If you’ll put on the spiritual hat, a develop a vibrant relationship with God, if you’ll put on the marriage hat and develop a vibrant relationship with your husband, and then put on the parent hat and decide that your main goal as a mother is to dedicate your children back to God, then and only then will you become successful when it comes to the mother’s load, then and only then will you be able to say, because of God, I’ve truly hit the mother load.

There are so many distractions in our lives that it can be difficult to focus on what matters most. Often those distractions start off as simple things and morph into more complex things. What we learn from this weeks message is that we need to rid them out of our lives.

Each day as we follow Christ we are faced with a choice, to follow Him, or our own selfish desires. Much like the Kings of the Old Testament, we often tempted to choose the wrong thing. The question we have to answer is “who is the King of our hearts?"

You’ll never find fulfillment, you’ll never find fruitfulness in ministry until you find ministry that matches your God-given shape; what experiences has God brought you through, that not only is He working for good, but He wants to use them to minister to the people around you. And once you discover how God has made you, once you discover the hand you’ve been dealt, the final step is to push all the chips into the middle of the table and say, God I’m All in. I’m going to use what you’ve given to me to serve others for your glory.

God has a unique plan for your life, and He’s given you a unique shape to fulfill that plan. He’s given you a unique personality. There’s nobody in the world just like you. But please understand, you’ll never find fulfillment, you’ll never find fruitfulness in ministry until you find ministry that matches your God-given shape; that matches your personality. Are you a talker, a feeler, a thinker or a doer? And once you discover how God has made you, that’s when you’ve got to push all the chips into the middle of the table and say, God I’m All in. I’m going to get off the bench and get into the game and use what you’ve given to me to serve others for your glory.

You're the only person on earth who can use your specific, God-given Abilities as part of God’s purpose for you, and those impacted through you for such a time as this. Will you say, God I’m ALL IN!

Decide this week that you’re going to look for opportunities to serve God in a way that matches your heart. What do you love to do? What are you passionate about? If you could do anything for God and not fail, what would you do? Decide today to push all the chips into the middle of the table and say, I’m all in.

Every Christian has at least one gift. We’ll never fully understand serving God and serving others until we understand how God has gifted us spiritually. This series is called, “All In” So the challenge is, decide today that you’re going to push all the chips into the middle of the table and say, God, I’m all in. I’m going to take the spiritual gifts that you have given to me and I’m going to look for ways throughout the week to put it into practice. I’m going to look for ways to serve God by serving others.

When we look at how Jesus lived His life, you will notice that he spent a lot of time in prayer. Jesus prayed with focus, fervor, and very frequently. He modeled that for you and I, but the question is, do we pray as often as we should?

Our mission is to joyfully join God in ministry and serve the needs of others expecting nothing in return. Our mission is to follow the example of Jesus, and get out our seat and get into the game. And the question is, have you left the sidelines and jumped into the game yet?

An important step for us to be “All In” our relationship with Christ is to recognize the things we place above Him. In other words, we struggle with how to prioritize what it means to give up our own way and “carry our cross” and follow Him daily.

When was the last time you were totally “All In” on something? Meaning 100% sold out with nothing getting in your way. Not with just your words, but your time, attention, and focus? It’s often difficult for us to be “All In” because we have so many things distracting us from what’s often the most important.

As the series “New Year New You” concludes, we are going to look at our last core value of “Relational Evangelism”. To be honest, this core believe may be one of the hardest for Christians to put into practice. However, the command given to us by Jesus to go and tell is vitally important.

Our job as a church, our job is to knock down all the barriers, all the stumbling block that get in the way, and be as relevant as we can possibly be so that when people come in here, they find hope. Life’s not hopeless, you don’t have to give up and quit. You don’t have to be a quitter. No, we’re going to be as relevant as we can possibly be, so that people can come in here and bump into Jesus, so that Jesus can do what only Jesus can do in their lives.

The next step to a New You in the New Year is decide today, that you’re going to take a step of faith and use your time, talent and treasures to make a difference in the world for the glory of God. Join us by using what God has given you to create a space where lost and broken people can meet with Jesus and work out their stuff. Take a step of faith and join us in something bigger than yourself, and if you’ll take that step, Trust me, it’ll change your life.

Grace is a different kind of church, and understand we’re not perfect, we mess up all the time, but we will continue to pursue authentic, transparent community. As a church today, what if we decided that we’re going to lay down our sin and lay down our stones and say to each other, I got your back! Because the next step to a New You in the New Year is to realize that we’re all in this together, we need each other and success happens when we’re an authentic transparent community.

The Bible actually teaches when Jesus went to the cross and paid our debt, He paid it to the full. 100%. And the most important step to a New You in the New Year is now all we have to do is accept the gift, put our faith in Jesus alone as Savior. Because, never forget, Salvation is by Grace alone, through Christ alone.

Follow Jesus + Read the Bible = A Better Life.  The Bible provides us with a place, a foundation if you will to stand.  What will you be standing on when the trials of life happen. You see the 1st step to a New You in the New Year is will you decide to live under the authority of God’s Word?  Can we resolve right now as a community of people that this is where we’re going to stand?