Too late?

Are we really being the hands and feet of jesus or are we living for ourselves? Do we treat others as, not only we would treat ourselves, but as we would treat jesus ? I see so many people going around treating others badly, or living for themselves. There are so many people who need good news, so many in our circles of influence that need jesus. Time is running out, summer is almost gone and the harvest is still in the field. Will you help spread the good news, or put jesus back on a shelf for the next time you need him?

Hevenly father use me to spread your good news to those who need it. In jesus name amen



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Share the good news, before its too late. The words we share might save someones life.

Storms and waves

Mark 4:35-41 NLT

As evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s cross to the other side of the lake.” So they took Jesus in the boat and started out, leaving the crowds behind (although other boats followed). But soon a fierce storm came up. High waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water. Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, “Teacher, don’t you care that we’re going to drown?” When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Silence! Be still!” Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. Then he asked them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?” The disciples were absolutely terrified. “Who is this man?” they asked each other. “Even the wind and waves obey him!”

The storms might toss us...the waves might break over the bow...but jesus is always with us. It doesn't matter how large the waves of our lives are.., he is always with us.

Harvest

Matthew 13:3-8 GWT

Then he used stories as illustrations to tell them many things. He said, “Listen! A farmer went to plant seed. Some seeds were planted along the road, and birds came and devoured them. Other seeds were planted on rocky ground, where there was little soil. The plants sprouted quickly because the soil wasn’t deep. But when the sun came up, they were scorched. They withered because their roots weren’t deep enough. Other seeds were planted among thornbushes, and the thornbushes grew up and choked them. But other seeds were planted on good ground and produced grain. They produced one hundred, sixty, or thirty times as much as was planted.

Is the soil of your heart stony? Is it filled with thorns? Is the soil shallow, to the point to when things get a little tough and dry do we wither. Are we so dependent on things of this world that we don't run to jesus, or pray for him to rain down his presence? I for one want his presence to fill me to overflowing, I want my seed to sprout on good ground where is will produce a good harvest.

Hope in the one

1 Peter 1:2-7, 9 GWT

God the Father knew you long ago and chose you to live holy lives with the Spirit’s help so that you are obedient to Jesus Christ and are sprinkled with his blood.May good will and peace fill your lives! Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! God has given us a new birth because of his great mercy. We have been born into a new life that has a confidence which is alive because Jesus Christ has come back to life. We have been born into a new life which has an inheritance that can’t be destroyed or corrupted and can’t fade away. That inheritance is kept in heaven for you, since you are guarded by God’s power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed at the end of time. You are extremely happy about these things, even though you have to suffer different kinds of trouble for a little while now. The purpose of these troubles is to test your faith as fire tests how genuine gold is. Your faith is more precious than gold, and by passing the test, it gives praise, glory, and honor to God. This will happen when Jesus Christ appears again. as you obtain the salvation that is the goal of your faith.


Are you living today all for Jesus or are you sliding back, or holding back afraid of what others will say? Dont be afraid of what others might think, you were bought by Christ's blood bled on calvalry. We could at least live for him. We are called to shine his light to all....dont hide it, shine it! Dont hoard the hope.

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He won't forsake us

Taken from todays reading in "streams in the desert" by L.B. Cowman

Isaiah 48:10 NLT

I have refined you, but not as silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering.

Does not the Word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? Yes, is it not an asbestos armor, against which the heat has no power? Let the affliction comeGod has chosen me. Poverty, thou mayest stride in at my door; but God is in the house already, and He has chosen me. Sickness, thou mayest intrude; but I have a balsam ready--God has chosen me. Whatever befall me in this vale of tears, I know that He has chosen me.Fear not, Christian; Jesus is with thee. In all thy fiery trials, His presence is both thy comfort and safety. He will never leave one whom He has chosen for His own. "Fear not, for I am with thee," is His sure word of promise to His chosen ones in "the furnace of affliction."C. H. Spurgeon

Sand or rock?

Ephesians 6:10-20 GWT

Finally, receive your power from the Lord and from his mighty strength. Put on all the armor that God supplies. In this way you can take a stand against the devil’s strategies. This is not a wrestling match against a human opponent. We are wrestling with rulers, authorities, the powers who govern this world of darkness, and spiritual forces that control evil in the heavenly world. For this reason, take up all the armor that God supplies. Then you will be able to take a stand during these evil days. Once you have overcome all obstacles, you will be able to stand your ground. So then, take your stand! Fasten truth around your waist like a belt. Put on God’s approval as your breastplate. Put on your shoes so that you are ready to spread the Good News that gives peace. In addition to all these, take the Christian faith as your shield. With it you can put out all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Also take salvation as your helmet and the word of God as the sword that the Spirit supplies. Pray in the Spirit in every situation. Use every kind of prayer and request there is. For the same reason be alert. Use every kind of effort and make every kind of request for all of God’s people. Also pray that God will give me the right words to say. Then I will speak boldly when I reveal the mystery of the Good News. Because I have already been doing this as Christ’s representative, I am in prison. So pray that I speak about this Good News as boldly as I have to.

Read these versus carefully. Jesus has already won the battly against evil and death. Jesus has already paid the price, so why do we still live defeated? Don't let Satan have his way, claim the victory christ won on calvalry. Question is is your house built on sand, or rock? Think and pray about it. As for me, my house is built on the solid rock of jesus.

Path of prayer

I have read more on this vacation than I ever have. Read 2 books on prayer. I have felt a stillness and calmness that I haven't felt since men's retreat. Here is a passage from one of the books.


Unanswered yet! The prayers your lips have pleaded
In agony of heart these many years?
Does faith begin to fail? Is hope departing?
And think you all in vain those falling tears?
Say not the father hath heard your prayer,
You shall have your desire-sometime-somewhere.

Unanswered yet? Though when you first presented
This one petition at the fathers throne
It seemed you could not wait the time of asking
So urgent was the heart to make it known;
Though years have passed since then, do not despair
The lord will answer you-sometime-somewhere.

Unanswered yet? Nay do you say ungranted,
Perhaps your work is not wholly done.
The work began when first your prayer was uttered,
And god will finish what he has begun.
If you keep the incense burning there,
His glory you shall see-sometime-somehwere.

Unanswered yet! Faith cannot be unanswered;
Her feet are firmly planted on the rock;
Amid the wildest storms she stands undaunted,
Nor quails before the loudest thunder shock.
She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer,
And cries, "it shall be done-sometime-somewhere."


E.b. browning

Waves and footprints

I was playing in the ocean with my little girls. We were playing don't let the wave touch me. I would lift them up just in time for the wave not to hit them. So it is with god. We often wonder where god is...thinking he has abandoned us to face the waves of life alone. When in fact he is always beside us, only allowing the waves we can handle to hit us. If we look back in the sand of time, sometimes we will see 2 sets of foot prints, sometimes 1 set. When there is one set, Jesus was carrying us over the waves we couldn't handle.

Which road are you on?

Does the road we travel on lead to jesus or does it lead to eternal destruction?! Any self-centeredness we have draws us away from the presence of god in our lives. We often think or are way too concerned with the way things will affect us, or will affect our reputation. Instead of neing concerned with our reputation, be concerned with gods will for our lives. His plan is far better than anything we can come up with on our own. He knows us down to the number of hairs on our head. We can trust him to lead us where we need to go.

Hevenly father, almighty god, I pray you would remove any self-centeredness from my life. May I be totally surrendered to your will. May I daily live where you are, dwelling daily in your presence. In jesus name amen

Rise up oh men of god

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Matthew 11:25-30 MSG

Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: “Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You’ve concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people. Yes, Father, that’s the way you like to work.” Jesus resumed talking to the people, but now tenderly. “The Father has given me all these things to do and say. This is a unique Father-Son operation, coming out of Father and Son intimacies and knowledge. No one knows the Son the way the Father does, nor the Father the way the Son does. But I’m not keeping it to myself; I’m ready to go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen. “Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”

Question is are we willing to listen? Are we ready to be still in his presence, or are we too busy doing stuff that really doesn't matter?


1 Timothy 2:1-10 MSG

The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our Savior God wants us to live. He wants not only us but everyone saved, you know, everyone to get to know the truth we’ve learned: that there’s one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and us—Jesus, who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all free. Eventually the news is going to get out. This and this only has been my appointed work: getting this news to those who have never heard of God, and explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth. Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray—not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. And I want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions but doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it.


God has called us men to pray, do we really humble ourselves, open ourselves in humility and earnestly pray? God has called us men to pray...so pray! Dont sit on the couch and watch tv...pray! I'm not saying dont have fun, im saying put god and your family first. For the paths we walk not only affect us...but all those around us.