
The Resolution Solution
Happy New Year!
The American Happiness Project
Leaves us frustrated and ‘goal-less’ many times. We drop our resolutions when we hit the tiniest speed bump.
Resolutions Mostly Fail Because WE are NOT Yet a Person who emodies the resolution.
“Our resolution is beyond our consitution.”
The Resolution Solution!
What If I could show you how to partner with God to live into a Single Powerful Resolution that would make you truly happy?
This is like ‘The Ring’ in the Lord of the Rings — ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL!
One Resolution to Rule them All.
Nail this one and all the rest fall in line!
ONE RESOLUTION TO RULE THEM ALL.
*LEAN INTO THIS ONE RESOLUTION AND YOU’LL FIND YOURSELF MORE AND MORE JOY FILLED AND OVERFLOWING WITH THE Holy Spirit. *
HERE’S THE ONE RESOLUTION: I WILL PARTNER WITH GOD TO CO-CREATE ONE HOLY MOMENT TODAY.
Jesus said it this way in Matthew 6:30-33
“If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. —Matthew 6:30-33 The Message
The Holman Christian Standard Bible captures Jesus’ words this way:
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. —Matthew 6:33 [HCSB]
Resolve today to partner with God first and foremost and all your other ‘resolution’s will fall into place.
You’ll come to a place of true happiness, joy and contentment that you’ve been chasing in all the wrong places in all the wrong ways for years.
Jesus makes this promise about finding true happiness in Matthew 10:39
“Anyone finding his life will lose it, and anyone losing his life because of Me will find it.” —Jesus Christ in Matthew 10:39 [HCSB]
When you choose to chase God’s dream for the world above pursuing your own happiness you will find satisfaction and joy like you’ve never known before.
Did you know that when you chose to become a child of God that Jesus took hold of you for a mighty purpose beyond yourself?
Paul says it this way in his letter to the church at Phillipi.
7 But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ.
8 More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ
9 and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ — the righteousness from God based on faith.
10 My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
11 assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead.
12 Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
13 Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,
14 I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus. —Paul in his letter to the church in Phillipi [ Philippians 3:7-14 (HCSB)]
Paul knows that Christ has taken hold of him for a reason.
Do you know that Christ has taken hold of you, as well?
Paul realized that He had one great resolution in life that rule all the others. The resolution to pursue God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.
Would you be willing to make the sort of resolution that Paul made and that Jesus calls us to?
Here’s how to begin to live out that one resolution:
Here is the RESOLUTION SOLUTION: Co-Create ONE Holy Moment with God.
And that’s our calling as a church as well isn’t it?
Phos has a LONG HISTORY of co-creating Holy Moments with God from our first service worship project at Apple Patch years ago and our launch at Tinseltown movie theaters to encouraging you to become God’s hand-crafted original and to shine your light wherever you go. A string of Holy Moments from our beginning til now and into the future!
In 2020 and beyond we want to continue to string together Holy Moments.
But, we face a challenge to living our resolution to Co-Create Holy Moments with and for our neighbors near and far and it’s our name.
The ‘Chinese American Church’ — this a person who passes us, knows us and has met some of us and STILL THINKS WE ARE A CHINESE AMERICAN CHURCH!
The Reason we must consider how to do our best to co-create with God for not just our sakes but for the sake of our friends.
The Shining Castle on a Hill and the BIG MOTE
Laura’s Imagination of Heaven someday: ‘So, how’d it go?’
SO, AS A CHURCH AND AS INDIVIDUALS LET US LEAN INTO GOD’S DREAM FOR THE WORLD AND RESOLVE TO CO-CREATE HOLY MOMENTS WITH HIM DAILY.
THE RESOLUTION SOLUTION: I WILL PARTNER WITH GOD TO CO-CREATE ONE HOLY MOMENT TODAY.
To learn more about creating Holy Moments check out this book: ‘The Biggest Lie in the Hisory of Christianity’ by Matthew Kelly, published in 2018 by Kakadu, LLC