“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:20).
Jesus
paid the ultimate price for us to enjoy good health and wholeness on
every level. This gives us a good reason to take care of our physical
and emotional health, and respect ourselves.
“Give, and it shall be given
unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running
over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye
mete withal it shall be measured to you again” (Luke 6:38). As believers, we have inside
us the authority to determine what kind of life we have. The more we
give, the more blessings come back to us.
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We recently celebrated sixty years here at Lakewood. My
parents started Lakewood on Mother's Day in 1959 with ninety people in
an old rundown feed store. They cleaned out the building, borrowed some
old wooden pews. It didn't look like much. But the Scripture says,
"Don't despise the day of small beginnings" (Zechariah 4:10). Don't get
discouraged because where you are is much smaller than what's in your
spirit. As a young man, my father knew he was going to pastor a church
of thousands, but you have to be faithful with the small before God will
trust you with more. That's a time of testing, a time of proving. Are
you going to slack off and think, "When it grows, I'll give it my all.
When I get some breaks, I'll be my best"? You have to be your best right
where you are. God is watching. He knows when you're in a feed store
and others are in nice buildings. Stay faithful. Your time is coming.
Sometimes when I pull up to our huge building on the freeway and see
all the people gathered to worship, I feel a tear running down my cheek.
It's because I remember where we came from. My mind flashes back to the
feed store, as a little boy sitting there with the ninety people and my
father in front ministering. When I realize where God has brought us,
how He's opened doors that we never dreamed would open, how He's taken
us further than we can imagine, I can't help but say, "Lord, thank You
for Your goodness. Thank You for taking us where we couldn't go on our
own." When you look back over your life, you'll see the faithfulness of
God, where He promoted you, protected you, healed you, favored you.
Don't take it for granted. It didn't happen by accident, it wasn't a
lucky break, that's the goodness of God.
As we celebrated sixty year, I can sum up how I felt in one phrase:
"to God be the glory." And we prayed, "Let God increase and let us
decrease. May we make His name famous. Let us shine brighter, let us
take new ground, let us affect the culture in greater ways. And we
commit to always giving God the glory. We remember how He led us through
the wilderness, how He supplied our needs when we didn't see how it
could happen, how He defeated giants that were much bigger, and how He
sustained us for sixty years. May generations to come still be telling
of God's goodness from our building. Let it be a continuous lighthouse
of hope."
The Art of The Outlet Pass You’ve seen the best players in the NBA make some of their most exciting plays on the fast break. Whether it’s Kevin Love to Lebron, Durant to Westbrook, or Steph Curry pulling up from three with a few defenders back, they’re always set up to make the best play possible in transition. Sometimes, what sets these star players up for easy baskets is a crafty, perfectly timed pass from a teammate who’s aware of his other teammates’ position. I’m talking about the outlet pass; whether it’s that heave up-court or the series of passes that leads to the basket, the best way to advance the ball off a miss has always been the outlet pass. If you want to be the player responsible for a flashy play and want to know how to find your teammate for the outlet, make sure you work these little details into your game with your teammates:
Communicate The best way to know where your teammates are on the floor at all times is to simply talk to each other! Establish a chemistry with your teammates that allows
you to understand their tendencies. In this case, be communicative with the teammate(s) who will find ways to leak out for a fast break off of a quick miss. Have your teammate yell “outlet!” or even “hey!” so that you or a teammate who gets a rebound can set them up with a good lead pass; if they can’t make the pass, become the outlet man, and call for the ball yourself so that you can put yourself or your teammates in a position to score on the break. Read And React Basketball as a whole is a read-and-react sport, and starting a fast break requires a certain degree of analyzing the floor ahead of you to make the best decision. You might want to make a flashy play, but first you’ll need the floor to open up and just a bit of luck to make that play. If you’re about to run in transition, see if defenders are running back to stop the play, and see if you’re outnumbering the defense before you make a pass. The less defenders you have on the break, the easier it is to throw a pass ahead and let your teammates handle the rest of the work scoring. Some choose to be deceptive with the dribble, or even the no-look pass when running the break. Whatever method you choose, be sure that you’re going to put your teammate in a position to score and not turn the ball over trying to be too fancy.
Make A Smart, Well-Timed Lead Pass If you’re going to toss a touchdown-like pass to a teammate streaking down the floor, and there’s no defender ahead of your teammate, you need to make sure you hit that teammate in stride so that you aren’t slowing their momentum. The basic outlet pass involves coming to the ball, but if a teammate has the open floor ahead of them, it’s alright to pass to them as they run from the ball, as long as you’re not throwing it behind them and giving a defender the time to catch them on the break. Know your teammate’s speed and time the pass so that they can finish as quickly as possible. Always make sure you have a clear look at your teammate and don’t telegraph a pass that a defender can bat down before it gets to your teammate. With the all the excitement that comes from a fast break in basketball, a lot of time
the credit goes to the passer who gets the rebound or forces a turnover to make the break possible. You’ll normally see teammates point to each other as a means of gratitude for a great outlet pass. Be the teammate that gets that positive point and make a great outlet pass!
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