Looking Back

Yesterday I turned 33 which got me to thinking about my life and where it is at. I am on this journey with Christ which is awesome and it is this journey that has helped me to realize how truly blessed I am. I have 4 amazing kids, a wife that is my everything, a great career and a ton of friends and family that care about me. If you would have asked me 5 years ago about my life I would have had a very different view. I would have been focussed on the things in my life. You know the material things. I would have been focussed on what my friends had that I don't. I thought these things would make me happy. Over the past few months I have realized more and more that none of those things would be here without God, I would have nothing without him. I am focussing more on the relationships in my life than the material things. Yeah, there are absolutely things I want in my life, a new TV would be cool, a new car would be really great since we only have one car in our family of 6. But none of those things really matter when you get down to it. It's been almost 1 year since we turned our lease car back in. We have made due without it for almost 1 year. I never would have thought it could be done. When we turned my car in I felt like less of a man because we were down to one car, that's not the case at all. We only need one car, God has given us the gift of Kim being a stay at home mom which makes it flexible for us. God has given us the gift of friends and family living close by to help when we do need a second vehicle. Anyway, just wanted to take a minute out of a busy day to thank God for everything he does for us. Amen

Amazing God

God loves us no matter what. It's sad to think that not everyone will experience God's love for us all because they don't believe. A while back I watched a testimony by Pistol Pete and he really put it well. This isn't word for word but it's something like this.

God wants to give us all his love, his kingdom yet we continue to say no. God says, but it's free, we say no. We need God in our lives to really live, yet we say no even though it's free. Yet we gladly take air which is free, or an ambulance if we were dying. God has more for us than we can ever imagine we just have to accept it.

Most of us will say no and that to me is very sad.

Prayer

I recently started reading Prayer by Yancey Phillips. so far it is a great book. it came from a lot of recommendations from friends and co workers. I will let you know more about what I learn as I get further into the book.

Everything for Him.

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Life is Great Today

I wanted to take a minute to thank God for everything in my life. Thank you God.

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Constant Fellowship with God

Over the past few weeks I have been reading a lot, my Bible, my Study Bible, The Purpose Driven Life and a few others. They all talk about being in constant fellowship with God. Over the past couple of days I was really sick and stayed home from work. Even then it was difficult to be in constant fellowship. You would think that with nothing else to do I still didn't have constant fellowship. I slept a lot and talked with him a lot but there was a lot of "down" time.

Any thoughts on how to have constant relationship?

Answered Prayers

Last week, I asked everyone to pray for my daughter who was up all night sick. She is now better and it had moved on to me by Sunday night. I now feel better just tired and my muscles hurt.

Thank you

Please Pray for my Daughter

Last night my daughter got pretty sick and has been up most of the night sick. Please pray for her quick recovery.

Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit

This is something that I have struggled with for a long time and I think I finally have a slight grasp on it. I have always wondered what does that mean. There is the Father, Son, and a Holy Spirit. Does that mean there are 3 different entities? What does it mean. I heard two really good explanations today in our bible study.

One friend basically explained that God is all of these things and they are like attributes or characteristics of who God is. (Simplified version of what he actually said) He also told me about an description of how he heard it before and this really hit home with me being in the "CAD" world. Think of a 2D drawing and everything is in 2D. You look at that 2D world from an edge and it is just a line. You then take some 3D object and pas it through the 2D drawing. The people in the drawing will only ever understand that 3D God as it passes through the 2D world. Which at any given time is just a 2D line because that is all they are capable of understanding. As we grow we get closer to understanding and God starts to reveal a little more to us but we may never be capable of understanding.

Another friend put it like this. I am a father to my children, I am a husband to my wife, and a friend to my friends. Those are 3 totally different people in that I do things and talk about things that I wouldn't do with my friends or kids and I talk about things and do things with my friends that I wouldn't do with my wife or kids.

learning the walk

earlier this week I got really angry about a stupid situation. I carried the anger with me most of the afternoon into evening.

later I started to pray for forgiveness of my anger, forgiveness for the person who did the wrong thing. almost instantly I felt better. happy again.

today in bible study we talked about a few things and earlier this week we talked about similar topic and that was turning to God for help, or when we realize our sin, or when we seek forgiveness. We talked about how that's what repent means is turn around.

When we feel anger, or any of the other things or when we sin we turn our back on God. As we further in our walk with Christ we can turn and face God much quicker. I have a long way to go but this week I saw how quick it made me feel better which was awesome. maybe as my journey continues I can let things pass and not get angry about.

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Galatians Study

I set out this weekend to start studying the book of Galatians based off of a suggestion from a friend. It's tuesday now and I am finally getting to it. Busy weekend and start to the week. None the less. Here is a verse that sticks with me.

"If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ" Galatians 1:10

Today in the study on Genesis 35 and 36 in the DIG bible study I belong to Brian put it really great. We are sinners and we are always turning our back on God. Its who we are. But we know we are advancing in our spiritual journey when we can turn back around and face God for what we have done, tell him we know we were wrong and go back to pleasing God instead of ourselves or others.

A prayer from my heart

Heavenly Father, thank you for all of the blessings in my life. Thank you for an amazing wife that does so much for the family. Thank you for my amazing children, I love them all and they love you as well. Father God, I pray that you can use me for your work, guide me to do the right thing. I know you have a plan for me, for my wife, for my kids. Father God, I pray you reveal some of that plan to me soon. Father God, I pray that you give me the strength, courage, wisdom and whatever other tools I will need for that plan. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.