Mosaic Youth Church

A while!

It has been a while since I blogged last, and for a couple of reasons. For one I was gone for a week for Freedom Christian school senior cruise, and right after that I got back and left for another week for camp. But am back for a little while anyways, but in that time I got engaged, and was just a real relax time for me. It seems like sometimes our life go 150 mph and it doesn’t slow down. Between family, friends, ministry, and etc... There is always something that is going on. But when was the last time that you took sometime aside for just you and God? Where it was just you, your bible, and God. So many times we get so caught up in what we need to do, but we totally forget that we need to put him first. We worry about all the physical needs, and we totally forget that our spiritual needs are really important too.

I love what God is saying through Matthew right here,

²⁵ “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[e]?

   ²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

- Matthew 6:25-34

I love how it says to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all tese things will be given to you as well. I think so many times we read this and we say o well God has me, but listen to what he is saying seek him before anybody else. Put Him FIRST in EVERYTHING!

 Has it been A While since you spent some time with Him? Make it a point to put Him first.

 

 

Thirsty?

Have you ever stopped for one minute and just started looking around to see how thirsty people are for a higher power? Today I had a conversation with a youth and he said: I know that there is a higher power and I don’t mind hanging around good people. But I can’t say that I will go to church unless you can convince me. Now to me here is what I heard, yea I don’t mind hanging around Christ followers, but I won’t go to church unless you can give me a good reason that the higher power that is living you can live in me.

    So many times we like to say, O should come to church on Sunday morning. But that is where we stop! Why is that? Why is it that we think that we have done our jobs as Christ followers when we just invite people to church? But the bible says something different,

Matthew 28

¹⁸ Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Now here is where we got to keep going it is not just the pastor's job to win people over to Christ, but it is every single person that calls Jesus their savior! It means that you make disciples where you are at, where God has placed you at work, school, bus, street, where ever you are. 

Here is my thing I had this conversation with this person today, and he knew that he was  thirsty  and he knew that he wanted something, but no one has ever showed him what that looked like in real life. No one had taken the time to hang out with him, and SHOW him what it means to have Christ living in you. Who does God have around you that is really thirsty for Him? Are you going to make the disciples, or are you just going to talk about it with them?

 

 

 

Friends!

    Tomorrow at the Mosaic we will be ending our friends series, and if you have not been at the Mosaic you have missed a series that has been great. For the last few weeks we been talking about friends, relationships, dating, and life. As we see the end to friends tomorrow my hope is that we can learn from this and move on to us it in our future. Our scripture has come out of John,

⁹ “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. ¹⁰ When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.¹¹ I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! ¹² This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. ¹³ There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. 

    We really been looking closely at verse 13, and it says "¹³ There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends." I believe so many times we read this and we say o man I am Jesus' friend and we stop right there, but if you were to keep reading in verse 14 it says, "¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what i command." I think so many times in life we  say that Jesus is our friend, but we never act out what he is telling us to do. He says you are my friend IF you do what I command you to do.

Are you doing what Jesus commanded you to do?

My hope is not only for the Mosaic, Freedom, my friends, family, but for every person is that they will do what Jesus is telling them to do. That Jesus is my friend is not just a phrase we are going to say in church, but it is something we are living by. 

Friends....

Tonight at the Mosaic we are going to be talking about our series called friends, and tonight we are discussing dating. Dont want to miss the Mosaic tonight!

Tough spot?

You ever find your self in a tough situation? Maybe something that is going on in your life and not sure what to do or where you even stand on it. There is alot of times in my life where i only see glimpse of what God's doing but really dont see the whole picture. Where God is only showing bits and pieces of what is going to happen or whats coming up. Maybe you been there or maybe you are there right now. Let me encourage to keep going dont give up on what God wants to do in your life, trust Him, and obey Him. Know that he has the perfect plan for your life, and keep asking Him what that is take those pieces and put them together and know that once you are ready to see the whole picture He will show you. Trust and obey in the hard times, weird times, fun times, in all parts of your life obey His commands stay in His LOVE. Know that He calls you friend if you obey His commands. Trust God and know that you got the best friend tha any body could ever ask for standing by your side.

John 15:9-17

 ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

New Life!

You know one of the things that excite me the most is when God completely just radically chages somebody's life. Maybe you have seen this happen. In 2 Corinthians 5:17 it says, "¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:^[a] The old has gone, the new is here!"

    To me its me its my energy that keeps me going. Do you hold to that God says that when we are in Christ that the new is in, and the old is gone? Do you believe that? Do you believe that God can radically change your life? God says the new is here the old is gone for those who are in Christ.

Don't Give Up!!!

^{Tonight at the Mosaic we talked about fighting the good Fight that God has called us to. As a believer it challenges me to really see if I am fighting the good fight, and if I am still going in my rice, but i think the Most imprtant thing is that I am keeping my faith. Paul when his time was near over this is what he said to Timothy,}

2 Timothy 4:6-8

⁶ For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. ⁷I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. ⁸ Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

My hope is that when my time is up, and I go to meet Jesus that i will be able to tell him that I have fought the good fight, that i finish the rae, but most importantly that through all the struggles in life that my faith in Him was never losted. As paul says that in store for us is a crown of righteousness its for everybody who has longed for his appearing.

Are you fighting the good fight? 

Are you still running your race?

But most importanly in my opinion are you keeping your faith in Jesus?

Though it gets tough and sometimes it seems like there is no point to it DONT GIVE UP!

My prayer is that one day yout too will also say that you have fought the good fight, you have finished your race, and that you kept your faith! 

Do you believe?

There is a story in the bible about a man named Lazarus, and you can find the Full story in the book of John chapter 11. There is a part in the story that really spoke to me, but I'll just give you the short story. Guy named Lazarus was sick word got to Jesus he stayed, and waited for two more days before going to see him. By the time Jesus got there he had been in the tomb for 4 days already. Mary and Martha the two sisters of Lazarus told Jesus, 

"Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."- John 11:32b

Later on in the scripture Jesus goes to the Tomb and this is what he says,

³⁸ Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. ³⁹ "Take away the stone," he said.

   "But, Lord," said Martha, the sister of the dead man, "by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days."

 ⁴⁰ Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?"

 ⁴¹ So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. ⁴² I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me."

 ⁴³ When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" ⁴⁴ The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.

   Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go."

- John 11:38-44

In verse 40 Jesus says if you believe, you will see the glory of God. And that goes for every single one of us. God says if we believe we will see the glory of Him. Do you believe with all your heart? Are you believing that when you pray for the sick that they are going to get healed? Do you believe that God knows what the right plan for your life is? The bible says if you believe you WILL see the glory of God! Not that you can or may see it, but that you will see it!