sermon- read on bc the end w the application is awesome

Destiny Church
March 22, 2009
2 Busy?
By: Joel Soto (Pastor Womack was off this week)

-Make God your new To Do List.

People always say that God will not give you more than u can handle but that is not true bc God will give you more than u can handle so that you can decide what in your life means more and make specific things your priority.
We have a tendency to get too busy to pursue Christ.

Luke 10:38
Martha saw Jesus walking and without anywhere to stay the nite and so she let him into her and Marys home. Martha had a servant attitude and took the initiative to let Jesus into her home.
But Mary was devoted to Jesus and sat at his feet to listen each word he said. Sitting at someones feet was the position of a disciple or servant.
Martha was distracted and busy making food for Jesus and asked Jesus to make Mary help her prepare food bc she wasn’t getting help from Mary who was sitting at Jesus feet taking all of Him in.

Busyness (being busy) messes up your attitude.
Martha was pulled away from what really mattered – she was pulled away from Jesus.
Her attitude was affected by being busy bc instead of focusing on what mattered she wanted to get everything else done and got stressed and frustrated with her situation.

Busyness messes up your relationship.
Martha was upset that Mary didn’t help and started to look at Mary as lazy. She asked Jesus if he even cared what was going on and started accusing Jesus of not caring and of favoritism bc he was only paying attention to Mary. It affected her relationship w Mary and Jesus.

Busyness messes up your priorities.
Jesus had to tell Martha that her priorities are out of whack. She was so busy that she didn’t look at what mattered. Jesus told her she was too worried and too busy.

Martha went from excited to see Jesus to upset she wasn’t helped. All bc she was too busy. Martha invited Jesus into her home and then neglected him.

What is taking us away from Christ?

When we got saved we were excited to be w God and on fire for him and then we got busy and put Him on the back shelf. We become a casual Christian and say that Christ is our friend or homeboy and that he understands that we are busy or have too much to do. But he is not! There is only one GOD and he is the messiah and the Lord of Lords. He does care if we spend time with Him and expects us to put Him as our #1 priority.

Satan manipulates us with these thoughts that God is our friend and is only there for when we actually need Him.

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If Satan cant get you with sex, lust, porn, drugs, alcohol, lies, ext. then He will catch you being busy. He will get you so busy that you forget God. You put time w God as last priority and then are easily tempted by Satans constant advances.

We should NEVER allow our jobs and ect to compete with our time with God!!

Mary chose Christ. Mary decided to put Christ ahead of anything else she could have done.

If I had more time I would…………?

We do have time and we need to think about what we fill that time with. We make time for everything else. We make time for that tv show we have to watch, that bball game we have to watch or play, that concert, overtime, shopping, ect. We make time for things we want to do and always seem to say we have no time for God.

Think about starting a devotion w family or serving in your church.

Satan uses busyness to affect EVERYONE.
If you are spending time w God then don’t let your guard down bc it is really easy to put Christ out when things pile up.

Instead of making a To Do list, make a To Don’t list and list everything that is holding you from God bc Satan is after us.

If Satan takes one in your family then we are all affected and he will get to us all with busyness. God never told us to get that huge house, new car, work 2 jobs or the other things that we do that keep us from spending time with God.

What radical change do u need to make?

If we would just be still and stand still listening to God then maybe He will have things He needs to tell us or have some answers to our problems and struggles.
We are to find rest in God and not find rest in new cars, tv, vacations, ect.

Last week we made time for sex w our spouse and this week we need to make time for God.