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Youthstreet: Becoming the youth God wants us to be! (Michael Hands)

Tonight Mike preached up a storm speaking out of 1 Tim 4:12 "Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity." He issued a call that we are to be different. We are to live in such a way thatwe are somehow different to those who are not followers of Jesus. That the transformation Jesus has done in us, shines through, so that we're the ones who don't drink at parties when everyone else is getting drunk, that we're the ones who refuse to start gossip and bag-out othes, that we're the ones who respect and listen to our parents or teachers. So why not take a listen and let God challenge you to live out the transformation that God is doing in your heart!

Mike Hands - Youthstreet

Naivety Scene 2: Are we holy or compromised?

Instead of looking at the Nativity Scene as we approach Christmas Day we thought it would be more of a challenge to examine the Naivety Scene. What things are we naive to?

Naivety is the lacking of wisdom, knowledge and experience. And this week, the second in the series we looked at how we are naive to the things God expects of us. It is so easy for our personal holiness to compromise the glory of God as expressed in our lives, unless we make a concious descision to do something about it.

You can listen to the second message of the series here.

Getting into the Groove

Last night at 12two, Orrell Batersby preached on what it looks like to live in God's groove. How we need to live in God's reality, follow God's initiative and rely daily on God' provision. It was an excellenet message and I trust you will get as much out of it as we did!

DOWNLOAD AUDIO HERE: Living in God's Groove

The Next step after listening: Ex 3:1-10

I think God is trying to communicate to us all the time...

Exodus 3:1-3 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up."

God appears to us through the everyday. 

4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, God saw an opportunity to talk to Moses, because Moses was open to it. God needs us to be open to hear what he has to say. "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am."  "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground."

There is a change that has to occur in us, if we want to hear God speak: Respect, submission, trust, vulnerability, fear...

Exodus 3:7-10 The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.  So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."

God always calls us to do something.

We could stop just after we pray, just after we hear God’s voice, just after we take off our sandals. But that’s not the point... The point is that we live in the centre of God’s will and we do that following him.