Fw: Impact Play: “Who Are You?”

Team:

Today's Point Guard is Amanda Tewksbury out of the University of Maine.

She has some great plays here. The most important play is to know who you are and why you are here. Your Sport is a Vehicle for God to use your Talents for His Greater Cause.

In Psalm 139 God tells us how we are Created and Why?

In the Book of Esther God uses this Great Point Guard Esther to orchestrate a Play that would Save the Nation of Israel.

Her Coach Mordechai challenged her by telling her she was the Starting Point Guard for this Purpose. "Now it is your time to make a Big Play."

And She did!

Now it is your time to make the Big Play!

In Heaven there is a Book of Esther about you.

The Book of You: How you fulfilled His purpose for you. How your purpose changed the World.

Thanks Amanda for this Great Message to Follow!

Now - Just Go!

Rick
Phil 4:13
http://huddle360.blogspot.com

------ Email ------
  Boldness: "Almighty God, may they be filled with the Holy Spirit and speak the Word of God with boldness..." -- Acts 4:31
 

Who Are You? Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 READY:  "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come." -2 Corinthians 5:17 SET:  As a student-athlete in high school, the only thing that I liked about myself was my basketball ability. My self-worth was based completely on my performance on the court. Although I knew Christ, it took a lot of painful losing and poor performances for me once I got to college to realize that my self-worth was very skewed. After I began to read the Bible more, I realized that none of the verses showed that God loved me any less based on my performance. I did, however, find many verses based on how God viewed me as His child.
When we receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we begin to see that we are children of God, and that is enough. Our self-image, bad habits, weaknesses, poor performances, etc., have nothing to do with who we are or how God loves us. On the contrary, when we look down on ourselves, we actually hinder our relationship with Him. As Oswald Chambers says, "The way we continually talk about our own inability is an insult to the Creator." When we tear ourselves down, we ultimately tell God that He did a pretty bad job of creating us.
We have two options in response to this. We can choose to go to God to show us who we are and reveal our true identity, or we can choose to go to others and the world to tell us who we are. Only one will bring peaceful truth.
Enjoy who God made you to be in Christ! GO:  1. Who are you? 2. What lies about yourself do you need to stop believing? What truths about yourself do you need to start believing? 3. What do you need to do in order to see yourself as a child of God? WORKOUT:  John 1:12 Romans 5:1 Romans 8:37-39 Ephesians 1:5 ABOUT THE AUTHOR:  Amanda Tewksbury is the FCA Area Representative of Bangor, Maine. She grew up in New Jersey and was a student-athlete at the University of Maine for four years. Check out the Maine FCA website at http://www.mainefca.org.