Getting Tuned In Series

Getting TunedIN

TunedIN (1)

This Is The Truth About You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwmZEza2CDY

Amen!

QUESTION – which ½ of that video did you like better? I remember the first time I watched it and I was about to kill myself…

MGCC - this morning we kicked off our much awaited series (at least much awaited to me), called

TunedIN, hearing His voice above the noise.

Prayer

MGCC

R U ready?

R U ready to do this?

OKAY… let’s roll.

NOW - the premise for this 6 week series is the following…

“The voice you believe will determine the future you will experience…”

LET’S – say that together on 3…

“The voice you believe will determine the future you will experience…”

NOW - this series was inspired by a book I read last fall that was written by Steven Furtick called, ‘Crashing The Chatterbox.’

I wish I had a little devil on my left shoulder. I could flick him off and tell him to go to hell. Then I could fist- bump the angel sitting on my right shoulder and get on with doing all the things God has called me to do.

That would change everything. I’d discover an unshakable confidence. It wouldn’t be borrowed from the ever- changing assessments of others. I would instinctively offer my weaknesses as a platform for God’s power instead of typecasting myself as someone God couldn’t use due to my endless character flaws.

I’d be unstoppable because the devil wouldn’t be able to dominate my mind with the kinds of fears that control me a lot of the time. Then I would be able to move forward in faith without being scared of failure or rejection or the sacrifice required to obey God. I’d never again be paralyzed by condemnation or bullied by feelings of unworthiness. And at the end of each day I’d go to sleep in perfect peace because I’d be finishing the day with no shame, no regrets, no need to sew any fig leaves to conceal anything. I’d be nearly immune from discouragement, because I would stop wondering if the sky was falling every time I faced a new challenge. I’d see my biggest obstacles as my greatest opportunities … and all the other stuff you read on Starbucks cups. Unfortunately, there’s no devil on my shoulder. What’s worse, there’s no angel either. Instead, I’ve got this ceaseless war going on inside my heart and my head. I’m waging it every millisecond of every minute of every hour of every day— nights, holidays, and weekends too.

AGAIN…

“The voice you believe will determine the future you will experience…”

NOW – this morning I just want to introduce this topic in a conversation I am calling ‘Getting TunedIN.’

AND – a great place for us to begin tuningIN is by looking at some words that God spoke through His prophet Isaiah in Isaiah chapter 55

The heading in my bible for Isaiah 55 reads…

“An Invitation To The Thirsty’

NOW – it’s important for us to understand who these words were first written to… they were - written to people who have;

Been disobedient

Followed other God’s

Listened to the wrong voices

Been led astray by wrong desires

AND (in Isaiah 55) GOD – is inviting them back to real life…

MGCC – let’s hear what God’s prophet had to say to them 2700 years ago and what he has to say to us may 3, 2015…

Come,

Again this an invitation from God

Come all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.

UNDERSTAND – God house is the only place where we can and eat a meal and not have to worry about whether or not we can pay the tab… IT’S – a place where we enjoy and feast on, His love, His mercy and His Grace and never worry about Him handing you a check, because He knows that you could never pay Him back.

Come all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.

Verse 2

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?

Turn to the person to your r/l and ask, why?

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?

AND LISTEN – anyone who has ever given themselves to things they should not have… OR – has chased after things and after they got them found out they did not do for them all they had hoped, know exactly what that verse…

NOW – for the emphatic part of the text