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Pastor Bryan shared a simple but important message about "mindsets" on Saturday. Especially as we edge towards the revival meeting and the year end, it is important that we recognise and remove the negative mindsets like fear, sin and doubts that have hindered us from growing. Only then can we as a ministry revive spiritually in the new year. 5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.[b]7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Colossians 3:5-10 As Christians our "old self" (evil desire lurking in our members) is buried in baptism, and God resurrects us to live in "newness of life" (Romans 6:4). This newness of life is exponentially better than life in our old sinful habits. Yet too many of us fail to experience the new life Jesus bought for us. We find that our old ways are easy to fall back into, and our newness of life seems to be choked out by our old self. We're saved, yet settle for "carnal Christianity," which makes it hard to distinguish our lives from those of the world. We shouldn't be surprised when people ask us, "Why do I need Jesus? You call yourself a Christian, but your life is no different from mine!" Ouch! God didn't intend for us to live that way. Living a transformed life IS possible and we CAN become like Jesus. The newness of life starts with killing the old self, repeatedly and faithfully. We don't have to gut this out on our own. God, in his wonderful grace, promises to help us do this through the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:11,13). He won't do it for us, but He will join us when we step out in obedience. Arm yourself with the truth from the Word to help you discern sin's lies. Colossians 3:16 says, "Let the Word of Christ have its home [in your hearts and minds] and dwell in you in richness" The Word re-tunes our sensitivity to right and wrong, and revitalizes our spirit. When it permeates our thoughts, the subtle moves of the old self are brought to light. As we look forward to the revival meeting, let's await that day with expectations and preparing ourselves to receive from God. Lets always keep our ministry in prayer. Detonate ministry will be a revived ministry in 2009! Look forward to!: Pray and keep watch about our revival meeting on the 21st Dec, Sunday at 5pm sharp! Do remember to call on those who have not been with us for awhile and make this day a day to remember the rest of our lives:) This Week @ Detonate: Our Senior Pastor, Pastor Alfred will be here to challenge and prepare our hearts for the upcoming revival meeting! Casting aside our mindsets, we wanna go in the same spirit with the entire ministry to prepare ourselves for the end of year revival challenge. We cant just sit there and wait! So cya at 430pm sharp for a time of prayer and worship:):) Prayers from the Body: Do keep Brother Darren and Sister Jia Ling in prayers as they continue to trust God for healing for their mother. God has kept them thus far, and we wanna thank God for His faithfulness. We know God is in overall control, and He is in full knowledge of each and everyone in the entire family. Let's stand together with them in this time of trying period and be such a support to them, that they may be filled with joy and courage. We thank God for His faithfulness over our uni students we have braved through the fiery fire of exams! Now its our poly students preparing for their exams before they break off for christmas! keep persevering in your studies and revision and give your best shot in all that you do and trust God:) Labels: spiritual formation  |
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