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Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

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Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator

Monday Motivator The sermon was: Live Passionately The scripture was: 1Kings 18:25-39 I was specific in my challenge to you last week to live the next month as if it's your last, not because you're going to die in a month, but because, Lord-willing, you're going to live many more years. But, I believe that if you live the next month as if it is your last, at the end of the 30 days, you'll be more alive than you've ever been. You will start living your dash with more attentiveness; you will stop zoning out in life and wasting days you could use to change the world for God. How do I know this? Because, I know you will find so much more passion and fulfillment in your lives if you focus on your relationship with Christ each day. Folks, there's a big difference between a full life and a fulfilling life. I mean, most of us live very full lives. Our lives are full of activities, full of busyness, full of stress, full of anxiety, but are they fulfilling? Jesus said, “I've come that you might have life; life of abundance; life to the full.” He didn't say, “I've come that you might have a full schedule.” He said, “I've come that you might have a life to the full. And now I want you to experience true fulfillment.” And so, we're going to talk about living passionately; because passion is often the difference between fulfillment and frustration. Because when you lose the fire of passion in your life, you start just going through the motions, you start just existing instead of really living, and the fire of passion is replaced with frustration. I want us to look at a miracle in the Old Testament where God sends fire from heaven because of the passion of one man. And it ignites passion in thousands of people, because passion for God is contagious. Here's the scene. Thousands of people are gathered at the stadium at Mount Carmel. On the field there are 450 prophets of Baal, 400 prophets of Asherah against one man, the prophet of God, Elijah. But never underestimate the power of one man filled with passion. I would rather have one person in leadership here who's filled with passion for his job than 100 people who are just doing a job halfway; because nothing great ever happens without passion. You take passion out, and there's no success. You take passion out, and there's nothing productive. Passion is the key to great art. All the great inventions were made by someone who had passion. Nothing great ever happens without passion. And so, Elijah makes a proposal. He says, “Let's build two altars. You guys build an altar to your gods, and I'll build an altar to the Lord God, and whoever answers by fire, He is the true God.” And the people said, “That sounds fair enough.” And so, the prophets of Baal and Asherah start praying to their gods, and there's no answer. They pray for hours, and no answer, and then it's Elijah's turn. “Answer me, LORD, answer me, so these people will know that You, LORD, are God, and that You are turning their hearts back again.” The next thing we read is; “Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench. When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, ‘The LORD—He is God! The LORD—He is God!’” The fire of the Lord fell, and the people saw that the Lord is God. I believe with all my heart that the same God who sent fire from heaven all those years ago wants to send fire right now in this place and in your heart. He wants to send His fire of passion into your soul so that you find true fulfillment. He wants to send the fire of passion back into the lives who've lost hope. He wants to send the fire passion back into marriages, where the passion has died. He wants us to come alive with passion for His kingdom and our part in it. Will you be the passion for Christ? To see the full sermon and others go to our website; northbaychurch.com -- God Bless, "Pastor Danny"

Monday Motivator Open invitation with…Voting: Supervisor of elections is sending volunteers out to tell everyone with marques out front of their business to put up messages to get people out to vote. They came here to the church too. My statement to you was; “Your vote won’t change this world; your service to the one true Christ will.” I am not against you voting but I am against you thinking that voting for your “party” will change the world is wrong. Your “devotion” to Christ is all that will change this world. That I will put on our sign and on your heart. The sermon was: Living the Dash The scripture was: Psalm 90:12 “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” Well here is the question to start with; what is the number of this day of your life? Are you numbering your days or just living thru them? How many of your days have been wasted by just living thru them? I then talked about the tomb stone markings of the date and the dash that is in the middle which signifies all the days of your lives. The worksheet I sent you by e-mail asked you these questions: What are you living for? Who do you love? What are your passions? What are your greatest achievements and worst mistakes? Are you living based on fear or do you have a sense of urgency and purpose to do what is most important? These are many of the questions you should be asking as we begin this journey navigating what it looks like to live with limited time left. Are you living as though you had one month to live? Some of the question we ought to continually ask ourselves are: “Why can’t all of us live more like we’re dying? Like every day is an important day to use correctly and not be wasted. Isn’t that how we were meant to live in the first place; to discover what we’re made for and to utilize our unique gifts in the limited time we’re given?” I am hoping that the one month to live lifestyle will be universal in principle and unique in expression for us. If we all lived as if we had one month left on this earth, I think we would each spend our days differently, in ways unique to us, and yet I believe we would all experience more fulfilling lives that could leave a legacy for eternity.” Current culture has twisted this concept and left out the most crucial element; it says, “You only live once so live life with no regrets.” That’s a similar statement but it’s lacking the specific purpose of why. Anyone can go spend their life savings or do something crazy for the adventure, but to live a life truly with no regrets means we have a deep understanding of what is most important in life. When people are faced with death they tend to focus on a two key things. First, they want to get their relationship with God sorted out. Second, they want to get right with the people they love the most. The harsh reality is that this is what we should have been doing from the beginning. This is how we were created to live, but sin, hurt, pain, pride and selfishness have interfered in who God intended for us to be. The good news is that it’s not too late! You still have a breath and a chance now to live with purpose, with urgency and with passion investing in the things that will last for eternity. Do you wish you were living better than the way you’re living right now, or you lived yesterday? I believe all of us want that. At least I hope we do. I’d hate to think my highest and best days with the Lord have already happened, that they’re only visible in my rearview mirror. And yet we don’t always clearly see the sins looking back at us in the mirror. “Some things in this mirror don’t appear as they actually are.” Even when they do, we may not see the extent of the damage they’re inflicting on us and how happy our lives could finally be if we weren’t always trying to accommodate our weakness. According to 2 Corinthians 7:8, he said he later felt some regret over being so harsh about their worldly behavior instead of their faith in Christ; “for I see that that letter grieved you.” He told them, he had not taken any pleasure in whatever sadness or discomfort his words must have created in them. And yet no one gets to a good place until they recognize they’re in a bad place. No one starts to make right choices until they’ve become grieved over poor ones. And sometimes unless they hear a pointed rebuke spoken or written to them by another person—unless they actually hear in their ears the thing they don’t want to hear—they end up having a much harder, much longer journey to the place they most want to be. Paul then says, "Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation that leads to no regrets." So Godly sorrow is really just the pain and the grief and the hurt over our regrets, over our failures, mistakes, and sins, and missed opportunities; it’s the pain that comes because of our regrets. He says the pain of our regrets pushes us into the desire for repentance, and our repentance pushes us into forgiveness. And it's God's forgiveness that removes all our regrets. Did you get that? The pain of our regrets pushes us into the desire for repentance, and it's that repentance that pushes us into God's forgiveness, and it's God's forgiveness that washes away all our regrets. The irony is unless you feel the crashing pain of regret, you will never get off the road to regrets. If you're feeling pain today from a failure, pain from a missed opportunity, if you have pain that has come into your life, could it be that God is allowing that pain to wake you up, to push you into His purpose for your life, that God is allowing that pain so that He can remove your regrets? If you're feeling the pain of regret, God uses that pain to push you into repentance. And repentance is the secret to getting rid of your regrets. Our regrets can redirect us. God allows us to feel the pain of regret to redirect us. If you're feeling the pain today, God's redirecting you. It's the pain that redirects you. That pain never leaves you where it finds you. It always brings you and redirects you into a different place, and God is just redirecting you today because it's our regrets that will redirect us or ruin us. For the month of October we will be doing “The One-Month-to-Live Challenge” which is really all about how to let your regrets redirect your life rather than ruin your life. -- God Bless, "Pastor Danny"