Chosen One

John talks about the spirit coming down in John 1 and it remains! I take this as God coming into our lives and staying there through thick and thin. The 1^st verse comes from John 1:32 “I saw there spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on Him” That’s John’s testimony, because God was with him and never left Him! He was God’s chosen one. As we are all God’s chosen people. And that ties into our message today.  We are called, as Christians to proclaim that God is in control of our life and our purpose as Christians is to be vulnerable for God and tell as many people as we can about Him and how great He really is! Our purpose is not to save people, but to lead them to Christ because they can only make the decision for them. We don’t have that power! That is between them and God. But we can plant that seed and God will take it from there.

 "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."-Romans 12:12. These are the words of the bridge leading into the last chorus. This is also what we as Christians need to do.
- You need to be joyful in hope- if you’re not then people who aren’t Christian are going to look at you and be like, well, I don’t want to be like that because what’s the point. We want people to see the JOY in Christ in us!
- Patient in affliction- if we let ourselves get mad or stressed we will slowly drift away from Christ. We want to be as close to Christ as we can, Right? Christ doesn’t want us to be angry because if we are angry what does that resemble as a Christian? Christians don’t want to be know as angry then again, what’s the point of being a Christian?
- Faithful in prayer- as Christians we need to pray EVERYDAY more is great! But we need to start and end our day with a conversation with Christ because were else are we going to get our strength and encouragement? Again, if we aren’t in conversation with Him everyday…things will go wrong! And I’m not saying everything is going to go right, because God does test us. But he will never give you more than you can handle!