“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”
II Corinthians 5:17
The Bible is filled with some pretty remarkable before and after stories.
Before:
Naaman has a death sentence called ‘leprosy’ hanging over his head.
After:
7 dips in the Jordan
Before:
Lazarus is dead for three days.
After:
Jesus calls Lazarus to come forth and he lives!
Before:
Saul of Tarsus travels the region imprisoning, persecuting and killing the saints.
After:
Paul the Apostle brings the Gospel to the Gentiles!
Before:
____________________________________(Fill your ‘Before’ story in here)
After:
______________________________________(Fill your ‘After’ story in here)
We were asked on Sunday night to open our bibles to Acts chapter 29.
Why don’t you take a minute to do that before we go on…
Couldn’t find it could you?
Suppose your ‘life story’ – God’s dream for you, became chapter 29?
What’s that you say: That’s pretty arrogant to even consider that?
Not really!
You see, if God is in it, why couldn’t it be?
Is God big enough to create an ‘after’ story through your life?
Is it His desire to see His Son honored through all that you do?
It is time for the church to realize that we serve a big God who is well able to do great things in us and through us as He has in times past.
He hasn’t gone into retirement.
Have you?
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