Relate Church

Walking this life together in the church, it’s all too easy to let our guards down and forget how serious what we are doing. Yes, God wants us to enjoy each other, to relax in His grace, but there are lines that we don’t dare cross.And as the early church experienced, God is very aware of what His people are doing and how we are functioning together.God is Truth. And when you go against Him, you are going to hit Truth. Satan’s words and thoughts will always cause you to be braver than you should be against Truth. When you find out that God doesn’t like something, how do you respond? Are you defiant, or compliant with Truth?

When life and death is on the line, you need to know God is…. A genuine, true, real, experience with God.The apostles knew their lives were on the line. There weren’t arguments over petty differences. They weren’t talking behind each other’s backs. They weren’t divided over their differences in opinion. They prayed and people were healed.They preached, went to prison, and people were saved.They prayed and God’s presence and power were revealed.

If you want to change your life, this is the recipe. This is how. If you are tired of a bad marriage, this is how to make it good. If you struggle with sin, change your devotion. If you struggle with an addiction, shift your affections and life’s dedication from that to God and His people.

Your life, up to now, if you have lived, really lived; if you have tried, really tried; if you have given yourself a chance to go after something that is difficult; your life has had trouble, upsetting, painful and sometimes even disturbing experiences.The Bible is full of stories about women, some great women, and some not so great women. There were so many things for the women in the Bible to overcome. I hope you are reading about them to be encouraged and strengthened.

When Jesus left, He confirmed that the promise His Father had made would come to them, that He would send the Holy Spirit to comfort and empower His people. God’s ways are so huge, we can’t even begin to wrap our heads around what He has done.

Have you ever thought about your prayer life? Have you ever examined it and wished that you could be better at communicating with God? Have you ever just felt like there were times when your prayers were just hitting the ceiling and bouncing right back down? What if we could just learn to pray like Jesus?

God’s direction in your life: do you really want it? If God were to come and take over your life and live it out exactly the way He wants to, what would that look like? What changes would He make? What decisions would He make?

God is looking for people who will take risk.God is looking for people who won’t just read about adventure, but live one.God is looking for people who will take what He gave them and invest it. Do something with it. Your talent. Your money. Your love. Your very breath! He’s not looking for “play-it-safe” people.

Being True in this context has to do with being dedicated, constant, loyal, devoted, no matter what happens.There are two times your Trueness gets tested in your faith: 1. When things are bad. 2. When things finally go your way.We talk a lot about what we do when things go bad. When things do finally go your way, BE TRUE.

Our culture is continually telling us that we must find ways to feel like we deserve, to feel like we are great and powerful. The truth is, you can survive a self-help seminar, you can survive walking on hot coals, being boiled alive, and walk out of that seminar weekend feeling like you are the most powerful person in the world, ready to grab life by the tail and tell it where to go, but suddenly you simply fall and your leg is severely broken and you are in bed for 6 months. God teaches us something completely different when it comes to the path to power in our lives. What God offers is so much more powerful, so much more freeing, so much more sane.