Youth First Podcast

Age is inevitable, but growth is optional. However, we should all be growing because healthy things grow. Truth be told, if we're not growing, we're dying. That's why it's time to grow! We think we all need to rest in the fact that real growth takes time, the best things in life take time, and we need to steward the time we have well because we don't have a lot of it. So I ask you what are you doing with time? How are you investing it?

It is important when God speaks because after the first time He spoke it was followed with the first attack against His Word, which was a question of doubt... "Did God really say?" So as we continue to give you tips on how to talk to God, how God talks to us and how to talk to each other, in this message God's Word reveals to us how to talk to Satan and how we need to quote Him because God only does what He says, not what we say.

We believe God speaks, He is still speaking, He wants us to talk to Him through prayer, and God talks to us through His Word and when we align our words with His Word some amazing things take place. Especially when we say what God says.

Don't you hate fake?! I hate fake jewelry, fake friends, fake shoes, fake social media accounts, wrestling because it's fake, Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny because they're fake! We hate fake, but the real issue we is that at times we act as fake as the things we hate... But we're not doing this no more!

We're always believing God to do more than what we're asking for. To do more in us, through us, with us and for us, and the truth is God will fill whatever we give Him. If you want God to do more in your life, what are you willing to give Him to fill?

You don't change your life by making changes in your life alone... We change our life by letting God change our mind. We need a new mind, a renewed mind because our life follows our thoughts., and where our mind wanders our life follows. So we need to repent, to change the way we live by changing the way we think.

Do you know what it's like to be in the middle? To feel stuck? In between? To be in a place where you're not where you used to be, but you're not where you want to be? You're in the middle. But there's Good News! Jesus is in the middle, and you don't know what's in you until you are in the middle. You don't know what will come out of you until you are in the middle. You don't know how faithful God is until you're in the middle. It's in the middle that you find out what you're made of. It's in the middle that you discover there's more.

According to the Bible we are made for more, and God wants to do far more than we can ask think or imagine. Because God doesn't just want us to have enough, He wants us to have more than enough. There's more to your life than just getting by, status quo, business as usual. You are more than a job, you are more than a 9 to 5, your are more than a dollar amount, you are more than likes, comments, views and follows. You are made for more!

Pain has many different names: suffering, agony, affliction, torture, torment, discomfort, hurt... But one thing it does that we may not realize is that it helps. That's right! Pain hurts, but it helps. See life can be painful, but pain has a purpose, and we don't want you to waste your pain. We want you to use your pain. Why? Because it's inevitable, unavoidable, and unescapable so instead of going through pain, we might as well grow through it. God wants us to be long-suffering, to have endurance, to be patient, because your greatest purpose will come out of your deepest pain.

Your thinking matters. It is believed that the average person thinks anywhere from 12,000-60,000 thoughts a day, and 70% of those thoughts are negative. 95% of them are the same repetitive thoughts as the day before. Your thoughts matter. Therefore, if you want to change your life, we must let God change our mind. Because you will never truly know who you are until you know Whose you are.