Oh how I long to hear him speak my name
I have such a longing to hear God speak the name written for me on the white stone. I imagine he might call me something like a Son of Thunder, maybe I my name will be Wulf… I am sure the name God has chosen for me is far cooler then anything I could imagine, but hey, it’s fun to dream right?
One
Well and am back working at my desk again so I was hoping to have a little more time to blog. But as a result of the training I have received over the last two weeks I have been put on something called the priority phone queue, which means I am always at the top of the list to receive the next phone call. Now I seem to be living in the heart of a whirlwind of phone calls, which seems to be rather distracting when it comes to writing a blog.
Anyway have a little something that I want to expand on for a while and see where it goes. A few weeks ago our church and multiple other finished up a series called one prayer. The series was good, we had powerful men of God delivering each message for 4 weeks and it’s hard to go wrong with something like that, but what I want to talk about is related to that, but not exactly the same.
Shortly after coming to know the Lord I felt that Gods desire for me was to be in ministry, and soon after that I started having images of a “One Church” run through my mind. The thought here was on a citywide level, but the basic premise was to have a single location, multiple pastors, and a single vision. I am talking a wide selection of speakers. What god spoke to me is that by doing this we would start to see the Gods vision for the city, rather then one mans interpretation of God’s vision. I am not sure if I am sharing this vision in a way that others can understand, so feedback and questions are encouraged.
I believe God does not want to see his body at odds with one another, but rather in harmony. The right hand should was the left, not cut it off. And the body does not exist in one building, or one denomination, but rather out in the world made up off all those who know Jesus Christ.
How is God blessing you today
Today God has impressed these words on my heart, I heard last night.
“If the Man David is not willing to go out and kill the giant God will find a Boy David to get the job done”.
How is God blessing you today? Please leave a comment…
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The end of an Empire?
A little over a year ago I left a phone support job that I had worked at for a little over 5 year. I had taken some where between 10 and 15 thousand phone calls by the time I left that position.
After that many days on the phone, and that many phone calls, and now a year out of the picture I can only remember one statement from one customer on the phones. The call was with a foreign gentleman and we had quite a long, and nice conversation. The thing that he said and has stuck with me now for a couple of year is that the general consensus around the world is that the United States is at the end of it’s empire. He went on to explain that every empire the world has known has come to an end. Each and everyone has fallen, thus making the way for a new Empire to rise up.
Looking back there is always a people, or nation that has risen above the rest, who seems to be sitting in a pool of blessing. A nation who can do no wrong, they seem to be the nation who calls all the shots around the world.
A couple years later I have to say that it looks like this fellow may have hit the nail right on the head.
We are in a war that we seem to be unable to win.
We as a nation cannot balance a budget
We are losing ground as the manufacturing leader in the world
We are the number one consumer of oil in the world and we have no control over the prices.
We have started to spend so much time enjoying the good life that we no longer recall what it took to earn that life.
We are rising the second generation who believe they are entitled to everything their parents have without putting the work into earning it. Yes that’s right, I am calling my generation the first of the “Must Have” generation, and I will admit that I am guilty as charged.
It’s the work less; deserve more attitude that is killing this nation.
A Great Nation requires people that are will to work hard for, and earn what they get. Either by using the muscles in there back or gifts in their minds. The first will always outnumber the last, yet in America today we have more people who are unwilling to use their back, and incapable of using their mind then ever before. Who believes a strong mind is built, jut like strong muscles? I do.
We have, as a nation, stepped out from under Gods covering and there for lost the glory that comes along with that. Who knows that to get closer to God you must spend more time flat on your face? I think that because we, as a nation have removed ourselves from God we are being forcefully put back on our knees, and then our faces because he is not done here yet.
A quick personal testimony to help illustrate the bigger picture, several times I have had someone pray over me. Some of those times I have felt either a weight on my body, weakness of muscles or a combination of both. I have always been able to resist this feeling and stay on my feet. So there is a conscious choice there, but there are times that I submit to those feeling and find myself on the floor. I have found that when I am willing to humble myself before God the glory is often physically tangible. We will be held accountable in the end will the kings and queens of this world lay their crowns at the feet of Jesus? I pray by the blood of Jesus that if I ever find myself in with a mantel of an sort I will give it all to God. I say it is high time that America step up and do this. We need to repent of our laws and actions that are sinful in the eyes of our God. We need to give him the glory and become one nation under god once again.
As always I believe Pastor Steve does a couple of things. Number one he unknowingly reads my mind. and number two does a better job putting these thoughts into words. Check out his message from this past weekend. Message
God Bless
Live Love
Revelation 12:10-12
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Christ.
For the accuser of our brothers,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.
They overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
Therefore rejoice, you heavens
and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea,
because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short.”
After reading this passage this morning I find the words lingering in my mind…
“They did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death”
Often we live with the mind set that death is the end of life. That when our body stops functioning we stop existing. As Christians we study the word and preach everlasting life, yet, at least in my life, I have a hard time conceiving what heaven and hell are really all about. Thus the conception of life after death is a little shady for me. It’s not that I don’t believe in life after death, but rather everything after the point where my heart stops beating and my lungs no longer function is a little gray. It’s the point where everything I think I know ends, and revelations begin.
That’s makes death a hard thing not to fear, but the word of God tells us that we are not to store up worldly treasures, and that is exactly what life is. Once this physical shell stops functioning we are no longer a part of this world, and that worldly treasure is gone, forever.
I guess if I could sum this up in just a few words I would say “don’t love life so much that you are afraid to live”
Or for a twist on words “Live love so that you are not afraid of life”.
God Bless.
