Hey Everybody,
I dunno bout any one else but for me last week was such a good fasting/praying week.
I ended up getting great revelation and breakthrough on 1Jn 3:3. It seriously helped me so much while working on some mind/heart housecleaning.
So this week we'll be looking at John 4: 27, 30
27..."A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven."
30 "He must increase, but I must decrease."
These words are spoken by John the Baptist about Jesus. Everything John says in v 27-36 is such a gold mine. I'd recommend daily mediation on those verses. But if ya can't handle those at least meditate on these 2 verses throughout the day and pray/sing/recite them into your hearts.
Everything we have is from God and He has given us these crowns so that we can give them back. (Rev 4:10)
A little quote i have (from a friend who was praying for me) is:
"More of You (God) less of Drew"
Let us make that our prayer this week.
More of You God! Less of me!!
In everything we need to love God and our neighbour by using the things God gave us to spur on the Gospel in our lives by living in humility and servant hood.
Use what God's given ya for His will. Not your own!!!
Amen
-Drew
(e-mail me at andrewgusztak@hotmail.com if you have questions or concerns.)
Monday, August 27, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
Aug 21-23
Its the cry of our heart to hunger and thirst and to get more of God, to behold and become more like Him (2Cor 3:18).
But we are not hungering and thirsting for no reason, we are hungering and thirsting because we know we will one day see Him.
So here is our focus:1Jn 3:3
And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
We fix our hope on Jesus and we get purified. What a sweet deal...
We purify ourselves by abiding in the Lord (1Jn 3:6)
We abide in Him by interacting with the Holy Spirit and by rooting ourselves in the Word. God will have His way in our lives and no matter how lightly or extremely you take action to follow this out you will see fruit because God will bring it about to bring glory to His Name.
So we fast and we pray and we push on to fix our hope on Jesus and to purify ourselves. We MUST take ACTION to purify ourselves!!!!!!
Amen
-Drew
But we are not hungering and thirsting for no reason, we are hungering and thirsting because we know we will one day see Him.
So here is our focus:1Jn 3:3
And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
We fix our hope on Jesus and we get purified. What a sweet deal...
We purify ourselves by abiding in the Lord (1Jn 3:6)
We abide in Him by interacting with the Holy Spirit and by rooting ourselves in the Word. God will have His way in our lives and no matter how lightly or extremely you take action to follow this out you will see fruit because God will bring it about to bring glory to His Name.
So we fast and we pray and we push on to fix our hope on Jesus and to purify ourselves. We MUST take ACTION to purify ourselves!!!!!!
Amen
-Drew
Monday, August 13, 2007
Aug 14-16
Ok here we go...
Eph 4: 21-25
21if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,
22that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
23and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
25Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another.
(NASB)
Everyone wants to get away from a 'business as usual' type of lifestyle. Weather its loosing yourself in a book, a movie, a job, wanting to retire early... ect. Its the (for lack of a better term) "American dream" to have a perfect life set apart from the world and totally being comfortable in any situation. Basically we all want to find an escape and we want to actually LIVE while we are alive on this earth.
God gives us an escape. He gives us the true meaning of life and ways to escape the 'business as usual'. He tells how in the verses above. Its all about setting our minds on things above and setting our hearts before the Lord in agreement. Seeking holiness and righteousness.
And how do we do it? Well Paul gives a few ways in the following verses but the number one way is to "speak truth". The bible also says that if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth. God SPOKE the world into existence. Jesus is the living WORD of God. We need to realize that our words and our speech has a HUGE effect on our lives. Start Guarding your tongue and everything will fall into place! for REAL!
Anyways, lets hit this up this week and really shoot to try and attain to a higher level of our walk with God by really watching our tongue and our heart behind it. God bless you all!!!
-Drew
ps. if you have any prayer requests or comments or concerns you can e-mail them to me at: andrewgusztak@hotmail.com
Eph 4: 21-25
21if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,
22that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
23and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
25Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another.
(NASB)
Everyone wants to get away from a 'business as usual' type of lifestyle. Weather its loosing yourself in a book, a movie, a job, wanting to retire early... ect. Its the (for lack of a better term) "American dream" to have a perfect life set apart from the world and totally being comfortable in any situation. Basically we all want to find an escape and we want to actually LIVE while we are alive on this earth.
God gives us an escape. He gives us the true meaning of life and ways to escape the 'business as usual'. He tells how in the verses above. Its all about setting our minds on things above and setting our hearts before the Lord in agreement. Seeking holiness and righteousness.
And how do we do it? Well Paul gives a few ways in the following verses but the number one way is to "speak truth". The bible also says that if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth. God SPOKE the world into existence. Jesus is the living WORD of God. We need to realize that our words and our speech has a HUGE effect on our lives. Start Guarding your tongue and everything will fall into place! for REAL!
Anyways, lets hit this up this week and really shoot to try and attain to a higher level of our walk with God by really watching our tongue and our heart behind it. God bless you all!!!
-Drew
ps. if you have any prayer requests or comments or concerns you can e-mail them to me at: andrewgusztak@hotmail.com
Monday, August 6, 2007
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