Be Bold in FOUR areas

From North Point Church, Atlanta, GA a message from Pastor Andy Stanley.
You need to watch this if you want your participation in church to ramp-up, see your church grow in this new year, you want to grow your relationship with God in new ways, take this to heart! I amen this message to the max! Have a refreshing day. ~David (Chip)

"Standing In The Need of Prayer"

When you got up this morning, did you think that today you might change the outcome in a persons life, or a nation for that matter? Such was the case in point with a young woman by the name of Esther. Little did she know that when she went to prayer for her people, God would move the heart of a king and a nation to save her and her people from certain death!Esther4:15-16 records that she asked her people to "Fast & Pray" and she herself did, and then she went to see the King. Today you can make the difference in my life, for me and my family's future, on your knees before the throne of our loving and faithful Lord, and maybe even "Fast & Pray" with me.
Friends and Family, please keep me & my family in your prayers, as we together seek God's direction for this next chapter in my life. I really want to please God with my life and service to Him. I need His guidance as to which door to walk through, and where to spend the rest of my ministry. The desire of my heart is to do the will of my Heavenly Father. I really believe in the "POWER of PRAYER", and is is all enabled by precious people like you! Will you join with me in asking God to lead, guide and direct Dale & me? Thank you so very much! Don't weary in well doing.

So,do you think you know what God's plans are for you?

So,do you think you know what God has planned for you? Isaiah records "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the Earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts." Like Moses' encounter with the burning bush and Esther's surprise at God's elevating her to a place of promenance, to God's use of Joseph in Pharoh's court to, well yes, His placement of where you are today... its not by accident! God has a plan for you, and how He chooses to use you is quite beyond your understanding, but NOT out of your control. He can place you where he wants you to be, but you must yeild to His will and plan for you. You must say, I am your vessel fashion me as you will great potter, designer of my life, and He will shape you and fill you and use you for greater things then you could ever imagine.
Take these words for you today from the prophit Jeremiah Chapt.29 and verse 11, "For I know the plans I have for you," declaes the Lord, "plans to prosper you not to harm you,plans to give you hope and a future." He knows the plan of your life because He is the Architect who designed you and the potter who fashioned you for His use and purpose. Nothing catches Him by surprise, not even YOU! Say, "Yes Lord, have your will in my life today and always!" Watch out though, He will take you at your word if you'll take Him at His Word! Have a refreshing day, ~David

Pastor friend sent this forward, it's worth sending on with an Amen! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTc_FoELt8s Lord shine thru us.
Always seems we try to lump all Christians into the same BOX! Truth is that some who call themselves "Christian" have a warpped concept of what Christ ment by sharing the "Good News" or Gospel message. Watch John Piper's take on "The Gospel" and tell me what YOU think? Yes I want to hear from you.