First West vs LivinIt

Download the First West app to engage into the life and community of First West. Learn what's happening at our campuses, hear messages from Lead Pastor Michael Wood, and plug into community. * Engage in our church community. * Hear Messages from Lead Pastor Michael Wood. * Find a Group to connect with. * Learn about what's happening at First West. First West 500 Pine Street West Monroe, LA 71291 info@firstwest.cc 318.322.5104

Are you LivinIt? Is this you..a believer, saved by Christ, but struggling with temptations or with continued growth. This app will help you keep yourself accountable to daily living for Christ. You can track your streaks, and build up crowns and badges. You will be motivated and reminded daily to avoid sin, break addictions, and live out your faith. (Not affiliated with a particular denomination. Based on the infallibility and authority of the Bible as God's Word.) All the functionality is FREE. (The only thing that costs is a themes package which is optional but doesn't add any functionality - it just lets you personalize the look of the app, and helps to pay for licensing fees for including the NKJV Bible). Besides helping you stay accountable, break addictions, and live for Christ, this app also includes the following: * Searchable Bible that also lets you track your reading, your memorization, your favorites, and make notes * Searchable Prayer Journal that lets you personally record your prayers in a book and search them, pray them, and mark them answered. * Social component to request other Believers to pray for someone or for yourself. * Free streaming Christian Radio stations. (Note: Only Bible versions in the app currently are the NKJV, KJV, and ASV. Those are the only ones we have permissions or licenses for at the moment. Others will be added if permissions are granted.) In the Bible, we hear Paul, a Christ follower, tell us... "For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing."(Romans 7:19 – NIV) Jesus Christ, God’s son, reminds us that we have to turn away from our evil desires every day when He said... "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me." (Luke 9:23 – NIV) Jesus Christ, God’s son, died on a cross as the perfect sacrifice to cover our sins and restore our relationship with God for all who believe. If you have understood and believed and loved who Christ is, and what He did for us, then you have been saved. The Bible tells us that... "to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God." (John 1:12 – NIV) If you are a believer and follower of Christ, you will be with God and His people in Heaven for eternity after this life, but the abundant life starts now. You have access to His Holy Spirit, His peace, His love, His wisdom. But we can still act on our evil desires, and when we do, we are out of God’s will, and that brings hurt, pain, and bad consequences. God has given us the church, the body of believers, to help us stay on track, but God also calls us to self-control or self-discipline. For example, the Bible tells us that... "God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. "(2 Tim 1:7 – ESV) Also, "Whoever has no rule over his own spirit Is like a city broken down, without walls." (Proverbs 25:28 - NKJV) That is where this app tries to help. You can track your daily biblical behaviors and actions to help keep yourself accountable to living the Christian life. On your profile, the ‘problem areas’ that you pick will show up on one of your checklists so you can track avoiding them. The ‘gifts’ you list in your profile will show up on one of your checklists so you can track that you are using your gifts for Christ. By tracking your streaks (days in a row you have checked something off), you will be able to challenge yourself more easily and build up discipline in following Christ. May God bless your journey! "Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it will spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." (Isaiah 43:18-19 – NKJV)