In all the wonderful things we can learn and get involved with in this fast moving generation. With all our wonderful options open to us in this modern communication highway culture let’s not forget to keep the Big Deal the Big Deal. Jesus said to go into all the world and preach the Gospel (Good News) to everyone. You may not be going somewhere exotic or even incredibly exciting to some, but preach in the world you are in.

God has placed you and given you a supply for those people that live in the world you are involved with every day. Some are, no all are waiting to hear some Good News. They hear Bad News constantly on every side, be a Good News bearer. Give them the part of the message that pertains to their life right now. If they are sick, the good news is Jesus has health for you. If they are in debt the good news is Jesus has made a way out. If they are in bondage to drugs, alcohol or any other addiction Jesus is the answer. But the really Big Deal is if they are captivated by spiritual death and lost, Jesus is the Life Giver.

As we are half way through the busy summer months I just wanted to remind us all to keep our

priorities in order.  I love reconnecting with family and friends that maybe I haven’t seen in a

coons age (I’m really not sure how long that is but it must be a long time.)  Or having memory

building family times like camping outings or road trips to Disneyland.  But in all our travels and b

busyness lets not forget about the greatest relationship that needs to be nurtured and invested in,

our relationship with God.  Our relationship with God is like anyother relationship in that it can be

either more or less intimate determined by houw much investment is made in it.  In our vacation

time let’s not forget about the one who love us most.  Let’s continue to spend time in His Word that

feeds our very spirit and causes that transformation process change us into His image to be a

continual process.  Let’s spend time in Worship that causes our spirits to be lifted by the Holy

Spirit into the very presence of God.  Let’s pray this summer with a new hunger and thirst for God

and all He wants to accomplish in the earth.  Becoming a Jesus Junkie who can’t get enought is

what I pray over everyone as well as myself.  Keeping our Divine Connection current and alive

is so important and it is the place where real joy springs to life in a grateful heart that is in love

with the Creator.  Keep memory making this summer and do not neglect loads of outside fun and

laughter, but DON’T FORGET YOUR DIVINE CONNECTION!

Pastor Brian

I am at my desk about 1 hour before a Memorial Service of a good friend, David Harris. Reflecting on David and a life well lived it was a real honor to get to experience part of my journey in life with him.    Every human being will eventually step into eternity.  A place without time, a place of ultimate truth.  There is no hiding in that place because the scripture says everything is naked and known before Him.  People have such a twisted concept on eternity due to the lack of true revelation in the modern Church
world.  The idea that when you die God then determines whether you go to heaven or hell is so ridiculous.  It demonstrates great error in our thinking.  Jesus told the Sadducees who were in error one time. “The reason you error is because you don’t know the scripture nor the power of God.” That is exactly why people error today.  The truth is God doesn’t send people to heaven or hell they just enter a continued, progressive journey of the kingdom they live in.  The journey for those who die in the Kingdom of God is heaven.  The journey of those who die in the kingdom of darkness is hell.  There are only two Spiritual Kingdoms represented on the earth. Ask yourself this question, “What Kingdom am I currently living in?” Because the truth of the Word of God is whatever Kingdom you die in is the Kingdom you stay in.  Jesus said in Matthew 25: 41 that everlasting fire (hell) was not prepared for man but for the Kingdom of darkness, The devil and his angels.  Yet how does man end up there?  Well it is not of anything that person has done but what they have not done.  God made a way out of the Kingdom of Darkness through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.  The question to ask is have you taken the way out.  Through stubbornness, pride, deception and hardness of heart men refuse to believe they may need help.  As a person who has personally lived in both kingdoms, I can truthfully testify that the Kingdom of God is much better than the Kingdom of darkness.  If there was no deception in the earth there is not a person alive who would not, receive, love and serve the Great King of Kings, Jesus.  If Jesus stood at my right hand and I said, “This is Jesus, He is the creator of all you see, He is the redeemer of all that was lost and the lover of your very soul.  When darkness and death were your only option Jesus came and paid the complete debt owed so you could go free.  At my left had is Satan, the devil.  He is the father of all rebellion and lies.  He is a master deceiver and destroyer of humanity and all that is good.  Which do you choose?  I promise you everyone would choose Jesus.  As I think about David Harris right now and all he is experiencing on his continued journey into the incredible Kingdom he chose to live in.  Parts
of me are very jealous for him but other parts of me know that I must finish all that God has planned for my journey.  Not so I can go to heaven, but hopefully through my life others can.  David lived his kingdom before his friends and family and now has stepped into a greater reality of it. So David I do not tell you good bye but a simple, I will see you later.

When joy shows up it is very visible and changes all those who are touched by it. Being filled with the Spirit is being filled with joy. The Kingdom of God is said to be righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. You may say, “Why is this so important?” Jesus thought such an experience was very important. Here is what He said.

John 7:37-39
37 The Promise of the Holy Spirit

On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

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Thirsty is a spiritual state of wanting more. More of what God has to offer for you, your family and your generation. Jesus said the answer was to drink. Drink of His presence, drink of His Word, Worship Him until you sense His great presence filling and fulfilling you. The immediate result is it blesses and refreshes you. The bigger result is it creates a river of living water that flows out of you and blesses and refreshes those around you.

Lets become conduits of joy and the power of God touching a generation that is so thirsty for what we have. Stay thirsty and drink much so you will have to flow out for others.