🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿
One day as Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea 0f Galilee, He saw two brothers—Simon, also called Peter, and Andrew—throwing a net into the water, for they fished for a living. Jesus called out to them, “Come, follow Me, and I will show you how to fish for people.” —Matthew 4:18
A little farther up the shore He saw two other brothers, James and John, sitting in a boat with their father, Zebedee, repairing their nets. And He called them to come, too. They immediately followed Him, leaving the boat and their father behind. —Matthew 4:21-22
🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿
A bigger and better adventure with Jesus will take us to a bolder adventure. Jesus already knows where He wants us to venture forth. He did not force Peter and Andrew, James and John to follow Him. They chose to. Jesus gives us this same choice. If you say yes, your expected will be challenged, but your future will be changed. The consequences of this bolder adventure in the Real Truth will reverberate all the way to eternity.
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Go on a bolder adventure with Jesus.
Bolder adventures begin with Jesus and ends beyond what we see on this earth. The brother pairs, Peter and Andrew, James and John, were simple men with big hearts for truth. When Jesus came and called them, they wanted to be part of that bolder adventure of sharing and spreading the Real Truth of the gospel to everyone they encountered afterwards. To be alongside Jesus, to breathe in the divine goodness of Jesus, to bring that goodness to all so that they would know Jesus.
Adventures with Jesus change lives.
Adventures with Jesus charge us forward.
Adventures with Jesus chase the gospel to the ends of the world for God’s glory.
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Bolder adventures with Jesus begin with a willingness to be vessels for Jesus to follow Him in abandonment. James and John leave their father and their boat. They leave a life of familiarity to focus on faith missions for the Father. They forgoe a life of security to seek out souls in sin and save them. Bolder adventures take us far from safe harbor to seas with potentially rough wind and raw waves for a greater purpose. Storms instead of sunshine and surfing days here.
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It is in the deep and the dark that these disciples see Jesus walking on the water, and where Jesus taught Peter how to walk upon the water.
It is in the hard and harder that the disciples and us see the power and provision of Jesus for those who trust Him when tempests test us and turbulence trouble us.
It is in the uncertain and unknown that Jesus reveals His care and character and leads us with His hand and heart.
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Bolder adventures with Jesus come with risk. The outcome and outer limits of where we will traverse is no longer in our control. Plans and preparation of what our life would look like is not a certainty anymore. We give up the expected, but we receive the extraordinary.
Go on bigger, better, and bolder adventures with Jesus. Get your packing and leave the parking behind. Grab your gear and head out. Join Jesus on adventures that will land you outside your comfort zone and lead you to the Real Truth. For all your days. Here to eternity.
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