GET YOUR FIRE BACK. IT’S NOT

OVER UNTIL GOD SAYS IT’S OVER. START BELIEVING

AGAIN. START DREAMING AGAIN. START PURSUING WHAT GOD PUT IN

YOUR HEART.

Do Something... That matters!

By Matt Prater

NOTHING VENTURED NOTHING GAINED!

Billy Graham “I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing

thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly.”

Billy Graham “Courage is contagious.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others

are often stiffened.”

Marian Wright Edelman

“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not

something you do in your spare time.”

Romans 12:1-2“1Therefore, I urge you, brothers

and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a

living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God - this is your

true and proper worship.”

Romans 12:1-2“2 Do not conform to the pattern

of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of

your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what

God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

The Moment that Matters - Journal

“What is the chief end of man?

A Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him

forever.”

Matthew 16:27“For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he

will reward each person according to what they have

done.”

C.T. Studd

“Only one life will soon be past, & only what’s done for Christ

will last.”

Matthew 16:23-25“23 Jesus said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a

stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns

of God, but merely human concerns.”

Matthew 16:23-25“24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be

my disciple must deny themselves and take up their

cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life

will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.”

Hebrews 11“ 1-2 The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in

God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything

that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t

see...” [The Message]

Hebrews 11“…The act of faith is what

distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd. 3 By faith,

we see the world called into existence by God’s word, what

we see created by what we don’t see.” [The Message]

Hebrews 11“7  By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was

warned about something he couldn’t see, and acted on what

he was told. The result? His family was saved...” [The Message]

Hebrews 11“... His act of faith drew a sharp

line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the

rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became

intimate with God.” [The Message]

Hebrews 11“13-16 Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the

distance, waved their greeting, and…” [The Message]

Hebrews 11“…accepted the fact that they were transients in this world.

People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for

their true home...”[The Message]

Hebrews 11“…If they were homesick for the

old country, they could have gone back any time they

wanted. But they were after a far better country than that—

heaven country...” [The Message]

Hebrews 11

“... You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City

waiting for them.”

[The Message]

Hebrews 11“24-28 By faith, Moses, when

grown, refused the privileges of the Egyptian royal house. He chose a hard life with God’s

people rather than an opportunistic soft life of sin with

the oppressors...” [The Message]

Hebrews 11“…He valued suffering in the Messiah’s camp far greater than

Egyptian wealth because he was looking ahead, anticipating the payoff. By an act of faith, he

turned his heel on Egypt, indifferent to the king’s blind

rage...” [The Message]

Hebrews 11“…He had his eye on the One no eye can see, and kept right on going. By an act of faith, he

kept the Passover Feast and sprinkled Passover blood on

each house so that the destroyer of the firstborn

wouldn’t touch them.”[The Message]

Hebrews 11“29 By an act of faith, Israel

walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. The Egyptians tried it and drowned. 30 By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days,

and the walls fell flat.”[The Message]

Hebrews 11“ 31 By an act of faith, Rahab, the

Jericho harlot, welcomed the spies and escaped the

destruction that came on those who refused to trust God.”

[The Message]

Hebrews 11“32-38 I could go on and on, but I’ve run out of time. There are so many more—Gideon, Barak,

Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets. . . . …”

[The Message]

Hebrews 11“…Through acts of faith, they

toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for

themselves. They were protected from lions, fires, and

sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, …”[The Message]

Hebrews 11“…won battles, routed alien

armies. Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something

better: resurrection. …”[The Message]

Hebrews 11“…Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and

dungeons. We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed

in two, murdered in cold blood; ...” [The Message]

Hebrews 11“…stories of vagrants

wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—the world didn’t

deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the

cruel edges of the world.”[The Message]

Hebrews 11“39-40 Not one of these people,

even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised. God had

a better plan for us: ...”[The Message]

Hebrews 11“…that their faith and our faith would come together to make

one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart

from ours.”[The Message]

1 Corinthians 3:5-17“5-9 Who do you think Paul is,

anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as

you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master.

…” [The Message]

1 Corinthians 3:5-17“…I planted the seed, Apollos

watered the plants, but God made you grow. It’s not the one who plants or the one

who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who

makes things grow. ...”[The Message]

1 Corinthians 3:5-17

“…Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God’s field in

which we are working.”[The Message]

1 Corinthians 3:5-17

“9-15 Or, to put it another way, you are God’s house. Using the

gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints;

Apollos is putting up the walls. …” [The Message]

1 Corinthians 3:5-17“…Let each carpenter who

comes on the job take care to build on the foundation!

Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already

laid: Jesus Christ.  Take particular care in picking out your building materials. …”[The Message]

1 Corinthians 3:5-17

“…Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use

cheap or inferior materials, you’ll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won’t get by with a thing. ...”[The Message]

1 Corinthians 3:5-17

“…If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn’t,

your part of the building will be torn out and started over.

But you won’t be torn out; you’ll survive—but just barely.”[The Message]

1 Corinthians 3:5-17

“16-17 You realize, don’t you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you?

No one will get by with vandalizing God’s temple, you

can be sure of that. ...”[The Message]

1 Corinthians 3:5-17

“…God’s temple is sacred — and you, remember, are the

temple.”

[The Message]

Do Something... That matters!

By Matt Prater

C.T. Studd

“Two little lines I heard one day, Traveling along life’s busy way;Bringing conviction to my heart, And from my mind would not depart;Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

C.T. Studd

“Only one life, yes only one, Soon will its fleeting hours be done;Then, in ‘that day’ my Lord to meet, And stand before His Judgment seat;Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

C.T. Studd

“Only one life, the still small voice, Gently pleads for a better choiceBidding me selfish aims to leave, And to God’s holy will to cleave;Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

C.T. Studd

“When this bright world would tempt me sore, When Satan would a victory score;When self would seek to have its way, Then help me Lord with joy to say;Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

C.T. Studd

“Give me Father, a purpose deep, In joy or sorrow Thy word to keep;Faithful and true what e’er the strife, Pleasing Thee in my daily life;Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

C.T. Studd

“Oh let my love with fervor burn, And from the world now let me turn;Living for Thee, and Thee alone, Bringing Thee pleasure on Thy throne;Only one life, “twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

C.T. Studd

“Only one life, yes only one, Now let me say, “Thy will be done”;And when at last I’ll hear the call, I know I’ll say “’twas worth it all”;Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last. ”