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 We play old out-of-date, recordings in our heads, messages which are no longer relevant and are often created by people who didn't know what they were talking about when they blabbed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)

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!