{"id":6158,"date":"2021-07-23T00:36:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T04:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2021-11-03T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T14:19:18","slug":"yes-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=6158","title":{"rendered":"Yes U-Turn!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"no-u-turn-32591__180\"<\/a>We’re always told no.\u00a0 Not possible.\u00a0 Useless, worthless, “he’ll never change.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

But we serve a God or redemption.\u00a0 A God of miracles.\u00a0\u00a0 A\u00a0 God who wants to create a new life within us.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And so, there are no “<\/span><\/em>No U Turn<\/span><\/span>” signs in God’s grace.\u00a0 God invites and encourages U-Turns<\/span>, and through the Holy Spirit lives are changed.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And so, the following message was recently posted on\u00a0 our signboard:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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YES<\/span><\/p>\n

U-TURN!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Yes!\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> God constantly offers us new lives.\u00a0 If you’re trapped by some sin or bad habit.\u00a0 If you’re dealing with the guilt of something you shouldn’t have said.\u00a0 If\u00a0 your marriage is strained, or if you’re stuck in pornography, drugs, or broken relationships, God offers you total change.\u00a0 If you need a U-Turn in\u00a0 your life, God says YES!<\/p>\n

Check out the following verses from God’s Word (quotations from The Message):<\/p>\n

Romans 12:2<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

John 4:14…<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst \u2014 not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Isaiah 1:18<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Come. Sit down. Let’s argue this out.”<\/span>
\nThis is GOD’s Message:<\/span>
\n“If your sins are blood-red,\u00a0 they’ll be snow-white.<\/span>
\nIf they’re red like crimson,\u00a0 they’ll be like wool.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The great Charles Wesley hymn,”And Can It Be” includes the verse:<\/p>\n

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My chains fell off, my heart was free.<\/span><\/p>\n

I rose, went forth, and followed Thee!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reason with God.\u00a0 Draw near Him.\u00a0 Throw yourself on His mercy,\u00a0 and you’ll find that He is a God of U-Turns!<\/p>\n

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For more signboard messages, click this button:\u00a0 Signboard<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n

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This post was originally published in Januuayr 2018<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NO U Turn! It’s a sign we see all the time. NO! But God invites us to change, to grow, to experience deeper joy in life. God not only allows “U Turns,” He helps you make them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-signboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28217,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions\/28217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}