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After the Weekend: New and Improved Part 3

After the weekend is a post to allow you to reflect and respond to the message presented at your Seacoast Campus this past weekend.  Use the questions and thoughts for personal reflection or for conversation with family and friends.  Fell free to comment in the "comments" section of the blog to join the conversation.

After The Weekend: New and Improved Part 3
Has prayer ever seemed confusing to you?  Do you treat God like a genie in a bottle or an emergency kit in time of need.

Pastor Greg talked about an opportunity he had to pray for his daughter in an airport this past week.  He explained how a new and improved prayer life would see us start to pray that people would be closer to God rather than praying for a change in circumstance.  Do you find that most of the time you are praying for a changed circumstance rather than a change in yourself?  What we need in stead is the power t

This part of Ephesians tells us that we should we pray to God the father through Jesus Christ with the power of the Holy Spirit.  He has counted us into His plan that we talked about last weekend.  In fact many of you may have stories of how God has used your prayer life to bring you and others close to God.  We would love to hear these.  Would you be willing to SHARE YOUR STORY with Seacoast Church?

Pastor Greg used a great illustration of a camera and paraphrased Ephesians 1:18 this way...

"I pray that the lens of your heart would be wide open, that you would capture a vision and that God would burn His image into the darkness of your past and present struggle and that your heart would be exposed to the Father's full-color image of you" 

Have you found that you have closed the aperture of your heart down and are not allowing God to flood light into your heart?

Have you found that you do not pray for your enemies?

Have you found that you do not pray at all?

We said last week that a great thing to do in your life is to right down your needs and your prayer requests so that you can remember them and give God the credit (rather than yourself) when he meets your needs.  If you did that maybe a good exercise would be to examine those requests and see if you are praying for circumstances or for you yo be closer to God.

After The Weekend Application:
Why not try this?
Monday:  Examine your prayer list and reflect on what you are praying for.
Tuesday:  Spend time praying for family and friends who do not know Christ.
Wednesday: Spend time praying for family and friends who know Christ that they would be close to God.
Thursday: Reflect on prayers that God has answered in your life over the time you have been a Christ-follower.
Friday: Check out the "Coming up this weekend" blog post for Part 4 and prepare your hearts and minds for a great weekend.

Coming up January 28

This weekend Pastor Greg continues our series "New and Improved" with a message called, Praying for each other from Ephesians 1:15-23.  In this message we will answer questions like:

Who should we pray for?
Who do we pray to?
What should we pray for?
How come sometimes my prayers don't work?
What is the purpose of prayer?

God calls us to be a people of prayer.  If the first part of Ephesians chapter 1 was a call to praise God, then this weekends passage is a call to prayer.

Don't forget to continue your study of Ephesians as you read a chapter a day and the whole letter on Sundays.  We hope to see you this weekend.

This weekend Pastor Greg continues our series "New and Improved" with a message called, Praying for each other from Ephesians 1:15-23.  In this message we will answer questions like:

Who should we pray for?
Who do we pray to?
What should we pray for?
How come sometimes my prayers don't work?
What is the purpose of prayer?

God calls us to be a people of prayer.  If the first part of Ephesians chapter 1 was a call to praise God, then this weekends passage is a call to prayer.

Don't forget to continue your study of Ephesians as you read a chapter a day and the whole letter on Sundays.  We hope to see you this weekend.

After The Weekend: New and Improved Part 2

After the weekend is a post to allow you to reflect and respond to the message presented at your Seacoast Campus this past weekend.  Use the questions and thoughts for personal reflection or for conversation with family and friends.  Fell free to comment in the "comments" section of the blog to join the conversation.

After The Weekend: New and Improved Part 2
Have you ever been chosen for something that really made you feel special?  Maybe a football team, a dance in middle school or perhaps you were adopted as a child. 

Pastor Greg talked about how it made him feel to be asked to the Sadie Hawkins dance.  How did being chosen for something special make you feel?

Why should we worship God - because he chose us.  Maybe you have a story in your life that really reminds you that God chose you.  Share your story with a friends or family member.  Maybe you would even like to SHARE YOUR STORY with Seacoast Church.

Pastor Greg talked about the spiritual blessings that Paul talks about in Eph. 1:3.  He said that "some of God's best blessings are spiritual, not financial".

Have there been times in your life when you truly recognized that a occurrence in your life is a blessing from God?  Maybe you can make a list of the things that God has done that was Him "lavishing" down on you.

In fact a great thing to do in your life is to right down your needs and your prayer requests so that you can remember them and give God the credit (rather than yourself) when he meets your needs.

After The Weekend Application:
Why not try this?
Monday:  Make a list of all of your blessings so far in 2007.
Tuesday:  Think of what you were like when God adopted you into His family and respond to God with thanksgiving.
Wednesday:  God planned in advance for you. (Eph. 1:11-12) Can you identify pieces of your life that you can see that God had planned for you?  Write them down.
Thursday: God has an inheritance for you if you are a Christ-follower.  Reflect today on spending an eternity with God.  Live like you were preparing for that day.
Friday: Check out the "Coming up this weekend" blog post for Part 3 and prepare your hearts and minds for a great weekend.

Coming up January 21st

This weekend Pastor Greg continues our series "New and Improved" with a message called, Why Worship God from Ephesians 1:3-14.  We will better understand the heart of God as we see how He chose us, planned us and left us an inheritance through His son Jesus Christ.

This passage also hold some of the most controversial theology in Christian history in the doctrines of Pre-destination and Free Will.  In Seacoast style Pastor Greg will tackle these issues and give us clarity on how this sometimes argued over passage was meant as a love letter from Paul to His God.

Don't forget to continue your study of Ephesians as you read a chapter a day and the whole letter on Sundays.  We hope to see you this weekend.

Three Important Details!!

WOW!  What a gorgeous day.  I hope you're finding a good way to enjoy it....

Item #1:  Daylight Savings Time begins at 2 AM tomorrow, so don't forget to set your clock ahead one hour tonight.  (Basically, church starts at 9:00 tomorrow instead of 10:00... at least it will seem that way.)

Item #2:  If you've never attended Newcomers, we'll buy your lunch tomorrow.  Just reply to this email, or sign up at the Information center in the lobby tomorrow.  You can also invite a friend tomorrow:  tell them we'll buy their lunch, too!

Item #3:  Easter Egg Hunt & Church Picnic next Sunday, April 9 (Palm Sunday).  Location:  Wilmington Island Community Park.  Directions:  Take Victory Drive east towards Wilmington Island.  Turn right on Johnny Mercer Drive; go over the bridge at Turner Creek (about 2 miles), and turn right onto Wilmington Island Road.  (Look for the May Howard Elementary School sign; turn there.)  Follow Wilmington Island Road about 3 1/2 miles, until it becomes Walthour Road.  Stay on that road about another mile, and look for the park on the left.  It's beautiful!  (And well-hidden.  Ha!)  There are picnic tables, bar-b-q grills, playground toys & equipment, space for volleyball and other games, clean enclosed restrooms, and lots of room for hiding Easter eggs! 

I hope to see you tomorrow at Seacoast.  By the way, let me share some exciting news:  For the first time in our brief history (a year and a half), Seacoast-Savannah made our budget for the first two months of 2006!  We still don't have the final totals for March yet.)  Yea God, and Go Seacoast!  I love being your pastor! 

Yours for REAL community,

Doug

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