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Mar 09

Its almost time

I am going on my first mission trip.  I am really excited to see what God is going to do.  I am going to Nicaragua and I am going to be working with kids who basically live in a dump.  Wow, all I can think about is that I am going to a nation where they know real faith.  Their lives are truly lived moment by moment.  They do not own changes of clothes and most of the time they probably do not even know when they are going to get their next meal.  The one thing they do know is Jesus loves them.  It is much like the beautiful people of Haiti as they sat with nothing and they were hurt, dying and unable to move, but when one man started to sing about Jesus the entire town started to sing.  Even in their darkness they found light, they found Christ.  I know the same can happen in Nicaragua.  They live their lives in a dump, but for the moments we get to spend with them, will be Holy.  We will get to pour into them and I am mostly excited that they will get to pour into us.  I am wanting to see what true faith looks like, what it really means to live with nothing and have everything.  I know that our God is a big God and He will bring healing, joy and mercy on all of us as we chase after him next week.  My decree to myself is to surrender to the God I know and love, to the Lord that will show me His face next week and that I will realize that nothing in this world can match what He offers. Amen!

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Mar 08

Desire- It’s not a bad word!

I know for me and from my struggles desire is a word that I do not associate with good.  I have felt like my appetites and innate feeling towards certain things made me a bad person.  Then as I read into the word and into the wisdom God has spread I realize that desire is a good word.  I have come to learn that the devil takes everything God has created and adds a twist and turn to it so that it creates an illusion of evil if you will or sin.  The one thing I tend to forget is God has created everything here on Earth that is good.  Typically, our desires and appetites are for things that make us feel good.  We desire them because of that very reason.  Well, God created those things in our life to be enjoyed, but in an scriptural way.  When we submit ourselves and our desires to Him, He will meet them but His way and His time.  God doesn’t try and trick us, He simply says wait, trust in me and I will give you a Steak and Lobster dinner instead of that sloppy Joe and tangy slaw you are used to.  Now I do not have anything against a good sloppy Joe, but I wouldn’t want to waste my appetite on that if I knew by waiting just a little longer( God’s time that is) I would get the Filet Mignon.  I do not want to be afraid to share my desires anymore, in fact I want people to know that I desire a intimate relationship with Christ, I want them to know I desire to be a great husband and father one day, I desire that my wife to be will be my best friend, I want them to know I desire a relationship with people who are broken and need healing and I want them to know I desire to live my life the way Christ intended, ABUNDANTLY!    SELAH!

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Mar 07

I am back!!

I am so very sorry to those of you who follow Devoetry, but life was hectic and well honestly I have no excuse.  I can always find time for God.  Lets talk about God since the subject was brought up.  If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can tell that mountain to jump into the ocean and it will.  WOW, the size of a mustard seed.  Do you guys have any idea how small a mustard seed is.  It is extremely small and yet God says if we just have that much faith the World is ours.  Now hold your horses, not in the sense of the prosperity gospel, it doesn’t mean your winning lotto or someone is going to give you 24″ rims for your car.  It means that having faith and trusting Christ means a lot to Him.  He wants us to see Him even as hard as it is to trust what we can’t see.  Basically He wants for us to say Lord here is what I need and then let Him provide as He sees fit.  Our goal is not to pray for success or for a wife or for a new car.  No, we are to pray in hunt for and search of His kingdom and His righteousness.  When we seek HIM first , these other things will follow.  He loves us and He wants to spoil us.  He wants to be in our everyday lives.  He wants to know what scares us, but not because He is the all mighty and all knowing God, but rather because we tell Him because He is our friend.  My faith has sadly not even been close to that of a mustard seed, but I am working on that day by day.  I am starting by realizing over and over again, that my life is not about me.  I am here to serve a King, a King that wants to share His love and show His beloved that their brokenness is not the end.  The healing comes from a Christ who knew how nasty this world can and will be.  A God who said that if I do not sacrifice myself then I will have none of my beloved to share eternity with.  I plead with you to pray and pray and pray.  Pray for those in need and for those who cannot pray for themselves.  Faith the size of a mustard seed is what I am striving for.  My end goal is not to tell a mountain to jump in the ocean, rather it is to one face Christ and say Your will is done. Amen and Amen

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