Out of Order!

·         Get back to the manufacturer

o   We have got to stop going through third party repairs

*  Wouldn’t it make sense to take a broken Pepsi machine to the Pepsi Company?

·         Many of us have been trying to take our brokenness somewhere else and G-d is tired of that

*  Matthew 28:11

·         “Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest”

·         Stop waiting to break down before you get repairs

o   Any good machine has something called “Preventive Maintenance” done on it

                                                    -   Work on you before you work on somebody else!

- Make sure you are allowing G-d to do the preventive maintenance on you

·         Realize that producing is not enough

o   You have got to be producing the right thing

- You can’t be a Pepsi machine giving people coke products….yes you are still producing, but you’re not producing the right thing

o   1 Corinthians 13:1-3

-  “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.”

·         It is not enough for us to have and work in spiritual gifts…If you are not working with them in love, you are still lost!

·         Don’t be content with just being “worked on”

o  There should be a measurable change that happens when G-d works on you.  You wouldn’t be content with somebody keeping your car in the shop for weeks and continuing to give you the “I’m working on it” situation

-  But that’s what we do to G-d.  We keep HIS product in the shop and we keep giving him the “I’m working on it” line…The bad part is that He already paid for it

·         Don’t be okay with being out of order

o   When you are out of order you cannot produce! When you are out of order you cannot function at full capacity!

Semester So Far.....

Hey everyone!!!

I hope everyone is having a lovely spring break and vacation.  SU Wesley Foundation has been having a successful semester so far.... Praise God!

We thank God for his presence and the awesome speakers and words that he has blessed us with so far this semester.


Over the past few weeks... Wesley foundation has "kept it real." We have discussed:

• Time (seasons) - From one season to the next God is perfecting us in the divine qualities of Christ. What season are you in? What qualities has he perfected in you? What still needs to be perfected? Do you understand that your are called to be perfect and actually know what being perfect means?
• Power of the Spoken Word... Will you speak life or death over yourself and your situation? Do you recognize the power that God has given you? Does your speech reflect that of Jesus?
• God aka love... In 1Corinthians 13.... Replace the word love with God... God is love therefore everything love is, is God. Amen.
• Holding on to God's Promises ... Do we continue to believe in the Lord and what he has said even when his promises seem dead?.. So dead that they seem to have no life what so ever... Do we stick by God's word knowing that what he starts he will surely finish and what he has said will surely come to past because he, The Almighty Father, has said it?
• Ice Breakers-- Breaking ourselves into the new Christian lifestyle that we have devoted ourselves too... Understanding why there are certain things from the world we cannot carry with us during our walk with Jesus and how these weights & sins conflict with who we are.. "Children of the Most High God."
• Unconditional love - Does the way we love God come in second place when compared to the way we would love or do love our husbands/ wives, fiancé, partner in courtship? Would you or do you go the extra mile for God the way you go the extra mile for them, if not greater?

Next week --- Monday March 25,2013 we will be having another Ice Breaker session.... feel free to come and ask as many questions as you would like --- All questions are anonymous and are up for discussion.... We want to build each other up and we can do it if we are all willing to communicate as the family unit that Christ has called us to be.

Note --- You do not have to be a Christian to attend Wesley Bible Study or be sure of where you are in Christ... Just know that when you show up you are going to get some Jesus lovin'. ;)

WE LOVE YOU GUYS... BE ENCOURAGED!

Philippians 4:13 (NKJV)

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.