A Youth Impact Event - Walking In The Father's Love

It's THAT Time of The Year Again - CHRISTMAS!

Dear Youth Impact-ers,

Christmas is coming in about 1.5 months time and I couldn't be more excited!

There's the peppermint drinks, gorgeous decorations, snowflakes AND gifts!

We have been celebrating Christmas, YI-style for two years running now (if my memory serves me right) and this year is no different.

We will be hosting our very own Christmas Celebration to wrap up 2011 in style!

It will be our final youth meeting for the year and can I encourage you... Bring a friend.

We have spoken all year of the 3G-s: Growing, Glowing and Going. If you have not remembered any of the sermons, we (Uncle Vive, Lin Ken, Aaron and I) forgive you. No sweat.

But, it is not too late to put the 3G-s into action.

Can I challenge you to make it count before 2011 comes to an end? Invite a friend for this event, it could be the one evening that will change the life of your friend, forever.

I'm looking forward to be back, celebrating Christmas with all of you - caroling, gifts-giving (Did I mention that we have an awesome door gift this year? If I didn't, YES, we do!) and dining together on December 17th.

*A special note to all visitors reading this: You are most welcome and cordially invited to join us in our Christmas Celebration 2011. If you need directions or someone to talk to, please do not hesitate to drop us an email at youthimpactrocks@gmail.com.

Much love to all of you reading this,
Melissa.

Youth Camp

February - A season of farewell

Growing in the Lord

Growing is a natural process that must occur in our daily lives. We grow from being an infant to adulthood over a certain period of time. Yet, not too many people have come to the realization of this fact. For instance, if a child refuses to grow, the parent will not be happy and very concerned. For sure they will seek all medical help to understand why their child is not growing.

Spiritual growth is equally important as physical growth. 2 Peter 3:18 says "But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ". Important to note that God becomes your spiritual father when you give your life to Christ (John 1:12). So God becomes unhappy when you as his child refuse to grow just as a natural father will not be happy with his kid who has refused to grow. The Christian faith is a personal walk with God which requires a deliberate choice to undertake. You do not just grow because you get born again, but you grow because you hunger and thirst after it; Matthew 5:6 says "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled".

There is an exact parallel between physical growth and spiritual growth—except perhaps that spiritual growth is less measurable. Spiritual growth cannot be demonstrated by marks on a door-frame. Still, there are many similarities. When we come to know Jesus Christ as our Savior, we receive a new nature, and we become God's children—spiritual infants. All the potential for our spiritual life is given to us at the moment we trust Christ, because the Holy Spirit comes to live within us, never to leave us. At point of salvation, we start our "bottle-feeding" process of being a disciple. Being taught the basic elementary teaching of Christianity. However, this "bottle-feeding" is not supposed to go on for a lifetime. As you grow in your understanding, you will become able to digest and assimilate the meat of God's Word on your own. You'll be able to study and apply the Scripture for yourself.

God's goal for each of His children is maturity. Paul wrote in Ephesians 4:12-13, "Prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ" .

Grow in the Lord. Grow towards the potential that God has planted in your lives.

Purity

In the forests of northern Europe and Asia lives a little animal called the ermine, known for his snow-white fur in winter. He instinctively protects his white coat against anything that would soil it.

Fur hunters take advantage of this unusual trait of the ermine. They don’t set a snare to catch him, but instead they find his home, which is usually a cleft in a rock or a hollow in an old tree. They smear the entrance and interior with grime. Then the hunters set their dogs loose to find and chase the ermine. The frightened animal flees toward home but doesn’t enter because of the filth. Rather than soil his white coat, he is trapped by the dogs and captured while preserving his purity. For the ermine, purity is more precious than life.

How do we handle our purity in Christ Jesus? This is the question we have to ask ourselves every day. Do we compromise our faith for the sake of convenience? Or do we watch pornography on the internet, magazine or TV for the sake of entertainment? Do we back down from what we believe in Jesus for the sake of not being left out by the “in-crowd”?

We would do well to take a lesson from the ermine when it comes to purity. Are we careful about our reading material, our viewing habits and the company we keep? Or are we entertained by the impurity that surrounds us?

Purity may seem to be a thing of the past, but rest assured, it is still ever bit as much worth fighting for as it ever has been. We need to be diligent in guarding our purity.

1 Timothy 4:12 - Purity

1 Timothy 4:12 - Faith

1 Timothy 4:12 - Love - Agape

1 Timothy 4:12 - Life - Make a Difference

Speech - Bible Reference

The following Bible verses teach us how to use our speech to honor God. Our words have a tremendous impact on people. It’s important that we learn to communicate with wisdom and purity. We must keep in mind that our speech can serve as a reflection of our relationship in Christ.

Psalm 19:14
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Psalm 34:12-13
Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies.

Psalm 37:30
The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks what is just.

Psalm 119:172
May my tongue sing of your word, for all your commands are righteous.

Psalm 139:4
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.

Proverbs 8:13
To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.

Proverbs 10:20-21
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked is of little value. The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of judgment.

Proverbs 15:4
The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.

Proverbs 15:28
The heart of the righteous weighs its answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes evil.

Proverbs 16:13
Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value a man who speaks the truth.

Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

Proverbs 16:21
The wise in heart are called discerning, and pleasant words promote instruction

Proverbs 18:20-21
From the fruit of his mouth a man's stomach is filled; with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied. The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 21:23
He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity.

Proverbs 22:11
He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend.

Proverbs 26:24-25
A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but in his heart he harbors deceit. Though his speech is charming, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart.

Proverbs 28:23
He who rebukes a man will in the end gain more favor than he who has a flattering tongue.

Ecclesiastes 5:2-4
Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few. As a dream comes when there are many cares, so the speech of a fool when there are many words. When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.

Isaiah 50:4
The Sovereign LORD has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.

Ephesians 4:29
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen

Colossians 4:6
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Colossians 3:8
But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips

James 1:26
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.

James 3:5
Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.

James 3:6
The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

James 3:9-12
With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

1 Peter 3:9-11
Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. For, "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

1 John 3:18
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

1 Timothy 4:12 - Speech

“Our speech has an amazing ability to reveal our hearts; it is the loud-speaker of our lives. It broadcasts who we are – for better or worse – far beyond our ability to control it. Our speech can alienate people or get us in a heap of trouble without our even knowing it.” - Andrew Farmer

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1 Timothy 4:12

The Love of God

1 Cross + 3 Nails = 4 Given

All For Love

At the CROSS

In John 15:13, Jesus taught His disciples that no greater love exists than for a person to lay down their life for another person. I am certain the disciples all nodded their heads and acknowledged their factual understanding of that statement. perhaps they even thought of family members or friends and wondered whether they would be able to lay down their life for them. However, Christ did not leave them to wonder whether there was anyone willing to do this for them.

Shortly after making this statement He went out and showed them His love by actually laying down His life in their place. This one display of love was beyond anything these men had ever before encountered. They may not have fully comprehended what was happening at the time, but as their understanding grew, so did the impact this event had on their lives and their ministries.

However, Christ's sacrifice was not limited to the inner circle of the disciples. His love extends to each of us as well. The fact that God loved us enough to be willing to die for us is in reality more than we can comprehend. He was not obligated, or compelled from some sense of duty. His actions were motivated completely out of love, not just for mankind as a whole, but for each of us as individuals.

The most beautiful part of why Christ died at Calvary was that He died there for us. It is sad to think it was necessary, but comforting beyond words to know He was willing to do whatever was required, up to and including dying, in order to have a relationship with us. His love for us is not merely a bunch of words in a book, but a reality expressed in the most visible and memorable fashion possible. Never was any statement more true than the words of the familiar song -

"At the cross I bow my knee
Where Your blood was shed for me
There's no greater love than this
You have overcome the grave
Your Glory fills the highest place
What can separate me now?"