“If u don't honor God you cant honor anyone else. #CodeOrangeRevival”

—Pastor Steven Furtick (Elevation Church)

addictions...

Yesterday in church, we talked about addictions. If you haven’t realized it yet, there are many many addictions in life and not just drugs and alcohol. Some people are addicted to shopping, eating weird things, smelling weird things, pornography, to be perfect, body disorders, love, drama, cleaning, biting nails,  and what teenagers are addicted to is the social networks. For example, I’m addicted to twitter and television. I tweet about almost every little thing. If someone gets on my nerves, and I don’t want them to know what I’m doing or feeling, instead of telling them, I block them on twitter. It is a really bad habit. Therefore, this week I have given up twitter for a week. I started at midnight of July 25, 2011. I admit that I still have a few people sent to my phone via twitter. There are just some people I want to keep up with during the week. I have my pastor and his wife, deefizzy, and andrearussett for some odd reason I just feel like I need to know what’s going on with them. I use twitter in awkward situations or when I don’t know what else to do. It’s like my journal which is why I’ll be using one this week, hopefully. Twitter is a serious escape, but I shall succeed without it for a week. :) Television is a serious addiction too which I may get from my mom. We both watch A LOT of tv no matter what. We have at least 2 or 3 maybe more shows a night we must watch. It’s a really good thing we have a dvr or we wouldn’t be able to watch what we want when we want. We both have to fall asleep to it or we can’t sleep. This is one thing I can’t give up just because I have nothing else to do. If you have an addiction, try giving up one for a week….it may help your life. I’m really hoping I can rely on other things or make stronger connections without my twitter. It’s one week, and I know I’ll live. If you have a serious addiction that could cause death, you should really try your hardest to cancel it out of your life. We were given a life for a reason, and there is no point in wasting it on something so stupid. Addictions can be changed little by little, we can break through them. I know it won’t change just like that, but progress helps little by little. Right? :)

“If I could take this whole message and boil it down and condense it into its purest form, here's simply what we're celebrating here: that despite me, despite my continued failures, despite my shortcomings and foolish heart, God, because of the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ to me and his wrath-absorbing death on the cross and his resurrection, now sees me as perfect and spotless and holy and not because I am but because he is, which is why Ephesians 2 is going to say that even the faith I had to believe in the grace was given to me by God. So honestly, I have nothing to boast in, like I couldn't say, 'Well, I believed!' because the belief given to me was actually a gift so that God so owns the glory that everything is His. That's why no one should walk with a swagger in the Kingdom and no one should walk with a limp.”

—Matt Chandler, “God is for God”
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“ "There is a difference between standing in hope and walking in faith. Faith is not an abstract theoretical proposition. It's not wishful thinking. It's substance. It's action. Most of my life I imagined faith as some kind of force field. And the way we talk about faith dematerializes it. By most definitions, faith is synonymous with hope. But the more I study Scripture, the more I detect a sharp distinction between hope and faith. Hope is a desire. Faith is a demonstration. Hope wants it to happen. Faith causes it to happen and acts as if it's already done. Faith is not content to want it really, really badly. Faith consults the drawings and gets busy building. Hope is the blueprint. Faith is the contractor. Some of the impossible things we're believing God for will never happen in our lives if we stand in hope instead of walking in faith.”

—“Sun Stand Still” by Steven Furtick

I may be weak, but your spirits' strong in me. My flesh may fail, but my God, You NEVER will!

“the bible is NOT about you. some of us think it's a road-map to life, and in some ways it's right. i mean, the bible does have maps in it. but if you read it as a road map, you'll read it wrong. you're not David. if you shoot at a giant, you'll miss. you say "but i have 5 stones." trust me, you'll miss all five. if you compare yourself to the superheroes of the bible, you're putting a burden on yourself. in the story of David and Goliath, God is David, taking down Satan, whom is the giant Goliath. God does not miss. wait though. if God is David, and Satan is Goliath, who are you? that's right, you're the Israelites cowering in fear. the bible is not about you.”

—Matt Chandler

“If the mark of Christian maturity is a bunch of people who want to create a museum glorifying and preserving their personal preferences and then sanctify it by calling it a church, count me out.”

—Steven Furtick

“For the believer who loves Jesus, grace and sin should be inversely proportional. The more grace we receive the less we should want to sin because God’s grace empowers us to live for Him. Grace will never lead you to continue doing the very thing it just rescued you from. True grace will never lead you to take it for granted by trampling on it.”

—Steven Furtick

“(On marriage) "I can't tell you how many conversations I've had with women who have said to me, "Well, my husband hasn't earned my respect. He doesn't deserve my respect." But grace is giving somebody something they don't deserve. And haven't we all received grace from Jesus? We didn't deserve to have our sins forgiven. All God is asking is for you to turn around and give the same thing to the person you love the most in the whole world: Grace. ....I think it's sad that so often the person that we love the most, is the person we serve the least. I expect him to serve me, instead of me turning around and serving him out of this love that Christ has given me. ”

—Holly Furtick, Mr. & Mrs. Betterhalf podcast “You be Jesus, Let God be God.”
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