Ever notice each day starts the same? After that anyone’s guess how it will end!

The day began like any other day, nothing really notable happened just an average day if their is such a thing anymore. In a moment that would all change with a phone call. The phone call nobody wants to get ever, much less at the beginning of the dark hours of night. But is there really a good hour to suffer a deep and painful loss of a child?

As human beings we get these idea in our heads that the old die first and the young will live to be old. That has not been my experience, I have suffered the loss of what many would consider pre-mature death a couple of times in my life, this is how I have learned to accept the unacceptable.

God is Sovereign ( The Authority ) He is in complete control of all things, He does what He wants, when He wants, and how He wants, for his pleasure. The very God mentioned in Genesis chapter 1 does not make mistakes. It is His plan not mine and there in lays the battle.

Like it or not our society programs us to believe in the power of self through media and peer pressure. God says we can never understand God’s Wisdom, but we can ask for an understanding of His plan for our lives. We only have to do one simple thing, perhaps the hardest simple thing that a human being can do…. surrender self-reliance, our will power and the idea that we have the intelligence to run our lives successfully much less the world! Only in the quietness of your thoughts will you know if that’s true for you or not.

At the end of every night is a morning

Out of what seems to be a horrible mistake, a life gone to soon, According to God’s plan and Will it was right on time. He is never early, never late He is always on time. In the loss we find the real value of any person, place or in thing in our lives. So it is in loss I look forward to the people, places, and things that still are, I take up those qualities in that persons life that I admired and apply them to my life that way I never have to be without them. Oddly enough that’s what I’m learning to do in my relationship with Christ is to be more like Him and less like me.

Rest in peace Stacy Ann, also my mother Gwen Irene.

Happy Fathers Day

On this day where we remember our fathers may all the glory be to our Heavenly Father for your unfailing love, loving kindness, and your grace.

EROSION

In nature erosion is a powerful artist! Through expansion and contraction, wind and rain, the artist creates a beautiful masterpiece. Just as a potter knows how much pressure to apply to the clay, and where to apply it to make a beautiful masterpiece, so does our Creator know how to create his masterpiece out of our mess. In the first part of Romans 11:2 Paul tells his readers that God has not rejected his chosen people, but in fact God had chosen them from the very beginning.

“No, God has not rejected his own people, whom he chose from the beginning. Romans 11:2a (NLT)

I find great comfort in knowing I was not an afterthought to God, but a forethought!

Do we suffer erosion in our life as human beings? Do we submit to the potter so he can have his way with us to create his masterpiece?

Chill’n, Darla and I feel we have been given an opportunity to do something very special to us; live our life in faith, travel with Jesus and the see things he wants us to see, doing the work he wants us to do, where he wants us to be. We are excited to start the adventure on the road with Jesus, but a life of faith is lived on God’s time-table, according to his plan and will, for his glory.

So we have a recipe above, but how do we combine the ingredients to make the masterpiece God saw before the foundations of the heavens and earth? While the answer to that question is likely different for everyone there seem to be some staple ingredients in God’s pantry;

First ingredient, Personal Relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, son of God and Man.

Second ingredient, Prayer which is a spiritual word for communication with God.

Third ingredient, Obedience to his instruction and corrections.

Now when combining the above ingredients, do this with loving kindness, gently making sure not to over work the ingredients. combine ingredients until you see it form; wisdom, understanding, knowledge, loyalty, kindness, and most important Love.

After mixture cools you should have a life of faith worth getting out of bed for everyday that God blesses you with a day. sprinkle with grace as necessary.

Father I thank you for your son Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. Thank you for the grace I have in your Son. Thank you Father that your human creation was a forethought not an afterthought.

In Jesus name I prayer . Amen.

If your car was broken beyond your own understanding, wouldn’t you take it to a professional to fix it?

When we’re suffering from a broken heart or we have troubled soul for a long time and we’ve tried everything we can think to fix it and yet we’re still broken, why do we not seek our Creator to fix? Why do become afraid to be in the presence of the God who choose us before the foundation of Heaven and Earth?

Proverbs 3:13 is why I love reading Proverbs. Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understand.

Proverbs 3:5,6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.

God promise to us; Ephesian 1:3-6 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advanced to adopt us into his own family by bring us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.

Lord I pray that your will would be done in all your creation, our nation needs you, please heal our nation and restore it to righteousness according to your will. In Jesus name I pray Amen.

All scripture is from the New Living Translation.

Peace be with you, and may God organize your steps today.

Proverbs in the morning for Wisdom

As soon as I can I turn my will and life over to the care of Jesus in the morning and than I ask Him to order my steps for the day. I spend time in Gods word daily. The deal I have with Jesus is: He instructs and I obey! He is much better at instructing than I am at obedience, that’s why we need Gods grace through His Son Jesus Christ!

Peace be with you

Daily writing prompt
What gives you direction in life?

Understanding one of life’s great mystery’s.

How do we live life when we haven’t seen the days ahead. How do we plan when we don’t know what lies ahead. For me one of life’s mystery’s is; it takes life experience to negotiate life correctly, but when were born we start with zero life experience, and for me it always left me with a feeling of constantly being behind. I have proven to myself that my limited life experience coupled with my distorted sense of my own understanding is not enough for me to live happy, joyous, and free.

Dear Heavenly Father, I pray that this message will find those who need to hear it, I thank you for sending your son Jesus Christ to draw us close to you Almighty God, the Beginning and Ending, the one who knew us before the foundations of the Heavens and Earth. In Jesus name I pray Amen.

In December 28, 1985 I met a man on a narrow path that asked me to join him, he said his yoke is easy and his burden is light. I reluctantly agreed but we both knew I didn’t trust him with all I was. I met a woman around the same time who was lost in life, what made her different was, that instead of lusting after her, I had this feeling, like I wanted to care for her for the rest of my life. We made it thirty-one years before we turned on each other and waged emotional warfare until we had destroyed our marriage, and each other. What was odd was the comment I made that open the gates of hell “I feel like the most lucky man in the world, I didn’t marry my best friend but now I’m married to my best friend”. For the next two and half years my life was emotional hell like I’ve never experience.

I found myself all alone, the people that I had dedicated myself too had rejected me and I was all alone. Out of my seven children only two were there for me. God met me where I was, He told me He wanted me. He told me to surrender to Him and come find rest at the foot of the cross. This time I had enough life experience to know, that in my own understanding I would never find happiness, joy, or freedom in life. To the Glory of God he has done so much for me and my family in a short amount of time! He brought my youngest son to Himself, In a night of pure misery as I cried out to Lord for answers in an unmistakably way, I found out not only did Jesus bring my son to Him, but Jesus had my son text me the unmistakable answer to that pray in that morning before I even prayed that prayer later that night!

This is the scripture that Jesus gave me at my Redemption as a foundation for my new life in Him.

Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous Do not be afraid; do not be discourage, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.

As a full-time rv’er that has great for comfort me.

The Lord is raising up a remnant of Believer who were chased out of traditional church by misguided teaching on “Fire and Brimstone”. The Time is now God wants you!

Peace be with you