Go For It on the 20-Day Challenge | Life with Gwen and Joe

hey everybody its life with Gwen and Joe this is my beautiful wife Gwen I'm Joe it's another beautiful day again in Tennessee today we're going to talk about going for it last week when gave a 20 day challenge for everybody to deny their their worldly personal passions and to get into the spirit deeper and deeper and it takes exercise God's will so we're gonna talk more about that today life with God is so good so come join us on this fun life where we put God in the center of everything sorry I want you to start okay so this week we are gonna be trying to do everything we can to encourage you to stay on this one focus and off yourself I mean you know it's one thing to say focus on this but it's the getting off of yourself and so we want to do everything we can to like each other up and encourage one another it says in the Bible to do that Center to another so hey what you used to play football so what what y'all do - oh my goodness you get each other psyched up that's kind of funny okay so before the games the guys the team would get out there on the field and we kind of stand in this grid pattern one next to each other and rows back and the coach would get up in front of us and we and we kind of get get on the balls of our feet and squat down a little bit and he'd go up like that and everybody go and then you go up like that and so everybody go like that and kind of really get charged up to go out there we're gonna go play football after this you know we're gonna like spirit football we are definitely throw some touchdowns on that and so that's right you play what position were you I played quarterback on defense and I played a wide receiver definitely a great athlete so praise God for that and now you praise God for that so well so we're gonna we're gonna really put on our athletic gear for God because in the end you know that that's all that matters it's really worth it when you put everything into finding the spirit it produces a harvest of right living righteousness which is your salvation and so you know we were made for good works it says in Ephesians made for it and that's what we want to do so right and and and second Timothy talks about what you just said 2nd Timothy 1:7 says for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power of love and of self-discipline and I agree with that the human spirit is can be the humans there's nothing more powerful than a person who has really made if their mind to do something yes there are scriptures that will really really help you to get in that mindset that you've got to do this and here's 1 out of 1st Corinthians 1st Corinthians 3:16 and 17 don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you if anyone destroys God's temple God will destroy him for God's temple is sacred and you are that we are God's temple it is simple and it's sacred and if we destroy it then he's gonna destroy us that is what I call psyching each other half because I don't want that I want to be found on that last day to be a faithful servant and taking care of the simple he's created these these beings not for us to go and indulge ourselves and to go destroy ourselves with drugs alcohol with you know lust all kind of lust it talks about sexual lust that destroys the body we all know that I mean talk about people are worried about coronavirus there's a lot more people dying for all these sexual diseases than anything like this these are things that that we did we want to avoid that destruction we want to live an upright life and so that that's one of those you got another one sure it says therefore my dear brothers stand firm let nothing move you always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain absolutely that is a great one so why don't we talk about walking in the spirit again because if you lose sight of what you're doing then you know you're you you've messed everything up and that's why it takes all of your minds because a lot of people don't eat they'll do good in the in the day and then they do bad at night but what they're doing is they're only giving it this lip service in the daytime and then when it comes tonight they're not doing what the Bible calls for and that is you give all of your mind all of your all of your soul your whole soul and your whole passion your whole heart and then you give all your strength and and that is the scripture that said that sums up the entire Old and New Testament this that's one scripture that sums everything up that God's asking is to love him with all your heart and soul and mind and strength and if you love him with all of it instead of loving yourself and people love themselves they love themselves with all of their heart and all their soul in all their mind and all their strength and so like we talked about last week they you know they're at odds and if you if you love yourself more than you love God then you can't walk in the spirit can't do what he wants right I got to just take a moment to acknowledge the fact that I've never seen a person love God and devote themselves to God's work more than you darlin you really are an amazing lady each and every day that Gwen lives she devotes her time her heart her soul her energy to serving God serving other people in God and it's really an amazing thing to watch I have to tell you that because I've never seen anything like it so well I I thank you thank you all I know is I don't know how how it all compares all I knows that we're all trying to welcome those footsteps of Christ to pick up that cross and deny ourselves and I can testify that when I go that direction of self-denial then it's that the day is amazing and you wake up the next day very happy and instead of gratifying myself at night you know waking up the day next day sad you know so it's there's something to it and God's gonna humble us all to just till we finally walk in the spirit because what do we gonna do when we get to heaven we're gonna be those that are under Authority and walking in that spirit and so he gives us his chance to practice not only with fighting that ground every day and denying yourself if you don't feel that ground you can't make a decision to gratify yourself but even getting like getting in under a husband that opportunity to get under Authority your church leaders under Authority and upholding if you learned uphold that authority you're doing exactly what is salvation because that's what you're going to be doing in heaven how do you do that you learn to uphold that husband children upholding your parents church members upholding godly leaders and when you tear them down that's what you would do in heaven you'd never make it to heaven if you're tearing down those above you making excuses and somehow if you're struggling with your weight then you are tearing down that authority above you and you are gratifying yourselves and so flip it I love doing that if there's light he's want to go one way I'm thinking another I just stay quiet and I I'll let him lead I let that spirit lead what am i doing doing that some people say well why the mean get to do that hey we're lucky women are lucky because we're getting to practice it here and it's what we're going to be in heaven and the men are practicing it with their bosses and God and conversely when I see her doing those things and kind of dying to her will I feel the essence of that and in turn God designed my heart I think to to want to then die to my will and say wow she's really really letting me take the lead here but but I don't want to see her go without and so it kind of works in instead yeah it's reciprocal and I think God was very ingenious in designing our hearts to work that way so it's beautiful thing it really is it's a beautiful thing and it that means it's a piece of heaven and so I can tell you this these days that we've got left in this twenty day this twenty-eight going for it I want to I want to thank everybody for you know going for it and then I want to also encourage you know for you to adopt us as a lifestyle for the rest of your life to embrace the self-denial and then wait for that jewel that blessing on the end of it because when it comes that happy on the end of it just that we get closer because I deny myself and let him oh I don't want to not be closer I want to be and whatever I'm doing with him I would do with the Heavenly Father and then whatever you do with your leaders you know it's the same thing it's the same thing and so wow what an opportunity that we have to deny ourselves God gives us something every day for us to get in line I want to go for it and boy it helps with taking care of the temple and we don't over you know not overdoing it with anything taking care of the temple taking care of God's house and we are that house we're praying for you guys we know we know that you can have that discipline and to achieve all the things whether it's weight gain or getting closer to God or getting rid of whatever vices that that are haunting you in your life stay strong pray about it listen to what wind says and the outcome will be fantastical beautiful way to in this show just just thank you everybody for joining us love y'all and we are praying for you get psyched up deny yourself it'll be fun praise God praise God who love young [Music] you've done it before you've tasted 100% focus before we can't be victorious make your own determination I counted on everyone getting it all the way kicking into high gear kick it you can do this be sure to like this video subscribe to our Channel and click the bells so you are notified when Joe [Music] [Applause] you [Music]

Channel: Life with Gwen and Joe

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Keywords: Gwen Lara, Joe Lara, the Preacher and the Pilot, Gwen and Joe, Go for it, 20-Day Challenge, Righteous living, eternal life, star athletes, Giving their all, All of your mind, All of your soul, All of your strength, Word of God, Spirit of God, Denying yourself, The Best Cheerleader

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Length: 11min 47sec (707 seconds)

Published: Fri May 01 2020