just-as-if-I'd never sinned." God starts all over. He cleans the slate. It would be worth it, even if there weren't a heaven, to become a Christian, just to have a clear conscience. Just to go around without that load of guilt. To be free and enjoy life that way.  How does God forgive? The Bible says that God forgives instantly. There's no delay, no wait, no drawing it out or hesitation on His part. It's the moment we ask. It's the exact opposite of the way we like to forgive. When we forgive we like people to suffer a while. That's not the way God forgives. God forgives instantly. When we say, "God, I admit it. I blew it. Would You forgive me?" He says, "Of course!" God is more ready to forgive us than we are ready to ask forgiveness. He's much more eager to do that. He forgives us instantly. God forgives us completely. We like to hold on to a little bit of the guilt so we can have leverage against the person. We don't want to completely forgive them.  *Psalm 103:12 He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.* East and west never end. East and west never meet. You can travel east forever and never end up going west. North and south converge at the poles. *As far as the east is from the west.* God says we're never going to see those sins again. He puts them out of reach. *John 3:17 (NIV) For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.*  Why is it when we have regrets, when we feel guilty, we run away from God rather than running to Him? He has the solution. Jesus said He did not come to condemn the world. He said, “I came to save it.” God is not interested in condemning you; He's interested in changing you, making you a new person. That's what He wants to do in your life. Jesus Christ was nailed to a cross so you could stop nailing yourself to a cross.  Jesus Christ was crucified so you could stop crucifying yourself. He was hung up for our hangups. This, for many people, is the hardest step of all - to forgive themselves and focus on the future.  *Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIV) Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!* Don't keep focusing on all that stuff that happened in the past. Forget it and let go of it. Focus on the future. Look ahead. Don't cling to the events of the past or dwell on what's happened. Watch for the new thing. It's never too late to start over.  ailure is never final unless you let it be. The Bible says, *"Though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again."* Even righteous people fall, fail, stumble. We get up, move ahead and get going again.  I talk to so many people who say, "I blew it!  I really made a mistake, and I'm going to have to live with it the rest of my life." They have doomed themselves. They've imposed a self-imposed sentence that they must be unhappy the rest of their life because they made a mistake. The truth is, God loves to give people a second chance. It's His nature.  It's His grace.  God is saying, “It's not so much where you've been that counts, but it's the direction of your feet -- where they're headed now, that's what counts.”  Forgive yourself and focus on the future. Get back up again.  And, instead of focusing on "the next time you fall" and beating yourself up about it, why don't you focus on following Jesus and WHEN you fall (like we all do) choose now that you will get back up again.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:9-10)*** God can use all things for good—even your weaknesses. Here are four ways he uses your weaknesses for good. **1. Your weaknesses prevent arrogance.** When you realize you’re not perfect—that you don’t have it all together—you will become a much humbler person. And being humble makes you more like Jesus Christ.  God did some great things in and through the apostle Paul. But Paul had something in his life that kept him from becoming arrogant. He called it a “thorn in the flesh” and asked God to take it away: *“Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you’”* (2 Corinthians 12:8-9 NIV). God’s grace will always be enough for you too. **2. Your weaknesses help you value others.** It’s okay if you don’t have all the gifts, talents, or answers. That just makes you appreciative of and dependent on the people in your life and *their* gifts and talents. We need each other. Your weaknesses may be the way you learn to live in biblical community.  The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 12:22, *“Some parts of the body that seem weakest and least important are actually the most necessary.”* ***3.* Your weaknesses make you more dependent on God.** A different translation of 2 Corinthians 12:9 says, *“I am with you; that is all you need. My power shows up best in weak people”* (TLB). If you had no weaknesses, you wouldn’t think you needed God. You’d spend your life being self-sufficient—and that’s no way to live. Paul says, *“Now I am glad to boast about how weak I am; I am glad to be a living demonstration of Christ’s power . . . for when I am weak, then I am strong—the less I have, the more I depend on him”* (2 Corinthians 12:9-10 TLB). **4\. Your weaknesses give you a ministry.** God doesn’t want to use only your strengths in ministry. He also wants to use your weaknesses. God*“comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God”* (2 Corinthians 1:4 NIV). After God helps you go through a problem or learn to live with a weakness, you can then help somebody else with the same difficulty. That’s the kind of God you serve. He weaves even the bad stuff in your life to make good. God will use your weakness to make you more like Jesus as you depend on him and the family of believers. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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We all go through difficult seasons in life. Seasons of loss. Seasons of grief. Seasons of struggle. Sometimes we will hear people say, “Well, you just gotta have hope and give it to God!” And, yes, give it to God. But, sometimes responding to someone's pain in that way can do more harm than good. Sometimes the best thing to do is listen and say, “I’m sorry.” It’s okay not to be okay sometimes. Some things in life aren’t okay. Abuse. Death. Sickness. These things aren’t okay. That's why our hope isn't grounded in our circumstances here on Earth. Hope isn’t just “positive thinking” or “optimism.” Hope doesn’t overlook the facts that something is wrong or that something hurts. Hope isn’t the same as optimism. It's not the belief that something bad will always turn out well. Our hope, as Christians, can’t be in that God will fix every situation the way we “see fit” during our lifetime. Our hope has to be in God, and God alone. Here’s what hope is: Hope is the absolute confidence that every part of your life ultimately makes sense *regardless* of how it turns out this side of eternity. From our vantage point, life looks like a mess at times. But God’s view from Heaven isn’t the same as ours. You can’t even imagine the good that God has in store for your future. In **Jeremiah 29:11b God says, *“I have good plans for you, not plans to hurt you. I will give you hope and a good future”* (NCV).** Hope means, *in the end*, I know God is in control and he *will* make everything okay, even if it’s not okay here and now. God promises us that he will do that. He always keeps his promises.  ***“'He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.'" (Revelation 21:4, CSB)*** One day there will be no more sickness. There will be no more evil and abuse. One day there will be no more funerals. There will be no more death. 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They’re just unnecessary. What is a weight in your life? It could be a job, a relationship, or a hobby. It’s something that slows you down from what God wants from your life. You can fill your life with “good things” that keep you from spending time with God. You can even be involved in ministry all the time and be so busy working *for* God that you don’t leave God any time to work *in* you. An example of this is Mary and Martha, who were sisters and also friends of Jesus. One day they invited him to their home for a meal. Mary sat at the feet of Jesus, listening to his teaching. Martha was busy worrying about the food and making sure everything was in place. *“Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked,* ***‘Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!’ ‘Martha, Martha,’ the Lord answered, ‘you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her’”*** ***(Luke 10:40-42 NIV).*** Mary knew there was one thing worth her time: getting to know the Son of God. God didn’t put you on Earth just to work and then retire. He put you here so you can get to know him. And the truth is, when it comes to our calendars, we can’t “do it all.” We weren’t meant to. We *have* to make a choice with how we will spend our time. For some of us, this may mean we need to say “no” to more things. For others it may mean we need to watch a little less TV and spend more time serving others. Or, maybe we need to evaluate how much time we are spending at the office rather than investing into the lives of our kids. If you’re “too busy,” to do what God is calling you to do, that is a choice you’re making. We all have the same amount of time in our day. How are you going to choose to spend it? The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 10:23, ***“‘Everything is permissible,’ but not everything is helpful”*** **(HCSB).** What does that mean? Many things aren’t necessarily wrong; they’re just not necessary. Life is often a choice between “Am I going to do something good?” or “Am I going to do what’s best?” If the devil can’t make you bad, he’ll make you busy. He’ll get you so busy that you don’t have time for the important things—ministry, mission, and time alone with God. You can’t do it all. So, choose to do what matters most, prayerfully. Simplify your life and eliminate distractions so God can use you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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God said in Jeremiah 31:3, ***“I love you with an everlasting love” (GW).*** His love isn’t based on what you do. It’s based on who he is. The only reason you’re alive is because God made you to love you. That’s why God sent his Son: ***“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16 NLT).*** God wants you to know his love. Even more, he wants you to feel his love. God’s love will transform you when you feel it. It can turn somebody who is hateful, bigoted, or racist into a kind, gentle, and loving person. God’s love can change you. You can’t have somebody as big as God come into your life and not be changed by it. When God’s love comes into your life, it changes how you react to everyone else. When you truly understand and experience the love of God, you can’t help but pass it on to others. In fact, Jesus described it like this: ***“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another. By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:34-35 HCSB).*** The most amazing conversion in the Bible is of a guy named Saul, who was a religious extremist that killed Christians. One day, on his way to Damascus, he encountered the resurrected Jesus. Saul fell to his knees and said, “My Lord and my God.” The man who had once been a religious extremist became the apostle of love. Saul, now known as Paul, wrote most of the New Testament, including some of the most beautiful words on love ever written, 1 Corinthians 13. The everlasting, completely free love of God will do that. It changes lives. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It’s trying to control the uncontrollable. We can’t control the economy, so we worry about the economy. We can’t control our children, so we worry about our children. We can’t control the future, so we worry about the future. But worry never solves anything! It’s stewing without doing. Matthew 6:25 says, ***“Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?”*** **(NIV).** Jesus is saying that if it’s not going to last, don’t worry about it. Matthew 6:27 says, ***“Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?”*** ***(NIV).*** When you worry about a problem, it doesn’t bring you one inch closer to a solution. It’s like sitting in a rocking chair — a lot of activity, energy, and motion, but no progress. Worry doesn’t change anything except you. It makes you miserable! Matthew 6:30 says, *“If God cares so wonderfully for flowers that are here today and gone tomorrow, won’t he more surely care for you, O men of little faith?”* (TLB). If you trust in God, you don’t need to worry. Why? Because he has promised to take care of all your needs: ***“God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus”*** ***(Philippians 4:19 NIV).*** Does that include bills? Yes. Does that include relational conflicts? Yes. Does that include your dreams and goals and ambitions? Yes. Does that include the health issues you don’t how to handle? Yes. So, what do you do when you face problems or you’re tempted to worry? You take it to God in prayer. Pray about it. This isn’t just a passive “church answer.” This is Biblical. It’s how God designed the universe to work. When you take something to God in prayer, you’re taking it to the person who actually has the power to do something about it. Worry does nothing. Prayer to God can do more than you or I ever could. I love this verse from Philippians 4:6-7 that says, ***“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.”*** If you want peace, choose to pray instead of worry.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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On Easter Sunday, we're gathering in-person and online at 8:00, 9:30 and 11AM. There is no need to RSVP for our Easter services, just join us! Children's programming will also be available at each service. A grab-and-go Breakfast will be provided for those who attend the 8 A.M. service. A great way to check us out is watching us online. You can check out our YouTube Chanel below and browse our online services. **You might have more questions about our church. Here are a few frequently asked questions:** **I've never been to Easter at Seminole Church. What should I expect?** When you arrive for service, our parking team will help guide you to a parking spot, and if you have questions about where to go any of our greeters will be happy to help you. The service will last around 60 minutes and will be a casual, family-friendly environment including live music and an encouraging message. Our campus is located in Sanford at 5070 Orange Blvd. If our campus isn't near you, you can join our online community! When we are running a live service you can head over to seminolechurch.com/live or click the button below. Most people dress very casually when they attend a service—t-shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes. But you are welcome to wear whatever you'd like! No! You're free to come to whichever service without advance notice. On Easter, our children's programming is designed for kids from birth through 5th grade! Every environment is fun, safe, and age-appropriate. When you arrive on campus, greeters are available to guide you to your child's check-in area. 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What do you think you’re doing? God is not listening. Don’t waste your time. Your prayers don’t actually work.” But, prayer *does* work. If the enemy is discouraging you, let me encourage you with scripture: Ephesians 3:20 says, ***“God . . . is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of—infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes”*** **(TLB).** Prayer works because God is in control. Prayer is going directly to One who actually has the power to turn a situation around. The basis of all miracles is God’s sovereignty. Why does he do one and not another? Because God is in control. We have to trust his wisdom and his goodness. So, if God is sovereign, do our prayers actually do anything? Yes. Scripture instructs us to pray. Twenty times in the New Testament it says, “Ask.” It’s encouraging to know that things out of my control are not out of God’s control. I may not be able to change a situation, but I can pray and God can change it. ***John 14:13-14*** ***“******Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.”*** ***Ephesians 6:18 “Pray all the time. Ask God for anything in line with the Holy Spirit’s wishes. Plead with him, reminding him of your needs, and keep praying earnestly for all Christians everywhere.”*** This doesn’t mean God will always give us everything we want (no good parent gives their kid everything they want) and it doesn’t mean he will answer our prayers exactly how WE see fit, but your prayers DO matter. God wants to answer your prayers. He wants you to ask him. He wants you to go to him and seek him for answers. I like this verse. It reveals the Father’s heart toward us: ***M******atthew 7:7-12*** ***“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 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We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.”* #### And, the comforting words of our Savior, Jesus: John 16:33 *“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”* ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) In our lives here on Earth we may hear—*and experience*—dead-ends. These could be summarized into words like “cancer,” “divorce,” “bankruptcy,” “infertility,” or “unemployment.” If you experience a dead-end situation in your life, you may find yourself asking, “Why is this happening to me? God, did I miss your will? Was this dream just something I thought up myself and not from you?” A situation that seems hopeless without divine intervention…dead-end. And, while these painful circumstances are a part of life here in this broken world, there IS hope. We serve a God who has the power to deliver us from dead-end situations. We serve the Way Maker. God can make a way, when it seems there is no way. The situation may be out of your control, but it’s not out of God’s control. When you face a dead end, don’t focus on what *you can’t do.* Focus instead on what *God can do.*  **Romans 4:17 says, *“Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who creates new things out of nothing”* (NLT).** Here are two of the many things God can do that you can’t do: If God can give life to a dead man, he can give life to a dead career. He can bring life to your dead marriage. He can create something out of your dead dream. He can bring something new out of a financial dead end.  Abraham believed in God. That wasn’t just positive thinking; it was faith. Positive thinking works fine in situations you can control. But positive thinking is not faith, and it’s not enough when you find yourself at a dead end.  In situations that are out of your control, positive thinking is worthless. It doesn’t change the situation! When you face things that are out of your control, you need something more than a positive mental attitude. You need faith in God, because he can control what you can’t. Jesus says in **Luke 18:27, *“What is impossible with man is possible with God”* (NIV).** God specializes in the impossible. He works miracles all the time—and he can work them in your life too!  This doesn’t mean God will answer our prayers the exact way we want every time, but the more you seek him, the more you have faith IN HIM (not in the miracle you are praying for) you will find peace and deliverance from your pain. He will sustain you. What dead end are you facing today? What would it look like to respond with faith, not just positive thinking? Here’s a promise. If you are experiencing a dead-end situation in your life, God cares. I love these verses of hope for when we face life's dead-ends. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.”* (Proverbs 3:13-18) ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) There is a difference between smart and wise. Knowledge and wisdom are not the same. Many highly-educated, smart people have personal lives that are just a mess, because they lack wisdom. God says, ***“Don’t fool yourself. Don’t think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times”*** **(1 Corinthians 3:18 The Message).** There’s nothing wrong with being well-educated, but being smart doesn’t automatically make you wise. Even if you have all of the correct information in the world about something, that doesn’t mean you’re going to do the right thing with that information. Wisdom is applying knowledge with discernment and good judgment. The Bible says, **“The Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding” (Proverbs 2:6).** The only way to be wise is to walk with God. And to walk with God, you need to spend time reading and studying the Bible. There are no shortcuts to wisdom. **“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God . . . and it shall be given him.” (James 1:5).** God isn’t holding back wisdom. He gives wisdom to anybody who asks for it. The book of Proverbs is a great place to start if you’d like to learn how to live a life of wisdom. And, a life of wisdom can make your whole life better. You’ll have better relationships, make better choices and know how to handle difficult situations that we all face. **“I will teach you wisdom’s ways and lead you in straight paths.” (Proverbs 4:11).** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But, “getting right” with God doesn’t have to be a process. You can actually accomplish that before you're finished reading this devotion, if you choose to. You see, we don’t have to “work” to get back into a relationship with him. It’s not a “get your life together” THEN turn to him kind of process. We must simply repent (which literally means “to change your mind” and turn toward God). And, you can do that… right now. You don’t have to wait. You don’t have to go through a process to turn back to God.  Yes, following God and becoming more like Jesus is a process. But getting right with him is immediate. So many of us are waiting to “get right with God.” What are we waiting for? To have better behavior? Don’t you need his help to do that? Why do we wait?  God has made himself available to you 24/7 through his son, Jesus.  Instead of waiting to get right with him, why don’t you take a moment right now and pray. Tell him you’re sorry you weren’t following his will and his purpose for your life. Ask him for forgiveness (which he promises to forgive anyone who asks) and tell him you choose to follow him. Then, ask him to help you do that.  That’s it. Don’t wait until you have your “ducks in a row.” That can't happen without his help anyway.  **"For it is from God alone that you have your life through Christ Jesus. He showed us God’s plan of** **salvation****; he was the one who made us acceptable to God; he made us pure and holy and gave himself to purchase our salvation."** **1 Corinthians 1:30** **(TLB)** You didn't earn God’s acceptance. God freely gave it to you. He alone made it possible for you to be in Christ Jesus. And Jesus is the one who made you acceptable to God. Yes, God works on us through the process of transformation. But, there are no hoops for you to jump through to get right with him this very second, thanks to Jesus Christ.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Racism is not okay. Abuse is not okay. Cancer is not okay. Death is not okay.  Because of sin, we live in a broken world full of evil. But, even though we may see and experience a lot of things that aren’t okay right now, we have the hope of eternity with Jesus. We have the hope that God WILL make it all okay in the end. We have the hope that, one day, very soon there will be no sickness, no racism, no pain and no more death. That every tear will be wiped away. That doesn’t mean we can just pull the covers over our head and wait for heaven. We have a job to do as believers in the meantime. We are called to love and serve. But, it does give us hope.  We have the hope of heaven. When we put our trust fully in Jesus, God's glory is waiting for us, and we will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. For those who put their trust in Jesus, this world is the closest to hell that we will ever be. For those who reject Jesus, this world is the closest to heaven they will ever be.  If you love and know Jesus, if the Lord is your Shepherd, it just gets better and better, because even if I have a tough life here on earth, I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever where there's no more sorrow, no more suffering, no more sin, no more sickness, no more sadness, no more problems, no more pain, no more pressure. It's unbelievable. With Jesus, it keeps getting better and better. The best is yet to come. Now, we can see a glimpse, a little glimpse of God's glory right now.  ***Isaiah 63:15 Lord, look down from heaven; look from your holy, glorious home, and see us.*** The Bible tells us in Acts Stephen was the first guy who was killed for this faith, for following Christ. He was the first Christian martyr. As they were stoning him, throwing stones at him, and he was dying in Jerusalem, it says,  ***Acts 7:55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed steadily into heaven and saw the glory of God,*** We cannot even imagine the details of heaven. We get little glimpses. We get little sneak peeks of what heaven is like in the Bible, but the truth is, none of us can even understand how incredible heaven is, because we don't have the brain capacity for it.   ***1 Corinthians 2:9, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”*** ***Romans 9:23 He does this to make the riches of his glory shine even brighter on those to whom he shows mercy, who were prepared in advance for glory.*** When you think about the future, when you think about the next six months, the next year, the next 10 years, the rest of your life, how do you see it? Is your mind filled with doubt, confusion, anxiety, fear, worry? It means you're not focused on the reality of eternity*, "Surely, goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I'll dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”* That is a promise worth memorizing. The promise of heaven is what keeps us running with endurance. Even when things happen that are not okay in this world, we can hold tight to the promise that the finish line of this life is just the beginning.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Jesus has all authority in heaven and on earth. ***“And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.” (Matthew 28:18).*** And, Jesus IS Lord. ***“for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.” (******Revelation 17:14)*** But, one thing about Jesus is that he will never force himself to be a part of your life. He is Lord, there is no disputing who he is, but is he Lord **of your life**? You have to choose whether or not you are going to make Jesus the Lord over your life. To turn over your past, your present and your future to him. Are you going to be the ruler of your life? Or, are you going to surrender control over to Him? When I choose to allow Jesus to be Lord of my life It means he is my master. He is my boss. He is in control of everything in my life. He’s not just resident in my life; he is president. When I say, “Jesus is my Lord,” I’m saying, “Jesus is the CEO of my life. He’s the chairman of the board of my life. He’s calling the shots. He is my manager. He is my director. He is my God.” I’m no longer the Lord of my life. I’m not calling the shots any more. He’s calling them. He’s the boss of my life. I’m not the boss of my life. Until you do that, you’re the lord of your life. And by the way, how’s that working for you? You calling all the shots in your life? You being the master of your fate? Totally fulfilled? You weren’t meant to be God. And the reason you get under stress is when you try to play God in your life. You get stressed out because you don’t have the power to change things; God does.  Jesus makes an INCREDIBLE Lord of your life. He can be trusted to lead you to a life of meaning and abundance. Jesus said in ***John 10:10, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”*** He didn’t come to control you into living a life you won’t be satisfied with. HE is the key TO a satisfying life. ***That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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These are the qualities God wants to develop in you. But, you don’t develop these through your own willpower. You don’t go out and say, “I’m going to be a more patient person!” That doesn’t work. Fruit can only come from the inside — the Holy Spirit living through you. So, what does that look like? How do you “cooperate” or “partner with” the Holy Spirit? Throughout the Bible we see an important truth illustrated over and over: The Holy Spirit releases his power the moment you take a step of faith. Obedience. When Joshua was faced with an impassible barrier, the floodwaters of the Jordan River receded only after the leaders stepped into the rushing current in obedience and faith. Obedience unlocks God’s power. Move ahead in your weakness, doing the right thing in spite of your fears and feelings. This is how you cooperate with the Holy Spirit, and it is how your character develops. ***“Everything — and I do mean everything — connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it!”*** **(Ephesians 4:22 MSG)** ***“Let the Spirit change your way of thinking”*** **(Ephesians 4:23 CEV).** The Bible says we are “transformed” by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:2 NIV). When we cooperate with the Holy Spirit, and obey him and allow him to change us from the inside out, we become more like Jesus. We think and act more like him. We aren't the same person we were before. This will be the Fruit, the evidence, for other's to see that you are a follower of Christ.   Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But, sometimes we may hesitate to forgive someone who has really hurt us, because we aren’t ready to trust that person again. Did you know that it’s okay to forgive someone and still not trust them? Forgiveness does not mean there needs to be an instant restoration of trust. Forgiveness is instant; trust must be rebuilt over time. Forgiveness is based on grace; trust is built on works. Forgiveness is returning to God the right to take care of justice. **Forgiveness is letting go of anger, bitterness, and the desire to get even.** It is honestly wishing God’s blessings upon those who have wronged you.  But, restoration of a relationship and restoration of trust takes far more than forgiveness. It takes repentance. It takes restitution and a rebuilding of trust. And, it often takes time. Forgiveness is only your part. You can start the process of forgiving someone who has wronged you right now. It doesn’t depend on whether the other person asks for your forgiveness, responds to your forgiveness, or recognizes they need your forgiveness. You forgive for your sake. You don't let bitterness in your heart poison your life. Begin the process of forgiveness today. Then take all the time you need to rebuild trust. These steps are necessary for healthy relationships and a healthy soul. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Though God’s contribution is far greater, your contribution to the plan is vital. You see, planning is important to God. He doesn’t want you to drift along, allowing circumstances to determine the direction you take in life. He wants you to be intentional. Nehemiah is a great example of someone who depended on God but still made a plan. Nehemiah was cupbearer to King Artaxerxes. When he heard his hometown of Jerusalem had been destroyed and lay defenseless, he decided to go home and rebuild its walls—but he knew he wouldn’t get far without a plan. The first step in Nehemiah’s plan was to *ask God for favor.* Nehemiah needed the king’s permission to go to Jerusalem, and he needed support to rebuild the wall. So Nehemiah turned to God and prayed: ***“O Lord, please hear my prayer . . . Please grant me success today by making the king favorable to me. Put it into his heart to be kind to me”*** **(Nehemiah 1:11 NLT).** Sometimes we think we shouldn’t ask God for success. But there’s nothing wrong with praying for success when you’re trusting God to do the work. It makes you grateful for any success you have. And God certainly was at work, because King Artaxerxes gave Nehemiah everything he asked for—and Nehemiah gave God all the credit: ***“And the king granted these requests, because the gracious hand of God was on me”*** **(Nehemiah 2:8 NLT).** Nehemiah didn’t say, “Look at what my planning did.” With heartfelt gratitude, Nehemiah said, *“Look at what God did.”* Nehemiah knew everything given to him came from *“the gracious hand of God.”* He had an attitude of gratitude. It’s an attitude God wants to see developed in your life too. What needs to be rebuilt in your family, your job, your community, your city, or your nation? Ask God for favor as you develop a plan—*and a grateful attitude*—and watch how God blesses you. ***“Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans”*** **(Proverbs 16:3 NIV).** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Healing doesn't happen when you isolate yourself from the world.  But, isolation can be a dangerous way to cope with pain. Isolation takes away your perspective. In isolation you can’t *see* that God loves you, and you can’t *feel* the love of others.  Sure, there’s a way to live without pain – have no love in your life. But, we can’t let the potential pain of losing someone keep us from reaching out and developing relationships. We can’t allow the fear of rejection to keep us loving people.  The pain that comes from deep love makes your love even more fruitful. When you lose somebody you love, whether they move away, they die, or they reject you, it’s heartbreaking. So, it can be tempting to not let yourself “go there” and keep it superficial with your relationships. But, I encourage you, don’t build that wall around yourself. You’ve got to keep on loving, even if loving people may invite pain into your life at some point.  So, what do you do when somebody rejects your love? You redirect it, because there are a lot of people in the world who need your love. If you’ve always wanted to have children and you’ve been unable to have children, what do you do with that love? Just be bitter about it? No. There are a hundred thirty-seven million orphans in the world who would love to be adopted. You redirect your love. If somebody turns you off, rejects you, shuts you down, what do you do? There are plenty of people who need your love. You redirect it. You keep on loving in your pain. You look at what you’ve got left not just what you’ve lost.  Jesus knows what it’s like to love in the middle of pain. It’s called the cross. Jesus knows what it’s like to keep on loving when you don’t feel like loving. Jesus knows what it’s like to keep on loving when you feel like your love is being rejected. 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We mess up. We blow it.  Anybody want to give a testimony on that? We've all stumbled. Every time I wander, I get into trouble. The further I get away from God, the more problems I'm going to have in my life. The closer I get to the Shepherd, the fewer problems I'm going to have because he's going to be guiding me, guarding me, protecting me and directing me. What do you think Jesus does when we fall? When we fail? How does Jesus Christ respond to us?  ***Matthew 12:11-12 And Jesus answered, “If you had a sheep that fell into a well on the Sabbath, wouldn’t you work to pull it out? Of course you would. And how much more valuable is a person than a sheep!***  Jesus is saying if a sheep falls into a pit, good common sense means you're going to rescue it. You're going to lift it out, you're going to recover it. He said, well what about in your own life? Isn't God going to act that way towards you?  How you think God responds to your failures matters. Because unless you get this right, you're going to avoid God every time you fail. It's going to cause you to pull away from God, instead of drawing close to him. If you think God is going to restore you and rescue you when you fail, you're going to run to him every time you mess up. But if you think God's going to scold you and belittle you, and give you a long sermon about it and condemn you, you're not going to go to God on that. Sometimes our own bad choices put us in a pit. And we find ourselves suffering the consequences. We’re trapped. Jesus comes by and here's what he says. "Can I give you a hand out?" He doesn't make an excuse. "Can I help you out?" That's called being a Savior. He doesn't excuse it, he doesn't judge it. Jesus said, "I didn't come to judge the world, I came to save it. Can I give you a hand out?" That's the salvation that God offers. He says, "I want to help you."  ***Psalm 71:20 You have allowed me to suffer much hardship, but you will restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth.*** Are you in a deep pit? Jesus says, "Let me help you out." You need a new life? Jesus says, "Be born again." This is the Good News. When you let Jesus be your Shepherd, you're no longer on your own. That takes away a lot of stress in your life.  ***Proverbs 3:25-26 You need not be afraid of sudden disaster or the destruction that comes upon the wicked, for the Lord is your security. He will keep your foot from being caught in a trap.*** Like that shepherd who's got that hook on the end of his staff, he'll pull us out of the briar bush. He'll pull us away from the edge of the cliff when we're about to go over. We don't have to be afraid. He wants to be our security. He'll keep us safe, he'll keep us from stumbling.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Because we live in a broken world, this isn’t heaven and people are free to make their own decisions (good and bad), there will be pain this side of heaven. The good news is that God never *wastes* your pain. (We can waste it, but that is never God’s plan).  God wants to use whatever pain you’re going through – emotional, physical, financial, relational, spiritual, in any area of your life to move us toward his purposes.  ***Galatians 3:4 “Have you experienced so much for nothing? Surely it was not in vain, was it?”***   One way that God can bring good out of our pain is when you learn from it, then leverage your experience to help other people. It’s suffering for the benefit of others. It is the highest and best use of your pain.   Follow me on this: If you’re going to be in pain because we live in a broken world and everybody has pain, why not at least get some credit for it? You don’t get credit for your pain by mumbling, moaning, complaining. You don’t get credit for your pain by pulling yourself into a self-centered person and ignoring the needs of other people. You don’t get credit for your pain by feeling sorry for yourself and having a pity party. You get credit for your pain by using it to help other people who are in the same kind of pain. God says that is the highest and best use, and you will be richly rewarded for it. Rather than focusing on my hurt, my feeling, how I feel bad, I refocus it and I refocus on the pain of others.   ***2 Corinthians 1:4-6, “God comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ.  Even when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your comfort and salvation! For when we ourselves are comforted, we will certainly comfort you. Then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer.”*** Who can better help a struggling veteran than somebody who’s been a veteran?   Who better to help someone going through the pain of divorce than someone who has experienced that same pain? Who could better help parents of a special needs child than somebody who has been a parent of a special needs child?   Who can better help somebody struggling with a chronic illness than somebody who is struggling with a chronic illness?  Who could better help someone recover from abuse than someone who has experienced that in their own life?  Here’s the point. If you’ve been hurt in your life, I am so sorry. But, you now have a choice. You can allow the enemy to continue to rob you and others of healing, OR you can let God heal it, and let God recycle it, and let God use it, and let God utilize it, and let God bless other people.  Who can you help this week? 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When we are communicating, we bump into each other more frequently. When we bump into each other, what’s in us, spills out. Then, we wonder where that outburst or those hurtful words came from. The truth is those angry, vindictive, hurtful, judgmental, emotional, words come out of us because that’s what’s in there. Whatever is in my heart spills out during those times of conflict. That’s why there is a mess. That’s why angry words spill out, hurtful words, judgmental words, fearful words.   Whatever’s in my heart is going to spill out in my words.  If our heart is feeling bitter, words of sarcasm spill out. We wish we could avoid it. We wish we could control it. Some of us are good at masking it for awhile. But eventually what is in our heart comes out in our words. We try to dam up the river, but it just keeps building with pressure until eventually all the pent up emotions and fears and anger comes tumbling out like a river out of control. So, how do you break the pattern? How do you change what comes out of your mouth?  Since our words are an overflow of our heart we need to start taking our hearts a little more seriously. Instead of pretending that our words didn’t mean anything, we need to ask ourselves why we said what we said. Our words hurt others and they hurt us ourselves.   You say, “Jesus Christ, will you change my heart? Because I want to say the right kind of words. Will you change my words because I want to have the right kind of heart?”  You ask for his help with both your heart and your words. He will help. He will come and he will make a difference. God cares about our words because he cares about the way that we love. The encouragement to me is I’m not in this alone. I want you to realize you are not in this alone. God, Jesus Christ, wants to be a part of this part of your life. He’s willing to. 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God gives us a PLAN to live for.** ### **2\. God gives us PEOPLE to live with.** ### **3\. God gives us His PRESENCE to live in.**   ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) If I were to ask you what you considered to be the most common emotional pain in our society, what would you say? Depression? Anxiety? Guilt? Sociologists tell us that the most common emotional pain in our society is loneliness. Loneliness is near the top of almost every list. When we think of people who fear loneliness we almost automatically think of someone who is single. Some of the loneliest people I’ve met over the years were NOT single. They were married. Even though their spouse came home every night their marriage had deteriorated to the point that they felt very isolated and all alone. I’ve met people from big families who felt alone. Have you ever been lonely? Have you ever been alone? What does God have to say about loneliness?  God had put Adam in the Garden of Eden where everything was perfect, everything he could possibly want was there. There were no problems, no sin, no heartaches, no suffering. Yet the first thing God said wasn't good was loneliness. Even in Eden, He said, it's not good for man to be alone. He's provided for us three resources -- remedies -- to reduce the pain of loneliness in our lives while we're here on earth.  **Three things God gives to reduce the pain of loneliness in our lives.** When you're focusing on God's plan for your life, you don't have a lot of time to have pity parties or feel lonely. You focus on what God wants you to do. One of the things we talk about a lot here at SCC is that God has a purpose and a plan for your life. When you are connecting with God in a relationship with him and when you are discovering your purpose and his plans as he reveals them to you, it is difficult to feel alone or like your life doesn’t have meaning.  If you're a believer you have family. The church is the family of God. It is to be an extended family. Part of the purpose of Seminole Church is to provide you relationship opportunities. We have lots of opportunities to develop close friends, not acquaintances, but close friends, so that when you go through the inevitable crises of life somebody's there to help you out and lend a hand. The church provides these but you've got to take the step and take advantage of these. Meet some people. Discover they are in a small group. Join the small group, make friendships, Don’t just attend but get involved. It’s an easy path. **Ps. 139:7 *"I can never get away from your presence"***   You cannot escape from God's presence. God is everywhere. He is omnipresent. 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Truth ### Page ID: 5050725 ### Content: # Your Identity: Lies Vs. Truth ### **1\. I am completely accepted.** ### **2\. I am extremely valuable.** ### **3\. I am eternally loved.** ### **4\. I am totally forgiven.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) There is a spiritual war going on over your identity. Satan cannot create anything. Only God creates. God is the Creator. Satan has never created anything. Satan can only pervert, distort, or destroy. So what he likes to do is take what God has created for good and pervert it, distort it or destroy it. Satan can’t hurt God. He isn’t as powerful as God, but what he likes to do is hurt God’s heart by hurting God’s children. Satan knows that if he can keep you from being *you,* who God made you to be, if he can hide your true identity, if he can distort your true identity, if he can destroy what God intended for you to be, he has succeeded in hurting God by hurting God’s children.  How does Satan do this? How does Satan keep you from knowing your true identity? He uses a couple of different tools. **One of the tools he uses is the opinions of other people.** Your parents said things about you. Your peers have said things about you. Enemies and friends have said things about you. Some of them were true; some of them were not true. They were all trying to mold you into their image. People all your life have been trying to get you to be what they want you to be, not what God wants you to be. Satan uses the opinions of others to keep you from the true you – what you were meant to be by God. You control all your thoughts, but people suggest thoughts to you all the time. Satan suggests thoughts. God also suggests thoughts. When God puts a thought in your mind, we call it inspiration – what a great idea! When God gives you a good idea, that’s an inspiration. When Satan puts a thought in your mind, we call that temptation. Satan wants to steal your identity so he says things like this: “To be accepted by God, you have to earn it.” He says things like, “You don’t matter. You’re not important. You’re never going to amount to anything. In fact, you’re worthless.” He says that to you all the time. He says things like, “You know that sin you committed? You can never be forgiven for that. You should be ashamed of yourself.” All shame comes from Satan. It doesn’t come from God. Jesus said, *“I didn’t come to condemn the world but to save it.”* The number one tool that Satan uses in our life to cause our true identity to be erased is to **get us to repeat what he’s told us.**   He’ll plant an idea in our mind, a seed, then he doesn’t have to mention it ever again. We just repeat it over and over and over because we heard it and we believed it: “I’m worthless, I’m no good, I’m never going to amount to anything, I can’t do that, I can’t, I can’t. I’m ashamed, I’m ashamed.” Satan doesn’t have to mess with most of us, because he’s put an idea in our mind and we just keep repeating it to ourselves and now it’s part of our identity.  If all these tools are being used against me to conceal who God really made me to be – how do I know the real me? How do I know the true me, who God made me to be? When Satan’s lies about your identity begin to cloud your vision, go to the truth. ***1 Peter 2:9-10 “…for you are*** \[he’s talking about your identity\] ***a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession.*** \[What do these mean? We’re going to look at them. They’re all very significant\] ***As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. 10“Once you had no identity as a people; now you are God’s people. Once you received no mercy; now you have received God’s mercy.”*** Here are four things God says about your TURE identity.  ***1 Corinthians 7:23, “God paid a high price for you, so don’t be enslaved by the world.”***  ***Jeremiah 31:3 “I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.”*** ***Romans 8:1 (NIV) “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” (NLT) “There is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.”*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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In fact, Easter is the only holiday we celebrate at the break of dawn. Because it was at the break of dawn, on a brand-new day, when his followers heard the news that Jesus Christ had risen from the dead—*and it changed everything.* The Bible says, ***“At dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. The angel said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay’”*** **(Matthew 28:1-6 NIV).** Because it proved that Jesus Christ was telling the truth. Jesus made some outrageous claims. He claimed to be the Son of God and the only way to heaven. In John 14:6, Jesus said, ***“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”*** **(NIV).** Many people throughout history have claimed to be God. But the difference with Jesus is that he was the only one who proved to be God. Jesus said, “I’m going to prove it. I’m going to die for the sins of the world, and three days later I’m going to raise myself back to life.” And that’s exactly what he did. The resurrection of Jesus is the most important event of all time. And it all happened on the dawn of a new day. Luke 1:78 says, ***“A new day will dawn on us from above because our God is loving and merciful”*** **(GW).** This Easter, we have an 8AM service, and even though it isn’t quite “sunrise,” you’ll start your Easter morning remembering and thanking God for the greatest event in history… the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 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In John 4:34, Jesus said, ***“My food is to do what God wants! He is the one who sent me, and I must finish the work that he gave me to do”*** **(CEV).** Fortunately for you and me, Jesus DID finish the work God gave him. Right before Jesus died on the cross on the first Good Friday, the Bible says, ***“After this, Jesus knew that everything had been done. So that the Scripture would come true, he said, ‘I am thirsty’ . . . When Jesus tasted the vinegar, he said, ‘It is finished.’ Then he bowed his head and died”*** **(John 19:28, 30 NCV).** When Jesus says, “It is finished,” it was a shout of victory. The phrase actually is a single word in the original Greek: *tetelestai*. It was a very common word in ancient Greek society with many meanings. When Jesus said these words on the cross, he was referring to each of the meanings: That one single word is what separates Christianity from every other religion on the planet. All other religions are about what you need to do to be right with God. Jesus says, “It is finished.” You don’t need to do anything to have access to God. He’s done everything! You just need to trust him. And, as we know, Jesus didn’t stay dead. He rose again. He is alive. Christ has win victory over death for all of mankind. I hope you’ll celebrate the Good News of Easter this Sunday with us. [LEARN MORE HERE.](/eastersunday) Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It was used by servants and employees who return to their master with news they had finished the task. **Jesus had finished the task God had given him.** 2. It’s a legal term judges would use to announce that a prisoner had completely served his prison time. **Jesus made sure that justice had been served for our sin.** 3. It was an accounting term meaning a debt had been paid in full. **Jesus completely paid our debt.** 4. Artists used the term when painting a picture to denote their final stroke. **Jesus’ sacrifice finished God’s great masterpiece by making it possible for the pinnacle of his creation—us—to be redeemed from our sin.** 5. Priests used the term when they offered a sacrifice to God to say, “The sacrifice has been made.” **Jesus’ death on the cross was the sacrifice for our sin.** --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/what-is-righteousness ### Title: What is Righteousness? ### Page ID: 5142464 ### Content: # What is Righteousness? ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) In Jesus’ most famous sermon, the sermon on the mount, he says, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”  Jesus says you’ve got to hunger and thirst for righteousness. What is righteousness? The Bible says that God loves righteousness. Let me just boil it down for you into two sentences. It’s about a relationship and it’s about a lifestyle.  Righteousness first simply means a right standing with God. It means being right with God.   ***Romans 1:17 This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight.*** Look at that verse for a minute. The Good News. The word “Gospel” – Gospel is simply the old English word for good news. That’s all it means. The good news tells us how God makes us right with himself. Notice God makes you right with him. You don’t make yourself right. This is something that God does for you. He makes us right with himself. It’s a relationship. The second thing righteousness is it’s a lifestyle. That means living right. Living right as God intends. So it means being right with God and living right in faith or as God intends. So, it’s a position and it’s a practice.  Why should I hunger and thirst for these two things? In a nutshell two reasons: One, it’s the only way to live. And two, it’s the only way to heaven.   ***Proverbs 12:28 (NIV) In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality.*** You’ve heard me say this many times: you’re made by God and you’re made for God and until you understand that life isn’t going to make sense. Life is not about the acquisition of things or the achievement of goals. Life is about getting to know God. The God who loves you and made you for a purpose. Not only is it good for here on earth, the Bible says righteousness is the path to immortality. In other words it’s the way you get to heaven. Here’s the point. God is not going to force you to go to heaven. It’s a choice. You choose to go to heaven on God’s terms. God created heaven as a place for his children that he loves and he wants you to be with him forever and ever and ever. God has long range plans for your life. He wants you to be in heaven, but he’s not going to force you to go to heaven. So God gives you a choice. You can spend your life connected to him or disconnected to him. If you want to you can rebel against God, you can ignore God your entire life. You can pretend God doesn’t exist. The only problem is one day you’re going to stand before God and God’s going to say, “You didn’t connect with me on earth. 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Or it became a total fiasco and a failure? If you really want God’s blessing on your life, you have to depend on God’s wisdom, not your own. Here's how! You can also listen to this video devotion as a podcast [HERE.](https://account-media.s3.amazonaws.com/30059/uploaded/d/0e17886557_1712238701_devo154-when-feelings-betray-you.mp3) Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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I don't want you to hear that the only solution to mental health struggles is scripture. God gives us many tools to address feelings of depression or depressive thoughts. Sometimes there’s a chemical way. This would be medication, and in some cases, a very necessary route toward healing. I didn’t want to hop into today’s blog post without mentioning this.  There are other ways to build healthier thought patterns. Sometimes there’s an emotional way. Often times the emotional route can be addressed through therapy. At SCC, we are big fans of finding a good counselor to help navigate tough seasons in life. Sometimes there’s a relational way. And sometimes there’s a spiritual way.  BUT, In *every* case, we can use God’s Word to help transform our minds. Let’s continue… In Romans 8:5-6, **“*Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace”* (NIV).** Do your thoughts control you? Are you governed by your feelings and thoughts? Or are you governed by the Holy Spirit? There is FREEDOM from your controlling thoughts when you allow the Holy Spirit to transform your mind.  Romans 12:2 says, ***“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”*** Ask the Holy Spirit to *replace* the self-destructive thoughts with his own. When you’ve got something negative in your life, don’t resist it. Replace it. If you turn on the TV, and there’s something on that you don’t want to watch or you shouldn’t watch, you can’t just sit there and tell yourself you shouldn’t be watching it. You have to change the channel. You replace it—immediately. You choose what you dwell on. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the thoughts you need to focus on. He’ll do it! He will change your perspective. And that will change your life. Here’s what scripture tells us to replace unhealthy thoughts with instead. Philippians 4:8, ***“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”*** What you dwell on is a CHOICE. A fleeting thought is just a fleeting thought. You have to choose what you will dwell on. You have to replace the unhealthy thoughts with things that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely and admirable.  One of the best ways to replace unhealthy thoughts is with scripture, because scripture is always true.  Instead of worrying, or dwelling on depressive thoughts, I encourage you to actively and intentionally replace those thoughts with scripture. If you are dedicated to scripture memorization, you will soon find that replacing depressive thoughts with scripture becomes easier and easier, and almost second nature.  God has promised many wonderful benefits in your life if you will meditate on the Word of God and then do it. You’ll hear it, you study it, then memorize it. ***Psalm 119:11 “I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.”*** ***Philippians 2:16 “Hold firmly to the Word of Life.”***   You’ve got to hold tightly, you’ve got to get a good grip on it.   ***Psalm 119:35 “Make me walk along the path of your commands, for that is where my happiness is found.”***   Usually we’re looking for happiness in all the wrong places. God says happiness is found in the path of God’s commands. When the lies of the enemy flood in… “you’re worthless, you’re alone, you should be ashamed,” that’s when you need the truth of God’s Word running through your mind.  ***Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.***  ***Psalm 139:14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.*** ***Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You can receive it, read it, research it, remember it, and reflect on it. But if you fail to put into practice what you learn, all those things are useless. As ***James 1:22 says, “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only” (ESV).*** It can be hard to be a doer of the Word, because Satan fights it so intensely. He doesn’t mind you going to Bible studies, as long as you don’t do anything with what you learn.  But God’s Word doesn’t really become part of you until you obey it. Just reading or studying a truth doesn’t mean you’ve internalized it. Actually, you can be so busy with Bible study—going to the next class or seminar or Bible conference—that you have no time to implement what you’ve learned. Without implementation, all our Bible studies are worthless. Jesus said, ***“Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock” (Matthew 7:24 NIV).*** Jesus also pointed out that God’s blessing comes from obeying the truth, not just knowing it. He said, ***“Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them” (John 13:17 NIV).*** It’s so valuable to be part of a small Bible study discussion group. We always learn truths from others that we would never learn on our own. Other people will help you see insights you would miss. The best way to become a doer of the Word is to always write out an action step after you read, study, and reflect on God’s Word. Develop the habit of writing down exactly what you intend to do. This action step should be personal (involving you), practical (something you can do), and provable (with a deadline). Every application will involve either your relationship to God, your relationship to others, or your personal character. 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[Events](/events "Events") - [Blog](/blog-2 "Blog") - [Podcast](/hope "Podcast") - [Devotion Sign Up](/videos-devotion "Devotion Sign Up") - [Newsletter Sign Up](/newsletter-signup "Newsletter Sign Up") - [Prayer](/prayer-2 "Prayer") - [Events](/events "Events") - [Event Gallery](/event-gallery "Event Gallery") - [Sermons](/sermons "Sermons") - [Watch Live](/live "Watch Live") --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/video-devotion-dirty-water ### Title: Video Devotion: Dirty Water ### Page ID: 5189039 ### Content: # Dirty Water ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Have you ever said something in a heated moment and thought, "I have no idea where that came from!"  Whatever you put into your heart and mind is what will come out when the pressure kicks in. Pressure always reveals what’s inside of you.  So, how do you change your heart? How do you fix what's on the inside? That's what today's video devotions is all about. You can also listen to this devotion as a podcast, [HERE.](https://account-media.s3.amazonaws.com/30059/uploaded/d/0e17911620_1712859450_devo155-dirty-water.mp3) Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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In fact, God’s plans for our life often include what we would deem as inconveniences or interruptions.  If you want to serve others the way Jesus serves you, then you have to decide to hold your schedule with an open hand. You must be willing to be interrupted. Jesus was interrupted by a woman in need while he was literally on the way to heal someone else. What did Jesus do? He stopped. Even though he was ALREADY on his way to do a different good work, he still chose to stop to help this woman in need.  The story can be found in Matthew, Mark and in Luke.  ***43*** ***And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years,******\[******a******\]*** ***but no one could heal her.*** ***44*** ***She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.*** ***When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.”*** ***46*** ***But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.”*** ***47*** ***Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed.*** ***48*** ***Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”*** This doesn’t mean we can’t have boundaries and we have to say yes to EVERYTHING… it’s all about the heart. Are you *willing*? If God sends an interruption your way, are you willing to stop? Are you willing to stop and ask the Lord, “is this someone I need to help, even though it’s inconvenient?”  There’s so many instances in the Bible where God used interruptions in a BIG WAY.  Mary didn’t *plan* to become pregnant with Jesus when she wasn’t even married yet (a pretty inconvenient and uncomfortable situation to be in). But, she was willing. Nehemiah was comfortable as the king’s cupbearer, but the walls of Jerusalem needed to be rebuilt. Peter was comfortable as a fisherman, but Jesus saw another purpose for his life. Paul was comfortable as a Pharisee, but God interrupted his life to become a great church-planter and to write much of the New Testament. ***Proverbs 16:9 (NLT) “We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps.”*** ***Proverbs 19:21 (NLT) “You can make many plans, but the LORD’s purpose will prevail.”*** Planning is a good thing, but we should always stay flexible and allow God to tweak or even to radically change what we had in mind.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Not by how many weeks we attend a church service. Not by how many verses we have memorized. But, by our love. If you think about it, the way Christ followers are called to love is actually very counter-cultural. We are called to put others first. We are called to make allowances for other’s faults (so, the opposite of cancel culture). We are called to forgive those who hurt us. This type of love doesn’t make sense to the world. If we love Jesus, then we will love what He loves, which is people. Have you ever wondered if your life shows much evidence that you are following Christ? Take a look at the way you love the people God has placed in your life. Christians should be the most loving people on the planet. We should be spending time with our kids and our families, giving them our attention. We should be willing to have tough conversations with our friends, because we love them too much to let them wreck their lives. We need God’s love in us to accomplish this kind of love toward others. ***1 John 4:7-8 “Love comes from God… for God is love.”***    It doesn’t say that God has love. It says God is love. It is his character, his essence. He wants us to be like him. God is the source of all love. If God was not loving, there would be no love in the universe. All love comes from God. The reason we have the ability to love, is because we were made in the image of God. We were made in his image so we could do the two things we were put on earth to do. Learn to love God and learn to love other people. Can you imagine what would happen if *everyone* in the church loved like they are called to love—if we all committed ourselves to acting in love and giving our time unselfishly so that people could experience a taste of how much God loves them? If you want to lead people to Jesus, you have to understand that people won’t care what you know until they first know that you care. 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When anything painful happens to you, you’ve got a choice: You can run *to* God, or you can run *from* God. ***Hebrews 4:16*** ***says, “******Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”*** The first thing you do is tell him exactly how you feel. Even if you cry out, “God, I don’t like this. I’m mad. I’m upset,” that’s still drawing close to God in prayer. It’s called the prayer of lament. You ask God to use pain for good in your life. You don’t suppress any emotion. You tell God exactly what you’re feeling and draw near to him. You do what Paul did in **2 Corinthians 1:8-10: *“We were really crushed and overwhelmed . . . and saw how powerless we were to help ourselves; but that was good, for then we put everything into the hands of God, who alone could save us, for he can even raise the dead. And he did help us”* (TLB).** I have seen so many people transformed by the process of learning to worship, trust, and draw close to God when they’re in pain. They have learned that God is never closer to you than when you are brokenhearted. ***Psalm 34:18 says, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”*** Don't waste your pain. Let it cause you to turn to God, spend more time with him and his Word, and be reminded of his promises to you. God has the power to help you. He has the power tot sustain you and give you a supernatural peace in the midst of your pain. And, he has the power to heal your wounds after a season of pain. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Gratitude isn’t just positive thinking. It actually makes a difference. Having an attitude of gratitude can be a change agent in your relationships. How? Choosing to find something to be grateful for can actually transform how YOU see the relationship. It changes you. It changes your perspective. It changes your heart. And, when YOU are different, the people who are in relationship with you have to relate to you differently. Gratitude is also something you can control. There’s a lot of things in your relationships that you CAN’T control. You can’t control other people. You can’t control a lot of circumstances. BUT, you can control choosing to have an attitude of gratitude. Why not choose to have an attitude of gratitude, if its something you can *control* and it can actually make a *difference*? Studies have even shown that gratitude produces chemicals in your brain—dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin—that make you feel peaceful and happy.  An attitude of gratitude is something you can start the moment you wake up. Before you get out of bed, make a list of things you're grateful for. Even if you can't think of anything to be grateful for, the simple act of *trying* to be grateful will change your brain chemistry.  The Bible says, ***“In everything you do, stay away from complaining and arguing”* (****Philippians 2:14** **TLB).** When you complain about something, how does that help you? If you complain about your spouse, your children, or your other relationships, does it change any of those things? Here’s the problem: The longer you know someone, the more likely you take that person for granted. With the passage of time, it becomes easier to focus on that person’s faults and the bad times instead of the happy times. 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You’ve sinned. You’ve made bad decisions. So have I—all of the above. But, here’s what God’s Word says in ***Romans 8:28:*** ***“We know that in all things God works for good with those who love him, those whom he has called according to his purpose”*** ***(GNT).*** All things. Even your mistakes. God promises he has the ability to use it for good. I want to be clear, though. This isn’t a promise for everyone. The verse doesn’t say that God works everything out for good for those living in rebellion against him or for those who aren’t living for his purposes. The promise is for people who come to God and say, “I want to live for your purpose. I don’t always get it right. But I want to do the right thing. I want to trust you, and I want to follow you.” Do that, cooperate with God, and he will take it all and use it for his good. When you put your life in his hands, it doesn’t mean you’ll never mess up again. But God can fit it all into his plans. God knew all the mistakes you’d make before you were born. And, he still chose to send his son to die for you. He still loves you. He still wants you. He still wants to use you. He can even use your mistakes and turn them to use them for good. Only God can do that. Sometimes your biggest mistakes become your biggest ministry, when you allow God to work. If you know that God can use anything for good, how does that help you let go of the mistakes of your past? God wants to use the pain from your past for his glory today and in the future. God never wastes a hurt. It all fits into his plan. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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[Events](/events "Events") - [Blog](/blog-2 "Blog") - [Podcast](/hope "Podcast") - [Devotion Sign Up](/videos-devotion "Devotion Sign Up") - [Newsletter Sign Up](/newsletter-signup "Newsletter Sign Up") - [Prayer](/prayer-2 "Prayer") - [Events](/events "Events") - [Event Gallery](/event-gallery "Event Gallery") - [Sermons](/sermons "Sermons") - [Watch Live](/live "Watch Live") --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/video-devotion-surrendering-your-future ### Title: Video Devotion: Surrendering Your Future ### Page ID: 5349409 ### Content: # Surrendering Your Future ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Here is what scripture tells us about leaning on our own understanding about our lives, and how we can trust God with our future. 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It’s not enough to dream of changing. It’s not enough to desire change. To change, you need to make a decision. You must choose to change. Change is intentional. Are you going to be any different in six months? Are you going to be better a year from now? Are you going to be healthier, stronger, and more mature? Are you going to be happier? Are you going to be less in debt? Are you going to be more like God wants you to be? I can tell you the answer right now: These changes will only happen if you choose to change—because change doesn’t happen accidentally. God does the actual changing, but he isn’t going to force change on you. You have to make a choice, and then cooperate with the change he is doing in you. You will need to make intentional choices in order to grow. If you are going to grow, you will have to change. And change means you let go of some old things in order to grab hold of some new things. It’s like swinging on a trapeze. The trapeze artist swings out on one bar and then has to reach out and grab the other one. At some point, he’s got to let go of one to grab on to the other, or he’s not going to make it to the other side. If he thinks he can hold on to both, what happens? He gets stuck in the middle, and he’s going to fall. Some of you are stuck in the middle, and you’re falling because you haven’t let go of the old patterns, the old habits, and the old ways of thinking. You have to let go of your old ways. The Bible says, ***“Throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life”* (Ephesians 4:22 NLT).** In other words, let it go. Those old habits, those old hurts, those old patterns, those old sins in your life—let them go. The Bible says to throw them off and trust that God is working in you ***“to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose”* (Philippians 2:13 NIV).** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But, what about the difficult people in your life? The prickly ones? The draining people in your life? The hard-to-be-around people in your life? Well, Jesus said in **Luke 6:32, *“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?”***  Later in that same chapter, He challenged us, ***“But love your enemies, do good to them”* (Luke 6:35).** Learning how to love those who are hard to love requires both a choice and intentionality. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have healthy boundaries with toxic people. But, Jesus is clear that we are called to love everyone… even the difficult people in our life. We are called to be kind and compassionate and forgiving. You can still pray for someone with whom you have boundaries. You can still choose to respond calmly and kindly even to someone who is not giving you the same respect. But, it is hard. Again, all of this is easy with the easy-to-love people. But, it’s nearly impossible to love hard-to-love people in your own strength. So, how do you love difficult, selfish and unloving people? You choose to allow Jesus to love them through you. You allow God’s love to do the work, because your human love is limited. that’s why we need God’s love in us, so we can then love others. ***“We know and rely on the love God has for us.”*** **(1 John 4:16a NIV).** When you realize how much God loves you — with an extravagant, unconditional love — then his love will change your entire focus on life. If we don’t receive God’s love for us, we’ll have a hard time loving other people. I’m talking about loving people who are unlovely, difficult, irritable, and those who are different or demanding. You can’t do that until you have God’s love coming through you. You need to know God’s love so it can overflow out of your life into others. ***(John 13:34-35) “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.*** ***By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”*** What are some ways you can show love to someone you find hard to love? Ask God to help you see that person with his eyes so that you can show him or her God’s love. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Or more precisely, you’ve been called to become *like someone significant*. We, as believers, are called to become like Christ. I have said before that God cares more about your character than he does your comfort. During the process of spiritual growth (becoming like Christ),God slowly uncovers parts of your life that need to change in order to be more like Jesus. Sometimes, that is uncomfortable. Like the verse above says, he cuts off the branches that bear no fruit. That takes some sacrifice on our part. Here are some questions to ask yourself today: What do you need to cut out of your life? What “branches” of your life is God trying to prune or refine to make you more like Christ? When you invited Jesus into your life, did you give him complete access? Have you resisted his efforts to help you mature because you insist on keeping some things behind closed doors? Jesus doesn’t want you to limit how or where he works in your life. Otherwise, you’re limiting how much you can mature. And, don’t hear me wrong, God loves you as you are today. His love for you isn’t based on conditions or you changing. But, he DOES love you so much, that he doesn’t want you to stay the way you are forever. It’s God’s will that you would mature and become more like Jesus. And, he doesn’t expect you to do the changing on your own. He wants to work with you to help you uncover areas that you still need to surrender to him. He does the changing, you do the cooperating. God wants you to take on the characteristics of Jesus, who is loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, self-controlled, and gentle (you may recognize these as some of the fruit of the Spirit found in Galatians 5:22-23). Will that kind of growth happen overnight? Absolutely not. Will it happen easily? Nope. But you’ll get there. The Bible promises us this: ***“I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns”*** **(Philippians 1:6 NLT).** Next time you think about the fruit of the Spirit and get discouraged at how far you still have to go, remember this: God isn’t finished with you yet!  He loves you, and He is still working to make you more like Jesus. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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[Events](/events "Events") - [Blog](/blog-2 "Blog") - [Podcast](/hope "Podcast") - [Devotion Sign Up](/videos-devotion "Devotion Sign Up") - [Newsletter Sign Up](/newsletter-signup "Newsletter Sign Up") - [Prayer](/prayer-2 "Prayer") - [Events](/events "Events") - [Event Gallery](/event-gallery "Event Gallery") - [Sermons](/sermons "Sermons") - [Watch Live](/live "Watch Live") --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/dont-give-up-gods-sustaining-grace ### Title: Don't Give Up - God's Sustaining Grace ### Page ID: 5384198 ### Content: # Don't Give Up - God's Sustaining Grace ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) What is discouraging you today? Are you just worn out? Are you facing frustrations or problems? Do you have fears or feel like giving up? If you’re feeling discouraged in any area of your life, spend time with God. Take your problems TO him. He promises to give you rest. ***Matthew 11:28 says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”*** Don’t just come home and turn on the television or scroll on your phone to “get away.” Instead, open up your Bible *and read it*. Be intentional. Spend time in his Word. Spend time with him in prayer. The Bible says in **Romans 15:4,** ***“For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.”*** **(NIV).** Don’t give up hope. Don’t stop running the race set before you. The Bible tells us that we even have an audience cheering us on in heaven. **Hebrews 12:1 says,** ***“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.”* (NLT).** How can you be sure you’re going to finish the race of life? Because of God’s sustaining grace. God doesn’t want to just save you. He wants to sustain you through life. He wants you to make it. Sustaining grace is the power to keep on going when you feel like giving up. It’s the power to do the right thing when you don’t feel like doing the right thing. **2 Corinthians 12:9 says, *“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”*** There are many pitfalls in the marathon race of life. But regardless of what you go through, no matter what you face this year, you can count on God’s sustaining grace. When you are tired or discouraged, go to God… he is an unlimited source of peace and strength. **Isaiah 40:28-29, *“Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength”*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Some people think that God's out to get them. Some people, even believers, think that whenever they have a problem, "God's getting even with me." Does God really act like this? Is He this really a God who holds grudges up in Heaven? A cosmic kill-joy, waiting for us to make one mistake? These ideas of God are totally false. It is not the character of God to be “out to get us” or hold grudges. In fact, scripture tells us that God is faithful to forgive us. ***1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”*** Have you ever thought about the fact that maybe some of your ideas about God aren't true That's why we have to go to God’s Word, and find out what He's *really* like. That’s where he reveals his character to us. In fact, God so deeply wants you to know what He's really like, He came to earth, over 2000 years ago in human form. He was called Jesus Christ. He came to earth so we would know what God is really like. One of the things that Jesus taught is God doesn't carry a grudge. He is not the God of shame. He forgives my sins. Because I deserve it? No. But out of His grace. ***Romans 3:23-24 For everyone has sinned...yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty of our sins.***  And, according to Romans 8, there is no condemnation for those who are in Jesus. That's good news!  ***Ephesians 4:32 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.***  How do you do on forgiveness? We talk about forgiveness a lot here at Seminole Church. If we have a tough time being forgiving, it's probably because we don't feel forgiven.  People who have received God's mercy are able to be merciful to others. People who understand how much they've been forgiven find it easier to forgive others. Anytime I start having a difficult time forgiving somebody all I have to do is stop and remember, “I will never have to forgive another person more than what God has already forgiven me.” When you don't *feel* forgiven, I encourage you to get into God's Word and read the truth about God's love, grace and forgiveness toward you. Seek Him. As you grow in understanding and learn more about God's true character, you will find healing in your own life and be able to extend that same grace and forgiveness to others.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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[Events](/events "Events") - [Blog](/blog-2 "Blog") - [Podcast](/hope "Podcast") - [Devotion Sign Up](/videos-devotion "Devotion Sign Up") - [Newsletter Sign Up](/newsletter-signup "Newsletter Sign Up") - [Prayer](/prayer-2 "Prayer") - [Events](/events "Events") - [Event Gallery](/event-gallery "Event Gallery") - [Sermons](/sermons "Sermons") - [Watch Live](/live "Watch Live") --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/video-devotion-how-jesus-treats-his-sheep ### Title: Video Devotion: How Jesus Treats His Sheep ### Page ID: 5391401 ### Content: # How Jesus Treats His Sheep ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) The Bible says Jesus is The Good Shepherd. What does this mean and how does this description of him impact our daily lives?  Let's take a look at Jesus' heart toward you and me in this video devotion.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. All Rights Reserved. - [ABOUT](/sunday-gatherings "ABOUT") - [Sunday Gatherings](/sunday-gatherings "Sunday Gatherings") - [Who We Are](/who-we-are "Who We Are") - [What We Believe](/what-we-believe "What We Believe") - [Seminole Community Outreach](/seminole-community-outreach "Seminole Community Outreach") - [Missions](/missions "Missions") - [Our Leadership](/our-leadership "Our Leadership") - MINISTRIES - [Seminole Community Outreach](/seminole-community-outreach "Seminole Community Outreach") - [Children](/children "Children") - [Discovery Zone](/discovery-zone "Discovery Zone") - [Kidzone](/kidszone "Kidzone") - [Power Up](/power-up "Power Up") - [Students](/students "Students") - [Fuge Camp 2026](/fuge-camp-2026 "Fuge Camp 2026") - [Wildfire](/wildfire "Wildfire") - [Limitless](/limitless "Limitless") - [Women's Ministry](/womens-ministry "Women's Ministry") - [Men's Ministry](/mens-ministry "Men's Ministry") - CONNECT - [Sign Up & Next Steps](/sign-up-and-next-steps "Sign Up & Next Steps") - 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God knows EVERYTHING that's going to happen to me.**   ### **2\. God has a PLAN for my future.**   ### **3\. God will be WITH ME every step of the way.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) No one knows the future, except God. You probably already knew that. This probably isn’t groundbreaking news for you. But, *how* you choose to let this truth change the way you look at your future can make all the difference.  Here are three truths about the future that, if you live like you believe them, will give you peace and confidence even when things are uncertain.  ***Hebrews 4:13a "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes…”*** God can see it all. God is not limited by time. God can be in the past, the present and the future all at the same time. He can see it all at once. That means that God is never surprised by anything. ***Psalm 139:16 "You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed."***   It says all your days were allotted even before you were born. When you were in your mother's womb God already knew the number of days you were going to live. There's nothing He doesn't know, and there's nothing that's going to surprise Him. He not only knows my future but He has a plan for my future. ***Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."***   This is telling us that God has done a lot of thinking about your future. God's thought more about your future than you have. He has plans for your life. They are good plans, plans that give you hope, plans that give you a future -- not plans to harm you, but plans to bless you. God has a plan for your life.  Can I miss God's plan for my life? Of course People miss God's plan all the time. Millions of people go through life and miss God's plan completely. You can miss it through apathy, arrogance, being ignorant of His plan, or rebellion. In fact, most people miss God's plan for their life. But He does have a plan for you. And it is a good plan. It's your choice to either get in on it and cooperate with it or miss it and miss the very reason for which you were created.  The third thing the Bible says about my future is God will be with me every step of the way. When we become a fully devoted follower of Jesus, that doesn’t mean life just gets easy. That doesn’t mean we don’t go through pain. That doesn’t mean we don’t ever grieve loss. But, it does mean we don’t go through it alone. God is with us every step of the way, and that makes a HUGE difference. ***Hebrews 13:5 "For God has said, “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.”*** None of us know what's going to happen this next year. But regardless of what happens to you, you're not going to go through it alone. God says, "I'm with you, I'll always be with you, I have been with you, I'm going to keep on being with you! You'll never go through it alone." This is called God's faithfulness. ***Psalm 34:4 "I prayed to the Lord, and he answered me. He freed me from all my fears."***   Our fears come from either not understanding or not trusting various aspects of God's character. If we want to get over our fears, the secret is to seek the Lord, to understand what God's really like. Because once we understand what God's really like, we don't have anything to be afraid of. As believers, we will go through hardships. As believers, we will still have struggles, but we won’t go through it alone. We can have confidence that, in the end, Jesus will get us through anything. We can have hope for our future, all because of Christ. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Self-centeredness**   ### **2\. Perfectionism** ### **3\. Materialism**  ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***Matthew 20:28 (NLT) "For even I, the Son of Man, came here not to be served but to serve others.”***  A lot of people spend so much of their time searching for self-esteem, for self-worth, and significance. They want to feel good about themselves. But they're looking in all the wrong places! You don't get your self-worth from success, because there's always somebody else who does a better job. You don't get your self-esteem from status. You don't get your self-esteem from your salary or a relationship. The Bible says you get your self-esteem from service.  Jesus said to give your life away in order to find it. How do you serve like Jesus? One way is being available.  One day Jesus was walking down the road to go to Jericho and some blind men start yelling at him.  ***Matthew 20:30,32 (NLT) "Two blind men shouted 'Lord, have mercy on us!'...Jesus stopped and called them. 'What do you want me to do for you?'"*** Jesus stopped. If you want to be used by God, if you want to serve God, you must be willing to be interrupted. Most of Jesus' ministry and most of Jesus' miracles were interruptions. All the people he healed...the blind man, the lame man, the sick people, the paralyzed man, the dead child...all of them were interruptions. His first miracle: interrupted at a wedding. He second miracle: interrupted on the way to Galilee. It says "Jesus stopped.” Almost every miracle Jesus did, He did it because He let Himself be interrupted.  ***Proverbs 3:28 (NLT) "If you can help your neighbor now, don't say, "Come back tomorrow, and then I'll help you."*** What is it that keeps us from being available? Let me give three common barriers. Whenever you see a need right in front of you, guess what? God is giving you the opportunity to practice serving. The number one enemy of compassion is busyness. We just get too busy! I've got my agenda, my plans, my dreams, my goals, my ambitions. Fully Devoted Followers don't mind being interrupted. If you really have a servant heart, like Jesus Christ, you don't mind being interrupted because your agenda is God's agenda. A second barrier to being available to be used by God is perfectionism. You know, wanting everything to be perfect. “When it's all just right, when things settle down, then I'll serve.”  ***Ecclesiastes 11:4 (NLT) "If you wait for perfect conditions, you'll never get anything done".***   Christlike servants do the best they can with what they have for Jesus Christ *today*. They don't wait. We all have weaknesses. We all have faults. We all have failures. We all have handicaps. But guess what? God uses us all. Why? Because God doesn't use perfect people... because there aren't any. There aren't enough superstars in this world to get it done. God uses normal people.  So God says, "Don't wait for perfect conditions". You know, “when things settle down,” they aren't going to settle down! So go ahead and start serving while things are not settled down.  Materialism is the third barrier that keeps us from being available to serve.  Jesus said in ***Luke 16:13 (NLT) "No one can serve two masters. You cannot serve both God and money"*** He didn't say, "you should not serve both God and money.” He said, "you *cannot* serve both God and money.” You've got to decide whether you want to be rich or you want to be blessed. You cannot serve both God and money. It's an impossibility.  You see, we get so busy taking care of things; we don't have time to take care of people. And that's a problem. 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Idols will disappoint me.** ### **2\. Idols will dominate me.** ### **3\. Idols will deform me.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***Exodus 20:4-5 says, “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them.”*** What is an idol? An idol is anything that takes the focus off God and puts it on something else.  Archaeologists tell us in every culture throughout history there have been idols. Statues, little gods, goddesses – things like this. There is the desire of man, for some reason, to turn objects or people or things into objects of worship. Does this verse even apply to us today in modern times? Absolutely. Some people park their idols in their garage. Some people dock their idols at Lake Monroe Marina. When anything is first in my life that is not God, it's an idol… *even if it’s a good thing*.   What does it mean to idolize? In this sense it means to In Bible times there were three primary idols. There was Baal who was the god of sex. There was Mammon who was the god of money. And there was Molech who was the god of violence. We don't have those metal idols today, people just pay billions of dollars today to stream content to watch sex, violence and money. It's the same things. The shrine in America is the screen that you hang on the wall called the TV. Every night when we turn it on we see our idols on TV. Or the phones in our hands. We don't worship *objects* as much as we worship *images*, images of success, images of wealth, images of status, images of sensuality. It's very difficult to raise our kids in an environment where the society is saying, “these are the most important things in life,” and we're trying to say, “no there are other values that are more important.” So we have to teach our kids the disadvantages of idols. ***Deut. 4:15-16 “But be very careful!… So do not corrupt yourselves by making an idol in any form.”*** He says for your own good don't corrupt yourselves by making an idol. God says for your own good don't idolize anything or anyone. Why? ***Jeremiah 10:14 The whole human race is foolish and has no knowledge! The craftsmen are disgraced by the idols they make, for their carefully shaped works are a fraud. These idols have no breath or power.*** Have you ever ordered something online and when you got it you were disappointed with what you got? Anytime we put any person, any thing, any product in the place of God, anytime we expect anyone to solve all our problems or guarantee all our happiness ,we're going to be disappointed. Idols will always disappoint us. If we don't watch out for it they end up controlling our life.   ***1 Cor 12:2 (NIV) You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.*** It says there are two inevitable things that happen when we love something more than God: 1) The thing we love more than God will begin to influence us. The word we use today for idols is the word "addiction." We can be addicted to our work, to sex, to checking our phones, to numerous things besides alcohol or drugs. But eventually it runs our life when we love something more than we love God. People say, "I can give it up at any time." Then why don't we? It will dominate our life and it will distract our life.   2) We will be led astray. We lose our perspective when something takes the place in our life that ought to be where God is. How many people by the lure of a promotion were led to neglect their family at a crucial time in the kids lives? Or for the promise of fame compromised their integrity? Or for the profit motive they threw their convictions out the door? God says if we don't watch out, an idol, anything that we love more than God, will distract us and we will lose our values. It will dominate our life.   They will change us. They'll warp us. We will lose our uniqueness that God gave us because we become like what we value most.  ***Psalm 115:8 (NIV) Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.*** We will become like whatever is first place in our life. So we better reserve that spot for God or we're going to get deformed from being what God meant for us to be in the first place. One time a rich young ruler came to Jesus. He said, "What must I do to follow Christ? What must I do to have eternal life?" Jesus says to this yuppie, "Go, sell everything you've got and give it to the poor and come follow me." It's interesting that not one other time in the Bible did Jesus say that to anybody. He only said it to him. Why? Because Jesus knew the idol in his life was his bank account. He went straight to the heart of the issue and said, “You've got another god in your life and if you really want to follow Me, give up what you've got and come, follow Me. Be willing to let go of anything for Me to be first in your life.” It says that the rich young ruler counted the cost, decided it wasn't worth it and walked away sadly. What do you need to give up? What is it that you're holding on to that's keeping you from being all God wants you to be?    Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Again ### Page ID: 5429684 ### Content: # Struggling with the Same Sin... Again #### *1.  Focus on God more than trying to stop sinning.* #### *2.  Don’t do it alone.* #### *3.  Replace old habits with new, positive habits.* ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***“The power of the life-giving Spirit—and this power is mine through Christ Jesus—has freed me from the vicious circle of sin and death.” (Romans 8:2)*** Are you struggling with the same sinful problem over and over again?   On the cross, Jesus paid for the penalty of your sins so you don’t have to pay for it. All of your sins—even the ones you haven’t committed yet—have been paid for on the cross. But Jesus not only paid for your sin. He also paved a way for the Holy Spirit to enter into your life and break the *power* of sin over your life. Now you have a power you didn’t have before—the power to say no to sin. It’s more than willpower. It’s Holy Spirit’s power! So, if you are a Jesus follower and have the Holy Spirit in your life, why do you still struggle with sin? There is a battle going on around you. We have a very real enemy, and his name is Satan. ***“For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:12)*** There is also a battle inside of you - between your old, sinful nature and your new nature that comes from Christ. So, how do you overcome habitual sin? If you truly *want* to live your life God's way (he isn't going to force you, but I promise you, living for God is the most rewarding thing you'll ever do) then here are three places to start: A byproduct of a close relationship with God is that your desires will change. You will begin to desire what he desires for your life, and he can transform you from the inside out. ***“Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.” (James 5:16)*** Scripture teaches that we need to include others in our transformation process. This could look like getting into a life group or even seeking out a great therapist to help. Bottom line is, we need other people. That’s how God designed the transformation process to work. All that time you were spending sinning, you need to replace with something else. If your old way of coping with a hard day led you to sin, find a new, healthy way to cope with hard days. Whether that’s through listening to worship music when you are tempted, or you fill up time with physical exercise, or you start spending your time serving and doing outreach. What you do with your time when you are trying to break away from an old sin pattern, matters. The transformation process takes time. He is still working in you. If you follow Jesus, God's power is in you and God is for you in overcoming habitual sin. ***“And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.” (Philippians 1:6)*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Serve God. But, how can we actually *serve* God? We can’t see him. How do we serve an invisible God? Jesus teaches that we serve God by serving others. He said, even if we give a cup of water to somebody who’s thirsty, and we do it in the name of Jesus, that’s as if we did it to him, God. We serve God by serving others. ***For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,*** ***I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’*** ***“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?*** ***When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’*** ***“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’*** We were put on this planet to make a difference. God put us here to make a difference with our life and to leave the world a better place. ***Romans 6:13 “Give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.”*** You know the talents that you’ve got? They’re not for your benefit. God gave you your talents for the benefit of other people. If you think your talents are simply for you to make a lot of money, retire, and die, you’ve missed the point of your life. God gave you talents to benefit others, not yourself. And God gave other people talents that benefit you. Whether you are a musician or an accountant, a teacher or a cook, God gave you those abilities to serve others.  ***“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms”* (1 Peter 4:10 NIV).** In what ways has God called you to use your gifts, talents and experiences to serve others? How have you been obedient? It is my hope that you will take a step toward using what God has given you to serve others this year. 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It’s so practical. In other words, has worry every actually made anything better? Nope. Has worry ever helped fix your problem? Never.  There is NO power in worry. Now, there IS power in prayer. Yet, we often turn to worry before we turn to prayer.  And, there is a difference between worrying about something and thinking about it a lot and taking it to God in prayer. Praying about a problem is having a conversation with God about it. It’s going to the power source with your problem and asking him to help you, and then choosing to let him. The Bible says in ***1 Peter 5:7, “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” (NLT)*** God *personally* cares about you and for your needs. So, all those things you’re stressed, anxious, and worried about? Let them go. Give them to God. Again, how do you “give them” to God? You talk to him about it and then choose to trust him. Whenever you are tempted to worry, you get God involved. You tell him. Then, you surrender your worried feelings over to him and choose to trust him instead. Worry also robs you. How? ***“So don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have its own worries. Each day has enough trouble of its own” (Matthew 6:34 NCV).*** If you’re worrying about tomorrow, you can’t enjoy today. You miss today’s blessings. It’s okay to plan for tomorrow, but you have to live for today. Also, when you’re always worried about tomorrow, the future gets overwhelming. But God will give you the grace and strength you need when you get there. Right now, you only need enough power for today. If you want to lower the stress in your life, worry about nothing and pray about everything. How you react is your choice when you are tempted to worry. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It requires a lot of strength, a lot of energy to live life especially when we're trying to do the right thing rather than the easiest thing. There are a lot of people in life that don't try to do the right thing; they just want to do whatever's the easiest thing. We can coast through life if we always do the easiest thing. But when we're coasting, we're always going downhill.   On the other hand, when we try to do the right thing, even though it's not the easiest thing—that requires energy. That requires effort and strength. Ever get tired of doing what's right? Sure. Because it's tough moving against the flow, When all the culture is going one way and we're trying to do the right thing, it's tough. The more we try to do what's right, the more energy it's going to require. Yet God says in **Galatians 6:9** ***“So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.”*** But where do we get the power to do the right thing when we don't feel like doing it and we're dead tired? **2 Cor. 1:21-22** ***“It is God who enables us, along with you, to stand firm for Christ. He has commissioned us, and he has identified us as his own by placing the Holy Spirit in our hearts…"***   The key to not getting tired and giving up and doing the right thing is allowing the Holy Spirit to work in us and through us. It's He who energizes us, not us in our own power.   The reason why some of us are tired all the time is because we are TRYing to live the Christian life and that doesn't work. We're TRYing to be like Jesus. We're TRYing to do good. We're TRYing to keep the Ten Commandments. We're TRYing to be a person of integrity. We're TRYing, TRYing... And we get tired.   People say "It's so hard to be a Christian today!" It's not hard. It's impossible. The only perfect person who ever lived was Jesus Christ. He's the only one who ever lived the Christian life perfectly. What we need to do, rather than TRY to be like Jesus, LET Jesus be Jesus IN us. Let Jesus be Jesus through us. Stop TRYing and TRYing and just start TRUSTing and TRUSTing.  The key to the Christian life is not TRYing, it's TRUSTing. It's not psych yourself up, work real hard, try to do your best and perform so God will smile at you. It's relax, trust and let Christ live through you. Be obedient in the little things. Allow the Holy Spirit to work on you from the inside out. The closer you grow in relationship with Jesus, the more you will start to be like Him. You start with Jesus, and you’ll begin to pick up his desires and character, NOT the other way around.  Trying to live the Christian life in your own strength doesn't ever lead to freedom. Trusting and following Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit does. In fact, that difference changes everything. 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It's all by grace. This verse not talking about physical poverty. He's not talking about physical poverty. He's talking about spiritual poverty... recognizing my sinfulness, recognizing my helplessness, recognizing my hopelessness. Another translation of this verse says, *"Blessed are those who recognize that they are spiritually helpless."* That's what he's talking about... spiritually helpless. I've got to face the truth about me. I've got to stop living in denial. Jesus said, *"The truth will set you free."* So I have to face the truth about me. The problem is that, the truth can be painful. It feels a whole lot safer to NOT handle the truth about me. The truth sets me free, but first it makes me miserable when I realize what needs changing in my life. So, I have to humbly admit that I need help. That's being honest. The good news is our habits and our hurts and our hang-ups can be healed. The bad news is it takes humility. We've got to humble ourselves and swallow our pride.  ***James 4:16 (NIV) "God opposes the proud and gives grace to the humble."***  What is grace? Grace is the power we need to change. It isn’t going to happen by will power. Will power doesn't work. Because we get tired. What we need is the grace of God.  There are things that we need to admit about ourselves if God's going to bless our life. Why? We live in a broken world and in a fallen world nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn't work perfectly, the economy doesn't work perfectly, our relationships don't work perfectly, our marriages don't work perfectly. Everything is broken.  Have you noticed your body doesn't work perfectly? Even our DNA is broken. God never intended for there to be deformities in the world, physical deformities, emotional deformities, mental deformities. But we live in a broken world. We're all in the same boat. Nobody is perfect. I'm broken. It takes humility to admit that. ***Proverbs 28:13*** ***“People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy”*** Genesis 3 Adam in the Garden of Eden right after he sins he says *"I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."* What's the first fear? The fear of exposure that somebody's going to find out what I'm really like on the inside. People have been hiding ever since. But, we can never find true healing when we are hiding our real selves. When we won't even admit who we really are, we rob ourselves from the full power of God's grace.  The truth is, we're all in the same boat. We are all broken. The first thing we have to do if we are going to be poor in spirit is humbly admit that we don't have it all together. None of us do.  The world needs to see more Christians willing to admit that they don't have it all together. 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And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”*** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Are you distracted, Like Martha? Too busy doing "good things" that you miss the Main Thing? Are you stressed out because of your schedule?  Whenever I get under stress it means I've taken my eyes off the Lord. It means I've started looking at something else. I'm looking at the circumstance instead of looking at the Lord.   Some of us say, "I need more time*."* We don't need more time. We all have the same amount of time -- 168 hours a week. What we need is more time with God. And "more time with God" isn't going to happen unless you're intentional about it. Are you making time to get to know God? I'm not saying ***taking*** time, I'm saying ***making*** time. You make time by saying no to some things that are keeping you from the Main Thing. If we say, "I don't have time to sit down and pray everyday. I don't have time to sit down and read the Bible." Then we're too busy! Many people relegate God to spare time, but find very little of it. We should not give God the leftovers. Jesus said, ***“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matthew 6:33).*** What are “these things” that will be added? The necessities of life and God’s blessing. When God is placed first, He helps us prioritize. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Until you understand that, life will never make sense.** ### God says, “I want top priority in your life.” He deserves to be number one in our life because He made us. ### What does it mean to "not have any other god besides Me"? “No other gods? I thought there was only one God.” The word "god" is written with a small "g". He's not talking about "THE God"; He's talking about little gods.   ### What is a god? A god is anything that dominates our life, anything that controls our life. Can a career be a god? You bet it can. Can another person be a god? Yes. Can a sport be a god? Even good things that God has created for us to enjoy, become gods if we give them first place in our life. God says, "I deserve first place in your life."   ### How do you do that, practically? What does that look like? ### **F – I Put God First In My FINANCES** ### Put God first in our finances. Let's just start with the most difficult one.   ### ***Prov. 3:9-10 Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. Then he will fill your barns with grain, and your vats will overflow with good wine.*** ### God says, “Give Me the first part back and I'll bless all the rest.” God has said that money is the number one test of our priorities. The way we spend our money says what's first in our life.   ### ***Deut. 14:23 (LB) "The purpose of tithing is to teach you to put God first in your lives."***   ### What's tithing? God says that the first 10% of all I make goes back to Him.  Why 10%? That's just what He said. The purpose is simply to teach us to put God first in our lives. I don't know any clearer, simpler advice to give you as a pastor that cares about you than to say, if you're in a financial mess right now, step one is put God first in your finances. Whatever we want God to bless, we put Him first in it.  ### **I – I Put God First In My INTERESTS** ### If God is really going to be number one, I put Him first in my interests. That means in my fun times, recreation and hobbies.  ### ***I Corinthians 10:31 Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.*** ### Does that include going on vacation? Yes. We can eat to the glory of God, we can play golf to the glory of God, we can go fishing to the glory of God, we can collect stamps to the glory of God. How do we do that? In everything we do, we put God first. Do it with an attitude of gratitude. You enjoy the gifts and abilities He's given you with a grateful heart.  Whatever you do.  ### You can tell what a person's priorities are by seeing what they get excited about. What gets you excited?  That's what's important to you. What do we talk about the most? I know people who can talk for hours on end about other people's lives. But they couldn't talk three minutes about the Lord. If He's first in our life we're going to make God a part of our conversation. We won't be ashamed to talk about Him because He's first.  ### **R – I Put God First In My RELATIONSHIPS** ### If we want God first in our life we're going to have to choose our friends carefully.   ### ***Prov.13:20 Walk with the wise and become wise; associate with fools and get in trouble.*** ### Why is that? Because we become like the people we spend the most time with. If we spend time with people who take God lightly, we will tend to become a casual believer. But if we spend time with people who are committed and take God and His word seriously we will become a stronger, committed Christian. Whoever we spend time with that is what we're going to be like.   ### **S – I Put God First In My SCHEDULE** ### Put God first in our schedule, in our time.   ### ***Eph. 5:16-17 “Make the most of every opportunity for doing good in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lord wants you to do.”***  ### How do I put God first in my schedule? I ask Him to help me use my time wisely. We get up, make a TO DO list of things we have to do and we say, "God, which of these things do You want me to do? I have 17 things to do today and I only have time for 5."  ### How do we select? We ask God to help us. We have just enough time to do God's will. Since God made us, He has a plan for our life. If we find ourselves having more things to do than we have time to do, it means we're doing some things that aren't God's will. When we start feeling frustrated and hassled and frazzled it's because we're trying to do more than God wants us to do.   ### ***Mark 1:35 Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place to pray.*** ### We can get so busy that we forget God. Schedule a daily appointment with God. ### **T – I Put God First In My TROUBLES** ### When we face unexpected problems and pressures, when we have a crisis, who do we turn to? God says, "Turn to Me first when you've got a problem."   ### Prayer should not be our last resort, it should be our first option. Make God our first resort in a crisis. He says He is an ever present help a refuge in time of need. God is waiting. He commands us to turn to Him first. ### ***Psalm 50:15 Call on me when you are in trouble, and I will rescue you, and you will give me glory.”*** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It’s also the greatest re-energizer when you’re worn out. ### We’ve all gone through a lot of stress the last few years, and some of us don’t have as much energy as we used to. Chronic stress has drained us as so much in our lives has changed. ### Are you feeling fatigued? That’s natural. It’s what chronic stress does to our bodies. No matter how much sleep we get at night, we wake up tired or start to drag a few hours into the day. If you feel like you’re just trying to get by, you are not alone. ### If you’re feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, stressed out, and like you’re barely hanging on, then you need to remember Isaiah 40:28: ***“Don’t you know? Haven’t you heard? The LORD is the everlasting God; he created all the world. He never grows tired or weary”* (GNT).** ### God created the entire universe in six days—and he only rested on the seventh day to model a Sabbath for us. He never gets tired! He is never overwhelmed or worn out. He never gets stressed. He can handle anything—including all the things you can’t. ### If you spend more time with God, who never grows tired or weary, then you’re going to have more energy. Spending time with God is not a burden or a drudgery or a drain—it’s the opposite! He gives strength to those who are weary. He gives peace and rest. ### Matthew 11:28-30 says, ***“******Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”*** ### If you’re stressed, go to the source of peace and rest. He can give you rest for your SOUL, just like that verse says. He can give you inner peace. ### Today, Jesus invites all of us who feel worried and burdened, from whatever has made us feel overwhelmed, exhausted and guilty, to come to Him. ### Don’t you want rest for your soul? It is available to those to come to Jesus. Turn to him daily, and he will give you rest for your soul. ### How will you respond to Jesus' invitation? ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Dependence on *God* is key, especially in this day and age when we can't depend on much else. ### God tells us that he wants us to depend on him and trust him every day. God wants us to depend on him, lean on him, to need him. As Americans, I think a lot of us struggle with this. It’s not the cultural norm to want to need someone. But, we DO need God. It’s okay to be needy when it comes to recognizing our need for him. ### And *saying* we depend on God is one thing, but actually following through and depending on him in uncertain times is another. Do we *actually* spend our lives depending on God? Do we really trust him? Or, do we try to take control or worry? Do we focus on what WE can do in our own strength and rush ahead of God’s plans to problem solve, or do we focus on simply depending on God to lead us? ### The Bible says the way to depend on God is one day at a time. He says, “I want you to trust me one day at a time. We’ll worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. We’ll worry about next week, next week. We’ll worry about next month, next month. I don’t want you worrying about that. In fact, I don’t want you worrying at all. I want you to take it one day at a time.” ### How do you do that? How do you trust God just for today? ### ***Philippians 4:6 “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.”*** ### **1\. WORRY ABOUT NOTHING.**   ### That’s the first step: worry about nothing. He says, “I don’t want you worrying about anything.”  ### Why is worry such a big deal? Why does God say “I don’t want you worrying?” Every time you worry you’re saying, “God, I don’t believe your promises. God, I don’t really believe you love me. God, I don’t believe you’ll take care of me. God, I don’t believe you’ll meet all my needs.” ### Make the choice to make your “worry list” into your “prayer list.” There is a big difference. ### **2\. PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING.**   ### He says, “Here’s the alternative: I don’t want you worrying. I want you praying.” Worry about nothing, pray about everything. ### You’ve got two choices. You can worry or you can pray. Every day you’re doing one or the other. Every time you worry, you’re not praying. Every time you pray you’re not worrying. You can either pray or panic. You can worry or you can worship. ### Worry has never solved a problem. It’s never solved a single problem. It’s stewing without doing. It is the most useless emotion. But prayer can change things. ### Are you willing to depend on the Lord, even if it means potentially feeling needy? Or, Do you need to feel like you are in control all the time? I think a lot of people, especially Americans don't feel comfortable "needing" someone. But here's the truth: Living the Christian life in your own strength is EXHAUSTING, and well, impossible. Depend on the Lord instead. Tell him your needs. Let HIM take care of your problems. 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Whether it’s a waitress, a waiter, a clerk, an employee, a secretary, your children, or your spouse, how you treat those who serve you tells a great deal about you. ### Jesus tells us, *“Do to others as you would have them do to you”* (Luke 6:31 NIV). That may be the simplest yet most important character test in the Bible. ### Social psychologist Eric Hoffer once said, “Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” It takes no intelligence or effort at all to be rude. ### The best place to practice this important character trait of respect is at home. More marriages are ruined by rudeness than anything else. When I used to do marriage counseling, I was amazed at how many marriages are buried by one little dig after another. ### Have you noticed that sometimes we’re the most disrespectful to the people we care about the most? ### Our homes should be safe places to express our emotions and practice forgiveness and grace—but they are too often the place where we think we can get away with the most unkindness. I know people who treat their families in ways they would never treat a stranger. ### The mark of a Christian is LOVE. ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Can strangers tell you are a follower of Jesus by the way you treat them? Even when you're in a rush? Can your family tell? If your character was being judged by the way you treat people who serve you, how do you think it would be assessed? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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They are simple. Eat right, exercise, drink water, get rest. We *know* the right things to do, but do we always do them? Not everyone. Not all the time.  ### The apostle Paul gives us five, simple exercises for a happy heart. They are *simple*. But simple does not always mean easy. These exercises may be simple to understand, but they sure are a lot harder to do. ### No matter what you're facing, no matter what you’re going to face this next week, you’re not going to face it alone. God is with you, He is in you and He is for you. But, we have to remember this and then live like we believe it.  ### ***Philippians 2:13 “For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.”***   ### **I need to be grateful and never grumble.** ### We are as happy as we choose to be. ### ***Philippians 2:14-15a “Do everything without complaining and arguing, so that no one can criticize you.”***   ### That may be one of the most difficult verses in the Bible. Would you agree with that? Do everything without complaining or arguing so that nobody can criticize you. We are complainers. The Bible says if we want to be happy we’ve got to be grateful and never grumble. ### **I need to keep my conscience clear.** ### Because one of the things that causes us to lose our happiness is feeling guilty or feeling ashamed. The Bible says if you want to be happy you’ve got to get rid of guilt. You cannot be guilty and happy at the same time.  ### ***Philippians 2:15 “Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.”***   ### And, the best part about this step is that scripture tells us time and time again that God is quick and faithful to forgive. We don't have to beg him or hope that he will forgive us. He promises to forgive us if we turn to him. ### **I need to memorize God’s Word & live it.** ### *Philippians 2:16 “Hold firmly to the Word of Life.”*    ### Usually we’re looking for happiness in all the wrong places. God says happiness is found in the path of God’s commands. God's Word is truth. God's Word contains promises and hope that we can cling to even when we don't "feel" happy, it can give us inner peace and joy that transcends our circumstances. ### **I need to use my life to serve God by serving others.** ### If we're serious about happiness, we need to use our lives to serve God by serving others. ### ***Matthew 25:40 “I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’"*** ### When you’re polite to people, when you’re nice to people, when you’re friendly, when you’re helpful, when you serve others, God says, “it’s like serving me.” ### Happiness comes from service. God wired the universe so that you are most happy when you are giving your life away. Why? Because he wants us to become like him. ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) **I need to remember that God is with me, he’s in me and he’s for me.** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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They had prayed for God to intervene and heal a family member, but the family member died. They also had prayed for God to keep their parents marriage together, but their parents split up anyway. They even had prayed for God to heal their pet, but the dog died anyway. The conclusion they came to was that God either didn’t care or that they just didn’t have enough faith.   ### I’ve met a lot of people who have been Christians a long time and wonder why God doesn’t answer our ### prayers. They wonder why God doesn’t come through for us. ### Maybe you’ve even felt that way before. ### Somebody told you that if you just have enough faith, you can move a mountain. But then, in your experience, you felt like your ### faith wasn't enough. It wasn't "working for you." The mountain didn't move. ### I think it's important that we understand what faith is and isn't. Today, we are going to break down what faith is NOT, and tomorrow ### we will explore what true, Biblical faith IS. ### Here’s what faith is not. ### **Faith is not a POWER or a FORCE.**   ### Faith isn’t Star Wars. Faith isn’t karma. Faith isn’t, “If I believe, I’ll receive, if I believe enough, if I can get enough faith.” ### Faith isn’t something that stands outside of God. Sometimes faith is presented this way. Here’s me, there’s God, and over there is faith. ### Somehow, I’m going to tap into the power of faith and faith is going to throw a lasso around God’s neck and then faith is going to pull God in ### my direction and I will be able to get God to do something. ### That is not what the scripture teaches. Faith is not a power that we tap into. Faith isn’t something we harness. Faith isn’t something ### we dip into, tap into, meditate ourselves into. Faith is none of those things. Not Biblical faith. It doesn’t matter how much we have. In fact, ### Jesus taught one time if we have little bitty pea-sized faith we can do great things. Because the issue is not the size of our faith it is ### the OBJECT of our faith.   ### The other thing that faith is not.   ### **Faith is not a FORMULA.**   ### Faith isn’t something that we figure out and once we get it figured out then God does things for us. “Prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer, go to ### church. Nope. That wasn’t the combination. Prayer, prayer, go to church, prayer, fast. Nope. That wasn’t it either.”  ### Prayer’s not a formula. It’s not, “If we, then God.” If we do enough then God will, and the more we do the more God does. That’s not biblical ### faith.   ### **Faith is not the same as confidence.**   ### This is really important because we use the words faith and believe in a way that is synonymous with the ### word confidence. For example we say, “I believe my team is going to win. I have faith in my team.” That’s the same as saying I ### have confidence in my team. We use those English words interchangeably. Biblical faith is not simply confidence. “I believe I’m going to get ### the deal. I believe he’s going to ask me out. I believe we’re going to win. I believe. I have faith. I just know it.”   ### Tomorrow we will talk about what faith IS. ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Faith takes it a step farther. Let’s go back to the story of Noah to look at this. He built an ark to save his family. ### ***Hebrews 11:7 It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before.***  ### Now *why* did Noah build the ark?  ### Did the story go like this? Noah is looking around going, “Boy, I think everybody in the world is evil. Let’s get the family together.  ### We’re going to pray. ‘God, we just pray that you would kill everybody. We pray that you would like rain, rain down on everybody and to show you ### how much faith we have in you we’re going to build a boat.’ Then, God’s going, “Well, I really hadn’t thought of that but gosh, look at their ### faith. They’re building that boat, I don’t feel like I have any choice. Okay, Noah, tell me when you are ready.”  ### No! The story went nothing like that. Who initiated the whole deal with Noah and the Ark and the flood? *God* did. ### That wasn’t Noah’s idea. But look what the text says, “It was by faith that Noah built a large boat.” Noah built the Ark by faith. Not hope. ### He didn’t just hope God was going to do what he said he was going to do… he had faith. “I believe this is your idea and I believe it’s going to ### rain. Let’s get building.” That’s a picture of how you do something by faith.  ### **The BRIDGE between hope and faith is the PROMISE of God.**   ### That the bridge between what we can hope for to what we can trust God for is the promise of God.  Noah built an Ark because God made a promise. “It is going to rain.” Noah said, “I believe you.”   ### **Faith: is confidence that God is WHO He says He is and that He WILL DO everything He has promised to do.**   ### That’s all faith is! That’s what Noah acted on. “I believe you are who you say you are. If you say it’s going to rain, I think you can make ### it rain. You want us to build a boat? We’re going to build a boat.” God said, “That’s an act of faith.” ### We can come to God and ask for anything we want. We can hope that he answers our prayer. We have faith that he *can* answer our prayers the way we ask, but you can’t “faith” your way into getting God to do what you want.  ### Because faith isn’t a power or a force. ### Faith is simply confidence that God *can* do what we’ve asked him to do. ### Now, **if God makes a promise,** just like Noah, we CAN have faith that God WILL do what he said he is going to do. God is faithful to answer his promises, always. ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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And the peace I give isn’t fragile like the peace the world gives. So don’t be troubled or afraid”*** **(John 14:27 TLB).** ### The kind of peace the world gives is temporary. It’s fragile. In the last 300 years, there’s been nearly 300 peace treaties signed—and almost none of them were kept. ### The peace that comes from the world is totally circumstantial. If you have a good job, then you’re at peace. But if you lose your job, then you’re not at peace anymore. If you’ve got money in the bank, then you’re at peace. But when that money is gone, then you’re not at peace anymore. ### Jesus gives you a different kind of peace. The Bible calls it ***“peace . . . which surpasses all understanding”*** **(Philippians 4:7 ESV).** ### What does that mean? It means you have peace when there’s no obvious or visible reason why you should be at peace. Everything around you could be in chaos, but for some unexplainable reason, you are at peace. That is the peace that surpasses understanding—and it can only come from Jesus, the Prince of Peace. ### Jesus wants to give you that kind of peace, so you won’t be troubled or afraid. ### Whenever Jesus walks into a room, he fills that room with peace. Do you have rooms in your heart that are full of worry, upset, anxiety, or fear? Those are the rooms you haven’t invited Jesus into. ### Your worries reveal the areas you have not given over to God. That could include your finances, your health, your dating life, your career, your parenting, your schedule, or your ministry. Whatever it is, you have to let it go. You have to give it over to Jesus, if you want to experience peace that lasts and doesn’t waver with the ups and downs of life. ### Here’s the only way you’re going to have real peace: Give every part of your life to God to use for his purpose. Then you’ll have peace that will stand up to all of life’s pressures. ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Or, do you wonder why God seems to answer other people’s prayers, but not yours? ### Are you missing something? What do other people know that you don’t know when it comes to prayer? ### Here are some truths about prayer that might help. ### First, if you go to God in prayer, he DOES answer. Spending time with him every day (by praying persistently and reading God’s Word) will help you to hear his voice will help you be able to discern when God answers. ### God does answer. But, God may not always answer the way you *like*. Scripture encourages us to pray persistently, and to have faith that God not only hears our prayers but also will answer them. ### Jesus, himself, said, ***“If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.” (Matthew 21:22)*** ### What does that mean? ### This doesn’t mean God will give us anything we want, if we just pray hard enough. Prayer isn’t a way to manipulate God into doing YOUR will. ### It’s been said that God actually answers our prayers in one of three ways: Either “Yes,” or “No,” or “Wait.” ### Because God knows far better than we do what’s best for us, and often what we think will be the best thing for us, really isn’t. In other words, we see only part of the picture, but God sees the WHOLE picture (from the beginning of time to the end of the age), and He knows far better than we do what’s best for us and those we love. ### When God *appears* to be silent, He may ACTUALLY be telling us, “No” or “Wait.” ### If you have children, do you give them anything they ask for, if they just keep asking and asking? No, of course not. You are wiser and more experienced than they are, and you know they don’t need everything they want. In fact, you know that some of the things they’re demanding could actually hurt them. You love them—and because you love them, you sometimes have to say “No.” ### In a far greater way, God knows what is best for us—and because He loves us, He sometimes tells us “No” or “Wait.” ### Habakkuk 2:3 says, ***“The time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, do not despair, for these things will surely come to pass. Just be patient! They will not be overdue a single day!”*** ***(TLB)*** ### A delayed answer to your prayer, or a “wait,” is still an answer. Even though we would rather God move at our timing, we have to trust that He knows best. His timing is best. God doesn’t abide by our schedules. ### And, God’s apparent silence doesn’t mean He hasn’t heard our prayers. ### The Psalmist declared, ***“Evening, morning and noon I cry out in my distress, and he hears my voice” (Psalm 55:17).*** ### More than once I’ve asked God to do something that I was convinced must be right, and I was disappointed when it didn’t happen or it didn’t happen in MY timing. But later I realized it hadn’t been God’s will, and I was thankful He had said “No” or “Wait.” ### God’s delays, his “no’s” and his “wait’s” are actually a blessing. ### Be encouraged… The Bible says, ***“If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us” (1 John 5:14).*** ### God is not ignoring you. He loves it when you come to him in prayer. Keep seeking him and pray persistently. ### By the way, there is one prayer that God always answers with a “Yes”—and that is a prayer that asks Jesus to come into our life. If you have never done so, I encourage you to Christ and commit your life to Him. By His death and resurrection He opened Heaven’s door for us, and ***“through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence” (Ephesians 3:12).*** ### Because of Jesus we can boldly go to God in prayer. And, God answers prayers. ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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That’s a fundamental question of life. ### It’s asked every day by countless people in countless ways: when sitting in the doctor’s office awaiting test results, when a couple puts months and months into counseling and gets nowhere, when dealing with a tax accountant in bankruptcy court, when parents experience the loss of a child. ### Is there hope when life throws a seemingly hopeless situation our way? Hope isn’t delusional. It isn’t denial. It doesn't ignore the real challenges, details of the diagnosis, or dwindling money in the checking account. ### It is not pretending. It is acknowledging the truth (sometimes the very harsh truth) of the situation and still experience an unexplainable, internal peace. It’s finding healthy ways to grieve and cope with what’s really happening. ### You can survive 40 days without food, three days without water, and eight minutes without air. But you can’t last a second without hope. It’s an essential part of life. When hope is gone, life is over. ### People everywhere are looking for hope in all the wrong places. They look for it in their relationships, in self-help books, in religion, and in self-righteousness. ### But there is only one place to find real hope. Hope that lasts. Hope that can actually get you through the worst possible pain. ### The Bible says real hope is found by turning to God: ***“May God, the source of hope, fill you with joy and peace through your faith in him. Then you will overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit”*** ***(Romans 15:13 GW).*** ### When we place our faith in him, he provides joy, peace, and hope that overflows. It's a supernatural gift of hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. He is the source of hope. Not our health. Not our security. Not our world leaders. God is the only source of hope that can get you through the real-life hard stuff that we as humans go through. ### We all need that kind of hope. The world needs it, and it's our job to share it. ### At the end of the book of Ezekiel, God says, “I am *Jehovah Shammah*.” In Hebrew that means, “I am the God who is always there.” God is always there. He’s in your past, so he can heal your past wounds and trauma. He is in your present, so you are not alone. And, he is in your future. ### And, we ultimately have the hope of heaven. Even when life here on Earth is over, that is NOT the end of the story. ### Jeremiah 29:11 says, ***“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.******”*** ### When you trust in him, the Holy Spirit works in you to fill you with hope that God is in control, he loves you, and he is working things out for your good. ### Romans 8:28, ***"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who\[******a******\] have been called according to his purpose."*** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But when God talks about gossip, he puts it on the list with things like sexual immorality and murder. Why? Because it is so destructive to relationships. Gossip can tear apart friendships, families, and churches. ### What is gossip? It’s when you talk about someone behind their back rather than going to that person directly. It’s sharing information about someone with another person who is not part of the problem or the solution. In its essence, gossip is a form of retaliation. ### I love these very practical, and kind of blunt truths about gossip from the book of Proverbs: ### We all have people in our lives who exasperate us. They might be demanding, disapproving, or demeaning. Perhaps they’re self-centered and focus every conversation on themselves. Or maybe they just love to argue or complain. ### Whatever they do, it drives you over the edge. It makes you want to call up your best friend and say, “You won’t *believe* what *they* did!” ### In the short term, gossip may make you feel better—but it actually lets the person you’re gossiping about win. It allows that person to control your conversations and emotions. ###  Suddenly you’re spending your time talking about that person instead of all the positive things in your own life. ### Gossip is incredibly destructive too. It separates close friends. It can even destroy your life. But you don’t have to let it. It’s your choice not to gossip—and to instead choose to bless the other person. ### The Bible says in ***1 Peter 3:9, “Do not do wrong to repay a wrong, and do not insult to repay an insult. But repay with a blessing, because you yourselves were called to do this so that you might receive a blessing” (NCV).*** ### You can gossip and miss out on God’s blessing. ### Or you can choose to have positive conversations and use words that lift others up. In doing so, you will receive God’s blessing in your life. ### ***Ephesians 4:29*** ***“******Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.”*** ### As Christ followers, we are to be set apart. We are called to be peace-makers, not gossips. We are called to unify. Gossip is the opposite of unity. And, one day, we as believers, will have to give an account before the Lord for every idle word we speak. ### ***Matthew 12:36, "And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak."*** ### None of us are perfect, and God offers forgiveness, but I don't know about you... but I want my list of idle words to be pretty short when I stand before the Lord. Bottom line is: God cares about what you say about people. ### When you are tempted to gossip or even join-in a conversation where someone else is gossiping, I encourage you to pray this verse to God… ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***Proverbs 17:9*** ***“******Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.”*** ***Proverbs 16:28*** ***“A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends”*** ***Proverbs 11:13*** ***“A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.”*** ***Proverbs 20:19*** ***“A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid anyone who talks too much.”*** ***Proverbs 18:6-7*** ***The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating. The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives.”*** ***Proverbs 19:14 says, “******May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.******”*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Then you have to embrace the experiences of your life—the good ones, the bad ones, the ones you may feel ashamed of—and stop running from your past. ***Galatians 3:4 says, “Were all your experiences wasted? I hope not!” (NCV).*** Don’t run away from your past! The past can be painful, but running away from it just wastes the pain. Nothing *good* can come out of hiding or ignoring or denying your past. God can use *every* experience in your life for good, but you’ve got to stop running from them. Instead, you must allow God into your past to heal it, *then* He will use it for good. Maybe your parents weren’t very loving, maybe you weren’t that great in school, maybe you weren’t the football captain or the prom queen. Maybe you have major regrets. But, these experiences (the good, bad and the ugly) happened. Own them. Stop pushing the bad experiences out of your mind. ***Deuteronomy 11:2 says, “Remember today what you have learned about the LORD through your experiences with him” (GNT).*** In other words, remember the lessons your experiences have taught you. How do you do that? The best way to remember the lessons and experiences of your life is to keep a journal. I’m not talking about a diary. A diary is a daily list of what you did: “Today I went to the store and bought milk.” With a journal, you don’t necessarily write in it every day. But every time you have an important lesson, you write it down so you won’t forget it: “That was painful. I learned that the hard way. I don’t want to forget that.” To remember what you’ve learned about God, keep a journal. Then you can look back and remember what God taught you. In the dark times of your life, you can be encouraged and know that God is still working for your good. What experience from your past do you need to embrace so God can start using it for good? I encourage you to let God into that past experience. Allow him to heal you and love you. Be honest with him, and he can use anything for good. ***Romans 8:28, “******And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.”*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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A bundle of sticks is hard to break. There are some advantages to going it alone in life. But there are also dangers in trying to make it through life all by ourselves. It’s our choice. We can decide to go it alone. Alone can be less messy or work when times are good. Or we can decide to “bundle” with other believers. There are distinct advantages to this. In fact, it is the way that God intended us to do life. Here are some reasons why I would encourage you to find a small group of believers to do life with. (This is more than just mingling with people at church on Sunday morning, it’s getting close to a few other believers in a life group setting, hanging out and being friends outside of the four walls of the church). **1.  WHEN I BUNDLE WITH OTHERS THERE WILL BE SOMEONE THERE TO PICK ME UP WHEN I FALL DOWN** ***Eccl. 4:10 If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.*** No matter how self-reliant and capable we may be, sooner or later something is going to knock us down. It might be because of decisions we make or because of events that are out of our control. It could be an unexpected career setback. We may lose our job. Or it could be a health problem. We may have family problems. The truth is, eventually, something is going to come into our life that will rock us to the core. When that happens, we are going to need someone to stand alongside us. Someone to encourage us to never give up. Someone to pray for us and remind us of God’s goodness and faithfulness. Someone to help us slowly get to our feet and begin to put our lives back together again. We need friends.  ***Eccl. 4:11 Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone?*** You know what happens if you rub two sticks together? If you rub them together long enough you get fire. Fire provides warmth, and most of us could use a little more warmth in our lives. Sometimes, because life can be cold, you just need a hug. When you need a hug – you need a friend. I hope you have someone in your life that brings you warmth. I hope that we are bringing warmth to someone else’s life. Did you know that, every time we encourage someone when they’ve had a hard day, every time we offer a kind word or a compliment, every time we give someone a hug we bring warmth? If we bundle with other sticks we will find warmth. **3.  WHEN I BUNDLE WITH OTHERS I WILL FIND PROTECTION** ***Eccl. 4:12 A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.***  When these words were written most military combat, was hand-to-hand. Soldiers went into battle with a partner, someone that could be counted on and trusted completely. They would stand back to back of one another, and always keep their backs in contact so that they could fight off whatever enemy came from any side. In a sense that’s what friends do. They guard our back and help protect us. Sometimes we need protection from ourselves, from temptations that are hard to resist. If you’ve ever tried to break a bad habit you know what this is like. Often it’s knowing that someone is walking with us that keeps us from stumbling and falling to temptation. Friends help us to grow. The writer of Proverbs puts it this way: ***Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.*** Think of a blacksmith who makes swords. He takes an iron hammer and takes a piece of iron and works on it slowly and continuously until it takes the shape and sharpness of a sword. Friends are like that, always challenging us and even pushing us to be all that God wants for us to be. That’s what happens when a we decide not to go it alone, but instead bundle with other believers – we develop a deeper relationship with God – and we grow. If you aren’t already, I encourage you to get into a life group of other believers, whether it be this fall or you commit to joining a 40 Day small group in January. Don’t wait for a storm to hit your life to find the friends you will need to hold you up. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Serve God. But, how can we actually *serve* God? We can’t see him. How do we serve a God we can’t physically see? Jesus teaches that we serve God by serving others. He said, even if we give a cup of water to somebody who’s thirsty, and we do it in the name of Jesus, that’s as if we did it to him, God. We serve God by serving others. ***For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,*** ***I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’*** ***“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?*** ***When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’*** ***“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’*** ***Matthew 25:35-40*** We were put on this planet to make a difference. God put us here to make a difference with our life and to leave the world a better place. ***Romans 6:13 “Give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.”*** You know the talents that you’ve got? They’re not for your benefit. God gave you your talents for the benefit of other people. If you think your talents are simply for you to make a lot of money, retire, and die, you’ve missed the point of your life. God gave you talents to benefit others, not yourself. And God gave other people talents that benefit you. Whether you are a musician or an accountant, a teacher or a cook, God gave you those abilities to serve others.  ***“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms”* (1 Peter 4:10 NIV).** In what ways has God called you to use your gifts, talents and experiences to serve others? How have you been obedient? This could look like so many things. Often it looks like investing your time selflessly into someone else who needs your friendship or mentorship. It could also look like feeding the homeless, volunteering with youth and pouring into the next generation, tutoring students, supporting a missionary financially, caring for an elderly neighbors yard… the list could go on forever. I encourage you to ask God to show you the needs around you and ask him where you could partner with him in serving those around you. It is my hope that you will take a step toward using what God has given you to serve others. And, I hope that you can link arms with other believers in our church to accomplish great things and meet the needs of the people around you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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When you register to walk, you will get your very own pre-built fundraising page. Then, you can post your fundraising page to your social media platforms so that people can sponsor you! **(Be sure you add "Seminole Church" as the team you are joining!)** Can't make the walk? You don't have to walk in order to be a part of this movement and support local moms and babies who need support! You can donate to the Seminole Church walking team below. We’re looking forward to joining our community to celebrate LIFE in Central Florida. Register as a fundraising walker and JOIN THE MOVEMENT to make a life-saving impact today! Love makes a difference. Love saves lives! **The Pregnancy Center will host our annual Walk for Life on Saturday, October 19th.** The Walk for Life is a fun, easy way for people of all ages to get involved and make a difference for LIFE! Each year, hundreds of Walkers come together from all over Central Florida to Walk for Life. 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And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.”*** John 17:21, NLT.  Our unity as God’s family, the church, is our greatest witness to unbelievers. Romans 12:10 says, ***“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”***  By *this* all people will know that you are my disciples. By what? By **our love for one another.** God’s presence in your life should make you a *more loving* person—not harsher or more opinionated or more stubborn, but more loving. God says when we have unity within the church and when we love each other, we ae showing the world that we belong to Jesus. Our unity and our love is a testimony of the power of Christ to transform lives. This doesn’t mean we agree on everything all the time, but it means we care more about other people than we do our own opinions. Also, when we submit our opinions to God and let *him* transform our hearts and minds from the inside out, we typically find that we start to agree with other believers more (because he is transforming our minds to think like Him), or you’ll find that you have more patience and understanding for those who don’t agree with you. Either way, you can do *your* part in striving for unity and peace. ***“If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone****.”* Romans 12:18, NIV *As far as it depends on you.* That means, just do your part. You can't control others, but you can do your part to try to live at peace with those around you.  I pray that Seminole Church is a church that loves people well, and lives at peace with everyone, as far as it depends on us. Our job is to keep loving each other and the community around us, and continue to tell the greatest true story ever told, the story of Jesus Christ.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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People make time for and spend money on what truly matters to them. ***“Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had”* (Philippians 2:4-5 NLT).**  A lot of people give, but they don’t do it with the right attitude. Whether they give out of guilt or pressure, or they want others to pat them on the back after they post a selfie with the person they just helped. Giving with self-serving motives doesn’t count in God’s Kingdom. Your giving should come from a place of love for God and for people. ***"Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” (Matthew 6:1-4)***  This is exactly why we, at Seminole Church, give gift cards to parents of families who are struggling around Christmas time. Instead of going out and picking gifts for some other family, we have a generous church that gives gift cards. That way, the parents of the family we are helping get to go do the shopping. The parents get the credit. It’s not about us. It’s not about a Facebook post. It’s about loving people and serving people. You can give without loving, *but you cannot love without giving*. ***“There is more happiness in giving than in receiving.”*** (**Acts 20:35)**  Even though it's not about us, it *does* feel good to give. God wants us as individuals and churches to be more generous, because it makes us more like him. He uses our giving to bless others. And, in turn, he uses our generosity to bless us. Do you want your family to be more joyful? Then be more generous as a family. Do you want to be a more joyful person? Then be more generous as a person. We are about to enter the “season of giving.” Obviously our giving isn’t limited to a season, but this fall I especially encourage you to intentionally be more generous with your time, your energy and your resources. Choose to give more than you naturally would, and then watch God bless your life because you chose to bless someone else. Choose to trust God with that. There will be several opportunities to give back to your community here at SCC in the next few months. We need candy to pass out at our Trunk’R’Treat outreach. This is one of the biggest outreaches we do all year, and even though candy may not seem like much, Trunk'R'Treat has been a catalyst for many families to get plugged in with our church and then get introduced to Jesus for the first time. Bringing a bag of candy makes you a part of that outreach. You can bring candy this Sunday if this is something you’d like to give toward. We also have Thanksgiving Bags that you can help fill in November. Thanksgiving Bags are great opportunity to help local families with Thanksgiving dinner who wouldn't normally have the means to provide their family with something special. You can also give your time and energy by walking with us in the Sanford Pregnancy Center’s Walk for Life in October 19th. [CLICK HERE](/pregnancy-center-walk-for-life-2024) to learn more about Walk for Life. You can register to walk with Seminole Community Outreach, or you can support our walkers if you can’t attend the event.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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As long as I live I’ll wholeheartedly obey” (Psalm 119:33-34 TLB).*** Obedience… wait, wait, don’t tune me out just yet. I know the word “obedience” comes with a whole lot of baggage. But obedience to God is actually KEY to living a full life. Here’s what I mean… When we obey God, it unlocks blessings in our life. This isn’t some “super-spiritual” way to manipulate God into blessing you. This is how he designed things to work. He tells you to do something, you trust him and do it (even if you don’t have all the details) and he comes through. He may have something incredible in store for you, but in order to get it, you have to take the step he’s asking you to take… obeying him. That’s called taking “a step of faith.” When we ignore God, we don’t receive those blessings. We miss out.  Sometimes, when we are waiting on God to do something in our life, he Is actually waiting on us. Are you waiting on God to change a situation? For answers? Do you want to feel closer to him? Hear his voice? If that's you, then I suggest thinking back and asking yourself, “Did God ask me to do anything that I haven’t done yet?” If you don’t know, ask him. Go to him in prayer and ask him if there is anything he wants you to do. Then do it. Even if you don't have all the answers, choose to obey him no matter what.  For some of us, obeying without all the answers is hard. But the truth is, God doesn’t owe you an explanation or reason for everything he asks you to do. Understanding can wait, but obedience can’t. Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions. In fact, you will never understand some commands until you obey them first. Often we try to offer God partial obedience. We want to pick and choose the commands we obey. We make a list of the commands we like and obey those while ignoring the ones we think are unreasonable, difficult, expensive, or unpopular. I’ll attend church but I won’t tithe. I’ll read my Bible but won’t forgive the person who hurt me. Yet partial obedience *is* disobedience. Wholehearted obedience is done joyfully, with enthusiasm. The Bible says, ***“Obey him gladly”* (Psalm 100:2a TLB).**  This is the attitude of David: ***“Just tell me what to do and I will do it, Lord. As long as I live I’ll wholeheartedly obey”* (Psalm 119:33-34 TLB).** James, speaking to Christians, said, ***“We please God by what we do and not only by what we believe”* (James 2:24 CEV).** God’s Word is clear that you can’t earn your salvation. It comes only by grace, not your effort. But as a child of God you can bring pleasure to your heavenly Father through obedience. Any act of obedience is also an act of worship. Why is obedience so pleasing to God? Because it proves you really love him. Jesus said, ***“If you love me, you will obey my commandments”* (John 14:15 GNT).** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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When you’re praying for healing and restoration, it’s okay to want a miracle. But ultimately, it should be God you seek—not a sign, prosperity, or a thousand other gifts of God. Your prayer should be, “God, I want *you*. I want to know you.” God gives many promises in the Bible about those who seek him: ***“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face . . . then I will hear from heaven”* (2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV).** ***“I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me”* (Proverbs 8:17 NIV).** ***“Anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him”* (Hebrews 11:6 NIV).** ***“If from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul . . . For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you”* (Deuteronomy 4:29, 31 NIV).** It’s rare to find someone who’s earnest about seeking God. Most of us want just enough of God to bless us, but not to change us. This means, whether or not you get the answer you want, you’ll find joy in knowing God better. Even if you don’t get what you think is best for you, you’ll be satisfied with what God thinks is best for you. I encourage you: don’t seek God in your spare moments, after you’re done with work or after scrolling social media. Make getting to know God the primary focus of your life. Olympic athletes don’t become Olympic athletes in their spare time. In the same way, you don’t become a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ by giving him your leftovers. One trap that can keep you from getting to know God better is busyness. Just like busyness can destroy your relationships, it can destroy your relationship with God. Psalm 46:10 says, ***“Be still, and know that I am God”* (NIV).** To grow in your relationship with God, you need to make time for him and *“be still.”* Just a few minutes of focused time every day can make all the difference in the world. I’m not talking hours and hours but 10 or 15 minutes each morning. Only then will you, like Paul, begin *“understanding the wonders”* of God with greater clarity.   Make this your daily prayer: “Lord, if I don’t do anything else today, I want to get to know you a little bit better and I want to love you a little bit more.” Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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God Has a Better Way ### Page ID: 6075217 ### Content: # You Don't Have to Live With Guilt... God Has a Better Way ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) No one on Earth is perfect. Every human is flawed. We’ve all been irresponsible. We’ve all screwed up. The Bible tells us, ***“Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins”* (Ecclesiastes 7:20 NLT).** We all have a “reason” to feel guilty… because we are. BUT, here is the Good News, God doesn’t want you to live with your guilt! There is a better way to live. Yes, we deserve judgment for our sins because we are guilty for doing bad things, BUT Jesus took the punishment we deserve. In fact, the Bible tells us that He has removed them ***“as far as the east is from the west”*** **(Psalm 103:12 NLT).** You don’t have to live with feeling guilty over your shortcomings. Instead, God wants you to live with a sense of promise and hope. He can even bring good out of the foolish decisions that you’ve made if you’ll give those failures to him. How do you do that? Well, God has an answer to guilt: confession. The Bible says in **1 John 1:9,** ***“If we tell Him our sins, He is faithful and we can depend on Him to forgive us of our sins. He will make our lives clean from all sin”*** **(NLV).** When you take this step, here’s what you can expect from God: **God forgives instantly.** The very moment you admit your sin to God, he forgives you. **God forgives freely.** You don’t need to earn it, and you’ll never deserve it. **God forgives completely.** He wipes your sin absolutely clean. The Bible promises that a ***“man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful. But if he confesses and forsakes them, he gets another chance”* (Proverbs 28:13 TLB).** You might have spent years working through a problem that really has a very simple solution: You just need a clear conscience. Jesus offers you that. He offers instantaneous forgiveness! God tells us, ***“I will forgive their sins and I will no longer remember their wrongs”*** **(Jeremiah 31:34 GNT).** Satan wants to keep you weighted down under the burden of guilt. He wants to keep you bound up so you can’t live in God’s freedom. But that’s not how God works. Here’s how God works: You ask for forgiveness. Then God forgives you. But then, he goes a step further and actually chooses to forget what you’ve done wrong. Are you feeling the burden of guilt today? Remember that Jesus has come to set you free. When you confess your sins, he will forgive you and set you free from your guilt. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You may think it all depends on you. You may believe things like, “If it’s to be, it’s up to me. I’ve got to hold it all together. I’ve got to make it all work.” If any of that sounds familiar… no wonder you’re stressed and tired. That’s exhausting. Jesus has a different plan for you: ***“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light”* (Matthew 11:29-30 NIV).** You say, “Wait a minute. Take something else on? That sounds like a burden. I don’t need to take on more. I’m already carrying way too much!” Let’s take another look at what Jesus is saying in Matthew 11 when he tells you to take his yoke on yourself. If you didn’t grow up on a farm, you may never have seen a yoke. A yoke is a single piece of wood that brings two farm animals together, so they can share the burden of a load. A yoke is not a harness. When you put a harness on one animal, it has to pull the whole load. But with a yoke, you team up two or more animals, so the load is shared; it’s lightened. A yoke makes life easier on the animal, not harder. When Jesus tells you to take his yoke upon yourself, it’s like he’s saying, “I never meant for you to carry all your problems by yourself. Let me help you! Team up with me, partner with me, and I will help you carry the load.” If you feel stressed right now, it means you are not yoked to Jesus Christ. Stress is a warning sign. It tells you that you’re trying to control things and carry too much on your own. Every time you get disconnected from Jesus, the stress goes up in your life. You may be a follower of Jesus Christ, but if you’re overloaded at this moment, you are not yoked up to him. But every time you get reconnected and yoked up, Jesus helps you pull the load. And your stress goes down. It’s tempting to think that the antidote to stress is escape. 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I’m afraid that I won’t be able to finish what I’ve started. I’m afraid I’m not good enough. I’m afraid of things I can’t control. I’m afraid of an uncertain future.” I want us to look at what happens when we see with eyes of fear, rather than with eyes of faith. A good example of this is in the Old Testament in the Book of Numbers, Chapter 13 and 14. Here is the background of Numbers 13-14; Moses has led the nation of Israel to freedom. He's got them free from Pharaoh and the Egyptians; they've crossed the Red Sea. They've been traveling for about two years, from Egypt, and they're coming up to a place called Kadesh. At Kadesh, they're getting ready to cross the Jordan and go into the Promised Land. This is the land that has been promised to them for 400 years. When they get up to the edge of the water, before they go in, twelve spies are chosen by Moses and they are sent in to go visit the land. When they come back, they give a mixed report. Two of the spies say, "It's incredible. It's ready for our taking. God has given us truly the Promised Land." Those two spies were named Joshua and Caleb. The other 10 spies come back and said, "Yeah, it's a great place, but…" and they have a whole list of problems on why they can't go in. They're not seeing with eyes of faith, they're seeing with eyes of fear. And because they failed to see with eyes of faith, that entire generation missed God's purpose for their life in God's will. In our own lives, what happens when we see with eyes of fear, instead of with eyes of faith? In the story, God has just delivered them from Egypt, the most powerful nation in the world and now they're worried about some local tribe. They've just defeated Pharaoh and now they're worried about somebody else.  How quickly we forget. When we look at our problems with eyes of fear, they get bigger. ***Numbers 13:31-32*** ***“We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!” So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge.”*** The majority report of the spies was negative. Only two of the spies have faith, Joshua and Caleb. Here's the problem – negative attitudes are contagious. When they walked up there to the edge, everybody was excited about going into the Promised Land. It was only when 10 come back and said, "We can't do it," that everybody changed their mind and they began to get infected with a negative attitude. ***Numbers 33:13*** ***Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what they thought, too!”*** They have been slaves for 400 years, they have been freed for 2, but they're still mentally enslaved and they still see themselves as helpless and they still see themselves enslaved. They're enslaved not by a Pharaoh now but by an idea, by an image, by a self-concept. We overestimate the problem and we underestimate our abilities. Third thing that happens when you see with eyes of fear… ***Numbers 14:1*** ***Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night.*** They had a giant pity party. “Poor us!” Now they're crying and weeping because they don't get to go into the Promised Land. What's keeping them out? Their fear. They're not living by faith. We get discouraged. Then quickly, we move to number 4 and that is, we move from discouragement to griping. We gripe about everything that's going to go wrong in our lives. ***Numbers 14:2*** ***Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they complained.*** First, they cry and now, they complain. We do the same thing when we are looking at our circumstances through eyes of fear. ***Numbers 14:3*** ***Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? …Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?*** Notice, they're blaming God for not letting them go in the Promised Land. God isn't holding them back. It's their fear that's holding them back. They're second guessing. Now, all of a sudden they're remembering the good old days of Egypt. Good old days? What's the good old days? Four hundred years of slavery, why would anybody want to go back to Egypt? It was slavery, but it was what they knew. There is no real freedom without taking risks. Safety and freedom are on opposite ends of the continuum. We're either moving more towards safety and slavery or we are moving more toward taking risks and freedom. What are you looking at with eyes of fear instead of eyes of faith? God made us to live by faith. Don't live your life in the desert, just because it's comfortable and it's what you know.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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I can SHOW up.**  ### **2\. I can SHARE their pain.** ### **3\. I can take the INITIATIVE.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) The Bible commands us, if we’re followers of Jesus Christ, to help people in pain, to help those who are in shock, to help people who are going through a difficult time. So, how *do* you help a friend who is going through a hard time?  ***Galatians 6:2 “Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.”***   That’s the first thing you do. You just show up. You don’t wait for an invitation.  I know when you see somebody who has lost their job, just discovered they’ve got breast cancer, a loved one died, somebody just asked for a divorce, a lot of times we don’t know what to say. Let me tell you something: You don’t have to say anything. In fact it would be better if you just show up and shut up. That’s the ministry of presence. You remember the story of Job, how he lost everything in one day. He lost his health, he lost his wealth and he lost his entire family to a group of terrorists. Here’s what happened after: ***Job 2:11 “When three of Job’s friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him.”***  That’s true friends. They didn’t wait for an invitation. ***Job 2:12-13 “When they saw Job from a distance,*** \[remember they’re coming to see him\] ***they scarcely recognized him. Wailing loudly,*** \[They hadn’t even got to him yet. They just see him from a far distance and they’re already crying. They began to weep aloud\] ***they tore their robes and threw dust into the air over their heads to show their grief.*** \[That’s a Middle Eastern custom that says, “We’re in this with you buddy. We feel your pain.” They tore their robes, sprinkled dust on their heads.\] ***13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words.”*** You’re going to need to use this when people are in pain around you. The greater the grief the fewer words needed. When you have a friend who’s in shock, you take the initiative. ***Proverbs 3:27 “Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it’s in your power to help them.”*** Don’t withhold good means, you do anything needed. It could mean run an errand, offer to babysit, bring a meal, mow the lawn – do good means any practical thing you can do. Let me tell you what not to do. Don’t say to somebody who had just gone through a major loss or difficulty, “Call me if you need anything.” Because now you’ve put it on them. They’ve got to work to get your help. “Call me…” You’re not taking the initiative. You’re forcing them to take the initiative. My advice: don’t even say, “How can I help?” Because when somebody’s in shock, they haven’t the slightest idea how you can help. What you want to say to these people... you give them options. Say, “I want to help. I’d like to bring you dinner – Wednesday or Thursday?” Then they have a choice. You’re not saying, “Can I do anything for you?” Just say, “I’d like to bring you dinner. Would Wednesday or Thursday work best?” You can call them and say, “I want to help. I’m going to the store, can I pick up something for you?” That’s practical. God wants us to learn how to take shock and turn it into service. You can be somebody else’s saving grace. You can be somebody else’s hope. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He wants me to be *real*.**   ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***Matthew 5:8 (NIV) Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.***  These are Jesus’ words. Notice he didn’t say, “Blessed are the religious in heart.” It’s blessed are the *pure* in heart. Some of the most unhappy people I know are religious in heart. They’re just miserable. Do you know people like that? Their whole life is a bunch of rules. All those rules are Don’ts. They want us to believe that the Christian life is just Don’t, Don’t, Don’t, Don’t, No, No, No. They want us to think that’s what life in Christ is all about. But that’s not what it’s all about. ***John 10:10 (NIV) I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.***  Not that we might have religion, but that we might have life.  *“Happy are the pure in heart.”* Not the religious in heart. In John 11 we read about the time when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. I want us to look at this for a moment, because there’s a truth here that we need to discover. Remember the Bible doesn’t just tell us the things that God did. The Bible tells us *how* God does things. ***John 11:43-44, Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in grave clothes, his face wrapped in a head cloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”*** It says his hands and feet were bound with grave clothes and his face was wrapped with a head cloth. There’s significance there. That means that nothing that binds us up and keeps us from fullness of life, nothing that trips us up as we try to follow Jesus, nothing that covers us up and keeps us hidden from the rest of the world – none of that can withstand the life-giving power of Jesus Christ.   When we gave our life to Christ, the Bible says he brought us from death into life. It’s just like Lazarus – we were brought from death into life. But there are still things in our life that keep us from fulfillment in our life.  Jesus said, “I came to give you fullness of life.” But there are things that bind us up, that hold us back, that restrict us, that keep us from finding or reaching our full potential in life. There are things that still trip us up as we try to follow Jesus – old ways of thinking, old behavior patterns, addictions, all of that kind of stuff. Things that trip us up as we go along. There are still masks that we try to hide behind because we don’t want people to see the real me. Jesus says, “I want to set you free from all of this stuff. It’s not just enough that I’m bringing you from death into life, but I want to bring you into freedom.” He does it through his people. Notice toward the end, *“Jesus said to them…”*  Who are the “them”? “Them” are the disciples, his followers. Jesus said to his followers, “*you* unwrap him and *you* let him go.” Jesus does it through his people. That’s why it’s so important for all of us to be in relationship with other followers of Christ. That’s what a small group is all about. It’s about people helping other people to walk into freedom to get free from the things that hold us back and trip us up and cover us up. Jesus says to his followers, “loosen and let him go.” Notice he doesn’t say, “loosen and then wrap him back up in another bunch of stuff.” He says, “let him go.” ***John 8:36  If the Son sets you free, you are truly free.*** It’s important to understand that we cannot make our own heart pure. Good behavior does not purify the heart. We can’t just say, “I’m going to clean up my act and behave myself and then I’ll have a pure heart.” **Good behavior does not purify the heart. But a pure heart will change our behavior.** Repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness. Repentance is what we do because our forgiveness has already been paid for. ***Romans 5:8 God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners*** He didn’t wait for us to clean up our act. While we were sinners, Christ died for us. The only way to have a pure heart is through the blood of Jesus Christ, shed on the cross for our sins. Purity of heart is the gift of God’s grace. We cannot earn it. We cannot buy it. The only way to get a pure heart is to surrender to him. Give our life to Christ. Let him forgive us of our sins and purify our heart, to give us the pure heart. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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One of my passions as a pastor is helping people discover and live out their God-given purpose. But, I think a lot of times we confuse our “calling” with our “career path” or our “assignment.” We want to know “what degree should I get, so I can fulfill my calling?” or “has God called me to be a missionary?” God doesn’t usually reveal your lifelong assignment all at once. So, how do we discover our *calling*? One. Day. At. A. Time. Walking with the Lord, connecting with him and following his direction. **Here’s what you should know about your calling that applies to today:** ***We are ALL called to Jesus. That’s your calling. We are all called into a relationship with God. Pursue*** *that* calling, and he will direct your steps, day by day. He will give you the specifics as you need them. 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And, you can’t live on this earth for long without feeling like someone has treated you unfairly. Maybe it’s a parent who put you through a miserable childhood. Maybe it’s an employer who treats you more harshly than they treat your coworkers, or they overlook you and not other people. Maybe you feel like you were handled unfairly by the legal process. Maybe you didn’t get the opportunity you thought you deserved. Whatever it is, we have all experienced this feeling of unfairness. So, how do you respond to it? You *can* choose to respond to the people who hurt you by hurting them. That’s the easiest choice to make, no doubt about it! But God gives us another option in his Word: ***“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”* (Matthew 5:43-44 NIV).** When people hurt you, they expect you to retaliate. They expect you to seek revenge. But God wants you to do the exact opposite: He wants you to respond in love. This is hard to do. Actually, without the love of Jesus in your life, it’s impossible to do. Responding to unfairness with love is a supernatural kind of love that can only come from the Holy Spirit working in your life. This doesn’t mean you’re just a doormat letting people walk all over you. It’s actually a sign of strength and intentionality. It’s a decision. If you respond to mistreatment with love, you’ll keep the other person from controlling you. You can’t control when another person treats you unfairly. You *can* control whether you get bitter in the process. You can control your response to injustice. Like I said, just because you respond to an offender lovingly doesn’t mean you continue to allow injustice. On the contrary, we must lovingly seek justice. We must work for justice in the world without retaliating. The Bible commands us to be ***“fair-minded and just. 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It also can’t be done solely with daily Bible reading or what we call a daily “quiet time.” Of course, both of these habits are beneficial to your relationship with God. But, He wants more than an appointment in your schedule. He wants to be included in *every* activity, *every* conversation, *every* problem, and even *every* thought. Scripture instructs us to, ***“Never stop praying”* (1 Thessalonians 5:17 NLT).**  Sounds like a lot, right? It’s actually not overly complicated or even time consuming. Paul’s command in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 to “pray without ceasing,” can be confusing. Obviously, it cannot mean we are to be in a head-bowed, eyes-closed posture all day long. If all of the areas of your life were like a pie chart, to pray without ceasing simply means integrating God into all the slices of your life, rather than just having a “quiet time” slice. Your time with God and your conversations with God carry over into all the slices of your life, not just the 15 minutes you read the Bible. ***Proverbs 3:6 tells us, “In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.******”*** You can include God in all of these facets of life. A common misconception is that “spending time with God” means being *alone* with him. Of course, as Jesus modeled, you need time alone with God, but that is only a fraction of your waking hours. *Everything* you do can be “spending time with God” if he is invited to be a part of it and you stay aware of his presence. You can carry on a continuous, open-ended conversation with God throughout your day, talking with him about whatever you are doing or thinking *at that moment.* The habit of “praying without ceasing” from 1 Thessalonians 5:17 means conversing with God while shopping, driving, working, or performing any other everyday task. It’s being aware of God in *every* area, not just your “quiet time” area. Time with God isn't limited to reading your Bible or a corporate worship service.  You can marvel at his creation when you notice a sunset. You can check in with him at any time during the day. You can ask him to reveal his heart toward an issue you face.  You can share with him your emotions and frustrations.  You can unload your worries onto him the moment they pop into your head. There’s countless ways to be aware of God and include him in your everyday life. And, he *wants* you to connect with him throughout the day, not just for 15 minutes of quiet time. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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God wants you to live a different kind of life. He wants you to live a life of faith, not a life of feelings. And, don’t get me wrong, your feelings matter. God gave you the ability to feel. But, feelings can’t go ABOVE faith. We can’t allow our feelings to control us. Feelings can give us some great information, but feelings shouldn’t control us. Your feelings are a gauge, not a guide. The Bible is quick to tell us that our feelings (or hearts, more accurately) can’t be trusted. ***Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding (******Prov. 3:5******).*** ***Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered (******Prov. 28:26******).*** ***The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? (******Jer. 17:9******).*** We can’t wait for our feelings to agree with what God has asked us to do in faith. Because, we don’t always feel like doing the right thing. I don’t know about you, but I don’t always feel like being nice to people. I don’t always feel like stopping what I’m doing to help someone. I don’t always feel like believing God’s promises for my life. But our goal as believers is to develop the kind of faith that persists above feelings. Again, not ignoring them completely, but choosing to move forward in faith over feelings. It’s like an Olympic athlete exercising when she doesn’t feel like it or a great musician practicing his craft, even when he’s tired. It’s the same with your relationship with God. Through the example of Moses, the Bible shows us how to begin to develop persistence. ***Hebrews 11:27 says,*** ***“It was by faith that Moses left the land of Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger. He kept right on going because he kept his eyes on the one who is invisible”*** ***(NLT).*** That’s how you get there. That’s how you persist. You begin to see the invisible. 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Then he fell to the ground and worshiped.”*** **Job 1:20 (GW)** When you were a kid, did you ever say, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?” If you’ve grown out of childhood, you know that’s just not true. We’re wounded by words and so many other things. When life’s wounds are deep, it can be hard to know how to heal. Job in the Bible was wounded in just about every way, but he found healing by worshiping—and you can, too. Job was wise, good, and very wealthy. He was a husband and father. But in one day, he lost almost everything. He lost his wealth, all of his children, and then his health to a very painful disease. He was wounded in virtually every way you can be. Yet he worshiped God instead of becoming bitter. And, in the end, God restored and even doubled all he had lost. ***Job 36:15-16 says,*** ***“Hard times and trouble are God’s way of getting our attention!*** ***And at this very moment, God deeply desires to lead you from trouble and to spread your table with your favorite food”*** ***(CEV).*** The most important time for you to worship is when your heart is breaking. Your darkest hour is when you most need to turn to God and let him help you. The first way to worship when you are wounded is grieving. Tell God exactly how you feel. Trusting him with your feelings *is* worship. That’s what Job did: *“****Job stood up, tore his robe in grief, and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground and worshiped”*** ***(Job 1:20 GW).*** Instead of suppressing your emotions, express your emotions to God. He’s not afraid of them. In fact, he has emotions, too. The Bible talks about God feeling love, anger, jealousy, and grief. God can handle your feelings. ***“Cry out in the night . . . 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Anybody can thank God for good things. But when you can thank God even in the bad times, your faith grows and your spiritual roots go deeper. In the Bible, the prophet Habakkuk was going through tough times. He said, ***“Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior”*** **(Habakkuk 3:17-18 NIV).** Habakkuk wasn’t thanking God for all the things that had gone wrong in his life. What was his cause of gratitude? *“I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.”* The Lord himself was the cause of Habakkuk’s gratitude. He wasn’t just grateful for what God has DONE (Which God has done countless things for you that you can be grateful for) but he was grateful for God himself. He was grateful for WHO God is. No matter how bad things are, there is *always* the fact that you can be thankful to God just for being God. A God who is faithful. A God who is loving and full of grace. A God who is holy and righteous and all-knowing. There are so many qualities and characteristics of God that we can be thankful for at all times. And, God has promised that even when things don’t go your way, he can work it for good in your life.  “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,\[a\] for those who are called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28) I don’t know what trials you may be facing right now, but God does, and He loves you and is with you by His Holy Spirit. I encourage you to choose gratitude one days you feel like it… and on days that you don’t. 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He takes the initiative. The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. God has shown us his love in so many ways. He showed his love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you. He showed his love by creating you. He showed his love by giving you everything you have in life. We love because God first loved us. If you want to learn how to love other people, you’ve got to first understand and feel how much God loves you. When you feel his unconditional love, you’re going to start cutting people a lot more slack. You’re not going to be as angry as you’ve been in the past. You’re going to be more patient. You’re going to be more forgiving. You’re going to be more merciful. You’re going to show other people grace. The reason why you see people who are judgmental, sarcastic, angry, self-righteous, and always putting other people down is because they don’t really grasp how much God loves them. And that usually means they don’t feel good about themselves because they don’t feel loved or forgiven. They haven’t fully understood God’s grace, and so they feel guilty and bad about themselves. And if they feel bad about themselves, they certainly don’t want you feeling good about yourself. Here’s the truth: You cannot give to others what you have not received yourself. Unlovely people are unloved people. Hurt people hurt people. If you’re filled with anger and impatience and you don’t feel loved, guess what? You won’t be able to love anybody else. You have to learn how much God loves you and let it heal your heart so his love can flow through you. It is impossible to love others until you really feel loved yourself. The Bible says, ***“We know and rely on the love God has for us”* (1 John 4:16 NIV).** Do you know the love of God? Do you rely on the love God has for you? You will have an easier time loving other people when you have God’s love flowing through you. 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Think about the way you see other people. All other people. People who think like you and who don’t. People who believe what you believe and people who don’t. People who are easy to love and people who aren’t. This is a great test of your spiritual maturity—better than asking how much of the Bible you know, how often you go to church, or whether you serve, tithe, or pray. ***1 Corinthians 1:1-13 says,*** ***“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.”*** This is saying, if you do something without love, it doesn’t count. Love is the most important thing to God. In fact, life is all about love and relationships. So, if you want to gauge your spiritual maturity, think about how you see other people. How does God see your spouse? Valuable. Acceptable. Lovable. Forgivable. Is that the way you see your spouse? How about the stranger at the grocery store? The person who cut you off in traffic? The beggar on the street? What do you see when you look at other people? Do you see them as irritations or burdens? What about the people you work with? Do you see them as enemies? Competition? Or do you see them the way God sees them? It doesn’t matter who they are, what they’ve done, or even what they believe. Christ died for them. Jesus loves them. God has a plan for every person, and he wants them to have a relationship with him. The Bible says in ***Mark 6:34,*** ***“When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd”*** ***(NIV).*** That’s the way Jesus sees people. And that’s the way you can grow to see people too. I encourage you to ask God to transform the way you see and love people around you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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What is love? Can you accidentally “fall in love?” How does love act? Well, first, Love is not a feeling. Love is a choice. Even when you don’t feel like it, you have the ability to choose to do it anyway. Acting in love when you don’t feel like it is actually a greater expression of love than when you *do* feel like it. Love is getting up in the middle of the night to help a sick kid after you’ve already had a long day and went to bed late. Love is being patient with your spouse when they’re irritable. Love is giving a person what they need, not what they deserve. When you love in spite of your feelings, that’s called loving by faith. And it doesn’t just change the other person. It changes you, too, and makes you more like Jesus. ***"Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God” (1 John 4:7 NLT).***  Love is a skill. If you struggle to love well, here’s some good news: Love is learned!  That means the more you practice, the better you will become at it. No matter how you’ve loved or been loved in the past, you can become amazing at loving others. God wants to help you love people like he loves people. God’s Word and the Holy Spirit will teach and enable you to love others. You have to continually be filled up with his love in order to have enough love for everyone else around you.  So, God will help you love others. But to become extraordinary at it, you need to practice it over and over again. How do you do that? How do you practice loving people?  God puts us in relationships with other people to practice. Marriage is a laboratory for learning to love. Family is a laboratory for learning to love. This is one of the great reasons to be connected with a church family. You will have lots of opportunities to practice loving people, even people who are hard to love. And others will have an opportunity to practice loving you, even when you are being hard to love. In a church community, you’ll be able to practice forgiveness too.  This is how we become more like Christ. Learning to love, forgive and extend grace to others. Extending grace and forgiveness to someone else might mean that they hurt you. Yep. But, it’s all part of the process as we become more and more like Jesus.  In fact, living life isolated from others or only having surface-level relationships with people doesn’t make us more like Jesus. You can’t practice love and forgiveness in isolation.  ***"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:35)*** Scripture tells us that the world will know we belong to God because of the love that we have for one another. That’s how they’ll be able to tell who is a Christ follower. By your love.  Who can you be intentional about loving well this week? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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They’ve played it safe their whole lives. Want God to show you a miracle? Take a risk. Step out in faith. If you study the Bible and history, you’ll find that every time God moves on earth and does a miracle, it’s because somebody believes. Jesus said in ***Mark 11:22-24, “Have faith in God! If you have faith in God and don’t doubt, you can tell this mountain to get up and jump into the sea, and it will. Everything you ask for in prayer will be yours, if you only have faith” (CEV).*** God has set up the universe in a hierarchy of laws. The law of faith is actually higher than the laws of nature. That’s where miracles come in. When someone has faith, the law of faith goes into practice and can actually do more than the laws of nature. The law of faith makes miracles happen. Does God still perform miracles today? Of course he does. Every time you stretch your faith, God does miracles—*every single time*. You might think that, of all the places Jesus went, the people in his hometown would be most open to him and his power. But ***Matthew 13:58 says, “\[Jesus\] did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith” (NIV).*** Jesus may have wanted to do the most amazing things there. But because they were offended, not moved to faith, they didn’t get to see the miracle. What mountain in your life needs to be moved? What’s the thing that seems like it can never change? Maybe God wants your faith to supersede the laws of nature to move that mountain. God is in the mountain-moving business. He has moved them in the past. He is moving them today all around the world. Do not doubt or underestimate what he wants to do in your life too. You might say, “I don’t see many miracles in my life.” Are you looking with eyes of fear, or are you looking with eyes of faith? Let this be the year when you see faith open the door to miracles. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Even in the Busiest Season of the Year ### Page ID: 6327173 ### Content: # Serving Others... Even in the Busiest Season of the Year ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) At the end of your life on Earth, you will stand before God and give an account as to how you spent your time here on Earth. God will evaluate how well you served him by serving others with your life. The Bible says, ***“Each of us will give a personal account to God” (Romans 14:12 NLT).*** Think about the implications of that. One day God will compare how much time and energy you spent on yourself compared with what you invested in serving others. At that point, all of our excuses for self-centeredness will sound hollow: “I was too busy” or “I had my own goals” or “I was preoccupied with working, having fun, and preparing for retirement.” The Bible says that you’re only fully alive when you’re helping others. Jesus said it like this: ***“If you insist on saving your life, you will lose it. Only those who throw away their lives for my sake and for the sake of the Good News will ever know what it means to really live” (Mark 8:35 TLB).*** Then he repeats a similar truth twice in the book of Matthew and twice in Luke: ·      ***“If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give it up for me, you will save it” (Matthew 10:39 TLB).*** ***·***      ***“For anyone who keeps his life for himself shall lose it; and anyone who loses his life for me shall find it again” (Matthew 16:25 TLB).*** ***·***      ***“Whoever loses his life for my sake will save it, but whoever insists on keeping his life will lose it” (Luke 9:24 TLB).*** ***·***      ***“Whoever clings to his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life shall save it” (Luke 17:33 TLB).*** Did you catch that? This truth is so important that it is repeated five times in the Gospels. If you are not serving, you are just existing—because life is meant for ministry. What does God expect from you? He wants you to learn to love and serve others unselfishly.  A great way to serve others (and honestly, a really fun way) is to come serve with us at Christmas Village this December. Christmas Village is FUN… but how is it ministry? Well, there will be MANY people from our community who don’t know Jesus on our church campus for one night. Serving them with a smile is a small way to love on them this holiday season. We’ve had several families find our church and then grow to love Jesus, all because they came to Christmas Village. And, all because one of YOU served them. When you serve at Christmas Village, you are investing in people. I know, we are all busy. But, I encourage you, choose to give up one or two nights in December to serve. It will be rewarding, both here and in heaven. **Y**[**ou can CLICK HERE to sign up to help.**](https://seminolechurch.elexiochms.com/external/form/f35ef629-fb6c-412d-acbe-097606b763dc) Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You do it by developing the habit of thanking God for all that’s good, despite all that’s bad. This principle is found in ***1 Thessalonians 5:18: “Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus” (NLT).*** This means that we should develop an attitude of gratitude in every situation. It doesn’t mean that we have to be thankful for everything that happens to us, especially the bad things like cancer or car accidents. We don’t have to be thankful for all the evil in the world. But every time you take a minute to express gratitude to God about anything—it could be your favorite music, nature spot, or Scripture—it helps refill your empty emotional tank so you can move forward in life. Choosing to be thankful is for your own good; it keeps you from getting bitter and helps you make it to the finish line. Being grateful is easy when your emotional tank is full and things are going great in your life. It’s much harder to find something to be thankful for when you’re facing a crisis or prolonged stress. But that’s when you need to express gratitude the most. The story of Job is a great example of gratitude during hard times. He was a wealthy and successful man, but he lost everything in a single day. He didn’t know why everything happened to him, and he had every reason to be angry and bitter. Despite this, he gratefully worshipped God. Even in his darkest moment, he fell to the ground and worshipped God, saying*,* ***“May the name of the LORD be praised” (Job 1:21 NIV).*** One of the most practical yet powerful habits you can develop is to make a daily gratitude list. Just sit down for five minutes each day and ask yourself, “What am I grateful for?” It’s a habit that will strengthen your soul and keep you going when you feel like giving up. 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Studies have shown that gratitude produces chemicals in your brain—dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin—that make you feel peaceful and happy. The Bible says, ***“In everything you do, stay away from complaining and arguing” (Philippians 2:14 TLB).*** When you complain about something, how does that help you? If you complain about the weather, does it change the weather? If you complain about the way you look, does it change the way you look? If you complain about your spouse, your children, or your job, does it change any of those things? Complaining is a total waste of time. Complaining will never make you feel better. Instead, God wants your life to ***“overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done” (Colossians 2:7 TLB).***  Sometimes people will say to me, “You know, Pastor Jerry, I just want to know God’s will. What does God want me to do in my relationship? What does he want me to do in my career? What does he want me to do in school?” ***“Always be thankful, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:18 TLB).*** That’s God’s will for your life. That you would have this attitude of gratitude on a daily basis, no matter what situation you find yourself in. This aspect of God’s will is Biblical, and it’s step one. Why would God teach you step two when you haven’t done step one? If you want to know God’s will on who to marry, God wants you to do step one—always be thankful—and then you can move on to step two, then step three, and so on. If you want to live an overflowing life rather than an overwhelmed life, stop complaining, and start being grateful.      When you are tempted to complain this week, think about a specific way God has been good to you. What difference do you think it will make? As your pastor, I encourage you to ACTUALLY do this.This won't happen "naturally." It will absolutely take intentionality. 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We are entering a season where we pause and give thanks. A season centered around gratitude and giving.  But, what if you don’t *feel* thankful this Thanksgiving?  What do you do during Thanksgiving if you are in a season of waiting? Waiting for a promise to be fulfilled. Waiting for a prayer to be answered. How can you be grateful in the middle of a delay? How can you feel grateful when you feel lonely? When you're not spending Thanksgiving surrounded by the people that you love.  Here’s the truth. You don’t have to be grateful FOR all situations, but you can be grateful IN all situations. If something is painful or hard, you DO NOT have to be thankful for it. During certain seasons of life, we may not *feel* thankful. And, that's okay! But, there *is* always *something* to be thankful for. You can *choose* to find something to be thankful for, even though your feelings don't match.  And, let me just say, your feelings matter. I encourage you to recognize your feelings this Thanksgiving, but then, don't set up camp there. Take it a step further and choose to be grateful for something. Anything.  If you feel alone, choose to take a step toward connecting with someone this holiday. If you are in a season of waiting, choose to look back and remember all the things God has done for you in the past.  I know the holidays are hard for a lot of people. I encourage you to choose gratitude. Intentionally, even if it doesn't come naturally right now.  ***Ps. 106:7-8, 13 (Message) “After our parents left Egypt, they took your wonders for granted, forgot your great and wonderful love. They were barely beyond the Red Sea when they defied the High God –the very place he saved them! – the place he revealed his amazing power! …but it wasn't long before they forgot the whole thing, wouldn't wait to be told what to do."***   This says, ***“many times.”*** It's unbelievable how short their memory was. In Egypt, God does ten plagues and the children of Israel forget it because a couple days later they're at the Red Sea and saying "We're all going to die!" They've forgotten what God's just done. God does a miracle and opens the Red Sea. They walk through to the other side and immediately forget that miracle. "We're going to die of thirst!" God provides water miraculously. They forget that and complain, "We're going to die -- no food!" They were always forgetting.  But we should not be too quick to judge them because we do the exact same thing. When a delay occurs in our lives we start acting like God's never done anything for us.  There are over 7000 of them in the Bible. Whenever I have a problem, I try to find a promise. When I face a problem, I look for a promise. The promises are always greater than the problems you're facing.  ***Ps. 103:2 (NLT)"Praise the LORD, I tell myself, and never forget the good things he does for me."***  ***2 Pet. 3:3-8. "The Lord is not being slow to carry out His promises but He is being patient with you."***   You ask, Why isn't God fulfilling the promise in my life? God's never in a hurry. God is never late, but seldom early. He can do things immediately, but He's working on a larger agenda. The delays that come in your life do not destroy God's purpose. They fulfill God's purpose in your life. What is it you've been waiting on God to do? For Him to turn a problem around? To answer a prayer? To make a way in a place where it seems impossible for there to be a way, financially or physically or any other way? Maybe you've been waiting on God to bring that right person along. Maybe you've been waiting on God to turn a crisis into a solution. God hasn't forgotten. And a delay is not a denial. “Not yet,” is not the same thing as, “No.”  I know the holidays can be difficult when you don't feel happy or thankful for what is going on in your life. If this is a hard Thanksgiving for you, I am sorry. I encourage you to seek the truth and intentionally find something to be thankful for this next week.  So many things in life are out of your control... but choosing to be thankful isn't. Gratitude can transform how you see a situation. It can transform how you see your spouse, and actually make you happier in your marriage. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But, for others, the coming holiday season is a reminder of how we wished things were different. For many, the holiday season highlights the empty nest that didn’t used to be empty, or it reminds us of the loss we’ve experienced in our lives. For others, it might just feel gloomy and lonely. Whatever boat you find yourself in this holiday season, I want to encourage you. First, I want to say that, if you woke up feeling lonely this morning, **Jesus understands.** Jesus was despised and rejected by the people he created. He experienced loneliness throughout his entire life. During his final hours, Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray. This was an emotional time for him. He knew the very next day he would be crucified on the cross, separated from his Father. Since Jesus had a need for human companionship, he took his three best friends—Peter, James, and John—with him into the garden. He said to them, ***“I’m very sad . . . Stay here and keep alert with me”* (Matthew 26:38 CEB).** What did they do? They fell asleep! Jesus came back and said, ***“Couldn’t you stay alert one hour with me?”* (Matthew 26:40 CEB)** If you’re lonely today, Jesus understands and he wants to give you relief. The ultimate way that Jesus can relieve your loneliness is by making you part of his family. Through his own lonely death and then his Resurrection, Jesus made it possible for you to belong to God’s family. When you’re part of God’s family, you still may face seasons when you feel lonely. But you will never truly be alone again. Second, I want to encourage you that, if you feel lonely this holiday season take the hard first step (or uncomfortable step) to reach out to others. **Initiate**. Don’t wait around for an invitation. Invite someone over. You may be surprised to find other people in the same boat as you. Instead of thinking, “I’m so lonely,” say, “Father, help me be a friend to people who need a friend. Help me to help lonely people.” That’s an effective antidote for loneliness. You can help others become rich in relationships by giving them the gift of *you*. Invite someone to coffee. Throw a get-to-gether. Go serve somewhere. Volunteer at church. Join a team. Initiate connection. This is hard to do when you have that looming feeling of being alone... but it's the only way out.  Genesis 2:18 says, ***“It is not good for the man to be alone”* (NIV).** Community is God’s answer to loneliness. I pray that you find that within your church family this holiday season.  If you're in the area, I hope that you'll join us for our annual pie social tonight at 7pm. It'll be an opportunity to connect over a slice of pie, celebrate with those getting baptized, and a time to share what you are thankful for. And, whether or not we see you tonight, I hope you have a great Thanksgiving tomorrow... no matter what season of life you're in, there is ALWAYS something to be thankful for. 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Have you felt unsettled and concerned this year? As we come to the end of 2024, you’re likely pretty tired. Many people I know are worn out physically, mentally, and spiritually. What we need is peace. As we head into 2025, the Lord specifically wants to give you three different kinds of peace. **Peace with God.** This is spiritual peace — and it’s the most important. It affects everything else. The Bible says in ***2 Corinthians 5:18,*** ***“God … sent Christ to make peace between himself and us”*** ***(CEV).*** God doesn’t want us to live disconnected from him. Peace with God doesn’t come from something we do. Peace with God comes from *what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross.* God wants to give you that important peace this Christmas season. **Peace within.** The Bible has a word for this: emotional peace. It’s called the *peace of God.* When I have peace *with* God, then I get the peace *of* God inside me. ***Colossians 3:15 says,*** ***“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts”*** ***(NIV). God wants his peace to rule in our lives.*** I don’t know what the new year will hold for any of us, but I do know that, no matter what, God can offer you and I an inner peace that doesn’t rely on peaceful circumstances. And, we need that in this world today. There is very little external peace in our world. We need the inner peace that only Christ, the Prince of Peace offers us. **Peace with others.** Then the Lord offers relational peace. The Bible says in ***Ephesians 2:16,*** ***“Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death”*** ***(NLT).*** The further we are from God, the more our relationships with others are messed up. If you want to strengthen your relationship with others — like your spouse or your kids — strengthen your relationship with God. It’ll pull you together. The only way to have lasting peace with others is to be united as children of God. This Christmas, as we sing and talk about peace on Earth, know that God wants to give you real and lasting peace in each of these three areas. Peace isn’t an unattainable dream. It’s a free gift from God. Seek Jesus, the Prince of Peace, and these three types of peace are a byproduct of that relationship. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The shepherds in the field were invited. And, after Jesus was born, the wisemen from the East came to visit him. But, the very people who “should” have known the most about the birth of Jesus, spiritual and religious leaders of Israel, didn’t have a clue. Wisemen who had studied the Hebrew Scriptures came from the East (they were not from Israel) because they had seen the star. They knew the Savior of the world had been born. They were seeking the truth. These Wisemen travel from afar, and when they asked King Herod of Israel, he didn’t have any idea about the birth of the Messiah. Herod asked his religious scholars about the claim, and they knew exactly what he was talking about. They’d been waiting for this for hundreds of years. The Bible says King Herod ***“called a meeting of the leading priests and teachers of religious law and asked, ‘Where is the Messiah supposed to be born?’ ‘In Bethlehem in Judea,’ they said, ‘for this is what the prophet wrote’”*** ***(Matthew 2:4-5 NLT, second edition).*** The three wisemen came a long distance to witness the birth of Jesus. Yet the king’s religious advisers, who were already in Israel, didn’t want to even check out the claim. Israel’s religious leaders had waited for centuries for Jesus to come. Over time, they started paying more attention to their traditions than really seeking the Messiah. That sounds familiar, doesn’t it? We have so many Christian traditions. Now, traditions can be great! I hope that you have many fun traditions within your own family. But, we can’t let our traditions get in the way of the truth. And, this isn’t just a Christmas concept. Traditions could look like rushing through a prayer that you have memorized and you don’t even think about the words you’re saying anymore, rather than taking a moment to actually pause and thank God for your food. Traditions could look like looking down on someone wearing a hat in church, because that’s not how you were raised. And, for you, maybe that’s a standard you keep for yourself. But, is it truth… or is it tradition? We can’t let our traditions get in the way of our relationship with God or with loving others. The religious leaders of Jesus’ day knew every religious tradition by heart, but they wouldn’t walk five miles from Jerusalem to Bethlehem to witness the birth of God’s Son. People today will put up lights, have parties, give gifts, and send out cards. They’ll participate in every single Christmas tradition they can squeeze into December. But many will never take the time to thank Jesus for coming on that first Christmas. 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We see Christmas cards and nativity scenes, and we assume those days were stress-free. I mean, it always looks peaceful in the pictures. But that’s far from how those involved in the first Christmas actually felt. Look, the people of the Bible were just that… people. They were ordinary people just like me and you. They didn’t know how everything would turn out. They had real feelings. They didn’t know how the story ended. This turned their world UPSIDE DOWN. The very first Christmas didn’t start out as a merry time for most of those involved. There was a lot going on for those involved as the story unfolded in real time. ·      Mary was confused and worried. An angel had told her that she would give birth to the Son of God. She didn’t know what would happen to her engagement. Her future seemed bleak. ·      Joseph was hurt and brokenhearted. His fiancée had told him that she was pregnant and he knew it wasn’t his. ·      The shepherds were afraid. They saw a bright light and watched angels appear out of nowhere. ·      The wise men were exhausted. They traveled a long way to get to Jesus. They were ready for rest. You may be in similar shoes this Christmas. You may feel confused, hurt, afraid, or simply exhausted. Over the next few devotionals, I’ll go deeper into how each of these central characters in the Christmas story responded to their circumstances—and how God changed everything for them in response. But they all have one thing in common: They turned to God. The Bible says, ***“Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity”*** **(Joel 2:13 NIV).** No matter what you’re going through, God loves you. When you turn to God, he won’t turn away. On that very first Christmas, every one of these characters turned to God. They all looked to him to meet their greatest needs. 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You’re preparing to get married and your fiancée—with whom you’ve never been physically intimate—announces she’s pregnant and she claims God is the father.You can understand the hurt. You can understand the disappointment. Joseph felt his only way out was to leave the relationship. It was certainly one of Joseph’s darkest days. But guess what? It was also one of his brightest, too. Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship likely will happen in your darkest days: when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when you’re out of options, when the pain is great—and when you then turn to God. Maybe you’re in a tough situation this Christmas season that seems inescapable. Do what Joseph did, and change your focus. God could have brought Jesus into this world without Joseph. God could have arranged a different husband for Mary. But God chose Joseph to be a part of the greatest story ever told. Joseph’s plans changed dramatically when he switched his focus. He saw an angel who revealed God’s plan in a dream. Matthew 1:20 tells us, ***“After he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit’”*** **(NIV).** Instead of focusing on his problem, Joseph considered God’s plan and then did as the angel told him. History has never been the same since. Our lives have never been the same. Like Joseph, you may feel stuck, too. You see no way out. But God won’t abandon you in your disappointment and your sense of hopelessness. Focus on God’s plan. Listen to what he has to say about your situation. The Bible promises us, ***“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight”*** **(Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV).** Choose to trust God with your disappointments this Christmas season. 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She was a young woman when an angel told her she would give birth to a son—even though she had never been with a man. The Bible says she responded to this news just like any of us would—she worried. ***“Confused and disturbed, Mary tried to think what the angel could mean”*** **(Luke 1:29 NLT).** First, there was the fear of criticism: “How am I going to tell my mom? How am I going to tell Joseph? What will people think?” Then you have the fear of inadequacy: “How in the world am I supposed to be the mother of the son of God?” Then, of course, she faced the fear of change: “How many ways is this going to change my life?” This Christmas you might be in Mary’s shoes. You don’t know what 2025 has in store for you. Your future looks uncertain. You are uncomfortable with change. Things don't always make sense. So, you’re worrying. Worry is essentially a control issue. It’s trying to control the uncontrollable. We can’t control the economy, so we worry about the economy. We can’t control our children, so we worry about our children. We can’t control the future, so we worry about the future. But worry never solves anything! She changes her perspective and leans on the promises of God. And, Mary *knew* God’s Word. Later in the book of Luke, she sang a song containing around 10 Old Testament verses. She *knew* God’s Word. She chose to trust in God’s Word and God’s promises. So, when the angel came to her, Mary pondered in her heart all the things she knew to be true of God from his Word: “God loves me. God chose me. God is with me. Nothing is impossible with God. I can handle this—not because of my strength, but because of God’s presence.” Then she chose to believe God’s Word over her own fears. She said: ***“Yes, I see it all now: I’m the Lord’s maid, ready to serve. Let it be with me just as you say”*** **(Luke 1:38 The Message).** Mary wisely surrendered to the will of God. She was like King David, who said: ***“My God, I want to do what you want”*** **(Psalm 40:8 NCV*****).*** Wise people say, “Whatever God wants for my life, I’m in. I may not understand it, but I’ll do his will.” The Bible says, ***“Mary treasured \[the things God told her\] and continued to think about them”*** **(Luke 2:19 NCV).** God blessed Mary because she chose to believe God’s Word instead of her fears. He wants you to do the same. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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When you gaze at something, you’re doing what the angel instructed the shepherds to do—you’re *beholding* it. At Christmastime, most people will give God a glance. They might start humming “O Come, Let Us Adore Him” because it’s playing on the store speakers as they do their Christmas shopping. Or they notice the nativity scene someone has placed in their home, with baby Jesus at the center, and they give it a glance. During the busyness of the Christmas rush, not taking time to behold the best news ever can be easy. The 80 or so years you have on Earth are short compared to eternity. In fact, this life is preparation for eternity. God wants you to live with him forever in heaven, but to do that, you’ve got to have a relationship with him here on Earth. How do you have a relationship with God? It starts with beholding him. It’s the message the angel brought to the shepherds on that first Christmas: ***“An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. And the angel said to them, ‘Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord’”* (Luke 2:9-11 ESV).** Behold, God came to Earth. That’s a big deal! At Christmas, God became a human so we could see what he’s really like. You can know a lot of things about God just by looking at creation. But there are some things you’d never know about God if it weren’t for Jesus. If Jesus hadn’t come to Earth, you wouldn’t know that God loves you, forgives you, and has a purpose for your life. If you want to know what God is like, take a long look at Jesus. He is the full picture of God’s grace. Behold your Savior. Then you can make him Lord of your life. 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Colossians 1:15 says, ***“Christ is the visible image of the invisible God”*** ***(NLT).*** When we wonder what God is like, we need to look only to Jesus. He was God Incarnate. That virgin-born baby was God in human form. He humbled Himself. He took the form of a servant. He identified Himself with the problems of the human race. And thus it was that the Apostle John wrote, ***“The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father” (John 1:14).*** He was fully man, whose perfect human life helps us know God as our Father. His life shows us who God is and how God wants us to live. People all around the world celebrate the little baby in the manger because that child is God, come to live with his people. But Jesus didn’t come simply to live. He came to die for your sins so that you can spend eternity with God. Jesus Himself said, speaking just before His death, “For this cause was I born” (John 18:37). 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We may sing about “Peace on Earth” during the Christmas season, but most of us aren’t experiencing it. So, what’s the antidote? A night out? A relaxing trip to the beach? A week of sleep? Those activities might refresh your body, but they’ll hardly restore your soul. When we’re empty inside, our culture tells us *we need more.* We need to do more, go more, and be more. Jesus says something different. The antidote to our overloaded soul isn’t a time-management program. It’s not a philosophy. It’s not a plan. It’s a person. *It’s Jesus.* The Bible says, ***“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light”*** ***(Matthew 11:28-30, NIV).*** **1.   Come to Jesus.** You don’t do this just once — you do it every single day. No matter what the problem, no matter how deep the hurt, you bring it to Jesus. **2.   Connect with Jesus.** Jesus says we must yoke up with him. The yoke is a piece of wood that puts two cattle together to pull a cart. It makes a load easier because the two cattle are sharing it. Jesus doesn’t want you to carry all your burdens. You weren’t designed to do that. He wants you to “yoke up” with him. He wants to share your burdens. Are you tired of being stressed out? Are you ready to have true peace that only comes from Jesus? It’s yours for the taking. It’s a free gift to you. I pray that you open that gift this Christmas week. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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PRAY FOR YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.** ### **2\. SERVE SOMEONE.** ### **3\. INVITE SOMEONE TO CHRISTMAS EVE THIS YEAR.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) The Good News of Christmas is the gospel message that we are offered free salvation in Jesus Christ. The word "Gospel" actually means Good News, and the story of Jesus is the greatest good news of all time.  Our world needs more Christians who are willing to share the Good News, rather than just enjoy it for themselves. How are you sharing the Good News of Jesus this Christmas?  Here are three ways you could share the Good News this week. Prayer makes a difference! Who are three people in your life who don’t know the Good News in a personal way? Get them in your mind right now. Let’s pray for them right *now*.  “Dear Father, help \_\_\_\_\_ to experience the Good News of salvation and Christmas this year. Help them to connect with you and state a relationship with you. Show me my role in helping them come to understand the good news. Amen.” Make a list and take the time to talk to God about them because you care about them to hear the Good News that’s made a difference in your life.   Jesus tells us that He did not come to be served but to serve. What better way to celebrate Christmas than to serve someone? There are a thousand ideas out there. Let me give you just a couple ideas to get started.   **Sponsor an ODH Child –** You can feed and educate a child in Haiti for only $25/mo. We have over 500 kids at Open Door Church. Every family can afford to sponsor one. It costs less than a dollar a day. https://opendoorhaiti.org/ **Give Gift Cards to Help a Family have a Better Christmas –** Some of you have been bringing me gift cards to hand out to some families who need a little support this Christmas. These gifts are truly changing their family’s Christmas. I want to thank those of you who have given the cards. You’re making a difference in the lives of others this year. **Invest In Relationships –** For some, the holiday season is a joyous time of celebration with loved ones. For others, the holiday season is hard and painful, because they are alone. Maybe they lost a loved one, maybe this is the first Christmas they are spending alone. Deliver a meal. Reach out. Serve them. I encourage you to serve someone this Christmas. Find someone who’s hurting and tell them the Good News of Christmas. Jesus was born into this world to let hurting people know that there is hope.  **Christmas Eve Services –** Christmas Eve is just a few days away. Don’t come alone. Invite somebody to come with you. They will be presented with the Good News of Jesus and have an opportunity to receive that hope and salvation.  If they don’t feel comfortable showing up in-person, online is a great option for them. Host a watch party online. Send them a link.  During this time of year people are the most open to attending a church service (where they will hear the Good News by the way) because they are either searching for hope or don’t want to spend it alone. Plus, it’s a great event to invite your believing friends and your non believing friends. Every year we make it snow in the parking lot. Even if you have never invited anyone to a church event before, make a choice this year to be bold and invite someone who needs to hear a message of hope. Bring your friends! These are just a few ideas. You could probably come up with four or five more.  I encourage you to share the Good News this Christmas. Make a plan. Be intentional about it. It’s one of the main purposes God has for you, is to share the Good News of Christ with others.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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What does it look like to “step out” in faith? I like the word "step out" because faith is action. Faith is not just believing something. Faith is action. You can believe a plane is safe to fly, but you don't have faith in it unless you get on board. You can believe a chair will hold you up, but you don't really have faith in it unless you sit down in it.  It's an action step. It's more than just saying, "I believe." It’s more than just believing IN Jesus. I mean, the devil believes in Jesus. You must put your FAITH IN Jesus. There’s a difference. Faith means more than just knowing about Him; it means committing yourself TO Him, letting God be number one in our life, calling the shots, the CEO, the chairman of the board, helping us make the right decisions.  ***Joshua 1:9 This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.*** You have no way to control the future. We don't even know what it is much less control it. But the good news is, God is in control. So, this New Year, you can make the choice to “step out” in faith. Start heading in the direction that you feel God is leading you… even without all the answers… even if all you see is the “next step”… take it. Still unsure where God is leading you? I encourage you to stay in God’s Word. There’s lots of direction in the Bible. If you need a place to start, start there. Then, be in tune with the Holy Spirit each day, praying for guidance and direction every step along the way. He will be faithful to lead you as you step out in faith daily. He may not give you the next ten steps, but if you take the first one, he will continue to be the Good Shepherd and lead you along the right path. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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And, he will answer YOUR prayers. You don’t have to be “special,” you just have to understand what prayer actually is and stay persistent. Prayer doesn’t work because of the particular words you say, prayer works because you are persistently talking to and pursuing the Living God. So, why should you remain persistent in your prayers even when it feels like you aren’t getting an answer? When you pray a prayer request over and over, it’s not to remind God. He doesn’t need to be reminded! It’s to remind yourself that God is the source of your answer and all your needs. If every prayer you ever prayed was instantly answered, two things would happen. First, prayer would actually begin to hurt you because sometimes we pray for things that are not God’s will, or we make mistakes because we see with a limited perspective. Second, you’d never really develop a deep relationship with God, because he would become just a vending machine. If every time you prayed you instantly got results, all you’d think about is the blessing. God wants you to think about the Blesser. A delayed answer gives you time to clarify exactly what you want and to refine your prayers. When you pray persistently to your heavenly Father and you say something over and over again, it separates deep longings from mere whims. It says, “God, I really care about this.” It’s not that God doesn’t want to answer your prayers. He does. It’s just that he wants you to be certain what you really want. ***James 1:3-4 says,*** ***“When your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing”*** ***(NLT).*** The only way you can grow to spiritual maturity is to have your faith tested. One of the ways God tests your faith is by delaying some answers to your prayers. **Persistent prayer prepares your heart for the answer.** When you make a request of God, God almost always wants to answer in a greater way than you’ve prayed. But first, he has to prepare you for it. So God uses delays in answering prayer to help you grow, to help you get ready, and to help prepare you for a bigger and better answer. ***Remember,*** ***“God can do much, much more than anything we can ask or imagine”*** ***(Ephesians 3:20 NCV).*** And, sometimes the answer is no. (And, no is still an answer to prayer by the way). Persistent prayer (talking to God about something over and over) can prepare our hearts for a no. Sometimes God changes us instead of changing our situation. If God is testing you right now by delaying an answer to a prayer, how can you demonstrate your willingness to grow and accept his will and purpose for you? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Maybe you think, “isn’t that a bit unrealistic? I could name a dozen things I worry about every day, and they aren’t just going to go away.” And, it’s true. There is a lot we *could* worry about. And, a lot of the problems we could worry about aren’t just going to go away. They’re real problems. They’re real-life issues that have to be faced. But, worry isn’t the answer. Jesus said,  ***“Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” (Matthew 6:27).*** You see, worry doesn’t solve anything. Worry has never changed a situation for good. Okay, so what DO we do with these very real problems that we aren’t supposed to worry about, then? The Bible tells us exactly what to do. It’s simple, but it makes ALL the difference. ***“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.” (Philippians 4:6)*** Replace your worry with prayer. The command isn’t just, “Don’t worry.” You must have that second part, prayer. Instead, pray about everything. God invites us to cast our worries and anxieties on him. HE can take the weight of them, we can’t. In **1 Peter 5:7** the Bible says, ***“God cares for you, so turn all your worries over to him”*** ***(CEV).*** God wants us to take our problems to him, to pray instead of worrying. And, let me assure you, no problem is too big for God’s power or too small for God’s concern. Philippians 4:6 says, we should pray about everything. God has never promised to remove in this life all our troubles, problems, and difficulties. But God has promised, to be WITH YOU in your troubles, problems and difficulties. Only he can sustain you and give you peace and comfort and even joy during those times. I encourage you to turn to God and cast your worries on him. Go to him in prayer, and he will give you peace and a sense of security in all circumstances. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But, How? ### Page ID: 6588059 ### Content: # Pray Without Ceasing... But, How? ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Did you know that you don’t have to end your prayers with “In Jesus’ name. Amen”? In fact, you don’t have to stop praying at all. Prayer is a running conversation with God. It never has to end! How does that actually look, though? You can't just sit in a prayer closet all day long and avoid your responsibilities. What does "praying without ceasing," look like? In the car. When you're cooking dinner. In your cubicle. While you're rocking a baby. When you're texting. When your kid is having their 10th meltdown. In a business meeting. On a walk... any moment of time, you can be praying. When you receive Christ into your heart, you become a child of God and have the privilege of talking to Him in prayer at any time about anything.  You are invited to talk to him like you would a friend or a loving father. If something comes up, you talk to God about it. You don’t have to stop what you’re doing and close your eyes every time you pray. You simply talk to God as you go about your day. In 1 Thessalonians 5:17 we read, “Pray without ceasing.” Our whole life should be a life of prayer. We should walk in constant communion with God.  To pray conversationally, you simply talk to God about whatever you’re interested in at that particular moment. You don’t have to have flowery words. You just talk… as you go. “Hey Lord, help me with this work task. Give me the mental clarity to get through this meeting.” “Wow, God, you have blessed me in this area. Thank you. I don’t take it for granted.” *“Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion”* (Ephesians 6:18 NLT). That means you can talk to God anywhere, anytime, about anything, as the Spirit leads. When God puts something on your heart, pray about it! Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Our thoughts influence our feelings. And our feelings impact our actions. What you think matters, because everything starts in the mind. To be a healthy person, you have to control your thought life. If you don’t your thoughts and your feelings will rule you. First though, let me relieve you of some false guilt: You’re not responsible for every stray thought that passes through your mind. Stray thoughts enter our minds for a variety of reasons, like conversations you hear by accident, things you see, or stuff the enemy puts in your mind. You’re responsible for how you *deal* with those stray thoughts. Martin Luther said it like this: “You can’t keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.” God will hold you accountable for what you allow to enter your mind. Many followers of Jesus spend their time watching TV shows and listening to podcasts that have absolutely no moral, emotional, or educational value. People spend hours and hours scrolling content that, even if it’s not “bad,” is kind of like spiritual junk food. It has no nutritional value to their mental health or spiritual health. You have to make a decision. What are you going to fill your mind with? Junk? Garbage in, garbage out. What you put into your mind will inevitably bear fruit in your behavior and beliefs. Proverbs 15:14 says, ***“A wise person is hungry for knowledge, while the fool feeds on trash” (NLT).*** I am not saying you need to smash your TVs and get a flip phone, but, I encourage you to be intentional. Are you going to pick up God’s Word first thing in the morning? Or, your phone? (And, maybe your Bible is on your phone. The Bible App is a great tool, but you get the picture.) Are you hungry for more knowledge of God, or are you content to keep a steady diet of entertainment? You have the power to decide what you feed your mind. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It’s not even enough to say, “I have a dream of changing.” Dreams are worthless unless you wake up and actually act on them. You’re not going to change the problems in your life until you *choose* to change. When it comes to your physical health… you can’t just WANT change. You have to make a choice to eat differently and move your body. That’s how change happens. How are you going to be different in six months? A year from now? Are you going to be emotionally stronger? Are you going to be mentally sharper? Are you going to be physically healthier? Are you going to be more spiritually mature? It isn’t going to happen automatically. You aren’t just going to get healthier by accident in any category of your life. A lot of times we think we’re waiting on God to change us. But, really, God is waiting on us to get up and act in faith. Some of you are stuck right now because you haven’t learned how to let go. That’s a choice. Ephesians 4:22 says, ***“Throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception” (NLT).*** Here’s the good news: Once you become a believer, you have a new power in you that is greater than those old tendencies. That power is the Holy Spirit. Philippians 2:12-13 says, ***“Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose” (NIV).*** Does that mean you are supposed to be afraid of God? Of course not! It means be afraid that you’ll miss God’s best and waste your life. Be afraid that you will go your entire life and never know God’s purpose. The secret to changing your life is not willpower. It’s God giving you the will and the power through the Holy Spirit to do what needs to be done. The Holy Spirit does the changing. We do the cooperating and obeying. But, it is a choice. God will not force this on you. Do you really want to change? 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And, yet, many of these people appear to live according to their own rules, not by trusting in God’s Word. What they say about their faith and how they choose to live don’t line up. Real faith is more than just the words they say. Real faith produces fruit. Real faith shows up in the way we speak and act. There's evidence. For instance, I could say I’m the best dancer in the whole world, but that wouldn’t make it true, and the moment I started dancing, you’d know it wasn’t true. Just because you say you have faith doesn’t mean it’s true. This is what James is addressing in this verse: ***“What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone?”*** **James 2:14 (NLT)** What’s the use in saying you have faith, if it doesn’t show up in the way you live and the things you do? The Bible is clear that we are saved by faith in Jesus, nothing more and nothing less. The Bible says, ***“God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it”*** ***(Ephesians 2:8-9 NLT).*** But, through our faith, God transforms us so that our attitudes and actions become evidence of our trust in him. ***Ephesians 2:10 says,*** ***“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago”*** ***(NLT).*** So, let me ask you… is there evidence for your faith? In what ways does your life match up with what you say you believe? I encourage you to allow God to work in your life. I will be praying for you as we do this 40 Days of Prayer series, that your faith will grow and that there will be evidence of your faith in how you live your life! Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It’s an action forward, even when you don’t have all of the answers. Faith requires us to obey even when we don’t understand. In fact, most of the time we aren’t going to understand all the details before we move forward in faith. God almost never reveals all of the steps of his plan. Instead, he reveals it one step at a time. So, you have to decide, are you going to take that step of faith even though you can't see the next 10 steps? I don’t know what step you need to take next, but I do know that you need to take it. Think for a moment, what was the last thing God told you to do? If you haven’t done it, I encourage you to do it now! Stop planning to do it, and just do it. Your next step may be to accept Jesus Christ into your life or to be baptized. Maybe you need to join a church, show more gratitude, reconcile that relationship, be generous with someone in need, take time to rest, or choose to rely on God instead of yourself. I don’t know what your next step is, but I do know this: You have one. God will never be finished taking you deeper in faith. There is *always* a next step. If you’re asking God to help you with something, he may be asking *you*, “Why haven’t you done what I’ve already told you to do?” You may have been planning to do something. Stop planning and just do it. Faith is doing what’s right even when it seems absurd. Proverbs 3:5 says, ***“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding”*** (HCSB). You never know the whole picture, but God does.  The Bible gives a great example of trusting and obeying even when it doesn't make sense in the story of Gideon in Judges 7. Gideon took 300 Israelites to battle 135,000 enemy soldiers. The odds were 450 to one. God had the soldiers take torches, trumpets, and clay pots—a command I’m sure Gideon thought was ludicrous. Then God told Gideon to put the clay pots over the torches so the light couldn’t be seen at night and to go surround the enemy’s camp. God’s instructions were something like this: “When I tell you to, blow the trumpets, break the pots, and let torchlight suddenly shine out in the darkness. It will look like a huge army is surrounding the camp. It will cause mass confusion, and the enemy soldiers will end up fighting each other.” Gideon obeyed, even though it didn’t make any sense. The Israelites blew their trumpets, broke their pots, and revealed the light from their torches. The enemy soldiers woke up in shock and started fighting each other instead of the Israelites. Because Gideon did what God told him to do—even when he didn’t understand it—the Israelites won the battle. Sometimes God tells you to do something that appears foolish—like going into battle facing overwhelming odds. But when you have faith, you’ll obey God even when you don’t understand what he’s asking you to do. Because, you trust God. You have faith in him. Don’t delay. Take your next step of faith. Then, God will reveal to you the next step and the next. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7, NLT)*** Scripture tells us to pray about *everything*. But, do we actually? Perhaps you only ask God for the “big stuff” and not the “small stuff.” Guess what? Everything is small to God. None of your requests are big in God’s eyes. You’re not bothering God when you give him your requests; he’s the one who set up the system of prayer in the first place. That’s why the New Testament tells you more than 20 times to ask for whatever you need in prayer.  ***Matthew 7:7*** ***says,*** ***“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”*** ***(NIV)*** Sometimes, instead of asking God for something, we just worry about it. But if it’s big enough to worry about, it’s big enough to pray about. 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And, because God is holy, He is perfect. We can see the perfection and God’s holiness through His Son, Jesus. Christ is our example. ***“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word” (Hebrews 1:3).*** In His life and death, Jesus was perfect and holy and came to make us holy. Christ bridges the gap between us and God. So, how do we *become* holy? We aren’t perfect like God. And, trying to be perfect would be absolutely exhausting. ***“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” Romans 3:23*** We could never measure up to a perfect, holy God. So, what's the solution? ***“******For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” 2 Corinthians 5:21*** We are declared holy the moment we trust Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Not because of anything we did, but because of God’s grace. We get Jesus’ holiness as a gift when we are saved. When God looks at us, he sees the holiness of Jesus. But, just because God declares us holy doesn’t mean he’s just going to leave us how he found us. There is a transformation process. From there God continuously works on us from the inside out, making us more holy throughout our lives. So, we are declared holy, then God works on us so we can have a lifestyle of holiness. This is called the sanctification process – and it’s a life-long process. As we grow in our faith and become more like Jesus, one can see the fruit of the Spirit in our lives. ***“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law” (Galatians 5:22-23).*** He transforms us into a person who reflects the image of a holy God. Because of Christ’s death and resurrection, you don’t have to work to be good enough. Christ’s goodness makes you acceptable to God. And it will allow you to live with him one day in heaven, his perfect place. That’s quite a deal! Many people feel trapped by their past. They say, “If you knew what I’ve done, you’d know I’ll never be acceptable to God.” I don’t know what you’ve done, but God does—and he still accepts you: ***“God says he will accept and acquit us—declare us ‘not guilty’—if we trust Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, by coming to Christ, no matter who we are or what we have been like”* (Romans 3:22 TLB).** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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How do those usually turn out? What about a loose-weight-fast crash diet? We live in a culture that glorifies instant gratification. But, when God helps you grow spiritually, he doesn’t just snap his fingers so that it happens instantly. When God wants to make a mushroom, he takes six hours, but when he wants to make an oak tree, he takes 60 years. The Holy Spirit will make changes in your life far beyond anything you thought possible, but it’s not going to happen overnight. Your spiritual transformation in developing the character of Jesus will take the rest of your life, and even then it won’t be completed here on Earth. It will only be finished when you get to Heaven or when Jesus returns. ***"And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." (Philippians 1:6)*** This is how we become more like Jesus: ***“Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy”* (Ephesians 4:24 NLT).** We throw off the old things and the old ways that keep us from getting to know Christ and becoming like him. And we put on our new selves with the help of the Holy Spirit. We do this daily. Every day, we make the choice to put off our old ways and choose to live God’s Way (with the help of the Holy Spirit). We let God do his work in us—no matter how long it takes. The result? ***“As the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him”* (2 Corinthians 3:18 TLB).** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You buy a book about exercise and tell a friend about it. “It’s going to change my life,” you say. Then six months later you see your friend again, and you’re still in the same shape. “It’s the greatest book I’ve ever read,” you say. “I underlined parts of it, memorized whole sections, and even started a study group about it.” But you never practiced what the book taught, so it didn’t change you. Do you ever find yourself doing the same thing with God’s Word? A lot of people do. They read God’s Word. Maybe they even highlight a few inspiring verses, but then they close the book and never let it change them. They never do what it says. The book of James says, ***“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says”*** ***(James 1:22 NIV).*** To receive the blessings of the Bible, you have to respond to it and let it change you. If you haven’t practiced intentionally responding to God’s Word, it might be hard to know where to start. Here are some questions you can ask yourself as you read a passage of Scripture: ·      Does this show me a sin I need to confess or an attitude I need to change? ·      Does God give me a command to obey or an example to follow? ·      Is there a prayer in this passage of Scripture that I can pray for myself or for other people? Start with these questions. As you put them into practice, you’ll soon find that you’re not the same person. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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In fact, God says, ***“I have loved you . . . with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself” (Jeremiah 31:3 NLT).*** You can’t make God stop loving you; he will love you forever. His love isn’t based on what you do. It’s based on who he is. The only reason you’re alive is because God made you to love you. Today, I want us to look at two aspects of God’s love: **God’s love is unconditional.** God’s love doesn’t say, “I love you if . . .” That’s conditional. Conditional love says things like, “I love you if you love me. I love you if you please me. I love you if you’re good looking.” That’s not real love. What happens when someone loses their good looks? What happens when you find someone else more interesting? Do you just stop loving them? That kind of love it conditional love. But God’s love for you says, “I love you, period. I love you even though you don’t always love me, you’re not always consistent, and you don’t always do the right thing.” **God’s love is consistent.** It’s not fickle. It’s not unpredictable. Maybe you grew up with inconsistent parents. Inconsistent parents create insecure kids. A man once said to me, “I never knew if my dad was going to slug me or hug me. He was unpredictable.” That’s inconsistent love. But with God, you’ll never have to ask, “Will God love me today?” His love is eternal. ***Psalm 100:5 says, “The LORD is good; his love is eternal and his faithfulness lasts forever” (GNT).*** No matter what you’ve done, who you’ve done it with, or how long you’ve done it, God’s love for you will last forever. The most amazing conversion in the Bible is of a guy named Saul, who was a religious extremist that killed Christians. One day, on his way to Damascus, he encountered the resurrected Jesus. Saul fell to his knees and said, “My Lord and my God.” The man who had once been a religious extremist became the apostle of love. Saul, now known as Paul, wrote most of the New Testament, including some of the most beautiful words on love ever written, 1 Corinthians 13. The everlasting, completely free love of God will do that. It changes lives. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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We all have people in our lives who do things that get under our skin. In today's devotion, we will take a look at having wisdom in your relationships, and showing love to those who might even annoy us.  Then, after watching, ask yourself: Who do I need to show patience to this week?  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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In fact, a lot of people get married under the assumption that, now, this person is going to meet my needs. When we rely on other people to meet our needs, it isn’t fair to that person. They’re not responsible to meet your needs. They’re human, and they’ll let you down. And, you’ll let them down too at some point. Relying on others to “make” you feel loved or relying on others to “make” you feel admired or accepted or happy will only lead to disappointment, conflict and stress. Why? Because nobody on Earth can meet all your needs. Only God can do that. Yes, it is a good thing to feel loved by your spouse, or your friends or your family. It’s healthy to want that and to work toward that. But, NEEDING them to meet your needs and expecting them to be your source of happiness and fulfillment… big difference. Some people find their security in their job, and when they lose their job, they lose their peace of mind. They don’t know who they are anymore. I recommend that you never put your security in anything that can be taken away from you. You can lose your job, your health, your reputation, your spouse, and your mind. But you cannot lose your relationship with Christ. When you put your security in that promise, you can trust God to meet all your needs. ***Romans 8:32 says,*** ***“Since he did not spare even his own Son for us but gave him up for us all, won’t he also surely give us everything else?”*** ***(TLB).*** If God loved you enough to send Jesus Christ to die on the cross, don’t you think he loves you enough to take care of every other need in your life? Yes! Of course he does. Every time you start to get stressed out, pause and say, ***“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want”*** **(Psalm 23:1 ESV).** God’s going to provide. He’s going to take care of you. Instead of stressing out, look to him to meet all your needs. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.”*** **Hebrews 4:16 (NLT)** The definition of mercy is “undeserved forgiveness and unearned kindness.” When somebody forgives you and you don’t deserve it, that’s mercy. When somebody shows you a kindness you haven’t earned, that’s mercy. And the Bible says that God wants to show you mercy. The truth is, you need mercy every single second of your life. The air you breathe and the water you drink are mercies from God. You wouldn’t be alive if it wasn’t for the mercy of God. No matter what you’re going through, you can live with hope. That’s the consistent good news of the Bible. Peter wrote to those who were already believers, ***“All honor to God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; for it is his boundless mercy that has given us the privilege of being born again” (1 Peter 1:3 TLB).*** Peter didn’t just say that God is merciful. Peter praised God for his “boundless mercy.”   The more you understand God’s mercy and grace, the more you—like Peter—will be amazed by it. It’s completely undeserved. It’s totally unmerited. It’s not something that you could earn or work for. It’s just a free gift. God’s mercy is based on his love for you. And you can’t make God love you any more than he loves you right now. You also can’t make him love you any less. That means his mercy toward you will never change. The Bible, says, ***“When God our Savior revealed his kindness and love, he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:4-5 NLT).*** This is extremely important to understand. When you make mistakes as a believer, God doesn’t get mad at you. God doesn’t want to get even with you. God doesn’t start planning to mess up your life. Here’s what God does: He always acts in mercy toward you. 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Did you know that living with the feeling of guilt isn’t God’s plan for your life? Instead, God wants you to live with a sense of promise and hope. He can even bring good out of the foolish decisions that you’ve made if you’ll give those failures to him. Admit to God you’ve made a mistake. It doesn’t surprise him. And it won’t change his perception of you. When you take this step, here’s what you can expect from him: **God forgives instantly.** The very moment you admit your sin to God, he forgives you. **God forgives freely.** You don’t need to earn it, and you’ll never deserve it. **God forgives completely.** He wipes your sin absolutely clean. The Bible says in **1 John 1:9, *“If we tell Him our sins, He is faithful and we can depend on Him to forgive us of our sins. He will make our lives clean from all sin” (NLV).*** You might have spent years working through a problem that really has a very simple solution: You just need a clear conscience. Jesus offers you that. He offers instantaneous forgiveness! God tells us, ***“I will forgive their sins and I will no longer remember their wrongs”*** **(Jeremiah 31:34 GNT).** Should Christians ever feel guilty? Yes, for about 5 seconds, because once you take it to God, you are *completely* forgiven. Run to the Father, and you will be forgiven, immediately. Scripture tells us He is faithful to forgive. This means, God’s plan for you doesn’t include carrying around the burden of guilt for your sins. Jesus died and rose again so you don’t have to do that.  So, why do we often feel guilty for longer than a few seconds? We have an enemy. The Bible describes him as “the accuser.” Satan wants to keep you weighted down under the burden of guilt and shame. He wants to keep you bound up so you can’t live in God’s freedom. But, here’s how God works: You ask for forgiveness. Then God forgives you. But then, he goes a step further and actually *forgets* what you’ve done wrong. Yep, he chooses to forget. So, if you feel guilty after confessing to God… guess what… that guilt isn’t from God. Jesus said in John 8:36, ***“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (NIV).***  Jesus is talking about himself here. He’s saying, “If I set you free, you’re going to be really, really free.” Here’s a freeing truth: If you are a follower of Jesus, when God looks at you he actually sees the righteousness of Jesus. How crazy is that? When God looks at you, if you are in Christ Jesus, he actually sees Jesus’ righteousness covering you. He sees Jesus’ perfection. Are you feeling the burden of guilt today? Remember that Jesus has come to set you free. When you confess your sins, he will forgive you and set you free from your guilt. Then, you can live in the true freedom of knowing your past is forgiven and you are no longer bound by it. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He knows you better than anyone else in the world. He even knows you better than you know yourself. He sees what you choose to share with others. He sees what’s hidden. He knows exactly where you are in life, not where you appear to be. He knows your thoughts. He knows your fears. He knows your hang-ups. He knows your dreams. He knows your greatest memories. He knows what brings you joy. He knows what you’re going through, why you’re going through it, and how you feel about it. **Hebrews 4:13** says**, *“Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight”*** **(NIV). God is never surprised. He knows everything!** The fact that God knows everything about you is actually good news, not bad. Here’s why: It would be one thing if God loved you for the person you “presented yourself to be” at church. It would be one thing if God loved the lovable parts of you. But, God KNOWS you, the good, the bad and the ugly, and He STILL LOVES you unconditionally.  The truth is, to be **fully known**, yet **fully loved** by your Creator is **FREEING**. Many people feel trapped by their past. They say, “If you knew what I’ve done, you’d know I’ll never be acceptable to God.” I don’t know what you’ve done, but God does—and he still accepts you: ***“God says he will accept and acquit us—declare us ‘not guilty’—if we trust Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, by coming to Christ, no matter who we are or what we have been like” (Romans 3:22 TLB).*** He’s not shocked by your sin, and when you admit it to him, it will never change the way he feels about you. That means you don’t have to fake it. You don’t have to pretend. Thanks to Jesus, you are acceptable to God. Live in that freedom, and direct your heart toward him. Guilt and shame have no place in your life, because of Christ. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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[Events](/events "Events") - [Blog](/blog-2 "Blog") - [Podcast](/hope "Podcast") - [Devotion Sign Up](/videos-devotion "Devotion Sign Up") - [Newsletter Sign Up](/newsletter-signup "Newsletter Sign Up") - [Prayer](/prayer-2 "Prayer") - [Events](/events "Events") - [Event Gallery](/event-gallery "Event Gallery") - [Sermons](/sermons "Sermons") - [Watch Live](/live "Watch Live") --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/4-truths-about-love ### Title: 4 Truths About Love ### Page ID: 6729752 ### Content: # 4 Truths About Love ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) The Bible says in ***1 Corinthians 14:1, “Let love be your highest goal!” (NLT).*** In other words, make love your number one priority. Make it your primary objective. Make it your greatest ambition. Make it your life purpose. Don’t say, “One of the things I want in life is loving relationships.” Don’t just put it in your “Top 10.” Make it number one! Here are four truths about Real Love (the real love that God is talking about, not what the world says love is) God commands that we love each other: *“Love means doing what God has commanded us”* (2 John 1:6 NLT). You can’t always control an emotion, and God would never command you to do something that he doesn’t give you the power and the ability to do. That means that love is not a feeling. The Bible says in ***1 Corinthians 14:1, “Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does” (The Message).*** If you “go after” something, that means you make a choice. Love is a choice. We choose to love or not to love. Love is not a feeling, in fact, we can choose to love in spite of our feelings. Love is an action. Love is something you *do*. The Bible says, ***“Let us stop just saying we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions”* (1 John 3:18 TLB).** Every day God puts opportunities around us to demonstrate love. The problem is most of the time we’re too busy. How many times have you thought, “I need to make a call; I need to encourage that person at work; I need to help my neighbor,” but then you missed the opportunity because something else came up? Love takes advantage of opportunities to serve others. The Bible says in ***1 John 4:16, “God is love. If we keep on loving others, we will stay one in our hearts with God, and he will stay one with us” (CEV).*** Our relationship with God is largely affected by our relationship with other people. If we commit to love, then we will keep in one with our hearts with God, and he’ll stay one with us—because God is love. ***“Everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another”* (John 13:35 NIV).** The distinguishing mark of a Christian is not a cross, a crucifix, a dove, or a fish on a bumper sticker. The sign of a Christian is love. How many people know you’re a Christian because of your loving lifestyle? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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While Christianity includes beliefs—it’s so much more than that. It’s about belonging and connection. When you’re a Christian, you belong to the family of God and are connected to the body of Christ. There are only two ways to get into a family: You can be born into it or adopted into it. Both phrases are used in the Bible to explain what it means to be brought into the family of God. You are “born again” into the family of God, and you are “adopted” into the family of God. Once you’re born, you can’t be unborn. Your relationship with your parents may be broken, but you are still their child. In the same way, once you are born again into the family of God, you can’t be unborn. You remain in the family of God! God also says you’re adopted into his family. According to New Testament-era Roman law, people could disown children they birthed. But if they adopted children, they were forbidden to ever disown them. God says you are not only born again into his family, but he has adopted you—and there is no way he will ever disown you. That’s good news! You may ask, “Really? No matter what I do, God won’t let me go?” Yes, no matter what you do! When you become part of the family of God, you become part of his church. Church isn’t something you go to; it’s something you belong to. God’s family is the church. We are children of God, which makes us brothers and sisters in the family of God. The Bible says, ***“I want you to know how people who are members of God’s family must live. God’s family is the church” (1 Timothy 3:15 GW).*** And Romans 15:6-7 explains more about what the church—the family of God—looks like: ***“You will all be joined together, and you will give glory to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 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The decisions of people in power can’t mess up God’s plan. The schemes of the enemy can’t derail his plans. This should bring us comfort even on a personal level, because that means our own shortcomings can’t mess up God’s ultimate plan. ***“Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.” Proverbs 19:21***  If it’s God’s Will, it’s going to happen. God can even turn bad things into good to accomplish his plans. Only he can do that. I love this quote form Joseph in Genesis: ***“You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.” Genesis 50:20*** Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers, falsely imprisoned, and still God used what was meant for evil for good. God’s plans prevailed. They always do. And, God’s plan in your own life will prevail. He can use the bad in your life, your mistakes, your past, your hurts, your hardships, your shortcomings, your weaknesses… and he can use them to accomplish his purpose. ***“******And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28*** Now, just because God’s plan is going to prevail no matter what, doesn’t mean you can’t MISS God’s plan for your life. You can miss out on being involved in God’s plan. He doesn’t need you to accomplish his purpose… but he INVITES you to be a part of it. Do you want to be a part of God’s plan and purpose? How do you join in on God’s plan? You make a choice. This is a choice everyone can make. You don’t have to be special, you just make a choice. You choose to make Jesus Lord over your life. You give God the keys. You resign as CEO of your life, and you choose to follow him. Day by day. He isn’t going to reveal his plans to you in one long spread sheet. He usually reveals his plan to us in pieces, so that we have to trust him. But, day by day, choose his way, not your way. Commit to him. ***“Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans”*** ***(Proverbs 16:3 NIV).*** Reading his Word and spending time with him will also help you clarify what he is calling you to do on a daily basis, because you will begin to know his character and his voice. Jeremiah 29:11 ***“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Conflict starts because of our self-centeredness. ***James 4:1 says,*** ***“What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?”*** ***(NIV)*** It’s very easy for selfishness to creep into relationships. When you start a relationship, you work really hard at being unselfish. But as time goes on, selfishness begins to creep in. We tend to put more energy into starting and building relationships than we do in maintaining them. If selfishness destroys relationships, then it is self*lessness* that makes them grow. What does self*lessness* mean? It means less of “me” and more of “you.” It means putting the other person’s needs before your own. It means pausing before you react and choosing to act loving instead, even if they aren’t. This is simple, but so hard in the moment. Self*lessness* brings out the best in others. It builds trust in relationships. In fact, if you start acting selfless in a relationship, it forces the other person to change, because you’re not the same person anymore, and they have to relate to you in a different way. I’ve actually seen it many times—some of the most unlovable people that nobody wants to be around are transformed when someone is kind and selfless toward them, when they’re given what they need, not what they deserve. The Bible says in **Galatians 6:7-8,** ***“The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life”*** **(The Message).** This is the biblical principle of sowing and reaping. He has wired the universe so that the more unselfish you are, the more he blesses you. Why? Because he wants you to become like him, and God is unselfish. 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The Bible says in ***1 Peter 4:10,*** ***“Each of you as a good manager must use the gift that God has given you to serve others”*** ***(GW).*** You need me, and I need you. Nobody is good at everything. Nobody has every talent. There are no perfect people who can say to the world, “I don’t need anybody else.” We need each other. We were made to work in teams! That’s why you need a small group and a church family. We’re better together. Here’s the key to success: Build on your strengths so that your weaknesses become irrelevant. Every successful person does this. Just work on what you’re good at, and make it better. Here’s a second rule of success: Team up with people who are good at what you’re *not* good at. Team up with people who complement you. Everybody has something to contribute. Nobody has it all together. We need each other! This, by the way, is one of the purposes of marriage. In marriage we’re put together to complement each other’s strengths and to compensate for each other’s weaknesses. This also applies to your work. If you want your business to be effective, here’s the key: Staff by SHAPE. Help people discover their SHAPE—their **S**piritual gifts, **H**eart, **A**bilities, **P**ersonality, and **E**xperiences—and put them in the positions they’re good at. When you do that, you won’t have to micromanage them or motivate them. Why? Because they’ll be doing what they love to do, and they’ll be good at it. God wants every person to use their abilities to help other people. We need each other! Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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This doesn’t mean you necessarily have to have a ton of free time, but you make yourself available when it comes to serving those around you. There is a story in Matthew where Jesus was walking down the road to go to Jericho and some blind men start yelling toward him.  ***Matthew 20:30‑32 (NLT) "Two blind men shouted 'Lord, have mercy on us!'...Jesus stopped and called them. 'What do you want me to do for you?'".***  Jesus stopped what he was doing. If you want to be used by God, if you want to serve God, you must be willing to be interrupted. Most of Jesus' ministry and most of Jesus' miracles were interruptions.  You think about it. All the people he healed...the blind man, the lame man, the sick people, the paralyzed man, the dead child...all of them were interruptions. His first miracle ‑ interrupted at a wedding. The second miracle ‑ interrupted on the way to Galilee. It says "Jesus stopped". Almost every miracle Jesus did, He did it because He let Himself be interrupted. Almost all the ministry He did, He did it because He allowed Himself to be interrupted.  ***Proverbs 3:28 (NLT) "If you can help your neighbor now, don't say, "Come back tomorrow, and then I'll help you."*** Servant‑hearted people, Fully Devoted Followers, don't procrastinate. They are willing to stop and serve those around them, even if it didn’t fit in with their original agenda for the day. Even when it is inconvenient. I encourage you to be on the lookout this week. Who can you serve? Maybe it’s someone in you live with. Maybe you pick up a chore that isn’t normally yours, but because you have a servant’s heart, you do it for them to make their day easier. Who can you serve at work? Maybe you make some adjustments in your schedule and you start serving in youth or kid’s ministry right here at church. Maybe this is the year you even decide to serve at VBS. Make time to serve wherever you go. Embrace interruptions from people who need you. Jesus did. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The economy is out of our control. The weather. Our kid’s decisions. Sometimes, our health is out of our control, even when we take care of our bodies. Other people’s actions are out of our control. I could go on and on. But, you do have some control when it comes to circumstances beyond your control… you can always control your response. How you respond to uncertainty and adversity matters. So, how do you face an uncertain future with joy and confidence? Here are three things that ARE in your control to help you face life, no matter what happens… But, God still wants you to make plans and then, when your plans get changed, work on being flexible and trusting him. If we don’t make plans, if we aren’t intentional, time still passes and we will get to the end of our lives and wish we had been more intentional with the time God gave us.  There was a national survey done a while back and they discovered that 27% of all the people in America have never given any thought to the future. 60% of the people gave some thought to the future, usually the area is the area of finance. 10% gave serious thought to the future. These are high achievers. But only 3% of the population had written down goals. They are the super achievers.  When they compared the high achievers to the super achievers the only difference (the super achievers were out performing the high achievers 10 to 1) between them that those who were achieving the most had written down their goals. Successful people set up a plan. What would you like to be better at this year than last year? Would you like to be closer to God? Yes? Then set up a plan to do that. Would you like to make more time for your family? Then set up a plan to do that. Don’t just drift through life.  We can’t let life’s uncertainties paralyze us into drifting. ***Prov 16:9*** ***We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.***  Staying in the Word is totally within your control. No matter what happens, this is something you can commit to doing.  Coming to church every week is not enough. That's like eating one meal a week; you need to eat every day. How healthy would you be if you fasted six days a week and then on the seventh day you pigged out? You'd have spiritual indigestion! You need to read the Bible everyday, feed on it everyday, not just have a big feast at Sunday dinner. ***Joshua 1:8*** ***Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.*** God's promise of success is based on our commitment to His word. Why? The word of God is the owner's manual for life. It’s the recipe for living life to it’s fullest, and it always always always leads us back to the person who can help you with anything - Jesus. Stay in the Word, and draw near to him. This is key to facing an uncertain future.  I like the word "step out" because faith is action. Faith is not just believing something. Faith is action. You can believe a chair will hold you up, but you don't really have faith in it unless you sit down in it.  This is something you can control. You can commit to stepping out in faith, knowing the Lord will lead you even if things are uncertain.  It's an action step. It's more than just saying, "I believe." More than just believing IN Jesus. So does the devil. It means more than just knowing about Him; it means committing yourself TO Him, letting God be number one in our life, calling the shots, the CEO, the chairman of the board, helping us make the right decisions.  You have no way to control the future. 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The Bible actually gives us a template to filter our thoughts through. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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If you feel like you've drifted from the Lord and you need some encouragement, this devotion is for you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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[Events](/events "Events") - [Blog](/blog-2 "Blog") - [Podcast](/hope "Podcast") - [Devotion Sign Up](/videos-devotion "Devotion Sign Up") - [Newsletter Sign Up](/newsletter-signup "Newsletter Sign Up") - [Prayer](/prayer-2 "Prayer") - [Events](/events "Events") - [Event Gallery](/event-gallery "Event Gallery") - [Sermons](/sermons "Sermons") - [Watch Live](/live "Watch Live") --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/video-devotion-grace-is-a-person ### Title: Video Devotion: Grace is a Person ### Page ID: 6864518 ### Content: # Grace is a Person ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) The concept of Grace is counter cultural and hard for us to comprehend sometimes. But, it's actually the best news ever! Here's some truths about Grace that will help you live Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. All Rights Reserved. - [ABOUT](/sunday-gatherings "ABOUT") - [Sunday Gatherings](/sunday-gatherings "Sunday Gatherings") - [Who We Are](/who-we-are "Who We Are") - [What We Believe](/what-we-believe "What We Believe") - [Seminole Community Outreach](/seminole-community-outreach "Seminole Community Outreach") - [Missions](/missions "Missions") - [Our Leadership](/our-leadership "Our Leadership") - MINISTRIES - [Seminole Community Outreach](/seminole-community-outreach "Seminole Community Outreach") - [Children](/children "Children") - [Discovery Zone](/discovery-zone "Discovery Zone") - [Kidzone](/kidszone "Kidzone") - [Power Up](/power-up "Power Up") - [Students](/students "Students") - [Fuge Camp 2026](/fuge-camp-2026 "Fuge Camp 2026") - [Wildfire](/wildfire "Wildfire") - [Limitless](/limitless "Limitless") - [Women's Ministry](/womens-ministry "Women's Ministry") - [Men's Ministry](/mens-ministry "Men's Ministry") - CONNECT - [Sign Up & Next Steps](/sign-up-and-next-steps "Sign Up & Next Steps") - 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[Events](/events "Events") - [Blog](/blog-2 "Blog") - [Podcast](/hope "Podcast") - [Devotion Sign Up](/videos-devotion "Devotion Sign Up") - [Newsletter Sign Up](/newsletter-signup "Newsletter Sign Up") - [Prayer](/prayer-2 "Prayer") - [Events](/events "Events") - [Event Gallery](/event-gallery "Event Gallery") - [Sermons](/sermons "Sermons") - [Watch Live](/live "Watch Live") --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/this-matters ### Title: THIS Matters ### Page ID: 6864536 ### Content: # THIS Matters ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***John 17:4 (NLT) "I brought glory to you here on earth by doing everything you told me to do.”***   I want you to be able to say that when you get to heaven. You may retire from your job someday, but you're never retiring from ministry. You're never retiring from service. God wants you to serve the rest of your life. When you’re done serving, He’ll let you know. He’ll promote you to heaven. As I've said, nobody just gets to coast on through life. God wants us to be giving out.   ***1 Corinthians 4:2 (NIV) "Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful."***   How do we prove faithful? What motivates us to stay faithful in serving God over the long haul? We have gratitude for the past and we have faith in the future reward. We also know that what we're doing really matters. Now let's be honest, most of what we do in life doesn't matter. It isn't going to matter next week much less next year or next decade or in eternity. But any time you're serving in Jesus' name, no matter how small, it matters.   ***1 Corinthians 15:58 (Mess) "Throw yourselves into the work of the Master, confident that nothing you do for Him is a waste of time or effort.”*** That means it all matters when you are working for the Lord, even the little stuff. Why?  Because in God's book, there is no little service. He said, "even if you give a cup of cold water in my name to a child, that counts.” It all matters. You see, the fact is with our limited perspective we can't see how our small acts have big consequences, but they do!   Years ago two teenage boys tried to come into a church service at night. Only it was packed out and they couldn't find any seats. So they turned around and decided to leave, because they couldn't find a seat. But one usher said "Come on, guys. I'll find you a seat.” And that usher personally escorted them down to the center and found them two seats. That night both of those boys accepted Christ and became Christians. One of them was Billy Graham who has now led millions and tens of millions of people to Christ. Rocking babies in the baby room. It matters. Running slides for service. It matters. Scrubbing toilets and cleaning at church. It matters. Serving at VBS. It matters. Ministering to a co-worker at the water cooler. It matters. Giving teens a ride to youth group. It matters. Teaching toddlers a Sunday school lesson. It matters. Brewing coffee for your fellow church-goers. It matters. So never belittle the little because it's all important. Fully Devoted Followers do every task with equal dedication because they know it all matters. It doesn't matter if you're doing something important that is well known or if you're doing something important that's not well known. It's all important.   Don't mistake anonymous with insignificant or even unnecessary. Just because it's not known, doesn't mean it's unnecessary.  One day you're going to stand before God and He's going to say to you, "What did you do with what I gave you, the talents, the abilities, the background, the experiences, the freedom, the education, the family experiences?   ***Hebrews 6:10 (NLT) "He will not forget how hard you have worked for him and how you have shown your love to him by caring for other Christians.”***   How? "By caring for other Christians.” And God keeps His promise. In heaven you're going to get eternal rewards.   ***Matthew 25:21 (NIV) "Well done good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things so; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness.”*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He wasn’t out to win a popularity contest. He didn’t need other people’s opinions to validate himself. Did you know that people pleasing is a form of idolatry? The first commandment in the Ten Commandments says, ***“You shall have no other gods before me”*** ***(Exodus 20:3 NIV).*** Anything you put before God becomes a god. So, a boat could be a god. A career could be a god. A girlfriend could be a god. Golf could be a god. Anything that becomes number one in your life that isn’t God becomes your god. The second commandment is, ***“You must not make for yourself an idol”*** ***(Exodus 20:4 NLT).*** Anything that replaces God in your life is an idol. Success can be an idol. Money can be an idol. Sex can be an idol. A relationship can become an idol. If that relationship to your spouse, boss, or friend is more important than God, it’s an idol. People pleasers allow other people’s opinions to take first place in their lives. Those opinions become a god because they matter more than God’s opinion. You don’t want to tell people you’re a Christian because they might think less of you. You don’t want them to know you go to church because they may not like you. At that point, you have another god in your life. You have made an idol of people pleasing. Paul says in Galatians 1:10, ***“I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant”*** ***(NLT).*** Almost everyone wants to be liked. It’s tempting to want to please other people. But don’t do it at the expense of pleasing God. As a servant of Christ, you have an audience of one. You need to only please God. Wouldn’t it simplify your life to live for an audience of one? If God likes what you’re doing, then you know you’re doing the right thing. The truth is, you can’t please everybody. Even God can’t please everybody! When someone prays for it to be sunny, somebody else is praying for it to rain. Somebody is praying for their team to do well, and someone else wants the opposing team to win. You can’t please everybody. You have to decide whose approval you’re going to seek—God’s approval or other people’s approval. Are you going to live for what other people think or what God thinks? When you have the mind of Christ, you will be so secure in your identity, your purpose, and God’s presence in your life that you won’t need to look to other people for approval. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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While financial giving can often be part of generosity, true generosity is much bigger than that. It’s a matter of the heart. Living generously is a way of life. Generosity isn’t just about what’s in our wallet; it’s about what’s in our heart. It’s about our time, our talents, our kindness, our willingness to serve, and our attitude toward others. The most generous people aren’t always the wealthiest—they are the ones who give freely of themselves, no matter what they have. At its core, generosity is a response to God’s generosity toward us. Everything we have… our time, talents, resources, and opportunities… they are all are gifts from Him. Here's what a lifestyle of generosity like Jesus could look like: Sometimes, the most valuable thing you can give isn’t money—it’s your time. People are busy, and schedules are packed, but when you take time to listen, encourage, and be present for someone, that is an act of generosity. ●     Taking time to check in on a friend who’s struggling. ●     Being intentional about spending time with your family. ●     Serving in your church or community, even when it’s inconvenient. Time is one of the most precious things we have, and when we give it freely, it speaks volumes about the love of Christ in us. God has given each of us unique gifts and abilities, and they weren’t meant to be kept to ourselves. Your talents are a way to bless others. 1 Peter 4:10 says, ***“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.”*** ●     If you have a gift for teaching: teach Sunday school or help with youth or lead a small group. ●     If you’re creative: help teach art at VBS or be a part of the SCC event team. ●     If you’re great at organizing, help someone else get organized. Whatever you’re good at, use it to serve others and glorify God. Encouragement is free, yet it is one of the most generous things you can give. A kind word, a thoughtful note, a prayer for someone who is struggling—these small things can make a big impact. ***Proverbs 11:25 says, “A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.”*** Who can you encourage today? A simple word of kindness can bring life to someone who needs it. While generosity is more than money, financial giving is still an important part of a generous life. When we give freely, we acknowledge that everything we have belongs to God in the first place. ●     Giving to your church to support ministry and outreach. ●     Helping someone in need without expecting anything in return. ●     Supporting a missionary or a cause that aligns with God’s work. Financial generosity is a step of faith, but God promises that when we give, He will provide for our needs. Living generously isn’t about a single act—it’s about a mindset. It’s about waking up each day and asking, *How can I give today? How can I be a blessing to someone else?* Jesus was the ultimate example of generosity. He gave His time, His wisdom, His love, and ultimately, His life for us. When we live generously, we reflect Him to the world. So, how can you start living generously today? Because a generous life is a life that looks like Jesus. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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In our world, we are constantly searching for it—striving to find meaning in our work, relationships, and actions. Wondering what they were made for. Does their life matter? Does what they’re doing matter? What’s the point of everything? How do we find fulfillment? Let me boil down your PRIMARY purpose really simply… You were made by God and for God — and until you understand that, life will never make sense.  You were made by God for God. That is the core, your primary purpose for being created. But, what about the specifics? How do you know your specific purpose in each season of life? What are you supposed to be DOING right now?   The only way to know who you are and what your purpose is in life is to look to Jesus Christ. Why? Because he created you! ***“We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created . . . everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him”*** ***(Colossians 1:15-16 The Message).*** The phrase “in Christ” is one of the most important in the Bible. In the New Testament it is used 89 times, and the phrase “in him” is used 79 times. If you have trusted Jesus Christ for salvation, you likely call yourself a Christian, but the word “Christian” is used only twice in the whole Bible. In biblical times, the most common description used for a follower of Jesus was “in Christ.” That directly points to where you should find your identity as a follower of Jesus. ***Ephesians 1:11 says,*** ***“It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for”*** ***(The Message).*** In Christ, you find out who you are—that’s your identity. And you find what you’re living for—that’s your purpose. The only way to know your identity and purpose in life is by getting to know your Creator. You may think you know yourself best, but God knows everything about you. He made you to love you, and he gave you a purpose only you can fulfill. If you really want to find out what that purpose is and how to pursue it, you have to get to know Jesus Christ and ask for his wisdom and direction. When you look for your identity in other people, you’re not going to find it. When you look for your identity in your job or your hobby or your accomplishments or your causes, you’re only going to be disappointed. And, if you were wondering, living out God's purpose for your life won't lead to feeling bored or controlled. I think that's a lot of people's fear... "If I follow God's purpose for my life, am I going to have to give up a fun life?" Absolutely not! 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It’s impossible! God *does* want you to forgive. And, with God’s help, you can choose to forgive. But, our memories don’t just get wiped when we choose forgiveness. But, guess what? God doesn’t necessarily want you to “forget.” He actually wants you to be able to remember… not focusing on the pain, but he wants you to remember HIS healing and HIS faithfulness. He wants you to be able to look back at your past from a place of being healed. If you could never look back, that wouldn’t be real healing. When you give God your hurts, you can get to a place of looking back, and instead of feeling the hurt, you can focus on how far he has brought you. You can remember how faithful HE was in your healing. You don’t have to forget the wrong thing someone did to you. You couldn’t forget even if you tried! But God says there’s no need to forget it. You just have to forgive and then see how God will bring good out of the hurt. So, instead of forgetting your past or running from your past or avoiding your past, you can look back on it from a place of victory. That is freedom. When you choose forgiveness and allow God to heal those places of your heart, your past doesn’t haunt you. You’ll actually look back and have gratitude for how God drew close to you in your pain and used it for good. Yes, good. ***Romans 8:28 says, “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” (NIV).*** Notice the verse above doesn’t say that all things are good, by the way—because all things are not good. Disease is not good. A broken relationship is not good. War is not good. Abuse is not good. There are a lot of things in life that are evil. Not everything that happens in this world is God’s will. God is the only one who can bring good out of bad like that in our life. But, to get there, you have to trust him with your hurt. And, you can trust him with your heart, especially when you are in pain. ***“******The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.******” Psalm 34:18*** But God says he will work good out of the bad things in life if you will trust him. You can go to him and say, “God, I give you all the pieces of my life. Even my pain. Even my past.” He will take all your pieces and, in return, he will give you peace in your heart.   When you forgive and have the peace of God, you don’t have to forget. You can remember his goodness. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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### Page ID: 6953572 ### Content: # Is Bitterness Stealing Your Joy? ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) No one is exempt from hurt in life. It’s part of the human experience. You will feel hurt, many times over. Sometimes you will be hurt intentionally. Other times someone will accidentally hurt you. Maybe you were wounded when somebody lied to you or broke a promise or rejected you. Maybe you’ve experienced betrayal or misunderstanding or disappointment or loneliness. No one is exempt from hurt. But, you have more control than you think. You do have control over how you respond to hurt. You have a choice. If you forgive, you can move on and still experience joy. If you become bitter, you can let one hurt affect the rest of your life. But, what if you feel like you CAN’T forgive that person? You can’t… without God. He can give you the strength to get through the process of forgiveness and healing. And, he will do that if you choose to forgive and trust him with that process. You can choose to forgive... even if your feelings have not caught up yet and you still feel hurt. On the other hand, you will find that bitterness is a boomerang. It always comes back and hurts you more than anyone else. Bitterness will only weigh you down and depress your spirit. ***Proverbs 27:3 says,*** ***“A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier”*** ***(NLT).*** Choosing bitterness is like choosing to carry around a huge weight with you everywhere you go, all the time. It’s an unnecessary load, but you’ve made the choice to bear it. Sometimes you may think you can hurt the person who hurt you by holding on to what happened—that by staying mad, the other person will become miserable. But bitterness is a worthless weapon. It doesn’t hurt the other person. It only makes *you* miserable. The person that hurt you is probably not even aware that you’re thinking about them all the time. You may have been hurt by someone a long time ago, and I’m sorry you had to experience that pain. But here’s the good news: They can’t hurt you anymore! The only way they can continue to hurt you is if you choose to hold on to the hurt and replay it over and over in your mind. The Bible says in ***Job 18:4,*** ***“You are only hurting yourself with your anger”*** ***(GNT).*** You don’t have to hurt anymore. Let go of your hurt. Surrender it to God, so that He can begin to heal you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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In our society, contentment can actually be seen as a negative thing. But, the truth is, contentment is not a lack of ambition. It’s not a lack of goals. It doesn’t mean you don’t work hard or have dreams. Contentment means your happiness doesn’t depend on your circumstances. Contentment begins when we stop measuring our satisfaction by what we want and start recognizing what God has already provided. How do you eliminate discontentment? For one thing, stop comparing. We compare everything—clothes, houses, cars, intelligence, even husbands and wives. Whenever you compare, you’re going to feel discontentment. Paul says in ***Philippians 4:12, “I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation” (NIV).*** He wrote this from prison. Paul says contentment is learned. It’s something that doesn’t come naturally. It’s learned. The Bible also says, ***“There is great gain in godliness combined with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it” (1 Timothy 6:6-7 NRSV).*** One of the greatest secrets in learning to be content is to realize that you don’t really own anything. It’s all on loan to you for a few decades! You didn’t bring a single thing into this world, and you’re not going to carry anything out of it, either. You just get to use it while you’re here on earth. The Bible calls that stewardship. You are the manager or steward of what God allows you to have while you’re here, but it’s not actually yours. When you understand that you’re just a manager of the blessings God allows in your life and you hold them with an open hand. Gratitude is also a powerful catalyst for contentment. When we focus on what we’re thankful for, it shifts our perspective and helps us appreciate what God has already abundantly blessed us with. 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If you complain about the weather, does it change the weather? If you complain about the way you look, does it change the way you look? If you complain about your spouse, your children, or your job, does it change any of those things? Complaining is a total waste of time. Complaining will never make you feel better. Instead, God wants your life to ***“overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done.” (Colossians 2:7 TLB).***  Gratitude can actually change your brain chemistry. Studies have shown that gratitude produces chemicals in your brain—dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin—that make you feel peaceful and happy. Sometimes people will say to me, “You know, Pastor Jerry, I just want to know God’s will. What does God want me to do in my relationship? What does he want me to do in my career? What does he want me to do in school?” I can tell you God’s will for your life. ***“Always be thankful, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus”*** ***(1 Thessalonians 5:18 TLB).***  It’s not typically the answer people are hoping for, but it’s the truth. God’s will is that you would have this attitude of gratitude on a daily basis, no matter what situation you find yourself in. This aspect of God’s will is Biblical, and it’s step one. Why would God teach you step two when you haven’t done step one? If you want to know God’s will on who to marry, God wants you to do step one—always be thankful—and then you can move on to step two, then step three, and so on. If you want to live an overflowing life rather than an overwhelmed life, stop complaining, and start being grateful.      When you are tempted to complain this week, think about a specific way God has been good to you. What difference do you think it will make? As your pastor, I encourage you to ACTUALLY do this. 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We were meeting our exchange student, Megume. While we were there, I met the president or director of Campus Crusade for Christ for all of Japan. His name was Yoshi. I asked him how he became a Christian. He said he was at university one day and someone shared with him the four spiritual laws tract published by CCC. The first law says God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Yoshi said, “We have over 600 gods that are worshipped in Japan. I had never heard of a God who claimed to love me. I just decided I’m going to believe in the God who says he loves me. He’s going to be my God!” God loves everyone and has a wonderful plan for your life. Who does that include? Everybody. The good news is that God loves you. God loves Yoshi. And God loves me. The bad news is that He loves my enemies just as much… but that’s not really bad news. Why? Because, we are *all* broken and messed up and in the same boat. God loves all of us.  Loving the lovable is easy. Loving the hard-to-love is much much harder. The world teaches us to love those who make you happy. The world teaches you to love those who think like you. The world teaches to love until you don’t feel like it anymore.  But, look at the life of Jesus. He loved the unlovely, and that's what got him in trouble with the religious fanatics. Jesus teaches us to love the marginalized and the outcasts. Jesus teaches us to love our enemies. Jesus teaches us to love EVERYONE.  In fact, as Jesus followers, we should be the most loving people on the planet. Why? Because God is love. Loving others brings God glory, because we are being like him.  ***"******By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:35*** We *can* love everyone, if we allow Jesus to love through us. It takes surrender on our part to let him do that. That doesn’t mean we have to always love what people do, but we do have to love the person, as followers of Jesus. The truth is, you will never look into the eyes of someone whom God doesn’t love, and you will never meet someone who Jesus didn’t die for. That should make it easier for us to love any person we come in contact with, no matter how difficult.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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In his day, King David probably traveled through it many times. Some of the canyons along the road to Jericho were narrow at the bottom and as tall as 800 feet. The only time you could see sunshine at the bottom was at noon when the sun was straight overhead. In the Bible, valleys are often a metaphor for times of darkness, despair, defeat, or discouragement. ***Psalm 23:4 says, “Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me” (NIV).*** The Bible teaches that God is not just a part of your mountaintop experiences. He is also with you in the valleys. There are three things you need to remember about the valleys: **Valleys are a part of life.** The Bible says in ***Deuteronomy 11:11, “The land you will soon take over is a land of hills and valleys” (NLT).*** Valleys are inevitable. You likely just came out of a valley, are in the middle of one right now, or are headed into another one. There’s no way to avoid valleys while you’re on this Earth. Instead, you can count on them. **Valleys happen to everybody.** They’re impartial. Good things happen to bad people, and bad things happen to good people. We live in a fallen and broken world, so we have problems. Nobody’s immune. Nobody’s insulated from pain. Nobody sails through life problem-free. The Bible says, ***“The good man does not escape all troubles—he has them too. But the Lord helps him in each and every one” (Psalm 34:19 TLB).*** **Valleys are unpredictable.** You can’t plan them. You can’t time them. Problems typically catch you off guard. In fact, your valleys and your problems usually come at the worst times—when you don’t have time, when you’re unprepared, and when it’s inconvenient. Wouldn’t it be easier if you could schedule all your valleys when you’re caught up on your sleep, your health is good, and nobody is bugging you? But life doesn’t work that way. ***Proverbs 27:1 reminds us, “Don’t brag about tomorrow, since you don’t know what the day will bring” (NLT).*** When you know what to expect in the valleys of life, you know how to better prepare for them and keep trusting in God’s presence and provision. You may not be in the valley of the shadow of death right now, but you may be in another valley. Valleys are the hard places on your journey, where it’s easy to doubt or overlook God’s goodness. But you can always trust that God walks through the valleys with you. And he’s promised to bring you through to the other side. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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One principle it offers over and over again is what I call the Integrity Test. When you’re making a decision, ask yourself, “Would I want everyone to know about this decision?” If the thought of other people finding out about your decision worries you, then you’re probably making the wrong decision. Bad decisions lead to secrecy, and that kind of secret always leads to pain in your life. The Bible says: ***“Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out”*** ***(Proverbs 10:9 NIV).*** When you have integrity, your public life and your private life match. What’s in your heart is the same as what other people see on the outside. What you say and what you do are in harmony. The truth is, when it comes to integrity, you may fool everyone else, but you can’t fool yourself. And if you violate your own conscience, you have to pay for that. ***James 4:17 says,*** ***“Knowing what is right to do and then not doing it is sin”*** ***(TLB).*** When making a decision, ask yourself: Can I do this with a clear conscience? Violating your conscience is a big mistake. God will forgive you for the wrong you do. But forgiveness doesn’t free you from the consequences of bad decisions. You can be forgiven and still have regrets. You can be forgiven and still face pain. You can be forgiven and still have broken relationships. Many decisions you make are clear-cut. But what about those where it’s harder to know right from wrong? The Bible speaks to that, too: ***“If someone believes it is wrong, then he shouldn’t do it because for him it is wrong”*** ***(Romans 14:14 TLB).*** God’s given you the wisdom of the Bible and of your conscience because he loves you. The Integrity Test will help keep you on the path that God knows is for your good. Let me give you six ways you can work this week to become a person of integrity in how you live and the decisions you make. You become a person of integrity by: People of integrity keep their word. If they say they’ll do it, they do it. If they say they’ll be there, they show up. The Bible says in Proverbs 25:14, ***“People who promise things that they never give are like clouds and wind that bring no rain” (GNT).*** You may not think this is a big deal, but it’s a big deal to God. Do you spend more money than you make? That is a lack of integrity. Do you get yourself in debt for things that you can’t pay off? That is a lack of integrity. ***Psalm 37:21 says, “The wicked borrow and never pay back” (GNT).*** God is looking for men and women of integrity who know how to keep a secret and not pass it around on social media. Don’t talk about people behind their back. Don’t even listen to that stuff, because a ***“gossip can’t be trusted with a secret, but someone of integrity won’t violate a confidence” (Proverbs 11:13 MSG).*** Wherever you put your money first is what’s most important to you. The Bible says, ***“Is it right for a person to cheat God? Of course not, yet you are cheating me. ‘How?’ you ask. In the matter of tithes and offerings . . . Bring the full amount of your tithes to the Temple . . . Put me to the test and you will see that I will open the windows of heaven and pour out on you in abundance all kinds of good things” (Malachi 3:8, 10 GNT).*** ***Colossians 3:23 says, “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people” (NLT).*** If you’re a believer, your real boss is God, and whether anybody else sees your work, God does. A person of integrity doesn’t act one way in church and another way at work and another way on the golf course. ***“We refuse to wear masks and play games. We don’t maneuver and manipulate behind the scenes. And we don’t twist God’s Word to suit ourselves. Rather, we keep everything we do and say out in the open” (2 Corinthians 4:2 MSG).*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It’s our natural, human inclination to hurt others when they hurt us. If someone says something bad about you, you want to say something bad about them. We tend to hold on to hurts and struggle to forgive. But, because of the cross, you can break that bondage to bitterness, guilt, resentment, and worry. You can avoid becoming a slave to the past and to hurtful memories. You can choose to forgive. The cross gives us freedom and power to forgive. Because of the cross, the power sin has over us is broken. The cross allows us to let go, because we know we have been forgiven so much more than we will ever have to forgive someone else. We don't have to hold on to our hurts anymore. We can lay them down at the foot of the cross and trust God with it. So, what hurt are you hanging on to? Now, let me ask you a very important question about that hurt: How badly do you want to be healed of it? Do you want to let it go? Maybe you’ve gone over it a thousand times in your mind—what your parents did, what your sibling did, what your spouse did. Every time you think about it, it still hurts. The cross has the power to free you from grudges, grief, and resentment. There’s nothing outside of the cross that will empower you to let go of the emotions that are weighing you down. On the cross, Jesus broke the power of sin, death, and bondage in your life. I want you to think of the person you need to forgive—the person whose offense planted a seed of bitterness in you—and I want you to pray this prayer right now: “Father, only you understand how much I’ve been hurt by this person. I don’t want to carry the pain for another second. I don’t want to be a bitter person. But I need your grace and the power of the cross to release my hurt and to forgive those who’ve hurt me. This is the turning point. First, I need to experience your forgiveness. You know all the ways I’ve hurt others, and I’m so sorry for my sins. Jesus, thank you for dying for me. I accept your grace and forgiveness, and I need it daily. Today I’m turning to you, and I’m choosing to forgive like you’ve forgiven me. Every time the memory comes back, I’ll forgive that person again until the pain is gone. Heal my heart with your grace. In Jesus’ name. Amen.” Imagine going into this Easter free from bitterness. I encourage you to lay down your hurts at the foot of the cross and fully embrace the freedom that Jesus' death and resurrection offers you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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We’ll remember the most expensive gift anyone has ever given us: God’s grace. It’s free to us, but it cost God’s Son his life.  Before we celebrate Easter on Sunday, we must remember what Jesus did for us on the cross on Good Friday. When Jesus died on the cross, he paid the penalty for our sin. He broke the power of sin, so we have the power to change the hurts, habits, and hang-ups that keep us from God’s purpose in our lives. And, of course, the power of the cross allows us to live with God forever in heaven and be a part of God's family. The cross changed everything. How should I feel when I realize what Jesus did on the cross for me? ·      Guilty? No, Jesus has paid for your sin. You don’t need to feel guilt.  ·      Grief? No, Jesus didn’t stay dead. The Bible is clear that he rose again. We don’t serve a dead Savior. So then, how should we respond to Good Friday? The Bible gives us three reminders of how to respond to what Jesus did for us on the cross. As you prepare for this weekend, keep these reminders in mind. Let’s lead in a way that demonstrates what Good Friday and Easter Sunday mean to us.  **1\. Let’s make our lives count.** ***“Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20 MSG).*** You can't understand the grace of God and continue living the same way you've always lived. You can't ignore his commands. You can’t spend your time on what’s trivial and spend your money frivolously. You have been bought with a price: the death of God’s Son.  **2\. Let’s give generously.** ***“You are familiar with the generosity of our Master, Jesus Christ. Rich as he was, he gave it all away for us—in one stroke he became poor and we became rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9 MSG).***  If you want to measure how much you understand God’s grace, look at your giving. When you are generous with your time, your money, your life, your resources, and your opportunities, that's a reflection of Christ in your life. Being lovingly generous to others and to God is the ultimate proof that you understand the grace Jesus showed on Good Friday. **3\. Let’s share the Good News of Jesus.** ***“The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me—to tell people the Good News about God’s grace” (Acts 20:24 NCV).*** The apostle Paul understood that the most important thing in his life wasn’t to get married or to become successful in his vocation. The driving motivation of his life was to fulfill the mission God gave him. Once you become a follower of Jesus, part of your life mission is to tell other people about him. Jesus died for every single person on our planet on the first Good Friday.  This week, as we gather with other believers to remember Jesus’ death and resurrection, your typical neighbor has no clue that Jesus died for them. I encourage you, invite someone to church with you this Sunday. Even if it feels awkward to ask. Even if you've never invited someone before. I encourage you to take that step of faith and invite someone. Today is Good Friday, and Sunday is coming! Hope everyone has an amazing Easter weekend, and we hope to see you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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As you look for ways to bless others, keep in mind these four truths of God’s blessing: The Bible teaches that you are blessed not just so that you can feel good or so that you can be happy and comfortable. You are blessed so that you will bless others. God told Abraham in ***Genesis 12:2******, “I will bless you . . . and you will be a blessing” (NIV).*** **2\. When you bless others, God takes care of your needs.** There’s almost nothing that God won’t do for the person who really wants to help other people. In fact, God guarantees that if you will concentrate on blessing others, he’ll take care of your needs. In ***Luke 18:29-30******, Jesus says, “I assure you that everyone who has given up house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the Kingdom of God, will be repaid many times over in this life, and will have eternal life in the world to come” (NLT).*** When you care about helping other people, God assumes responsibility for your problems. And that’s a real blessing—because he’s much better at handling your difficulties than you are. The more you bless other people and the more you help others, the more God blesses your life. ***Luke 6:38*** ***says, “Give away your life; you’ll find life given back, but not merely given back — given back with bonus and blessing” (The Message).*** You cannot out-give God. The more you try to bless other people, the more God says, “I’m going to pour blessings out on you. Let’s see who can give the most. The more you bless others, the more I’m going to bless you in return.” **4\. The more God blesses you, the more he expects you to help others.**  Jesus said it this way in ***Luke 12:48******: “Much is required from the person to whom much is given; much more is required from the person to whom much more is given” (GNT).*** Never be afraid to share God’s blessings. The more generous you are with sharing what God’s given you, the more you’ll see God blessing you in return. 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You’re either going to live for yourself, a self-centered life, or you’re going to live for something greater than yourself—the kingdom of God. Fully devoted followers of Christ don’t live for themselves. They realize that the talents God gave them are not for their own benefit. They’re meant to make the world a better place. When God made you, he gave you all kinds of gifts, talents, abilities, and experiences. Those things make you, *you*. And God made you, *you*. There’s nobody like you in the whole world, and he wants you to be *you* for his glory. God shaped you to serve him, and there’s only one way to do that: by serving other people. You may have a talent for art and say that you do it “just because you love to do it.” That’s nice, but that’s not a good enough motive. God didn’t give you artistic ability just so you can love to do it. He gave it to you so you can use your art to help other people in some way. Some of you have an ability to fix things. Some of you are good at math. Some of you are good at closing deals. Some of you are good at music. Some of you are good at organizing. And some of you are good at gardening.  God made us all different so that everything in the world gets done. If we all liked to do the same thing, then there would be a whole lot left undone. The Bible says in ***1 Peter 4:10******, “God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of*** ***spiritual gifts******. Use them well to serve one another” (NLT).***  You are the steward of your talents, and God is watching to see if you use what he gave you on earth to bless other people. If you use them effectively on earth, then he’s going to give you more responsibility in heaven—and those responsibilities will bring you joy forever! Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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If you're like most people, you find yourself in a dilemma: You long to be close to other people, but you also fear being close. You want intimacy with others, but you’re also scared of it. What is intimacy? To be close, deeply known and understood. And, that can be scary. Being vulnerable and intimate in our relationships can stir up a lot of fear. Fear of rejection. Fear of judgment. Fear that, if they REALLY knew who I was, they wouldn’t love me. Insecurity prevents intimacy and destroys your relationships.  But, God designed us for intimacy. This isn’t just a word for marriage. You can have intimacy with God. You can have intimacy in friendships, with family. It’s just closeness. Being known. We need intimacy. If insecurity destroys relationships, then what builds them? Love! Love builds relationships.  The Bible says in 1 John 4:18, ***“Love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, this . . . shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love” (NLT).***  Love expels fear by taking the focus off of you and putting it on others. Focusing on the other person gives you the power to throw fear out of your life.  How do you find that power to focus on other people? You start by realizing how much God loves you. The moment you begin to understand how much God loves you, you don’t have to prove yourself anymore. It takes the pressure off, a lot. Because you’re secure in God’s love, you don’t have to spend your life trying to impress other people.  Do you know how freeing and enjoyable it is to live life that way? When you’re secure in your relationship with Christ, you’re no longer pressured by everyone else’s expectations. Your identity and self-worth are in Christ—not in what others might think of you.  Because, the truth is, other people MAY let you down (just like you might let someone else down). Because, we are all human. 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You don’t need a lot of friends. You don’t need to be popular. You just need a few good friends who build you up, not tear you down—who are wise, not fools. If you hang around with fools, that’s what you become. But if you spend time with wise people, you’ll grow wiser. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be friends with unbelievers. This just means, our close friends, the ones we allow to influence us should lead us closer to God. Friends who will pray for you. Friends who will tell you the truth. It’s our nature to be influenced by our surroundings. When we put ourselves in a godly atmosphere with godly people, we are influenced toward godliness. People grow best in community. You can’t grow to spiritual maturity by yourself. God designed us to need each other. Wisdom shows up primarily in relationships. You could become a monk and move to the top of a mountain and spend your life in silence and reading books; you would grow in knowledge, but you wouldn’t grow in wisdom. You can hold advanced academic degrees but still have your relationships fall apart; being educated doesn’t necessarily mean you’re wise. If I stand on the edge of a stage, and I’m trying to pull you up while you’re trying to pull me down, which is easier to do? It’s always easier for somebody to pull you down than pull you up. But people who pull you down are not your true friends. Real friends pull you up. They encourage you in your pursuit of godly wisdom by offering their own. ***“A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother” (******Proverbs 18:24******).*** Do you have anybody in your life who is sharing their wisdom on a regular basis? You need that kind of encouragement in your life if you want to be a wise person. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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I say it again—rejoice!” (******Philippians 4:4*** ***NLT).*** When Paul wrote this, he wrote it from prison. He doesn’t say you should be joyful only in good times. He says you should be full of joy always. But how can you do that? The Bible teaches that—even when times are tough—you can be joyful if you follow these four simple strategies: **Thank God in all things.** When you pray, do it with a thankful heart. The healthiest human emotion is gratitude. People who are grateful are happy. But people who are ungrateful are miserable because nothing makes them happy. They’re never satisfied. It’s never good enough. But if you cultivate an attitude of gratitude—of being thankful IN every circumstance—your stress will lessen. There is always *something* to be thankful for, even when times are hard. **Don’t worry about anything.** Worrying doesn’t change anything. It doesn’t help solve any of your problems. Jesus says in ***Matthew 6:34******, “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own” (NIV).*** **Pray about everything.** Instead of worrying, use your time to pray. If you prayed as much as you worried, you’d have a lot less to worry about. Is God interested in your car payments? Your work deadlines? The laundry pile that’s looming over you today? Yes, he’s interested in every detail of your life. And because of that, you can take any problem to God that you face. **Think about the right things.** If you want to reduce the level of stress in your life, you must change the way you think, because the way you think determines how you feel. And the way you feel determines how you act. The Bible teaches that, if you want to change your life, you need to change what you’re thinking about. This involves a deliberate, conscious choice to think about the right things. You need to *choose* to think about positive things and focus on God’s Word. What is the result of not worrying, praying about everything, giving thanks, and focusing on the right things?  Paul says, ***“You will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus” (******Philippians 4:7*** ***NLT).*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You take an honest, in-depth look at your life, and ask God to show you your blind spots so you can identify your sin. What does it mean to repent? It means three things: First, you take responsibility for your sin. Second, you turn away from those things. And third, you turn toward God and his grace.  That’s all. Take responsibility. Turn away from sin. Turn toward God. The Bible says, *“Let us test and examine our ways.* ***Let us turn back to the LORD. Let us lift our hearts and hands to God in heaven and say, ‘We have sinned and rebelled’” (******Lamentations 3:40-42*** ***NLT).***  You don’t have to earn God’s forgiveness. You don’t have to grovel and beg him to forgive you. You simply take responsibility and turn away from your sin and toward God. Repentance is a direction of your heart. It’s not perfection. It doesn’t mean you never struggle with that sin anymore. But, it also doesn’t mean we minimize or rationalize our sin. You don’t say, “It was no big deal.” You don’t say, “It happened so long ago” or “It was just a stage I went through” or “Everybody does it.” It doesn’t matter! You cannot rationalize sin, minimize it, excuse it, or blame others. That is not true repentance. Pay attention to this: The greatest holdup to the healing of your hang-up is *you*. You’re not waiting on God; you’re not waiting on anybody else. God wants to heal the hurts, destructive habits, and hang-ups in your life, but the greatest holdup is you.  The Bible says in ***1 John 1:8******, “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us” (NIV).*** Would you like to get rid of the self-defeating habits in your life? You will stop defeating yourself when you stop deceiving yourself. It all starts with gut-level honesty and recognizing that something is wrong, no matter how much you want to rationalize it and excuse it. You need to admit it, confess it, and get it out of your life. Then, God can start healing the hurt. He can give you healthy new habits to make you more like Jesus. If you’re serious, then you’re just a step away from liberation! You will find that God is full of grace and forgiveness. ***1 John 1:9 says, “******If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.******”*** You are one step away from a feeling of joy and purity that you’ve never experienced. You are so close to freedom from the habits and hurts and hang-ups that are messing up your life. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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We know we *should* give our worries to God, but how do we actually *do* that? Here's what it looks like to "give" your worries to God. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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How do we KNOW we are growing and not just doing a bunch of “spiritual activity.” What does spiritual growth look like? First, it’s important to understand what growth is and what growth isn't.  It's not how many gatherings we attend at church. It's not how many verses we memorize in the Bible. It's not how many minutes we spent in a devotion time this morning. It's not how many Christian books we read this last year. It's not a matter of **how many**.  In fact, you can read and study a book of the Bible many times. Over and over. Learn all the facts. Memorize every verse, and STILL not have grown one bit. How? Because, its not about how many things you’ve checked off your Christian check-list. Did you apply anything you learned? How did what you read CHANGE you and grow you?  Many people have thought through the years that if they just attended church more that somehow they would automatically grow. It doesn't work that way. Just doing things doesn't necessarily mean we’re growing. It's not a matter of how many.  It's the quality of life. It's, how much closer I am to God than I was at this time last year? It's how much more I love my wife and kids because of God's grace. It's how much my character is being changed by God's power.  It's not a matter of quantity it's a matter of quality. Jesus didn't say, "I came to give you more things to do in your life." He said, "I came to give you an abundant life. A new quality of life." How much more love do you have? How much more joy and patience and peace? Do you truly look more like Jesus? Do you have more of his character? OR are you just doing religious activities and learning facts? ***Ephesians 4:22-24*** ***"Throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. 23 Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. 24 Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.”*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It's not based on you measuring up. As human beings, we try to give unconditional love to other people, to our children, to our spouses. But we can't do it all the time because we're imperfect.   When you say, "I love you if you love me" that's a condition -- conditional love. When you say, "I love you, if you'll marry me" that's conditional love. "I love you if you meet my needs" -- conditional love. Obviously when those needs stop being met, what happens? People divorce. People leave each other.   Or when you say, "I love you because..." that's conditional love. "I love you because you make me feel good". What happens if they stop making you feel good? That's conditional love. "I love you because you're talented." What happens if tomorrow you meet somebody who's more talented? Do you leave them and go for somebody else? That's conditional love.   But God says to you, "I love you period! No conditions. No qualifiers. Just in My grace." You don't ever have to ask, "I wonder if God's going to love me today? Did I pray enough? Did I do enough right things? Is God going to love me now because I had a quiet time?" His love is not conditioned upon your performance.  There’s nothing you can do to make God love you any more and there’s nothing you can do to make Him love you any less. That's grace. God says, in Christ, I am acceptable, I am valuable, and I am lovable. Even when I don't feel very lovely, He still loves me. His love is consistent.  Anytime anything besides God is number one in our life, we're going to be plagued with insecurity. For genuine security in life, we have to have something that's number one in our life that cannot be taken away from us. If we base our security on how much money we've got, that can be taken away. If you base our security on our status and your image, that can be taken away. If we base our security in life on how good looking we are, I hate to tell you this, but you're going to lose your good looks. If you base your security on your husband or your children or anybody else in life except Christ, you can lose all those things. You must have security in something that can never be taken from you. There's only one thing that fits that bill. A relationship with your creator God through His Son, Jesus Christ. That can never be taken from you. Then if you lose everything else, including your health, you still have your security. Romans 15:13 says, ***"I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.”***   God wants to fill your life with confident hope. In Christ, you are worthwhile.   Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But, this is not how God works. And, because of Jesus, you are acceptable to God, flaws and all. His grace and love for you isn’t based on what you do… it’s based on what he has already done. His grace covers you when you put your trust in Jesus. God’s grace is a free gift! But, you actually have to accept it. How do you receive this amazing gift? You can't earn it or work for it. There's only one way: Admit you need it and you put your trust in Jesus Christ. You accept his gift of grace. We all have to admit that we can't make it into heaven on our own because heaven is perfect, and we aren’t. To follow Jesus, you come in humility and say, “God, I admit I need your help. I choose to follow Jesus.” No matter who you are or what you’ve done, you can be saved by God’s grace. You can reach your arms out to your heavenly Father today and accept his grace. You don’t have to do anything to “clean up” before you do this. Just accept his grace. One of the greatest ways God shows grace is through forgiveness. ***Romans 3:22 (TLB): “Now God says he will accept and acquit us . . . if we trust Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we can all be saved in this same way, by coming to Christ, no matter who we are or what we have been like.”*** What if I have already accepted God’s free gift of grace for my salvation? Well, grace isn't just for the start of your relationship with God; it's essential for every day. God gives us "sustaining grace," which is the grace that gets you through a difficult situation or season. It sustains you. It keeps you from falling apart. We need God's grace to keep going, daily. God's sustaining grace gives you the power to keep going when you’re troubled. Jesus said we can expect hardship, so we need this grace to get through life. **Isaiah 41:10** offers comfort, reminding us, ***“Don’t worry, because I am with you. Don’t be afraid, because I am your God. I will make you strong and will help you; I will support you with my right hand that saves you” (NCV).*** And, we need God’s grace during our transformation process. Saving grace is just the start. Transforming grace takes a lifetime. The truth is that God loves us and accepts us where we are. But, he loves us enough to want us to grow and mature and become more like Jesus through a process of transformation. God promises that ***"He who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished” (Phil. 1:6).*** He won't give up on you. He is working in you. And, you are not alone in this process. That's what grace is all about. It's God's free gift that forgives us, sustains us, and transforms us. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You have the power to change them. But, there are also things in life that are beyond your control. Things that are beyond your power to change. What do you do with that? Let’s talk about some of the alternatives. We can worry about it. Does that work? No. We can resent it and get bitter about it. Does that work? No. We can feel guilty about it or ashamed of it or regret it. That doesn’t work. We can have self-pity about it. That doesn’t work. We can be fearful and worry about it. That doesn’t work.  There is only one thing that works in the situations that you can’t change. Acceptance. Learning to be content. Paul understood this. Notice what he says in ***Phil. 4:11-13, "Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. 12I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. 13For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength."*** When Paul wrote this he was not down at Ritz Carlton. He was in prison, in Rome. When he’s writing, “I have learned to be content in all situations,” he is chained to a Roman soldier in a damp, dank, dark prison. Notice the word “learned.” Contentment is a learned experience. By nature you are not a contented person. It’s something I have to learn. It’s a mark of maturity. It’s emotional maturity to learn contentment. Immature people are never content with anything. They’re always discontent. The other thing I want to point out is it is only possible through Christ’s strength. Christ gives me the strength to be contented. One of the problems that we have with contentment is because we’re always looking for explanations in our lives of why things happen. God doesn’t tell us why most of the things happen in our life and that just ticks us off. “Why not, God? Why not tell me why? Why doesn’t God tell me why everything happens in my life?” Because he’s testing you. He’s testing you to see will you let go of control and will you learn to be content whether he explains it or not?  God doesn’t owe you an explanation for anything. In fact, most things we’re not going to know why they happen until we get on the other side of death and we get into heaven and then we’ll see it.  Remember when we were little kids and the only time your classroom in school was quiet was during a test. Because the teacher would say, “Children! No talking! Take your pencils, fill out your tests.” Even the teacher would be quiet. She’d be totally silent. The teacher is silent when a test is being given.  Here’s the point. When God is silent in your life, you’re often going through a test. When you don’t hear God and God feels like a million miles away right now and “I can’t get any answers and I’m not hearing anything.” This is a test! The teacher is always silent when you’re going through a test. Your faith is being tested. Will I let go of control? Or will I grab on more tightly? Will I learn to be content? What you need when you’re going through whatever it is you are going to go through this next week or this next month or this next year, you don’t really need God’s explanation. You need God’s presence. You need God’s presence in your life. You need God’s love in your life.  ***Ps. 37:7a "Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for him to act."*** That’s what we need to do. That’s learning to be content. Many people I’ve met and counseled with don’t want to admit it but they are really angry with God. How about you? Maybe you’re angry with God about the way he made you. You’re angry with God about your appearance. Why did you make me look like this? “God, I could have done a better job than this!” Why did you give me the parents you gave me? Maybe you’re angry with God because you’re disappointed in your marriage. Maybe you’re angry with God because you’re single, or you have an unfulfilled dream. We just need to realize. All we’re doing is hurting ourselves. Our discontent is robbing us of inner peace. If we want serenity in the storm and we’re getting ready to go through a major storm, then we’ve got to surrender. We’ve got to learn to be content. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Many think contentment means having no ambition. But the truth is, contentment is not laziness. Contentment is not apathy. Contentment is not complacency. Here’s what contentment is: *It’s enjoying what I have right now rather than waiting for something else to happen in order for me to be happy.*   It’s enjoying what I’ve got right now. It doesn’t mean I don’t want to progress. It doesn’t mean I don’t have goals. The Bible says you should have goals. It means I’m not waiting for something to happen in my life in order to be happy.   Contentment is the opposite of coveting. Coveting is “when and then thinking.” When *this* happens, *then* I’ll be happy. When *that* happens *then* I’ll be happy. Contentment is actually independence from circumstances. It means my joy is not connected to what’s happening in my life right now. It’s not based on my circumstances. It means I’ve learned to enjoy whatever I’ve got right now, and I’m not waiting for something or someone to make me happy.  ***Phil. 4:11-12*** ***“I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything.*** ***I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little.”*** The Apostle Paul is saying, “I’ve learned to be content.” How do we learn contentment? Well, we can start off by not comparing. That’s so important because the source of all discontent is comparison. ***Prov. 14:30*** ***“A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones.”***  Also, we must stop thinking that having more is "better." There are three myths we’re taught by advertising in society. None of those are true. Having more will not make you more happy. Having more will not make you more valuable. And having more will not make you more secure.  We need to find our security in something that can never be taken from us. If I put my security in my job, it can be taken from me. If I put my security in my bank account, I can lose it. If I put my security in my health, I can lose that. I have to put my security in something that can’t be taken from me, and that is my relationship with God. You can learn, like the Apostle Paul, to be content where God has you and with what God has given you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Having more will make me more happy. 2. Having more will make me more important. 3. Having more will make me more secure. --- ## URL: https://www.seminolechurch.com/5-ways-to-have-a-happy-heart ### Title: 5 Ways to Have a Happy Heart ### Page ID: 7178465 ### Content: # 5 Ways to Have a Happy Heart ### **1\. I need to remember that God is with me, he’s in me and he’s for me.** ### **2. I need to be grateful and never grumble.** ### **3. I need to keep my conscience clear.** ### **4. I need to memorize God’s Word & live it.** ### **5\. I need to use my life to serve God by serving others.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) You know the right things that will make you physically healthy. Eat right, exercise, drink water, get rest. Simple. We know the right things to do, but do you always do them? Not usually.  The apostle Paul gives us five, simple things to do for a happy heart. But simple does not always mean easy. These 5 things may be simple to understand, but they sure are a lot harder to do. No matter what you're facing, no matter what you’re going to face this next week, you’re not going to face it alone. God is with you, He is in you and He is for you. Philippians 2:13 “For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.”   *Philippians 2:14-15a “Do everything without complaining and arguing, 15 so that no one can criticize you.”*   That may be one of the most difficult verses in the Bible. Would you agree with that? Do everything without complaining or arguing so that nobody can criticize you. We are complainers. The Bible says if we want to be happy we’ve got to be grateful and never grumble. Because one of the things that causes us to lose our happiness is feeling guilty or feeling ashamed. The Bible says if you want to be happy you’ve got to get rid of guilt. 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You might be thinking, *Okay, but what does it actually look like to admit I’ve been hurt? How do I do that in a practical way?* Here’s a simple exercise: sometime this week, grab a notebook or a sheet of paper and start writing down the names of people who have hurt you. (I know, it doesn’t sound like a blast.) But seriously—this helps. Be specific about the wounds you keep replaying in your mind like a broken record. Now, if you’ve already forgiven someone and genuinely moved on, don’t dig it back up. But if certain names still stir up resentment, tension, or pain—that’s what needs to go on the page. Once it’s all out in the open, here’s the next step: **release them**. Let them go. Stop holding on to the pain. We do that by **forgiving them**. You might be wondering, *But what if they never asked for forgiveness?* Don’t wait. They may never ask. They may not think they’ve done anything wrong. But your healing doesn’t have to wait for their apology. Jesus made it clear in Matthew 18:21-22. When Peter asked, “How many times should I forgive my brother when he sins against me?” Jesus answered, “Not seven times, but seventy times seven.” In other words: forgiveness isn’t a one-and-done deal. It’s continual. It’s a choice we may have to make again and again—because those old feelings don’t always go away the first time. They resurface. And when they do, we choose again: *I forgive. I release them.* That’s when healing begins to take root. And no, this isn’t about “forgive and forget.” Some wounds run deep—divorce, abuse, betrayal. You can’t just forget. But you *can* let go of the pain. I want to say this carefully and with deep compassion: some of you have experienced unspeakable hurt. Maybe it was abuse. Maybe it was adultery. Maybe it was something you had no control over. If that’s your story, I am so, so sorry. But here's the truth: **if you don’t forgive, you won’t find peace**. Forgiving someone doesn’t mean excusing what they did. It means *you’re choosing not to let it control your heart any longer*. Sometimes, reconciliation just isn’t possible or wise. The person may have moved away, remarried, or even passed away. You don’t have to reconcile with everyone. That’s okay. Forgiveness isn’t the same as reconciliation. Here are a couple of ways to release someone without contact: Sit down across from an empty chair and imagine the person sitting there. Speak the words aloud: *“You hurt me when you did this… but I choose to forgive you. Not because you deserve it, but because I need peace. Because resentment doesn’t work. Because God has forgiven me, and I need His forgiveness too.”* If the empty chair feels too strange, write a letter instead. Say everything you need to say. Express the pain, the betrayal—but end with the same resolve: *“I release you. I choose forgiveness. I need peace more than I need revenge.”* Why go through all this? Because it’s for *your* sake. So *you* can begin to experience God’s freedom, God’s peace. *“Let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body, you are called to live in peace.”* —Colossians 3:15 (NLT) Let God settle the score. Trust Him with your pain, and receive His peace in return. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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We have this picture in our head of what God is like, and sometimes it's not accurate. Some people imagine Him as a harsh judge, just waiting for us to mess up so He can bring down the hammer. Something goes wrong in life and suddenly the thought creeps in: *“God’s getting even with me. I skipped church. I didn’t tithe this month. Now He’s punishing me.”* Is He some grumpy, grudge-holding cosmic grouch keeping score in the sky? A divine killjoy just waiting to say, “Aha! Caught you!”? Have you ever stopped to consider that maybe some of your beliefs about God aren’t true? That maybe the version of God you inherited growing up—or picked up along the way—isn’t an accurate picture? That’s why we need to go straight to the source: **God’s Word**. It’s where He reveals who He really is. And even more incredible, God wanted us to know Him so deeply that He came down in human form—Jesus Christ—so we could see His heart in action. If you want an accurate picture of God... look at Jesus. That's God's heart. That's his attitude toward mankind. Jesus reveals God's character. *“For everyone has sinned...yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty of our sins.”*—Romans 3:23–24 (NLT) Let that sink in. **God, in His kindness, wipes your record clean**. There’s no condemnation for those who put their faith in Christ. None. That’s the good news of the gospel! That's an accurate picture of God's heart toward you. *“Even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes.”*—Ephesians 1:4 Think about that: **before God even created you, He knew every mistake you would make**—every selfish choice, every wrong thought, every sin. And still… He chose to make you. He still loves you. That’s grace. That’s kindness. That’s who God really is. And here’s where it gets real for us: because God has shown us **so much grace, kindness, and forgiveness**, we’re called to extend the same to others. When you have an accurate picture of who God really is, you can give other people the same grace, kindness and forgiveness that he has given you. *“Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.”*—Ephesians 4:32 At Seminole Church, we talk a lot about forgiveness—and for good reason. If you're struggling to forgive others, it might be because you’re not feeling very forgiven yourself. When I find it hard to forgive someone, I just pause and remember this: *“I will never have to forgive another person more than what God has already forgiven me.”* So if you’re holding on to guilt, shame, or a distorted image of God, I encourage you—get into His Word. Let the truth of His character wash over you. He’s not mad at you. He’s not out to get you. He loves you. He forgives you. And the more you understand His love, the more you’ll find healing—and the ability to pass that same grace on to others. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Love is a four letter word, and you spell love: **T-I-M-E**. Time is the most priceless gift we can give. Not money. Not things. Focused attention. When we choose to be fully present with someone—our spouse, our children, a friend—we’re saying, *“You matter. You are valuable. I see you.”* Because time is our most limited resource. We all have different levels of energy. Different amounts of money. Different skills and experiences. But every one of us has the exact same number of hours in a week: 168. How we spend that time says everything about what (and who) we truly love. The average American will live about 25,550 days. That’s it. Once a moment passes, we can never get it back. Every hour we give to someone is a little piece of our life we’ll never see again. That’s why it’s so valuable. That’s why it means so much. I’ve talked to countless husbands and dads over the years who say, “I don’t get it. I work hard. I provide everything my family needs—actually, more than they need. We live comfortably. What more could they possibly want?” Your attention. Your presence. Your heart. Your time. No amount of stuff can replace a mom or dad who’s truly *there*. Spouses don’t need a bigger house—they need your presence. Ephesians 5:2 reminds us: *“Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us.”* Love is sacrifice. If it doesn’t cost you something—your energy, your attention, your preferences—it isn’t real love. You can give without loving, but you can’t love without giving. What if you started tomorrow with a different mindset? Before your feet hit the floor, take 30 seconds and pray something like this: “God, if I don’t get anything else done today, I want to love You a little more and know You a little better. And I want to love the people You’ve placed in my life. Because that’s what You put me on this earth to do.” Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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That second part is essential—and often overlooked. Truth without love can wound, but truth spoken with love can heal and restore. *Galatians 6:1* reminds us: “Dear brothers and sisters, if another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path…” Notice the words *gently* and *humbly*. It’s not about shaming or scolding or putting someone in their place—it’s about loving people enough to encourage them toward obeying God. Your words matter. So does your tone. You may be right, but if your words are harsh, your message will be lost. People become defensive when they feel attacked. But when we approach them with gentleness, they’re more open to listen and grow. *Proverbs 15:4* in the Message paraphrase puts it beautifully: “Kind words heal and help; cutting words wound and maim.” This is especially true with our children. A sharp word in a moment of frustration can leave lasting scars. But gentle, affirming words can build confidence and character for life. The same goes for our marriages and friendships. A little grace, a softer tone, a kind word—these small shifts can bring big healing. Our words should always be true… but they should lift up and encourage. Our words should be kind. So this week, ask yourself: How can I use my words to bring healing, not hurt? Loving people well means loving them with our words. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Here are some characteristics of Christ reaching out to others, using different parts of the body. We can ask ourselves each of these questions to see if our lives are aligned with Jesus. I believe the most important problem when it comes to reaching out as a fully devoted follower is the heart problem. Sometimes, the truth is our heart gets cold. Sometimes we find it easier to stay in our own little bubble and not take risks, not exert the effort or the energy that’s involved in getting to know somebody far from God. Sometimes we just focus on our own convenience and our own comfort. So maybe some of us need to pray today that God will give us a heart for the lost like Jesus had. We’ll do that at the close of this service. Where did Jesus’ feet take him? They took him to people far from God all the time. His feet took him where the Pharisees feet would never take them — to parties at tax collector’s houses, to dinners attended by prostitutes, to the country of Samaria where a respectable religious leader would never go, to lepers — just to every kind of people. Jesus’ feet got him into serious trouble. When Jesus was called the friend of sinners, we think of that as a lovely title. It was not intended that way. That was meant to be a title of derision, of hostility — friend of sinners. Jesus was with them, and Jesus loved them. The Pharisees hated Jesus’ feet. There is this wonderful verse in Isaiah 52:7 ***“How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news of peace and salvation, the news that God reigns!”*** How beautiful are the feet of those who come with the gospel. Jesus’ feet were so beautiful to people far from God that one day a woman who thought she was lost beyond hope gave her greatest treasure to anoint those feet. She bathed them with her tears, and she dried them with her hair because those feet brought Jesus to her. For most of us, this does not mean that you have to start going to new places. For most of us, this means that we just need to start forming relationships and being intentional in circles where you already find yourself. If your kids are in the ‘soccer years’ of their lives you have a great opportunity. You can find out a lot about the spiritual condition of somebody’s heart just by watching how they respond when their kid plays soccer.You can cultivate friendships and strike up meaningful conversations about family and parenting all by just caring for people while you’re doing what you’d be doing anyways. It’ll look different for everybody, but it really is possible. You really can have feet like Jesus’ feet. You can have feet that take you to where people are far from God because they’re all over the place. Jesus’ hands were constantly extended in service to people who didn’t yet know his Father. In Mark 1, there’s a wonderful story where a leper approaches Jesus, and the man asks to be made clean. Now, the law was real strict about lepers. They couldn’t have any contact with non-lepers. They had to cry out, "Unclean!" They had to stay outside of the village. If they even touched somebody’s house, it was supposed to be torn down because it was considered to be unclean. Nobody could come within 10 feet of a leper. But this leper comes up to Jesus and says, "Would you make me clean?" Jesus doesn’t turn away. Jesus reaches out his hand and touches this man who had not been touched for who knows how many years. Not by his children, not by his spouse. Jesus didn’t have to do that. He could have just said a word, but he reached out with his hand and touched the man and said, "Be clean." Not only was Jesus not infected by this guy’s leprosy, it was the other way around. Jesus was so full of life and health that he infected the leper with his life. Jesus was more contagious with the life of the kingdom than the leper was with his disease. You know if the Spirit of God lives inside you, you’re like that. We fear sin sometimes, and rightly so in proper proportions because it is a fearsome thing. But I’ll tell you what. Sin is not nearly as contagious as the life of the kingdom of God, not nearly. Jesus just kept extending his hand — healing lepers, touching children, washing feet, clasping his hands in prayer, asking the Father to give him every life of every man and woman whom he could — until at the very end of his life when he took a nail in each hand for the sake of every sinner that ever lived. So take a look at your hands for a moment. How often are they extended to service to someone who’s far from God? Maybe you have a neighbor that you could cut their grass or do an errand for. Maybe there’s somebody at work that feels discouraged, and these hands could write him a note, touch their heart. Maybe there’s a lonely person in your world. I just want to give you one tip in terms of speaking with folks far from God. Early on in your relationship with them, drop some clues or hints about your spiritual commitment. Here’s what happens: Sometimes, Christians end up in a relationship with an unchurched acquaintance for years, but they’ve never mentioned their faith. And eventually, they kind of go into avoidance mode because they’re embarrassed for not having talked about it. So a helpful thing is just to drop hints or clues early in the relationship about your spiritual commitment. For example, I have never yet met somebody who was offended when they expressed a need, and I asked them, “Do you mind if I pray for you about that?” It’s a real simple thing. When you hear a need from somebody, just offer to pray. 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Self-centeredness**   ### **2\. Perfectionism** ### **3\. Materialism**  ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***Matthew 20:28 (NLT) "For even I, the Son of Man, came here not to be served but to serve others.”***  A lot of people spend so much of their time searching for self-esteem, for self-worth, and significance. They want to feel good about themselves. But they're looking in all the wrong places! You don't get your self-worth from success, because there's always somebody else who does a better job. You don't get your self-esteem from status. You don't get your self-esteem from your salary or a relationship. The Bible says you get your self-esteem from service.  Jesus said to give your life away in order to find it. How do you serve like Jesus? One way is being available.  One day Jesus was walking down the road to go to Jericho and some blind men start yelling at him.  ***Matthew 20:30,32 (NLT) "Two blind men shouted 'Lord, have mercy on us!'...Jesus stopped and called them. 'What do you want me to do for you?'"*** Jesus stopped. If you want to be used by God, if you want to serve God, you must be willing to be interrupted. Most of Jesus' ministry and most of Jesus' miracles were interruptions. All the people he healed...the blind man, the lame man, the sick people, the paralyzed man, the dead child...all of them were interruptions. His first miracle: interrupted at a wedding. He second miracle: interrupted on the way to Galilee. It says "Jesus stopped.” Almost every miracle Jesus did, He did it because He let Himself be interrupted.  ***Proverbs 3:28 (NLT) "If you can help your neighbor now, don't say, "Come back tomorrow, and then I'll help you."*** What is it that keeps us from being available? Let me give three common barriers. ***Philippians 2:4 (Mess) "Forget yourself long enough to lend a helping hand."***   Whenever you see a need right in front of you, guess what? God is giving you the opportunity to practice serving. The number one enemy of compassion is busyness. We just get too busy! I've got my agenda, my plans, my dreams, my goals, my ambitions. Fully Devoted Followers don't mind being interrupted. If you really have a servant heart, like Jesus Christ, you don't mind being interrupted because your agenda is God's agenda. A second barrier to being available to be used by God is perfectionism. You know, wanting everything to be perfect. “When it's all just right, when things settle down, then I'll serve.”  ***Ecclesiastes 11:4 (NLT) "If you wait for perfect conditions, you'll never get anything done".***   Real servants, Christlike servants, do the best they can with what they have for Jesus Christ *today*. They don't wait. You see what's happened in America, is we have a made an idol out of excellence. We really have. Many people worship excellence, even Christians. They say, "Well, you know if you can't do it first class, don't even try".  At Seminole we don't believe that. At Seminole we practice what we call "faithful with what you have principle". And the faithful with what you have principle is this...it doesn't have to be perfect for God to bless it.   We all have weaknesses. We all have faults. We all have failures. We all have handicaps. But guess what? God uses us all. Why? Because God doesn't use perfect people... because there aren't any. There aren't enough superstars in this world to get it done. God uses normal people.  So God says, "Don't wait for perfect conditions". You know, “when things settle down,” they aren't going to settle down! So go ahead and start serving while things are not settled down.  Materialism is the third barrier that keeps us from being available to serve.  Jesus said in ***Luke 16:13 (NLT) "No one can serve two masters. You cannot serve both God and money"*** He didn't say, "you should not serve both God and money.” He said, "you *cannot* serve both God and money.” You've got to decide whether you want to be rich or you want to be blessed. You cannot serve both God and money. It's an impossibility.  You see, we get so busy taking care of things; we don't have time to take care of people. And that's a problem. The most important decision you're going to have to make in life once you become a believer is "Am I going to be a kingdom-builder or am I going to be a wealth-builder?"  Now if God wants to give you wealth, that's great. That's wonderful, but it is not the number one goal of your life. Because the wealth you're not taking with you to heaven, but your character you are. 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Do you ever feel sick and tired of being sick and tired? You’re not alone. After Jesus’ crucifixion, his followers were heartbroken. They felt defeated. They hid behind locked doors, afraid of the same Jewish leaders who had condemned Jesus. They were discouraged, and in every way, they were running on empty. But three days later, everything changed. On Easter Sunday, Jesus rose from the dead—and that evening, something remarkable happened: ***“That Sunday evening the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! ‘Peace be with you,’ he said. As he spoke, he showed them the wounds in his hands and his side. They were filled with joy when they saw the Lord!” (John 20:19-20 NLT)*** The person, Jesus, made all the difference. HE brought the joy. Not the disciples ideologies. Not their religious morals… Jesus, himself. And, the presence of Jesus is what will change everything in your life, too. If you want to go from empty to overflowing, you don’t need religion… you need a relationship with Christ. You need more of God’s presence in your life. His presence is what leads to peace. So how do you experience his presence? The good news is—you don’t have to go looking for him. If you’re a believer, he’s already with you. You simply need to recognize he’s there. In John 20, the disciples didn’t go searching for Jesus. He came to them. And he comes to you, too. I love that the very first thing Jesus said to his followers was, *“Peace be with you.”* He could have said, “Where were you when I needed you?” or “Why did you abandon me?” But he didn’t. There was no scolding or shame—only peace. That’s still how Jesus responds today. When you’re running on empty, he doesn’t condemn you. He comforts you. He offers his peace—***“which is far beyond human understanding” (Philippians 4:7 GNT).*** Are you running on empty today? Do you feel like God is far away? You can rest in the truth that he’s closer than you think. He’s never left you. He’s with you now. You just need to be aware of his presence. Then you will receive the peace that only Christ can bring. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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WORRY ABOUT NOTHING.**   ### **2\. PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING.**   ### **3\. THANK GOD IN ALL THINGS.** ### **4\. THINK ABOUT THE RIGHT THINGS.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Today is the 4th of July, otherwise known as Independence Day! As your pastor, I pray that you have a FUN and SAFE holiday with your family. As we celebrate our independence as a nation, I just want us to remember that sometimes dependence can be good... in fact, it is so necessary. Dependence on God is key, especially in this day and age when we can't depend on much else. God tells us that he wants us to depend on him and trust him every day. And saying we depend on God is one thing, but actually following through and depending on him in uncertain times is another. Do we *actually* spend our lives depending on God? Do we really trust him? Or, do we try to take control or worry?  The Bible says the way to depend on God is one day at a time. He says, “I want you to trust me one day at a time. We’ll worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. We’ll worry about next week, next week. We’ll worry about next month, next month. I don’t want you worrying about that. In fact, I don’t want you worrying at all. I want you to take it one day at a time.” How do you do that? How do you trust God just for today? There are four things that you do to depend God on a daily basis. ***Philippians 4:6*** ***Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done***   That’s the first step: worry about nothing. He says, “I don’t want you worrying about anything.”  Why is worry such a big deal? Why does God say “I don’t want you worrying?” Every time you worry you’re saying, “God, I don’t believe your promises. God, I don’t really believe you love me.God, I don’t believe you’ll take care of me. God, I don’t believe you’ll meet all my needs." If my kids came to me when they were small and said, “Dad, we’re worried about the house.” I would say, “*You guys don’t have to worry about it. I’m going to pay for the house.”* “Dad, we don’t think you can do that. Dad we’re worried about whether we’re going to have a meal tonight.” “*Don’t worry about it. I’ve got it taken care of.”*  “Dad, we don’t think you’re competent to take care of that.”  When you worry, it’s saying, “God, I don’t really believe you.” He says, “Here’s the alternative: I don’t want you worrying. I want you praying.” Worry about nothing, pray about everything. You’ve got two choices. You can worry or you can pray. Every day you’re doing one or the other. Every time you worry, you’re not praying. Every time you pray you’re not worrying. You can either pray or panic. You can worry or you can worship. Worry has never solved a problem. It’s never solved a single problem. It’s stewing without doing. It is the most useless emotion. But prayer can change things. ***Romans 8:32*** ***“Since God did not spare even his own Son*** \[in other words he sent Jesus to die for us\] ***but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?”***   Notice the word “in.” It doesn’t say, “For all things give thanks.” It says “In all things give thanks.” You don’t have to be thankful for bad things in your life. You should never be thankful for evil. You don’t have to be thankful for cancer or a car accident or a rape or war or abuse or any of those other bad things in life. God doesn’t say be thankful *for* everything. There’s a lot of things that we hate in life, we dislike in life. But God says *in* everything give thanks. Why? Because I know that God’s going to take care of me. I know he’s going to meet my needs. I know he’s going to help me. I see him as my source and I trust him one day at a time, he’s going to take me through this.  Worry about nothing, pray about everything, thank God in all things, think about the right things. Whatever you put your mind on is what’s going to get you. You fill you mind with worries, you’re going to be down, depressed, discouraged, defeated. You fill your mind with the right things, you’re going to be lifted up, hopeful, encouraged and positive. Think about the right things. Notice he gives us a list of things to think about. He says: ***Phil 4:8*** ***“Fix your thoughts on what’s true, honorable, right, what’s pure and lovely and admirable, what’s excellent, what’s worthy of praise.”***   Are your thoughts fixed on the Lord? Or do you only think about him on Sundays? Where do your thoughts turn most often? What do you think about the most? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”* Jesus is saying HE is the source. You get your strength from HIM to keep going. Are you abiding in your everyday life? Or is Jesus someone you really only think about on Sundays? Is he your source in the office? At home when you’re tired and stressed? Are you handling everything… or are you coming to Jesus? The heavier the load you’re carrying, the faster you run out of gas. That is true for your car—but it’s also true for you. Some of you are overloaded—physically, emotionally, or relationally. The demands of work, family schedules, or financial pressures are causing significant stress in your life. The Bible says this in Matthew 11:28-30: *“Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke and put it on you, and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit; and you will find rest. For the yoke I will give you is easy, and the load I will put on you is light”* (GNT). Jesus summarizes the secret of stress management in three simple words—*come*, *take*, and *learn*. If you grab hold of these three solutions to stress, they’re going to change your life. Today, let’s take a closer look at the first one: **Come to Jesus.**  When you’re feeling overloaded, the antidote to your stress is not a time management plan or a new philosophy. It’s a person—Jesus—and he says, *“Come to me.”* When life feels heavy, Jesus wants you to turn to him. And when you do, he fills you with rest.  The rest Jesus gives is a special kind of rest. It’s rest for your soul; it’s soul rest. Without it, you’ll be tempted to throw in the towel. Soul rest is much deeper than physical rest. It’s the remedy for tension, fatigue, worry, fear, anxiety, guilt, and resentment. Only God can give you the inner peace you need to lower your stress. This doesn’t mean the stressors in your life will go away. They just won’t bother you as much because he is helping you carry them all. So then why don’t we come to Jesus more often? Why don't we abide in him? Because we think we can handle stress on our own. Or maybe we forget that God is waiting for us to call on him. Even if you’re a believer, your first choice when you’re stressed won’t always be to spend quiet time alone with God. If you’re running on empty today, cry out to God. Spend time with him. You don’t need a program or a plan. You need a person. You need to come to Christ. *“Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest.”* Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You may say, “Wait a minute. Take on something else? I can’t take on more. I need to carry less!” Hold that thought... When you’re running on empty and carrying a heavy load, the first solution that we talked about in yesterday’s blog is that Jesus offers you is this: *“Come to me . . . and I will give you rest”* Matthew 11:28 (NIV). That’s the starting point for anyone who needs relief from worry, fear, and anxiety: Come to Jesus! This is so important because one reason you get overloaded is you’re trying to control too much. You think it all depends on you. Friend, you are not the general manager of the universe. You can resign, and it won’t fall apart. Know this: The greater your need to control, the more stress you’re going to have in life.  But Jesus offers a different way. He says, *“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light”* Matthew 11:29-30 (NIV). THIS is what you need to add. Jesus' yoke. If you take on his yoke, you will experience less stress and more peace. It's important to understand how a yoke works. A yoke is a wooden piece that teams up two animals, allowing them to share the load and make it lighter. The purpose is to make it easier on the animals, not harder. A yoke is a symbol of partnership. It’s as if Jesus is saying, “I never meant for you to carry all your problems by yourself. Let me help you.” When you yoke up to Jesus, it’s not so you can share his load. It’s so he can share yours. A yoke is also a symbol of control. Farmers yoke up animals so that they go in the same direction, at the same time, and at the same pace. When you’re not yoked to Jesus, you get into trouble. You end up going too fast, in the wrong direction, sidelined, or in a ditch. Yoked to Jesus, he keeps you from trouble. Jesus knows exactly where to take you in life because he created you. He knows exactly the pace you should go because he shaped you. He knows your personality. He knows what you can handle and what you can’t handle. Yoked to Jesus, he guides you. We think the antidote to stress is to escape on vacation, attend a seminar, or go to therapy. Those things can certainly help, but true and lasting relief come when we yoke up to Jesus and give up control. And every time we do, God gives us peace. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Most of the disciples were professional fishermen. One day when they were out fishing with Jesus, Jesus got tired, laid down in one end of the boat, and went to sleep. But then a storm came—and it must have been a big one because the disciples got scared. The storm got so intense that the disciples were frantic and woke Jesus to ask him one of the most important questions in life: ***“Teacher, don’t you care?” (Mark 4:38 NIV).*** You and I ask that question of God all the time in a thousand ways: “God, did you see that doctor’s report? Don’t you care? Do you see what a mess my marriage is in? Don’t you care? Do you see how little money we have in the bank and all the bills we’ve got? Don’t you care? Do you see how my kids are struggling in school? Don’t you care? You know this fear that grips my mind that I can’t seem to get rid of. Don’t you care?” The answer is yes, God cares. He sees you. He knows the burdens you carry—the ones you talk about and the ones you don’t. Nothing escapes his notice. He is never too busy, too distant, or too distracted. His compassion isn’t temporary or conditional. It’s constant. It’s who he is. The Bible assures us, ***“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7 NIV).*** The rest of the story from Mark goes: ***“******Jesus got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!” (Mark 29-41)*** We serve a God who not only cares… but he has the power to change our situation. Even the wind and the waves obey him. He is in control, even when it doesn’t seem like it. If you feel anxious today, you need the pace and the calm that only Jesus can give you. Take time today to cast your anxiety on God—and trust that he’ll receive it with care and compassion. 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The truth is that he isn’t far at all. He’s with you every moment of every day, whether you feel him or not. You may not always “feel” his presence, but he’s always there—are you aware of him? The Bible says in ***Acts 17:27, “God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us” (NIV).*** Today you may *feel* like God is a million miles away. But your feelings and reality don’t always match. And reality is this: God is with you right now. His nearness isn’t based on how spiritual you feel, how often you pray, or how many good things you’ve done. His closeness is based on his character and his promises. You don’t have to earn his presence—it’s a gift. Because he is a close Father, these things are true about God: **God is never too busy for you.** ***Psalm 145:18 says, “The LORD is near to all who call on him” (NIV).*** Every time you call, God is near. He thinks about you a lot more than you think about him. He thought about you before you were born. He thinks about you every moment of every day. You may get too busy for God—but he never gets too busy for you. He’s always available, always listening, always loving. **God loves to meet your needs.** He doesn’t do it begrudgingly. He loves it! ***Matthew 7:11 says, “If you . . . know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” (NIV).*** You can enjoy the fact that God loves giving good gifts to you. He is generous, attentive, and kind-hearted—always ready to bless his children with what they need most. **God is sympathetic to your hurts.** When you are going through something tough, rely on this verse: “The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit” ***(Psalm 34:18 NIV). He doesn't just know about your pain—he feels it with you. 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They were visiting the Huaorani tribe, which anthropologists said was the most vicious, violent society on earth. As soon as the missionaries exited their plane, they were speared to death. The brutal murders of these men, who included Nate Saint and Jim Elliot, made news around the world. A couple years later, Elisabeth and Valerie Elliot (wife and daughter of Jim Elliot), and Rachel Saint (sister of Nate Saint), moved into the Huaorani village to minister and show love and forgiveness. Eventually, the tribe’s leader and other men who participated in the missionary murders became Christians. The forgiveness Elisabeth Elliot, Valerie Elliot, and Rachel Saint modeled only makes sense when you have been forgiven by God. So, once you’ve experienced God’s forgiveness, how do you forgive? You do the four things these women did: **Relinquish your right to get even.** This is the heart of forgiveness. ***Romans 12:19*** says, ***“Don’t try to get even. Let God take revenge” (CEV).*** Even if you think you deserve to retaliate, don’t. Trust God to take care of any repayment. **Respond to evil with good.** How can you tell when you’ve completely forgiven someone? When you can pray for God to bless the person who hurt you. The Bible says. ***“Do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you” (Luke 6:27-28 NIV).***  **Repeat these steps as long as necessary.** Peter asked Jesus in ***Matthew 18:21, “How many times should I forgive someone who does something wrong to me? Is seven times enough?” (CEV).*** Jesus replied, ***“Not just 7 times, but 77 times!” (Matthew 18:22 CEV).*** Sometimes forgiveness has to be continual. **Rescue others with the Good News of God’s forgiveness.** Once you forgive the people who’ve hurt you, you’re free to share the Good News of God’s forgiveness with them and with others. The apostle Paul invited people to accept God’s forgiveness this way: ***“God was in Christ, offering peace and forgiveness to the people of this world. . . . We speak for Christ and sincerely ask you to make peace with God” (2 Corinthians 5:19-20 CEV).*** If you’ve been holding on to pain caused by someone else, don’t sit another day in your resentment. Ask God to help you work through your hurt and forgive those who’ve hurt you. Then you can move on to the life you were created to live! Who in your life needs to hear God’s message of forgiveness, peace, and salvation? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But, sometimes we may hesitate to forgive someone who has really hurt us, because we aren’t ready to trust that person again. Did you know that it’s okay to forgive someone and still not trust them? Forgiveness does not mean there needs to be an instant restoration of trust. Forgiveness is instant; trust must be rebuilt over time. Forgiveness is based on grace; trust is built on works. You can decide to forgive even if you don’t trust that person. If they intentionally hurt you, trusting them right away is probably not wise anyway. But, forgiveness is the first step. And, it's the step you and you alone control. It frees YOU to move forward. **Forgiveness is letting go of anger, bitterness, and the desire to get even.**  But, restoration of a relationship and restoration of trust takes far more than forgiveness. It takes repentance. It takes restitution and a rebuilding of trust. And, it often takes time. Forgiveness is only your part. You can start the process of forgiving someone who has wronged you, right now. It doesn’t depend on whether the other person asks for your forgiveness, responds to your forgiveness, or recognizes they need your forgiveness. You forgive for your sake. You don't let bitterness in your heart poison your life. Are you stuck in unforgiveness? Begin the process of forgiveness today. Then take all the time you need to rebuild trust. These steps are necessary for healthy relationships and a healthy soul. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Understanding and kindness go together. The more understanding we are of a person, the kinder we're going to be to them. ***Heb. 4:15-16 Jesus understands our weaknesses, for he faced the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.***  Since Jesus understands my weaknesses, **I should be gentle not judgmental.**  When people are having a tough time, dealing with issues, having problems and they've got weaknesses and are being tempted, we should be gentle with them. Why? Because God is gentle and kind with us. Giving others kindness and grace even when they don’t deserve it… because that’s exactly what Jesus did for us. That's kindness. ***John 8:32 (Jesus) You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.*** Jesus loves you just the way you are, but He loves you too much to let you stay that way. So He tells us the truth. Why? Because it is the truth that sets us free. He tells you the truth about yourselves, your motives, your relationships, your sin, what's right and what's wrong.  Sometimes the kindest thing you can do for somebody is tell them the truth from a place of love.  ***Ephesians 4:15 We will speak the truth in love, growing in everyway more and more like Christ.***  ***Proverbs 24:26 "An honest answer is the sign of a true friendship."***  A real friend tells you when you're making a mistake. They tell you from a place of love, and then they are there to help you. A real friend tells you when you've got spinach in your teeth. A real friend walks in when other people walk out.  What's the difference between being critical and being kind when you confront with the truth? The difference is motive. When you confront a person, are you doing it to put them down or to build them up? Are you doing it for their benefit or your own? To condemn them or to protect them? As parents, we have to learn how to affirm the child while correcting the behavior. There's a balance there.  Because He's kind, He forgives my sin, my faults, my mistakes, my errors.  One of the things that Jesus taught is God doesn't carry a grudge. He is not the God of shame. He forgives my sins. Because I deserve it? Not a chance. But out of His kindness, His grace. Some people were raised by unpleasable parents and they've taken that image and switched it over to God. That's not right. He is a forgiving God.  ***Romans 3:23-24 For everyone has sinned...yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty of our sins.***  God, because He's kind, wipes out your record. He wipes the slate clean. There is no condemnation if you put your faith in Christ. That's good news!  ***Ephesians 4:32 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.***  Since Jesus forgives my sin, I should forgive other people. We talk about forgiveness a lot here at Seminole Church. If we have a tough time being forgiving, it's probably because we don't feel forgiven. Graced people are gracious people. People who have received God's mercy are able to be merciful to others. People who understand how much they've been forgiven find it easy to forgive others. Anytime I start having a difficult time forgiving somebody all I have to do is stop and remember, “I will never have to forgive another person more than what God has already forgiven me.” It helps me be forgiving. So just like Christ. I'm to forgive others, to let it go. The secret of kindness is to experience God's kindness yourself.  Maybe the reason you have a hard time being forgiving and being kind and understanding is because you've never felt that way by God and you need to realize how kind God is to you. When you honestly capture God's kindness to you, He is irresistible. You can't get away from it. Your self esteem is based on who you think the greatest person in your life thinks about you. Again, I urge you to make Jesus Christ the most important person in your life. Nobody will ever love you more than he does. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The story of it’s creation is interesting. A guy named Donatello was originally commissioned to do the work almost 10 years before Michelangelo was born. Donatello died two years into the project having only taken out a large chunk or two of unneeded stone. For over 30 years this 20 foot block of marble laid on it’s side exposed to the elements. In 1501, a 26 year old Michelangelo convinced the powers that be to allow him to do the project. He was chosen over da Vinci and others. The 17 foot statue took over three years to complete. It weighs over 12,000 pounds. It’s 514 years old. Legend goes that for 30 days he sat and stared at the block of marble all day long, just stared. After it’s completion it is said that when Michelangelo was asked how did you do that? He simply said, “I just cut away everything that wasn’t David.” Everyone else saw a big block of marble. That’s all we see, just a big old ugly rock. But the master Michelangelo saw David in there. He cut away everything that wasn’t David. So David became what he already was in the mind of his creator.   ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***Romans 5:8 God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.*** He didn’t wait for us to clean up our act. While we were sinners, Christ died for us. The only way to have a pure heart is through the blood of Jesus Christ, shed on the cross for our sins. Purity of heart is the gift of God’s grace. We cannot earn it. We cannot buy it. The only way to get a pure heart is to surrender to him.  The basis for a pure heart is not how good you’ve been. The basis for a pure heart is how good God is. It’s based on God’s character not ours. It’s based on God’s actions, not ours. It’s based on God’s goodness, not ours.  **Our good behavior does not purify our heart. But a pure heart will change our behavior.**   So my question is, what does your heart want? Deep down inside, what does your heart want? Do you want to see God in your life?  ***Psalm 139:1 O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.*** God knows all about us. He knows that we really want to be free. He knows that we don’t want to be trapped in this sin cycle in our life. He knows that we want him to purify our heart. The only way to do it is to surrender to him. He promises that, if we surrender, he will purify our heart. It does not happen overnight. It is a process. It’s a lifelong process. We have a role to play in that process. Our role is surrender. Our role is to practice what we already know. Don’t worry about what we don’t know. Just practice what we already know. Our role is to cooperate with God in becoming what we already are.  God already sees us right now in Christ as already having a pure heart. So we are cooperating with him in becoming what we already are in his eyes. Let me explain that.   It’s the same process with all of us. God has already declared our heart as pure. If we surrender our life to Jesus, he already sees us in Christ as having a pure heart. Now we cooperate with him in the process of becoming what we are. The cutting away, the getting rid of the things that bind us and that trip us up and that cover us up.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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There's Hope... ### Page ID: 7541379 ### Content: # Have You Drifted from the Lord? There's Hope #### **What should I do when I sin? RETURN! Come back TO CHRIST.** ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Have you messed up? Either in a big way or you've just slowly drifted away from God? If you feel far from God, the truth is that HE didn't move... He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. God didn't drift from you... you may have drifted away from him though. So, now what do you do? There's hope... ***Romans 8:1*** ***"There is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus."*** There's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. To be clear: This is NOT a promise for everybody. It's NOT saying anybody can do whatever they want to do and there's no condemnation. It says for those who are in Christ Jesus. If you are a genuine believer in Christ, you've put your trust in Christ, accepted His grace, there is no condemnation. Notice it also does NOT say there are no consequences. It says no condemnation. There are a lot of consequences. When I get out of God's will for my life, when I blow it, when I intentionally don't do what God wants me to do, when I ignore His will there are major consequences. Same thing for you too. Every time you disobey God, every time you ignore His will, every time you don't follow His instruction you lose. You hurt yourself and you hurt other people. That’s one of the big regrets a prodigal faces. Decisions are made in selfishness that hurt others in our lives. It would be great if only we had to pay the consequences of a Prodigal Path but it doesn’t work that way. Husbands pay, wives pay, children pay, parents pay when we travel down the wrong path. We hurt ourselves and we hurt other people. We lose big time.  When a Christian sins, what happens? We lose our fellowship with God. We lose our effectiveness on earth. We lose rewards in heaven. We lose our joy here on earth. The miserable people on earth are not unbelievers but believers who know better and are acting like unbelievers.  ***Jeremiah 15:19a*** ***"If you return to Me, I will restore you so you can continue to serve Me."*** Return to Christ. He will restore you. Lay your sin at the foot of the cross. He will accept you.  ***Isaiah 1:18b*** ***"Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool."***  ***"with great compassion I will take you back.”***  ***Isaiah 54:7b*** You may think God's forgotten you. He hasn't. The good shepherd leaves the 99 sheep to go after the one. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.*** That is an encouraging verse! That's the good news about temptation. When God is with us, **He promises to provide a way out.** When we're tempted, He's our counselor. He is for us. He promises to help us if we let him.  There are several things about this verse. First, it says temptations are common. They are common to man. We all have the same problems. And if there are some common problems it means there must be common solutions. They're in God's Word. Then it says God is with me when I'm being tempted. He's right there when I'm being tempted. That's a motivation for me not to give in. When I realize God is right here watching me, that is a motivation to resist the temptation.  Look, being tempted is not a sin. Jesus was tempted, and he never sinned. It's when we act on those temptations that we sin. He knows exactly the struggle going on in my mind. He's pulling for me. He's preparing an escape route. He sees it coming before I see it coming. He knows I'm walking right into it. He's already preparing an escape route for me to get out of it. It's not just my will power, but His power and He's promised to help me. That's good news!  When I'm tempted God is my counselor. He gives me advise. He knows what I need to do. And He promises to help me out. No matter what temptation I face this next week at home, at work, at church, at school God is there. He's with me in that time of temptation.  ***Job 13:27 (NIV) "You, God, keep a close watch on all my paths."***  Because God is everywhere He sees everything. There was a song that came out a couple of years ago "No one knows what goes on behind closed doors" -- Surprise! God knows! There is no such thing as a locked door to God. You can't lock Him in, you can't lock Him out. He's everywhere. It's no big surprise to Him. He's there. He can see everything that is going on in my life. It is so much easier to control yourself when you know other people are watching. Have you noticed that in your life? When people watch us, it is a motivation. God is always watching you. When I am tempted, He is my counselor. He says, "I'm making a way out. I'll help you." if we'll just rely on Him. He's there to help us out. When I am aware of God's presence, it helps me to maintain more control.  When you are tempted are you seeking Him? Are you looking for His way out? He promises to provide one. That's good news.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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That choice is a battle. There are things in your life that you want to control; you want to make your own rules. But stress relief always starts with letting God be God. It always starts with saying, “God, I’m giving up control, because you can control the things that are out of control in my life.” ***Psalm 46:10 says, “Let go of your concerns! Then you will know that I am God. I rule the nations. I rule the earth” (GW).*** I don’t know what you’re going to face in the next week. You don’t either. But I can already tell you what God wants you to do: *Let go and know.* Let go of control, and know that God is in control. Let go and know! This is the first step to peace in your life. Surrender doesn’t mean you stop caring or become passive—it means you stop carrying the weight that was never yours to carry in the first place. Whenever people face out-of-control situations, we tend to go to one of two extremes. For some people, the more out-of-control your life gets, the harder you try to control it. Others do the exact opposite: You just give up! You have a pity party and invite yourself to it. Both of those reactions to stress are foolish. They don’t work. Instead of being a victim or becoming hyper-controlling, you need to pray a prayer of surrender. When you do, you open the door for God’s peace to flow in—a peace that doesn’t depend on your circumstances but on His presence. Why surrender? The number one reason you’re under stress is because you’re in conflict with God. You’re trying to control things that only God can control. You can’t control your spouse or your kids or your job or your future or your past or any of that stuff. The more you try, the more you’re trying to play God, and that puts you in opposition to God. Not only are you going to lose that conflict, but you’re also going to be tired. There is power when you surrender to God the very things you’ve been trying to control. You may not see change immediately, but you will notice your heart feels lighter. That’s God, stepping in to carry what you no longer have to. So, I encourage you to let go this week. Let go of control and invite God to work in your life instead. Keep your focus on HIM, and HE will direct your steps. Keep your focus on HIM, and HE will help you overcome your struggles. Keep your focus on HIM, and HE will change your circumstance OR he will change you or give you the strength you need to get through anything. You don't get anywhere by focusing on what's overwhelming you. You focus on God. You don't try to fix, you hand it to him and pray that he will fix it. He is the key to peace... but first, you have to let go of control and put your focus on him. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You were made for a greater purpose than simply to make money, retire, and die. You were made for a mission, and that mission gives your life meaning. The Bible says, ***“God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing” (Ephesians 2:10 NCV).*** In other words, you're unique. No one else in the whole world—past, present, or future—is like you. God has made you so unique that there are certain things only you can contribute to the world. Those things make up your life mission. When you live out that mission, you become a living display of God’s creativity and love to the world around you. Real joy comes when your daily choices align with His eternal plans. Jesus says in Mark 8:35, ***“If you insist on saving your life, you will lose it. Only those who throw away their lives for my sake and for the sake of the Good News will ever know what it means to really live” (TLB).*** God is giving you the opportunity to build your life around his mission for you. The only way to do that is by starting with a firm foundation: Jesus Christ***. “And no one can ever lay any other real foundation than that one we already have—Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:11 TLB).*** You can choose to build your life on Jesus, the only foundation that will last. Or you can choose to spend your life chasing things that ultimately will fail you. God won’t force his plans on you. But the truth is: your career, possessions, and even accomplishments will fade—but God’s mission for you will echo into eternity. What’s certain is that one day you will stand before God and he’ll ask you: “Did you fulfill the mission that I gave you on this earth?” On that day, it will be clear whether you spent your life fulfilling God’s mission for you—or you chose to chase lesser things. It’s never too late to start living the life God has planned for you. No matter your past, Jesus can redeem your future. Start building your foundation on Him and pursuing God’s mission for your life today. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Casting Worry ### Page ID: 7633313 ### Content: # Carrying Worry Vs. Casting Worry ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Worry is often our attempt to control what we can’t control, but trust is surrendering control to God (the one who is really in control in the first place). Think of it this way. Imagine for a moment that a worry is a heavy burden you’re carrying on your back — like a backpack filled with rocks. Each anxious thought is another stone tossed in, and over time it becomes exhausting just to stand, let alone move forward. Wishing it away won’t solve the problem, nor will simply hoping the burden grows lighter. But suppose you meet someone who’s obviously stronger than you, and he offers to take the burden off your back and carry it for you. What would you do? It would be foolish to keep carrying that anxiety; instead, you’d gladly hand it over to him. And that’s exactly what God invites us to do with our burdens. He invites us to hand them over to Him in faith and trust. The Bible says, ***“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7).*** Notice that it doesn’t say *some* of your anxiety or just the “big” issues, but *all*. Nothing is too small to bring before God. So today, whatever anxieties you’re carrying, don’t shoulder them alone. How do you “give your anxieties to God?” The Bible tells us to pray about it, tell God about it. ***“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7*** Don’t you want his peace in your life? Are you willing to give up your worry in exchange for his peace? You can’t have both. You have to cast your anxieties onto him. You have to trust him and stop trying to control everything. I encourage you to hand over your worries to the One who is strong enough, loving enough, and faithful enough to carry them for you. In exchange, you’ll discover the gift of His unshakable peace. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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They don't worry about what to eat—they don't need to sow or reap or store up food—for your heavenly Father feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than they are.”—Matthew 6:26 (TLB)*** This example about the birds is from Jesus. Birds don’t worry. They simply do what God created them to do, trusting that their heavenly Father will provide. If God takes such careful notice of the smallest sparrow, how much more does He care for you? A lot of people say they trust God. But, if the second things go wrong you start to worry more than you pray, that’s not really trusting God. Worry, at its core, is forgetting that God is both able and willing to take care of us. It sneaks in when we shift our focus from Christ to our circumstances.  But peace comes when we reverse that—when we keep our eyes on Him, the One who never fails. ***Isaiah 26:3 promises, “You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.”*** The moment we fix our thoughts on Christ instead of our anxieties, the noise of the world quiets. The concerns that once pressed so heavily begin to lose their grip, and God’s “perfect peace” fills our hearts. The truth is simple but life-changing: God has already taken responsibility for our care. We don’t have to live in constant fear, stress, or anxiety. Like the birds, we can rest under the loving watch of our heavenly Father, confident that He knows what we need and will provide in His perfect timing. So, the next time worry rises up within you, take a moment to pause, breathe, and look up. Notice the birds. Let them remind you that if God cares for them, He surely cares for you. What burden or worry are you holding onto today that you need to hand over to your heavenly Father? I encourage you to pray this prayer today: *Father, thank You for reminding me through Your creation that I am deeply cared for. Help me to release my worries over to you and rest in Your faithful love. Help me to focus on you rather than my worries. Teach me to trust You more each day, so that my heart may be filled with Your perfect peace. In Jesus’ name, Amen.* Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done.”—1 John 1:9 (NCV)*** Guilt is a heavy burden to carry. You might try to push it down or cover it up, but it keeps popping back up—like trying to hold a dozen ping-pong balls underwater in a swimming pool. Eventually, one slips through, and then another, until you’re completely exhausted. Are you exhausted? Are you tired of striving? Striving to do better. Striving to push down the guilt you feel? That’s not how God wants you to live. He never intended for guilt to weigh you down or rob you of joy. Instead, he wants you to experience freedom, peace, and the fresh start that comes with a clear conscience. No hoops. Just confession. All that means is agreeing with God about your sin. It means admitting you were wrong. It’s not about sugarcoating, making excuses, or comparing yourself to others. It’s humbly coming before God and saying, *“Lord, you’re right, and I was wrong. I messed up. I sinned.”* That's all you have to do. The second you feel guilty, bring it to God. Exchange your guilt for his grace. And here’s the best part: God makes you a promise. ***“If we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins . . . He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done” (1 John 1:9 NCV).*** Maybe you’ve been carrying guilt over choices you made years ago. Maybe you replay conversations in your mind and wish you had spoken differently. Maybe you’ve been dragging around regrets that you’ve never even shared with anyone. Friend, you don’t have to carry that weight anymore. In Christ, forgiveness is total, immediate, and complete. Don’t waste another minute on yesterday’s sins. Bring them to him. Confess them. Leave them at the cross. Then walk into today with a clean heart and a fresh start. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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God never designed you to live burdened like that. Yet, because we’re human, our natural response to hurt is to hold on to it. We replay the scene over and over in our minds, hoping somehow that reliving it will make it right. But instead of finding peace, we stay stuck. The Bible is clear: if you want freedom, you must forgive. Let’s look at three biblical reasons why you need to forgive. In Matthew 18, Jesus tells the story of a king who forgives his servant’s overwhelming debt. Verse 27 says: ***“The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.”*** This is a picture of what God has done for us. Through Jesus Christ, every sin, every wrong, every failure in your life has already been paid for. Colossians 2:13–14 (NCV) explains it: ***“When you were spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self, God made you alive with Christ, and he forgave all our sins. He canceled the debt . . . and nailed it to the cross.”*** If God has wiped out your entire record of sin, how can you withhold forgiveness from someone else? Bitterness doesn’t punish the other person—it punishes you. Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to get sick. Think about it: while you’re still stewing over something that happened ten years ago, the other person may not even remember it! When you refuse to forgive, you chain yourself to your pain. Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the prison door. Jesus taught that the measure we use with others is the measure God will use with us (see Matthew 6:14–15). In other words, you cannot receive what you are unwilling to give. Do you want God’s forgiveness in your life? Then you must practice forgiveness toward others. Ephesians 4:32 (NIV) puts it plainly: ***“Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”*** God has forgiven you, and he calls you to live in that same freedom by forgiving others. Don’t let resentment poison your soul or weigh you down. Release it. Let go of it. And walk in the peace that only forgiveness brings. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Grace feels like that first open door into God’s family. But Scripture shows us that grace is so much more than the beginning of our journey—it’s the fuel that carries us every single step along the way. His grace is what changes us, equips us, and carries us when we feel too weak to go on. Paul put it plainly: ***“For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.” (Philippians 2:13).*** Here are 10 powerful ways God’s grace shows up in your everyday life: The only way to Heaven is through the doorway of grace. You can’t earn it, work for it, or buy it. Salvation is God’s free gift (Ephesians 2:8-9). Even though we don’t deserve it, God wipes the slate clean and remembers our sins no more (Isaiah 43:25). Whatever God calls you to do, He also gives you the power to do it. That strength and ability is grace at work within you (Philippians 2:13). Grace doesn’t just save your soul; it mends your heart. God binds up wounds and restores brokenness (Psalm 147:3). Life with Jesus isn’t a list of chores—it’s rest for your soul. Grace frees you from the heavy weight of legalism and invites you into Christ’s finished work (Matthew 11:28-30). Every ability, gift, or skill you have comes from God’s hand. He gives them by grace and calls you to use them for His glory (Romans 12:6). God accomplishes His purposes through you—not because of your résumé, but because of His unearned favor (Ephesians 3:7). Salvation isn’t fragile. It’s secure because it’s God’s gift, not your achievement (Jude 1:24). Grace renews your mind and reshapes your life from the inside out (Romans 12:2). Becoming more like Jesus isn’t about trying harder—it’s about receiving and growing in God’s grace day by day (2 Peter 3:18). Friend, grace isn’t just a doctrine to study; it’s a daily reality to live in. God’s grace meets you in your failures, strengthens you in your weaknesses, and keeps pointing you back to Jesus. 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But as you read through them, maybe a question stirred in your heart: *How do I actually receive that kind of grace?* It would be heartbreaking to discover all that God wants to do in your life through His grace—and yet never accept it for yourself. Thankfully, the Bible makes it very clear and very simple. You don’t need a complicated formula. You don’t need to earn a theology degree. You don’t need a list of spiritual rituals. The answer is only three words long: **By trusting Christ and following Him.** John 1:17 reminds us, *“For the law was given through Moses, but God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.”* Grace isn’t found in religion, in rules, or in trying harder. Grace is found in a person—Jesus. When you put your trust in Him, His grace becomes yours. God’s grace is free, but it’s not cheap. It’s the most valuable gift ever offered, and it cost Jesus His very life. On the cross, He purchased grace for you and me—and in doing so, He accomplished three life-changing victories: Someone had to pay the price for our sin. Jesus did it willingly, so we could be forgiven completely. Through His death and resurrection, Jesus gives you the power to be set free from the habits, hurts, and hang-ups that once held you captive. For those who belong to Christ, heaven is our promised home—a place where sin and suffering will never again exist. That’s the power of God’s grace. It covers your past, empowers your present, and secures your future. The only step left is yours: to accept it. If you’ve never trusted Jesus with your life, today can be the day. Pray and tell Him you want His grace to cover you, change you, and lead you. If you already know Him, take a moment to thank Him for the costly gift of grace—and share that gift with someone else who needs it. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Rather, he is patient for your sake. He doesn’t want to destroy anyone but wants all people to have an opportunity to turn to him and change the way they think and act.” —2 Peter 3:9 (GW)*** When you look at the world today—with all the violence, division, and suffering—it’s easy to wonder: *Why does God allow this to go on?* He has the power to shut it all down instantly. So why does He let a broken world keep stumbling forward? Because God is not finished yet. History is *His story*, and it’s still unfolding. Peter reminds us that God’s “delay” isn’t slowness—it’s mercy. Every day that passes is another day of grace, another chance for someone to step into God’s family through faith in Jesus. God patiently endures the pain and rebellion He sees in the world because His heart longs for people—*all people*—to come home to Him. That includes you. And if you already belong to Him, He’s entrusted you with the mission of sharing His Good News. God’s patience means more time for you to point others toward His love. Some people object: “I can’t believe in a God who just stands by while children suffer.” But that’s not who God is. One day, He will put a permanent stop to evil and set everything right. Scripture promises that day of justice is coming. But here’s the hope for believers: you don’t need to fear it. ***Romans 8:1 says, “There is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus” (NLT).*** When you stand before God, you won’t stand condemned. You’ll stand covered by His grace—fully forgiven because of the cross. So yes, the world is broken. Yes, evil is real. But God is still in control. He holds the world—and you—in His hands. And He’s giving us more time: time to turn to Him, time to share His love, time to live with eternity in view. That’s what we do while we wait for Jesus’ return. Jesus is our hope, and it's our job to tell the world about it. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Earthquakes, wildfires, and storms remind us of creation’s fragility. Bodies wear out. Sickness interrupts our plans. Death is a part of life in this broken world. Many people wrestle with spiritual emptiness, wondering if their lives really matter. It’s no surprise that hopelessness feels like an epidemic today. If this broken planet were the end of the story, despair would be the only logical response. But here’s the good news: **it’s not the end of the story.** So how do you hold on to joy in a world filled with so much sorrow? How can you face disappointment, grief, or loss without giving up hope? Jeremiah was known as the “weeping prophet.” He experienced rejection, loneliness, and intense suffering. In *Lamentations*, he describes what feels like the depth of despair: ***“I cannot find peace or remember happiness. . . . Thinking of my troubles and my lonely wandering makes me miserable. That’s all I ever think about, and I am depressed.” (Lamentations 3:17, 19–20 CEV)*** Maybe you’ve felt that way too—like misery is all you can think about, and joy feels like a distant memory. But in the very next verses, Jeremiah makes a powerful shift: ***“Then I remember something that fills me with hope: The LORD’s kindness never fails! If he had not been merciful, we would have been destroyed. The LORD can always be trusted to show mercy each morning. Deep in my heart I say, ‘The LORD is all I need; I can depend on him!’” (Lamentations 3:21–25 CEV)*** Did you catch it? The circumstances didn’t change—Jeremiah was still in the middle of pain and loss—but his focus changed. He turned his eyes from his problems to God’s promises. People will fail you. Circumstances will disappoint you. The things of this world will fade away. But God’s mercy is new every morning. His kindness never fails. That means you don’t have to wait for things to “get better” to have hope. You don’t have to pretend everything is fine when it’s not. You can face the reality of a broken world and still choose joy—because your hope is anchored in the One who never changes. The secret to joy, even in sorrow, is this: **The Lord is all you need.** ·      **Hope** that goes deeper than your circumstances. ·      **Peace** that holds steady in the middle of chaos. No wonder Jeremiah could say with confidence: *“The Lord is all I need; I can depend on him!”* Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The Bible is clear: ***“The Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8 NLT).*** That’s not a small statement. That’s a declaration of victory. The enemy’s strategy is subtle but destructive. He messes with your mind, planting thoughts of worry, guilt, resentment, anger, fear, and confusion. He whispers lies: *“You’re worthless. You’ll never change. You’re alone. You have no purpose.”* If you’ve ever felt chained to those thoughts, you’ve experienced the devil’s handiwork. But here’s the good news—Jesus came to set you free. The devil’s favorite weapon is fear. But God’s Word tells us, ***“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear” (1 John 4:18 NIV).*** And since God is love (1 John 4:16), we know fear never comes from him. Through the cross and resurrection, Jesus destroyed Satan’s power and stripped him of his greatest weapon: death. ***Hebrews 2:14-15 says, “Jesus took on flesh and blood to be like them. He did this so that by dying he would destroy the one who had power over death (that is, the devil). In this way he would free those who were slaves all their lives because they were afraid of dying” (GW).*** That means as a believer, you can face death—and any other fear—with hope. When you grieve, you don’t grieve like the world does. Yes, you feel the sting of loss. Yes, you miss your loved ones. But, you grieve *with hope* because you know the grave is not the end. If they trusted in Christ, you will see them again in heaven, the home you were created for from the beginning. So the next time fear creeps into your heart—whether it’s fear of death, fear of the future, or fear of failure—remember this: it does not come from God. Fear is a tool of the enemy, but Jesus already broke the enemy’s power. When you feel it rising, turn to the Lord in prayer and invite his perfect love to wash over you. His love always wins, because the victory has already been secured. 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Right now, the world feels uncertain, and fear seems to creep into every corner of our lives. But fear has a way of doing more than just unsettling us—it can paralyze us. It can stop us from doing the very things we know God is calling us to do. Listen, no matter what happens in our world, our mission doesn’t change. We are called to Christ and we are called to share the Good News of Jesus and love people to him. That’s the mission. Love God, love people, share the Good News. Think about Daniel standing in the lion’s den. He lived in a society that was opposed to God. And, standing in that Lion’s den, he had every reason to give in to fear, yet he chose faith. Like him, we encounter moments when people or circumstances threaten our faith and witness for Christ. And in those moments, the question is simple but life-changing: Will we surrender to fear, or will we stand up for God in spite of our fear? Will we hide? Or will we be bold in our faith? Here’s the truth: every time you give in to fear, it grows. And the more you allow it to control your choices, the smaller your life becomes. Eventually, you feel cornered—boxed in by worries, anxieties, and “what ifs.” But every time you take a stand for God, fear loses its grip. That’s exactly what we see in the early church. Peter and John faced threats for boldly proclaiming Jesus in Acts 4. Instead of backing down, they turned to God in prayer: ***“Lord, take notice of the threats they have made, and allow us, your servants, to speak your message with all boldness”* (Acts 4:29 GNT).** They didn’t ask for the threats to disappear—they asked for the courage to face them. That’s the key: **fear isn’t defeated by avoiding it, but by moving forward in faith despite it.** The only way to conquer fear is to trust God and take the next step. Remember this principle: God often waits for you to step out in faith before He shows you the way. When the Jordan River stood in Israel’s path, the water didn’t part until the priests’ feet touched it (Joshua 3:15–16). God didn’t clear the obstacle in advance—He moved once His people moved. It’s the same with you. If you’re waiting for fear to vanish before you act, you’ll wait forever. But if you take even one step of faith, you’ll see God’s power unfold before your eyes. So what step is fear keeping you from today? Sharing your faith? Making a decision you know God is prompting you to make? Take that step. Trust God. Watch fear crumble as His boldness fills you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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This isn’t just a suggestion—it’s a command. Jesus said, ***“Now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other”* (John 13:34 NLT).** If you’re a follower of Christ, love isn’t optional. You’re called to love everyone—whether they’re easy to love or not—in the same way Christ loves you. That means accepting others wherever they are treating them as deeply valuable. Everyone you see is someone who Christ died for. Whether they think like you or not, you are called to love them. When you choose to love this way, it transforms your relationships—and it transforms YOU. Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 13:7 give us a picture of this kind of love: **“Love never stops being patient.”** Love extends grace. Just as God is patient with you, he calls you to offer patience to others—especially when they least deserve it. **“Love . . . never stops believing.”** Love expresses faith. People in your life need to know you haven’t given up on them, even when things are strained. **“Love . . . never stops hoping.”** Love expects the best. It looks beyond past failures and chooses to hope for what God can do in someone’s life. Instead of becoming cynical, love stays optimistic. **“Love . . . never gives up.”** Love endures the worst. It means saying, “No matter what happens, I will keep loving you.” This is how God loves you. He never stops being patient with you. He never stops believing in you. He never stops hoping for the best in your life. He never gives up on you. And he calls you to love others in the very same way. The truth is, our relationships can get complicated and messy. We settle for less than God’s best. That’s why loving others with God’s kind of love begins with asking him to change us from the inside out. You can’t love like Jesus without his help. “Dear God, I admit that I’ve sometimes made a mess in my relationships. They’re complicated and broken, and I’ve often settled for less than the best. They need a transformation! So please begin by changing me. Help me to accept others, just as you’ve accepted me. Help me to love others unconditionally, just as you have loved me. Help me to forgive others totally, just as you’ve forgiven me. And help me to value others as much as you value me. Help me to extend grace, to express faith, to expect the best, and to endure the worst in my relationships. I ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen.” Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The passage begins, *“One of \[the Pharisees\], an expert in the law, tested Him with this question: ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’”* #### Then Jesus responds in Matthew 22:37-39, *“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. The second most important is similar: ‘Love your neighbor as much as you love yourself’”* (TLB). ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) What is the greatest commandment? What should we be focusing on? Well, according to Jesus, life is about learning to love. Jesus himself said this… That’s the greatest commandment. Love God and love people. That’s what God cares about. He cares more about your love for him and for other people than he cares how many weeks you come to church or how many pages of the Bible you have memorized. In fact, the Bible tells us that you can do all the right things BUT without love, it doesn’t count. Life is not about acquisition, accomplishment, or achievement. It’s not about climbing the career ladder, buying the biggest house, or collecting the newest things. You won’t take your career, your car, or your possessions to Heaven—but you *will* take your character. You *will* take the love you’ve cultivated in your heart. God put you on this Earth for a season—whether 80, 90, or 100 years—to learn to love him with all your heart and to love others as he loves you. Every relationship, every challenge, every joy and heartbreak is an opportunity to practice love. Life is one giant lesson in love. Every relationship is a laboratory to learn how to love. So, if this matters to God so much… how will you choose to show love to the people in your life this weekend? Will you make love a priority? Will you listen more patiently? Encourage a friend? Serve someone quietly without recognition? Every act of love matters and reflects the heart of God. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Jesus himself said, ***“In this world you will have trouble****”* (John 16:33). Trouble is guaranteed. It’s part of the human experience. The real question is not whether you’ll face storms—it’s how will you respond when they come? Will setbacks dominate you? Will discouragement steal your passion and purpose? Or will you let God use the valley to shape your faith and strengthen your character? If we’re not careful, setbacks can pull us in the wrong direction: **Drifting from our goals.** We start hearing that inner whisper: *“What’s the use of trying?”* Slowly, we let go of the very calling God has placed on our lives. **Discarding what we value.** In seasons of deep pain, we can be tempted to loosen our grip on what matters most—our faith, our family, our integrity. **Despairing about the future.** We begin to believe the lie that it’s over, that nothing good can come from our brokenness. As a pastor, I’ve watched people respond to setbacks in each of these ways. And here’s what I’ve learned: the true test of faith isn’t how high you raise your hands when you’re singing God’s praises; it’s how steadily you walk when you’re in the valley of the shadow of death. You see, in every storm you need an anchor. Without one, you’ll drift. But with the right one, you’ll hold steady—no matter how fierce the winds blow. And there is only one anchor strong enough: the unshakable presence of God. **Psalm 23 reminds us, *“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.”*** God doesn’t always remove the valley. He doesn’t always stop the storm. But he promises to walk with us through it. His presence is the greatest anchor of all. When you feel hopeless, remember: God hasn’t left you. He is closer than you think. In fact, you’ve never been nearer to him than you are right now, in this very moment—even if you don’t feel it. Because faith isn’t about feelings; it’s about truth. And the truth is, God is with you. **Romans 8:38–39 says it this way: *“I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us”* (The Message).** When the winds rise and the waters roar, let this be your anchor: God is with you, and his love will never let you go. That truth will give you stability in any storm. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them!” (John 20:19 NLT)*** Have you ever felt like you were running on empty—out of gas, weary, or just plain worn down? Maybe you’ve thought, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Or, maybe you just feel like you've lost your passion when it comes to your faith. After Jesus was crucified, his disciples were overwhelmed with fear and grief. They locked themselves away, uncertain of what the future held. Defeated. Discouraged. Depressed. In other words, they were running on empty. But everything changed that Sunday evening. Jesus, alive again, stepped into the room and spoke four life-changing words: ***“Peace be with you.”* (John 20:19).** The shift was immediate. Panic turned into peace. Fear became joy. Hopelessness was swallowed up by hope. Their peace didn’t come from a moral code they kept. It didn’t come from religion. It didn’t come from success. Their peace was restored in the presence of a real person, Jesus. The presence of Jesus made all the difference. The same is true for us today. When you feel drained, defeated, or distant, Jesus shows up. You don’t have to go looking for him—he is already with you. His presence fills empty places with courage, joy, and peace that goes beyond human understanding (Philippians 4:7). If you feel like you’ve lost your passion in your faith walk… maybe just maybe you need the presence of Jesus. Going to church is great. Reading your Bible is incredible. But, if it doesn’t lead you into a deeper relationship with the very real, very present person, Jesus, then it’s just religious activity that you’re checking off a list. I encourage you to seek HIM as you go to church. Seek HIM as you read your Bible. And, for that matter, seek HIM in all you do. Seek his presence. That’s what will make a difference in your life. That’s what will fill you with peace… not moral codes and religious activity. I love that Jesus’ first words to his disciples weren’t words of criticism. He didn’t say, “Why did you abandon me?” or “Where were you when I needed you?” He didn’t shame them for their fear or failures. Instead, he offered peace. And that’s exactly what he offers you today. When you’re running on empty and you’ve lost your passion, he doesn’t rebuke you—he restores you. He doesn’t put you down—he lifts you up. Friend, you are not alone. You’ve never been alone. Right now, in this very moment, Jesus is with you. Are you aware of him? Will you invite him into your day? I encourage you to let the presence of Jesus in. Be aware of him. Include him in your day. When the presence of Jesus enters the rooms of your heart... you will be filled with peace. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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God still speaks today—and He wants to speak to you personally. The question is: are you making space to listen? Or, are you too busy to hear him? When you hear from God, it’s evidence of a living relationship with Him. It’s one thing to *know about* God; it’s another to *know Him*. And just like any close friendship, communication is key. You talk to God in prayer—and He speaks to you through His Word, through the Holy Spirit, through circumstances, and through other people. Listening to God doesn’t just deepen your relationship; it also protects you from mistakes. When you quiet your mind and pay attention to His voice, He’ll warn you about the potholes and pitfalls ahead. You’ll save yourself heartache, wasted time, and unnecessary frustration when you follow His lead. The Message paraphrase ***of Proverbs 3:6 reminds us, “Listen for God’s voice in everything you do and everywhere you go. He’s the one who will keep you on track.”*** I can’t count the number of times God has spared me from disaster with just a few simple words: “Don’t.” “Wait.” “Watch out.” Those gentle whispers are often all it takes to change our direction—or even our destiny. And hearing from God doesn’t just keep you from harm—it moves you toward the kind of success that truly matters. Not the world’s version of success measured by wealth, status, or applause, but God’s version: becoming exactly who He made you to be. Real success is living in the center of His will and walking in step with His plan. ***Psalm 32:8 (NLT) says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.”*** God’s path for you is uniquely yours. What’s best for someone else might not be what’s best for you—and that’s why hearing His voice is so important. Only He can lead you down the route that fulfills your purpose and brings you lasting peace. Jesus said, ***“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27 NLT).*** When you take time to slow down, quiet the noise, and listen for your Shepherd’s voice, you’ll find guidance, comfort, and confidence for every step ahead. Take time to listen to your Good Shepherd today—He’s speaking, and what He has to say can change everything. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Open Your Bible ### Page ID: 8014774 ### Content: # Want to Hear God's Voice? Open Your Bible ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***“Everything in the Scriptures is God’s Word. All of it is useful for teaching and helping people and for correcting them and showing them how to live.” —*** *2 Timothy 3:16-17 (CEV)* A lot of people wish God would just write in the sky what he wants them to do. But God isn’t going to write in the sky what he’s already written in his Book! Everything you need to know God and to live a life of purpose and meaning is found in his Word. If you’re not regularly opening your Bible, then you’re missing out on hearing from him. Have I told you lately you should read your Bibles? The more you fill your mind with Scripture, the more clearly you’ll recognize his voice guiding you day by day. God gave us the Bible for four reasons: to teach us, to help us, to correct us, and to show us how to live. Notice in the verse above that Paul says “everything” and “all of it.” That means every verse has value. It’s 100 percent reliable and 100 percent practical—truth you can build your life on. Whether you’re facing a decision, a challenge, or a moment of doubt, you’ll find wisdom and direction in God’s Word. Some passages are easy to understand, while others require patience and study. But even the hard-to-grasp parts serve a purpose: they stretch your faith and draw you closer to the Author. The more time you spend in Scripture, the more you’ll see how it all fits together to reveal God’s love and plan for your life. That’s why a consistent quiet time is so important. Start small—just ten minutes a day. Sit quietly with an open Bible and an open heart. Let God speak through his Word as you read and pray. Over time, those moments will become a lifeline, giving you strength, wisdom, and peace. ***Psalm 119:105 reminds us, “Your word is a lamp to guide me and a light for my path” (GNT).*** The Bible is like a lamp for your journey—it doesn’t show you the next ten miles, but it will always give you enough light for your next step. That’s what walking by faith looks like: trusting God one verse, one step, and one day at a time. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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This isn’t just a saying, it’s how God designed the world to work. It’s called the law of the harvest. Whatever you plant, you’re going to get, often in greater measure. When you plant apple seeds, you don’t get pears—you get apples. In the same way, when you sow generosity, you’ll reap generosity. The Bible says in **2 Corinthians 9:6–7 (NIV)**, ***“Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”*** This is the principle of the harvest: whenever you have a need, plant a seed. Some people have needs and they look around and say, “I can’t afford to be generous right now.” But, that’s actually when we SHOULD be generous. God is going to bless that. Take a look at it this way… a farmer who looks at barren fields doesn’t sit around complaining or worrying that he doesn’t have any crops; he gets to work planting. If he has only a handful of seed, he faces a choice—hoard it and watch it disappear, or give it away and trust God to multiply it. That’s exactly how God’s economy works. You don’t just reap what you sow—you always reap **more** than you sow! God designed life this way because he wants you to become more like him. God is a generous giver. Every time you give, share, or serve, you reflect his character. It may seem illogical to give when you have a need—but that’s where faith comes in. God’s way of increase is through release. The more you trust him and let go, the more room you make for his blessings to flow into your life. So, the next time you face a need, don’t hold back—plant a seed and watch God bring the harvest. What is a need in your life right now? 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You also won’t find it in success, sex, salary, or status. All of those things may feel good for a moment, but their satisfaction quickly fades. They can also all be taken from you. And, if that happens… then what? Real, lasting joy doesn’t come from what you *get* in life—it comes from what you *give*. God designed you to live a life of service. Why? Because he wants you to become more like him. God is love, and love is expressed through giving. When you learn to give your life away for the good of others, you discover what joy truly means. The more you focus on yourself, the more miserable you become. Our culture constantly tells us, “Do what makes *you* happy,” but the truth is, that path leads to emptiness. The key to joy is shifting from an inward focus—“It’s all about me”—to an outward focus—“It’s all about God and serving others.” The Apostle Paul modeled this beautifully. He wrote, ***“I will rejoice even if I lose my life, pouring it out like a liquid offering to God, just like your faithful service is an offering to God. And I want all of you to share that joy” (Philippians 2:17 NLT).*** Paul found joy even in hardship because his life was dedicated to serving others for God’s glory. God didn’t give you talents, passions, and experiences just for your own benefit. The Bible says, ***“God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another”* (1 Peter 4:10 NLT).** When you use your gifts to bless others, something powerful happens—God fills your heart with purpose and joy. The most helpful people are the happiest people because they’ve tapped into God’s design for life. So if you’re feeling weary, empty, or joyless today, don’t look inward—look outward. As you give your life away, you’ll find that joy comes rushing back in ways you never expected. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But some issues in life will never be changed by solo Bible study or individual prayer. God uses people. God often chooses to do his work through people so that we will learn to depend on each other. He wants his children to grow together. He wants his children to love each other. In fact, that’s one of the key indicators that someone is a follower of Jesus. ***"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." (John 13:35)*** You cannot grow to Christlikeness in isolation. You must be around other people and interact with them. You need to be part of a church and community. Isolation can also be a dangerous way to cope with pain.  In isolation you can’t see that God loves you, and you can’t feel the love of others.  When you get hurt the natural reaction is to pull into a shell, build up giant walls around yourself and say, “I’m never going to let another person hurt me again. That was too painful.” When, in fact, isolation keeps us stuck in the pain. Healing doesn't happen when you isolate yourself from the world.  There’s a way to live without pain – have no love in your life. But, we can’t let the potential pain of losing someone keep us from reaching out and developing relationships. ***"We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother." (1 John 4:19-21)*** We can’t allow the fear of people letting us down to keep us from loving people. And, the truth is, many people will let us down.  So, what do you do when somebody rejects your love or lets you down? You redirect it, because there are a lot of people in the world who need your love and for you to share the love of Jesus with them.  Jesus knows what it’s like to love in the middle of pain. It’s called the cross. Jesus knows what it’s like to keep on loving when you don’t feel like loving. Jesus knows what it’s like to keep on loving when you feel like your love is being rejected. He keeps on loving.  Don’t let pain discourage you from loving the people God put in your life.  Don’t let the comfort of isolation keep you from reaching out and being real and vulnerable with people.  Don’t just pull the covers over your head and shut the door on love.  Love God. Love people. No matter what. Love is worth it.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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In simple terms, we have to cut people some slack. The Message paraphrase puts it this way: “It puts up with anything.” That’s not about tolerating abuse or unhealthy behavior — it’s about learning to extend understanding instead of criticism, patience instead of frustration, grace instead of resentment. In Greek, the word used here literally means “covered with a roof.” Would anyone buy a house without a roof? Of course not. Without it, there’s no protection from the wind, rain, or storms. Love works the same way — it covers and protects a relationship. Patient, gracious love acts as a roof, shielding your connection from the storms of mistakes, misunderstandings, and human weakness. This kind of love doesn’t keep score. It doesn’t demand perfection. It doesn’t drag every fault into the light for judgment. The truth is, every relationship is made up of two imperfect people. Two imperfect people will never create a perfect marriage, a perfect friendship, or a perfect family. Perfection isn’t the goal — grace is. ***Romans 15:7 reminds us: “Accept each other just as Christ has accepted you.”*** One of the most loving things you can do is simply listen to someone. Often, the reason we become critical or impatient is because we’ve stopped listening. God gave us two ears and one mouth — maybe that’s His way of reminding us to listen twice as much as we speak. ***Ephesians 4:2 says, “Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.”*** That’s grace in action — making room for others’ faults because love demands it. A spouse who let you down? A friend who disappointed you? A coworker who misunderstood you? Because love that lasts is love that never gives up. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Not busy doing a thousand things around the house. Not scrolling in bed. Not working. Not thinking through your to-do list. But, you were just still before the Lord. When was the last time? You can’t hear God’s voice clearly when you’re go, go, go. If you want to sense his direction and experience his peace, you’ve got to get alone and get quiet before him. Many people call this a “quiet time,” but it’s really about more than silence — it’s about stillness. When you choose to be still, something beautiful happens — the focus shifts from you to God. Your worries fade, your heart softens, and you begin to sense his grace. There’s something powerful about realizing that God wants to meet with you. You don’t have to beg for his attention. He’s already waiting for you. ***Jeremiah 33:3 says, “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know” (NIV).*** You may think you’re waiting on God — but often, God is waiting on you. He created you for relationship, and he loves it when you spend time with him. He longs to be part of your everyday life, not just your Sunday schedule. God’s patient, but he’s always ready to meet with you the moment you turn your attention toward him. Of course, finding quiet in today’s world can feel nearly impossible. Noise surrounds us — in cars, stores, waiting rooms, and even in our own homes. Silence has become rare, yet it’s in that sacred stillness that we most often hear God’s whisper. And if you have young kids or a full household, stillness can seem like a fairytale. But take heart — even the busiest person can find moments to connect with God. Consider Susanna Wesley, mother of 18 children — including John and Charles Wesley, two of the most influential figures in Christian history. Every afternoon, Susanna would sit in her rocking chair, throw her apron over her head, and spend an hour in prayer. Her children knew that when Mom’s apron was over her head, it was her time alone with God. John Wesley later said it was his mother’s prayers that shaped his life and faith. If a mother of 18 could carve out sacred space with God, so can you. You might have to be creative — wake up a little earlier, find a quiet corner, take a short walk, or pause during your lunch break. Be desperate to meet with God. Make time for stillness. Quiet your heart, silence the noise, and sit in his presence. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Are You Listening? ### Page ID: 8151747 ### Content: # God is Speaking... Are You Listening? ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) ***“Listen for God’s voice in everything you do and everywhere you go. He’s the one who will keep you on track.” — Proverbs 3:6 (MSG)*** Jesus once said to a crowd gathered around him, “***Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear” (Luke 8:8 NIV).*** He wasn’t talking about physical hearing—he was talking about spiritual listening. He wanted his followers to tune their hearts to God’s voice.  The same is true for you. God wants to speak to you—and he does. The question is: are you taking time to listen? Communication is the foundation of every relationship, and that includes your relationship with God. If you never talk to him or listen for his voice, you may know *about* God, but you don’t truly *know* him. Real relationship happens when you spend time together—when you speak, listen, and share life. When you start listening for his direction, you’ll discover that he often gives simple, clear warnings: “Wait.” “Don’t.” “Go.” “Trust me.” Even a whisper from God can save you from regret, confusion, and wasted effort. When you listen to God, it not only protects you—it also leads you to real success. But God’s definition of success looks different from the world’s. It’s not measured by money, popularity, or power. True success is becoming exactly who God made you to be. It’s living out his unique plan for your life. ***Psalm 32:8 says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you” (NLT).*** Notice that word—*best.* God doesn’t settle for average paths or second-best plans. He wants to lead you along the best possible route for your life—one that’s tailor-made for who he created you to be. What’s best for someone else may not be best for you, and that’s okay. God’s plan for you is personal. ***Jesus said, “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27 NLT).*** That’s what it means to live close to your Shepherd. You recognize his voice, trust his direction, and follow his lead—even when the path ahead isn’t fully clear. So today, take time to quiet your heart and listen. God is speaking—you just have to make space to hear him. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But, what about the bad times? What about hard seasons? Seasons of loss? Times of waiting. Times of uncertainty? What’s the right attitude for a Christian to have in those times? Well, ***1 Thessalonians 5:18 says, “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”*** God’s will for you is to be thankful. Have an attitude of gratitude all the time. This doesn’t mean you have to be thankful FOR all things. But, you can be thankful IN the midst of all circumstances. Even the hard ones. Even the painful ones. Why? Why does God want us to have a thankful heart IN all circumstances?   Because gratitude lifts your eyes off our problems and fixes them on God’s character. By choosing to be thankful, we shift our focus from waiting for solutions to experiencing God’s peace during challenges. And, it’s the only way to experience joy and peace that lasts. In the Bible, the prophet Habakkuk was going through tough times. He said, ***“Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior” (Habakkuk 3:17–18 NIV).*** Habakkuk wasn’t thanking God for all the things that had gone wrong in his life. What was his cause of gratitude? “I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.” The Lord himself was the cause of Habakkuk’s gratitude. He wasn’t just grateful for what God had done (and God has done countless things for you to be thankful for); he was grateful for who God is—faithful, loving, and good even when life isn’t. No matter how bad things seem, you can always thank God simply for being God. Gratitude doesn’t mean denying your pain; it means trusting God’s presence and purpose in the middle of it. And God has promised that even when things don’t go your way, he can work them together for your good. I don’t know what trials you may be facing right now, but God does—and he loves you deeply. He is with you through his Holy Spirit, giving you strength and peace. So choose gratitude on the days you feel like it—and especially on the days you don’t. Because gratitude not only grows your faith—it opens the door for God’s peace to guard your heart in every season. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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There’s a big difference! You don’t have to be thankful for the bad things that happen in your life. We don’t thank God for evil or pain, but we can thank Him in the midst of it. Gratitude is not denial; it’s declaring that even when life is hard, God is still good and still at work. There’s countless reasons we can choose to be thankful in all circumstances. Here are a few… We know that life on Earth isn’t the end of our story. And we know that no matter what happens, God will never stop loving us. Those four truths alone can anchor your heart in gratitude—but there are hundreds more reasons to give thanks! If you’re feeling discouraged or overwhelmed, make a list of 50 things you’re grateful for. It may feel simple, but it’s powerful. Gratitude shifts your focus from your problems to God’s presence. It reminds you of His goodness and faithfulness, right here and now. This isn’t the “manifestation” trend or just positive thinking. Gratitude isn’t about changing your circumstances—it’s about worshiping the One who never changes. When you give thanks, you invite God to change you. The peace and joy He gives often come long before your situation improves. You can even apply this to your relationships. In your marriage, make a list of things you appreciate about your spouse. It could literally transform your relationship. When you start looking for the good, you’ll begin to see your marriage—and your partner—with new eyes. Your heart will soften, and that shift will begin to change the atmosphere of your home. And what if you don’t feel grateful? Good news—gratitude isn’t a feeling; it’s an action. You can choose to give thanks, and your feelings will eventually follow. You can’t always control your circumstances, but you can control your response. Gratitude is a choice—and that choice can change everything. As we move through November, we’re setting aside time to do exactly that—to thank God for His faithfulness to our church family. I invite you to join us this Sunday at 9 or 10:45 a.m. for Part 1 of our Stones of Remembrance service. Together, we’ll celebrate the miracles and moves of God that have shaped the story of Seminole Church. Let’s give thanks—because He’s not done writing that story yet. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Many of us want God to guarantee a successful outcome before we take the first step. We want assurance, clarity, and full understanding. We want all the details. But Scripture makes it clear: that’s not faith. Faith always involves risk. It requires movement before certainty. It calls us to obey before we understand. If God is leading you in a direction, don’t wait. Take a step of faith in that direction… even if you don’t have all the details yet. If you keep in tune with him, he will guide your next step, and the next. Keep prayerfully making the next step. Sometimes, we take a step in a direction we think he is leading us, and then he opens up a completely new path that we never expected. The point is, take a step of faith AND keep in tune with him as you take the next step and the next. Proverbs 3:5 invites us to trust God wholeheartedly, not leaning on our limited perspective. We don’t see the whole picture. God does. One of the most striking examples of this is found in Judges 7. God told Gideon to lead just 300 men against 135,000 enemy soldiers. The odds were impossible—450 to 1. Then the battle plan unfolded, and it sounded even more unreasonable: Take torches, trumpets, and clay jars. Hide the torches. Surround the enemy camp. Then, on command, break the jars, blow the trumpets, and let the light blaze into the night. To Gideon, this must have sounded illogical at best—reckless at worst. And when he did, God moved. The enemy woke in confusion, turned their swords on one another, and fell into chaos. The Israelites didn’t win because they were strong or strategic. They won because they trusted God enough to obey Him, even when the plan made no sense. Sometimes God calls you into situations where the odds look impossible, the instructions feel strange, or the next step seems risky. But faith says, “Lord, I’ll trust You—even here. Even now. 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I’ve seen people stay in jobs long after God nudged them toward a new path—simply because the security felt safer than obedience. I’ve seen fear of being alone keep people in relationships that were never God-honoring. I’ve watched fear of rejection prevent people from finding the community they desperately needed. I’ve seen fear of facing the past keep people stuck for years, unwilling to pursue healing or counseling because truth felt too painful. Now listen, we all experience fear. The danger comes when fear becomes the loudest voice in our lives—louder than God’s calling, louder than His promises, louder than His truth. Even though fear is universal, it should never be allowed to be in charge. Every time you choose fear over obedience, it gets stronger. Every time you refuse to do what God is asking, that fear digs deeper roots. Eventually, if left unchecked, fear will box you in and corner your life. But the opposite is just as true: Every step of obedience shrinks fear and strengthens faith. That’s why, if you want to break fear’s grip, you need to remember the incredible benefit of choosing God’s way—because every act of obedience is a victory over fear. God often waits for your obedience before He reveals His provision. You may be praying for God to open the door, while He’s waiting for you to walk toward it. If God has called you to do something, He will equip you, strengthen you, and walk with you every step of the journey. You are never stepping out alone. When fear whispers, “You can’t,” God declares, “I am with you.” And His presence is all the confidence you need. ***Isaiah 41:10 ESV says, "Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."*** Because when God calls you to it, God will carry you through it. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The message that saved you is meant to flow through you, not stop with you. When Jesus called the first disciples, He didn’t give them a lecture or a list of tasks. He gave them an invitation and a purpose: ***“‘Come, follow me,’ he said, ‘and I’ll show you how to fish for people.’ Right away, they left their nets and followed him.” — Matthew 4:19–20 (CEB)*** “I will teach you how to change lives. I will show you how to bring people into My kingdom. I will show you how to share the Good News.” Here’s the question: Is anybody going to be in heaven because of you? If you’re not sharing the Good News, you’re not living as a disciple. Think of it this way: If you discovered the cure for cancer and kept it quiet, it would be unthinkably wrong. But as a follower of Jesus, you know something infinitely greater. You know how a person can have their past forgiven, find purpose in the present, and secure a home in heaven. And God expects you to share that life-changing message. 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An ambassador is someone intentionally sent. Someone trusted to carry a message, build relationships, and represent the heart of the one who sent them. Nations send political ambassadors, companies send business ambassadors, and communities send cultural ambassadors. But God sends spiritual ambassadors—you and me—to reflect His love and His Kingdom everywhere we go. As Christ’s ambassador, Scripture outlines three clear roles: This isn’t something you turn on when you walk into church and off when you walk out. Representing Jesus touches everything—your conversations, your choices, your attitude, even the way you respond when life gets hard. Paul writes: ***“Be sure that you live in a way that brings honor to the Good News of Christ.” — Philippians 1:27 (NCV)*** Whether you’re in a meeting, in the carpool line, competing on the field, or sitting in traffic, this simple phrase can anchor your heart: Or as ***Ephesians 4:1 says, “Live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” (NIV)*** Your purpose is not random. Jesus Himself prayed: ***“In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world.” — John 17:18 (MSG)*** When someone is on a mission, they move with intention. They don’t get distracted by every inconvenience or detour. They stay focused on what matters most. Paul understood this deeply. He said: ***“The most important thing is that I complete my mission… to tell people the Good News about God’s grace.” — Acts 20:24 (NCV)*** There is no mission on earth more meaningful, more needed, or more urgent. You may not always feel confident sharing your faith. You may feel unqualified or unsure of what to say. But Jesus removed that pressure. He didn’t just send you—He empowered you. ***“Go … and make disciples … baptize them … teach them…” — Matthew 28:19–20 (GNT)*** That’s not a title you earn—it’s a calling God gives. You’re empowered to share the Good News of His grace. Walk today with that confidence, and I encourage you to step into conversations this Christmas season with that awareness. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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No Matter What You're Facing ### Page ID: 8539281 ### Content: # 3 Reasons to Have Joy this Christmas... No Matter What You're Facing ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) For many, the Christmas season is a joyous occasion. But, for many others, it can be one of the hardest seasons. For anyone experiencing loss or grief or loneliness, Christmastime can amplify those situations. But, yesterday our video devotion talked about being thankful IN all circumstances. Even when it’s hard, there is something to be thankful for. You can choose gratitude. So, whether this Christmas is filled with laughter and joy or tears and pain… or, for SO MANY of us… it’s both… you can spend this Christmas focusing on the many things you can be grateful for. And you can marvel that the God of the universe cares about the details of your life. He cares about the stress, frustration, and heartache you may be experiencing this holiday season. He cares about your future and has plans for you that will bring hope and healing. The Good News of great joy proclaimed by the angel over 2,000 years ago is still Good News and still a source of everlasting joy.  The angel said*:* ***“I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger” (Luke 2:10-12 NIV).*** Regardless of the circumstances, you can still celebrate this Christmas with great joy because of three reasons:  God sent Jesus on a mission of love. In fact, the Bible says God IS love. God created the entire universe, just so he could create the human race, just so he could create you, just so he could love you.  God made you so he could love you. And his love isn’t based on what you do. His love is based on who he is. The Bible says***, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests” (Luke 2:14 NIV).*** That’s a reason to celebrate the birth of Jesus with great joy. The Bible says Jesus is Immanuel. He is God come to live amongst us. Jesus truly was “God with us.” And he is still with us today. You may not feel his presence, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Knowing God is near means you don’t have to worry or be anxious about what’s coming next. He—not your circumstances—is in control. And that’s a reason to celebrate the birth of Jesus with great joy. He’s on your side. In fact, Jesus said this: ***“God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him” (John 3:17 NLT).***  Many people are afraid of God because of their guilt. But the Bible says Jesus didn’t come to condemn the world. He came to save it. **That’s Good News!** And that’s a reason to celebrate the birth of Jesus with great joy. It’s Good News of great joy for all people because God says, “I love you, I’m with you, and I’m for you.” Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The word “Gospel” actually means Good News, and the story of Jesus is the greatest story of all time.  Our world needs more Christians who are willing to share the Good News, rather than just enjoy it for themselves. How are you sharing the Good News of Jesus this Christmas? What if we made time and a plan to share the Good News with others this holiday season?  Here are four ways to share the Good News this Christmas. Do you pray for your friends and family? Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Yet many of us miss this basic part or our sharing the Good News. Who are three people who are friends or family of yours who don’t know the Good News in a personal way? Get them in your mind right now. Let’s pray for them right now.  “Dear Father, help \_\_\_\_\_ to experience the Good News of salvation and Christmas this year. Help them to connect with you and start a relationship with you. Show me my role in helping them come to understand the good news. Amen.” Jesus tells us that He did not come to be served but to serve. What better way to celebrate Christmas than to serve someone? Serve someone this Christmas. Find someone who’s hurting and meet their physical needs or pray with them or encourage them or spend time with them… and tell them the Good News of Christmas. Jesus was born into this world to let hurting people know that there is hope.  You could grab a book like Lee Strobel’s The Case for Christmas and say, “Let’s get together once a week. We’ll read a chapter and get together and talk about what we read and what Christmas is all about.” You can invite followers of Christ at your place of work or people who want to learn what it means to follow Christ. Just get together and talk about the real Christmas.   Christmas Eve is coming up. Don’t come alone. Invite somebody to come with you. They will be presented with the Good News of Jesus and have an opportunity to receive that hope and salvation.  If they don’t feel comfortable showing up in-person, online is a great option for them. Host a watch party online. Send them a link.  During this time of year people are the most open to attending a church service (where they will hear the Good News by the way) because they are either searching for hope or don’t want to spend it alone. Even if you have never invited anyone to a church event before, make a choice this year to be bold and invite someone who needs to hear a message of hope. Bring your friends! I encourage you to share the Good News this Christmas. Make a plan. Be intentional about it. It’s one of the main purposes God has for you, is to share the Good News of Christ with others.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It feels like a clean slate—a fresh start. *Out with the old, in with the new.* But for many people, this new year doesn’t feel hopeful at all. Instead, it feels like **365 new days of uncertainty**. So how do you face a new year when you don’t know what’s coming? Here are **three intentional choices** that can help you face a new year—*no matter what happens*. Yes, I know—plans can change in an instant. But, God still calls us to plan. Planning isn’t a lack of faith—it’s an act of stewardship. God wants us to be intentional with the time He’s given us. And when plans change (because they will), He invites us to trust Him and remain flexible. If we don’t plan, time will still pass. And one day, we’ll look back wishing we had been more intentional with the life God entrusted to us. What do I want to be better at this year than last year? ***“We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.” - Proverbs 16:9*** When we plan prayerfully and invite God to guide us, that’s wisdom. Staying in God’s Word is completely within your control—no matter what this year brings. Coming to church once a week isn’t enough. That’s like eating one meal a week. Imagine fasting for six days and then overeating on the seventh—you’d end up sick, not strong. Spiritual health works the same way. We need to feed on God’s Word **daily**, not just feast on Sundays. If you want peace while facing an uncertain future, stay close to the One who already knows it. I love the phrase *“step out”* because faith is not passive—it’s active. Faith isn’t just believing something in your head; it’s trusting God enough to move your feet. You can believe a plane is safe, but you don’t truly trust it until you get on board. You can believe a chair will hold you, but faith happens when you sit down. Stepping out in faith is something you can choose—regardless of circumstances. It’s more than believing *in* Jesus. Even the enemy believes in Him. Faith means committing *to* Him—allowing God to lead, to call the shots, to be the CEO of your life. Three times in Joshua 1, God tells Joshua, *“Be strong and courageous.”* Joshua needed courage because the future ahead of him was unknown. And courage doesn’t mean the absence of fear. Courage means moving forward **in spite of it**. And when we stay aware of Him—when we plan prayerfully, stay rooted in His Word, and step out in faith—you can have peace as you step into a new year. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Spiritual growth is not automatic. People can grow older without growing up. It doesn’t just happen—growth is intentional. So let me ask a personal question: A year from today, how much growth do you want to see in your life? A year from today, some people reading this will be stronger in their faith, more mature, and more grounded in God. Others will be in the same place—why? They weren’t willing to make the effort to grow. **“When you come looking for me, you’ll find me…when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else.” - *Jeremiah 29:13 (MSG)*** If you are, and I hope you are, then I encourage you to commit to joining us for our [40 Days: Created to Dream series.](/40-days-created-to-dream) Because, growth has a practical action step: make a covenant with others. We grow faster and stronger when we do it in community. 40 Days groups are designed for just that. [(YOU CAN STILL JOIN A GROUP HERE).](/40-days-created-to-dream) It’s easier to stick to a diet when a friend is doing it with you. It’s easier to exercise when you have a workout partner. And it’s easier to grow spiritually when you make a covenant with others to pursue growth together. Commitment is the hallmark of maturity. The epitome of immaturity is someone who refuses to commit. Fear of commitment keeps people stuck. Growth requires commitment. Growth requires stepping into responsibility, accountability, and action. So I ask you: Will you commit to growing in your faith in 2026? We start 40 Days: Created to Dream THIS WEEK. 40 Days. 6 weeks of meeting together in life groups. 6 weeks of going to church and encouraging each other every Sunday. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Stress feels unavoidable. But did you know the antidote to the stress you experience on a daily basis can be found in the Bible? When you open the Bible and read about the life of Jesus, you see someone who faced near-constant pressure—yet lived with peace. Why? Because he knew his calling and centered his life around it. Jesus said, ***“I know where I came from and where I am going” (John 8:14 NIV).*** What about you? Do you know what God has called you to do? No matter who you are, you have a calling. God placed you on this earth for a purpose, and he SHAPED you to fulfill it. He gave you a unique combination of: God doesn’t want you driven by the pressure of the world around you. He wants you driven by HIS purpose for you—by your calling. The apostle Paul said, ***“I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received” (Ephesians 4:1 NIV).*** Once you begin to understand your calling, the next step is to concentrate on it—to focus your life around what matters most. THIS is what brings us peace. When you know your God-given calling, and you are walking in it, you experience an internal peace that can not be taken from you. If another "COVID" hits, your calling is still your calling. If the unexpected happens, your calling is still your calling. If hardship strikes, your mission doesn't change. This brings us peace on the inside, even if it's chaos on the outside. Why? Because, wherever God has truly called you, HE will be with you. We don't have to worry abut the details, because we are focused on what God has called us to. So, what has God called you to? I just did a video devotion about finding our calling. [You can watch it HERE.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Bi1usO3bc) It’s easy to get distracted. It’s easy to fill our lives with good things instead of the best things. But Jesus understood that a powerful life is a focused life. The Living Bible paraphrase says, ***“As the time drew near for his return to heaven, he moved steadily onward toward Jerusalem with an iron will” (Luke 9:51).*** ***Paul put it this way: “This one thing I do . . .” (Philippians 3:13 KJV).*** He didn’t say, “These 40 things I dabble in.” He said, “This one thing I do.” That’s focus. Both Jesus and Paul understood this truth: Diffused light has little power, but focused light has enormous power. Light through a magnifying glass can burn paper; light focused as a laser can cut through steel. If you’re feeling stressed today, it may be because your life has become unfocused. Take time to discern your calling—and then concentrate your life around it. When you do, you’ll find your stress decreases and your effectiveness increases. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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People were always following him—wanting him to heal them, teach them, or trying to trap him and even kill him. Yet, when you read about his life in the Bible, he never seems frantic. He never appears rushed. Instead, he handled enormous pressure with remarkable peace. I want to learn how to live like that. Don’t you? The first key to reducing stress is knowing *who* you are. If you don’t know who God made you to be, your family, peers, and culture will gladly try to decide for you. And a confused identity always leads to stress. You'll lean into people pleasing rather than walking in peace as the person God created you to be. Jesus knew exactly who he was. Over and over again, he defined himself clearly: ***“I am the way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6 NIV)*** When you don’t know who you are, you start copying and comparing. You try to be someone you’re not—or you feel inferior because you’re measuring yourself against someone else. But God made you to be you—with your own unique mix of strengths and weaknesses. There’s no one else like you in the entire world. You have a unique thumbprint, footprint, eyes, and voice. God never makes copies. You’re it. Once you know who you are, you also need to know who you’re living for. When you don’t know who you’re living for, you end up trying to please everybody. And that creates enormous stress—because no one can please everyone. ***“I am not trying to do what I want, but only what he who sent me wants” (John 5:30 GNT).*** When you live for an audience of One, life becomes simpler—and your stress level drops dramatically. Your only responsibility is to do what God created you to do. ***“Our purpose is to please God, not people. He alone examines the motives of our hearts.” 1 Thessalonians 2:4 (NLT)*** God made you to be you. He didn’t make you to be what your parents want you to be. He didn’t make you to be what your spouse, boss, or friends want you to be. God wants you to be exactly who he created you to be. That means you have to refuse to be defined by others. Here’s my question: Who are you letting determine your identity? Maybe you have parents who died years ago, but you’re still trying to live up to their expectations. Maybe you’re hanging on to what your ex-husband or ex-wife said to you, and you’re trying to prove that person wrong. Maybe you’re trying to keep up with what the culture says you should be. **Choose to be who God made you to be**. Simply say, “I resolve to no longer let other people press me into their mold. I’m going to do what God wants me to do and fulfill the plan he has for my life—not somebody else’s plan for my life.” God wants you to be exactly who he created you to be and nothing more. Friend, that is real success in life. If you want to live with less stress and more peace—start here: Know who you are and know who you’re living for. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Scripture reminds us, ***“God is not a God of disorder but of peace” (1 Corinthians 14:33 NIV).*** He isn’t trying to hide his will from you. If you seek His direction, he will guide you. When God speaks, it doesn’t create anxiety and worry. In fact, it creates the exact opposite. One sign you’ve heard God’s voice is when you’re in the middle of a storm—everyone else is worried and running around—yet you have a peace you can’t explain. That’s a sure sign you’re hearing from him. His voice gives you peace. The Bible tells us, ***“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7 NLT).*** Think about a decision you’re facing right now. What part of Philippians 4:6-7 are you already doing, and what part do you need to start doing? You can count on this: When God speaks, his words bring peace, not anxiety. The Message paraphrase of the Bible says, ***“Listen for God’s voice in everything you do and everywhere you go. He’s the one who will keep you on track” (Proverbs 3:6).*** I can’t count the number of times that God has spared me from a failure or mistake or major embarrassment. Sometimes he just says one or two words to me—“Don’t,” or “No,” or “Watch out.” That’s all he needs to say. So, how do you know his voice? How do you know it’s God speaking to you? If your mom or spouse called you on the phone, you’d probably be able to discern their voice even without Caller-ID. You know their voice, because you know them. Jesus said, ***“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27 NLT).*** Take time to get to know to your Good Shepherd. Then, you will be able to discern his voice. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Sometimes, people only pray to God when they need healing or a miracle — and those prayers are not wrong. God invites us to bring our needs to Him. He is a good Father who cares about what we face. BUT, when our relationship with God is built ONLY around asking him for things, we are missing out, big time. It’s okay to want a miracle. Yet, if that is the only reason we come to God, we miss the greater gift: *knowing Him.* We are meant to seek God, not just His blessings. We are invited to pursue Him, to learn His character, to recognize His voice, and to walk closely with Him in everyday life. Proverbs reminds us, ***“I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.” (Proverbs 8:17 NIV).*** God does not hide from people who genuinely want Him. When we seek Him with sincerity, He reveals Himself. I encourage you to make knowing God your number one goal. Not success. Not comfort. Not happiness. Seek God first and let everything else follow. And, a life centered around knowing God WILL bring you blessings. Joy is a byproduct of walking closely with God. Confidence does not come from circumstances — it grows from knowing who God is and who we are in Him. If you truly know God, you won’t live trapped in fear, because you know the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords walks with you. You don’t face life alone. You live under His care, His guidance, and you have His peace. If you want peace that doesn’t depend on your circumstances, the answer isn’t changing your situation — it’s deepening your relationship with God. I encourage you to seek God today. Not hurriedly. Not distractedly. Seek Him wholeheartedly — and you will find Him. Let's be a church who wants more OF God, not just more FROM God. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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In fact, it may be one of the most counter-cultural commands we could live out today. The world tells us to protect ourselves at all costs, to get even. But Jesus calls us to something entirely different. Forgiveness. Grace. Turning the other cheek. Loving instead of retaliating. These ideas don’t come from culture—they come from Christ. Jesus teaches us that darkness is not defeated by more darkness, but by light. Hatred is not overcome by more hatred, but by love. Unkindness is not healed by retaliation, but by kindness. Evil is not conquered by matching it—but by responding with good. And if we’re honest, that kind of response requires real faith. It’s difficult. It goes against our instincts. And then Jesus raises the bar even higher: ***“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44, NIV).*** Pray for them? Our enemies? The people who hurt us, misunderstand us, oppose us, or actively work against us? That doesn’t come naturally. That’s why you need the love of Christ in you to do it. When we pray for our enemies, we’re asking God to do what only He can do: soften hearts, heal wounds, bring conviction, and restore what’s broken. Praying for those who offend us is also one of the most powerful ways to guard our own hearts. It releases the burden of revenge and places the battle in God’s hands. It allows the Holy Spirit to give us the self-control to not retaliate, the wisdom to respond with grace, and the peace to trust that God sees and will act in His time. The closer we draw to Jesus, the more our reactions begin to look like His. And Jesus showed us the ultimate example of loving and praying for enemies—even from the cross. ***"Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church." – Ephesians 4:15*** So take the step of faith. Overcome hate with love. It won’t always be easy—but it will always be worth it. And through it, God will use your obedience as a powerful witness to His transforming grace. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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In everything. He takes the initiative. He makes the first move. The only reason you are capable of loving God—or loving anyone else—is because God loved you first. God has demonstrated His love in countless ways. He showed His love by creating you intentionally and uniquely. He showed His love by sustaining you, providing for you, and walking with you through every season of life. And most clearly, He showed His love by sending Jesus Christ to earth to give His life for you. Long before you ever thought about God, He was already thinking about you. If you want to grow in loving other people well, it has to begin with understanding—and receiving—God’s love for you. When you begin to grasp how unconditional, undeserved, and unwavering His love is, something starts to change inside you. You begin to extend more grace. You become slower to anger. More patient. More forgiving. More merciful. The love you’ve received starts to overflow into the way you treat others. That’s why people who struggle to feel loved often struggle to love well. Unloved people often act unloving. Hurt people hurt people. If your heart is filled with anger, impatience, or resentment, it may be because there’s a part of you that still hasn’t embraced God’s love. God’s desire is to heal your heart with His love—not just so you can feel better and more free (which, you will by the way), but also so that His love can flow through you to the people around you. It will benefit the people you live with. It will benefit the people you work with. It will benefit the people you come into contact with as you go about your day. When God’s love pours out of you, you are more kind, more patient and more loving to everyone around you. Scripture reminds us, ***“We know and rely on the love God has for us” (1 John 4:16, NIV).*** So ask yourself: do you really know God’s love? Do you rely on it daily, or are you still striving for approval, validation, or worth elsewhere?  When God’s love is flowing through your life, loving others becomes less exhausting and more natural. The more deeply you receive His love, the more freely you’ll be able to give it away. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It’s a normal, wise thing to do. It’s very common to have someone watch out for your home. But what about having a trusted friend watch out for your soul? Who in your life is looking out for you spiritually—someone who will defend you, protect you, pray for you, and help you stay on track when things get hard? No matter who you are or how long you’ve been following Jesus, you need people who will look out for you and lovingly warn you of spiritual traps. You weren’t meant to do life—or faith—alone. Those people are meant to be found in your church family. In fact, that’s what the family of God is all about. ***Philippians 2:4 says, “Look out for one another’s interests, not just for your own” (GNT).*** We all have blind spots—areas of struggle, weakness, and temptation we can’t always see clearly on our own. That’s where your church family comes in. They help you notice what you might miss. They stay vigilant, watching for the enemy when you’re tired, discouraged, or distracted. Because you *do* have an enemy who wants to destroy your life. Before you even wake up, Satan is already at work, looking for ways to defeat you through temptations and trials, dead ends and detours. He fights with an arsenal of hurts, habits, and hang-ups. And if you try to face him alone, that arsenal can leave you worn down and defeated. That’s why God designed us for community—for a circle of believers who will stand with you, help you, and remind you of truth when you forget it. ***Ecclesiastes 4:12 says, “A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken” (NLT).*** Community—your church family—is God’s answer to spiritual defeat. We are always better, stronger, and safer together. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Sometimes the greatest comfort isn’t advice or answers, but the quiet assurance that you are not alone. That’s why God wants you to have the support of a church family—so you won’t have to walk through inevitable times of crisis by yourself. Nobody should ever have to wait in a hospital alone while a loved one is in a risky surgery. Nobody should have to sit alone waiting for a potentially life-altering lab report. Nobody should stand alone at the edge of a new grave. Painful situations will happen in your life, and wisdom says to put a safety net in place *before* you ever need it. What is God’s safety net for you? It’s a group of believers who are committed to you—and whom you are committed to in return. It’s people who know your story, recognize your pain, and show up without being asked. So, who is committed to you right now? Who would be by your side in an instant if you needed them, helping carry the weight when you feel like you can’t? And who can count on you to be there for them at a moment’s notice? The Bible says, **“You should be like one big happy family, full of sympathy toward each other” (1 Peter 3:8 TLB).** My small group has helped me through some very difficult seasons, and we’ve faced all kinds of hardships together. They’ve prayed for me, waited with me, and wept with me when I was scared to death. They’ve lived out ***Romans 12:15:* “Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep” *(NLT).*** Are you part of a small group of committed people who will wait and weep with you? Don’t go through life without one—because community is God’s answer to despair. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Religion is humanity’s attempt to reach God. Relationship is God reaching out to us—just like He did when He sent His Son to earth, extending love and grace to anyone willing to receive it. Jesus didn’t come to give us religion. God isn’t interested in rituals or performances. God is interested in you—in a real relationship with Him. The Christian life isn’t about trying to earn our way to heaven (as if we even could). It’s about knowing a real Person—Jesus. It’s about walking in relationship with your Creator, the Living God. One of the biggest traps that steals joy is legalism. Legalism says, I have to prove my love to God. Legalism trusts in what I do for God instead of what Jesus already did for me. It’s the belief that rules, rituals, restrictions, and religious effort somehow make me worthy. But here’s the truth: we all fall short. Every one of us. We’re all in the same boat, needing Jesus just as much as the next person. The more legalistic you become, the more critical and judgmental you tend to be. But the more you live in God’s grace, the more gracious you become toward others. When you finally realize there’s nothing you can do to make God love you—because He already does—that’s freedom. Philippians 3:9 says: “***I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ… For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith.”*** If you seek Jesus—the relationship—He will change your desires. If you cooperate with the Holy Spirit—He will change you from the inside out. The more time you spend with Him, the more like Him you’ll become. He does the changing. You do the following. The things you once craved before knowing Jesus will slowly lose their grip. But the focus has to stay on Jesus—not on your shortcomings. And, not a list of religious activates. Yes, you’ll fall short (we all do). So don’t run away in shame. Run to Jesus. 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I want to suffer with Him, sharing in His death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead.”*** We have to understand the difference between *knowing about* someone and truly *knowing* them. I know *about* popular movie stars. But I don’t actually *know* them. I *do* know my wife. I know my kids—because I spend time with them. I have a relationship with them. Paul says, ***I want to know Christ.*** Not just facts about Him. Not just theology. He’s talking about relationship—time spent together, walking with Him, learning His heart. I love how the Amplified Bible puts Philippians 3:10: ***“For my determined purpose is that I may know Christ—that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more strongly and more clearly…”*** The truth is, you don’t get to know Christ by accident. You don’t wake up one morning and suddenly find yourself closer to Jesus. Knowing Him is intentional. It’s a choice. It requires investment. Your money doesn’t grow just sitting there—you have to invest it. In the same way, your relationship with God won’t grow unless you invest time in it. If you meet someone with a strong relationship with Jesus, I can guarantee they’ve spent time talking with Him—and letting Him talk to them. So if deep down we *want* to know Jesus better, why don’t we? **Busyness.** We get busy. And busyness destroys relationships. If you want to know Jesus, you have to make time for Him. You have to decide—before your day fills up—that nothing is going to steal that moment with Him. You can’t wait for your schedule to “settle down.” If that’s what you’re waiting for, it never will. The enemy will gladly keep you distracted. Even ten or fifteen focused minutes can make a difference. You already know this from every relationship—just a few intentional moments can change everything. Morning, afternoon, evening—whatever works for you. But during that time, there’s something important you must do. Psalm 46:10 says: ***“Be still, and know that I am God.”*** You have to be still. Some of you, those are terrifying words to you. I know. You’re busy all the time. Be still. The world won’t implode in the minutes that you are spending with your creator. In fact, if we want things in our life to be more at peace, we can’t afford NOT to make time for him.  I encourage you to make 2026 the year that you develop the habit of a daily quiet time if you haven’t already. An investment into a relationship with a God who made you and loves you is the best way you can spend your time.  Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You don’t earn His love. He doesn’t wait until you’re mature to start loving you. He doesn’t hold His affection back until you clean up, straighten up, or finally get it all together. Yes, you’re a work in progress—but He loves you right where you are. God isn’t waiting on the “finished product” version of you. That means being patient with people’s progress and loving them every step of the way. First Corinthians 13 tells us clearly: **“Love is patient.”** While salvation—becoming spiritually alive through the Holy Spirit—happens immediately, character transformation usually doesn’t happen all at once on day 1. God often works through a process. And the thing about processes is—they’re almost never complete overnight. The Apostle Paul understood this. He wrote, **“I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.”** **—Philippians 1:6 (NLT)** Paul knew God was at work and would continue to be at work in their lives. Just like he was at work in Paul’s life. Here’s something worth remembering: if you require perfection from people before you can enjoy them, you’ll never be happy—because nobody’s perfect… including you. If you want healthier, happier relationships, start celebrating how far people have come instead of judging them for how far they still have to go. We’ve got to learn to be patient with people’s progress. So today, choose to love those around you with a patient kind of love—your family, your kids, your spouse, your coworkers. Pray that God would continue His work in their lives, and commit to walking with them along the way. Love them, pray for them and encourage them every step of the way. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Real love, I mean. The kind that endures through hard times, other’s needs and complications and shortcomings. Maybe, this Valentine’s Day… you feel pretty empty. Maybe loving the people in your life feels tiring. Maybe you work in a people-intensive job—teaching, sales, customer service—and you come home thinking, I can’t face one more need, one more problem, one more heartache. Or maybe there’s a specific person in your life who constantly takes, rarely gives back, acts selfishly, and seems impossible to please. What does God tell us to do when we are called to love difficult people or love people through difficult circumstances? Well, scripture says, “Love never gives up.” It doesn’t quit when things get hard. It doesn’t walk away when it’s tired. It keeps showing up. So how do you love like that? YOU have to stay filled up. How? You refuel YOUR love tank. If you want to love with endurance, you have to refill your tank. Look around, and you’ll see the wreckage of relationships everywhere—crashed and burned because people tried to keep going without refueling. So how do you refuel your love tank? You start by letting God love you. This is GOOD NEWS. This means, the love in your love tank isn’t dependent on another person. If they don’t refuel you, you can still stay filled up. Because, your Heavenly Father can love you perfectly. His love for you never runs out. His love for you unconditional. ***“We love because he first loved us.”*** (1 John 4:19 NIV). When you’re worn out, discouraged, or can’t imagine giving one more ounce of love, remember this: God loved you so much that He sent His Son to die for you. That’s a love that can sustain you even in the darkest valleys. You don’t love others out of your own limited supply—you love them out of God’s endless supply. So today, if you’re tired, take time to receive His love again. Let Him refill your heart. Then go back out and love—not in your strength, but in His. I hope you have a Happy Valentine's Day. Go into this weekend knowing that you are fully loved by your creator. That's a reason to celebrate. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You’re not here by accident. And God didn’t place you where you are just to sit, soak, and sour. He invites you into an active, living faith. When Jesus spoke to people, He used action words: *come, follow, go, obey, send, do.* Jesus said**, *“Go everywhere in the world, and tell the Good News to everyone”* (Mark 16:15 NCV).** He didn’t say go only to the places that feel comfortable or share only the parts of Scripture you like. He said, *everywhere… to everyone.* So how do you become part of God’s work right where you are? God isn’t searching for super-talented, super-confident, or super-spiritual people. He’s looking for willing hearts. The Bible tells us God is actively looking for people He can strengthen—people whose hearts are fully committed to Him. God doesn’t need superheroes. He’s the hero. He’s looking for surrendered hearts. So how do we develop a heart committed to Jesus—a heart like His? Jesus cares about people. Scripture says, ***“When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd”* (Matthew 9:36 NIV).** He even loves the people who didn’t vote the way you voted. If we want a heart like Jesus, we have to learn to love like Jesus. Jesus also deeply cares about the church—His body and His bride. ***“Christ loved the church and gave his life for it”* (Ephesians 5:25 CEV).** Want to know how much Jesus loves the church? Look at the cross. With arms stretched wide, it’s as if He was saying, *“I love you this much.”* He shed His blood and gave His life for it. **Second: Be Indifferent to What Jesus Is Indifferent To** That might sound strange at first. Should Christians really be indifferent to anything? Yes—because not everything matters equally. Jesus teaches us to invest our lives in what truly matters. He was indifferent to anything that distracted Him from God’s mission. He didn’t chase comfort, approval, wealth, or status. He wasn’t driven by politics, pressure, or popularity. He trusted God with the details and stayed focused on the purpose. Jesus put it this way: ***“But first, be concerned about his kingdom and what has his approval. Then all these things will be provided for you”* (Matthew 6:33 GW).** When we seek God’s kingdom first, He takes care of the rest. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Today, we’re going to look at two more. If you truly want a heart like His, this next one might surprise you. Not only do we need to care about what Jesus cares about and be indifferent to what Jesus is indifferent to—**we also need to get angry about what Jesus gets angry about.** That may sound strange at first. Isn’t anger a sin? Not always. Unrighteous anger is selfish. It’s the kind that flares up when someone hurts you, inconveniences you, or threatens your comfort. When you see people suffering while others have far more than they need—that should stir something in you. When you see injustice, poverty, or prejudice—that should move your heart. Scripture even says, **“Be angry without sinning” (Ephesians 4:26 GW).** God is love—but He is also just. And when He sees injustice, His heart burns. If we’re becoming like Jesus, ours should too. Jesus said it plainly: **“The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45 NIV).** Here’s the incredible truth: when you shift from living for yourself to living for Jesus and His purposes, your joy increases. God designed us this way. The more generous and unselfish we become, the happier we are. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But before God changes what’s around you, He wants to transform what’s within you. Real, lasting change doesn’t begin with your situation. It begins with your thinking. So why is learning to manage your mind so important? Here are three reasons. **1\. Manage your mind because your thoughts shape your life.** **Proverbs 4:23 reminds us, *“Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.”*** Your thoughts have incredible power. They can move you toward purpose—or pull you toward defeat. Maybe at some point in your life, someone spoke something over you: “You’re not good enough.” “You’ll never succeed.” “You don’t matter.” If you believed those words—even though they were false—they began shaping your decisions, your confidence, and your future. You cannot have a positive life with a negative mind. What you consistently think about will eventually shape who you become. **2\. Manage your mind because it’s the battleground for sin.** Every temptation begins as a thought. The enemy doesn’t start with your actions—he starts with your mind. ***“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ” - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 ESV*** No wonder you feel mentally exhausted sometimes. There’s a war going on. But you are not powerless. You can choose which thoughts to dwell on and which ones to reject. **3\. Manage your mind because it’s the key to peace and joy.** When you allow fear, lies, and negativity to run unchecked, stress multiplies. But when you intentionally align your thoughts with God’s truth, peace begins to grow. The Bible says, ***“Letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace”* (Romans 8:6 NLT).** So today, choose to manage your mind. Guard your thoughts. Replace lies with truth. Invite the Holy Spirit to shape your thinking, by transforming your mind (the renewal of your mind). And, lastly, replace the negative thoughts with***…“ Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” – Philippians 4:8 (NIV)*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He doesn’t just scan a crowd of eight billion people and vaguely recognize your existence. *He knows you.* And just like he did for Zacchaeus, he calls you by name. Zacchaeus had spent his entire life being labeled. As a young man, he was likely ridiculed for his size. His small stature probably made him an easy target for cruel jokes and whispered comments. Then as an adult, the labels only grew heavier. He became known for his corruption and dishonesty as a tax collector. To his community, he wasn’t a person—he was a traitor. A cheat. A thief. No one would have noticed if Zacchaeus disappeared. No one would have cared what happened to him. And yet… “When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name.” In a crowd full of “important” people, Jesus stopped for the most rejected man in town. For the same reason Jesus knows yours—because He made you. And here’s something even more powerful: the name *Zacchaeus* means **“pure one.”** The crowd knew Zacchaeus as a crook. A sellout. He had probably been called every ugly name imaginable—both to his face and behind his back. But it had likely been a very long time since anyone called him by his given name: *“pure one.”* Because Jesus wasn’t defining Zacchaeus by his past. He was calling out his potential. Jesus always sees beyond what you’ve done to who you were created to be. Maybe you know what it’s like to carry labels. Maybe you can still hear the names you were called in middle school. Maybe they came from classmates. Maybe they came from a parent. Maybe they even came from your own thoughts. Those names can cling to your heart for years. But here’s the truth: Those labels don’t get the final say. It doesn’t ultimately matter what others have called you. What matters is that Jesus knows your name. Right now, He is calling you—not to shame you, not to expose you—but to invite you. He is saying: “I see you. I know who I created you to be. And I have never given up on that.” Jesus can work in your life, despite your past and your flaws and your sin. But, he won’t force you. Will you allow Jesus to work in your life? Will you follow him? ***“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”*** ***– John 10:27*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You and I do foolish things from time to time. We say what we shouldn’t say. We choose what we shouldn’t choose. We are sinners. But here’s the good news: You make mistakes — God doesn’t. ***Romans 8:28 says, “We know that in all things God works for good with those who love him, those whom he has called according to his purpose.”*** Notice what it says: in all things. When you make a foolish mistake, God is not wringing His hands in heaven saying, “Well, I didn’t see that coming.” He isn’t scrambling to rewrite your story. He isn’t forced into a backup strategy. Now, this promise is specific. It’s not a blanket guarantee for anyone living however they want while ignoring God’s purposes. It’s for “those who love him” and are “called according to his purpose.”  But, when your life is surrendered to Him, God takes every piece — even the broken ones — and weaves them into His design. Does that mean you won’t mess up again? Of course not. But none of it is wasted. He can make good out of bad. God knew every mistake you would ever make before you were born. He factored them into the story. He already saw the detours — and planned how to redeem them. You can stop living in fear that one wrong decision will permanently derail your purpose. You can stop replaying yesterday’s regret as if it disqualified you from tomorrow’s calling. He is working it all — not just some of it — into His good plan. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It influences every one of us, whether we want it to or not. But when you allow yourself to be manipulated by your moods, you live life ruled by your feelings. But God wants you to live a different kind of life—a life of faith, not just a life of feeling. The truth is, I don’t always feel like doing the right thing. I’m sure you don’t either. But, God can give you the kind of faith that persists above feelings. If you look around, you’ll see that successful people do things they don’t always feel like doing. They do things that other people aren’t willing to do. You can’t be an Olympic athlete unless you spend the extra hours training. You can’t be a master musician unless you spend many hours practicing. The same principle is true for being a mature Christian. If you want to deepen your relationship with God, you have to spend time with him, even when you don’t feel like it. Do you know people who really enjoy their time with God? That’s because they persisted in spending time with him, even when they didn’t feel like it. Faith and persistence go hand in hand. Faith means you don’t give up even when you’re tired. Faith means you just won’t quit. When you live in faith, you’re being persistent. Moses was a great example of a life lived in faithful persistence. ***Hebrews 11:27 says, “It was by faith that Moses left Egypt and was not afraid of the king’s anger. Moses continued strong as if he could see the God that no one can see” (NCV).*** Moses realized this important truth: You can only accomplish the impossible when you see the invisible. God will give you the strength to persevere. He’ll give you the power to keep working on the marriage that seems hopeless. He’ll give you the power to pick yourself up when you’ve fallen. He’ll give you the power to keep going when you’re on the edge of bankruptcy. He’ll give you the power to keep your convictions when the pressure to give in is building. The key to faith is being persistent. Just keep your eyes on God, not on your problem. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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But he didn’t just choose you. He set his love on you. He made the world because he loves you and wanted a place for his family. Before the earth was created, God settled on you as the focus of his love. You may rarely be focused on God. But God is focused on you all the time. In fact, God can focus on everybody at the same time. Why? Because he’s God. At every moment of your life, God is focused on you. He sees every high, every low, every good moment, every bad moment, every mountain, every valley, every joy, and every tear. God made you to love you, and he will never stop loving you.  ***“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39 NIV).***      You can’t be separated from God's love for two reasons: It’s eternal, and it’s unconditional. God never says, “I love you if . . .” He doesn't say, “I love you because . . .” God says, “I love you . . . period.” God gives you an eternal, unconditional love because God is love.     God's love for you is not based on what you do but on who he is. It's not based on your performance. It's based on his character. You can spend your whole life trying to make God stop loving you, but you will fail. There is nothing you can do to make God love you less. And there’s nothing you can do to make God love you more. He loved you enough to create you and set his focus on you. He loved you enough to want to be with you forever, despite your sin against him. He loved you enough to send his Son to save you from your sin. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It appears hundreds of times. Scripture tells us that God loves righteousness, that God himself is righteous, and that one day he will judge the world in righteousness. Psalm 23 even says that God leads us along “paths of righteousness.” At its core, righteousness comes down to two things: a **relationship** and a **lifestyle**. First, righteousness is about relationship. It’s a position. A relationship status. Are you in right standing with God? Is that your position? ***Romans 1:17 says, “The Good News shows how God makes people right with himself” (NCV).*** That’s the heart of the Gospel. God made a way for us to be right with him through Jesus Christ. When Jesus died on the cross, he paid the penalty for our sins so that we could be forgiven and brought back into a relationship with God. Because of Jesus, you don’t have to stay disconnected from your Creator. You can know him personally. When you’re in a right relationship with God, it begins to shape the way you live. Your values change. Your priorities change. Your actions begin to reflect God’s character. The Bible says, ***“Everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him” (1 John 2:29 MSG).*** In other words, when you belong to God, it shows up in the way you live. We become like Christ, the more time we spend with him. So, Jesus made a way for you to be right with God. And, he made a way for you to live right. Jesus changes everything! Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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The Bible says, ***“It is no shame to suffer for being a Christian. Praise God for the privilege of being called by his name!” (1 Peter 4:16 NLT).*** Following Jesus has never guaranteed an easy life. In fact, sometimes living for Christ means facing criticism, rejection, or misunderstanding. But the Bible tells us that when we suffer because we belong to Jesus, it’s not something to be ashamed of—it’s actually a privilege. Here’s a truth that can set you free when you face opposition: **You don’t need other people’s approval to be happy.** Some people spend years trying to win the approval of a certain person—a parent, a boss, a friend, or someone whose opinion carries weight in their life. But if you’ve been chasing someone’s approval for years and still haven’t gotten it, there’s a good chance you never will. No matter what you do in life, someone will disapprove. You cannot please everyone. So if you’re going to face criticism either way, it’s far better to face it for doing the **right thing** rather than the wrong thing. That’s especially true when it comes to your faith. If other people’s opinions matter more to you than God’s opinion, you’ll crumble the moment someone criticizes you for following Jesus. But when your focus is on God—when you care most about what he thinks—you’ll find the strength to stand firm. The Bible says***, “Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith. Remember that your family of believers all over the world is going through the same kind of suffering you are” (1 Peter 5:9 NLT).*** You’re not alone in this. Around the world, millions of believers are standing strong for their faith despite opposition, criticism, and even persecution. ***Romans 1:16 says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.”*** Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Then the blood of Jesus, God's Son, cleanses us from every sin. If we say we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves, and the truth is not in us” (1 John 1:7-8 NCV).*** What if real Christian community isn’t about having it all together—but about being honest that we don’t? True fellowship is built on authenticity. It goes far beyond surface-level conversations and polite smiles. It’s heart-to-heart. It’s the kind of connection where people feel safe enough to be real. Authentic fellowship happens when we drop the masks. It’s when we’re honest about what’s really going on in our lives. When we share our struggles instead of hiding them. When we admit our fears, confess our failures, and ask for prayer instead of pretending everything is fine. Real friendship—real fellowship—can only grow where there is truth. Living in the light means bringing our whole selves—our hurts, fears, failures, and flaws—out into the open. It means choosing honesty over image. Truth over pretending. It takes humility to admit, “I don’t have it all together.” It takes bravery to risk being seen, to risk rejection, to risk being hurt again. Because it’s the only path to *real* freedom. And, guess what, we ALL need a savior. We all need Jesus. NONE of us have it all together. We are all in the same boat. James 5:16 puts it this way: ***“Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed” (MSG).*** That kind of life doesn’t come from pretending. It comes from living in the light—together. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He doesn’t accept us because we’ve improved, cleaned up our lives, or reached some level of perfection. He simply declares, “You are accepted,” when we give our life to Jesus. It’s not based on performance. Not based on effort. Just grace. And that changes everything. But here’s where many people get stuck: we confuse **acceptance** with **approval**—and they are not the same. Jesus fully accepts us, but he doesn’t approve of everything we do. And in the same way, we are called to accept others without endorsing every choice they make. You can love someone deeply without agreeing with them. You can accept someone fully without approving of their lifestyle. In John 8, religious leaders dragged a woman caught in adultery before him, ready to trap him. They threw her down in front of everyone and demanded judgment. But instead of condemning her, Jesus did something unexpected. He looked at the crowd and said, “Let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone.” One by one, they all walked away. He was drawing a line between condemnation and compassion. The first thing Jesus did was defend her dignity. He refused to let her be shamed or dehumanized—no matter what she had done. When we come to Jesus with our failures, he doesn’t say, “I told you so.” He doesn’t pile on guilt. He meets us with grace. Then, in a quiet, personal moment, Jesus asked her, “Where are your accusers?” “They’re gone,” she said. “Neither do I condemn you,” Jesus replied. “Go and sin no more.” Jesus didn’t ignore her sin—but he also didn’t lead with it. He led with grace. And that’s our calling too. Romans 15:7 reminds us: ***“Accept each other just as Christ has accepted you.”*** In other words, treat people the way Jesus has treated you. So what does that look like in everyday life? Sometimes, it’s as simple—and as challenging—as listening. Really listening. Not interrupting. Not correcting. Not preparing your response while the other person is still talking. Just listening. Because here’s the truth: *people don’t care what you know until they know that you care.* Why would anyone receive truth from us if they don’t feel valued by us? Everyone has a story. Everyone carries something we can’t see. And when we take the time to listen, we often begin to understand the “why” behind the behavior. And introduce people to Jesus—the one who accepts us right where we are and loves us too much to leave us there. You have the chance to do that this Easter Sunday. Bring someone with you. Invite them. Introduce them to the Jesus—the Savior who loves them. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It’s the moment that split time into B.C. and A.D. It’s the foundation of our faith. And it proves three life-changing truths. Jesus claimed to be the Son of God—the one who came to die for our sins. And then he did exactly what he said he would do. The resurrection isn’t a myth or a legend. It’s one of the most well-documented events in history. The apostle Paul writes that Jesus appeared to hundreds of people after rising from the dead—many of whom were still alive at the time and could verify it (1 Corinthians 15:3–8). Jesus told his followers ahead of time that he would die and rise again—and he kept that promise (Matthew 16:21). That means you can trust everything else he said. The Bible reminds us: ***“No matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ” (2 Corinthians 1:20).*** If Jesus kept the biggest promise, you can trust him with the rest of your life. **3\. The resurrection proves there is life after death.** Because Jesus rose from the dead, death is not the end of the story. There is hope beyond the grave. Jesus said, “Anyone who believes in me… shall live again.” That’s a promise you won’t find anywhere else. And it’s not something you earn—it’s something you receive. The Bible says we are made right with God by grace through faith—not by our effort, but by trusting in Jesus (Ephesians 2:8–9). No matter who you are or what your past looks like, you can be forgiven, made new, and brought into a relationship with God (Romans 3:22). Want more Good News? Join us this Easter, and bring a friend. Easter is the perfect time to come back to church—or come for the first time. At Seminole Church, you’ll find a welcoming place, encouraging music, and a message of real hope for your everyday life. No pressure. No expectations. Just a place to reconnect with God and discover what the resurrection means for you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms.”** You can’t tap into a greater power than one that raises a dead man to new life. That’s the power that Jesus displayed on the first Easter. It was the most powerful event in the history of the world. *And all of that power is available to you.* That’s right—you have access to the same power that raised Jesus from the dead 2,000 years ago. The Bible says, ***“I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms.” (Ephesians 1:19-20 NLT)*** Stop and think about that for a bit. Let that sink in. The power of the resurrection is yours for the taking. The Bible reminds us that the resurrection of Jesus comes with a promise: ***“By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also” (1 Corinthians 6:14 NIV).*** Because God raised Jesus from the dead, your last breath on this earth won’t mean the end of your existence. You, too, can have resurrection power in your life. You don’t have to wait until your death to find new life. Only God can resurrect. Your dead energy, dead marriage, or dead dream can’t be resurrected on your own power. You’re simply not strong enough. Easter reminds us that God’s power is greater—far greater—than any problem you face today. Hope to see you this weekend as we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus together! Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters.”* Psalm 23 paints a beautiful picture—but it’s more than scenery. It’s a promise. Life often feels anything but restful. The to-do lists grow longer. Expectations rise. We try to keep everyone happy, navigate complicated relationships, prepare meals, and somehow squeeze a full week of work into just a few days. Why? Because we’re trying to carry it all in our own strength. So what would it look like to actually trust the Good Shepherd this week? How do we move from stressed to still… from overwhelmed to refreshed? I’m going to give are five simple ways to relax in God’s goodness. Today, we will cover just two. Why does this matter? Because, God doesn’t want what you do for him. He just wants YOU. You already have what God wants… you. The real you. Not, the masked you. That means your worth is not tied to your performance this week. So even if everything doesn’t go perfectly—you can breathe. This is the heart of contentment—and it doesn’t come naturally. By nature, we’re restless, especially here in America. Always reaching for more. But contentment says, *“What I have right now is enough.”* Paul writes, *“I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation… I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”* (Philippians 4:12–13) And Ecclesiastes reminds us, *“It is better to have a little, with peace of mind, than be busy all the time with both hands trying to catch the wind.”* (Ecclesiastes 4:6, CEV) The truth is, the best parts of life aren’t things—they’re people. No one reaches the end of their life wishing they had worked more. They want relationships. They want connection. They want time. Let’s not wait until the end of life to learn what matters most. These two truths should slow us down. Tomorrow, we will continue. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Those are foundational truths—but they have to move from ideas into action. Because it’s one thing to believe God offers rest… and another thing to actually slow down enough to receive it. The Good Shepherd doesn’t just offer rest—He leads us into it. But that means we have to be willing to follow. So what does that look like practically, especially in a busy, stressful season? Here are three more ways to relax in God’s goodness: *“Work six days, but on the seventh day rest and relax.”* (Exodus 23:12) The Sabbath isn’t a burden—it’s a gift. Jesus said, *“The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people.”* (Mark 2:27) In other words, this isn’t for God’s benefit—it’s for yours. You were not created to run nonstop. If you ignore rest, you don’t break the rule—you break yourself. So choose a day. Protect it. Plan for it. Step away from work. If your schedule is overwhelming, your values might be out of alignment. We often say relationships matter most—but our calendars tell a different story. You don’t have to do everything to have a meaningful week. Jesus gives a personal invitation: *“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out? Come to me… and you will recover your life… Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.”* (Matthew 11:28–30) Notice what He doesn’t say. He doesn’t say, “Come to me and I’ll give you more to carry.” He says, “Come to me and I’ll give you rest.” Real rest isn’t found in a break—it’s found in a Person. When you come to Jesus, He replaces your striving with peace… your pressure with grace… your exhaustion with renewal. My prayer for you is simple: That you would slow down, breathe deeply, enjoy the people around you—and experience the kind of rest and refreshment that only the Good Shepherd can give. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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We say that all the time here at Seminole Church, and it’s not just a corny saying. It’s the truth. But when loneliness hits, something strange happens. Instead of moving toward people, we often pull away. We isolate. We withdraw. We tell ourselves it’s easier that way. And yet—that’s the exact opposite of what we need. Because isolation is where loneliness grows strongest. In fact, the enemy wants you isolated. He wants to convince you to pull back, to disconnect, to stop reaching out. He doesn’t want you around people who will encourage you, support you, and point you back to truth. And he definitely doesn’t want you to recognize that even in your loneliest moments… God is still with you. So where is God when you feel lonely? He’s right there. There is no place you can go where God is not present. You may not always *feel* Him—but He is there. The apostle Paul wrote: *“But the Lord stood with me and gave me strength.”* (2 Timothy 4:17) Think about that. Paul was sitting in a dark Roman prison. Near the end of his life. Feeling abandoned by friends. Completely alone by human standards. Jesus made this promise: *“I will never leave you nor forsake you.”* That means in your quiet moments… your empty house… your hardest days… God is present. Sometimes the first step out of loneliness is simply opening your eyes and saying, *“God, You’re here with me.”* Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You can be surrounded by people, active on social media, busy every day—and still feel completely alone. Why? Because we were created for more than surface-level connection. From the very beginning, God made this clear: *“It is not good for man to be alone.”* (Genesis 2:18) You were made for relationships. You were designed for meaningful connection. You need people—and people need you. Here’s the reality: not everyone in your life will be a true friend. Some relationships are one-sided. Some people take more than they give. Some feel more like a responsibility than a relationship. You might even have a few “EGR” people in your life—**Extra Grace Required**. And that’s okay… to a point. We’re called to love people, serve people, and extend grace. We love everyone… but, if *all* your relationships are draining and none are life-giving, it will leave you emotionally and spiritually exhausted. He doesn’t just want you to have *more* relationships—He wants you to have **healthy** ones. Relationships where there is encouragement, support, and mutual investment. The Bible says: *“There are ‘friends’ who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.”* (Proverbs 18:24) Not every “friend” is truly a friend. So, the goal isn’t to collect as many relationships as possible—it’s to invest in the right ones. Because you can be popular… and still feel lonely. You can know a lot of people… and not be known by anyone. You don’t need dozens of deep relationships. You just need a few. So instead of asking, *“Do I have enough friends?”* Ask, *“Who am I committed to?”* Who knows they can count on you? Who are you showing up for consistently? Because the strongest friendships are built on mutual commitment. If you don’t have close friendships in your life right now, don’t get discouraged—but don’t stay stuck either. Connection doesn’t just happen—you have to step toward it. That’s why things like small groups matter so much. 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So the question becomes: **How do we actually do that?** How do we replace the heavy, negative, or depressive thoughts that seem to take over? Well, there are several ways people find healing. Sometimes it’s **medical**—and for many, seeking help from a medical professional is a necessary and wise step when it comes to combatting depressive or anxious thoughts. Sometimes it’s **emotional or relational**, and we can address that through counseling or supportive relationships. And almost always, there’s a **spiritual** layer to unhealthy thought patterns, depressive thoughts and anxious feelings. In *every* case, God’s Word plays a powerful role in renewing our minds. Meditating on God’s Word. If you know how to worry, you already know how to meditate. Worry is when you take a negative thought and replay it over and over again in your mind. You dwell on it. You sit in it. When you take a passage of Scripture and think about it, repeat it, and let it settle into your heart—that’s biblical meditation. Instead of dwelling on what’s heavy, you begin to focus on what’s true. And over time, that changes everything. When you consistently fill your mind with God’s Word, something begins to shift. It becomes easier—and more natural—to replace negative thoughts with truth. ***Psalm 119:11 says, “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”*** You don’t just read God’s Word—you **store it**. You carry it with you. ***Philippians 2:16 says, “Hold firmly to the word of life.”*** That means you grip it tightly. You don’t let go when life gets hard. ***And Psalm 119:35 reminds us, “Make me walk along the path of your commands, for that is where my happiness is found.”*** So often we look for happiness in circumstances, achievements, or other people—but God says it’s found in walking with Him and following His ways. There will be moments when negative thoughts rush in— In those moments, you need something stronger than your feelings. You need **truth**. **Jeremiah 29:11** ***“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”*** God has a plan for me. I have hope. He knows my future. ***Psalm 139:14 “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made…”*** I am God’s masterpiece. He made me on purpose with a purpose. **Joshua 1:9** ***“Be strong and courageous… Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”*** When you consistently replace lies with truth, your thinking begins to change. And when your thinking changes, your life begins to change. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”*** You are not an accident. You are not an afterthought. The Bible says you are God’s masterpiece. That means God shaped you intentionally—with purpose, with care, and with a plan in mind long before you were ever born. Our culture often tells us that life is about comfort, convenience, and getting more for ourselves. But God says something very different. He says your life isn’t about what you get—it’s about what you give. **1 Peter 4:10 (NIV) says, *“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others…”*** God has given you unique gifts, abilities, experiences, and even passions—not just for your benefit, but so you can make a difference in the lives of others. You weren’t put on this earth to simply take up space, chase comfort, or coast through life. You were created to **serve God**—and the primary way you do that is by serving people. Some people say, “I want to serve God, I just don’t want to deal with people.” But the reality is—you can’t separate the two. The Bible has a word for this kind of life: **ministry**. Now, that word can feel intimidating or confusing. When people hear “minister,” they often think of a pastor, priest, or someone on a stage. But the Bible teaches: **Every believer is a minister.** Not everyone is called to be a pastor, but everyone is called to serve. If you’ve been called to salvation, you’ve also been called to service. If you’re following Jesus, then serving others isn’t optional—it’s part of what it means to follow Him fully. The best part? God didn’t just tell us to serve—He showed us how. Jesus came to earth and modeled the life we’re meant to live. **Matthew 20:28 (NLT) says, *“For even I, the Son of Man, came here not to be served but to serve others…”*** Think about that. If anyone ever deserved to be served, it was Jesus. And yet, He chose to serve. He healed. He helped. 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And maybe the better question is—how easily do you get offended? Here’s something that might challenge you: taking offense is a choice. Yes, people will say hurtful things. Yes, they may treat you unfairly. But even in those moments—*especially* in those moments—you still have control over *your* response. Even when you feel like you have every right to be offended, you can choose to lay that right down and rise above it. The truth is, there’s no shortage of things to be offended by. And if everything offends you, you’ll spend most of your life frustrated, irritated, and exhausted. Romans 12:18 says, “Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone.” That means, as far as it depends on us, be at peace with everyone. Emotional and spiritual maturity shows up in how you respond when someone mistreats you. Do you get even? If they hurt you, do you hurt them back? If they insult you, do you fire back? If they raise their voice, do you raise yours? That’s the natural response—but it’s not the Jesus one. Anyone can react. It takes strength to respond with wisdom. Meekness isn’t weakness. In fact, Jesus said “Blessed are the meek.” So how do you handle the difficult people in your life? One of the keys is this: develop thicker skin and a softer heart. That’s a powerful combination. Because most of us tend to do the opposite—we become thin-skinned and hard-hearted. Easily offended on the outside, but closed off on the inside. Instead, pray this simple prayer: “God, give me a tender heart and tough skin.” We need HIS help in order to pull this off. HE works on our heart and softens it toward hurting people. HE gives us the security we need to have thicker skin. He makes us more loving. More patient. More kind. He gives us more self-control over our responses. Sometimes people act out of their own pain, immaturity, or insecurity. That doesn’t make their behavior right—but it can help you not take it personally. Not everything deserves your attention. Not everything deserves a reaction. Proverbs 12:16 says, “A fool is quick-tempered, but a wise person stays calm when insulted.” Refuse to give other people that much control over your peace. Instead… Choose peace. Choose maturity. Choose freedom. All that comes from spending time with Christ and allowing the Holy Spirit to work in your life. Because the less you’re offended by, the more joy you’ll actually have. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It means this: you choose to do what’s right—no matter what the other person does. If they insult you, you respond with kindness. If they’re unloving, you choose love. If they hold onto resentment, you choose forgiveness. If they’re harsh, you stay gentle. Why? Because your behavior isn’t dictated by theirs. We choose the Jesus way… the way that leads to inner peace. But you have complete control over how you respond—and that choice matters. When you choose grace, love, and kindness—even when it’s undeserved—it honors God. And Romans 12 gives us a powerful picture of what that looks like in real life. *“Bless those who persecute you. Don’t curse them; pray that God will bless them” (Romans 12:14).* Maybe you’re thinking, I don’t have anyone persecuting me. Okay—then think about it this way: Who in your life “makes you crazy”? That coworker. That family member. That person who knows exactly how to push your buttons. Not tolerate them. Not avoid them. Not get even with them. Bless them. Because real love isn’t loving people who are easy to love. Anyone can do that. Real love shows up when it’s hard. Real love chooses kindness when it’s undeserved. *Romans 12:17–18 says, “Never pay back evil with more evil. Do things in such a way that everyone can see you are honorable. Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone.”* And then it raises the bar even higher: *“Don’t let evil conquer you, but conquer evil by doing good” (Romans 12:21).* So, make a decision ahead of time: “I will not live offended. I will not wait for an apology. I will choose to forgive quickly. I will not play the game—but I will also not give in.” And what happens when you live that way? You get the smile of God on your life. P*roverbs 16:7 says, “When a person’s ways please the Lord, he makes even their enemies to be at peace with them.”* As your pastor, I want that for you. I want your life to so reflect God’s heart that even the people who oppose you can’t deny the peace in you. So today, choose the high ground. Not because it’s easy—but because it’s right. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It shows up in a lot of different ways—criticism, competition, stubbornness, defensiveness, and even superficiality. Pride always pushes us to make life more about ourselves. The problem with pride is that it’s self-deceiving. When you struggle with pride, you usually can’t see it in your own life—but everyone else can. ***Proverbs 16:18 says, “Pride leads to destruction; a proud attitude brings ruin” (NCV).*** I love how The Message paraphrases that verse: “First pride, then the crash—the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.” Pride tears relationships apart, but humility brings people together. Humility is the antidote to pride, and healthy relationships are built on it. ***Philippians 2:3 tells us, “Be humble and give more honor to others than to yourselves” (NCV). And 1 Peter 3:8 adds, “Everyone must live in harmony, be sympathetic, love each other, have compassion, and be humble” (GW).*** Humility doesn’t mean thinking less of yourself. It means thinking of yourself less. It’s choosing to listen instead of always needing to win. It’s being teachable, quick to apologize, and willing to put others first. So how do you grow in humility? You let Jesus Christ begin to shape your thoughts, heart, attitude, and reactions. ***Ephesians 4:23-24 says, “Let the Spirit change your way of thinking and make you into a new person” (CEV).*** The basic law of relationships is this: You tend to become like the people you spend time with. If you spend time with negative people, negativity rubs off on you. If you spend time with kind and encouraging people, you become more kind and encouraging yourself. The same is true spiritually. If you want to become a more humble person, spend time with Jesus. He is the ultimate example of humility. By building a relationship with him through prayer and reading his Word, you’ll begin to think more like him and respond more like him. ***Philippians 2:5-6 says, “You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to” (NLT).*** Jesus left heaven to come to earth for you. He served people, loved people, sacrificed for people, and ultimately gave his life for people. That’s humility. And the more time you spend with him, the more that humility will begin to shape your life and strengthen your relationships. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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You can’t call yourself a follower of Christ while ignoring the very things he teaches. Real friendship with Jesus changes the direction of your life. That doesn’t mean Christians are perfect. We all stumble, fail, and need God’s grace every single day. But when Jesus truly changes your heart, he also changes your desires. You begin to want what honors him. A lot of nonbelievers misunderstand obedience to God. They think Christians obey out of guilt, fear, or obligation. They think following Jesus means giving up freedom and fun. But that’s not why believers obey God at all. But really, we obey God because he loves us—and because we love him. God’s commands are not designed to rob you of joy; they are meant to protect you and lead you toward the life you were created to live. The Bible says God is love, and everything he asks of us flows out of his love for us. People have told me, “You’re restricted because you’re a Christian. You can’t do all the fun things everybody else does.” I would just respond, “I could do all those things if I wanted to. But Jesus changed my want to.” That’s the difference Jesus makes. Following Christ is not just behavior modification; it’s heart transformation. God changes you from the inside out. The things that once seemed appealing begin to lose their grip because you’ve discovered something better. The truth is, sin always overpromises and underdelivers. It may offer temporary excitement, but it eventually leaves emptiness, regret, and pain behind. What looks like freedom often becomes bondage. But Jesus leads to real freedom, real peace, and real joy. ***Jesus said, “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. . . . When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!” (John 15:9-11 NLT).*** Notice the connection Jesus makes between obedience and joy. God doesn’t ask you to obey him because he wants to make your life miserable. He asks you to trust him because he loves you and wants what is best for you. Obedience rooted in love always leads to deeper joy, greater peace, and a closer relationship with Jesus. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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It means surrendering every part of your life to him—the good, the bad, the ugly, and even the hidden parts you hope nobody else sees. It means turning over your past, your present, and your future. It means giving him authority over your finances, your relationships, your career, your health, your dreams, your fears, and your decisions. Every area. Nothing held back. ***Romans 10:9 says, “If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”*** That’s not wishful thinking. That’s a promise from God. The verse doesn’t say, “You might be saved,” or “You can hopefully make it to heaven someday.” It says you will be saved. God wants you to live with confidence in what Jesus has done for you. According to this verse, salvation involves two things: believing in your heart that Jesus rose from the dead and confessing with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord.” Most people have no problem with the second part. Many people believe Jesus was a real historical figure who rose from the dead. The resurrection of Jesus is one of the most documented events in history. Even our calendar is divided by his life. But the first part—making Jesus “Lord”—is where many people struggle. We don’t use the word “Lord” much in modern culture, especially in America. We don’t live under kings or monarchies, so the meaning can feel distant to us. But in biblical times, the word “Lord” meant master, ruler, or authority. So when you say, “Jesus is my Lord,” you’re saying: He’s not just part of your life; he becomes the center of your life. He’s not simply resident in your heart—he’s president. He’s the CEO, the manager, the director of your life. You stop trying to sit on the throne and allow him to take his rightful place. That’s difficult for many people because we naturally want control. We want to direct our own lives, make our own plans, and call our own shots. But the truth is, we were never meant to carry the weight of being our own god. And honestly, how’s that working for us? Trying to control everything leads to stress, anxiety, frustration, and exhaustion. Why? Because we don’t have the power to control the future, fix every problem, or hold our lives together perfectly. Only God does. One of the greatest moments of peace in your life comes when you finally stop trying to be in control of everything and fully trust Jesus instead. Making Jesus Lord doesn’t mean you’ll never face problems. It means you no longer face them alone. It means you trust the One who truly has the power, wisdom, and love to lead your life better than you ever could. Where do you need to surrender control and allow Jesus to truly be Lord in your life? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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A person can be successful, educated, popular, wealthy, and admired by the world—and still miss the most important thing in life: knowing God personally. You can know the latest trends, sports scores, headlines, stock prices, and social media drama, but still miss the very reason you were created. ***James 4:4 says, “You should know that loving the world is the same as hating God. Anyone who wants to be a friend of the world becomes God’s enemy” (NCV).*** James isn’t saying we shouldn’t love people in the world. In fact, Jesus commands us to love people. God is love and God loves people. What James is talking about is the world’s value system—the mindset that pushes God aside and places success, pleasure, money, image, popularity, and status above everything else. And if we’re honest, it’s easy to get distracted by those things. The world constantly tells us to chase more: more recognition, more possessions, more followers, more comfort, more applause. But none of those things can satisfy the deepest needs of your soul. They were never meant to replace God. The more consumed we become with materialism, pleasure, prestige, and position, the less room there is in our hearts for what truly matters. God cares about people. He cares about character. He cares about love, humility, integrity, generosity, compassion, and truth. He’s far more interested in who you are becoming than the image you’re trying to project. Real friendship with God means learning to care about what he cares about. It means allowing his priorities to become your priorities. What matters to him begins to matter to you. One of the ways we show love to people is by taking an interest in what matters to them. The same is true in our relationship with God. The closer you grow to him, the more your heart begins to reflect his heart. So here’s the question: What is shaping your values right now—the culture around you or the God who created you? 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You can’t earn it. You don’t deserve it. Yet God freely gives it to anyone who humbly comes to him and says, “God, I need your mercy.” The Bible says, ***“You, O Lord, are good and forgiving, full of mercy toward everyone who calls out to you” (Psalm 86:5 GW).*** That means no matter where you’ve been, what you’ve done, or how far from God you may feel, his mercy is still available to you. God never turns away a sincere heart that cries out to him. But what difference does God’s mercy actually make in your life? Here are three life-changing things that happen when you ask God for mercy: God’s forgiveness takes care of your past, and his mercy gives you the power to move forward. So many people live trapped by guilt, regret, shame, or painful memories. They replay past mistakes over and over, believing they could never truly change.But Jesus came to set people free. Jesus said, ***“The Lord has sent me to announce freedom for prisoners, to give sight to the blind, to free everyone who suffers” (Luke 4:18 CEV).*** Maybe you’re imprisoned by resentment, fear, anxiety, anger, or addiction. Maybe you feel stuck in patterns you can’t seem to break. But, the Good News of the Gospel reminds us that Jesus didn’t come to condemn you—he came to rescue you. He came to offer mercy instead of judgment and grace instead of shame. Jesus said, ***“I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world” (John 12:47 NIV).*** That doesn’t mean sin doesn’t matter. It means God loves you enough to offer forgiveness before judgment. James 2:13 reminds us, ***“Mercy triumphs over judgment” (NIV).*** When you receive God’s mercy, you no longer have to carry the weight of your past. You can walk in freedom, healing, and hope. Sometimes life leaves us facing situations that feel overwhelming. Broken relationships. Financial stress. Health struggles. Grief. Anxiety. Habits we can’t overcome. From a human perspective, some things feel impossible. But “impossible” is not too difficult for God. Jesus said, ***“What is impossible with man is possible with God” (Luke 18:27 NIV).*** God has resources, wisdom, and power beyond anything we could imagine. He can open doors no one else can open. He can heal hearts. He can restore families. He can give peace in the middle of chaos and strength when you feel exhausted. Now, that doesn’t mean God instantly removes every problem from your life. Often, God uses difficult seasons to shape your character and deepen your faith. Hard times can develop perseverance, patience, compassion, and spiritual maturity in ways comfort never could. Romans 5 teaches that suffering produces perseverance, character, and hope. God never wastes pain. Even in your hardest seasons, his mercy is still at work. What feels impossible to you today is still completely possible with God. The greatest act of mercy God offers is salvation through Jesus Christ. You were created by God to live forever, and he wants you to spend eternity with him. But heaven isn’t something we earn through good behavior or religious activity. Salvation is a gift of mercy. The Bible says, ***“Anyone who asks for mercy from the Lord shall have it and shall be saved” (Acts 2:21 TLB).*** On Easter, we celebrate because Jesus died on the cross for our sins and then rose again three days later. His resurrection proved that sin and death do not get the final word. Jesus said, ***“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live” (John 11:25 ESV).*** If Jesus had stayed in the grave, there would be no hope beyond this life. But because he rose again, we can have confidence that eternal life is real. Because Jesus conquered death, those who trust in him can experience forgiveness, purpose, hope, and eternity with God. God’s mercy changes your past, gives you strength for today, and secures your future forever. When you accept the mercy of God, it truly changes everything. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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They need to be made free from sin through Jesus Christ.” Romans 3:24 (NCV)*** If you stopped a hundred people on the street and asked, “How do you get to heaven?” you’d probably hear a hundred different answers. But most of them would point to the same basic idea: You have to earn it. At the core, all those answers are based on human effort. They’re based on the belief that somehow we can work our way to God. But the Bible teaches something totally different. Salvation is not something you earn—it’s something you receive. Romans 3:24 says, ***“All need to be made right with God by his grace, which is a free gift. They need to be made free from sin through Jesus Christ” (NCV).*** A gift is not something you work for. If you have to earn it, it’s not a gift anymore. You can’t buy God’s grace, deserve it, or achieve it through good behavior. Grace is freely given because of what Jesus Christ has already done for you. That’s one of the biggest differences between Christianity and every other religion in the world. Most religions can be summed up with one word: “do.” Do these rituals. Follow these rules. Work harder. Try harder. The message is always about what you must do to earn approval, peace, or eternity. But following Christ is built on one completely different word: “done.” Jesus has already done what needed to be done to restore your relationship with God. That’s why, while hanging on the cross, Jesus said, “It is finished.” He didn’t say, “I am finished.” Jesus wasn’t defeated. He wasn’t powerless. Three days later, he rose again. The “it” Jesus was talking about was the payment for sin. The plan of salvation had been completed. The debt had been paid in full. The answer is both simple and humbling: You can’t do anything to earn it because Jesus has already done everything necessary for your salvation. You are about 2,000 years too late to add anything to what Jesus accomplished on the cross. That’s grace. Ephesians 2:8-9 says, ***“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith... not by works, so that no one can boast” (NIV).*** Religion says, “Change first, then maybe God will love you.” Grace says, “God already loves you, and his love is what changes you.” That doesn’t mean our actions don’t matter. A relationship with Jesus changes the way we live. But we don’t obey God in order to earn salvation—we obey because we’re grateful for the salvation we’ve already received. When you truly understand grace, it changes everything. It lifts the burden of trying to prove yourself. It replaces fear with peace. It replaces striving with gratitude. Grace really is the greatest gift you will ever receive. Now your part... will you *accept* his free gift of Grace? Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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SO Important... but, what does that really mean? To hide God’s Word in your heart means you read it, reflect on it, and memorize it so that it becomes part of your everyday life. Scripture is no longer just words on a page—it becomes truth you carry with you wherever you go. When you memorize God’s Word, you can recall it during difficult moments, stand on God’s promises when life feels uncertain, and encourage others with truth when they need hope. Scripture becomes spiritual strength for your daily life. Let me tell you, if you’re serious about becoming spiritually strong and mature, one of the greatest habits you can develop is memorizing Scripture. Now, don’t let that intimidate you. You don’t need to memorize entire books of the Bible overnight. You don’t have to read huge sections at a time either. In fact, one verse deeply understood and applied to your life is often more valuable than several chapters read quickly and forgotten by lunchtime. The goal isn’t speed. The goal is transformation. God wants his truth to move from your eyes, to your mind, and eventually into your heart. Memory is actually a skill you can strengthen over time. The more you practice, the easier it becomes. Just like exercising a muscle strengthens your body, memorizing Scripture strengthens your mind and your spirit. In fact, studies continue to show that memorization exercises help improve mental sharpness, focus, and long-term memory in other areas of life too. But, the greatest benefit isn’t intellectual—it’s spiritual. So why is memorizing Scripture so important? Well, you’ll always have God’s Word with you Life doesn’t wait until you’re sitting in church with an open Bible in your lap. Temptation often comes unexpectedly. Fear shows up in the middle of the night. Stress hits while you’re driving to work. Conversations about faith happen in everyday moments. When those moments come, you need God’s truth already planted in your heart. Jesus modeled this perfectly. When he was tempted in the wilderness, he responded to every temptation with Scripture. He didn’t argue. He didn’t panic. He stood firmly on God’s Word. When you memorize Scripture, God’s truth becomes immediately available in moments when you need wisdom, peace, courage, or direction. Maybe you’re battling anxiety and suddenly remember: ***“Do not be anxious about anything…” (Philippians 4:6).*** ***“For God has not given us a spirit of fear…” (2 Timothy 1:7).*** ***“I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5).*** Those verses become anchors for your soul. You can meditate on Scripture throughout your day. But, you can’t meditate on what you can’t remember. And, for clarity, meditation simply means thinking deeply about God’s truth and allowing it to shape your perspective. When Scripture is stored in your heart, you can reflect on it anywhere—while driving, walking, working out, or lying awake at night. ***Joshua 1:8 says:“Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night… Then you will be prosperous and successful” (NLT).*** Notice the Bible connects spiritual success to meditating on God’s Word—not just occasionally reading it. The more you think about Scripture, the more it begins to shape your thoughts, your decisions, your reactions, and your attitude. God’s truth slowly replaces fear, negativity, lies, and unhealthy thinking patterns. Proverbs 4:20-22 says: ***“Listen carefully to my words. Don’t lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body” (NLT).*** God’s Word brings wisdom when you’re confused, comfort when you’re hurting, conviction when you’re drifting, and hope when you feel discouraged. There is incredible power in allowing Scripture to penetrate deeply into your heart. Start small if you need to. Memorize one verse this week. Write it on a sticky note. Put it on your phone wallpaper. Repeat it throughout the day. Pray through it. Think about it often. Over time, you’ll discover that God’s Word doesn’t just inform your life—it transforms your life. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Apply It! ### Page ID: 9405077 ### Content: # Don't Just Read the Bible... Apply It! ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) Do you know what the most important part of Bible study is? Application. Reading the Bible is awesome... but it'll only change your life if you APPLY what you read. This isn't new or groundbreaking information, yet, so many of us forget the crucial step of application. What is application? It’s when you take the truth of God’s Word and intentionally apply it to your everyday life. It’s allowing Scripture to move beyond information and become transformation. You can study the Bible for years, fill notebooks with notes, and listen to countless sermons—but if nothing ever changes in your life, you’ve missed the point. Satan doesn’t mind if you study the Bible as long as you never apply it. He knows that information alone doesn’t change you. Transformation happens when you actually obey what God says. That’s why James 1:22 says: ***“Be doers of the word, and not hearers only” (ESV).*** God never intended for his Word to simply increase your knowledge. He gave you his Word to change your heart, renew your mind, and guide your life. Jesus made this clear when he said that the wise person is not the one who merely hears God’s Word, but the one who puts it into practice. It’s like building your house on a solid foundation. Storms still come, but your life remains steady because it’s built on truth. One of the dangers in the Christian life is becoming spiritually informed but not spiritually transformed. It’s possible to know Bible stories, verses, and theology while still resisting the areas where God wants to grow and change you. Real spiritual maturity is not measured by how much Scripture you know—it’s measured by how much Scripture you live out. So how do you begin applying God’s Word to your life? Start by reading Scripture with an open and teachable heart. Instead of asking only, “What does this passage mean?” also ask, “What does God want me to do about it?” Here are a few helpful questions to ask yourself whenever you read the Bible: Sometimes God’s Word lovingly exposes attitudes, habits, or actions that need to change. Maybe it reveals pride, bitterness, dishonesty, impatience, selfishness, or unforgiveness. God doesn’t convict you to shame you. He convicts you because he loves you and wants freedom for you. The Bible is full of practical instructions for everyday life: Application often begins with simple obedience in ordinary moments. Scripture gives us examples of faith, courage, humility, perseverance, and worship. It also shows us the consequences of fear, pride, compromise, and disobedience. As you read, ask: “Is there something in this person’s life that God wants me to imitate—or avoid?” Sometimes application means replacing fear and worry with trust in God’s promises. When anxiety rises, you hold onto God’s promise that he is with you. When you feel weak, you remember his strength is enough. When you feel uncertain, you trust that God is guiding your steps. Many passages of Scripture can become personal prayers. The Bible was never meant to be rushed through or checked off a list. God wants to speak to you through it personally. So the next time you open your Bible, don’t settle for simply reading words on a page. Pause. Reflect. Listen. Respond. “What step of obedience are you asking me to take?” Because the greatest blessing doesn’t come from merely hearing God’s Word—it comes from living it. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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He goes straight to the source: the heart. So often we focus on trying to control our words without dealing with what’s happening deep inside us. We try harder to be patient, kinder, calmer, or less critical. But Jesus teaches that our words are not the real problem—they’re the symptom of a deeper issue. Matthew 12:34 says: ***“For whatever is in your heart determines what you say” (NLT).*** Your words are like a window into your heart. What comes out of your mouth eventually reveals what’s going on inside you. Have you ever said something hurtful and then immediately thought, “I can’t believe I said that”? Maybe you’ve even said, “That’s not really me.” But the truth is, words don’t appear out of nowhere. Jesus says they come from what’s already stored in the heart. That can be hard to admit sometimes. When stress rises, pressure builds, or emotions boil over, what’s hidden inside tends to spill out. And often, our words reveal wounds, fears, insecurities, or unresolved pain we didn’t even realize we were carrying. An overactive tongue often reveals an unsettled heart. That’s why behavior modification alone never fully works. You can try to filter your speech for a while, but eventually what’s inside comes back out. Real change happens when God begins healing the heart beneath the words. Maybe your constant negativity comes from anxiety about the future. God doesn’t just want to improve your vocabulary—he wants to heal your heart. And that’s exactly what he promises to do, if you'll cooperate with Him. Ezekiel 36:26 says: ***“I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you” (ESV).*** Only God can replace bitterness with grace and anger with peace. As you begin to understand how deeply loved and accepted you are by God, something starts changing inside you. His love slowly transforms the way you think, react, speak, and treat people. This transformation doesn’t happen overnight, but it does happen as you continually surrender your heart to God. One of the best daily prayers you can pray is Psalm 19:14: ***“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer” (NIV).*** Notice David mentions both his mouth and his heart because the two are deeply connected. If you want healthier words, ask God for a healthier heart. “Am I reacting out of fear, pride, anger, or insecurity?” God cares deeply about the way we speak because our words have tremendous power. They can wound or heal, tear down or build up, discourage or inspire. And as God transforms your heart, your words will begin to reflect more of his love, grace, peace, and kindness to the people around you. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Uncontrolled spending can create stress and division. Uncontrolled addiction can leave a trail of pain behind it. But one of the greatest destroyers of relationships is an uncontrolled tongue. Words have incredible power. Once spoken, they can’t be taken back. A single sentence spoken in anger can leave scars that last for years. That’s why James compares the tongue to a tiny spark capable of starting a massive wildfire. ***“The tongue is a small thing, but what enormous damage it can do. A great forest can be set on fire by one tiny spark. And the tongue . . . can turn our whole lives into a blazing flame of destruction and disaster” (James 3:5-6 TLB).*** It only takes one careless comment to ignite conflict. Have you ever met someone who seemed like a verbal arsonist? Wherever they go, relationships seem to burn down around them. Their words are filled with criticism, negativity, sarcasm, accusations, gossip, or constant discouragement. They tear people down instead of building them up. And sadly, many people don’t even realize the damage they’re causing. Gossip is especially destructive because it spreads quickly and quietly, almost like an airborne virus. One careless conversation can travel through an entire workplace, church, friend group, or family in a matter of hours. ***Proverbs 16:28 says, “A gossip separates close friends” (NIV).*** Words have caused people to lose confidence, hope, and trust. But here’s the good news: The same mouth that can tear people down can also build people up. Your words can become a source of healing, encouragement, comfort, and life. One encouraging sentence can change someone’s entire day. One kind conversation can help someone keep going when they feel exhausted or discouraged. The apostle Paul said: ***“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up” (Ephesians 4:29 NIV).*** Imagine how different our relationships would be if we intentionally looked for opportunities to encourage people. Catch people doing something right and tell them. Affirm someone’s character when they make a difficult decision. Thank people for the ways they serve and sacrifice. Speak life into your spouse, your children, your coworkers, and your friends. Building others up with your words isn’t complicated, but in today’s world, it’s surprisingly uncommon. That’s why encouraging words stand out so powerfully. Your words are powerful. Use them wisely. Because a few careless words can destroy a relationship—but a few intentional words can help heal one too. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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(Psalm 23:4 NIV)** No matter what you’re going to face today, this week, or next year, you won’t face it alone. God is with you, he’s working in you, and he is for you.  God is working in you. The word “working” in Greek is the word energos, from which we get our word “energy.” God is the energy driver in your life. You’re not just going on willpower. You’re not just going on your own power. God says he will give you the power you need, no matter what you’re facing. Not only is he working in you, but he is also with you. The Bible says, ***“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. . . . On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you” (John 14:18, 20 NIV).*** That’s quite a promise! The Bible says that Christ is in you, that you’re sheltered with him, and that you’re sealed with the Holy Spirit. That means that, for the devil to get to you, he’s got to get through the Trinity. That’s pretty good protection and a great relief from fear. Not only is God with you and in you, but God is also for you. Psalm 23:6 says, ***“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life” (ESV).*** When a shepherd leads the sheep, guard dogs are always at the back, keeping watch and making sure the sheep move in the right direction. The Bible says that the guard dogs in your life are God’s goodness and mercy. God’s goodness and mercy are always at work in your life. God gives you the things you don’t deserve—that’s his goodness. And he doesn’t give you the punishment you deserve for your sins—that’s his mercy. His goodness includes the blessings you experience now but also the gift of your salvation: ***“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV).*** God is watching over your life! You ought to get up every morning and say with confidence, “God, thank you that you’re going to be with me today, you’re going to be working in me today, and you’re going to be for me today.” That’s good news! It helps you let go of fear about what you’re facing and replace it with happiness. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.” Luke 12:6-7 (NIV)*** No matter how overlooked, forgotten, or insignificant you may feel, you can always be sure of this: Jesus notices you. There are moments in life when we feel invisible. Maybe people overlook us. Maybe we feel forgotten in the crowd. Maybe we wonder if anyone truly sees what we’re carrying or understands what we’re going through. But the good news of the Gospel is that Jesus sees the people everyone else overlooks. One of the clearest examples of this is the story of Zacchaeus in Luke 19. Zacchaeus was a wealthy man, but wealth didn’t fix his loneliness. He was a tax collector, which meant he was hated by most people in his community. Tax collectors were viewed as corrupt, dishonest, and traitorous. On top of that, Zacchaeus was very short and had likely dealt with ridicule his entire life. When Jesus came through town, Zacchaeus desperately wanted to see him. But there was a problem: the crowds were too big, and Zacchaeus was too short to see over them. So, Zacchaeus did two things no wealthy, dignified man of his day would normally do: he ran ahead of the crowd, and he climbed a tree. At that moment, Zacchaeus wasn’t worried about looking foolish. He didn’t care what people thought. He just wanted a glimpse of Jesus. The Bible says, ***“When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up” (Luke 19:5 NIV).*** In the middle of a crowded street filled with people competing for attention, Jesus stopped and looked directly at Zacchaeus. Imagine what Zacchaeus must have felt in that moment. The man who had spent his life being rejected, judged, and overlooked suddenly had the full attention of the Son of God. Jesus knew his name. Jesus knew his story. Jesus knew his pain, his loneliness, his mistakes, and his longing for something more. And instead of ignoring him like everyone else had, Jesus invited himself into Zacchaeus’ life and home. That encounter changed Zacchaeus forever. Maybe today you feel a little like Zacchaeus. Maybe you feel unseen in your marriage. Overlooked at work. Forgotten by friends. Buried under stress, anxiety, or loneliness. Maybe you feel like you’re hanging onto a branch emotionally, spiritually, or financially, wondering if anybody notices your struggle. There has never been a single moment of your life when God stopped paying attention to you. Jesus sees every tear you cry. He knows every burden you carry. He hears every prayer you whisper. Even when other people miss what you’re going through, God does not. That’s why Jesus said, ***“Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God” (Luke 12:6 NIV).*** Sparrows were considered extremely small and inexpensive birds in Jesus’ day. Yet Jesus said not even one sparrow is forgotten by God. If God notices tiny birds most people ignore, how much more does he notice you? ***“In fact, the very hairs of your head are all numbered” (Luke 12:7 NIV).*** So don’t let loneliness convince you that you’ve been abandoned. Don’t let discouragement tell you that you don’t matter. You are seen by God. You are known by God. And, you are loved by God. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Life got busy. Pain, disappointment, or distractions pulled you away. Or perhaps you walked away on purpose because you thought God had given up on you. Now you wonder, How does God feel about me? Is he disappointed? Angry? Does he even want me back? The answer is simple: God wants you. You may think, "You don't understand what I've done. I've been away from God for months... years... maybe even decades. Surely he's tired of me by now." But listen to what God says: ***"With deep love I will take you back" (Isaiah 54:7 GNT).*** That's the heart of God. He doesn't welcome you back reluctantly. He doesn't make you earn your way home. He doesn't shame you before he embraces you. He receives you with deep love. No one will ever love you more than the Creator who made you. God the Father created you. Jesus the Son gave his life to save you. The Holy Spirit wants to live in you and walk with you every day. From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible tells one incredible story of a God who relentlessly pursues the people he loves. The story of Christmas, the cross, and the story of Easter and the empty tomb all declare the same message: God has never stopped pursuing you. The question isn't whether God wants you. The question is whether you'll believe what he says about you. Will you build your life on the opinions of other people? Will you let social media, your past failures, or your own feelings define your worth? Or will you believe the truth of God's Word? ***Acts 3:19 says, "Now it's time to change your ways! Turn to face God so he can wipe away your sins \[and\] pour out showers of blessing to refresh you" (MSG).*** Notice what God promises. When you turn to him, he doesn't promise condemnation. He promises forgiveness. The truth is, you're deeply flawed—but you're also deeply loved. Maybe you've reached the end of yourself. Maybe you've run out of answers, strength, or hope. If so, you're in the perfect place to turn back to the One who has been waiting for you all along. You haven't wandered beyond the reach of God's grace. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Don’t worry. What about my kids? God says, “Don’t worry about anything.” Of course, that's easier said than done. We all have things that tempt us to worry—our health, our finances, our families, our future. Yet God repeatedly reminds us that worry is not the answer. In fact, Jesus thought worry was such an important issue that he devoted a significant portion of his most famous message—the Sermon on the Mount—to it. In Matthew 6, Jesus gives us four powerful reasons we don't have to live worried lives. ***Matt. 6:25 “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing?”*** Jesus is saying that worry is irrational. It doesn’t fix anything. Why is worry unreasonable? Worry exaggerates the problem. It never makes a problem smaller. It always makes it bigger. Not only does worry exaggerate the problem, worry doesn’t work. Why? Because in the entire universe the only creations of God that worry are human beings. ***Matt. 6:26 “Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are?”*** If Look at the birds in the air. They don’t sow or reap. But he says your heavenly Father feeds them. Notice your heavenly Father. He’s not talking about the bird’s heavenly Father. He’s saying your heavenly Father. If God is your heavenly Father and you are his child, children get special privileges. Children of royalty are treated royally. So what are we worrying about?  Birds don’t worry and God’s not their father. God’s their creator but not their father. If God’s our Father, don’t worry about it. ***Matt. 6:27 “Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?”*** Worry cannot make us one inch taller, worry can’t make us one inch shorter. Worry cannot lengthen your life – it can shorten your life though. Worry cannot change the past and worry cannot control the future. It just messes up today. Worry makes us miserable. It’s never solved a problem. God says, “What in the world are you worried about? Don’t you think I’m going to take care of you? Don’t you think I’m going to meet your needs? I made you. I created you. I saved you. I love you. I put my Spirit in you. Don’t you think I’m going to take care of your needs?”   It’s unhelpful but it’s also unnecessary. There’s no need to worry.   ***1 Peter 5:7 “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.”***   Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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Maybe it was a relationship you thought would last forever. A job that looked like the perfect opportunity. A financial decision that seemed like a no-brainer. Or advice you were certain would help someone, only to watch it backfire. If you really want God's blessing on your life, you have to learn to depend on God's wisdom, not your own. The Bible says, ***"There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death." (Proverbs 14:12 NLT)*** There are plenty of paths that seem right. They feel right. They make sense to us. Everyone around us may even tell us they're right. But appearances can be deceiving. Every one of us could tell a story about following our instincts only to discover we were headed for a dead end. Looking back, we often wish we had slowed down, prayed more, and listened to God instead of simply trusting our feelings. The truth is, our feelings are wonderful indicators, but they're terrible leaders. Feelings change. (They can be helpful information!) But, they fluctuate with our circumstances. They can be influenced by fear, pride, loneliness, anger, or even exhaustion. Just because something feels right doesn't mean it is right. That's why Proverbs gives us this timeless instruction***:"Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take." (Proverbs 3:5-6 NLT)*** God never asks us to figure life out on our own. He invites us to trust Him instead. And here's the good news: He doesn't keep His wisdom hidden from us. ***James 1:5 says, "If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking."*** God isn't frustrated by your questions. He isn't annoyed when you don't know what to do. He welcomes your prayers and delights in giving wisdom to those who ask. So how do you know if you're living by God's wisdom instead of your own? The answer is surprisingly simple: God's wisdom and God's will are found in God's Word. The more time you spend in Scripture, the more you'll recognize God's voice and understand His heart. His Word shapes your thinking, corrects your perspective, and gives you wisdom that your feelings never can. If we're not in God's Word, we'll struggle to know God's will. But when we consistently seek Him through prayer and Scripture, He faithfully guides our steps. That's one of the simplest—and most powerful—ways to discover God's will and walk in His wisdom every single day. Copyright 2023 Seminole Church. 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### Page ID: 9535698 ### Content: # Why Should I Forgive? ### [SEMINOLE CHURCH](https://www.seminolechurch.com) For many people, the word forgiveness immediately brings to mind a face, a memory, or a painful moment they wish they could forget. Maybe someone betrayed your trust. Maybe you were abandoned, lied to, rejected, or deeply wounded by someone who should have loved you. The pain is real, and because it's real, forgiveness can feel impossible. You may wonder, "Why should I forgive someone who hurt me so deeply?" Jesus answered that question in one of his most powerful stories—the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant in Matthew 18. In it, he gives us several reasons why forgiveness isn't just good for the person who wronged us—it's essential for our own hearts. The first reason we forgive is because we have been forgiven. ***Ephesians 4:32 says, "Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you."*** The more I understand how much God has forgiven me, the easier it becomes to extend grace to someone else. When I forget God's grace, I become stingy with my own. The truth is, you will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you. Now, does forgiveness mean pretending nothing happened? Absolutely not. Does it mean what they did was okay? No. Does it mean there shouldn't be consequences? Not at all. Does it mean you have to continue a relationship with a toxic person? No, it doesn't. Forgiveness doesn't excuse the offense—it releases you from carrying it. The second reason to forgive is simple: Resentment never accomplishes what we hope it will. In fact, it's self-destructive. If anyone ever had a reason to become bitter, it was Job. He lost his wealth. He lost his children. He lost his health. He lost nearly everything he had. Yet in the middle of his suffering, Scripture reminds us: ***"Surely resentment destroys the fool." (Job 5:2)*** Resentment has a way of convincing us we're hurting the other person, when in reality we're only hurting ourselves. Bitterness steals your joy. It robs your peace. It keeps old wounds fresh. Holding onto resentment is like grabbing a live electrical wire and expecting someone else to get shocked. Jesus said, ***"If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins." (Matthew 6:14-15).*** When we refuse to forgive, we're burning the very bridge we'll someday need to cross ourselves. Over the years, I've talked with many people carrying deep wounds. I've heard stories of betrayal, abuse, rejection, broken marriages, broken families, and unimaginable pain. Sometimes people tell me, "You just don't understand what they did to me." They're right—I probably don't. But God does. Forgiveness doesn't change the past, but it changes your future. When you hold onto hurt, you're allowing someone from your past to continue controlling your present. God wants something better for you. He wants to heal your heart. 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