faith
If You Disagree With Your Pastor
and just go to church to hear the choir sing, or you don’t participate in any of the things he calls the church to do from his pulpit, it is time for you to find a new church.
I know. I was in that position once. The preacher was good, but what he said did not line up with who God was creating me to be. As I often say we are the body of Christ and as such we all need different things, just as a body does. I mean we don’t put socks on our hands or sit on our hats. There are things designed for those areas of the body that allow them to function the way they ought to.
God has specific ministries for all of us, but many of us sit at the wrong church for the wrong reasons and miss it.
Since I joined this new church, I have found that my life is more full than it has ever been. I walk with folks who help me walk in obedience with God. i participate in the work God has designed for me as service. I don’t agree with everything my pastor says, but I hear the voice of God from the pulpit. He leads me.
In my new church, I have discovered that when my pastor asks something from the pulpit, he is representing God. How dare I say no. (yes, I have said no.) But I try to make it 90 percent of the time.
Annually my church sets aside time to help in local schools. I told myself I am serving in another ministry I do not have to do this. It would mean an extra day during the week, blah, blah, blah.
But my lifegroup chose to serve this week. I chose to serve with them. It was good. Find yourself a church where you can do the work God has for you to do. Find yourself a lifegroup to hold you to God’s principles. In a time when very few are moral, find someones who will hold you accountable.
I loved serving at the school. The principal was a joy.
It spoke to me to say that this is how life ought to be. When God requests, we fulfill. We let go of our selfish ambitions and do what God requires of us.
Book Launch Was Lots of Fun
I shared information about the book, How to Raise God Wise Kids in a Satan Rich World. There were polls, videos and photos. I shared stories about the book.
You shared your insights and ideas. Thank you.
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Join us on Facebook for the Book Launch of How to Raise God Wise Kids in a Satan Rich World.
Learn more about the book and the author.
Book Launch This Saturday
Join us on Facebook this Saturday for the launch of How To Raise A God Wise Kid in a Satan Rich World.
This Saturday is the Book Launch!
Join me on Facebook to hear more about How to Raise God Wise Kids in a Satan Rich World. This book will be available in print and I am over the moon excited because it turned out great. You will hear more about it on Saturday. This is an online event so that you can catch it from wherever you have internet.
You Gonna Learn Today
Or maybe you will learn tomorrow the hard way. There are two kinds of people in this world. One who learns by other people’s experience and one who learns by their own experience.
Example: Your brother tells you not to mess with something because Dad will give you a whipping when he catches you. He knows. He has been whipped for it.
The first person will heed the brother’s warning and stop doing it. The second person will keep on doing it to see if Dad will really whip them.
The Bible is full of characters who would not listen to God and had to do things their own way. Saul wanted to be king the way he wanted to be king. He stopped listening to God and as a result, God picked a new king.
I am not a goody two shoes, but don’t your butt get sore from getting beat all the time? Don’t you get tired of always being in trouble?
As I have said on many occasions, God does not give F’s. He gives do overs. And usually the next time you go through it, it is harder than the last time. As I said before, don’t your butt get tired of being beat all the time? I means sometimes why don’t you just say, “Jesus, I am going to do what you said.”
When I was a kid one of the things I caught on to was when I saw someone heading into trouble, I took my behind to where the adults were and sat down. One summer evening, I joined the older ladies on their front porch chatting when a white man pull ed up in his car.
He said, “There are a bunch of little kids through rocks at the cars on the highway. Y’all know them kids?”
“No,” the ladies said.
Frustrated the man got back in his car and left. But those ladies knew who it was and those kids were going to get a talking to because they brought the man into the hood. And that was one of the few occasions I was not in trouble. Some lessons you don’t want to repeat.
So whatever you are fighting through right now, ask God to help you understand what it is He wants you to learn. If you fail the test, you will find yourself back in that same situation again and again until you get it.
God is more interested in you learning what He wants you to know than you getting what you want when you want it. There is a purpose in everything you go through. Look for it. Learn from it.
God Has Planted Seeds In All Of Us
which many ignore because the possibilities are far too scary. But if you tap into God’s power, it will take you beyond your wildest dreams. You will have to look your deepest fears in the face and tell them that your God is bigger than them.
Many people will not do this. They do not have the faith to trust God to complete something through them. But He gives us all the choice to try.
The past couple of weeks I had been praying over some projects. He has given me some fun stuff to write, but I just didn’t have time. All of the things I was doing were things He had instructed me to do, so I just prayed, “show me how.” I even prayed “is this what you want me to do? If not, what do you want me to do?” I don’t always assume that I have heard Him correctly, so I will go back and check.
I try not to become so fixated on anything so that I cannot do without it. Whether I write, photograph or anything, I know that the ability could leave me at anytime (because the Lord gives and the Lord takes away). He might ask me to do something else. I don’t want to love the creation more than the Creator.
This week He opened the door so that I could spend more time writing. Wow. Pray and believe, you will receive. Trust Him, not your situation. Even though all hell is breaking lose on planet earth, the One who laid their foundations is still in charge.
Here is some truth. We are all going on a journey in this life. You can sit back and enjoy the road trip trusting the Driver. Or you can fret and worry, wondering where you are going , if you have enough gas to get there or if you will like it when you get there.
This journey isn’t going to last forever, but our relationship with the Driver will.
New Book on Sale Tomorrow
New Book is Coming
My new book, How To Raise A God Wise A God Wise Kid in A Satan Rich World, will be available on June 1, 2017 in ebook form for Amazon Kindle, Nook, Inktera, iBooks, 24 Symbols, Kobo, Playster, Scribd, and Tolino.
The paperback version will be ready in July of 2017 and will include images to accompany the devotionals.
So one of the lessons I am catching on to is to learn through other people’s experiences. I don’t want to repeat their mistakes to learn their lessons. How the song go? Each one teach one. I am sharing my experience because I have learned a lot.
I am surrounded by people who have helped me learn and I also share the things I have experienced..
In this devotional, I share ideas of how to help your children have a personal relationship with God. Through scripture, art and stories, I share the opportunities I had to teach my own child to get to know God.
