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This blog will be a way for me to share where Christ is speaking to me, and how my relationship with Him is growing. My desire is to encourage you in your walk with Christ as the only Way. John 14:6 "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to the father but through me."

Faith with the Impossible

16 May

The pressures in my life are at full speed. The daunting tasks list in all three areas of my life are overwhelming. I am not alone; I heard Dana give her testimony last week and she too spoke of this breakneck speed and how close to burnout we both are. God changed our families path, and we are still in adjustment mode. There is no way I can describe the pressures of both the air conditioning business, and the time it commands; I don’t like giving God my leftovers, and that is what it really is coming to be, which bothers me deeply. I have physically needed more rest and have not been rising up early for over a week now. My life and the pressures of it are just like yours. We could easily start our own pity party, but we all need to just remain focused on the eternal, and remain resting in this devotional that spoke to our family as we read it together this morning. My prayer is that He encourages you in it also.

 

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Faithful with the Impossible

Daily Devotional for Friday, May 16th, 2014

Then the LORD turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?” Judges 6:14

In Gideon’s mind, victory over the Midianites was an impossibility, and he was absolutely right! The Midianites, along with their allies, overwhelmed the feeble Hebrews. Yet the moment God told Gideon to fight them, victory was no longer an impossibility!

When Jesus commanded His small group of followers_to make disciples of all nations, was that possible_(Matt. 28:19)? Certainly, if Jesus said it was! When Jesus told His disciples to love their enemies, was He being realistic? Of course, because He was the One who would achieve reconciliation through them (2 Cor. 5:19-20).

Do you treat commands like these as implausible? Do you modify God’s word to find an interpretation that seems reasonable to you? Don’t discount what is possible with God (Phil. 4:13). When God gives an assignment, it is no longer an impossibility, but rather it is an absolute certainty. When God gives you a seemingly impossible task, the only thing preventing it from coming to pass is your disobedience. When God speaks, it can scare you to death! He will lead you to do things that are absolutely impossible in your own strength. But God will grant you victory, step by step, as you obey Him. How do you respond to assignments that seem impossible? Do you write them off as unattainable? Or do you immediately adjust your life to God’s revelation, watching with anticipation to see how He will accomplish His purposes through your obedience? God wants to do the impossible through your life. All He requires is your obedience.

 
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Posted by on May 16, 2014 in Daily Devotions

 

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Abiding brings discernment

10 May

I looked back to a year ago today……I needed this for I find myself wrapped up in the world and pressures of it. I find myself so tired from all of it I am struggling for my early mornings with God. Satan is beating me down with busyness……physically, mentally, tired……I knew this was coming, but I didn’t know how greatly it was going to wear on me so quickly. I need strength to abide.

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Abiding brings discernment

1 John 2:24-25   Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that he made to us–eternal life.

John has just written in the prior scriptures addressing the false prophets of the day; they are called the antichrist who deny the deity of Jesus as the Son of God. There were many false prophets of that day, and there are still many in our midst these days. They twist the scriptures to fit their agendas, or they present Christ in many other forms, some even denying that He was/is the Son of God completely. There is no middle ground here; they are antichrists, Satan’s messengers sent to lead people astray. They come as wolves in sheep’s clothing…

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Posted by on May 10, 2014 in Daily Devotions

 

Not an enigma

08 May

Not an enigma

Proverbs 1:5-7 A wise man will hear and increase learning, And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel, 6 To understand a proverb and an enigma, The words of the wise and their riddles. 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Sometimes I just love going back to the book of Proverbs; tidbits of knowledge in only a few short sentences that the Holy Spirit can speak volumes to me at just the right time. I am always amazed at how Solomon sums up life and it’s complexities so directly. Sometimes I am saddened that I don’t get the simpleness that it states, for my life is twisted into the complexities that sin and this world I live in have pulled me into. Life really doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it out to be; simplicity is found in following these tidbits of truth that Solomon penned for us thousands of years ago that still ring true today.

In the opening of his book, here in only the first seven verses are the prerequisites for everything that follows. If you don’t know God, if you don’t have holy reverent fear for the God of the universe, you won’t understand these proverbs. You can’t rely on your own understanding, your paths and supposed wisdom will lead you astray. If you don’t know God, and you don’t possess his Spirit, you will be blinded to the truths found here. The Holy Spirit is who opens the truths of God to your mind. John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

You must understand, you will not understand the Bible without the Holy Spirit living inside of you. You may pick up the Bible for the first time with a heart seeking God, and God do a work that no man can do; you find Him there and repent and believe on the Christ that you read and see and feel there. When you do repent and believe you gain Him living in yourself as the Spirit of God. That greater your respect and reverent fear of Him, the more he reveals to you. 1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. Without him the Bible would be just a book, and the book of Proverbs just some good riddles to live by. With Him it is the Word of God and Proverbs is a book of incredible knowledge stated in simple terms; not an enigma at all.

 
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Posted by on May 8, 2014 in Daily Devotions

 

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Sermon Link: Anxiety & Depression

04 May

This might be more like just an outline – way personal sermon I have been struggling with for two weeks.

My only plan is to follow His plan and let go and let God.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r46tmwm6pcwrr01/Philippians%204.docx

 
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Posted by on May 4, 2014 in Daily Devotions

 

Pray for our nation

01 May

I wrote this in 2013.

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Pray for our nation

2 Chronicles 7:14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

God has told Solomon, and even his father David, that Solomon is to build the great temple for the Lord. Solomon has spent seven years building the Great Temple, following the detailed blueprints given to him by God. They had held a great dedication ceremony, and the Glory of the Lord had filled the temple. Fire had come down from heaven and consumed all the offerings they had prepared. They were so moved by this that the dedication continued and they offered 22,000 bulls, and 120,000 sheep. Try to imagine that. When Solomon dismissed them all to their homes, God came to him that…

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Posted by on May 1, 2014 in Daily Devotions

 

Big God

30 Apr

Big God

Isaiah 55:8-9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.”

Those of you that know me well, know that I am a stubborn,determined, bull-headed, I can do anything I put my mind to guy. I don’t know if I like the challenge, or the competition, or inner competition of proving to someone else or myself that I can do something. I don’t do anything half-hearted, and I honestly have a problem with people that do. I am driven, and I am a “product” of the American dream that I can do anything; but I have been humbled by my God to the point of being in awe of just how small I am in recent years. “I stand amazed” is a statement I heard early in my walk, and it has stuck with me; my God leaves me in awe.

When my God reveals just minute particles of himself to me in countless ways, my mind cannot comprehend or articulate the complexity of what I have experienced in that small tidbit of God. I think of when God spoke to the prophet Jeremiah personally, but this same promise is to all of us that will seek Him with our whole heart; love him with our whole heart. Jeremiah 33:3 Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know. I sit here this morning with the lightning storm outside my window and know that God is even in the storm. God is even in the storms of life; he uses the toughest times in our lives to draw us closer to Him. He either designs, or allows, the things we think we cannot handle, the things when we may question God, that can draw us closer to him as a result of them. When our little minds begin to grasp only a minute portion of Sovereignty; we can find him and peace in those storms.

God is in blessings; he will lay before you things that he had worked out from the start. You can try to plan your ways to them, but likely if you move before him you will the blessing from him. James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Every single thing in your life flows through God’s hands. All the good, and all the bad have passed through the allowance of God. You must rest in the knowledge of his Sovereignty; and the knowledge of how big your God is.

 

PS-Cut it short due to the lightning. 🙂

 
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Posted by on April 30, 2014 in Daily Devotions

 

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Sermon Link

27 Apr

Sermon Link’

Pieces

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q6hyrvtt1563xjy/Pieces.docx

 

 

 
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Posted by on April 27, 2014 in Daily Devotions

 

Hydration = Lower Anxiety

23 Apr

Hydration = Lower Anxiety

Philippians 4:4-7 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

I really wonder how many roads I could go down with this passage; how many roads of our lives could this passage minister to each of us? Should not this scripture be on the dashboard of our cars, on the screensaver of our phones, on a post-it note on our computers? We need to be daily reminded of this scripture, for all of this world takes us in the opposite direction. I am entering into what will likely be the most difficult summer of my life; the air conditioning business is brutal in the summer and now I have the load as a pastor also, and still all the load as a husband and dad. Already in these few early weeks I am seeing the stresses and anxieties it is going to place on me; I think I need to figure out a way to place this scripture as my screensaver.

I read a book called “Out of Control” a few years back; I really need to find it and re-read it to be honest. It spoke greatly to me of how God did not create us for this 4G world we live in. He did not create us for living our lives in constant communication and constant stimulation. Our world and the demands of it are moving us away from God. Sunday’s are becoming just part of our calendars, making time for God on them. That moves us one step closer to religiosity, and one step farther away from God. He created us for a relationship born out of love; not mindless worship and motions that we feel obligated to perform on Sundays. Religion teaches and kills, for it teaches that we are saved in it; nothing you can do earns you favor with God except the humble heart that realizes Grace. Only in that realization are you saved through his Son. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Even in my early hours out here with God, I never want it to be of duties call. There was a point in this ministry that it became a call of duty, and God showed me that clearly. I only want early mornings to be about spending time with One I love and expecting to hear from Him. Those days such as this when I struggle to arise, my heart pulls me from bed to seek my alone time with him before the pressures of the day demand my attention. I have always leaned on Psalm 63:1 A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water. When we all go out and about into our day, the pressures of the world are that dry and thirsty land is our world is. It daily points to our need of the “Living Water” that Christ nourishes us with; that living water that we should seek early each day to prepare for the day. A properly hydrated soul will be a soul that faces the day with the strength found in Philippians 4.

 
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Posted by on April 23, 2014 in Daily Devotions

 

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Sermon Link

20 Apr

Sermon Link

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xsjltj0ul93lm53/Easter.docx

 

 

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2014 in Daily Devotions

 

He is risen indeed.

17 Apr

He is risen indeed.

Matthew 28:5-7 But the angel answered and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. 6 He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. 7 And go quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead, and indeed He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him. Behold, I have told you.”

What do you believe regarding Jesus Christ conquering death; do you believe that he arose from the grave so miraculously that his clothes still lie undisturbed on the third day just as was prophesied? Do you believe that death has no power over him? Do you believe that he conquered death for you? Do you believe in what we are celebrating this time of year? If you say that you believe in Jesus, but yet not all that the Bible teaches about his virgin birth, sinless life, and that he arose from death after three days in the tomb; you are living a lie and making a mockery of your faith and Jesus Christ; repent for the kingdom of heaven is near.

Paul addresses this directly; Paul speaks to those that say He did not arise. The Corinthians were teaching a mix of faiths; they were teaching that Christ only arose spiritually; not physically. They were teaching what maybe made more sense and required less faith. 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. 20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. Christ arose physically! Left a cave without a trace; conquered death for he created life; conquered death so that you have the opportunity for eternal life. Do not be eternally mistaken on how you view Christ’s death; it gives you life, or your mistake takes it from you.

 
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Posted by on April 17, 2014 in Daily Devotions

 

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