JOURNEY 2010: LIVING IN THE WILL OF GOD This year I am calling Journey 2010. This is the year we journey closer to God as a church, as families, and as His children. In order to do this we must embrace God’s Truth, and allow His truth to change our want to’s into His want to’s. Our Journey 2010 is all about what John wrote in 2 John 1:4 – “living the life of truth, as the Father himself instructed us”. Walking in the truth, Living out the truth, following the way of truth, abiding in the truth. In the movie City Slickers, Billy Crystal plays a radio advertising salesman going through a mid-life crisis. He and his friends deal with the humdrumness of life by participating in a cattle drive from New Mexico to Colorado—an experience that turns out to be a kind of epiphany for all of them. At the end of the movie as they prepare to return to New York and the familiar routine, Billy Crystal explains to one of those friends the concept of a “do-over.” Crystal is addressing his pal who, nearing 40, feels he is at a dead-end. "I've wasted my life." Brunno Kirby's character laments: I'm at a dead end. I'm almost 40 years old. I've wasted my life. Yeah, but now you got a chance to start over. You know? Phil, remember when we were kids? And we'd be playing ball and the ball would get stuck up in a tree? And we'd yell "Do over!" Huh? Yeah. You got a clean slate.. Crystal tells him that he can start over again. His life can be a do-over. Phil Berquist: You know you were right, Mitch. My life is a "do-over". It's time to get started. Mitch Robbins: I hope I can help. Ed Furillo: Now I'm gonna go home, and I'm gonna get Kim pregnant. Mitch Robbins: I hope I can help. Something like that happens every January 1. We all get a “do-over"—another chance to do it right. If 2009 was a tough year for you, cheer up. It’s a brand-new year! There is a biblical perspective we need to remember at the beginning of a new year. It’s a perspective that’s wrapped up in one simple word. If you remember not to use this particular word this year, your chances of succeeding are going to go through the roof. In fact, I think you’ll be happier if you make a decision here and now to cut this word right out of your vocabulary. Cutting this one word from your life will force you to open your eyes to God, to His greatness. That is what Journey 2010 is all about-discovering the greatness of our Creator God. Perhaps you saw the recent news report of the Mom who had a heart attack while delivering her baby. The baby was delivered by emergency C Section (without anesthesia) and her newborn baby was delivered without a heartbeat as well. Dr Martin said she did not have a "great explanation" for why Mrs Hermanstorfer's heartbeat returned. "Somewhere between four and five minutes she had been without heart rate and had stopped breathing a minute or two prior to her heart stopping," she said. The doctors were then able to resuscitate the baby. Despite tests, she said doctors were still not sure about what had happened. However Mrs Hermanstorfer and her husband Mike have said they believed it was down to a miracle. She said: "I got a second chance in life." Dr Martin said she would take help from wherever it came. This world ignores God. Clearly God was at work here. Perhaps he has great plans for this baby. The world just looks the other way rather than give glory to God. This year I want to Give Glory to God! I want this to be a Hallelujah Year. So by official Pastoral Proclamation I am banning one word from use at Pleasant Prairie. That word is “CAN’T”. If you catch anyone saying this word at church, it will be a $5 fine. If I use it in a sermon after today, fine me $5. That’s right. The one word you shouldn’t say in 2010 is the little word can’t. We use it all the time, don’t we?  We say, “I can’t lose weight.”  “I just can’t seem to save money.”  “I try and try but I can’t find the time to read the Bible.”  “After what she did, I can’t forgive her.”  “No matter how hard I try, I can’t change, I can’t quit smoking, quit ….” If 2010 is to be a year of Journeying with our Mighty God, it will be a CAN DO year. In order to understand and embrace this wonderful CAN DO God, we need to understand a few “CAN’T”S from God’s Word. These Can not’s help understand how we can live in God’s will.  So here are the foundational Truth’s for our Journey into the Will of God and seeing Him as our CAN DO GOD!  Amazingly Gained by the way God used cannot in the New Testament God Limited: Accept Yourself: Mt 5:36 And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. God is It!: Mt 6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. 1 Cor 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the