(These are my notes from December 3rd 2008 Wednesday Wave Service)
=If you are ready for Him to turn a page in your life, you can reposition at any time! You dont need a profetic word, you can do it now! You can get into a position to be fruitful! You are not stuck where you are tonight! What are you waiting for? YOur ready? ( Carl then talks about the Roman Rapids Ride @ Busch Gardens. How you are strapped into your seat watching everyone else get wet, and you are just DYING to get wet, but you cant, you stuck, watching them have fun while your hot and bored. An example of watching people be on fire for God, and wishing that was you) You DONT HAVE TO WATCH PEOPLE GET SPLASHED WITH GOD! PEOPLE WITH THE GOOD LIVES
The Reposition Promise
If your continually reposition your life, other people are going to follow. If you reposition yourself, others will.
ACTS 8:26-39 (About Philip being suddenly transported to another place!!! like some sci fi movie!)
Thats the kind of re-positioning thats possible, thats what I want! You dont have to live in some hampster wheel world!
(Now Carl talks about going to a Methaman concert, people screaming, tossing hands in the air, worshiping Methaman, METHAMAN?! What did methaman ever do for anyone?! WHAT DID HIP HOP EVER DO FOR ANYONE? It never saved anyone!?)
Instead of that concert I want to go where You go, to have what you have,! You cant get satisified with what you have! 2 things that will make a difference:
1. You need to reposition your standards, take them from low to high!
Evaluate your standards. YOu get what you aim for in life! If you standard is to have all Gods got for you, you will have that!
High standards=repositioning by default
We have become acceptable of average.
( Carl now had them play a new popular song by Neo, about him loving this girl because she was the boss of things, payed her own bills, had her own money and a good job. Carl was steamed at this! God all hyped up! And its a SUPER AWESOME point so Im glad he god into it!) A JOB? PAYES THE BILLS ON TIME? WHAT KIND OF STANDARDS ARE THOSE? So your going to bring some guy home to meet your parents and you say (gets a fake dumb girl voice on) "Mom, Dad! HE HAS A JOB!" WHAT? Even if he is a Christian, what does that men? What KIND of Christian is he? So he goes to church three days a week, SO WHAT? HE SHOULD BE! He should be into his faith!!! Thats not an acceptible quality! Im keepibg my Godly standards where they need to be.
Romans 12:1
If you feel your standards are slipping make an immediate change tonight! (today! whenever your reading this!) Shut the door on the things in your life that will pull you down! (Tells a story about him and his wife when they were dating. How she felt she was leading more than she should be in the relationship, that he wasnt the Godly man she needed. So she told him they were through. Handed him his box of things from her car and shut the door on his face. haha. And he worked really hard to become a Godly man, he rose and worked and grew!~)
2. Reposition your faith, focus on Gods power and not the problems in your life!
Matt 19:26--Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."--
Its so easy to lose your faith, you have to remind yourself! Faith is like a muscle, the more you work it the more you have to remind yourself that your God is Good! Either you believe it or not!
I wouldnt be surprised if Brittney Spears walked in here tonight and God saved! Why not? Isnt our God big enough?
For the rest of your life the devil is going to try and pull you to fear. NO FAITH, NO FRUIT! When you feel your faith being sucked away remind yourself. Your a Christian~!!!!
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Soooo this was an amazing sermon! Very convicting. If you have additional notes you want to add to this in comment form, have at it! I look forward to going with you all to the wave next time!!!! GODS ALWAYS MOVING!!!! ALWAYS AWESOME!!!
:) spread the word ;)
