Dynamite in the Heart

Dynamite in the House

FMUK Youth Explosion Message – Dr. K. Chitima

Preliminaries

Prophetic: What an awesome time! There is dynamite in the heart. There is great potential in the house. Something powerful is happening. God has invested vast wealth in each person. God has deposited something special in your life. The future is great. God is saying the future is bright. It is so bright you need eyeshades.  You maybe seeing storms around your life. You may be discouraged. You are losing hope. He has a destiny you can not even imagine. God is saying revise the dream you have. Our God is able to do exceeding beyond what you think or ask. God is in the business of transforming lives and delivering solutions.

Teasers:

Shortest person in Bible:  Bildad the Shoe hite (Job 8:1).

Tallest person: I is higher (Isaiah).

First car: God drove Adam and Even out of the garden of Eden (Genesis 3)

Exercise: Pieces of paper. a) Write the main thing grabbing your heart/mind an issue in any area of life.  b) Write your desire for it and support with a scripture c) A barrier or a fear concerning it. d) Ask God in prayer. e) Give thanks to God for the answer to your prayer. Put a tick on b), cross out c) and shout, dance in celebration. f) Keep paper somewhere for as long as feel necessary and daily thank God for the answer. Thank him for victory over all barriers.

MESSAGE: Dynamite in the House

I have written  unto you , fathers , because  ye have known  him that is from  the beginning . I have written  unto you , young men , because ye are  strong , and  the word  of God  abideth  in you , and  ye have overcome the wicked one ... 1 John 2:14

1) You are strong.  I write to you because you are strong. The sky is the limit. You are strong in physically, passion, energy, options, determination, socially and spiritually. You have great potential. Dynamo is power that needs to be detonated or released. Being strong however is not very helpful unless there is direction. Dynamism without direction is dangerous. Purpose determines the use to which you put your strength. You are fearfully and wonderfully made for God. You are made in image of God (Imago Dei)

2) You have the word of God. The Word is in you. Psalm 1:1-5, Josh 1:8.

The word is the source of eternal power. The source of life and peace. The source of answers to all problems. It is the source of wisdom. You don’t need to wait for age to be wise. Sometimes age comes alone. More word the more of his virtues and attributes. More word more power. Word intake is investing treasure and strength in your life.  Psalm 119:9, 11. The secret of Gods power is his word. With it he made the heavens and the earth. Grab and run with this secret on your journey of life.

3) You have overcome.

The postmodern 21st Century trends and traps are not easy and require a people of strength to overcome. Things are not easy for 21st Century young people. They suffer from information overload. Certain things previous generations were protected from until much later in life but now postmodern young people with cell phones can access any information. To make it worse, things are changing at a fast rate and there is less predictability. There is need for guidance. Way back choices were simpler. These are days of equal but complex opportunity.

These are times of hybrid and multi cultures. Cross-cultural skills have become a vital survival need. Despite the increased population, social group integration and social networking, many are lonely. Many are disconnected. People are looking for authenticity in a cosmetic world where everyone is acting out something. You are not sure of people’s intentions. Open your heart and its cut to shreds. These are times when many are not even sure if they are a boy or a girl. These are times when you can buy almost anything except life and peace. You can even buy a new face. You do not have to be stuck with anything including a spouse. Trends are against those who want to stand for righteousness. Despite all the challenges, you have overcome. Believe you are strong. You are able anywhere anytime.

a) The greatest threat to human race. Is not climatic change and global warming. Is not nuclear threat. Is not extinction of natural species. Is not the next world war. Is not risk of exhaustion of non renewable resources. Is not instability of markets. Is not fears of food insecurity is not the greatest threat. The greatest threat is not energy shortages. The greatest threat is moral erosion or break down. When what is right has become an individual determination then nothing is still right and nothing is wrong. What a source of confusion. Forsaking God’s righteousness. Holding on to your standing in the place of righteousness in Christ. Without godly moral standards you will destroy yourself and others. Righteousness exalts a people sin  is a reproach  to any people (Proverbs 13:34). Many use their wealth and education to destroy themselves. Following Christ is the cool thing. Righteousness will lift you up and protect you. Righteousness is filling yourself with Gods word. Focus on your strength not your sin and weakness. Whatever you focus on you empower.

Many in 21st C have adopted a way of thinking which pushes God aside but leaves no basis for right or wrong, and purpose and meaning. When God is displaced from the center a moral vacuum is created. Wherever a moral vacuum is created moral confusion arises. Resultantly many are distracted, disconnected, discontented and purposeless but they will not easily acknowledge it. You need a reliable basis for making choices about where to go, do, say, etc.  Despite post modern sophistication and technological and knowledge advancement disrespect for human dignity and life is increasing. Human abuse, trafficking and sex slavery is on the rise. Its time to come back to God. The summary of the word of God is Jesus Christ. Jesus is the hope of the world. Build your hope in nothing less than Jesus and his righteousness. He restores the moral campus of the word of God to navigate the maze of life. 

I watched part of the Scotland ‘T in the Park’ annual weekend music festival on TV. The thousands of young people enjoying music in the summer weather attracted me.  They were standing throughout in the open full of passion and dancing. Some barely dressed up. Others wore no shirts. They wore all kinds of dress, hairstyles, hats, colors and eyeshades. Some carried food packs in their hands and each other on shoulders before a massive stage filtering smoke out. The sound was loud, the lights flashing and giant screens were on display. Flags were in the sky and the musicians screamed, sweat and spat it out. As the audience sang along it was a real voice of a multitude. Some were there to maintain security and order.

I thought of somebody living that place. After all the excitement they feel despite all the hype they were still lonely. What do you retreat to. Many people recognize that they are leading a rotten life. They see their lives as broken down, full of cynicism, full of lust. They wander if they will be this way forever. They are looking for answers. They see themselves often as stuck and unable to shake off some habit or relational problem. Anything you cannot get rid of is an addiction. The more distinct you are the more you are able to inspire hope.

b) The greatest promise is ‘I will be with you’ (Hebrews 13:5). God has promised his presence and never to leave you or forsaken you. That promised is what assured Moses, Gideon and many others. If God is with you setbacks set the stage for comebacks. Even when you are on you own. Even a mother can forsake her child but God will never forsake you. That is means his love, his peace, his gold all his power, all his life is with you. He owns the whole world and its fullness.

c) The greatest privilege is to  be able to ask whatever in Jesus’  name (John 15:16). Asking is the way to access the resources of God that are in his presence.  Do not be like the boy who was asked to move a boulder and could not. The father asked him to try again with all his strength. Still he failed until he gave up. The father reminded the boy he had not used all his strength because he had not asked him to help. God is the overwhelming part of your strength. In fact God is the strength you have. Make good use of it. Trust in God whatever transitions you are going through… to high school, to College, to career, to marriage, or to a new place.