He Fixs My Soul

John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, ’If I were any better, I would be twins!’ He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, ’I don’t get it!’ ’You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?’ He replied, ’Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or...you can choose to be in a bad mood I choose to be in a good mood.’ Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or, I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or, I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life. ’Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,’ I protested. Yes, it is,’ he said. ’Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live your life.’ I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw him about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, ’If I were any better, I’d be twins, Wanna see my scars?’ I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place. ’The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter,’ he replied. ’Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or, I could choose to die. I chose to live.’ ’Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?’ I asked. He continued, ‘the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read ’he’s a dead man’. I knew I needed to take action.’ ’What did you do?’ I asked. ’Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,’ said John. ’She asked if I was allergic to anything ’Yes, I replied.’ The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, ’Gravity’’ Over their laughter, I told them, ’I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.’ He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude, I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.’ Matthew 6:34

He fixes up my soul or He renews my soul

Ps 23:3

I want us to realize that God is here with us today and He is a giving God. I read this week that every other religion requires that you give to their god and have to perform to be right. Christianity on the other hand is from a giving God and just wants us to love Him.

Our message for today tells us that God is here present and able to help us.

1. He is here to Revive us.

When God created the world He made mankind in His image. One day as Adam and Eve were working in the garden the Devil came to tempt them to doubt the Word of God. He said, “Has God really said?” These doubts lead them to disobey God and brought death into the world. This was not just physical death but spiritual death. The Bible declares that we are al dead in our trespasses and sin. We are without hope, with out faith and with out God. We have to have a change in our lives, which Jesus addressed when He said, “you must be born again.” We present ourselves to Him in repentance but only He can give us new life. To be revived we need to expect it to happen. Do we need a revival here or not, in this church, and in this city? Do you expect to have one? Have you any reason to expect one? The only reason we do not have revival is only because you do not want one. Have you have cried out to God, "Will you revive us?”. Do you wish for a revival? Will you have one? If God should ask you this moment, by an audible voice from heaven, "Do you want a revival?" would you dare to say, Yes? "Are you willing to make the sacrifices?" would you answer, yes? "When shall it begin?" would you answer, let it begin in my heart NOW? Would you dare to say so to God, if you should hear his voice?