Are you Expecting?
This last week, I was a counceler for my youth group at camp. It was a great time and God really moved. I was talking to my youth pastor and he said somthing that got me thinking. He said that one of the reasons that God moves so mightaly at places like a camp or a revial is because the people attending are expecting a move from God.
When you are involved in a church for a long time, you can become stuck in the monotony of the same schedule and you begin to think that it is impossible for God to move in such an atmosphere. When you go to a camp or revival, you are immersed into something new thus you determine it is a suitable place for God to move so you expect Him to move. When we don’t expect God to move, we shut our minds and hearts to the idea that anything said can touch us and don’t allow God to move in our lives so He doesn’t move.
This got me thinking, how many times have we stopped God from doing what he wants to in our lives or others. God wants to move in our weekly services and I am sure there are things in our lives that He can deal with from week to week. I know there are things in mine.
I want to encourage you to expect God to move in your life every day. The more you expect and ask for, the more you will recieve. Don’t get fooled into thinking that you need to be somewhere else in order to be touched by God.
God bless.
Anthony
He is more than a Signature
I was looking at emails, bulletins and the like and noticed something that I don’ think most people would think of. I noticed that Christians always end their messages with fairly profound statements. I am not talking about their actual message but their salutation. I think most Christians use the following words as a simple end of a sentence without understanding the importants and meaning.
God bless: The most common salutation used by Christians to make their email holy. The meaning is fairly cut and dry but I don’t know if people remember that when saying this you are actually saying you hope God blesses the person reading the letter. I realize there is no profoundness there but it is a good think to remember.
In His service: This one I find is usually used by “Christian” companys in order to remind people that they are making a reach for your wallet for other reasons than just profit. What is actually said by their statement is that everything they do is for Christ. A servant lives his live for his master and everything his does (and earns) is for his master. These businesses usually use a tag line like this to seem holy. If they were in fact acting in His service, I think a large portion of their profits would go into ministry and they would focus their time on the Gospel not hocking their T-shirts.
Am I over thinking this? Am I the only one who has remembered that words have meanings and as Christians we should mean what we say?
What do you think? Is there a phrase that is used too loosely and what do you think the meaning behind the word is?
God Bless,
Anthony
Appologies
Hello Readers!
I want to appologize for my lack of posting recently. I have been out of town for the last few weeks and now I am having issues with my home computer. I will have some posts up as soon as I can get my computer working. While you are waiting feel free to look back in the archieves at some of my old posts.
Thank you for understanding and God bless,
Anthony
