Break Out- Prayer for New York

Today our Fusion Leadership students in Leap are getting the chance to be blessed by the church as BridgePointe collects an offering for their Missions Trip to New York.

Lets Break out today and pray for the offering that God would display his wonder and majesty as people give generously out of their hearts.

If you are not in Leap, find a student, ask them about the trip, and pray for them as they are getting prepared to go on this adventure! 

If you are in Leap go a pray for one of your fellow brothers or sisters going on the trip with you.

Lets all agree together and break out as one body to see God move here in Woodstock and in New York City.

Break IN

Watch a movie or TV show today. Pull out three ways you can experience God in the movie whether it be the beautiful scenes that are depicted, the plot, or by learning from the people's mistakes and the solution that is found.   

Did the movie or TV show ignite God's spirit inside of you or did it put out the fire?

Since we are His body and his temple we have to be careful what we allow in our lives.

New Life- I always love when God reminds me.....

The new covenant has two parts to it: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh” (Ezek. 36:26). God removed your old heart when he circumcised your heart; he gives you a new heart when he joins you to the life of Christ. That’s why Paul can say “count yourselves dead to sin” and “alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 6:11). 

The story of the Incarnation is the story of a descent and resurrection . . . one has the picture of a diver, stripping off garment after garment, making himself naked, then flashing for a moment in the air, and then down through the green, and warm, and sunlit water into the pitch black, cold, freezing water, down into the mud and slime, then up again, his lungs almost bursting, back again to the green and warm and sunlit water, and then at last out into the sunshine, holding in his hand the dripping thing he went down to get. This thing is human nature. (C. S. Lewis, “The Grand Miracle”) 

The Resurrection affirms the promise Christ made. For it was life he offered to give us: “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10). We are saved by his life when we find that we are able to live the way we’ve always known we should live. We are free to be what he meant when he made us. You have a new life—the life of Christ. And you have a new heart. Do you know what this means? Your heart is good. 

(Waking the Dead , 66–67)  John Eldredge