RICK WARREN AGREES

Here are the tweets from Rick Warren this morning. We are not alone in understanding that it it TOO DARK TO SLEEP.


"There are 146 million orphans in the world.. Are you OK with that?"


"Neutrality or apathy when you see evil & injustice allies you with Satan"


"Jesus saved the very people the self-righteous thought were unsavable because they refused to hang out with "sinners."


We have been learning about all the injustices in the world which we as the Christian community can no longer ignore. We must wake up from our sleep and take the message of Jesus Christ to the world. 

POINTS OF LIGHT

Yesterday the faith family of Harvest Church stepped up and saw the following POINTS OF LIGHT. 

• Provide 24 families with a Thanksgiving Meal
• Provide clean water for 20 people for 20 years (www.charitywater.org). 
• Fight against Human Trafficking (www.thea21campaign.org)
• Do home repairs for someone in need. 
• Another trip to Central Primary today with paper, underwear, belts, etc. 
• More people going to Haiti (www.nwhcm.org)
• Another youth was saved last night (Dalton Smalley)

Thank you: Stay awake because IT IS TOO DARK TO SLEEP. 

"Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered."


Be a POINT OF LIGHT

1,000,000 PIECES

This is a message that was sent to me after Sunday's Sermon. I clearly speaks to what is at risk when we do not repent. It is used by permission. 


Well I’ve thought about this all day and I just cannot hold it in anymore. I wanted to stand up and scream this yesterday at church. Yesterday morning when you stood at the altar and said what if, what if you took the blood and body of Jesus as if you were pure and repentant, but you were still living in sin. What if you exploded into a million pieces as soon as you took it? That’s exactly what happened to me. God will only take so much. God will not be openly disobeyed. My God is a forgiving God and he will give you a chance to repent. He will put people in your life to help you out to try guide you back to him. But if you do not repent, he will turn away and he will replace you. 

Just like in 1st Kings 11:9 
9And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, 10And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded. 11Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

It’s like you explode into a thousand little pieces and all those little pieces stick into the people that you have hurt. Family, friends, acquaintances and the church body. Then the pieces of you just fester and grow and make the people around you angry at you, angry at God, angry at the whole situation. But the people that are strong slowly realize that it’s not you. It’s the sin that totally controls you. 

But it’s also like with Job. And I am in no way saying that I am any type of Godly man. But God lets Satan take everything away, house, cars, family, friends, children, every worldly possession that you have. And when you are down in that hole that you have dug for yourself, you look up and see there is know where to go but up. That’s where I am right now. I will not be defeated. I will not lie down and just give up and say poor pitiful me. God has brought me so far in the past two years and the next few years are going to be some of the hardest. But I am back on my feet and I will not let Satan win again. 

I appreciate everything that you and the Harvest Church family have done for me and my family. You will never know how much it means to me.


All I can say is, "Will, we repent?"

WHY REPENT?

Yesterday I was in a conversation about the whole forgiveness issue. It is my opinion that we have cheapened forgiveness. When I pray or ask for forgiveness, I am asking someone to forgive something I have done. Now, there might be some kind of understanding that I also mean that I will not do it again, but that goes unsaid. I think forgiveness is mostly focusing on the past mistakes with little to no focus on the future. I think that is why we are instructed to repent. The Bible does not say to ask for forgiveness. It says, repent. The word repent is both past and future focused. I desire forgiveness for my past action and I do not plan on committing the sin again. I plan to turn. Merriam-Webster defines repent as "to turn from sin and dedicate oneself to the amendment of one’s life". We need to be dedicated to amend our lives. Sin is serious and it affects every aspect of our lives. Let each of us Repent and Amend.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

4:25 to Conviction

Watch this and decide. Be prepared for conviction.

I Can't Do Much! You Gotta Be Crazy!!!

I have heard people say that they feel frustrated because they can't do much. What if you look at it from the other perspective. The perspective of the touched, the helped, the healed is different. What if you are the one who gets a meal today? It's huge! The key is that if everyone would do what they can, use what they have and start where they are we could make a huge difference. We could provide water to a whole village, food for a family, or some glue to heal a broken heart. Quit giving the excuse that you just can't do much. We do not have the choice to do nothing.

12 Hours NO WATER

Try this! Carry around with you an empty water bottle this week for 12 hours. You pick the time. Don't drink any liquids. You will get the message what it is like to go without clean water. You can make a difference. go to www.mycharitywater.org/hcwater