1 Peter 4:13
But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you many be overjoyed when His glory is revealed.
I am humbled by this verse and not the least bit qualified to even speak on its behalf....
Christ has blessed us beyond measure....beyond measure. In 2002 when we were decided to come to this country called Nicaragua, we had no idea how our lives would be impacted...changed in an instant. God gave us a glimpse of the future land that He would call us to.... From 2002-2007, He allowed us the privilege to return again and again, each time reaffirming the call...each time leaving a part of it seemed my very soul when I would leave.... Then in 2007, it stopped. We spent the years from 2007-2011 being prepared....we didn't know that at the time but there was strengthening in those trials....and we were changed. We didn't know at the time that He was preparing us to live here during those times....it might have been so much easier (in human hindsight, yes?) to have walked through Travis almost dying, Slaton being born 3 months premature, my mother's diagnosis and death to cancer...all happening amidst life..if we might have known that Nicaragua was the plan....that in 2012 we were going to be given the opportunity to move here....to serve Him here....but He had a plan and He saw the big picture the whole time.
Our serving here..is not a sacrifice in our mind...not at all but rather the greatest privilege that we have ever known.
We, as humans, don't have the big picture...we have what we can see for today...this instant...and even that isn't always a clear picture but rather a picture seen through our perspective. We have no idea what the future will hold....we have conjecture, hope and dream....but the reality is He knows....we do not. It is a world that if you are not a believer you will have much difficulty even fathoming...a world that you can finally say...I live for today and today alone. God prepares tomorrow....not I.
Our son, Slaton, has Aspergers and one of the traits that he has is that he thinks that you are thinking as he is...so if he thinks something, it is so. Not exactly. Just because he thought that he wanted a glass of chocolate milk doesn't mean that I should be handing him one...and we work on this..making him aware that the reality is not what he simply thinks. And the same is true, I'm afraid, for us.....the reality of our world is not what we simply think it should be....it is what it is. Period. Sure, we can plan, day dream, plot and make elaborate themes....but reality is that we must hold all of this loosely knowing that our blueprints are our human desires...not reality. And we mustn't be let down when they don't come to fruition......
When we suffer for Him, we suffer knowing that He will be revealed. Not if He does, not maybe...but that He will be revealed. Our brothers and sisters in Christ who lay down their very lives for Him know the ultimate earthly price...and, yet, this is where we find the body of Christ growing..not waning. This is where we find Truth being held as the most treasured prize....not in lukewarm gratitude.
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Response to The Happy Life....
I've
been asked my thoughts on this but through friends back in the states
and Nicaraguans here.... I've been hoping that there would be a
recant.... A message that would follow that would say...this was only a
clip taken out of context...here is the real message....but I guess we
all knew it probably wasn't coming. It is what it is.
The night this first aired I had just finished a Bible Study in the dump...surrounded by some of the worst living conditions I have ever experienced...k we talked out our choices that we made in life and the good and bad consequences that come with them...and then we talked about when things come our way...even when we don't choose them. We talked about how in this world...we won't fit in...as Christian's..we will not ever feel at home here...and if we do...then we need to reevaluate how we are living and who we are serving. We talked about how the closer we live for God the more trials and bad things will probably come our way....and that's okay because our eyes will be on Christ and He is all the encouragement that we need.
The night this first aired I had just finished a Bible Study in the dump...surrounded by some of the worst living conditions I have ever experienced...k we talked out our choices that we made in life and the good and bad consequences that come with them...and then we talked about when things come our way...even when we don't choose them. We talked about how in this world...we won't fit in...as Christian's..we will not ever feel at home here...and if we do...then we need to reevaluate how we are living and who we are serving. We talked about how the closer we live for God the more trials and bad things will probably come our way....and that's okay because our eyes will be on Christ and He is all the encouragement that we need.
And then I came back to Hope Central and saw this.
We need to pray...pray for a real revival. Smoke and mirrors eventually clear away and what will be left is what is real....pray that what is left is Truth and doesn't burn away with the smoke.
We need to love...love as Christ as loved us. He is the judge...the fair judge...we are called to extend His love so that they might know Him....and we never really know who the "they" might be.
We need to be real...It is time as believers that we, ourselves, need to drop the "Christian facade" that our lives are beautiful and perfect thus we be thought less than and be real with one another so that when we encounter trials....we can help one another, shouldering the burdens together.
Yes, he who casts the first stone......but sometimes, the stones seem to speak for themselves....
We need to pray...pray for a real revival. Smoke and mirrors eventually clear away and what will be left is what is real....pray that what is left is Truth and doesn't burn away with the smoke.
We need to love...love as Christ as loved us. He is the judge...the fair judge...we are called to extend His love so that they might know Him....and we never really know who the "they" might be.
We need to be real...It is time as believers that we, ourselves, need to drop the "Christian facade" that our lives are beautiful and perfect thus we be thought less than and be real with one another so that when we encounter trials....we can help one another, shouldering the burdens together.
Yes, he who casts the first stone......but sometimes, the stones seem to speak for themselves....
September 3, 2014 1 Peter 4:12 Sheep Amongst Wolves
1 Peter 4:12
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you.
Do not be surprised.....and, yet, we always are when painfulness comes our way. We seek and seek to make heaven on earth...to make happiness here...and then we feel betrayed when evilness slips through the cracks of our happy facade.
This world, this earth is not our home....this is not it. We are told in Matthew 10:16 "I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves."
Imagine sending sheep out into a pack of wolves.....that is how we have been sent. We have a Shepherd who is protecting us and watching over us.....but this will be messy and painful....so we mustn't be surprised when it comes our way. I vividly remember the first time that I experienced "being amongst wolves". Many years ago....I was in church and was being witness to incredible wrongness....Wrongness from a worldly business standpoint and undoubtable wrongness from a Biblical viewpoint. As I sat literally in disbelief, I was assured that this is quite common and this is how it simple is done..... Okay, but I can tell you in my world of corporate America that this would not fly....and, yet, under the disguise of "the Church" I was being told it was common. As a relatively new believer experiencing how the body of Christ worked, I can tell you that this was not what I expected to find.
Yet, I am thankful that God allowed me to see that experience when He did. I didn't understand it at the time but He taught me early on that being sheep among wolves is everywhere....and just because you find yourself among wolves, you don't ever stop being sheep. Ever. For while you are treading amongst the wolves, there are other sheep traveling your same path needing encouragement, fellowship and reaffirmation that God is in control...even in this.
Too often, we experience "bad things" within the church. We get hurt...and often rightfully so. Expect it. In heaven, we will serve in a place where there is no evil...we won't get hurt there. Here, we will. And I believe satan revels in this....There is no better way to distract a Kingdom builder than to create issues within the church itself....Hurt feelings can fester for years and years...and all the while instead of placing our energy on Kingdom building, we are focusing on getting even with our sister or brother in Christ....or at least waiting until they make the first move to apologize. Or better yet, we stop going all together. We walk away from it all. And truthfully, the way I have seen some treated by "Church people", I get it...but when we walk away, when we say the persecution is too much satan wins....every time.
I think of our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ who face persecution in the form of death....and then think....really, we let ourselves be ran off from our Father's house because of simple words in the form of gossip and haughty looks? Shame on us....may God strengthen our desire to know Him more that nothing could keep away....nothing.
Be the peacemaker. Be the sheep. Follow where the Good Shepherd tells you to go. Expect pain in this world no matter where you are....then when the blessings come of happiness...they are blessings overflowing.
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you.
Do not be surprised.....and, yet, we always are when painfulness comes our way. We seek and seek to make heaven on earth...to make happiness here...and then we feel betrayed when evilness slips through the cracks of our happy facade.
This world, this earth is not our home....this is not it. We are told in Matthew 10:16 "I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves."
Imagine sending sheep out into a pack of wolves.....that is how we have been sent. We have a Shepherd who is protecting us and watching over us.....but this will be messy and painful....so we mustn't be surprised when it comes our way. I vividly remember the first time that I experienced "being amongst wolves". Many years ago....I was in church and was being witness to incredible wrongness....Wrongness from a worldly business standpoint and undoubtable wrongness from a Biblical viewpoint. As I sat literally in disbelief, I was assured that this is quite common and this is how it simple is done..... Okay, but I can tell you in my world of corporate America that this would not fly....and, yet, under the disguise of "the Church" I was being told it was common. As a relatively new believer experiencing how the body of Christ worked, I can tell you that this was not what I expected to find.
Yet, I am thankful that God allowed me to see that experience when He did. I didn't understand it at the time but He taught me early on that being sheep among wolves is everywhere....and just because you find yourself among wolves, you don't ever stop being sheep. Ever. For while you are treading amongst the wolves, there are other sheep traveling your same path needing encouragement, fellowship and reaffirmation that God is in control...even in this.
Too often, we experience "bad things" within the church. We get hurt...and often rightfully so. Expect it. In heaven, we will serve in a place where there is no evil...we won't get hurt there. Here, we will. And I believe satan revels in this....There is no better way to distract a Kingdom builder than to create issues within the church itself....Hurt feelings can fester for years and years...and all the while instead of placing our energy on Kingdom building, we are focusing on getting even with our sister or brother in Christ....or at least waiting until they make the first move to apologize. Or better yet, we stop going all together. We walk away from it all. And truthfully, the way I have seen some treated by "Church people", I get it...but when we walk away, when we say the persecution is too much satan wins....every time.
I think of our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ who face persecution in the form of death....and then think....really, we let ourselves be ran off from our Father's house because of simple words in the form of gossip and haughty looks? Shame on us....may God strengthen our desire to know Him more that nothing could keep away....nothing.
Be the peacemaker. Be the sheep. Follow where the Good Shepherd tells you to go. Expect pain in this world no matter where you are....then when the blessings come of happiness...they are blessings overflowing.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
September 2, 2014 1 Peter 4:11 His Strength....Not Mine.
1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God, if anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
I write this on a day that I am stuck in bed with a fever, headache, respiratory something and a rash on my belly that I am still not quite sure what it is..... I am writing this on a day that I love in my week..a day that I can serve with wild abandonment...a day that we go to HOH for Tuesday morning outreach and share God's love with girls and children caught up in the evilness of sex trafficking.....lunchtime is spent at the feeding center in the dump..sharing not only food but God's word...and the afternoon ends with sharing Christ's love with the ladies at the Cancer Shelter...Encouraging those, who are oftentimes, at death's very door....and yet today...I am here in bed surrounded by tissues.
Tissues being used for more than just sneezes....for tears. Tears for a multitude of reasons...a world of sin, a daughter no longer here, children abused, starving, neglected, sexual assaulted, and the list goes on and on.... I find myself stopped..today anyway. Held in one place, alone. This occurred not without a fight I might add.... I was dressed, ready to go, tubs packed and loaded in the truck...even dropped Slate off at school...all the while knowing.... I could fight through the day....but was I supposed to? Was it my day to fight? Was I pushing on in my own strength or with God's? As I read and reread this verse allowing God's word to surround me, I realized that while God had given me wonderful gifts....today, He had not given me the strength....not today.
As I made my way back to the house and climbed into bed, I knew I was where I was supposed to be today....I knew it before I went to bed last night...yet, in my humanness, worldliness...I knew that I could trudge on, that I could complete the day....but the strength I would have been using was my own....not God's...and in the world we live in, the world we serve in...I do not want to walk this journey in my own strength. There is nothing that needed to be accomplished today that God could not....nor would not accomplish with out me...nothing. On most days, He allows me to walk the journey of His working, He allows me to take part, He allows me to be the recipient of many hugs and loves that are truly His...not mine, but His.
Too many times, too often, we trudge on.... We trudge on out of feeling guilty, we trudge on out of the feelings of necessity, of responsibility, of debt..... or do we trudge on out of feelings of pride or the need to be in control of everything in our world....... yet, God tells us that what we do, how we serve, what we use of the gifts He has given us should be used in His strength....not ours....not ours.
This is a hard one for me. Being still. I do much better than I have in the past....I used to push this earthly body way past the point that it should be pushed....all in the name of completing an assigned task on time. But I have experienced the strength that comes from the Father....and the strength that we have as humans pales in comparison....pales. That's where I want to be...that's how I want to serve...in God's will, using that strength that He provides to accomplish work for His kingdom...and nowhere in that phrase is the word "me"..... We serve as He directs with His strength...not our own.
Where in our lives are we hitting brick walls? Are we hitting them because they are walls we ourselves are fighting? Are we working in our own strength or God's? Do we really think that the our world would cease to move if we took a day off to just be? I can tell you that it doesn't. It won't. Even the day when my world came to a screeching stop in my mind, the moment that Tae died, the world kept moving.....
If you feel like you are going crazy trying to just survive in this world, if you have to numb yourself to make it through the day, if you don't feel the joy that surpasses all understanding.....stop. Find someone who you know that really does. Choose to make a change in your life that will stop the craziness that consumes to many of us.
Today, I was reminded yet again...that this is not my fight, this is His...His glory, His strength....His. Thankful to be a small part of the journey.
If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God, if anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
I write this on a day that I am stuck in bed with a fever, headache, respiratory something and a rash on my belly that I am still not quite sure what it is..... I am writing this on a day that I love in my week..a day that I can serve with wild abandonment...a day that we go to HOH for Tuesday morning outreach and share God's love with girls and children caught up in the evilness of sex trafficking.....lunchtime is spent at the feeding center in the dump..sharing not only food but God's word...and the afternoon ends with sharing Christ's love with the ladies at the Cancer Shelter...Encouraging those, who are oftentimes, at death's very door....and yet today...I am here in bed surrounded by tissues.
Tissues being used for more than just sneezes....for tears. Tears for a multitude of reasons...a world of sin, a daughter no longer here, children abused, starving, neglected, sexual assaulted, and the list goes on and on.... I find myself stopped..today anyway. Held in one place, alone. This occurred not without a fight I might add.... I was dressed, ready to go, tubs packed and loaded in the truck...even dropped Slate off at school...all the while knowing.... I could fight through the day....but was I supposed to? Was it my day to fight? Was I pushing on in my own strength or with God's? As I read and reread this verse allowing God's word to surround me, I realized that while God had given me wonderful gifts....today, He had not given me the strength....not today.
As I made my way back to the house and climbed into bed, I knew I was where I was supposed to be today....I knew it before I went to bed last night...yet, in my humanness, worldliness...I knew that I could trudge on, that I could complete the day....but the strength I would have been using was my own....not God's...and in the world we live in, the world we serve in...I do not want to walk this journey in my own strength. There is nothing that needed to be accomplished today that God could not....nor would not accomplish with out me...nothing. On most days, He allows me to walk the journey of His working, He allows me to take part, He allows me to be the recipient of many hugs and loves that are truly His...not mine, but His.
Too many times, too often, we trudge on.... We trudge on out of feeling guilty, we trudge on out of the feelings of necessity, of responsibility, of debt..... or do we trudge on out of feelings of pride or the need to be in control of everything in our world....... yet, God tells us that what we do, how we serve, what we use of the gifts He has given us should be used in His strength....not ours....not ours.
This is a hard one for me. Being still. I do much better than I have in the past....I used to push this earthly body way past the point that it should be pushed....all in the name of completing an assigned task on time. But I have experienced the strength that comes from the Father....and the strength that we have as humans pales in comparison....pales. That's where I want to be...that's how I want to serve...in God's will, using that strength that He provides to accomplish work for His kingdom...and nowhere in that phrase is the word "me"..... We serve as He directs with His strength...not our own.
Where in our lives are we hitting brick walls? Are we hitting them because they are walls we ourselves are fighting? Are we working in our own strength or God's? Do we really think that the our world would cease to move if we took a day off to just be? I can tell you that it doesn't. It won't. Even the day when my world came to a screeching stop in my mind, the moment that Tae died, the world kept moving.....
If you feel like you are going crazy trying to just survive in this world, if you have to numb yourself to make it through the day, if you don't feel the joy that surpasses all understanding.....stop. Find someone who you know that really does. Choose to make a change in your life that will stop the craziness that consumes to many of us.
Today, I was reminded yet again...that this is not my fight, this is His...His glory, His strength....His. Thankful to be a small part of the journey.
September 1, 2014 1 Peter 4:10 Our Talents....God's Gifts
1 Peter 4:10
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace......
And this is where we waste a lot of time.... What is our gift? What gift has God bestowed on us? What category does it fit in? What is the best quiz to take to identify it....to reconfirmed it....or to maybe identify us another one....
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace......
And this is where we waste a lot of time.... What is our gift? What gift has God bestowed on us? What category does it fit in? What is the best quiz to take to identify it....to reconfirmed it....or to maybe identify us another one....
We
analyze and analyze and analyze.....all the while the very gifts that He
has bestowed on us wait....and the world moves on in spite of our
inaction.
We know when we are amongst someone gifted by the Father...whether it be someone gifted by preaching, teaching or loving to watch them do what God has created them to do is to experience a bit of heaven on earth. Tae's gift was with children...and not just any children but children that were seemingly unloved especially those with special needs. I've seen her walk in a room that reduces most grown men and women into tears and that is where she would shine the brightest....I don't ever remember her taking a test or quiz to figure it out but I remember one time after our Special Friend's Class at Ridgecrest Baptist she said with the biggest smile "That is what heaven will be like!" That is where she felt closest to God.... Always did.
God gave us gifts and talents to go and do.....to use them to serve others...to further His kingdom....His Name. I'm not saying that it is wrong to seek guidance and help if you are having difficulty finding where you fit....but I do think most of us have a pretty clear idea where that is......it is that place when you feel like this is what I was created to do....and truthfully, it is probably not the most glamorous, worldly popular nor worldly recognizable deed....but it is the deed that is recognized by the King...... I find that it is in moments apart from others, in quiet corners, cardboard houses or amongst mounds trash....day in and day out.....that I see God's hand upon my life.... Perseverance, when no one is looking, when the days run together...yet, the faces become more and more familiar..... Does the desire to reach beyond normal boundaries count as a spiritual gift? I don't know......but I do know that God has blessed me with this desire from as young as I can remember.....and this is where I feel closest to God. This is where I feel in my spirit.... This is what I was created to do.
So what is it? What talent do you have that God has given you to further His kingdom? If you already know it, are you using it to its furthest potential? Do you hide it waiting for the perfect opportunity to use it? Do you help your children identify their talents and help them explore ways that they can use them for God's glory?
We know when we are amongst someone gifted by the Father...whether it be someone gifted by preaching, teaching or loving to watch them do what God has created them to do is to experience a bit of heaven on earth. Tae's gift was with children...and not just any children but children that were seemingly unloved especially those with special needs. I've seen her walk in a room that reduces most grown men and women into tears and that is where she would shine the brightest....I don't ever remember her taking a test or quiz to figure it out but I remember one time after our Special Friend's Class at Ridgecrest Baptist she said with the biggest smile "That is what heaven will be like!" That is where she felt closest to God.... Always did.
God gave us gifts and talents to go and do.....to use them to serve others...to further His kingdom....His Name. I'm not saying that it is wrong to seek guidance and help if you are having difficulty finding where you fit....but I do think most of us have a pretty clear idea where that is......it is that place when you feel like this is what I was created to do....and truthfully, it is probably not the most glamorous, worldly popular nor worldly recognizable deed....but it is the deed that is recognized by the King...... I find that it is in moments apart from others, in quiet corners, cardboard houses or amongst mounds trash....day in and day out.....that I see God's hand upon my life.... Perseverance, when no one is looking, when the days run together...yet, the faces become more and more familiar..... Does the desire to reach beyond normal boundaries count as a spiritual gift? I don't know......but I do know that God has blessed me with this desire from as young as I can remember.....and this is where I feel closest to God. This is where I feel in my spirit.... This is what I was created to do.
So what is it? What talent do you have that God has given you to further His kingdom? If you already know it, are you using it to its furthest potential? Do you hide it waiting for the perfect opportunity to use it? Do you help your children identify their talents and help them explore ways that they can use them for God's glory?
August 31, 2014 1 Peter 4:9 Unexpected Guests......
1 Peter 4:9
Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.
I'm too busy. Our house isn't big enough. We've had a long week. The kids are cranky. We haven't grocery shopped this week. I haven't had a shower yet. The games on TV....... and so we don't offer hospitality to our friends and neighbors.
Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.
I'm too busy. Our house isn't big enough. We've had a long week. The kids are cranky. We haven't grocery shopped this week. I haven't had a shower yet. The games on TV....... and so we don't offer hospitality to our friends and neighbors.
Yet,
real hospitality....the hospitality that Peter talks about isn't
entertaining guests in our home it is hospitality.... It is inviting
them in when they come to our door and offering them what we have to
offer...... It is inviting them over when the Holy Spirit prompts us
even when we have a million personal reasons not to.....
We focus on them....their needs and not our own. Of course, this is what we do when we entertain people at our house, yes? We bring out our best food, plates.....our best for them to experience. But what about when you haven't planned, when it isn't your idea, when your best isn't ready to be presented.....or can't even be found?
House is messy? Kids unruly? Only water to drink? What about then?
This is when I believe true hospitality comes alive.... For some of us, it comes easy...for the rest of us, we must allow Christ to work through us in order to allow it to happen.
I've seen vast differences in hospitality while living here. For those who have come to serve with us down here, you've experienced it. The hospitality extended even though material possessions are greatly limited. The warmth extended even though furniture is sparse. The sharing of food even when it isn't plentiful. Is this how we do hospitality? All the time?
Yes, some of it is cultural....but that is only found in the type of offering-tortillas as opposed to pie:). We are all called to help meet the needs of those God sends our way.... A place to stay (even if just for a moment), something to eat or drink (even if it is all we have) or just a listening ear....and we are called to it without grumbling....
We are called to be Christians, salt of this world, light in a dark world, His hands and feet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week..... It is not a 9 to 5 gig.... It doesn't end with the evening news....
Hebrews 13:2 reminds us that we shouldn't forget to entertain strangers for in doing so some people have entertained angels without knowing it....and that's pretty cool. Remember, it really isn't about us at all.....never has been.
We focus on them....their needs and not our own. Of course, this is what we do when we entertain people at our house, yes? We bring out our best food, plates.....our best for them to experience. But what about when you haven't planned, when it isn't your idea, when your best isn't ready to be presented.....or can't even be found?
House is messy? Kids unruly? Only water to drink? What about then?
This is when I believe true hospitality comes alive.... For some of us, it comes easy...for the rest of us, we must allow Christ to work through us in order to allow it to happen.
I've seen vast differences in hospitality while living here. For those who have come to serve with us down here, you've experienced it. The hospitality extended even though material possessions are greatly limited. The warmth extended even though furniture is sparse. The sharing of food even when it isn't plentiful. Is this how we do hospitality? All the time?
Yes, some of it is cultural....but that is only found in the type of offering-tortillas as opposed to pie:). We are all called to help meet the needs of those God sends our way.... A place to stay (even if just for a moment), something to eat or drink (even if it is all we have) or just a listening ear....and we are called to it without grumbling....
We are called to be Christians, salt of this world, light in a dark world, His hands and feet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week..... It is not a 9 to 5 gig.... It doesn't end with the evening news....
Hebrews 13:2 reminds us that we shouldn't forget to entertain strangers for in doing so some people have entertained angels without knowing it....and that's pretty cool. Remember, it really isn't about us at all.....never has been.
August 30, 2014 satan's lies.....
I
remember vividly the night that Tae died.... I remember hearing among
many things satan's lies trying to weave their way into my heart and
mind... Trying to distract me, discourage me....kick us while we were
down. I remember thinking that night that I would never laugh again,
that there would be no more joy in this world, that I should find the
closest corner, curl up and never come out.....and with each of those
thoughts, I'd go to God's word....sometimes I couldn't see through
the tears so I would just hold His word knowing that the Holy Spirit
would intercede for me.... I write this tonight to encourage anyone
walking a journey that is difficult to turn to God's word....first. Not
as last resort but first. It is the only constant in an ever changing
world with the power to cause satan to flee... Stills the noise and
calms.....
I remember when
Jesus was in the storm on the boat with his disciples.....He was
sleeping and they thought they would surely die in that storm....a storm
that He didn't seem to care about.... And He calmed the storm with His
hands to calm His disciples but all the while saying .... Don't you guys
get it? I think that was us.... He has this storm....and has been
faithful again and again.
With each lie from satan, God reaffirmed Truth....and we have laughed, experienced unspeakable joy, experienced ministry deeper than we would have ever imagined and have seen His greatness throughout.
With each lie from satan, God reaffirmed Truth....and we have laughed, experienced unspeakable joy, experienced ministry deeper than we would have ever imagined and have seen His greatness throughout.
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