February 19, 2009

How are you being used by God? "Oh, I'm not a pastor or missionary so God can't use me." REALLY? If that's so, I wonder what Jesus meant when he said, "In the same way that you gave Me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world." John 17:18 (Mes)

Why do you need to be on Mission with God?

• God's mission is recession proof - it always has His supply
  
• God's mission is fool proof - it depends on God's wisdom, not yours
  
• God's mission is lasting proof - of His eternal love for everyone

Too many times we give up with a case of the "poor me's" rather than getting in and fighting the good fight. Remember, when you surrender to your desires rather than keeping your life pure before God, you're asking for heaping piles of trouble. "But I'm not good enough...." Remember what my friend John at TVCC said,

"Once I realized God could use my failures, there was no limit to what He could do through my life."

All of us need to heed Paul's words to Timothy:

Timothy, you belong to God, so keep away from all these evil things. Try your best to please God and to be like him. Be faithful, loving, dependable, and gentle. Fight a good fight for the faith and claim eternal life. God offered it to you when you clearly told about your faith, while so many people listened. Now I ask you to make a promise. Make it in the presence of God, who gives life to all, and in the presence of Jesus Christ, who openly told Pontius Pilate about his faith. Promise to obey completely and fully all that you have been told until our Lord Jesus Christ returns. 1 Timothy 6:11-14 (CEV)

See you at the MISSION"S MISSION place this weekend!

Pastor Steve

Amy's Prayer Lesson

Hello,

I wanted to share with you how my prayer lesson continued after I left church. I guess God knew I needed a little more instruction. My son and I went down to the lake to go walking and stopped to rest. Well, I was sitting quietly on a rock while my son was throwing rocks into the water. He looked up to me and asked what I was doing I told him I was praying. And he looked at me like I was crazy and said, "In your head?" To which I responded, "Yes". He then come over to me and told me with 3 year-old enthusiasm to "Pray Loud, Momma!". Which he demonstrated for me by very LOUDLY thanking God for the rocks, the sun, water, etc. It was awesome. Lesson learned.

Amy

TXT Series

So what's the big deal about TXT?

It's a new series we're going to be starting this Easter and yes you guessed it; it's about TXT, but not as you'd think. It's not about the txt-ing we're all doing but about a relevant way to connect the body of TVCC, along with all of our friends and contacts, about the most important event in history, i.e. the resurrection of Christ. How's it going to work?

We will be sending out messages via a relatively new message service called Twitter. It is a way for everyone who signs up to be connected to the staff's message each day. It may be a prayer request, a scripture verse, thought for the day, but always something that will be a connecting point for those following along. Then, as you let your ENTHUSIASM spread to others and get them to sign up as well, we will all ride God's naturally created wave of excitement and motion toward this wondrous event known as Easter, which is the highest attendance day in churches of all other days.

Thanks for signing up as a part of our test team. We know you will help the numbers to grow as we anticipate what God is going to do as we teach about the greatest TXT ever written: God's Word!