If you are not aware yet of what our students from Momentum Youth
Ministries are doing, you will this Sunday. They have been wearing the same shirt
these past 5 days and will continue all the way through the month of October.
Why? They are raising money for missionaries that need transportation and other
equipment to share more effectively about the Gospel through what is called,
Speed The Light. If you have yet to make a pledge to help raise funds with one
of the students or youth leaders I encourage you to find one of them and start.
It won’t be that hard, they all will be wearing the same shirt! :-)
I am so proud of them! We all should be proud of them. This is just one
step in reaching their goal this school year that says, “Don’t live life on mute,
but learn to live out loud!” That goal echoes our mission at New Life – Helping
people BECOME completely COMMITTED, Holy Spirit EMPOWERED FOLLOWERS of
Jesus!
You cannot live out loud without the Holy Spirit’s empowerment! Acts 1:8
shares some of Jesus’ final words..."You will receive power when the Holy Spirit
comes upon you.” What were they to do with this power? Be witnesses, live out
loud!!
We need to encourage our students to live out loud and there is no better
way than to model it for them. When something just doesn’t seem right, don’t
just say it, do something about it! When someone seems to need prayer, don’t
just say you will pray for them, PRAY for them right then! When someone has a
need, don’t just feel bad for them, let the compassion of Jesus lead you to help
meet their need.
Peter and John had seen a crippled man near the Temple entrance, who knows
how many times, but this time something was different. They were not silent,
they were empowered by the Holy Spirit to live out loud and said they didn’t
have money but they would give what they DID have! They didn’t simply pray that
the crippled man MIGHT get healed. They told him to stand up, IMMEDIATELY and
BE healed in the name of Jesus!
Let us strive to live a Holy Spirit Empowered life! It is a life that is
not on mute but a life that is lived out loud!
See you this Sunday!
Chasing Him,
Pastor David
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