EMMANUEL YOUTH

There is an invitation for YOU to be the Church, here, now, today, right where you’re at. Let’s commit ourselves to being His ‘hands and feet’ and watch His Kingdom come like never before in our homes, towns, cities and nations. COME ON!

Hold on a minute, Jesus still would have died the most agonising death in history for ME, so that I might live?!? Suddenly something I regarded as universal became so deeply personal, and the weightiness of John 3:16 became so real.

God loves you more than you understand, even if you’re like me and didn’t love yourself or the way you were heading, God still cares for you. It’s easy to feel far away from God, but He’s never far away from you.

Wherever you are, whoever you are, whatever you have done. There is a place for you, there is love for you, God loves you so much, we will never understand.

God is working in the little details of your life, whether you can see it or not at the time, eventually you will reflect back and see His hand at work.

It was so insane to see how God was moving through all of it and taught me that God’s always in control.

God is faithful to you too and He wants a relationship with you! No matter where you find yourself, what you believe, God pursues you. There’s nothing that you can do that will change that!

I found more peace in rejoicing and praising him even when things did not seem hopeful. When times were hard, I found my hope in knowing that God is always good, not just when life is moving smoothly.

I want to remind you that you are created by God and you have immeasurable value to him. Draw close to him and he will draw close to you.

When you start to realise that God is your Father as much as your earthly dad is, and that God’s love is boundless towards you and He loves you more than any earthly love, you start to find your identity as a child of God, centred within the love of the Father heart of God.

The things of this world can be great and might bring you a temporary joy - but the only lasting joy is found in your heavenly Father.

From then on I felt like I was able to truly connect to God in a meaningful way and that He wasn’t a big man in the sky that I couldn’t reach. But rather, He was someone close to my side, closer than any brother.