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Pick a side

03 Feb

A great morning with God all over John 10. I lost total track of time since about 5am, and I wish I didn’t have to get the boys out of bed for school I love mornings like this when the Word is so living, you just don’t want to put it down. Thank you Jesus!!!

Pick a side

John 10:27-28   My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

So many times in the bible Christ is spoken as the Good Shepard, and we as His sheep. It was a great analogy in those times for many to understand. So much rests in these two verses. These are the promises that the Gospel summarized. How do we hear His voice? We must first believe, accept the free gift of Grace, and then continually seek Him. Once we begin to seek and honor our God by our loving pursuit of Him, His voice becomes clearer to us. Our faith should be as a sheep, based upon following only our Shepard. If we listen to the voice of another, he is a thief that has come to steal us away (John 10:1). Our following of Him is a representation of our faith in Christ whom we have placed our trust. His promise of eternal life and security are shown in “neither can anyone snatch them out of My hand.”

Most everyone believes there is life after death. We all have a soul that resides in us. Most everyone wants to believe in a paradise, but few want to believe in a place like hell. There is, and there will be, a place of eternal torment for those that do not follow Christ. There will be an eternal life in Heaven for those that listen to the Good Shepard, and follow His voice. Free will is a decision that God gave you to make that choice, and your decision will last you an eternity.

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2012 in Daily Devotions

 

A Speck

02 Feb

This morning I was still thinking about last nights lesson in Luke by Ed Gravely, and the reflections of how we all could fall into those traps of religion. I know that the term religion and the relationship are confusing to so many of us. I grew up thinking being “religious” was a good thing. But now I have come to understand that resting on what I would call “earthly wisdom” is not from God, but a tool of Satan that self glorifies, and does not preach humility and grace. We must understand that “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast.  (Ephesians 2:8)

James 3:16-17   For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

James has been leading up to these verses by telling us of the power of our speech, and the hypocrisy that can come as a result of it. Do we tend to seek glory for ourselves in our desires and how we speak of heavenly things? Do we become puffed up as those that Pharisees in Christ day whom even missed the glory of God standing before them? But what if we all feel as though in some way we are resting on our wisdom? We feel that we know just enough, do just enough good works, for others to think we are a good person? That ‘just enough’ is self seeking as described above. That is earthly wisdom that forms around religion, and not reverent fear and relationship with Christ.

With Godly wisdom comes meekness. We begin to realize that we can do nothing alone, but it all  flows through Christ. We realize that He reveals to us a great mystery that is heavenly wisdom that comes with time. A humble reverence and awe develop and dwell in our soul that seeks revelation from God. When we receive these specks of wisdom, when He opens our eyes through our hearts, we should only glorify Him as the result. There is only one Way to gain this knowledge, and it is not through envy or self seeking.

 
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Stuff

01 Feb

Stuff.

 
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Posted by on February 1, 2012 in Daily Devotions

 

Stuff

01 Feb

Stuff

1John 2:15-17    Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world–the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life–is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

We all want, and try real hard to get ‘stuff’. Our environment especially here in America (the land of the plenty), saturates our minds with the pursuit of our wants; I did not say needs. This pursuit has crept into the pulpits and the prosperity preaching of today. But even outside faith and religion, we must realize all our pursuits are vain, for we cannot take any of them with us.  God wants us to have joy in life here, but that He brings is not found in idealistic toil to gain a material possessions. The joy that He brings is an inner joy, that costs nothing, that no-one can steal or destroy, and will last an eternity.

I fell into the trap of material possessions, and idealistic pursuit of them. Once Christ entered in and changed me from the inside out, I realized how much value I had placed on the stuff. John is showing us here that all of these pursuits, simply draw us away from God. We invest all our time, all our resources into stuff that we will remain here when our time is gone. When we stand before God, and He asks us about how we invested our time on earth, what will our reply be? Place your heart, your joy, your eternal treasures in the only secure place in existence – Christ.

 
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Posted by on February 1, 2012 in Daily Devotions

 

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The beginning of OneMinuteMinistry

01 Feb

The beginning of OneMinuteMinistry.

 
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The beginning of OneMinuteMinistry

01 Feb

I struggle with my memory like you cannot imagine. It scares me to death with my family history of Alzhiemers Disease. I shared the vision with one of my best friends last year about OneMinuteMinistry, and I can’t recall much of it at all. Here is an excerpt from an email “ received a call from you while I was at work and you told me about a revelation that you had. You told me that as you were driving (I believe on the interstate) you received the words. “One Minute Ministry”. You told me that as soon as you heard it a car or truck cut you off in traffic and you avoided a near collision. As you were telling me about it the Holy Spirit was all over me. I knew this was true. You said, “One Minute Ministry? I can see 5 minute ministry but 1?” I could tell the wheels were turning on 5 minute ministry. I reminded you of what you heard and not to deviate from it. A month or so went by and as I was praying for you, I felt the Spirit of the Lord tell me that I was to remind you and ask how the progress was going. When we talked you told me there was nothing done yet. Over the course of the year I continued to pray for you and One Minute Ministry. I would drop hints every now a then but was never directed to really bring it up again until the day you showed me a letter that you had wrote to your customers. If I remember correctly, The first part of the letter said something about “let me have a minute of your time” or something like that. The only thing I saw in that letter was One minute ministry. I really don’t know if I read all the letter. I could not get past the word minute. I believe I my have told you that this is your prophetic word for the day. I remember highlighting it and pining it to your wall.”

This year I began a Fast and really started seeking God on this. I love to share and write what He shows me so the natural progression was a blog. I went to WordPress and started the process. What happened still amazes me. When I searched the name oneminuteministry, it came back available….in all domains. In other words, .com, .net, .org, .me etc. Not one other person in the world had secured that name. That is GOD my friends. His name given to me, available. WOW!

The rest is yet to be seen. I am continuing to Fast, continuing to seek, and journaling on my journey to try and help bring you closer to God through sharing where He is speaking to me. Thank you for reading.

Growing closer every day,

Anderson

 
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Posted by on February 1, 2012 in About Me outside the devotionals

 

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My Testimony – Short Version

01 Feb

I was raised in a perfect home, with loving awesome parents, who believed in Christ and did their best to raise my sister and myself right. I did great until about 16, and then I strayed farther and farther from how my parents had raised me until probably my early 30’s. Alcohol, drugs, porn and partying  were my life for close to 20 years, and I even got married and really into racing dirt bikes. God gave me a great wife, two great sons, a championship, and a successful business that my dad had started for me. I thought I was at the top, but I was far from God. Shortly after my championship there came a day when God asked me whom I was going to serve, and I knew what I had to do. I did not want to live the life of a hypocrite, and in my typical style I decided to give God my all, or nothing. The next few years brought many trials in many ways to test my faith. I have seen the near collapse of my business, my duties and responsibilities change as a father and a provider, with Dana returning back to work for steady income. I have felt the call of God on my life, and I have responded. I have had a rare injury that has left my right arm strength at I would estimate 25% of what it once was. God has been at work sanctifying me, and humbling me as only He can. I have striven to be obedient in all things and have gained a closeness with my Savior Jesus Christ to this day I simply can’t put into words. God has changed me from the inside out. I can describe my relationship with Him in one word – Peace. I pray that you will respond when He seeks you too.

 
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Posted by on February 1, 2012 in About Me outside the devotionals

 
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