Giving up our rights and accepting the "Grace Ticket"

We are continuing lectures from Loren and Darlene Cunningham on a bunch more of awesome stuff! I'll give yah a little run down.

1. Who God is: infinite, personal, intellectual, and conscious
2. Who Mankind is: created in the image of God, finite, personal with reason
3. What Truth is: constant and known
4. Responsibilities: based on what you know

We can do the things God has called us to do at a finite level with God. Righteousness is being responsible for what you know and taking up your cross daily is to die to our self and accept our responsibilites and humans. Our hearts are created for emotions and to make choices. Life is a relationship and love is a choice. You cannot do things and make decisions off of feelings but off of love and what's right in the eyes of God. God is love which is the basis of all his character and love is real.

We're made in the image of God and to live is to be like Christ and give up our right of freedom and free will that He has given us. You can't lose when you have an eternity of justice waiting for you. Ironically, to die is to truely live. We need to stop thinkin about ourselves and think about the heart of God. In Philippians 2 it talks about how Jesus emptied himself of the glories of heaven and his power to take on human form to die for our sins.

The rights we received when Jesus died were things like freedom (losing your life for the sake of the gospel), family (give up your rights to take responsibility of ministry), reputation (losing face to serve God), food, money (give up the focus of the -great American dollar-), comfort/sleep (when you're with other people in other places you give up your right and luxury of your bed and sleep).

"Give up your rights and He will take care of the responsibility. Revelation needs interpretation to get accurate application." - Loren Cunningham

When we give up our rights we cannot let things rise up like anger, self-control, self-pity, and bitterness. Sacrafice your life and lay down your rights of yourself because nothing but the kingdom will last. We cannot exult in our own understanding over Gods.

OUTREACH LOCATIONS!:

1. Myanmar
2. Japan
3. Cambodia
4. India/sri Lanka
5. Columbia/chile
6. Us virgin Island
7. Mozambique/south Africa
8. Rwanda
9. Cambodia/vietnam
10. South Africa

--We find out our teams and leaders on Monday. 10/17/11--

Darlene Cunningham talked about what to do when we don't know what to do. We need a new understanding of who God is, uphold the character of God, and know the tools used to glorify Him. We need to begin to delight ourselves in who God is.

• understand who God's character is
• remind yourself what He's done in the past (take a higher perspective)
• develop in your spirit "God loyalty"

One thing we can hold onto when times get hard is the Word of God. If we don't have a story to relate to, we need to go back to the true Bible stories and turn back to God's faithfulness. Make it a way of life. Memorizing the word of God and it will be forever wallpapered in your mind and on the tablet of your heart.

God's grace is sufficient for all things. He gives us the power and authority to do the things he calls us to do even when it seems impossible. We can't always to get out of a situation but get grace to make it through. God is limitless and the difficult places in our lives prove God's provision and faithfulness. He doesn't promise us an easy life but he tells us He will be with us through thick and thin and will make beauty from the ashes. We lose grace when we compare ourselves with one another or take offense, so we need to drop the offense and pick up the grace ticket.

"Visualize yourself at the foot of the cross complaining. Is the power of the cross enough?!" -Darlene Cunningham

When we stand before God on judgement day we will not make an account for other people but how we have proved Him to be faithful and when I used the grace ticket when I needed Him the most. So we need to judge righteously and leave the situation in God's hands. Hang onto joy as you hang onto His character.

"Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him and he will do it. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light and your judgement as the noonday." --Psalm 37:4-6