1. Have you ever noticed that tomorrow never actually gets here? It doesn't, can't, never will. Learning to live right now, today is a huge accomplishment, that most people never achieve. Watch over the next few weeks how much time you spend either thinking about the past, or thinking about the future. All that you have, or ever will have is right this instant. So waiting till tomorrow to get closer to God is not good form, do it today.
2. The longer I have hung around church, the more I have learned about how to pursue God. And sadly I don't think anyone told me, it was more of a trial and error kind of thing. Mostly error I might add. As I lay down my own will I start to see God's will. And it is never in an instant, it always takes time. I feel like if I talk to God he should answer me right then. So patience is part of the deal.
3.So strangly enough patience IS a virtue. God's will is what matters, and if we figure that part out we are in pretty good shape.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
If you love me, feed my sheep.
This verse keeps playing through my head. If you love me feed my sheep.Not only did Jesus use these words to reconcile Peter to the church, but this was one of the first orders of business for the church, if not THE first order. IF YOU LOVE ME FEED MY SHEEP! So what do we make of this mandate from Christ? Maybe he meant to feed their spirit ? Teach them your traditions, and the rules of your grandparents? Yeah, maybe not. It is very hard, if not impossible to feed the spirit when the stomach is empty. Project-44 garden ministry seems to be going into a new gear lately, and I feel that this is an answer to this very important question. If you can feed someones stomach, you gain their trust, and their attention. We are making partnerships all over Tarrant county, and trying to figure out how we answer this all important mandate. Please join us. Be thinking about how this can play out. Please be in prayer that the Holy Spirit is in constant attendance as we walk down this road. And ALWAYS remember that Jesus Christ said, IF YOU LOVE ME FEED MY SHEEP.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Isaiah vs. Pat
A Full Life in the Emptiest of Places
9 -12"If you get rid of unfair practices,
quit blaming victims,
quit gossiping about other people's sins, If you are generous with the hungry
and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out, Your lives will begin to glow in the darkness,
your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight. I will always show you where to go.
I'll give you a full life in the emptiest of places—
firm muscles, strong bones. You'll be like a well-watered garden,
a gurgling spring that never runs dry. You'll use the old rubble of past lives to build a new,
rebuild the foundations from out of your past. You'll be known as those who can fix anything,
restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate,
make the community livable again.
13 -14"If you watch your step on the Sabbath
and don't use my holy day for personal advantage, If you treat the Sabbath as a day of joy,
God's holy day as a celebration, If you honor it by refusing 'business as usual,'
making money, running here and there— Then you'll be free to enjoy God!
Oh, I'll make you ride high and soar above it all. I'll make you feast on the inheritance of your ancestor Jacob."
Yes! God says so!
This passage is so fitting and true! God has blessings laid out all around us, everywhere that we turn, but often our hands are full, and we are unable to reach down and pick them up. Career, hobbies, whatever it might be that keep our hands full. Whatever we chose over God will eventually become our IDOL!
Our charge is to both proclaim and embody the gospel so those around us can see, hear and feel the presence and love of God. Think about that, we are to be the embodiment, the tangible presence, the hands and feet, the warm embrace of our God to this world! Project-44 is an attempt to do just that. We are nothing more than faithfully following our Lord. And with that obedience God has done ALL of the heavy lifting. We only follow, everything that has happened has been by God alone. We would never assume to be able to give cars away to people, that just sounds silly. But GOD will, and GOD has!
9 -12"If you get rid of unfair practices,
quit blaming victims,
quit gossiping about other people's sins, If you are generous with the hungry
and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out, Your lives will begin to glow in the darkness,
your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight. I will always show you where to go.
I'll give you a full life in the emptiest of places—
firm muscles, strong bones. You'll be like a well-watered garden,
a gurgling spring that never runs dry. You'll use the old rubble of past lives to build a new,
rebuild the foundations from out of your past. You'll be known as those who can fix anything,
restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate,
make the community livable again.
13 -14"If you watch your step on the Sabbath
and don't use my holy day for personal advantage, If you treat the Sabbath as a day of joy,
God's holy day as a celebration, If you honor it by refusing 'business as usual,'
making money, running here and there— Then you'll be free to enjoy God!
Oh, I'll make you ride high and soar above it all. I'll make you feast on the inheritance of your ancestor Jacob."
Yes! God says so!
This passage is so fitting and true! God has blessings laid out all around us, everywhere that we turn, but often our hands are full, and we are unable to reach down and pick them up. Career, hobbies, whatever it might be that keep our hands full. Whatever we chose over God will eventually become our IDOL!
Our charge is to both proclaim and embody the gospel so those around us can see, hear and feel the presence and love of God. Think about that, we are to be the embodiment, the tangible presence, the hands and feet, the warm embrace of our God to this world! Project-44 is an attempt to do just that. We are nothing more than faithfully following our Lord. And with that obedience God has done ALL of the heavy lifting. We only follow, everything that has happened has been by God alone. We would never assume to be able to give cars away to people, that just sounds silly. But GOD will, and GOD has!
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