Playlist “I Just Want To Celebrate”
My favorite time of year is Christmas! I can’t tell you how much joy it brings me! To be honest…it’s the time every year my family wasn’t stressed about money, worried about who did what to who or calling in the record of wrongs—we just gathered together! The memories I always carry with me are those! I can say the same about my walk with Christ…I remember surrendering my life to Jesus as a child. Nothing can compare to the joy of that! It’s been the source of me getting to point others closer to Jesus! I often have to go back there to CELEBRATE when I’m in dry seasons…and I always come back seeing Jesus in a new way! Maybe you’re there in that dry season, or maybe it’s a good season…you just can’t remember the last time you had true joy! You aren’t alone!
This week’s Playlist Song is by Rare Earth: https://youtu.be/0aY3vu6fzeU
CELEBRATION ⇒ ELEVATION ⇒ REPLICATION
- Many times in our lives we can be stuck! Often our “stuck” is from jealousy, doubt or even our perspective of who/what we worship!
- In Luke 10 Jesus is reminding the Disciples it isn’t about the work that they are getting to do that gives them the most joy…it’s the joy of their salvation. Often, we can get so caught up in the religion, the gifting, the move of God…that we miss the whole point—Salvation! And when we see we were lost, dead, naked and hopeless but in Jesus we are found, alive, clothed in Righteousness and hope filled! We can’t help but CELBRATE!
- Luke 15 tells 3 parables all built around the Celebration of Salvation! Heaven Rejoices over one who repents than 99 are Righteous! We can’t lose sight of that…if it’s worth Heaven rejoicing Salvation then it’s worth Celebrating!
- Yet Religion brings us to this if I do X God will do Y! We’ve missed the point…God did Y so that we could do X and it only happened because of Jesus! Religion tells us to pray harder, read more of your Bible, do more good for others, give away more than before and God will bless you. That’s not why Jesus came…He came so that with a Relationship with Him we will want to pray harder, read our Bible more and give/do more for others!
What We Celebrate, We Elevate and What We Elevate Gets Replicated! What Better Way to live the Great Commission (Matthew 18:18-20) than to Celebrate today!
Take Away:
What is the Last Thing You Celebrated? How did it feel?
When is the last time you Celebrated Christ Saving You? Who did you share it with?
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Tyler West 