When it rains it pours, rain gear.

Ok so here is the deal, there are going to be days when God rains down his grace and his love, days when he will bestow great things in your life, like a good grades, your football team wins, your out skating and you land a heel flip for the first time, you get a girlfriend or boyfriend. Days when the good stuff just keeps coming. And we love times like that rite? I know I sure love those days weeks months were life is on a roll and everything is just going so super great! But then there are those days were life is on the downside, when you loose the big game, you get a bad grade, your girlfriend or boy friend breaks up with you, you find out your parents are splitting up. Now those are times no one likes… I mean those are the times when you feel alone, scared, angry , and overall bad! Those are the times when you need to know that God is there with you even though you feel he is far away. Satan is constantly trying to bring you down he is always trying to make you feel bad, trying to break you away from God! Those are the times when it rains down the bad rain and if your not careful you can drown, trust me no matter how bad life gets if you give up it will get worse. So you have to put on your armor, and with that being said can I get the first slide? “10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” so what its saying so far is to put on your armor everyday, and to stand firm in your faith. Next slide. “13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place” so when it says to put on your armor of God think of it as praying! That is the first piece of armor you need everyday! 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place” (as Austin puts on a rain coat and gloves) now see Austin has put on his “belt of truth” and his “breastplate of righteousness” but he still isn’t ready to go out in the rain just yet next slide. :15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”
(I plan to just wing it from here and after he is all prepped for rain were going to pelt him with “flaming arrows“ {Nerf bullets} and then close in prayer )

When it rains it pours pt2 (satan rains sin)~Sermon

I'm going to be real with you, this last week i had a real hard time with faith, temptation, and sin... the only way i was able to get threw it was by prier, by putting on my armor, by having faith even though i didn't want to, and Fellowship having others pray for me and with me. just cause i am a big Christian doesn't mean I'm not vulnerable to Satan's tricks in fact it makes us as followers of Christ a bigger target! Satan is going to try and break us down tear us apart, and build his army of sinners, he wants to spread his hate and his sin and by breaking us down! When we are broken down and losing our faith, That's when Satan strikes! thats when he moves in and fires his flaming arrows of Hate, Disperse, Sadness, and Anger! Satan wants us to be his little puppets, he wants us to spread HATE ANGER SADNESS AND DESPAIR he wants us to rain down his darkness, he wants us to pour down his misery. You have all heard that saying “Misery loves company” rite? Well I look at it like “Satan loves company” , I don't know about you but I don't want to be in the company of Satan! I don't want anything to do with Satan! So what we have to do is stand firm! Even though there are times when we just want to give up and renounce or faith, because life just feels so hard and feels like your going nowhere fast, thats when you need to believe in God the most! thats when you need to know that God loves you and will be here for you and he always has! Revelation 21:6-7 “6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children“.
Rite there! “The beginning and the end” he was here before us and he will be here after we are long gone..
He will be our God and us his children! He is our father and the devil hates that! The devil wants to break that bond! So he throws all these evils into our lives! He wants us to be broken.. We as followers of Christ no we as CHILDREN OF CHRIST are the biggest threat to Satan. When we stand side by side and put on our breastplate of righteousness, pick up our shield of faith, grab hold of the sword of the spirit, we become Warriors of God's army! We stop letting Satan rule over those around us, we take the lead in this spiritual war! Satan likes to rain down his evil and pour out his sin! God on the other hand likes to rain down his MERCY and pour out His GRACE! Who would you rather be in the presence of?

Forgivness (message)

    Ok so I want to talk to you about forgiveness today. Not just any forgiveness but Gods forgiveness! And yes there is a difference and its big! Here is the thing, God loves us and he made us all with this thing we call free will. Now the thing about free will is that it means we can be influenced to do things. Be them good things or bad things… And God will forgive us for the bad things, but I’m not saying go out and brake all the rules or go and sin as much as you can. What I’m saying is that as humans we ARE going to slip up, its not the end of the world. And God forgives us for our slip ups and the only thing we have to do for his forgiveness is ASK him! I don’t mean say “oh hey God I’m sorry forgive me?” I’m saying pray and ask God “Lord I’m sorry for my slip ups, I know what is did wasn’t for you. I ask Lord in the name of your son Jesus Christ, Please Lord forgive me.” and if you truly mean it God will forgive you! Its not the act of asking, its asking and meaning it with all your heart! Its knowing that you messed up and wanting to learn and fix your mistakes! And that’s what makes Gods forgiveness different then our forgiveness! Now I’m going to read something from the bible 1 John 1:9 and it states "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." now that’s straight out of the bible! Now I’m going to tell you a story, there was once this man with two sons and one day his youngest sons up and said.. “Dad I want my half of the estate and riches,” so his dad gave it to him soon after he said “forget you dad I can do this on my own and left.. The son went out and wasted all of what his dad gave him threw wild living and then when he realized he was broke he started looking for work he found a job but it didn’t pay well in the least he was starving he didn’t have enough money to keep him self fed he realized that back home his dad took care of his workers and fed them and paid them good but he was working so hard and was starving. So once he finally realized he was in the wrong he decided to go back to his dad and say “dad I’m so sorry for what I have done and I am not worthy to be your son but please give me job” so he set off back home. He was walking down the road and his dad saw him. His dad was so full of joy to see his son was safe and alive he ran to him a wrapped his arms around him! Now this isn’t just any story guys that story is right out of the bible its called the lost son! And it just goes to show Gods forgiveness.. Look at it as we are the son and Christ is the father we run away and when we come home Christ is so happy to see us he is willing to forgive us as long as we ask and really mean it! That is the grace of our God!