ATLANTA FLOOD & SERVENTHOOD

Let me start buy saying thanks for your prayers for the Atlanta area as well as for me my friends, Jessica & Garrett who bravely came along with me. We left Thursday morning very early & returned Friday afternoon. I was shocked at how quickly people responded to this situation. Mostly due to the efforts of Shaun King pastor of Courageous church in midtown Atlanta who twittered facebooked and did whatever he could to get people to help.

In this picture Shaun King, Andrew Odom, & myself right after we loaded the truck.                                

With all that said twitter is the reason I came to Atlanta I knew God was pulling me to come help. I saw Shaun's twitter on the flooding and started watching it closely. Before long he posted that he needed volunteers to help immediately. I jumped on it and in what seemed like a few minutes I was leaving for Atlanta with two friends from church. Actually it was a day & a half before we left.

Now that you know the WHY I will tell you WHAT we did. You know its much better to give than receive & I want to give all I can. You see I haven’t worked in 3 weeks but I knew I had to go . My funds were low but my faith & trust are high. So really we went by faith & just served with all our heart. We sorted clothes, we delivered clothes to a drop off location, we unloaded care packs & anything in between. I am so grateful to God for allowing me this chance to be His hands & feet.

I want to talk about serving for a brief moment serving is not about getting credit, it’s not about self-gain or even to promote your ministry. Serving is about being available, being HUMBLE, and most of all serving is about showing off GOD”S love to others through you. I want show a few pictures to you also in the next few lines and if you want to help here’s HOW

 

       

This is in Austell,Ga. where most of the worst damages were. Their is a great pastor in this town who was right in the thick of things half of his congregation lost everything. So pray for this man and his Ewing Road Baptist Church.

I will update you later on this and if you want to go contact me a.s.a.p.

A TIME TO REMEMBER

   I had a great time with my family Saturday night. To often in life we get to busy that we overlook some of the most important events in our life. For to much of my life I was guilty of this as well and it wasn’t until I rededicated my life to JESUS that I began to see this. I cant express to you how much we need to spend quality time with our family. I used to to run in and then right back out the door. Now I will drop whatever I am doing to spend time with them. Even Georgia football the way I see it we only have one family and we only live once.

   When we got home last night I was reading in Genesis 31 when Jacob was leaving Laban to go back home and that story intrigues me very much and the more I thought I said what a good illustration for this. He was missing his relatives and God told him to go back where his relatives were at.

   I had a real similar situation in my life some years ago and finally I realized that I must take a stand and find my way back to my family. You see since I started this post Atlanta was tragically devastated by the downpour. I am headed to Atlanta right now to help with the relief effort. So you never know when it may be your time so embrace your family and love them with all your heart.

WE are  so blessed to have family and if you dont God will be there for you. Our family is our first ministry and if we dont have our family in order how can we bring order to the body.

MOUNTAIN CLIMBING or FREEFALLING

I am so excited about sharing this with you. You know the whole thing in 2 Corinthians 6:14 about being unequally yoked with unbelievers. Like I said in my last post I have had plenty of time to study and hear from God. I have really got a new perspective on this scripture. I was praying the other day and God began to speak to me about this.

He showed me that being yoked with an unbeliever is a lot like climbing mountains. You see I am not an expert on mountain climbing and have never done it, but I do have common sense. We think of mountain climbing as so many things but not many of us think about it like this. The whole concept is you take two people climbing mountains both are amateurs, but one is just a little more athletic. Say they made it about halfway up when the lesser one began to slip. Right then the athletic one rushed down to help the other.

I have a very vivid imagination so bare with me for a minute.right at this moment it is a very crucial time. During all this God showed me that this is like our life and being the stronger Christian if we reach out to the lesser one then we put ourselves in danger. Just think about this if you reach out to help this one is it easier to pull someone weaker up or is it easier for someone weaker to pull you down. Well most of the time the weaker one will pull you down every once in a while though you might pull them up.

So we have a choice to make if we are to fellowship with unbelievers . Either we become MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS or FREEFALLERS.

I have one more thing to talk about and its on the same subject. When you are pulled down you fall 90 miles an hour but when you climb back up after falling it’s a long slow process. So at all cost try to avoid being pulled down and if you have fell down already keep on inching uphill you'll make it. I did and you will too.

God’s Direction For You

i know it’s been a little while since I have blogged. My apologies to my followers I would like to share a piece of my heart with you. As always I encourage your comments this is intended to be an interactive site for you.

I have had some free time lately and really been hearing from God. You know how we all get to thinking that we have it all together and that we know what’s best for us. Well you’re not alone Lot did the same thing in Genesis 19:17-38 . You see just like you and me Lot THOUGHT he knew what was best and it turned out to be one big mess.

I know that if we will stay in a relationship with our heavenly father our direction in life will be much clearer. In Ps. 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. Knowing this we should stay in the word (logos and rhēma) which is the written word and the spoken word.

One more thing to look at in lot’s story the very place God tried to send him he ended up there anyhow. With that in mind we should be obedient from the beginning and just maybe our lives could be that much simpler. So many times we get ourselves into things that God never intended for us to go through.

As I wrap this up I want to share three things with you

1. Stay connected to God
2. Listen to HIS voice
3. obey God

If we will do these things and of course other things our walk with God and our quality of life will both be better.