Christ’s Church of Fountain Hills has a Monday group called PAL, Parents of Addicted Loved Ones. This program is set to help parents and loved ones that have a child for family members that struggle with addiction. There are many lessons that we get to go over once a week and give support and suggestions to help people through a tough time in their lives.
The man who created this, linked it with Biblical principles, prayer, and practical lesson which could help people get through and deal with one of the hardest things families can go through.
As a Pastor, I try and look at everything through His eyes and how in the Bible God has talked on most everything we could go through and how the free gift that He gave will still be difficult to understand. The narrow gate is shared in Matthew 7:13-14 “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. 14 But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.” Jesus shares in John something that is similar in Chapter 14:6 “Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.”
Hopefully we get the picture, the amazing grace, which is Jesus coming, born of a virgin, teaching, dying, and being raised from the dead. That takes all of us who were created in their image in the beginning, to die to self and pick us our cross and live like Jesus. We are told to live like Jesus with every breathe and everything that we are.
Acts 17:28 “For in Him we live and move and exist.” And Paul shares in Philippians 1:21, “For to me, living means living for Christ and dying is even better.”
As we understand that we all need to change, and all of us have sinned and need Jesus, then we will be open to God transforming us into the new creations He desires.
Roman 12:2 says, “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”
How important is change? It is very important, because when we don’t let Him change us, we are saying that we know more and the world is what I want to follow. This next thing is from a PAL lesson and it fits perfect for what keep Christians lukewarm and headed to the broad road.
It’s a letter to our loved ones in addiction, but I believe it fits for the people on the fence about the truth about Jesus.
“Dear Loved One,
I’ve noticed your inability to make healthy changes in the way you’ve been living your life. I’ve learned that complaining about your willingness to change has not been helpful. Nor is it helpful to hope that someday you’ll “magically” change. Therefore, I commit to the following these changes that I, myself, will make.
I want to stop at this one because, that is why so many of us struggle, resistance to change with is not dying to self. We all need to let go of who we were and what we did, and devote ourselves to Jesus, fully. That resistance to change or the Transformation God wants will keep us in the same sinful cycle that Jesus died to free us from. Thus why the gate to eternal life is narrow and only way through is Jesus, and why we surrender all and start living new. Thank God, you have given us the way, the truth, and the life. Help me see repentance as the beginning of change and help me work out my salvation with fear and trembling. Amen
The man who created this, linked it with Biblical principles, prayer, and practical lesson which could help people get through and deal with one of the hardest things families can go through.
As a Pastor, I try and look at everything through His eyes and how in the Bible God has talked on most everything we could go through and how the free gift that He gave will still be difficult to understand. The narrow gate is shared in Matthew 7:13-14 “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. 14 But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.” Jesus shares in John something that is similar in Chapter 14:6 “Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.”
Hopefully we get the picture, the amazing grace, which is Jesus coming, born of a virgin, teaching, dying, and being raised from the dead. That takes all of us who were created in their image in the beginning, to die to self and pick us our cross and live like Jesus. We are told to live like Jesus with every breathe and everything that we are.
Acts 17:28 “For in Him we live and move and exist.” And Paul shares in Philippians 1:21, “For to me, living means living for Christ and dying is even better.”
As we understand that we all need to change, and all of us have sinned and need Jesus, then we will be open to God transforming us into the new creations He desires.
Roman 12:2 says, “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”
How important is change? It is very important, because when we don’t let Him change us, we are saying that we know more and the world is what I want to follow. This next thing is from a PAL lesson and it fits perfect for what keep Christians lukewarm and headed to the broad road.
It’s a letter to our loved ones in addiction, but I believe it fits for the people on the fence about the truth about Jesus.
“Dear Loved One,
I’ve noticed your inability to make healthy changes in the way you’ve been living your life. I’ve learned that complaining about your willingness to change has not been helpful. Nor is it helpful to hope that someday you’ll “magically” change. Therefore, I commit to the following these changes that I, myself, will make.
- I promise I will work to accept your resistance to change.
I want to stop at this one because, that is why so many of us struggle, resistance to change with is not dying to self. We all need to let go of who we were and what we did, and devote ourselves to Jesus, fully. That resistance to change or the Transformation God wants will keep us in the same sinful cycle that Jesus died to free us from. Thus why the gate to eternal life is narrow and only way through is Jesus, and why we surrender all and start living new. Thank God, you have given us the way, the truth, and the life. Help me see repentance as the beginning of change and help me work out my salvation with fear and trembling. Amen
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