Create in Me a Pure Heart

Get Connected Midweek Experience From Nursery through Adult, CCM has something for everyone in your family on Wednesday nights. A new series of classes begins November 18th. Personality Power Rescheduled! 1 Day Workshop December 5th 9:45am- 4:30 pm 5 Week Course Wednesdays Nov 18- Dec 16 6:30-8:00 Spend time identifying the God- given power of your personality, learn to diffuse the sources that drain your power and most importantly... discover God's plan in all of it! Online Registrations View Messages

Create in Me a Pure Heart "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" Matthew 5:8 (NIV) "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world" --CS Lewis How are you hearing God these days? How is your heart toward God? A few short weeks ago our beloved nephew, Isaac, heard God calling him through a song his Uncle Scott was singing in church: "Create in me a clean heart". Isaac asked his mom to print the scripture the song was based on for him to place on the dashboard of his car. When just a few weeks later Isaac passed from earth to heaven, that scripture was still on his dashboard... now it is speaking to all of us about Isaac's heart. It is a pure heart. A heart that said, "God help me, forgive me, cleanse me." Because of Isaac's dashboard scripture, hundreds prayed at his funeral, and many more who can't be numbered are praying, "God create in us a pure heart, a clean heart." An imperfect young man now teaches us all about our imperfections. Now a young man who was in need... is revealing our deep need. He is speaking to each of us from heaven saying, "Ask for God's help, his cleansing, his forgiveness... you need it!" We share a picture of our precious nephew whose heart remains in our heart. His family is working on establishing a foundation in his name. Isaac's life was dedicated to helping others and includes many stories that reflect his beautiful heart. Whether he was suiting up a disadvantaged Battle Creek Football player in Under Armor, setting up a hotline for the girls to be escorted to their dorms at CMU after the rape of female student, taking the shoes off his feet for a homeless man, intercity mission work, or purchasing birthday gifts for under privileged kids, Isaac continually showed his heart to his beloved family and anyone who needed him. They will honor his life by continuing his vision through a foundation (more details to come later). How about you? Are you hearing God today? How's your heart? Praying this prayer with you, Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Psalm 51:10-12(NIV)

Under the Influence

Forward to a Friend Get Connected Midweek Experience From Nursery through Adult, CCM has something for everyone in your family on Wednesday nights. Personality Power Rescheduled! 1 Day Workshop December 5th 9:45am- 4:30 pm 6 Week Course Wednesdays November 11- December 16 6:30-8:00 Spend time identifying the God- given power of your personality, learn to diffuse the sources that drain your power and most importantly... discover God's plan in all of it! Improve Your Artistic Craft Day October 24th 9 am - 12:30 pm Stacey Livingston has prepared this hands on workshop for musicians, lighting and sound designers, projection technicians, service coordinators, singers, artists, actors and dancers to discover and to improve their natural giftings. Online Registrations View Messages Under the Influence If you speak words that are worthy, you will be my spokesman. You are to influence them... from Jeremiah 15:19-20 NLT Are you under the influence? What influence is it? Who is influencing you? Are the words they speak and the deeds they do bringing the best out of you? Think about what words or actions have influenced you for the good of your life... What words or actions have you given to influence others for their good? In the famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said that "you are the light of the world and the salt of the earth." He was influencing us to become light-filled, tasty, life preserving influencers! Light entering a room influences the darkness so much it dispels it. Salt added to a steak preserves the goodness of that steak and brings out the best flavor. This commission to influence darkness and bring the best out in people is a high call! How can we stay under God's influence and influence others for their best life? Be aware of God's presence... Be aware of the presence of the one who needs your influence... Be aware of God's presence... Yes, we said be aware of God's presence twice. It's amazing how beginning and ending with that awareness will influence you and subsequently influence others. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means. --Albert Einstein Let him that would move the world, first move himself. --Socrates Join us this weekend with international influencer, Dr. David Loveless (davidloveless.org), as we continue our series Just Be It! Under the Influence,

Words from God about your diet...

Forward to a Friend Get Connected Midweek Experience From Nursery through Adult, CCM has something for everyone in your family on Wednesday nights. Personality Power: Journey to the Center of Your Worth. November 14th 9:30-5:00 Spend the day identifying the God- given power of your personality, learn to diffuse the sources that drain your power and most importantly.. discover God's plan in all of it! Improve Your Artistic Craft Day October 24th 9 am - 12:30 pm. Stacey Livingston has prepared this hands on workshop for musicians, lighting and sound designers, projection technicians, service coordinators, singers, artists, actors and dancers to discover and to improve their natural giftings. Online Registrations View Messages Words from God about your diet... "You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat." Matthew 5:6 (Msg) Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are they who keep His testimonies, and who seek, inquire for and of Him, and crave Him with the whole heart. Psalm 119:2 Do you have to be talked into hunger or is it just a natural response to need? Where is your hunger and thirst taking you these days? Where are you going to eat to fill your soul? The following words found in a church bulletin describe hunger or the lack thereof: "To encourage everyone to attend worship services this year, every Sunday will be "No Excuse Sunday" and the following will be provided: Cots for those who say, "Sunday is my only day to sleep." Visine for those with tired eyes from watching TV (or other things) too late on Saturday night. Steel helmets for those who say, "The roof would cave in if I ever came to church." Blankets for those who think the church is too cold. Fans for those who say it is too hot. Rubber rooms for your children if they don't want to go to Sunday School. Cotton balls for those who say, "The music is too loud." Score cards will be available for those who wish to list all the hypocrites present. There will be meals provided for those who can't go to church and cook dinner also..... You get it... how are your hunger and thirst for God? What does your soul crave these days? Are the places you're going nourishing? Are the things you're craving satisfying you or destroying the health of your soul? Are you filled? How's your diet? Do you need Jenny Craig to coach you? More words from God about your diet... "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." Matthew 5:6 (TNIV) "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?" (Psalm 42:1-2) "How lovely is your dwelling place,O LORD Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints,for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere. Psalm 84:1-2,10 (NIV) Hungering and thirsting for God... Ways to be filled: Begin your week with God-hunger this week. Join us Sunday for just be it: Blessed are Those Who Hunger

Got Power? Get meek!

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Matt 5:5 (NIV)

So the meek shall inherit the earth? Jesus keeps making these almost incomprehensible statements. Let's break it down a little bit...

Meek does not mean a weak, pushover, do-nothing doormat life. Jesus said He was meek and clearly He is the greatest revolutionary of all time! The movement He began over 2,000 years ago is still spanning the globe and changing the lives of innumerable people... So, how is that meek?

The word meek means "strength under control". Jesus lived this life and continues to be the role model for meekness. The power that Jesus has is immeasurable and He only uses it for good. In a world that rejects, mocks and even hates Him, He loves, heals and keeps offering new life to anyone who opens their heart to Him.

The famous philosopher and atheist Friedrich Nietzsche said this: "Assert yourself. Care for nothing except for yourself. The only vice is weakness, and the only virtue is strength. Be strong, be a superman. The world is yours if you can get it."

This is the kind of power that is self-serving, self-aggrandizing and weakens others. We all have power. Do you know what yours is? How do you use your power? Is your strength under control? Do you use it for love, healing and empowering your life and the life of others?

Get your strength/power under the control of God and see the promise of God follow.

"The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is in the sight of God of more importance than angels. In himself, nothing; in God, everything. That is his motto." A.W. Tozer

Ways to grow in meekness:
Listen to the just be it series online at www.ccmonline.org
Join us this Sunday

just be it: attitudes that influence... the meek shall inherit the earth

Attend Personality Power: Journey to the Center of Your Worth. November 14th 9:30-5:00 Spend the day identifying the God-given power of your personality, learn to diffuse the sources that drain your power and most importantly... discover God's plan in all of it!


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