Adventurous Living - The Meadow Springs Community Church Podcast

Thinking about the return of Jesus, do you ask, "When? Next year... next month... tomorrow?" We should watch for Jesus all day, every day, because we are given that many opportunities to be loyal and faithful to Him or to deny Him. 

They misunderstood him; they resisted his teaching and his words were twisted to support 'sides'. During this season of Lent, take the time to understand more about Jesus, more about his word and his heart than ever before.  

If 'blessing' is God's power being given to fulfill what something is designed for, then the critical question should be what is God's intention? The answer goes all the way back to the garden. To be blessed is to live in the presence of and in relationship with God Himself, the source of all blessing.

God's big plan... saving the whole world and blessing the people on the earth. Abraham and Sarah were blessed because they chose the journey even though they were going without knowing.

May we see Jesus clearly so that we gladly set aside our own struggles and desire for importance to serve others and to serve the God of the universe. After all, there is no better or more prominent a place than to be a child and friend of God.

Have you noticed something missing? What we think we want is not what we get and what we get is not what we think we want. The 'something missing' is emptiness - being separated from God - because we walk away, shoulders slumped, having been disappointed by the things of this world. We've got to let go.

Jesus lived among the people. He preached, performed miracles and His presence was noteworthy... but why keep it a secret? Mark  announces the 'beginning of the good news', the Gospel, but its not really good news until the cross. 

Since the first century AD, we’ve been on the edge of the end… the edge of the return of Christ. Come, Lord Jesus.

The presence of Jesus is not just Emmanuel at Christmas time. Wherever we are - here, there or anywhere - the Holy Spirit is with us. That place becomes the Holy Land and where we stand is holy ground. 

When you wake up on Christmas morning, may you experience the full presence of Jesus our Savior, and know that God is WITH you. He has been there all along.

Emmanuel isn't a vague feeling of "god with me" but rather the reality of "the King with me". He has come to give us salvation - a hope and a purpose. Emmanuel, invade our little world so we may shout "Glory to God in the Highest".

Despite the enemies raging around us - despite this present darkness, trust Him because the child is coming!

Think about the difference between the words expensive and precious. Which of those is the most valuable?

Living for Jesus and pointing people toward Him means He is it. He's the One on whom our gaze should rest. It's not 'political agreement' and Jesus, 'right-living' and Jesus or even 'I got this on my own' and Jesus. It's just Jesus. 

God Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn. There is no other. God cannot give us a happiness and a peace apart from Himself. There is no such thing.

The world and the Word is charged with the grandeur of God ... the glory of Jesus. Do we have eyes to see and ears to hear so that we may know Him?

Four thousand years ago, God chose Abraham and made him special so that he could bring blessing to all the people of the world. Today, we carry on that mission: all people... all the world.

We so easily see our own heart, our motives and desires, as something far different from what God sees. 

We do not have the resources to solve life's problems... we bring what we have to Jesus and let Him go to work.

There is an urgency in declaring the kingdom of God. We shouldn't act like we have all the time in the world because we don't.