Relay For Life

Tonight is the Relay for Life. You can check out the website for this Nationwide event here. It is an event to help raise money for cancer research. I am attending for the first time tonight, and y'all pray hard for me......I have signed up to walk from 4am - 7am in the morning. Frankie G from the NYC is gonna try and walk from 7pm - 7am. This will be a hard feat in itself, but add the fact that Frank will be dressed like a woman and it has to add to the degree of difficulty a little bit. (Not a dig on the ladies at all I promise, but maybe y'all can give Frank some pointers on keeping up his hose and when to switch from heels to sneakers.) From what I'm told they have a beauty contest for the men who dress it up a bit to help raise even more money. Good luck Frank.

Wouldn't it be great if we had a Relay for Jesus that was a Nationwide event to help get the Word out. We could take the money and give to Missionaries, Gideons, and to church planters in inner cities, or you name it. We are commanded by Jesus himself to go out and make disciples of every person in every nation and we need to understand that there are people everywhere who don't know Him. It is a very simple truth that we hold onto, and I like the way the Message translation breaks it down. Look at these verses from Romans:

6 Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the Cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life—no longer at sin's every beck and call! 7What we believe is this: 8 If we get included in Christ's sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection. 9 We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word. 10 When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us. 11 From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That's what Jesus did. 12 That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don't give it the time of day. 13 Don't even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life. Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time—remember, you've been raised from the dead!—into God's way of doing things. 14 Sin can't tell you how to live. After all, you're not living under that old tyranny any longer. You're living in the freedom of God.
Romans 6:5-14 (MSG)

We were all dead men and women walking around with no purpose until we became submissive to call of Jesus. Are you celebrating this morning on the truth that we will never die? Eternity started for us when we accepted the salvation that Jesus offers and in the spiritual realm we will only pass through the valley of the shadow of death.

This is the day that Lord has made and in doing so He has made us new and with the sole purpose to bring glory to Him. So get out there and make a difference and share with others your joy. Not just today, but everyday.

Have a Blessed Day!!!