Sunday, March 29, 2009

Life Controlling Issues

Titus 3:3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.


As I continue to prepare for this Sunday, I can't help but feel emotional. So many people are tied down with life-controlling issues. Issues that keep them from realizing how great God is and how great He made us. We have within us the potential to live a life of freedom, success, and fulfillment! We were created by a Mighty God and that God so desires us to be all that He designed us to be. We get so wrapped up in this world that we trade in our joy for despair, our freedom for slavery, our victory for defeat, and most of all our inheritance for things that will fade away.
As the scripture states even if you are enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures, we can still break away from those things that keep us down. We only have to turn back to God the Father. When will we realize that we are the scraps we are partaking in come from the table that God prepared for us. We are not dogs to be kicked and shoved aside. We are children of the Most High God. Let us seek freedom from the things that enslave us at the feet of the Father. He will restore us to the place He has prepared.

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Paul LaRose currently serves as the Discipleship Ministries Director for the Kentucky District of the Assemblies of God. He is also Senior Pastor of New Harvest Assembly of God in Frankfort, Kentucky. His passion for discipleship and Christian education is made evident by the fruits of his ministry labor. Paul has been involved in two successful church plants. He served as the Associate Pastor at Harmony Tabernacle AG in Dallas, Texas planted in 2001 where he developed the Christian Education program from the ground up. He currently pastors New Harvest AG planted in 2002. New Harvest is one of the fastest growing AG church plants in the Kentucky District and provides a strong Discipleship and CE program for all those that attend. Paul has been working with the Kentucky School of Ministry in course development. He wrote the course work for the Youth Leaders Tract and is finishing the Children’s Workers Tract. These courses are being used in many of our Assemblies of God Schools of Ministry.