Could This Be Our Moment?

If you could capture a single moment of your life what would it be?

Would it be a particular moment in the past?

A moment of regret?

A moment of a great decision that propelled you into the future with success?

Or the missed moment of a decision you failed to make and opportunity passed you by?

Imagine yourself presented with a divine moment....

That moment when the past and future collide....

That moment you stand between your yesterday and tomorrow with opportunity unfolding...

That moment when “the cloud” begins to move...

That moment you come face to face with a scared king and a big giant...

That moment you are told by God to extend your hand and you must make the decision...

To hand him the twisted hand or the good one...

Nazareth was presented with one of those divine moments and let it slip by...

Jesus read from the Torah and then handed it back to this...

This day his said, this is revealed to you!!!

They viewed the moment as the mundane asking this question...

Is this not the carpenter’s son?

No matter how mundane the moment may appear, the miraculous may wait to be unwrapped in it (McManus)

Twas but a mundane moment....

When the lad shared his lunch....

When the wedding party ran out of wine....

And when those little kids were invited to sit on Jesus' lap....

Moments move in a timely manner and times waits for no one!

Twas such a moment when Samuel was sent to anoint a new king....

Jesse recognized the opportunity and lined up the boys....

Overlooking and maybe neglecting to bring the least of them....

But the mundane forgotten one was the one God was after.....

Samuel rejected the first 7 boys and asked if there was not another son?

He then said “ We will not sit down til the king comes”....

This past weekend was such a moment....

600+ here on Sunday morning with an incredible day....

I feel that we as a church have grown and now are faced with a “moment in time”....

Will we seize the moment…

Or will we get stuck in time…

And never get past the big day and not build upon it!...

Are you stuck in a moment?

A moment from yesterday you keep fighting to live in....

Are you hanging on with all your strength to yesterdays victory/revival?

Was there an event in your yesterday that you have hung up on and still live in that moment?

Understand this…

There is always a future and there is always a hope....

Yesterday’s dilemma cannot force fear on your tomorrow....

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.....

Bartemeus found his moment, Jesus thou son of David have mercy.....

Twas his single chance for it was the only trip the Lord made to Jericho...

Last year we had one of those moments when things went out of control and got crazy...

We baptized 200 homeless people...

Things did not make sense....

We fed thousands with little to nothing to show for it....

But along about the end of that moment....

Jason & Casey Ballman came into the Church.....

That moment last year was for us….

That moment definitely belonged to Jason & Casey….

Therefore we must move forward and live this moment to the fullest in HIM....

The last thing that needs to happen is.....

For us to let this moment pass and we be left with the memory of a big day and opportunity let slip....