Bible Study - Chosen For Sure

This weekend was my youth groups retreat.  I can't say enough about how amazing it was.  Usually when someone says that it means, "We went and jumped in the crick and drew on so-and-so's face and played musical chairs and played football and . . . It was so much fun."  But when will the free time be the boring time?  A lot of the time we see reaching out and speaking up for what we believe in as a target on our back.  When really it should be viewed the other way around.  The Christians should be walking around hitting the bulls eye.  That's what we have been made for.  1 Timothy 4: 12 "Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity,"  We have been chosen.  When we believe, great things can come from it.  John 14: 12 "Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father."  That is awesome.  We get to do things greater than what Jesus did.  Yeah.  It is pretty cool.  Jesus walked on water and he said like five words and a storm went away.  Clouds and all.  So when just believing can cause great things.  How exited are you?  In 1 Thessalonians 1: 4 it says, "For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you,"  It is also nice to know that others have been chosen as well.  "But the plans of the Lord stand firm, the purposes of his heart through all generations." Psalms 33: 11