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Pastor Mark Turner

Something Beautiful

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

There is an old song by this title. Some of the lyrics go like this.

Something beautiful, something good

All my confusion He understood

All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife

But he made something beautiful of my life

  

Isn’t God amazing? He took you and me and is making something beautiful out of our lives. What a wonderful God.


For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. Jer 29:11 nlt

Have a Beautiful day

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Loving God With All Your Mind

LOVING GOD WITH ALL YOUR MIND.

This past weekend I shared on “Loving God With All Your Mind”. I found the breadth of this both interesting and challenging.

TO LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF OUR MIND IS TO LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF OUR:

  THOUGHTS

  PERCEPTION 

  MEMORY

  EMOTION

  WILL

  IMMAGINATION

With over 70,000 thoughts coming to us every day, this is a significant task. The grace of God is so amazing. If we will just do our part and purpose to love God, his grace will enable us to fulfill this command.

 Don’t just capture the negative thoughts today, but capture those awesome creative thoughts and present them to God. You will be amazed at what will happen.

 His plans are so good and so great. To live life to it’s fullest is to love God to it’s fullest. Try it, I think you will love it as you love life and love him.  

 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, ALL YOUR MIND, and all your strength. Mark 12:30 ncv

Blessings - PMT 
Matt 11:28-30 (msg) 

The Pursuit of Truth

The pursuit of truth will not only develop your mind, it will in fact cause you to “get out of your mind”. It will cause you to get into faith, to trust God. It will cause you to gain some understanding of his love for you and his plan for you. He loves it when you discover “new” things about him and the wonderful life He has planned for you. It’s like a treasure hunt, new discoveries, new pleasures. Discovering all that He is and all that He has planned.

John 17:17 (Amplified Bible)

Sanctify them [purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy] by the Truth; Your Word is Truth

Loving God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your strength starts with the discovery and acceptance of His greatest gift to us. The greatest treasure we could ever discover.

John 3:16-17 (The Message)

"This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.

RECEIVE HIS GIFT - LOVE HIS GIFT - SHARE HIS GIFT 

HAVE A BLESSED DAY 
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