1 Timothy 4: 12, Proverbs 18: 16, Ezekiel 22: 30, Luke 23: 32, 1 Sam 17, Acts 2, Colossians 3: 4, Genesis 1: 26

* There are two great days in your life. The day you are born & the day you realise what you are born for. Instead of being like another person, spend some time talking to God and reading the Bible & discover what you were born for. BE YOU, because YOU do YOU the best!

3. Life is understanding YOU ARE IT!

* 'Your young & carefree and next thing you know you are in University & moving on into a job (possibly marriage) & or further education'. There are always moments in life that are 'Wake up call moments'. My daughter is five years old. When she was two, I was sitting in my back garden when I suddenly realised, 'I have a swing in my back garden & it's not mine, it's my daughters'. I then realised 'I have a daughter, a mortgage, a wife....and a SWING!' The last thing I knew I was 12, now I am 29 and I have a swing!'

* Those moments make you realise - you are it! You can't defer to other people and expect Mum to pick up your socks forever. You can't always play on the PS2 and eat Pizza with your friends. You are IT & if life is gonna kick it, you've gotta get down to business and make some serious decisions about you life!

* In Ezekiel 22: 30 in the Bible, God says, 'I looked for one person who would stand in the Gap on behalf of the city!' God is still looking for a generation of people who will stand up and be counted, people who will say, 'I am it - I am going to make life count on behalf of God in my school, college, university, family & career'

4. Life is about finding RESONANCE!

* Resonance is a musical term. If you were to get two grand pianos in a room & play middle C, resonance would take place. The string on that piano would vibrate and you would hear a sound. That sound would move from the piano go through the windows and doors, bounce off the walls, in one of your ears and out the other but eventually that note would find middle C on the other Piano, and that string would begin to vibrate also. Nobody has played the Middle C key on the second piano, it merely resonates with the first one.

* Life is about identifying resonance. You will best understand it when you hear someone speaking and your heart skips a beat & you come alive to something. In all the relationships I build with people throughout the world, the first thing I look for is resonance. I ask myself, 'When I hear that person talk, do I come alive?' If the answer is yes, then I make the choice to connect with that person.

* Resonance is Biblical too. In Luke 24: 32, men had 'Resonance when they were with Jesus'! There hearts BURNED while Jesus was talking. That's what Church, youth & your next youth conference should be like.

* Don't just go to every Christian camp and conference, find a place that connects with you & makes you come alive - LIFE will then take an exciting turn for the better.

5. Life is about BEING BRITISH! (Sorry if you're not!!)

* In Australia as a child we used to play a game called 'British Bulldog'. One of the kids would stand in front of all his mates and say, 'Come over' and the idea of the game was that the kids would run from one side of the field to another, and the poor guy in the middle had to tackle another child to recruit them into helping him catch others.

* I was always intrigued that the game was called British bulldog and not Australian Kangaroo or French poodle or German Shepherd. It was called British Bulldog because it sums up something that made Britain Great!

* It is a spirit or attitude that says, 'I may be small, but I'll ave you!' Britain is only a small nation, but its empire spanned the globe, and even today many countries around the world pay allegiance to the Queen of England.