Ignite Conference

Your tears before God were never wasted they may dry up where they fall, but they do not dry up before God

Psalms 56:8 You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.

- God is near in our hurt.
- The God of the universe, hearing millions of prayers at any given time, is aware of every tear that leaves your eyes.
- God has design tears as a way to unload
the burden of the heart, mind, and soul.
- You may not feel anyone else cares, but God cares.
- He loves you so much that He even keep records of all your sorrows and collected your tears in his bottle up there in heaven.

Our time in service will not make us any more saved than those who answer his call on their deathbeds.
Matthew 20:1-16 Workers in the Vineyard.
When Jesus returns to set up his kingdom, there will be a hard reset.

- Each will receive the gift of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus (Romans 6:23).
- No one deserves this gift. It is a gift.
That is why it will not matter how many hours you work in the vineyard.

- Our salvation is based on the fact the landowner sought us out.
- Whether he found us first thing in the morning or just an hour before quitting time is irrelevant.
- We are saved because of the shepherd seeking out lost sheep.

Our God is seeking the lost even today. Some of us have been working hard for him for decades, but our time in service will not make us any more saved than those who answer his call on their deathbeds.
- Our conversion is not a work we perform for him.
"It is an act of grace by him."

You can never achieve what God has for you if you always punish yourself about what you have done in the past.

Do not look back, but look forward to the wonders that Christ has in store for you.
- And if ever you are tempted to look back, then look back upon what He has done for you to get you where you are today.
- You may not be where you think you should be, but you are where He wants you to be.
-Remember that God’s ways are not our ways and His thoughts’ are not our thoughts’.
- He has a plan for our lives that we just cannot fully understand.
- But know that God is unfolding his plan of your life before your eyes day by day.

- Do not let the guilt of your past life keep you from enjoying the rewards of your new life.
- Remember that those things in our past are washed away and can never be used to shame us again.
- Live in present forget the past and don’t worry about future.

Paul said…
but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are ahead.