MONDAY, June 2nd, 2008

Hello my fellow Auctioneers! This is a little long: but bear with me. It is good stuff!

I hope you were able to join us at the dessert auction last night! We sold almost 30 desserts and raised over $2500.00 dollars! It was a whole munch of fun too! If you were not there... Same on you! (unless you had a good excuse)

I want to say a special thank you to the teenagers at church last night. It is wonderful to know that I can challenge each of you with something, and you listen to the challenge and change what needs to be changed. You all are GREAT! Last Sunday night there were 4 teenagers in church. Yesterday I explained how important it is to be in church (even on Sunday Nights) and about 24 of you were there last night! It was so very encouraging to see each of you there last night.

I guarantee that if you keep it up, you will be rewarded and blessed for it!
I almost called it a sacrifice, but really 2.39% is not a sacrifice. I was talking to a few of you yesterday who told me, we should come up with more things to do with church, so that we can raise that percentage. I said it was a great idea: But I want your help coming up with what we will do! Here are a few of my thoughts:

We could meet on Tuesday Nights for some kind of Teen Praise Band, or Teen Choir, or something like that. We could meet on Thursday Night for visitation!! I am sure there are even more exciting things you can think of. Comment them along with your devotions today!

A Few Thoughts From Yesterday:
Jeff: What in the World is "Teen Titans"
Jessica: Great job on the devos this week! I am thankful that you are finally in youth group! I talked with Lucy yesterday and explained to her that I want you and her and all of these other 7th graders to really jump start this summer. Get involved in every way you can; whether it is by doing devos online, or by coming to all our activities.
McCue: I am glad your phone lets you do devos online! Sweet! Stay faitfhul as much as possible!
Amy: We miss you! What did you do to your knee? When you come back are you going to be allowed to come to youth group on Sundays now?

John 4:27-38
27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”
28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men,
29 “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!
36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
37 For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’
38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”


Verses 28 - 30 explain how this woman went and spread the news about the messiah to the people she knew. What an example. She just believed in Christ, and she immediately went out to witness: some of us have been saved our entire life, and we SILL dont witness! Why is that?

We must understand that if we are not sharing the truth of Christ to the people in our life then we are failing at what God has asked us to do! We should spread the good news by whatever means possible; whether that means to talk about him at school, to talk about him on your myspace, to talk about him when you are with your friends, and every other opportunity you have!

Verses 31-33 are kind of funny. While the woman that Christ met at the well is out witnessing to others; The disciples tell Jesus that He needs to eat. Well, "Christ tells them: I have food to eat that you dont know about..." (Obviously He is being figurative; giving an illustration) Hoever, the disciples start asking each other: Did someone already bring Him food?

NO SILLY! NO ONE BROUGHT HIM FOOD!! He is explaining that there is something more important than eating! Jesus must have thought: You guys just dont get it! Jesus went on to explain to the men what He meant.

verses 34-38 explain what Jesus was thinking when He said "I have food which you dont know of".

I am almost done but you have to understand this to get the passage. Food is what keeps us going, it is what nourishes us, and helps us stay alive. The disciples thought that some bread was what kept them going, but Jesus explained that there is a greater source of life. A greater source of nourishment, a greater source that "keeps us going" and that is to "DO GOD'S WILL"!!!!

We dont need to put it off! The fields are already white unto harvest! They are READY! We must go ahead and "eat the food" or Follow the will of God for our lives!

What are your thoughts?