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.

Weekend fun

This weekend we had a blast. On Sunday we went shopping at Grapevine Mills Mall and baby got $200 worth of free Nike clothes thanks to a coupon that his coworker gave him. Then when we walked outside and there was a circus w a huge tent and elephants and camels outside and lil ponies and so we went to the circus. It is so so hard for me to go to circuses now a days bc I know that they mistreat the animals and I feel so bad for the animals bc they have to live like that on the road. But I went so that me and baby could have a fun afternoon and it was crazy. There were alot of shows w people and not animals and so it was alot better. The best part is that at the end of the show a 6 foot man prolly age 19 folded himself up and put his body into a box the size of 4 shoe boxes! It was CRAZY!!! I have never seen anything like it! He also can fold up his body to wear he can lay his head on his rear! He folded in half and more! It was insane!
Anyway when we left the circus there were people standing outside protesting and saying that they beat and torture the animals. It was so so sad and I feel bad for going now! The circus was called Carson and Barnes.
Anyway when we were going home we saw the craziest thing on the highway! It was a rocket on wheels and it was tiny just driving on the highway next to us! It was the weirdest thing. Here is a hilarious pic of it.

How sweet!

Ok so on Saturday I woke up to baby making me breakfast and he made me pancakes. He has never made me pancakes before so I was excited. He brought me a plate with 2 pancakes but lets just say they were MONSTER MONSTER pancakes! We have pretty big plates and these pancakes almost ran over the edges of the plate and they were 4 inches thick! :)
He is crazy. I took a picture but it didnt save into my phone and so I am sad about that but it was hilarious! And on top of that there were egg shells in the pancakes too. But he is so sweet! :)

WHAT DO U THINK?

I am sitting here eating 3 separate cookie size pieces of choc. Chip cookie dough and am wondering:
Is it worse to eat the cookie before it goes in the oven or after?

There are a few arguments for this question. First I wonder if u eat the cookie fully baked if u get more carbs and therefore gain more weight. Or if you eat the dough does it bake in ur tummy and the dough expands in the warm inner part of your body? Hmmm….. not sure. I am sure that either way is bad but which one causes u to gain more weight? The cookie dough is smaller than the actual cookie and so one would think that the cookie dough is better or should I say would not make you as fat but I am sure that I am wrong. O man I just don’t know for sure.
WHAT DO U THINK?

pics of me and my boots

Mandrae calls this my grandma legs! He says that my legs look like a gma. Oops. But I guess he is right. This pic does look pretty gma like! :)

(Not refering to you grandma, this gmas in general)

I forced baby to take pics w boots- here they are- so so cute

Our lil St. Patricks Day Pics- We wore bright green

League Nite- A lil better

Last night was our 4th bowling nite of our league and we won 8 out of 10 games. So that is really good. Mandrae had a top game of 235 and my top game was 149 (which sucks compared to my 190 on Sunday). But we both improved our average and Mandrae will be #1 on all categories next week. So I am excited to see that and we should be ranked higher. We are SOOO competitive it is crazy. We are like super serious! After this league we are going to get into a league that is certified by the bowling association so that we will be able to compete in tournaments individually and travel to win big money! Well depending on if I get better I might but Mandrae will for sure! He is so good. So yeah this week we are #6 out of like 12 teams and hopefully next week we wil be higher. Til next time.....................


(Sorry I didnt get pics of our crazy kids that we bowled last week- that killed us (and they are crazy crazy kids). But they did bowl AWEFUL this week and barely got over 100 and so that just shows u that when they were bowling AMAZiNG against us that they were totally lucky! :) The one guy w the broken ankle last week was begging me to kick him in the ankle and break it again so he might bowl better since he bowls good when he is hurt! CRAZY!)

pic of my fav lil boots! :)

This is boots begging me for a treat! She has been so good lately! I tell her to go potty and she RUNS our the doggy door and flies right back in like there is no door in the way just to get her treat that she deserves for pottying outside. Mandrae doesnt understand why she should get a treat for doing something that she should already be doing, but that is how we have always been w our dogs. (and it seems to be working)

I interrupted her sunbathing to take a pic and she wasnt too happy.

she was trying to help us w the garden by eating all the mulch! silly rabbit mulch is for plants.


She gave me a pretty Sienna pose! (Sienna is the poser in the family and is known for her perfect picture poses!)

She was stuck on this piece of mulch- no matter how many different pieces I threw in the yard she always went back to this one piece.