7 Points to Launch

 1.) I have set my heart to follow after Christ!

John 14:12 I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
    2.) I am ready to defy gravity or the weights of this world that would hold me down.

Hebrews12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

3.) I am ready to boldly go where I have not gone before.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

4.) I am ready to break through barriers.

2 Corinthians 10:4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

5.) I accept the mission and I am willing to go wherever the Lord takes me.

6.) I have studied to show myself approved a workman that needs not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth.

7.) I am prayed up, filled up, and excited about the destination.

Living in 3-D

If you want to get somewhere in life you are going to have to have vision.  You can only achieve what you can see.  Have you ever watched a 3-D movie?  When you are wearing the 3-D glasses things seem to stick out at you like they are coming right out of the screen.  What used to be two-dimensional is now popping right out at you.  But when you take the glasses off and look at the screen there are all these extra colored lines on the screen, (especially in the old school 3-D movies), that blur up the picture. 

There are things in this life that at best are just blurry squiggly lines upon the already confused pictures of our lives.  But when we put on the supernatural glasses of the Holy Spirit those things that were a blur now pop right out at us.  The things that were hidden are now revealed and we are seeing into a new dimension. 

“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.  But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit (our 3-D glasses): for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God (1 Corinthians 2:9-10).” 

There are certain things that God has prepared for us that only He can reveal.  We will never be able to see them without Him.  So then Vision is the revelation or revealing of those things that we cannot see with our natural mind or our natural eyes. 

The number one thing that you have to realize about vision is that it comes from God.  You cannot make up your own vision. Vision is a revelation or revealing of things that God has planned or seen for you from the beginning of time.  Vision is a sneak-peek that God gives us into our future. 

The second thing you need to realize about vision is that you cannot live a productive life and reach your destiny without it.  The Bible says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish (Proverbs 29:18)”.  The word for perish there in the Hebrew is para, meaning naked.  Vision literally clothes us with purpose and the anointing of God that we need to fulfill destiny. 

The third thing that I want you to understand about vision is that it is a part of faith.  The biblical definition of faith given to us in Hebrews 11:1 states, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”  Vision is the revealing of things that are not seen or what we will call the evidence part of faith.  Vision is a spirit eye.    It is the seeing part of faith. It is our 3-D glasses.

Team Goal: Work in the area of your strength

Team Goal: Work in the area of your strength. Just because you want to do it does not mean you are good at it. Find your purpose!

Listen, God has the perfect thing for you to do to help expand and enlarge His Kingdom. Don't get caught doing something your not good at just because it is something you want to do. We are a team, and a team has to work together, everyone working in the area of their greatest strength, so that the whole team can move forward with high intensity.

Now, I know that we all have to occupy roles at times that we know we are not the best at, but there is no one else to do it, so we fill in to meet the need. I am not talking about that. If you are filling in to meet a need you are a strength to your team. The message I want to get out to you today is this. Do not waste your time on things that are not going to be productive for both you and your team.

The most important thing to any team is total participation. So get involved. Full Turn needs you. Your church needs you, and we need you to work in the area of your strength. How can you be valuable to the team? Get plugged in!

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.

Flip Devotional 12-30-10 "Bye Bye Tree"

Twenty Eleven

This is going to be a powerful year. I am very excited about Twenty Eleven.I have decided to go for it this year. If you are with me then stand up on your seat right now and let me hear you say "OH YEAH!" It's time to buckle up, buckle down, and get ready for the ride of your life. When you follow God and make a decision to go for it Hell might come against you but you can run confidently into the battle knowing that God has got your back.

For all you Full Turners out there don't worry, I am not going to give anything away in this blog. If you want to hear the WORD for the year Twenty Eleven then you need to be at Full Turn Church Friday for our NYE Gathering at 6pm. Don't get lost in the crowd. Step up and start leading. This is your moment. Don't settle for less. Step up, find your voice and start leading. It is time for the Full Turn Nation to rise up and take our rightful place in the Body of Christ. Jesus is calling us out! It's time to rise and shine forth the glory of God. Oh yeah, and don't forget, in this New Year let's keep it all about JESUS!

Wait On the Lord

Good Morning it’s Thursday December the 16th and today is going to be a great day. I know yesterday we had an icy day, and I am sure that you all made it home safe. Today I just want to encourage you with this thought. Isaiah 40:29 says, “He gives power to the weak and to those who have no might He increases their strength.”

Have you ever felt like you’re tired of going through the motions? You are tired of the same old same old and you are ready for things to change. Right here in Isaiah we see that God can take what is weak and make it strong. God can turn things around for you.

That is what I want you to understand today. God can do anything! God can turn things around in your life today. The Bible says that God can make the crooked path straight. God can make a way for you where there seems to be no way.

Listen to what else he says here in Isaiah. “Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

What does this mean? Well, if you look at the word wait, it means to serve. When we serve God, when we seek God, when we serve God with all of our heart, the Bible tells us that when we serve God He is going to strengthen us. God gives us power for purpose. God gives us power to walk and live the life that He has called for us to live.

So, when we are serving and seeking God we are going to run and not grow weary, we will walk and not be faint. Until tomorrow this is Pastor Alan reminding you that God has a plan and a purpose for your life!

Narrow World View

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Matthew 7:13-14

You’ve got to choose a worldview. Sooner or later, everyone has to choose a way they’re going to see the world.

I’ve chosen a narrow way.

We’ve got to stop thinking that Christianity can be broad and inexclusive. It’s not. Jesus said it wasn’t. And no matter how hard we try to spin or frame it, there’s no getting around it.

There are pros and cons to a narrow way to see the world.
On the one hand, you’re focused and defined. You know your message. It’s clear, distinctive, and calls people to a decision.

On the other hand, you’re limited and exclusive. There’s going to be a large constituency that will write you off before you even have a chance to tell them your message. People aren’t going to like you. They’re going to judge you for being judgmental. Exclude you for being exclusive.

There’s no way around these pros and cons. You’ve simply got to decide how you’re going to see the world, and accept the consequences.

Just make sure you see it the way Jesus does. More is at stake here than being right. Or being right and then getting people to agree with you. The two roads Jesus talks about aren’t ways to being right and being wrong. They’re roads to life and death.

Destinations every person is walking to. And destinations that every believer in Jesus is pointing and carrying people to every second of every day.

I’ve chosen a narrow way. It might be exclusive, but it’s the only way to life. And life is exclusive of death.
In that case, I’ll accept the pros and cons of Jesus’ worldview.

Full Turn Update

Hey everybody, great things are happening at Full Turn. Our opening Sunday is September 12th @ 10:30am. Our billboard just went up on HWY/278 in Dallas, GA and our TV commercials will start airing soon in Paulding and Polk County. We are getting ready to launch our church in a big way! This week is going to be a special week for Full Turn. Jenny and I will be at a pastor's and leaders conference in Florida, so we have a special musical guest coming in to lead you in worship and Garrett Cole will be bringing the Word of God. I know that Thursday night is going to be a powerful night. Don't miss it and come expecting. I love you and I am proud to be your pastor. God is doing great things. Let's keep moving forward!

GO

God said GO and so we went! In January 2010 plans had begun for Full Turn’s first meeting in Rockmart. We began meeting on Wednesday nights at the Rockmart Community Center on February 24, 2010. Expectations were high after a crowd of 60 or more people turned out for the opening night. Our plan was to meet at the Community Center for six weeks on Wednesday nights to develop a core group of people to help establish Full Turn in the area. In March 2010 We began promotions for our opening night at our new location, a few miles down the road, in Yorkville. We did this because we needed a more permanent place to meet. The date was set. We would open on April 8, 2010. We celebrated our opening night in Yorkville with 102 people in attendance after only seven weeks in the area. This will be our fourth week in Yorkville, and already we have seen 65 people rededicate their lives to Christ at our new location. I am very excited about what God is doing. Prayers are being answered and lives are being changed. The best is yet to come.

Full Turn's Opening Night

Tonight is the night we have all been waiting for. Tonight is our opening night at our new location. So many people have worked so hard to get our new facility ready, and it is better than we even imagined. I want you to know, it does not matter what denomination you have been a part of, or what banner or name you work under. Whether the name be Full Turn Ministries or any other name. The most important thing to understand is that we are all a part of the Body of Christ and we are all working together for one goal. The goal we share is to build the Kingdom of God and to help people that are far from God find their purpose and destiny in Jesus Christ. For this reason we have planted a ministry in the Rockmart/Dallas area. I know that together we can do something great for the Kingdom of God. Together we can build a ministry that will change thousands of lives. It is time for God's people to come together. It is time to display our unity. For this very reason I ask you to come tonight and worship with us as we work together to promote the name of Jesus Christ to our world. We will have a cookout at 6:00pm. This will be a great time to meet some new people and have some fun. After the cookout, our Full Turn service will begin at 7:30pm. The address of our new location is 53 Golden South Place, Dallas GA 30157. We hope to see you there. Let's make a statement tonight to our city and to our world by coming together under the banner of Jesus Christ.

Pastor Alan Mushegan, Jr.
Full Turn Ministries

Directions:

Directions from Rockmart, Cedartown, and surrounding areas

Take Hwy 278 south towards Dallas.

Turn Right onto Hwy 101.

Take Hwy 101 (approx 4 miles) to split in the road.

Stay Right on Hwy 101.

Proceed to 2nd road on Left which is Golden South Parkway.

Turn Right into Golden South Place.

End @ 53 Golden South Place (Grey Building on your left)



Direction from Dallas, Hiram, and surrounding areas

Take Hwy 278 North towards Rockmart.

It is approximately 8 miles from hwy 61 to Yorkville.

Turn Left onto Goldmine Road.

Go approx. 2 miles, turn left onto Golden South Place (between the Dollar General and Gas Station)

Take 1st Left onto Golden South Place.

End @ 53 Golden South Place (Grey Building on Left)

St. Patrick's Day

Today is St. Patrick's Day, so I though I would give you some old Irish blessings and sayings. Some are serious and some are funny. Enjoy!

May you always have
Walls for the winds,
A roof for the rain,
Tea beside the fire,
Laughter to cheer you,
Those you love near you,
And all your heart might desire!

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.

May the best day of your past
Be the worst day of your future.

May those who love us, love us
And those who don't love us,
May God turn their hearts
And if he can't turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles
So we will know them by their limping!

As you slide down the banister of life,
May the splinters never point in the wrong direction!

May your neighbors respect you,
Troubles neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And Heaven accept you.

May God grant you many years to live,
For sure he must be knowing
The earth has angels all to few
And Heaven is overflowing.

May you live as long as you want,
And never want as long as you live.

Have a great day. Full Turn is tonight. We hope to see you there.

What is a Swagger Jacker?

I don’t know where I originally heard the term swagger jacker. I don’t think it’s technically a theological designation. But I want to sanctify it for a minute and bring it over into a ministry context.

Have you ever faced any swagger jackers in your attempt to do God’s will?
I’m identifying a swagger jacker as anyone who tries to back you down from doing what you know God has told you to do. There are plenty of swagger jackers exposed in the pages of the Bible. They make a lot of noise. They inflict a lot of pain. But they simply can’t stop the purposes of God-if God’s servants stay focused on God’s will.

The swagger jackers laughed at Noah for building a boat to prepare for a flood before anyone had ever seen rain. They weren’t laughing on day 40 of the storm.
Joseph’s swagger jacker brothers threw him in a pit. But they couldn’t keep him from rising to a position of prominence in the palace-and ultimately saving their lives despite themselves.
Nehemiah faced swagger jackers like Sanballat. They insisted he halt the work of the Lord and come down off the wall. He stayed on the wall and finished the work.

And so on. You see the point.

I’ve seen too many men and women of God stripped of their courage by swagger jacking critics, haters, and generally negative or mediocre people.

Keep building your boat.
Stay faithful in the prison.
Remain on the wall.

Don’t concede your confidence in Christ. No one can take away your swagger if your swagger is rooted in Jesus-powered by grace-activated by faith.

The World's Only Hope

The church is the worlds only hope. We should be the example and we should be the light. The Bible says that we have been called kings and priests. Let's think about this for a second.The title king denotes authority. This means that the church is God's authority here on the earth. We should lead the way and make things happen. Then we see that we are not only Kings but we are also priests. A priest is someone who is subject to God. So not only have we been given great authority through Jesus Christ, but we are also people under authority. We take our orders from the King of Kings. A priest is someone that is set a part for the work of the ministry. We have all been called to be God's hands and to be His feet. We are the arm of the Lord extended to this world.

The early church in the book of Acts grew by the thousands daily. How was this accomplished. It was not accomplished by one man, but by many people filled with the Holy Spirit, spreading the message of Jesus Christ. This is why it is so important for us to continue to spread the Word. The church is made up of many people, but we have all been called to operate and carry ourselves as kings and priests, humbly following the voice of the Lord. God desires His church to grow. He desires us to be His ambassadors.

Ephesians 3:20

Ephesians 3:20 is one of my all time favorite verses:
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine…

That’s a hot one right there. An astonishing promise. God can do so much more than what you’re expecting. His performance isn’t limited to the confines of your imagination. The implications of this statement are hard to believe…but simple to understand. It’s a straightforward fact: The wildest dreams you can conceive don’t even compare to the endless power of God.