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God will use you to spread his unstoppable Gospel

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Your purpose is to spread the Glory of God to the ends of the earth

When you’re doing what God wants you to do, there is nothing that can kill you.

God’s unstoppable gospel is surging in the veins of his people and must be shared with others.

Disciples are disciple makers.

Seek God’s will, then follow hard after it. No one and nothing can stop you.

Mother, you know your babies need to hear the scripture out of your mouths, so fill yourself up with verses. If you don’t think you have time to memorize, listen to music that is filled with scripture, and the kind os scripture that pushes you to turn from sin and turn to God.

Men, don’t

Ladies, you are gifted relationship builders. Keep putting bits and peices of the gospel in all your relationships. Try to bring Jesus up as much as possible.

Education

a good lesson plan will include

the material, ways you’ll communicate that material, and how you will evaluate learning.

When we come to church each week, we should be thinking about what we heard that will change our life. Did we actually hear what the preacher said and believe it, or was it just a little speech we listened to that didn’t make a difference.

I don’t want what I say to change your hearts. I want the story of Paul to slap you awake and help you to say, I’ve got to be more intentional and willing to take risks to share my faith with others, not because Paul did it, but because I worship the God of Paul. And if God brought Paul through that, he can bring me through the discomfort of a conversation at work. He can break the chain of my addictions. He can empower me to push through my pain. He can embolden me to get over myself and

Paul wasn’t super human.

He had spoken with Jesus. Yes

He had done amazing miracles in Jesus name. Yes

He had endured incredible persecution with Jesus help. Yes

But if you’re thinking, I just am not like Paul. I can’t be like him.

Good.

Cuz that’s not Luke’s point in writing this.

He doesn’t want us looking at Paul and saying, wow, what an amazing man.

He wants us looking at Jesus, and saying, WOW what amazing love, that he would die for us and desire that all people repent of their sin and turn to god. Wow, he sustained a guy like Paul through fairy-tale-level drama, he can sustain his people.

Nothing can kill you until God says it’s time. He controls the molecules in the universe, of course he can stop a car, or a cancer, or a heart attack. But in his infinite love and wisdom, he masterfully orchestrates the events of this planet so that we are all groaning for relief.