Sunday Evening Revival October 20, 2009

PREACHER: Tim Green

Sunday Evening Revival October 19, 2009

PREACHER: Tim Green

Sunday Morning Service October 18, 2009 (Revival)

PREACHER: Tim Green

Sunday School October 18, 2009 (Revival)

PREACHER: Tim Green

Sunday Evening Revival October 19, 2008

PREACHER: Tim Green

I Corinthians 12, II Corinthians 1:4, Hebrews 4:16

“Cracked Pots”

God’s gifts are not always wrapped in pretty paper and bows.  All of God’s gifts serve a purpose in the body of Christ.

It is much better to follow Jesus than any man.  You were saved by God’s grace for His pleasure.  God has a specific job for every Christian to do.

The church is not about it’s pastor, it’s leadership, or the building.  The church is about Jesus Christ that the excellency of its power might be about Him and not about us.

You can’t have complete confidence in anything or anyone but God.  Every person is flawed.  God is the only One who is perfect.  God uses “Cracked Pots.”  We are all imperfect people.  We are all “cracked” in different ways.  We all have some kind of problems in our lives.  We have insecurities, and strengths, and cultural differences, and histories.  We’ve got some cracks in who we are.

Don’t be blind to the benefits and blessings of the person God made you to be.  God chose us in spite of our shortcomings and faults.  God may have even chosen us BECAUSE of our shortcomings and faults so we can be better used to help others with similar problems. 

God helps things happen to you and me so we can help others going through the same things.  Don’t beat yourself up because of your failures.  Let the redeemed part of you attest to God’s goodness.  There is a self-worth that comes from God that helps us to be who we are called to be.  We have a value to God, and we need to realize that we are important.

God expects the best from cracked pots.  Don’t quit.  Don’t get discouraged.  You can be what God would have you to be even though you’re not perfect.  God specializes in holding cracked pots together.   

God delights in filling cracked pots.  Humanity has been flawed from the beginning.  Once a person is saved, they have the ability to sin, and they also have the ability to choose not to sin. 

After you get saved, you have to go against the Holy Spirit within you to sin.  As a child of God, if you continue sinning, you’ve got to work at it.  It’s not impossible to do wrong.  But it’s possible to do right.   God gets glory from using cracked pots.  He is glorified through our frailty. 

God’s strength is made perfect in our weakness.  The devil will get you to dwell on your failures, but you can bring them all to Jesus and lay them at His feet.  With your flaws, give it all to Him, and He can use you!

Give God the pieces of who you are and He can make you the person you were intended to be.