Cravings

Ever had a craving...for food, fun or fellowship? I do...I crave chocolate. In fact, as I sit here, I could sure go for and Icey Mocah-the perfect combination of my 2 favorites, coffee and chocolate. Cravings can be good or bad thing, depending on what you crave. However, there is one thing I have learned. You crave only what you KNOW. I don't crave beer....cause I don't drink. And I don't crave tomato sandwiches because I don't eat them. I crave what I have had and what I like. If this is true...then we need to be careful what we allow our flesh to experience because we could start craving things that we shouldn't. This is why we struggle with the flesh and sin....because we allow ourselves to be tempted to taste or experience things we should not and then we crave those things. At that point...the battle is on. What are you craving...it is what you have been feeding your flesh? If you are struggling with what you crave-start feeding your flesh things of the Lord-so your body will begin to crave those things instead. I want an icey mocha, but I also want to spend time with the Lord today-I crave that...because I feed my flesh what I want to crave! Start having some good cravings for a change! Taste and see that the Lord is good...and then CRAVE that! ALL FOR YOU

dreamgiver

we all have DREAMS. But not all of our dreams are God's DREAM for us. Sometimes, we chase after things that seem good, but are not what God has for us. We all DREAM of earthly things, but I often wonder if God's DREAM for us has little to do with things here on earth. I mean....earthly stuff. God's DREAM must be more than houses and lands, jobs and goals. In fact, Scripture says that God is looking over all the earth to find a man whose heart is fully devoted to Him. Could it be that God's DREAM for us is to be fully devoted to Him? Could His DREAM become ours? Are we truly willing to go through what it may mean for that to be true of us?
I DREAM of houses and families and sons. I DREAM of vacations and romantic evenings in the moonlight. None of those things are wrong....but God's DREAM is so much more...and although I long for earthly things, I am beginning to understand that the desires of my heart will be fulfilled when my desire is HIS-to be fully devoted to Him. For it is then, that the earthly things don't matter any longer. DREAM BIG....signed, the DREAMGIVER.
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simple faith

The faith of a child is all it takes. The trust to leap and know a parent will catch you. The belief that all your needs will be met. Small faith, simple faith. Sometimes we just make it complicated. God has been so gracious to be VERY plain with me-at times. And yet, for all that I still doubt. I criticize the children of Israel for such small faith and yet struggle with the same thing. Just believe....in that belief there is power. I am learning that faith is a matter of choice. Choosing to simply believe! I am but a mere mortal man, striving for a simple faith, though living in a body of flesh. He is a very BIG God that is worth of my faith. So today....I choose...it is simple....faith! Believe! Trust! Sometimes the hardest things are simple. ALL FOR YOU

small faith

The disciples asked the Lord to increase their faith. Lately, I have found myself with the same prayer. And yet, I have found that walking that road is a difficult one, because it means the Lord putting you in places that you MUST learn to trust what you can not see-but trust what you know to be true about HIM. Faith is believing in what you can't see. I don't know that I own that truth yet, but I am so encouraged by a God that wants to increase my faith and yet understands my fraility in that learning process and gives me things I can SEE along the way so that I can trust a little more. I have thought for a long time that my faith was strong, but I am seeing more everyday how small my faith is-because it is so dependent upon what I can see. Faith that is dependent on what we can see, figure out and touch is not really faith at all. I am wondering how many other people struggle with this? Is it just me? Can we all learn to take a step of faith-out of our comfort zone, into what we can not see, but trust God for. It is there....our faith is grown. And that kind of FAITH can move mountains. All it takes is a little-for a lot to be accomplished. Faith is not about seeing, it is about believing. So today....may my small faith trust a very big God. ALL FOR YOU

duct tape

Duct tape, it can fix just about anything. Most people think duct tape was created to fix ducts, but actually it wasn't and it doesn't! Much like duct tape there are 101 things we can do with our lives...instead of chasing the one thing we were created to do. I was created to be holy, a people for God's possession, zealous for good deeds and His glory. Holy people reflect a divine God's GLORY. We all want glory to show up in our lives, but few of us want the process of holiness that is required for it to fall. HOLY PEOPLE see the GLORY. We can find some really good uses for our lives-just like duct tape, but we function best when we do what we were created to do-be a HOLY PEOPLE, for HIS possession, showing HIS GLORY to the world. ALL FOR YOU

Promised Lands

I dream of a place of quiet rest, rolling hills, a place to relax...a place that I call home. I dream of a place where the fruit of our labor is great and abundant. I dream of place where His glory outshines the sun. I dream of a PROMISED LAND-a land full of hope, dreams and goodness. But sometimes, on hard days, I do wonder if that place is a dream. Fortunately, today is NOT one of those days. Today is a day that I am reminded that to get to the Promised Land, the wasteland must be endured. In order to enter the PROMISED LAND, the wilderness must be traversed. Promised Lands are great, but the journey there is never easy. In fact, God reminded Joshua as he led the people to the PROMISED LAND, to be strong and courageous-to not fear! Why? because there would be things along the way that would cause fear and discouragement. And even upon arrival, they had to dispossess the land of the Giants that lived there before they could inhabit the land. So I may be chasing the dream of a PROMISED LAND-but on this journey I must remember to be strong and courageous, to not fear or be discouraged, to endure the wasteland, to fight off those things that would threaten my Promised Land....but most of all to TRUST the God that PROMSIED THE LAND and yearn for Him as much as it! ALL FOR YOU

Bubble Gum Days

I had one of those days yesterday....you know, like I talked about in the surrender blog. I won't go into the details, except to say that I am glad yesterday is over and today is a new one. However, the thing to be considered is that God takes what is intended for evil and makes it good....for us and for His glory. All things work together for our GOOD and His GLORY. Again, I find myself thankful for His grace that saves, instructs, disciplines and teaches me how to live everyday. To live sensibly, righteously and godly in this world. Because it is His grace that is teaching me to die to myself-especially on bubble gum days. To simply lay aside all that I am in the course of difficulty and say death to me so that Christ might live in me. It is so much easier to deal with life, when I am dead...(think about that one!) ALL FOR YOU

the death of me

I am reminded once again that in order for CHRIST to be made much of us, that I must die. He is my only HOPE of GLORY. Christ in me. Thus to live is death and to die is gain. Sounds odd, but if He is most glorified when I am most satisfied and I am most satisfied when He is most glorifed, then DEATH is life and life is death. Thus I can rejoice in the death of me.
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GRACE

We all want it...we seldom extend it. Grace-getting what we don't deserve. But so much more than that. Grace is Jesus and Scripture says that grace instructs us. Wow, when we think about that-do we really want it. I do! Grace instructs us to deny worldliness and ungodliness and to live sensibly, righteously and godly. Grace is more than forgiveness when we sin or getting passed over when we sin. It is that which teaches and reproves me. I am thankful for a Grace that saves....but am I as thankful for the GRACE that instructs? His grace still amazes me.

TREEHOUSE guy

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coffee

I'm drinking coffee out of my big bear mug and thinking how great life is. Not because anything great has happened, but simply because I don't ever want to take for granted how GOOD GOD is. So if you are sitting there reading this and your day isn't great-or maybe it is...stop long enough to remember that this life is not about today, yesterday or even tomorrow....it is about FOREVER. DOXA
oh, by the way....the coffee is great...have some!

Doxa-surrender

I have often wondered why the Lord allows difficutly. My mom used to call these days Bubblegum days. You know, days where everything is going wrong and then you step in bubblegum-which would normally be nothing more than an aggravation-but on this day it totally cause you to flip out. Then I realized that the reason for Bubblegum days is so that we can remember to give up. On days like those, I just want to give up and stop being me. I just want to give in and quit trying so hard. but isn't that exactly what the Father wants...us to give up, surrender and quit trying and simply allow Him the freedom to work in our lives. I have come to the conclusion that bubble gum days are meant so that we will be reminded of the state in which we are to live everyday....a state of surrender

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For His Glory

have you ever wondered why you are here and what you are supposed to be doing? have you ever thought that there must be more? have you ever wondered if there was some big plan you are supposed to be fit into, but you can't seem to figure it out. Well, the answer is a resounding Yes. There is more, there is a plan, there is something bigger than yourself that you can live for. If that is what you are looking for....it is found in living for something other than yourself. How do you do that? You die to self and allow Jesus Christ to Live within you. That power alone is enough to give you purpose. But, there is more......

For His Glory2

More, we all want more of it. And yet, we are never satisfied. Can we find more in being less. I can't help but think that was God's intent. For as we decrease, He increases. How contrary to our culture and yet the answer to the purpose in life is not found in more. It is not found in this world at all. It is found in being made small so that He is made great. In that....purpose is found

For His Glory3

Nothing more...nothing less than death to self can bring a life that can be blessed. We can not continue to live in search of satisfaction of self. We will only be most satisfied when He is most glorified....