Reading Plan week 5

Grid 29:11 Reading Plan
Week 5

Sunday, Feb 1st – Genesis - 16-19

Monday, Feb 2nd – Joshua 21-24

Tuesday, Feb 3rd - Psalms 12-14

Wednesday, Feb 4th - Job 9-10

Thursday, Feb 5th - Isaiah 23-28

Friday, Feb 6th - Matthew 11-13

Saturday, Feb 7th - Romans 9-10

Each day pray that God reveals himself to you in each scripture before you begin. Also spend 10-15 minutes in prayer either before or after

The Fast Reading Plan and Prayer Points

Grid 29:11 Reading Plan
Week 4 with Fasting

Sunday, Jan 25th–Genesis - 12-15

Monday, Jan 26th–Joshua 16-20
1st day of fast – Pray for God to work in you what you are fasting.

Tuesday, Jan 27th - Psalms 9-11
2nd day – Pray for a spiritual awakening in our youth ministry

Wednesday, Jan 28th - Job 7-8
3rd day – Pray for strength and wisdom for your pastors, parents, politicians, friends and you.

Thursday, Jan 29th-Isaiah 18-22
4th day – Pray for breakthrough in your life, family, friends and ministry

Friday, Jan 30th - Matthew 8-10
5th day – Pray for salvation and discipleship like never before.

Saturday, Jan 31st-Romans 7-8
6th day – Pray for it to be finished in your life. Pray for God to move in our city and church.

The Fast

This past Sunday in GRID 29:11 we discussed the building block in our foundation of faith of fasting. Here is a snap shot of the message:

• Fasting is denying yourself something that you desire in order to align yourself with God, spend more time in prayer and the word and to overcome things in your life.
• We all have weaknesses, sin, ways of thinking, or brokenness in our life. Some of these things only come out with prayer and fasting.
• Read Isaiah 58:6-12 - This is what fasting is all about.

Beginning Monday January 26 to February 1st the youth ministry a.k.a. GRID 29:11 is going to fast. Here is what I am asking you to do:

1. Pick one thing in your life you want to overcome, this is what you will be fasting for.
2. Pick one thing you will fast. As I said on Sunday I don't want any body fasting food all six days. You can fast texting, Twitter, Internet, TV, Music, One day no food, next day eat, next day no food, etc... You can fast meat and only eat veggies. You can fast one meal a day. Pick something that will be difficult and challenging yet does not make life impossible.
3. ASK YOUR PARENTS. Go to mom and/or dad let them know you want to fast and what you want to fast and make sure they are okay with it.
4. Sunday the 25th pick up the reading plan with prayer points and participate!
5. Believe God to free you from the one thing and believe for God to move this year powerfully in GRID 29:11.

Today's Inauguration - My thoughts and prayer

When I woke up this morning I had an overwhelming sense to pray for our nation. Today marks a historic day that regardless of your political affiliation you cannot help but be proud of this moment. I am incredibly excited for the healing that will take place that the scars of decades of racial divide have left on our nation. As I watch the festivities and listened to the speech of our new President here are my thoughts.

• A day after we celebrated the life of a visionary and incredible man Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his dream has come true.
• What a moment in time for all races, colors and creeds! Our forefathers said all men were created equal and today that has come true. Regardless of the color of your skin you can achieve greatness in the greatest nation in the history of our earth.
• As stated multiple times by the media the peaceful transfer of power between presidents with differing views is a testament to the freedom of democracy that we enjoy.
• While I may not agree with every decision and stance our new President may make or take, I will honor him and pray for him.

Here is my prayer for President Barack Obama, his family and our nation:

Father, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to live in this great nation. A nation that you have ordained and set up to be a beacon of hope and freedom and one that is called to take Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. I thank you for our new President that you have ordained and set up to lead our nation. My prayer for him is that you would draw him to you. That you Holy Spirit would draw him to your presence to seek you in leading this nation. I pray his heart would be turned to you and that he would seek your wisdom and approval and not the opinion and approval of man. I ask that you would protect him from any and all evil. I recognize there are people who would inflict harm physically, emotionally and spiritually and I ask that you expose them and protect our president and his family. I ask that you give him the grace to lead us down the path you have made for us to walk. Grant him success in our economy. Help him to protect us. Always keep his heart turned toward the orphan, the widow and the poor. Now I ask for unity in our nation. Unity to grow and accomplish your will. I ask that the tears on many faces today would wash away the scars of a terrible past of division. Thank you that in you there is neither Jew or Greek, black, white, brown, red, yellow, male or female, but all are equal in you and created by you. Thank you for our nation cause it to prosper, cause it to heal and cause to be drawn again to your son Jesus, in his mighty name I pray... Amen.

Take a moment today and every day to pray for our President, our elected official, pastors, teachers, and anyone else in authority. This is a pivotal time in our nation and we need to continue to pray!

Reading Plan week 3

Grid 29:11 Reading Plan
Week 3

Sunday, Jan 18th – Genesis - 8-11

Monday, Jan 19th – Joshua 11-15

Tuesday, Jan 20th - Psalms 6-8

Wednesday, Jan 21st - Job 5-6

Thursday, Jan 22nd - Isaiah 12-17

Friday, Jan 23rd - Matthew 5-7

Saturday, Jan 24th - Romans 5-6

Each day pray that God reveals himself to you in each scripture before you begin. Also spend 10-15 minutes in prayer either before or after.

Grid 29:11 Reading Plan Week 2

• Sunday, Jan 11th – Genesis - 4-7
• Monday, Jan 12th - Joshua 6-10
• Tuesday, Jan 13th - Psalms 3-5
• Wednesday, Jan 14th - Job 3-4
• Thursday, Jan 15th - Isaiah 7-11
• Friday, Jan 16th - Matthew 3-4
• Saturday, Jan 17th - Romans 3-4

Each day pray that God reveals himself to you in each scripture before you begin. Also spend 10-15 minutes in prayer either before or after.

Text

We recently finished our text series in TVM and it was extremely fun! We have a ton of left over questions that I will continue to answer on the Blog as we go along. As we near the end of the question we will open up the discussion again and allow for more questions to be asked and answered on the blog.

Here are today's questions:

1. do you keep a journal?
2. who thought of the idea of the TEXT series?
3. does god love bad people?
4. what time is it?
5. where do i live?

Do you keep a journal?

Not on a regular basis. When I go through something significant (good times, tragedy, new adventures) I will capture my memories and reflections in a journal, but as far as a regular journal... nope. I guess my blog is kind of a journal. I would like to discipline myself to journal more often but... maybe 2009's resolution.

Who thought of the idea of the TEXT series?

The majority of the creative ideas used in TVM are thought of and created by a team of people. While a specific person doesn't come to mind when giving credit for the TEXT series idea I'd blame Justin if you didn't like it. If you thought it was cool then give props to Josh Danskin.

Does God love bad people?

YES! Just as God created you and I who are hopefully "good" people, he also created those people we would call "bad." They weren't created to be bad, but have made choices to be who they are. I like to present it this way. God is the father of us all. In natural parenting you children will do things that are "bad," the disappoint you, hurt you, make you angry and on and on. However, just because they have chose a behavior contrary to what you'd desire, as a parent you still love them. The same is true with God. He doesn't look down and see the label; thief, murderer, molester, liar and so on, he sees a broken child of his that needs to be healed, forgiven and restored. Check out this scripture:

Romans 8:38-39 (New International Version)

38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God loves us all, good or bad. This doesn't mean he will go along with our choices and looks the other way. No he sees what is done and will discipline those who need it, but he still loves all of us, no matter what we've done or will do.

What time is it?
At the tone the time will be 4:47pm... beep! It's Christmas time! It's TIME for a word from our sponsors. Tool time? IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME, PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME! Take your pick I guess...

Where do I live?

You live at your house. Probably in Washington state or to be more specific Snohomish county.

Most of these questions were some of the funny questions we got. We will tackle some tougher ones in the next post.

Text this week...

Here are the questions we will tackle this week in our Text series:

Wednesday

• What should I do if I like someone from church?
• What’s the biggest age difference there should be in a relationship when you are younger?
• When is it okay to date? Around what get do you think it’s appropriate to start dating?
• If God told you that you were going to marry someone does that mean it’s going to happen? What if you don’t want to marry that person?
• What do you do if you really like someone who loves God and wants a relationship with that person, but they are distracting you from God?

Sunday

1st Service

• Do you know anyone that has met their wife or husband at 12? And in your opinion what are the chances of that happening?
• How should I treat a girl I like, but don’t want to pursue a relationship with them?
• How do I fix my heart after a break up when I feel like dying?
• How do I break up with someone at church?
• Can I have a boyfriend and a boo?

2nd Service

• What’s so bad about dating?
• How do you know when you’ve found that special someone?
• Is it okay to date people in the church because we are all brothers and sisters of God? Why is it so bad to date a non believer? Is it a sin if you do?
• How far can you go with your bf or gf?
• Is it bad to move in with someone you’re going to marry before u actually get married?

Announcing...

Gia and I have some very exciting news to share with everyone! We have a lot of people close to us and would love to tell each person individually, but that would be impossible due to all those we know and love. So consider this your personal message from us to you.

A couple of weeks ago we went to the doctors and found out that Gia is pregnant! Yesterday we went again and heard the heartbeat, which was awesome, and found out that the due date is May 23rd.

We are so excited for this next stage of life for the both of us! We cannot wait to be parents of our own child! Please pray for Gia because she's been sick and pray for strength and a healthy baby.

We will be keeping everyone posted via the blog on what's going on. Please if you have questions or anything don't be afraid to ask in person :-).

October to November Daily Reading Plan

Date Daily Word Daily Prayer
10/18/2008 Luke 5-6 Jesus I know you are calling me so I answer that call.
10/19/2008 Luke 7-8 God help me to shine for all to see. Bring people my way who need you.
10/20/2008 Luke 9 I choose to deny my self, pick up my cross and follow you. Help me!
10/21/2008 Luke 10 Worship and prayer night 7pm. I will go to people like the Samaritan, so I can help them.
10/22/2008 Luke 11-12 Jesus give me a fear of God. Not being afraid, but reverence and awe of you.
10/23/2008 Luke 13-14 Pray for church. Jesus help me to pay the price of following you with everything in me.
10/24/2008 Luke 15-16 God I will give up all to seek you and follow you.
10/25/2008 Luke 17-18 God increase my faith!
10/26/2008 Luke 19-20 God protect me from anything that would pollute my faith. Help me to stand strong.
10/27/2008 Luke 21 Jesus help me to watch and wait for you before I act.
10/28/2008 Luke 22 Pray for church tonight. Father I want to be great, so make me a servant of all.
10/29/2008 Luke 23-24 Jesus continue to reveal yourself to me in everything I do.
10/30/2008 John 1-2 Thank you that I overcome the darkness, Give me the strength to stand.
11/1/2008 John 3-4 Help me to decrease that you might increase along with my effectiveness.
11/2/2008 John 5-6 Jesus no matter what I will not turn away. Help me to be strong.
11/3/2008 John 7-9 God fill me with truth that it would make me free from anything holding me back.
11/4/2008 John 10-12 Jesus help me to know and hear your voice.
11/5/2008 John 13-15 Pray for church tonight. Help me to follow your commandments and your Word.
11/6/2008 John 16-17 Pray for Reach Teams. Turn any sorrow I have into joy!
11/7/2008 John 18-21 Jesus let everything in my life that doesn’t please you be finished.
11/8/2008 Acts 1-3 Jesus bring revival to our city and let people be added to our church everyday.
11/9/2008 Acts 4-6 Pray for revival in our city. We are taking our city. Pray for God’s power in our lives.
11/10/2008 Acts 7-10 Pray God would give you and everyone around you an encounter that changes lives.
11/11/2008 Acts 11-14 God bring a revival to our city that changes our city forever and use me in all of it.
11/12/2008 Acts 15-18 Pray for church. Let me be someone who turns the world upside down. Give us our city!
11/13/2008 Acts 19-21 Pray for Reach Teams. Give me the strength to talk about you to every person.
11/14/2008 Acts 22-23 Pray for your one person you are going to get saved and to a Reach team.
11/15/2008 Acts 24-26 Pray for your one. God you’ve given us this city now open the doors we need open.
11/16/2008 Acts 27-28 Pray for your one. God draw my friends and others to you. Open their hearts to you.
11/17/2008 Romans 1-3 Jesus I will not be ashamed of my faith, but I will live it and not hide it.