Team Impact Sunday (Preached by Pastor Keenan with Team
Impact)
- · People are doing things to be busy, but they aren’t busy things with a purpose
- · Water pots filled to the brim = to the measure of man
- · God looks past the measure of man. God fills to the overflow.
- · God is looking for needy, desperate people that aren’t full of themselves.
- · To God that need is potential.
- · Emptiness is a resource to God. It is not a defect to Him.
- · Too many ppl want to leave from church feeling better, instead of being better.
- · Self-esteem is man’s reached potential outside of God. This is as good as we can think of ourselves.
- · Be out of your mind for Christ (do not set your mind on earthly things).
- · God is not looking for what you have, but what you don’t have.
This was an excellent message that Pastor Keenan
preached. His whole message was
interwoven with what the world says we are.
In our busy, distracted lives we never stop to think about who God
thinks we are. I used to walk around
letting worldly people pour in to my life and their opinion mattered so
much. I could live and die by it (life
and death is in the power of the tongue).
I had low self-esteem. I didn’t
think that God could use me. I put
myself down, mostly before anyone else could do it. It didn’t matter that it was humorous. I was disparaging God’s creation and I didn’t
even know it. I was full to the brim
with other people’s input and how I was viewed by friends, strangers, enemies,
and media. I was full of sour wine. When I met God I began to pour out that
sourness, that bitterness, that poison that had been planted in me. I found people who viewed me as fearfully and
wonderfully made. I drenched myself in
living waters. One that sour wine was poured out I was left with emptiness that
only God could fill. God was faithful to overflow this vessel, once
it was made pure (2 Timothy 20-22). That
emptiness was a resource to God. He was
able to fill it up with His desires and His works.
I have
a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and I am currently working on my Master’s in
the same field. It is a field of
unconditional positive regard and self-esteem building, but I can never point
people towards the world. I know what He
has done for me and I know that He is no respecter of persons. He can do the same for you. I can give you a theory, but I can also give
you Truth. Truth is eternal. I want to talk to you about God-esteem.
I no
longer come to church to have my ears tickled by a fancy message. I need eternal Truth. I don’t want to leave feeling better. I want to leave with the tools (fancy
psychology word) I need to be better.
That tool is always the Bible and it is always what I hear from the pulpit
and from the leadership at my church. I’m
grateful for this, because it aided in pouring out that sour wine.
This
message just spoke to my heart about several points in my life; where I came
from and where I am going. I’m so in
love. He has captured my heart.
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