Recharge

As promised, here is the whole teaching on Time to Recharge.

Heroes’ have a place relax and recharge. Superman had his Fortress of Solitude, Batman had the Batcave, the X-Men had the X-Mansion, Teen Titans have the Titan Tower, etc., etc, etc. Were do we have? We have God.

Isaiah 40:28-31

Do you not know? Have you not heard? (Divine sarcasm) Even if we are tired, weak, stumble we are renewed and refreshed with God’s strength. How do we recharge? Glad you asked. We recharge by becoming more like Jesus.

4 Keys

1. A continual process

We must renew our minds and lives continually with the Word of God. To renew something means to take what is old and give it back for something new. When you go to renew your drivers license you have to give the old one back. If you don’t have something old, you can’t get something new. It’s an exchange. When you renew your life you bring a new way of acting, thinking, living into play.

Genesis 1:2

God was moving, creating therefore change and growth took place. We know if something is alive by checking to see if it moves. If you get comfortable then you are not moving, and if you are not growing you are still moving, just closer to the cemetery.

2. Transformed like Jesus

Romans 12:2

To be in God’s perfect will, you must renew your mind. The renewing of your mind causes a transformation to take place in your life. The end result is that you will no longer be like the world. Just because you go to church, listen to sermons; read the Bible doesn’t mean you will be transformed. It happens when you purposefully change the way you think. Now this is not an easy task. You have to work through your defensiveness, your insecurities, your desire to cover up your foolishness and your mistakes.

Somewhere around the ages of 18-24 we start getting this “I’m an adult now” mentality and think that we have to have it all together and know what is going on. So we become more defensive and insecure. This makes it more difficult to learn. God wants us to be like children. He wants us to be able to learn, not just gather more data.


3. Put on the New Man

Colossians 3:9-10

We have to constantly get new knowledge to keep learning, growing, and changing. We need to actively be involved in changing anything that is not like Jesus. Jesus controlled His flesh, so we need to bring our flesh under control. If we have a hard time building relationships, with openness and honesty like Jesus did, then we need to make changes.

To become more like Jesus we have to go from a natural attitude to a Biblical attitude.
Natural says: I can’t do this because of my parents, race, sickness, and culture.
Biblical says: I can do all things through Christ.

4. Rest

Jesus to took time to rest. Fatigue can be costly, 1 bad decision can create countless tragedies. Rest and recreation are not sin. Rest time is repair time. It is not a loss of productivity; it is a time of renewing to help release your potential.

Jesus was an action man, a people person. He produced, healed, preached, taught.

Mark 6:31

Think about it. Everyday Jesus faced hundreds of thousands of the sick and afflicted that screamed for His attention. But He separated Himself to receive. See Jesus knew he could only give away what he possessed. Work time is giving, rest time is receiving. You must have both! Faith walks out when fatigue walks in.