Saturday, October 31, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Get dirty!!!!
Proverbs 14:4
Without oxen a stable stays clean, but you need a strong ox for a large harvest.
So many times in life we want to play it safe and not risk messing up. We want everything to be easy and simple...we don't want to rock the boat of life. Proverbs 14:4 stood out to me this morning during my quiet time and I got excited because we are in the process of preparing the ox. We have played it easy and kept our life too clean for a long time and now we are ready to see God do amazing things through us because we were willing to GET DIRTY for what matters.
I wonder how many of us need to fill our stable with something that matters? What do you need to be preparing in your life in order to get ready for the harvest for your life? Is it a job you need to pursue, a relationship that needs to be mended, or maybe a call that God has on your life that you have been running from? What ever it is lets prepare for what God has for us and stop trying to play it safe and keep life clean....Let's pepare the stable of our life for the harvest that is waiting. GET DIRTY for what matters. Prepare for greatness when you let go of what has been holding you back...Get uncomfortable.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
What a big God.
Through out this process of planting a church I have realized just how big God is and what he is capable of. There is no way possible we could ever do this on our own. God has been blowing our minds with his faithfulness and provision. I have learned that if I just trust God and have Faith, he will make sure everything falls into place. I know that I have to be faithful and do the things he asks and when I do he does over and above what i could have ever imagined.
Do you know how big God is???? Are you trusting him with everything??? I have found that obedience is a HUGE part of God doing big things in our lives. When we are obedient to what he is urging us to do it opens the doors to his blessings. I want to encourage you to be obedient to what God is telling you to do, whether it is praying for someone or taking a huge risk, I promise it is worth it every time.
Do you know how big God is???? Are you trusting him with everything??? I have found that obedience is a HUGE part of God doing big things in our lives. When we are obedient to what he is urging us to do it opens the doors to his blessings. I want to encourage you to be obedient to what God is telling you to do, whether it is praying for someone or taking a huge risk, I promise it is worth it every time.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Stepping Out
Have you ever had to step out into the unknown? Taking that step is the most difficult and the most rewarding experience you will ever have. As TJ and I have been moving forward with the vision God gave us to plant Coastal Community Church we have experienced so much growth in our Faith that we may have never experience unless we took the step. We know God has huge plans for Coastal and we can only dream and imagine what that will look like. I know that when God gives you a vision he will always make a way, it may not always be easy, if it was I would wonder if it was truly God. You must have Faith to accomplish the dreams and plans God has given you, and the first thing you have to do is Step Out. You never know what each step holds but that is where Faith come in. If you don't need faith to step out then seek God more and dream bigger, let God challenge you to accomplish all he wants to do in your life.
One of my passions is to see people find their vision and purpose in life. I believe it starts with Passion or desire. Inside all of us is something we are passionate about something we long for. When you recognize that start praying and asking God specifically how he wants to use you. Ask him to reveal to you a vision for your life. The thing about vision and purpose is that when you find it everything you do can revolve around it. Decisions are easier because, each decision can take you towards your vision or away from it.
What are you passionate about? What desires are in your heart? God is doing something inside of you, ask him, I promise he will show you. Stay faithful in seeking him for your purpose. God has something amazing in store for each and every one of us. If you are someone who knows the purpose God has for you but you have not started moving towards that, I want to encourage you to STEP OUT!!!!
One of my passions is to see people find their vision and purpose in life. I believe it starts with Passion or desire. Inside all of us is something we are passionate about something we long for. When you recognize that start praying and asking God specifically how he wants to use you. Ask him to reveal to you a vision for your life. The thing about vision and purpose is that when you find it everything you do can revolve around it. Decisions are easier because, each decision can take you towards your vision or away from it.
What are you passionate about? What desires are in your heart? God is doing something inside of you, ask him, I promise he will show you. Stay faithful in seeking him for your purpose. God has something amazing in store for each and every one of us. If you are someone who knows the purpose God has for you but you have not started moving towards that, I want to encourage you to STEP OUT!!!!
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
What are you Hungry for?
I was reading today in Proverbs and I was very challenged and convicted by what I was reading. Hunger is such and important part of what drives us.
Proverbs 16:26
A workers appetite works for him, For his hunger urges him on.
What are we hungry for? Money, Status, Material goods, relationships? This scripture says that our appetite works for us, so what ever we are hungry for is what motivates us. My prayer is that my life would be motivated by God and that because of my hunger for him I will be able to touch so many lives. That what I hunger for the most will work for me. Lets pray we never lose our Hunger because of the amazing work that it does in our lives and others.
Things to think about:
What are you hungry for?
Have you lost hunger for what matters most?
Proverbs 16:26
A workers appetite works for him, For his hunger urges him on.
What are we hungry for? Money, Status, Material goods, relationships? This scripture says that our appetite works for us, so what ever we are hungry for is what motivates us. My prayer is that my life would be motivated by God and that because of my hunger for him I will be able to touch so many lives. That what I hunger for the most will work for me. Lets pray we never lose our Hunger because of the amazing work that it does in our lives and others.
Things to think about:
What are you hungry for?
Have you lost hunger for what matters most?
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Walking in Faith or Fear?
I was reading yesterday in Numbers and God gave me some great revelation that helped me to put things in perspective as TJ and I are starting on a new adventure in our life. God told Moses to send a group of men out to spy out the land that he was GIVING to the Children of Israel, the Promise Land. They spent 40 days there and when they came back they gave a report(Numbers 13: 27) "It was a land flowing with milk & honey, there were also giants in the land."
Among the men who went to spy out the land were Caleb & Joshua, Caleb reported "let us go up at once and take possession, for we are WELL ABLE to overcome it" he was confident and I believe he was seeing the situation with eyes of Faith. However some of the other men who were with him were looking at it completely different. They gave the children of Israel a bad report saying "The land we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw are men of great stature, there are giants and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight and we in their sight."
I started to look at how different these perspectives were. You see God had already promised them this land, it was theirs. Caleb was seeing the situation with the correct perspective that they were WELL ABLE to overcome them and the other men were seeing the situation from a Fear perspective, forgetting that God had already promised them the land, they just had to take action.
The next few scriptures were very big for me. (Numbers 14: 6-9) Joshua and Caleb were frustrated with the situation because the bad report from the other men instilled fear in the children of Israel. Here was their response "If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into the land which flows with Milk & Honey, only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them!" Joshua and Caleb knew what God promised them and that is what they focused on, they did not see and focus on the giants in the Land. Circumstances don't matter when God tells you to do something.
What is the promise that God has given you? Are you focusing on the problems instead of the promise? When God makes a promise and shows you what he wants to do in you and through you he will always provide what we need. God was giving the children of Israel an amazing land but all they could see was the obstacles they had to overcome.
Are you seeing through eyes of Faith or eyes of Fear? As TJ and I are moving on to the call that God has for us and his promises for us, it is easy to see the obstacles but I know that focusing on the promise helps me to see through the eyes of Faith instead of Fear.
Among the men who went to spy out the land were Caleb & Joshua, Caleb reported "let us go up at once and take possession, for we are WELL ABLE to overcome it" he was confident and I believe he was seeing the situation with eyes of Faith. However some of the other men who were with him were looking at it completely different. They gave the children of Israel a bad report saying "The land we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw are men of great stature, there are giants and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight and we in their sight."
I started to look at how different these perspectives were. You see God had already promised them this land, it was theirs. Caleb was seeing the situation with the correct perspective that they were WELL ABLE to overcome them and the other men were seeing the situation from a Fear perspective, forgetting that God had already promised them the land, they just had to take action.
The next few scriptures were very big for me. (Numbers 14: 6-9) Joshua and Caleb were frustrated with the situation because the bad report from the other men instilled fear in the children of Israel. Here was their response "If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into the land which flows with Milk & Honey, only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them!" Joshua and Caleb knew what God promised them and that is what they focused on, they did not see and focus on the giants in the Land. Circumstances don't matter when God tells you to do something.
What is the promise that God has given you? Are you focusing on the problems instead of the promise? When God makes a promise and shows you what he wants to do in you and through you he will always provide what we need. God was giving the children of Israel an amazing land but all they could see was the obstacles they had to overcome.
Are you seeing through eyes of Faith or eyes of Fear? As TJ and I are moving on to the call that God has for us and his promises for us, it is easy to see the obstacles but I know that focusing on the promise helps me to see through the eyes of Faith instead of Fear.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Blogging
Blogging is something I thought I would never do but I am kind of excited about it. It is almost like journaling...something to look back on and remember all the great things God has done. I will post more later but I have to get back to work.
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