Alert the Media

You can open your mouth and spread noise or you can spread good news.  Today we have a lot of outlets and people constantly taking advantage of exercising their first amendment rights for the wrong reasons.  What message are you plugging in?  What kind of appliance are you?  What color is your light?  So many voices that want to light up the world with all of their pride and boasting; it's really sad.  Take away the straw and leaves we keep around them that they burn up.  Forget giving them the chance only God can permit them.  Paul said, 'all things are permissable, but not beneficial.'  I don't bind these people on Earth as they are not bound in heaven, but Jesus came to the Pharisees with law... fought fire with fire so to speak and gave mercy where mercy needed to lay. 

So if you are loud and boisterous and creating disaster around yourself... I try to lay this seed in your heart.  Only on good soil will this seed make a home.  May you have no opportunity to remain in comfort when you are someone that aims to take breathe away.  We speak life and know the glory if this life is nothing compared to a promise from God.  When you know He is on your side.

Psalm 118:6

'The Lord is on my side.  I shall not fear.  For what can mere man do unto me?'

Amen, This is not as final as death.

My wife turns to me this morning and asks would I have the strength to still love God is she died today.  My heart said I better not say yes, but I hope God gives me the strength to make my yes be yes.  I ask her the same thing and she said yes.  Nothing is as final as death she says.  So we can make it through.  Whether it's a struggle with a brother, a father, with work, with life in general, with addiction, with poverty, with finding the strength to get through... just fill in the blank. 

Imagine, if someone brought you to court for a lawsuit of $5,000 that you had justly owed that person.  The judge is about to pass his sentence, and a complete strange comes in and says I will pay this debt.  All debts paid for... pretty simple.  God sent Himself down in flesh as a sin offering, to pay all of our debts. 

Wednesday of All Days

Halfway through the work week.  I'm struggling to overcome many brutal habits.  My pessimism and my faithlessness when struggle rears it's ugly head.  Give me strength to know that you are righteous and just in all that you do.  Give me the honor of receiving your message to commit to some sort of mission or some sort of ministry for your kingdom...

I'm commiting to finish the entire bible by the end of next year.  I've made my way through most of the new testament, and the old testament is even longer... and I wish to reread, reread, and reread it.  Today I pray for my deliverance into your hands and let you take control of my heart and emotions.  Also,  I pray for those that do not know you... even demons know of you and believe in you, but that is not enough.  To have a connection with Him is what we are called for.

I want to be always found with You.  I commit to Him my weakness so I may have strength in all things.  Thank you for allowing me to receive this day.

Amen,

The Wanderer.

E-fish-ians

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9.

Good morning.  Made some plaintains and beans for my wife and I.  Drinking my mega mug of coffee and praying and searching for God's presence.  As of lately  I have felt a detachment between God's voice and my heart.  Today I came across this passage from Ephesians and decided to post this.  God has been humbling me lately for taking pride in the world and not in His spirit within me. 

Tonight is the last meeting of our small group which will reboot come September.  Looking forward to concluding the book we've been reading.  It's David Platt's 'Radical'.  All the reading I did over the past 8 weeks of this book has shone a light on what I feel to be such a ridicul... I mean "radical" book.  The last chapter was a saving grace, but man... I think this book must have been a need to read in a day to overcome the weight and guilt-laden work David is proclaiming.  It's truly centered around giving absolutely everything, but then constantly dizzying spells from the height of sacrifice he reclaims your spirit by saying, "lest we forget, Christ says he will give you eternal life."  The mood is almost as if we should be excited to live an excruciating life and die and kill ourselves.  What a testament!  I have been married for over 2 years... I like that claim more than I lived two years in the woods and got murdered for Christ.  May God condemn me for this issue alone?  Absolutely not.  I am a fallen, broken person, but I was taught that Jesus wishes to overtake my heart and soul and move me into a Christian life... we have Christians all over the planet.  How dare someone claim I am not enough in the house of God.  I have been completing the New Testament and plan to overtake the Old Testament and then reread, reread, and reread.  I need to crawl before I can walk.  All of the book is written from a pulpit among rich Americans from a mega church I may never see...  I'm going back to the Word because the Word is good.  Next, I'm going to finish reading Church Planters and then maybe some Joel Olsteen.  Far too many times people say... I love your Christ, but your Christians are nothing like Him... Gandhi said that.  Joel Olsteen seems to be great to be around, and you can judge and claim his spirit to be damned to hell all you want.  The meek shall inherit the Earth, and the voices of few are many.  Or something like that.

God Bless,

The Wanderer.

See What Becomes Anew

Back in the nineties, 'that's fresh' comes to mind.  When Kriss Kross all Krossed out came out and Kid 'N Play were topping the charts and Pauly Shore was still cool... or fresh.  Great times with Pete And Pete on Nickelodeon, Are You Afraid of the Dark, and the like; all so fresh.  The Lord spoke through his only direct relative.  The Lord, God had impressioned Himself on this child.  In not so many words I know the infinite point Jesus made through his act of lovingkindness to all of humankind created a passage to life anew.  When he looked down from his throne to his mother he exclaimed, 'behold your son, I make everything new.'  God does the very same.  There's passages to support that God does not keep the same forever.  He constantly changes the world and creates anew.  If we focus on the past we will miss what is to become of His plan.  Something fresh is the Lord's focus.  We are eternally grateful and have the choice to acknowledge this and accept this, or to turn our face and hide in the dark.  The scary thing is... God sees better than cats.  What is in the dark will be brought to the light.  We all know mistakes we've made, but God, even more, knows our hearts.  He is a just God.  There is no justice without an all knowing just God.  If God was not just he may think just like we do and judge the freshness of things by how rich we look, how smart we are, how powerful, all the acts we do through life in his name... but God judges the heart. 

So on this August morning I say unto you... be merry, be thankful, be mindful, and stay fresh.

Faithfully in Chris,

The Wanderer.

Molded by Fire

This week has been an excellently trying and difficult week.  I have thanked God even though my heart was heavy.  Many were around to still hear me complain... I haven't reached perfection and I know there is teaching as a Christian should never complain.

The Lord delivered my from this heaviness and shaped me to accept that I can do nothing in this life without the help of others.  Especially, without him.  Although sometimes there will be a season of time the Lord parts his voice from your life... you must remain fervent in prayer and searching for Him.  If I had done better at that, I may have struggled less and been happier.  Although, throughout this time I was at peace.

Thank you God for shaping me with fire Lord.  It was an amazing time.

Weeping

Today my heart is exploding.  My prayers are sent up in hopes of reaching Him.  I have the strength to only do what I can.  Lord, I know the will of your ways is always good, and I am faithful to you.  I remain fervent in prayer.  I love you.  Thank you for this season.  Thank you for challenge and for success.  My prayers are with those that have no rest.  I am forever with you God.  Your son Jesus has been so magnificent in my life.  I pray the holy spirit remains with me throughout today.

In the name of Jesus,

Amen.