I think as humans we get caught up with life and the big choices we have around us, and totally forget about what’s in front of us! Life isn’t just made up of big trials. Life is minute-by-minute, a precious gift of sixty-second opportunities. God wants to use some of these little opportunities to prepare us for the big things. He uses them to prune us into the people he wants us to be. For example, we don’t teach kids by giving them the SAT. We teach them day by day with small school lessons. As you go about the day try and focus on the little things in life, and what Jesus has for you.

Luke 16:10

I went People watching the other day. Those who don’t know what i’m talking about, I enjoy going to the mall or Walmart, anywhere where there is a lot of people, and just sit and watch! It truly is amazing all the different people in the world. Big ones, small ones, happy ones, and sad ones. God has called us to love all of them!! It is very easy to get busy and just ignore the people around you. It is such a blessing to just encourage a stranger. The Lord says to Love others as yourself. Try today to make a difference in someones day just by showing you care.

John 13:34-35

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

It seems that as the years have come and gone it has become harder For people to share the Good news!  It is almost as if Jesus has become an Unspoken. The world is trying to suck Jesus out of everything, And it is our Jobs as Believers to spread the word. The bible says to be strong in the Grace that is in Christ Jesus, and the things that you have heard me say entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. (2 Timothy) I feel a lot of believers don’t think they are qualified or adequate enough to talk about Jesus. Jesus wants us to have a relationship with him and to simply believe! So as you go about your day tell someone the good news!!

Matthew 28

The Great Commission 

Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. ¹⁷ When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. ¹⁸ Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Have you ever watched someone prune a tree? It’s pretty amazing how by the time they’re done there is not a lot left and the tree looks kind of puny. Wait a little while and the tree looks better then it ever did. We are like a tree and if you let him Jesus will prune you into the man/women of God he want you to be. Yes he might cut things off that your holding to, or it may hurt to deal with somethings. God wants to be our source of power. By us being the branches and God being the vine we are feeding off his power without him we will not bear much fruit. So the Question today is are you ready to be pruned?

John 15:5-8

Do you have faith? Faith in your friends that they wont let you down? Faith in yourself that bills will get payed? Faith in your spouse that  you trust them to take care of you? How about  faith in Jesus? Jesus says that all we need is the faith of a tiny mustard seed! We try to put our faith in money and material things and some how we always get let down. Try putting your faith in something eternal. Time to step out of the boat. The Lord is with you.

2 Corinthians 5:6-7 So we  are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are  away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight.

I know as a believer it is hard sometimes to feel like your making a differince. Life seems to go by so fast and it may seem spiritually that your stuck in the same place and your spinining your wheels. Focus on getting to know God. Pursue knowing him better through prayer, reading the Bible, being in fellowship and teaching with other Christians…all of that is good. But your faith is not to rest in your effort, but instead in God’s ability to work in your life. Jesus said it’s like grapes on a vine. Jesus is the main vine and he said we are like the branches. “Remain (or abide) in me and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.”Jesus went on to say, “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.” So as you go about the day stop trying to do things to make you a better believer, Just get to know him!

Matthew 11:28-30 

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. “Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. “For My yoke is easy, and My load is light.”

Today it’s so easy to have surface level friendships. We hangout with them, watch movies, go out to eat but its easy to become very shallow. It might be your affraid that they will hurt you, or you know that what they might tell you is true but your running from it. But when you have a friend or friends around you that you feel comfortable to speak into your life it makes all the difference in the world. God puts people in our life for a reason. By having good friends to tell you when your doing something wrong or to encourage you when you are down it makes it alot easier to fallow the Lord. As you continue with your day be thankful for the people in your life.

What is love? It has to be one of the hardest things to explain. Days have passed by, relationships have blossomed and so has love. But no one can give the proper definition of love. To some Love is friendship set on fire for others Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it. No matter how you define it or feel it, love is the eternal truth in the history of mankind.  God says “ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.” As you go about this Valentines day try and remember who loved you first.

Colossians 3:23-24

²³ Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, ²⁴ since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.