Turning Points!!

Turning points! Thats what this month seems to be about! As we kick off the month of November, whether you are talking about college football or the election this month is one of turniong points! I know it has been awhile since my last blog, but it has been pretty hectic this month and it just started! This past Sunday at Crossroads really struck a cord with me! I mean it was like walking into that theater for the first time! Something happened, ( I want to break out into the old song now and sing, Something happened and now I knowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, Heeeeeeeeeeeeee touched me and maaaaaaaaade me wholeeeeee! ) Ha ha sorry had to do it! There was a real connection with everyone there! And with the events of just this past week, studying for my message I gave last night entitled Maximizing Your Potential, and the mens Mafia meeting and Amplified getting started at the EOCC, my focus has really been on putting God first!

Last night really hit home with the young people at the Garage, ( the youth room over at the annex, ) but it hit home with me as well as I was giving the message! There again something happened within me! My points to my message were how to make the most of your capacity to develop into what God wants you to be! Put God First, Who is your Influences, and Taking Action! Putting God first, living day to day making God's Kingdom my primary concern! I am still convinced that God cares most about people! The words of Jesus rings out to me, when you are doing this to the least of these you are doing it to me! I am the light of the world, I have put that light in you so that you would shine before creation!

As you can see I am getting deeper into how to live for God day to day! Its how He created us to live and its not the same for everyone! But whats funny is how we respond to the same God that is calling us! You can hear person after person talk about how God is dealing with them and it has the same theme! We all experience life from different angles and God cares about all of them! That was one thing that I said last night that hit home not just with the teenagers but with me, that God cares! I think you reach a turning point in your life when that becomes a reality!

As a nation and as a church, I think we must realize that God cares! Its been God's plan all along to be involved in every detail of our lives! From President elect Obama down to the newest newborn, God wants in! Just like The Blessed Life , the series at my church, life isnt our own, its bigger than that! Living day to day putting God's concerns above my own, I have reached a turning point!