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Well this is week 4 of our series Risk Takers.
How about an incredible series we have been having.
If you have not been here but have been watching online, you are getting just a glimpse of what is happening.
We have been experiencing the move of God in such a powerful way and I am hearing such wonderful things form this series and how it is impacting people's lives.
The series started out about us as a church and who we are and what the culture is here.
How we are some risk takers here and the status quo is not enough for us.
Then the next week was all about starting to take risk and in order to be a risk taker you have to begin taking risk.
There can be no sign of complacency.
You have to take the risk on people, on relationships, on church, and most of all on God.
Then last week was about moving forward.
Regardless of your situation, your circumstances, or your deficiencies.
You must move forward.
I told you that this series is all about
You taking borderline steps for boundless success.
When we ended last week this line of
You may have doubts about God, but God does not have any doubts about you.
This is is going to be good.
We are going to laugh together and have some fun but getting serious about this risk taker thing.
Today’s sermon is entitled
It Starts with a Stretch.
I am asked all the time, how I get my sermon ideas and concepts.
I think people beleive that pastors sit on the mountain or in their prayer closet and just meditate waiting on the Lord to bring them an idea.
Then He finally just says hey, this is what I want you to preach on.
That isn’t always the case.
Sometimes it is, but not all the time.
lol Sometimes it comes from words delivered by someone else, sometimes in devotion time, sometimes people come and ask me the same thing over and over so I just know I need to teach on that.
This time however really came from a toy.
It is a toy that most of you are familiar with.
Let’s watch this and see if you remember these?
(launch stretch armstrong video)
What an awesome toy.
How many of you had one of these?
I was going to wear the same outfit to preach in today but my wife stopped me on the way out because she didn’t think yall could handle all of this.
lol
But I used to have one of these and me and my cousin would try to stretch this thing as far as it could go.
I mean just like most boys, we wanted to destroy this thing.
So we would stretch it.
Try to wrap him around trees.
We would play tug of war with him.
He finally just hardened up and we tossed him.
This man right here has the potential to do some incredible things simply by stretching.
He stretches 2-3 times his normal size.
Some of us do that at Thanksgiving.
lol Gotta wear them stretchy pants.
I wish I had this ability.
Especially when my back itches.
Come on, yall know what I am talking about.
When that spot right in the middle starts to itch and you can’t reach it.
You look like an octopus mating.
I mean your arms are flailing about.
One is on top the other coming from the bottom then you think, maybe I should switch them up.
That doesn’t work.
So you go find a corner or your favorite significant other or one of those long wooden back scratchers just to get that spot.
How much more convenient would it be to just be able to stretch around and take care of that.
Or maybe you need something from the top cabinet.
No stool required.
Maybe you are at a restaurant and your kid sits at the other end of the table and is doing something they aren’t supposed to.
No need to get up.
Just smack.
Right in the back of the head.
In fact I believe that moms possess this ability.
They can reach any where in the back of the car to get you.
But as I was thinking about this weeks sermon I began to think about stretching.
This is crucial to becoming everything God wants you to do.
If you are going to be risk taker with and for God, it is going to require that you stretch.
I don’t really know about you and your experience iwth exercise but one of the things that I have always disliked or skipped past when working out is stretching.
I felt like it was a complete waste of time.
Now people like William do this thing called Yoga which is nothing but glorified stretching and they have poses like this or like this.
Oh yeah you didn’t know your pastor could do that huh.
I know William, I didn’t do it right.
But I don’t care for Yoga.
It is not my thing.
But my feelings toward stretching and the like changed a few years ago.
I totally believe that stretching is important.
I was doing some working out and got ahold of this video series called beach body.
In beach body they have you do 5-10 mins of stretching before and after.
Well of course I skipped that part.
Until i got to the abs part of the dvd.
I did my workout and then said I am not stretching.
I got such a cramp in my stomach.
It was absolutely ridiculous.
I couldn’t believe how painful it was.
If I had to compare it to something it would be the equivalent of alien coming out of my stomach.
I have no idea what that feels like but i imagine it would be this pain.
So I have a few things we need to talk about with stretching and why it is important.
The first one in your notes is this.
Stretching helps to avoid injury in your life.
You if doing a sport or exercise can avoid some injuries if you stretch properly.
There is a phrase in exercising that our coach used to tell us.
You can choose your pain.
Did you know that?
You can choose your pain.
You can have a little bit of pain now in stretching or you can have a tremendous amount of pain later when something tears or pulls.
See stretching releases your muscles and loosens them to prepare them for the use you are about to do.
We do this every morning.
The first thing most of us do in the morning as we are getting out of the bed, we stretch.
Then we go make coffee.
By the way if you missed Coffee and Conversation small group yesterday, you missed some good stuff.
But we stretch our arms.
We kind of go side to side.
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