Love Bomb

This Sunday we will be starting a brand new series entitled "Love Bomb".  What if we were to live each day in light of Christ's "new" commandment to "love one another" as He loved?  What would happen if we took seriously His instuctions to foster authenic, caring relationships? This series will explore the powerful possibilities of lives lived according to the radical "love one another" message that we see in the gospel.  What do we have to do to drop a "Love Bomb" on our city?

As a church we just completed a 21 day fast.  I am so proud of everyone that was involved in this fast.  I know that you are going to see some real fruit in your life from this time of prayer and devotion to God.  When I asked everyone to raise their hand who were a part of the fast about 98% of the church raised their hand and the other 2% were visitors or people that are still new to our church.

I want to encourage you to keep up with your time of prayer and devotion.  Don't fall back into old patterns.  Just because we are not fasting anymore does not mean that we should not still set aside time to pray and read the Word of God.  Stay consistent and persistent in your pursuit of God's purpose.

Great things are on the horizon.  As we turn the page on the first month of 2011, new opportunities are before us.  This is a year of Invasion.  We will take our city back for God.  We will not settle for the norm.  We as a church are hungry to see a supernatural move of God that shakes our city.  Full Turn nation rise up!  We will do this through prayer, faith, evangelism, power, unity, and LOVE.

Becoming a Champion Part 2

Let me encourage you to take time to look these scriptures up for yourself and read the points that go along with them.  I could write these scriptures out for you, but I want you to devote some personal time with God.  If you capture these points your life will change.  Full Turn Nation rise up!  It is time to be champions for God.

John 6:1-13

1.)    In this passage we find an unlikely hero, a small lad that saved the day.

2.)    The key to multiplication is taking what you have and putting it in the hands of the master.

3.)    True champions seize the moment.

Luke 6:38

1.)    God never forgets what you give.

2.)    God never forgets the moments that we seize through our faith in Him.

3.)    What we have may seem insignificant, but when placed in the right hands become great.

4.)    God will take your little and give it back good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

Matthew 25:21

1.)    Little is much when God is in it.

2.)    Use what you have where you are. (Ex:  Moses and David used what they had in their hand to bring about great miracles because they offered what they had to God.)

3.)    Despise not the day of small things.

Becoming A Champion Part1

I want to give you some points on championship living, because God has called us to be a Championship Church!

^{Romans 12:1-2} Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ² Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

1.) One of the first steps to becoming a champion is changing your mindset.

2.) The way you think is very important.

3.) “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”

4.) You need to know and understand who you are in Christ.

What is a champion?

1.) A champion is someone that is out of the box. A champion will always break the mold.

2.) A champion not only knows how to lead but how to follow.

3.) A champion sets an example and raises the bar for future generations.

4.) A champion never gives up.

Romans 8:31-39

³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:

   “For your sake we face death all day long;
   we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

 ³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

1.) We are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ.

2.) We can overcome anything and defeat the attack of the enemy in our minds if we realize the power that we have through the love of God.

3.) The carnal mind is God’s enemy, but we can be transformed and changed into God’s image and have his mind at work in us by allowing his spirit to move in our lives.

Teamwork

Today I would like to offer you some powerful points on teamwork. Full Turn we are a team and we are a family.

1) We have to be willing to lay down everything.
*Without self-sacrifice, there is no teamwork.

2) It requires giving of yourself and passion. In Romans 12:1-3, it talks about conforming oneself to a model or pattern. Compare this verse to 1 Peter 1:14, where it describes those conforming themselves to worldy lusts. Even apparent or superficial conformity to the present world system or any accomodation to its ways would be fatal to Christian life. We, as Christians, are to be transformed by a renewed mind committed to the ideals of the kingdom of God.

3) We have to realize it's not about ME, it's about ALL OF US!!
*Everyone on the team is valuable.
*It's more than just a group of people who are together. There are lots of people together at the grocery store, cinema, in the stands, on buses,
on trains, in churches, but they are not on a team!
*People on the team are people who love and protect each other and people who feel each is a part of the others.

4) You cannot get offended!! Whoa!! This is a big one for all of us. Leaders cannot get offended and they do not get offended. They have to come
to a higher understanding. At this level, there can be no offenses.
*Taking correction makes you a more valuble teammate.
*Who God loves, He corrects. Proverbs 3:11-12
* If you are going to inspire someone, you HAVE to be above average.
-Who are you inspiring today? Who inspires you?

Be Strong & Do It!

This is a guest blog written by my wife Jenny Mushegan:

Good Morning, Friends!!

We are so excited about this year being Full Turn Church's Year of Invasion. We are storming the gates of hell and HEAVEN WILL PREVAIL!!! It's only January 5th and I am so excited about what this year holds for each and every one of us! If you are in the Atlanta area, please make it a point to come to the first Wednesday night service of 2011 at Full Turn. It is going to be powerful!!

Just wanted to share with you today, being a new year and all, Godly habits we all should be forming. The key is to not just start them and let them slowly linger away, but to KEEP ON and STICK WITH IT, not giving up, even when you have opposition against you. Let's finish this to the end!! Something quoted by my husband this past Sunday seems very relevant with what I am sharing with you today. He said, "Once you start doing something over & over again you get comfortable doing it. The hardest part is getting started. Start your year off right. Develop the right patterns!" It works the same way in reverse...."The longer you stay away from something and don't keep up at it (i.e. going to church), then the easier it is to stay away for good. Same example goes for addictions..."


It says in Deuteronomy 11:18-21, "Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds...talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days...may be...as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth."

Waiting for God's direction each day is something you may have to make yourself do at first, but through practice, it will become natural to begin your day this way. New habits are formed by being consistent. Seeking God first in the morning will soon be something you can't do without.

When God wanted His people to remember something, He told them to write it down. You may have to post reminders to seek the Lord around your house in order to follow through with your new intention. BUT be consistent to seek God first every single day, and He will make your ways successful.

-Joshua 1:7-9 "Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the elft, that you may prosper WHEREVER you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go....



I encourage you today to be STRONG in the Lord....be COURAGEOUS, VALIANT, MANLY, STRENGTHENED, ESTABLISHED, FIRM, FORTIFIED, OBSTINATE, MIGHTY!!!!

Invasion 2011

1 Chronicles 19:13
"Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The LORD will do what is good in his sight."

Invasion- entrance as if to take possession or overrun.

We need to realize that there is an all out spiritual attack on our families, and on our homes. There is an attack on our hearts and on our minds. Our marriages are under attack. Our children are under attack. There is opposition on every side. Our cities are being torn a part by corruption. We are at war! Full Turn, this is the year we fight back! We are going to take this city back for God!

Full Turn Nation rise up! This is how we will take our city back:

1. Prayer- The prayers of a righteous man are powerful and effective.
2. Faith- 1Timothy 6:12: Fight the good fight of the faith.
3. Evangelism- Spread the Word
4. Power- We will be led by the Spirit of God
5. Unity- We will stand united!

In 2011, here is how you will be powerful and effective:

1.) Don’t get lost in the crowd- You are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus. You cannot be like everyone else.

2.) Find Your Voice- Get plugged into the ministry. Give of yourself.

3.) Start Leading- Be a living example of who God is to this world.