This past weekend (July 13th, & 15th) I truly feel that God quit visiting Mansfield and He is beginning to go from visitation to habitation. On Friday night from 10pm - 6am we had an all night prayer meeting and, needless to say, God showed up. I had a softball game that was SUPPOSED TO end at 10:00 pm. But the teams that played before we played started late and the second game went into extra innings.
We should have started our game at 8:00 but didn’t get started until around 8:45; which put the ending time for our second game at 10:45. Needless to say I was upset because of the situation. I get in the car with the guy I was riding with and about 15 minutes from the church his tire blows. By this time it was 11:15 and I was at the point that I didn’t want to go.
With the tire changed we were off again and I got to the church around 12:05 am. Everyone was praying and I just slipped in the back; and sat there and prayed. I was in no mood to pray like everyone else; I knew I had to get my attitude right before that would happen. Once I felt the “change” I really started seeking God’s face for my church, my family and myself.
About 1:30 Darren asked if anyone had anything and I fought it because I wanted to make sure that what I had was really God. He kept looking at me and I kept saying “no” because I thought it would go away. Finally I couldn’t handle it anymore and I took the mic and told the church that I was feeling that God was taking us back to our first love. The power of God hit me while I was talking and I couldn’t stop shaking.
Sunday morning was the same type of atmosphere and God showed up again. I am so thankful that I went and that God is using me again in the gift of the prophetic.
Be Blessed & Walk In Your Identity
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Failure
I came across the following quote on the internet and it really jumped out at me and I have been "chewing" on it for about a week now. It's for those people that feel that they have failed someone or something in their life and they can't seem to get over it. The quote was made by Henry Ford and it's such a powerful quote.
"Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently." After I read it I began to think of a situation that occured about 3 years ago. It was something that I really did "screw up" in. Through it all I have realized that once I am in the same type of circumstance I will be able to do it again more intelligently because I have learned more about myself, God and my calling.
I thank God for failure. If it had not been for the "failure" in this situation then I don't think that I would be where I am today.
Remember this: if you feel that you have failed take heart and remember that it's an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
God Bless
"Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently." After I read it I began to think of a situation that occured about 3 years ago. It was something that I really did "screw up" in. Through it all I have realized that once I am in the same type of circumstance I will be able to do it again more intelligently because I have learned more about myself, God and my calling.
I thank God for failure. If it had not been for the "failure" in this situation then I don't think that I would be where I am today.
Remember this: if you feel that you have failed take heart and remember that it's an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
God Bless
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Valuing Your Salvation
Until your walk with God becomes your own you won’t appreciate it. A couple of weeks ago Misty and I attended a wedding for a close friend of ours in Michigan. During the reception I was talking with another one of my friends that has recently rededicated his life. The one thing that he said to me struck me so hard was “Until your walk with God becomes your own you won’t appreciate it.”
I could have jumped out of my skin sitting at the table with him. It answers so many questions that I have/had in regards to why some of my friends and even some youth that I used to minister to aren’t walking with God right now. Their walk with God wasn’t their own.
Paul admonishes us to “…work out OUR OWN salvation with fear and trembling.” Your salvation isn’t based on what you “feel” it’s based on what you know. If you are riding the coat tails of your parents or even your pastor’s walk with God then it won’t truly be yours. I was the same way until the summer of 1998 when I went on a short-term missions trip and I saw countless miracles and I had no argument that God doesn’t perform miracles today. It was on that trip that my walk with God became my own. Until you really experience things for yourself you will never value or appreciate certain things.
While I’m on the subject of “feeling” I won’t to stop and encourage you in something.
If you don’t feel God, and you are living a life above reproach, then God is closer to you then He was before. Because when you “feel” Him you are relying on your soul to tell you that God is near. When you don’t feel Him you are relying on your spirit and that makes Him closer to you then you even realize.
For instance; I never fully understood the love of Jesus until I became a father myself. I now know why Jesus chose to come and assure our salvation by dying on the cross so we can spend an eternity with Him. Until you really know and appreciate who Jesus is and what He can do your walk with Him won’t really be your own and the first sign of trouble or questioning your faith will begin to waver.
Take the opportunity over the next couple of days and give yourself a “spiritual gut check” and find out if your walk with God is your own.
I could have jumped out of my skin sitting at the table with him. It answers so many questions that I have/had in regards to why some of my friends and even some youth that I used to minister to aren’t walking with God right now. Their walk with God wasn’t their own.
Paul admonishes us to “…work out OUR OWN salvation with fear and trembling.” Your salvation isn’t based on what you “feel” it’s based on what you know. If you are riding the coat tails of your parents or even your pastor’s walk with God then it won’t truly be yours. I was the same way until the summer of 1998 when I went on a short-term missions trip and I saw countless miracles and I had no argument that God doesn’t perform miracles today. It was on that trip that my walk with God became my own. Until you really experience things for yourself you will never value or appreciate certain things.
While I’m on the subject of “feeling” I won’t to stop and encourage you in something.
If you don’t feel God, and you are living a life above reproach, then God is closer to you then He was before. Because when you “feel” Him you are relying on your soul to tell you that God is near. When you don’t feel Him you are relying on your spirit and that makes Him closer to you then you even realize.
For instance; I never fully understood the love of Jesus until I became a father myself. I now know why Jesus chose to come and assure our salvation by dying on the cross so we can spend an eternity with Him. Until you really know and appreciate who Jesus is and what He can do your walk with Him won’t really be your own and the first sign of trouble or questioning your faith will begin to waver.
Take the opportunity over the next couple of days and give yourself a “spiritual gut check” and find out if your walk with God is your own.
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