Pastor David Crank - Mind Monsters Will Keep You On The Run - 16 Oct 2012

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Don't underestimate what your internal conversations do to your faith.

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WOW! This hit home.

We all have baggage. There is an enemy that "steals, kills and destroys" and he uses the messages and pain from our past to influence us to believe the lies. We play old out-of-date, recordings in our heads, messages which are no longer relevant and are often created by people who didn't know what they were talking about when they blabbed their mouth.

We believed these individuals because we were kids, or they were in a position of authority or a family member, which gave them credibility. We believe the wrong things which come from imperfect, wrong-intentioned humans, when the messages we SHOULD receive, accept and believe are from God. Those old wrong messages are monsters that feed our insecurities and chip away at our self esteem and put cracks in our confidence.

Pastor David is teaching a series called Mind Monsters that is PHENOMENAL! It's based on a book by Kevin Gerald.

5 Part Series:

1. Mind Monsters (Oct 6)
2. Anger Danger (Oct 13)
3. Me Monster (Oct 20)
4. Monster-In-Law (Oct 27)
5. Mafia Monster with Michael Franzese (Nov 3)

David Crank - Emotional Cancer - It'll Kill You.

Emotional Cancer will kill you before other cancers are even diagnosed.

My Dad, David Crank Sr, died at 56 years old of melanoma skin cancer that spread from his neck into tumors in his brain. During a period of operations, it metastasized.

 

In the months leading up to his diagnosis, Dad said He heard God’s booming voice saying, “CHANGE NOW!!!”, walk in love, forgive people, deal with this, David, you have to get to the root of the problem.



Dad didn’t die of cancer on the brain as much as cancer of the mind.

David Crank - In A Hurry? Be Still & Know That I Am God

Sometimes we are in a hurry to get things done, we think God is too slow, so we step in to help and we get in His way. We don’t have to rush and be in a hurry. Good things come to those who wait!


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From God’s perspective, we have a whole lifetime to “do this thing”.

In God’s eyes “A day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day.  The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think”. (2 Peter 3:8-9) God is not bound by time like we are.

 

God looks at us and could easily say, “I was doing this before you got here and I’ll be doing this after you leave.”

Are you so busy that you’re barely acknowledging your kids? Are you missing the very zest of life?



God says be still and know that I am God! (Psalms 46:10)

How was he really saying it? In Psalms 46:10…

1.       BE STILL and know I’m God

 

2.       Be still and know HEY I’m God

 

3.       Be still and KNOW that I’m God

 

4.       Be Still and know that I’M God and YOU’RE NOT

We don’t know where the emphasis was in this scripture, but He could have meant it any of these ways.

We worry, what’s going to happen to the economy? What do we do? What do we know?

-          God says, I will never leave nor forsake you
-          God says, I will satisfy your needs
-          Be still and know that I am God
-          Patiently wait for the Lord, be brave and courageous
-          Occupy yourselves until I return

Sometimes the thing you hurry to do is the thing you want undone a short time later, such as a car purchase after that first car payment arrives?

 

It takes time to get into our mess and it takes time to get out of a mess.

The flesh is never satisfied. Proverbs 27:20, Ecclesiastes 1:8

If it is God today, it will be God tomorrow.

 

WAIT…

         Be Still…

                    And know…

                                   That I am God!

We say BUT!

God says, NO, Be Still.

Every person has a whisper from God. People respond to the God in you, the humility, not the bull-in-the-china-shop approach.

 

Everything in life becomes mundane. Stick with what you’ve got. Enjoy your kids. Stay motivated, but slow down. Don’t have those freakout moments.

God gets more glory when it looks impossible.

 

Enjoy and don’t rush out of what you have. Enjoy where you’re at right now. Have fun and make memories.

 

Enjoy right NOW.

Be Still and KNOW that I am God.

 

 

David Crank - Flesh is CUH-RAY-ZEE!

We try to succeed through behavior modification but can’t fight flesh with flesh.

Satan is the king of “IF”.

-          If you were really saved you wouldn’t have done that…

-          IF you were a christian you wouldn’t have thought that…

Your spirit got saved your flesh didn’t. The enemy wants you to doubt who you are. Even Jesus was tempted and he countered every temptation with God’s Word.



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Just as Satan might promise you the world, the promises are empty because Jesus has already earned for you what is yours. Satan has nothing to offer but empty promises and lies.

I’m not under the “Do” plan,

I’m under the “Done” plan.

(Romans 6:14)

 

It’s not based on what you do, it’s based on what Jesus did FOR you.

Give no place to the devil.

 

If you let the enemy in the car, he’ll want to drive. You take authority over your own flesh and tell the devil to get away.

No one wakes up today and says today is the day that I’m going to destroy my life and lose my family. It starts with a whisper from the devil that it’s ok to look at porn or go be with that woman who makes you feel better about yourself than your wife.

God says you are a new man and the old man is buried, but the “old man” rises up and you have to keep pushing him back down in the casket. 

You can’t trust your flesh, it’s an enemy of the Lord.

There are seasons. You may sin and “have fun” for a season, but then you’ve created a habit and can’t seem to stop once the season has passed and you’ve decided you don’t want to live like that anymore.

Skin is skin, the flesh is never satisfied. The enemy will trip you up. 

 

Guys go out for White Castle when they have Filet Mignon at home!

You're clean because of what Jesus has done for you. it doesn't matter how you feel. Don't let the enemy tell you otherwise. The enemy tries to convince you that you’re already dirty and may as well go “do that thing” that you want to do. 


What the Son has set free is free indeed.

Don't give in to the lies of the enemy, but embrace the blessings Jesus has for you - in front of you - right now - today.

Feeling So Right and Being So Wrong - Pastor Sergio De La Mora

The Aztecs' religion was to sacrifice humans to make the sun god happy so that food would grow. People mostly were happy to die because they thought  they would go straight to heaven. It was how you died, not how you lived that determined whether you would go to the sun god or the dark and dismal underworld. And these people strongly believed in the afterlife.

They felt so right, but were so wrong.

It’s a paradox.

Mark Crow: One Year To Live - What Would YOU Do?

If you had one year to live, what would you do?

How would your life impact others?

Most of the time when we think about the future, we view it as, "How is this going to affect me?"

We aren't given the gift of life to ONLY enjoy it ourselves, but to impact others.

Bucket List

So how would you spend that year?

Some would start living out their bucket list.

When I started thinking about it, I thought, would I do all of the things I ever wanted to do?

Or would I go find people and help them live out the life THEY desire to live?

Mark Crow: Grace - Not Getting What You Deserve

I thank God that I don't get what I deserve. 

In the U.S. we are law-driven.

We will drive up to a stoplight in the middle of a city in the middle of the night with no traffic in sight and sit at a red light for 5 minutes until it turns green and then we go...

Doesn't that sound a little insane? With NO ONE in sight? Yet we do it.

The natural law finds it's way into the spiritual arena and we start doing things "just because".

Stop being a human doing and

start being a human BEING.

David Crank - Start CLIMBING!

Don't stay at the bottom just because all of your friends are there, when God wants you at the top.

When you get to the top, you can then help elevate them from the bottom.

You do that by elevating thinking. 

You'll never know what the view is from the top until you get there.

Don't be that person that needs a
fire(cracker) lit under them.

SELF-MOTIVATE!

Pastor Omar – 3 Ways God Communicates With Us

God wants to direct his children so that we miss a lot of pain and suffering on this earth.

He is a God that really leads and really speaks to us.


He wants US to be led.

There is therefore now no condemnation (judging/guilt) to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to (the dictates of) the Spirit. Romans 8:1

 

God wants us to LEARN how to walk according to the dictates of the Spirit, not the dictates of the flesh.

God gave us the 5 physical senses because we live in a physical world and we need them to operate correctly and effectively in this world. (seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting).

There is a physical world but also a real spirit world that we can’t see…

In the world of the Spirit, to operate successfully, we have to be led by the Spirit of God, because we can’t see in that world.

David Crank - Jesus Didn't Come to Condemn - Easter 2012

What we need is what Jesus portrayed...this loving God who is not here to point a finger at us but who is ready to identify with us.


Who needs to be told they are going to hell???

We all pretty much know that...



Some of us have even been told to go to hell… 

It's not about ACTING like a christian, if you have prayed to invite Jesus into your life, you ARE a christian.

David Crank - It's Finished! Embrace it!

Everything points us towards trying to live right, trying to do, do, do after we're saved.

God doesn't bless you because you're good. He blesses you because He's good.

To help you begin to comprehend what Jesus did for you:

• He paid $17 million dollars on your $1700 debt.

He so overpaid your debt that it MORE than accounted for your past, present and future sin... Your sin is minimal compared to what He paid for You.

What Jesus did on the cross

is so much bigger than any evil

that keeps you from God's love. 

David Crank - Don't Compartmentalize

God doesn't want us to compartmentalize.


God wants "all-access" privileges to our life.







When you get your eyes on the wrong thing, you get wrong results.

Treat Everyday Like It's A Friday

 

Tonight Pastor David proclaimed that we need to treat Everyday like a Friday. This statement is initiated from Joel Osteen's new book "Everyday A Friday".

Pastor David states that this year is a "YEAR OF COMPLETION".

This is 2012 and 12 is the number for completion or finishing. God is going to finish what He started in each of us. We are going to see breakthroughs that we never imagined possible. There are pillars or stepping stones that need to be in place, plotting our path, for without a plan, we just meander through life. God is going to stretch our capacity, we need to stop focusing on what we aren't and focus on what God IS.

 

We are to use the Word to speak into our future:

• I'm going to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Cor 5:7)
• I'm not going to lean on my own understanding (Prov 3:5)
• I'm going to acknowledge Him in all my ways (Prov 3:6)
• He's going to direct my path (Prov 3:6)
• He brings health into my life (Psalm 103:3) 

It's not that we don't do the right things, we just don't do them long enough.

Make up your mind that you're going to love 2012 BEFORE you see evidence of it and make Everyday a Friday!!!
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The End and Beginning of a Year

Jason Crabb and his talented musicians blessed Faith Church St Louis with a performance on New Years Eve... While the Crabb Family is renowned across generations for their style of music, I (the individual writing this) have been someone who "doesn't get into" that style of music. However, this man is entertaining, down-to-earth, he is anointed, powerful and spirit-filled. You can't help but want to move to his music. He engages the audience and makes you feel a part of what God is doing through Him.

On Sunday morning, Jason spoke of how God sent him, just a guy from Beaver Dam, KY to the Grammy's in Los Angeles. During that trip, being as country as he is, he had to go see the 'Price is Right' hoping to experience in the same trip, getting a Grammy AND playing plinko.

During this trip, he met a good-looking young man who had been in jail, had heard one of Jason's songs and it had moved him. He was now in a halfway house and was losing hope.

Jason encouraged him, "God has a plan for your life."

The young man looks up in surprise and says, "What?"

Jason repeats, "God has a plan for your life!" and the young man's face lit up and his whole countenance changed.

And then God told Jason, "That is why I sent you to LA - - for this young man to be encouraged." 

God has a plan for each of us. Never think you aren't influencing or that you aren't positioned to do enough.

Do what you can, where you are.

But most of all, first of all, you have to surrender it all to Christ.

You have nothing to lose if you've given it all to Him.

Christ can use you where you are... it's not YOUR performance, but His working through you that is important. In order for you to be flexible enough for Him to work through you, you cannot do it in your own strength, you have to have given yourself to Him and in that He will work through you.

You will be AMAZED at what He can do through you. He can use you ANYWHERE and He wants to.

Make a difference where you are today, give yourself to Christ and go be AMAZED!