Today I got up a little earlier today because I knew today was the last day of the 21 day fast for my church and there was a particular prayer request that I asked would come to pass by February aka(tomorrow). I spent time in the word and praying and crying out to God to have faith and not doubt and to remain in Him. The previous night I reviewed Matt. 6:33 "But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be given you as well." And today even though I stayed up a little later and did not get as much sleep, I was just wired. God gave me so much energy that by tonight my friends were asking me if I was on drugs because my eyes were so awake.
In the morning I had a great time of worship, reading and prayer. I read Mark 8 and Jesus says in verse 34 "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." I normally pray this every morning, but I felt that God was speaking to me, stop saying it and do it. Today at work I started to talk about my faith openly and I believe God was using me to listen to others as they opened up to me about their struggles in life. I realized today just how broken people are and that no matter how secure or tough they seem they are really desperately insecure and lonely without Christ. I hope that it will lead to future conversations. It was interesting that sometimes people asking you if you go to strip to clubs can become the segue for a spiritual conversation. Later that day after work I met with a friend of mine to pray and talk about what God had been doing in our lives. We started crying to God on behalf of each others needs and after the prayer meeting I got a text from my brother saying the prayer was answered. I had been looking for a roommate for over a month and could not find anyone. I put on our church prayer list that God would bring a roommate by February. I was beginning to doubt if God was going to come through, I even confessed my unbelief to my friend I had just met with. But the answer came while I was praying and not just then but God had actually prevented this one man from ever even getting a hold of the person of his first choice in apartments. God did not make a way for the two guys that were perhaps more preferable, but rather for the guy that needs Christ the most and he himself testified that what happened seemed supernatural. I pray that the man can come to know Christ through living in my room and communicating with myself and my brother and seeing our lives as we follow Christ. If anyone is reading this, I ask that you would keep Greg in your prayers that he may be won for Christ. It is worth paying an extra months rent if this young man gets to know Jesus Christ by taking this room. I do not claim to know the ways of God, but I know he exists and that he answers prayers.
Finally, I read this today and I hope it encourages you as it did me. It was written by a young African pastor who was martyred not too long ago.
"I'm a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I'm a disciple of His and I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still.
My past is redeemed. My present makes sense. My future is secure. I'm done and finished with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed visions, mundane talking, cheap living, and dwarfed goals.
I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits, or popularity. I don't have to be right, or first, or tops, or recognized, or praised, or rewarded. I live by faith, lean on His presence, walk by patience, lift by prayer, and labor by Holy Spirit power.
My face is set. My gait is fast. My goal is heaven. My road may be narrow, my way rough, my companions few, but my guide is reliable and my mission is clear.
I will not be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, deluded or delayed.
I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice or hesitate in the presence of the adversary. I will not negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity.
I won't give up, shut up, or let up until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up, paid up, and preached up for the cause of Christ.
I am a disciple of Jesus. I must give until I drop, preach until all know, and work until He comes. And when He does come for His own, He'll have no problems recognizing me. My colors will be clear!"
God Bless, and good night!
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Day 3 Keeping On Track
Last night i was reading a book called Expecting to See Jesus by Anne Graham Lotz. In one of the chapters it identified many sins and framed them in such a way I did not normally think to , but it revealed to me so many areas where I lack. I sometimes feel like I am not forgiven until I have actually done something right such as not doing the very thing I am asking to be forgiven of the next opportunity I have to do or not do it. If that were true no one could be saved. When I read this book I realized that I have not ever been able to say that I love the Lord completely
with all my heart, soul, and strength. And there are so many times I have used my time, money, and energy for selfish reasons without any regard for the God who blessed me with them in the first place. So I just asked God to forgive me of these things that were revealed in my life as sin, that I normally do not think of perhaps because they are not as shameful to think about and we are not disgusted by it because everyone does it I know. When I think that I am the only one dealing with a particular sin does my guilt become deepest. But I know now that the devil is not that creative, he uses the same three tactics to draw us away form the Lord. The lust of our eyes, the cravings of our flesh, and the boasting of what we have and do.
This morning was quite a test. It was so hard to get up this morning, but I just cried out to God and put on my spiritual armor and had the will to not get back in bed and read my Bible and pray. I read some more of Mark in chapter 7 specifically and read some other devotionals that were very encouraging. IN the passage where jesus heals the man that is deaf and dumb, it is so interesting that he put his fingers in the man's ears and spit and touched his tongue to heal the guy. After he touches Him then he says Be opened! I want Jesus to touch and speak that over me so that my spiritual ears will be opened to hear his voice and my tongue will be free to praise Him and utter things in spiritual tongues.
At work I told God that I wanted to honor Him with my work and that he would bless the works of my hands as a testimony to others of my relationship with Him. Today was awesome. With God's help I was able to figure out a couple problems with our alarm system and got the okay from my supervisor to move forward with them. I have noticed that as I learn more the harder it is to stay in a curious mindset, so I am actively seeking out opportunities at work to do different things whenever I can. Work is definitely going to be one area I really want to grow in and for God to show me how to minister in the workplace even as a newbie.
On my way home from work I listened to a program from Ravi Zacharias. It is very difficult to follow everything, because he uses such dense language and speaks so profoundly that I can usually only take away one or two things. In this particular program he was discussing the reconciling of the mind with the heart in christian theology. Especially in respect to what is more important. He makes it clear that we need to believe with both the mind and our emotions that God exists and that he loves us, if only one is present it is insufficient, but both have enough evidences to prove his existence. It is problematic when theology does not encompass both aspects. When you focus on only the emotional aspects you get books like Love Wins, or you can get highly intellectual and have little emotion and miss the experiential aspects of God. I only listened to part 1 so, hopefully part 2 will bring it all together in my mind better.
Tonight I went out to a field and praised God until I couldn't feel my hands and then I could not play because I could not even tell if my fingers were pressing down the strings or not so I thought it best to head back home. I have been memorizing through the Navigator's topical memory system. I have seen the verses now for awhile and have commonly carried them with me, but haven't really cemented them in my mind yet. My favorite one today was Phil 2:3-4 "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others."
Also I have been practicing to learn Spanish. I found an online language learning course that is really easy to navigate and start learning fast. It is called livemocha. Check it out if there is a language you have always wanted to learn, but never did. Anyways, it has been a good day overall.
with all my heart, soul, and strength. And there are so many times I have used my time, money, and energy for selfish reasons without any regard for the God who blessed me with them in the first place. So I just asked God to forgive me of these things that were revealed in my life as sin, that I normally do not think of perhaps because they are not as shameful to think about and we are not disgusted by it because everyone does it I know. When I think that I am the only one dealing with a particular sin does my guilt become deepest. But I know now that the devil is not that creative, he uses the same three tactics to draw us away form the Lord. The lust of our eyes, the cravings of our flesh, and the boasting of what we have and do.
This morning was quite a test. It was so hard to get up this morning, but I just cried out to God and put on my spiritual armor and had the will to not get back in bed and read my Bible and pray. I read some more of Mark in chapter 7 specifically and read some other devotionals that were very encouraging. IN the passage where jesus heals the man that is deaf and dumb, it is so interesting that he put his fingers in the man's ears and spit and touched his tongue to heal the guy. After he touches Him then he says Be opened! I want Jesus to touch and speak that over me so that my spiritual ears will be opened to hear his voice and my tongue will be free to praise Him and utter things in spiritual tongues.
At work I told God that I wanted to honor Him with my work and that he would bless the works of my hands as a testimony to others of my relationship with Him. Today was awesome. With God's help I was able to figure out a couple problems with our alarm system and got the okay from my supervisor to move forward with them. I have noticed that as I learn more the harder it is to stay in a curious mindset, so I am actively seeking out opportunities at work to do different things whenever I can. Work is definitely going to be one area I really want to grow in and for God to show me how to minister in the workplace even as a newbie.
On my way home from work I listened to a program from Ravi Zacharias. It is very difficult to follow everything, because he uses such dense language and speaks so profoundly that I can usually only take away one or two things. In this particular program he was discussing the reconciling of the mind with the heart in christian theology. Especially in respect to what is more important. He makes it clear that we need to believe with both the mind and our emotions that God exists and that he loves us, if only one is present it is insufficient, but both have enough evidences to prove his existence. It is problematic when theology does not encompass both aspects. When you focus on only the emotional aspects you get books like Love Wins, or you can get highly intellectual and have little emotion and miss the experiential aspects of God. I only listened to part 1 so, hopefully part 2 will bring it all together in my mind better.
Tonight I went out to a field and praised God until I couldn't feel my hands and then I could not play because I could not even tell if my fingers were pressing down the strings or not so I thought it best to head back home. I have been memorizing through the Navigator's topical memory system. I have seen the verses now for awhile and have commonly carried them with me, but haven't really cemented them in my mind yet. My favorite one today was Phil 2:3-4 "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others."
Also I have been practicing to learn Spanish. I found an online language learning course that is really easy to navigate and start learning fast. It is called livemocha. Check it out if there is a language you have always wanted to learn, but never did. Anyways, it has been a good day overall.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Day 2 God is Good
So this morning I did not hear my alarm go off, or in classic David fashion I probably got up and turned it off, but forgot about it. I did wake up with enough time to have some time with God and get going. I felt like I should check out a new church this morning so I did. It is a smaller church that broke off from a larger one in the area called the Journey Church. The worship was really great and the teaching was phenomenal on money. I learned a lot about how to be a godly steward and God showed me some areas in my life that I had not submitted to Him. I also had some clarity about saving and not feeling like I was hoarding it, but rather holding savings as a way to protect money that God has not given it a place for it to go yet. I also was challenged to remember that every dollar I earn and spend is from God and that I will have to give an account to Him. I hope that I can honor God with my finances and submit every dollar I earn to what he wants me to spend it on. I know it will take some time to get it all figured out, but I want real treasures not just money which will perish along with everything in the world. It really came at just the right time too because yesterday I found out just how much money I was going to get for a tax refund and boy am I excited, but I was letting my imagination go and starting thinking about all I could buy with it rather than how I could honor God with it beyond giving the 10% of my income. But today I was able just to repent and ask God to change my thinking about money and I hope anyone that reads this and knows me would help keep me honest when it comes to spending money and time on things that do not have any significance.
After that I went to meet a friend at another church I had been to before. When I found my seat, another guy came and sat with me too that I had met previously at the college/young professionals fellowship meeting. I did not know all that God was doing at the time, but his plan began to click as time went on. The sermon was excellent and the music was awesome. There was a lady behind me that had the most soulful, beautiful voice I have heard and it was such a blessing to hear her loving on Jesus. The teaching was on the importance of the body of believers, the church, to have a mission centered mindset. That we should be focused on those that are not within the church and have the heart of God for the lost. To be able to go and get the lost sheep from the 99 that are safely inside the sheepfold. It was so powerful and God showed me some people in my life that I could be ministering to and sharing the gospel with at work and at my school, Georgia Tech. I was also reminded that it is important to love others in the body of Christ outside the walls of the church as the fellowship and unity of true believers is one of the strongest forms of evangelism available. What I learned yesterday was about to be lived out in my life today. After the service ended, my friend I came to see left and I just talked with my new friend for a while. We shared what was going on and I knew I had was going to meet another guy for lunch so we all went out to taco bell together. We chatted and were talking about the service and the message we had heard and the other guy had to leave to do some errands and so I was there with my friend again and we just started opening our hearts to one another and speaking God's word into each others lives. All the scripture memorization I had been doing over the past year and little by little in my life was coming back in our conversation as God just brought scripture to mind that spoke specifically into what he was going through. And afterwards when we were getting ready to leave God showed me that our entire exchange was just witnessed by four families that were sitting around us and they were watching and listening as if we were indirectly ministering to the entire lobby as we were just loving encouraging one another and building one another up in Christ. It was such an amazing moment that took my head knowledge of what I thought to be true and moved into my heart as something I have experienced and know that God just used me in a way that I could not have planned.
Later that same night we made plans to meet up at Starbucks and share a little more and talk, because we had some stuff to do in the afternoon. On my way there I was reminded to use that time in the car to listen to biblical teaching. I turned on a Derek Prince recording that was addressing the issue of rejection, especially the extent of rejection and how deep of a wound it can leave on a person. As I was talking with my friend at Starbucks I could sense something inside me telling me that what I just learned was ready to be applied right in front of me. All the symptoms of this young man's troubled life was springing from a spirit of rejection inside from the divorce of his parents during the most crucial years of his development into manhood, puberty. His life spiraled downward and he told me how he would not even be alive today if it was not for Jesus taking a hold of his life, but I could sense that he was still struggling with horrible things that grew into a bitter loneliness within him. By faith I just said to him that I thought his problem was that he had a spirit of rejection in him after he had spoken and that it entered him during the splitting up of his parents and that I wanted to pray for it to leave him. His eyes just lit up as if I knew the problem he was facing and I just defined what he had been trying to isolate all these years. We continued to talk about how God has been shaping and orchestrating our lives. Finally we prayed for each other and did not care if people were watching and we both left and hugged, yes we hugged, and went our separate ways making tentative plans to meet up another time.
I know from his testimony and all that has transpired today that God is good.
After that I went to meet a friend at another church I had been to before. When I found my seat, another guy came and sat with me too that I had met previously at the college/young professionals fellowship meeting. I did not know all that God was doing at the time, but his plan began to click as time went on. The sermon was excellent and the music was awesome. There was a lady behind me that had the most soulful, beautiful voice I have heard and it was such a blessing to hear her loving on Jesus. The teaching was on the importance of the body of believers, the church, to have a mission centered mindset. That we should be focused on those that are not within the church and have the heart of God for the lost. To be able to go and get the lost sheep from the 99 that are safely inside the sheepfold. It was so powerful and God showed me some people in my life that I could be ministering to and sharing the gospel with at work and at my school, Georgia Tech. I was also reminded that it is important to love others in the body of Christ outside the walls of the church as the fellowship and unity of true believers is one of the strongest forms of evangelism available. What I learned yesterday was about to be lived out in my life today. After the service ended, my friend I came to see left and I just talked with my new friend for a while. We shared what was going on and I knew I had was going to meet another guy for lunch so we all went out to taco bell together. We chatted and were talking about the service and the message we had heard and the other guy had to leave to do some errands and so I was there with my friend again and we just started opening our hearts to one another and speaking God's word into each others lives. All the scripture memorization I had been doing over the past year and little by little in my life was coming back in our conversation as God just brought scripture to mind that spoke specifically into what he was going through. And afterwards when we were getting ready to leave God showed me that our entire exchange was just witnessed by four families that were sitting around us and they were watching and listening as if we were indirectly ministering to the entire lobby as we were just loving encouraging one another and building one another up in Christ. It was such an amazing moment that took my head knowledge of what I thought to be true and moved into my heart as something I have experienced and know that God just used me in a way that I could not have planned.
Later that same night we made plans to meet up at Starbucks and share a little more and talk, because we had some stuff to do in the afternoon. On my way there I was reminded to use that time in the car to listen to biblical teaching. I turned on a Derek Prince recording that was addressing the issue of rejection, especially the extent of rejection and how deep of a wound it can leave on a person. As I was talking with my friend at Starbucks I could sense something inside me telling me that what I just learned was ready to be applied right in front of me. All the symptoms of this young man's troubled life was springing from a spirit of rejection inside from the divorce of his parents during the most crucial years of his development into manhood, puberty. His life spiraled downward and he told me how he would not even be alive today if it was not for Jesus taking a hold of his life, but I could sense that he was still struggling with horrible things that grew into a bitter loneliness within him. By faith I just said to him that I thought his problem was that he had a spirit of rejection in him after he had spoken and that it entered him during the splitting up of his parents and that I wanted to pray for it to leave him. His eyes just lit up as if I knew the problem he was facing and I just defined what he had been trying to isolate all these years. We continued to talk about how God has been shaping and orchestrating our lives. Finally we prayed for each other and did not care if people were watching and we both left and hugged, yes we hugged, and went our separate ways making tentative plans to meet up another time.
I know from his testimony and all that has transpired today that God is good.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Day 1 Jesus and the Word
I have been blown away by what I have been learning and being reminded of today. I spent a good chunk of time this morning just worshiping God and praying for people in my church. God gave me a song to sing today called Always Forever and it just captured what I want to be true in my life, that Jesus Christ would be the ultimate love of my life and reason to be or not to be. I will post the lyrics at the bottom of the post, I was particularly listening to the Phil Wickham version. I was reading out of Mark today and it was challenging to read about what Jesus said who his true mother sisters and brothers were, those who do God's will. It lead me to re-listen to an audio message from Chip Ingram from his series on Romans 12. This was the fourth one I have listened to recently and it was on relating to the body of believers. It was very convicting and encouraging. One of the biggest take away messages for me was that the way we love one another is the strongest, most effective evangelical action for winning or losing people for Christ. I know it is true because when I have spoken with people with problems with the church or with God one of the root issues they always bring up is how they or someone they knew was treated by Christians. People all want to belong and be loved genuinely without hypocrisy or masks or pretension. His point in going through verses 9-13 is that we need to allow our real selves to meet person's real needs for the right reasons in God's way if we are going to experience the community that Jesus prayed that we would have in the garden when he had that final time with the lord before going to calvary.
Jn 17:20-26
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
As the very final words God spoke in his last prayer to God it must have been a big deal in God's heart for us to be in community with one another. Help me God to not be lazy, but to do the good I know I ought to in order to minister to others in sincerity and the spirit's leading so that the world would know that God sent Jesus and has loved them as he loved Jesus. Jesus also gave this command to his disciples,
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." John 13:34-35
I pray that I can be trained in this time to love like Jesus and experience the love the Father shares with Jesus, so that others can be loved and have their lives opened to the love they were made to experience.
Later that afternoon I was reminded of the song City on a Hill by Casting Crowns on their newest album. It speaks of a people on the city on the hill that fall apart because they allow their differences to drive them apart and into disarray, but they change and begin to use their gifts to encourage and strengthen each others weaknesses so that they work together in harmony. It reminds me of how we need authentic community in the body of Christ and that we each need to know our gifts and use them to help others as 1 Peter 4 tells us to faithfully administer God's grace in its various forms.
Today I also went through Genesis 1-5 to start doing a Bible Outline to help me develop a more overall understanding of the word. I did have some interesting observations reading through it this time though. One was that I noticed that God placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in roughly the same place; the middle of the garden. Also it never said anything about the serpent being in the tree when they were tempted, but even come if he was it is not apparent that they were hanging around the bad news tree, they may have been hanging out by the tree of life and the serpent may have to them right there. It goes to show that the great deceiver does not need us to be near a temptation to tempt us, our minds can entertain thoughts plenty long enough until we do the real thing. I know God was in control the entire time and while the serpent probably thought he was so crafty why do think the two trees of life and death were right next to each other? God knew what he was doing.
I was also doing some more in depth topical study on the book of Hebrews and it never specifies who writes the book and all the OT scriptures are accredited to the holy spirit rather than "the prophet Isaiah said...". Another interesting thing is that the word Hebrew means to pass-over and in the terms of the day it would have meant river crosser, which is what those people did quite a bit of. Most still have yet to cross their most important river of all which is that from the covenant of the old into the new covenant which is the fullest fulfillment and maturity of their old covenant. God wants to bring them from the outer courts into the Inner Chambers where he dwells so that he can dwell in them.
I also did a quick calculation to find that 1,656 years passed from when Adam was made to the flood on the earth. Maybe I can try to trace out the genealogies and trace the elapsed time up until Jesus.
Now I hope to finish off the biography on Derek Prince by Stephen Mansfield and look for a new church to try out in the morning.
Jn 17:20-26
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
As the very final words God spoke in his last prayer to God it must have been a big deal in God's heart for us to be in community with one another. Help me God to not be lazy, but to do the good I know I ought to in order to minister to others in sincerity and the spirit's leading so that the world would know that God sent Jesus and has loved them as he loved Jesus. Jesus also gave this command to his disciples,
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." John 13:34-35
I pray that I can be trained in this time to love like Jesus and experience the love the Father shares with Jesus, so that others can be loved and have their lives opened to the love they were made to experience.
Later that afternoon I was reminded of the song City on a Hill by Casting Crowns on their newest album. It speaks of a people on the city on the hill that fall apart because they allow their differences to drive them apart and into disarray, but they change and begin to use their gifts to encourage and strengthen each others weaknesses so that they work together in harmony. It reminds me of how we need authentic community in the body of Christ and that we each need to know our gifts and use them to help others as 1 Peter 4 tells us to faithfully administer God's grace in its various forms.
Today I also went through Genesis 1-5 to start doing a Bible Outline to help me develop a more overall understanding of the word. I did have some interesting observations reading through it this time though. One was that I noticed that God placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in roughly the same place; the middle of the garden. Also it never said anything about the serpent being in the tree when they were tempted, but even come if he was it is not apparent that they were hanging around the bad news tree, they may have been hanging out by the tree of life and the serpent may have to them right there. It goes to show that the great deceiver does not need us to be near a temptation to tempt us, our minds can entertain thoughts plenty long enough until we do the real thing. I know God was in control the entire time and while the serpent probably thought he was so crafty why do think the two trees of life and death were right next to each other? God knew what he was doing.
I was also doing some more in depth topical study on the book of Hebrews and it never specifies who writes the book and all the OT scriptures are accredited to the holy spirit rather than "the prophet Isaiah said...". Another interesting thing is that the word Hebrew means to pass-over and in the terms of the day it would have meant river crosser, which is what those people did quite a bit of. Most still have yet to cross their most important river of all which is that from the covenant of the old into the new covenant which is the fullest fulfillment and maturity of their old covenant. God wants to bring them from the outer courts into the Inner Chambers where he dwells so that he can dwell in them.
I also did a quick calculation to find that 1,656 years passed from when Adam was made to the flood on the earth. Maybe I can try to trace out the genealogies and trace the elapsed time up until Jesus.
Now I hope to finish off the biography on Derek Prince by Stephen Mansfield and look for a new church to try out in the morning.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Getting Back to my first Love
God, I need you. I have been so prideful and self-reliant, but I feel unfulfilled, empty, and afraid without you. Make me a holy vessel for your holy spirit to dwell and work for your glory and may my flesh, may David Neil Bentley be put to death. I want you alone to reign in and for the life of your spirit to sustain me. Thank you for your far reaching mercy that brought me the undeserved offering of your one and "only" son. As in Romans 12 the only reasonable response to such mercy and goodness is complete surrender, through which only more of your goodness can flow into this life you purchased.
God has begun a good work in me and I know from scripture that he will complete. I choose this day to co-op with God in the transformation of my life through the making new of my mind through a mass influx of his word into my mind and soul. I hope to take a 5-pronged approach through hearing it, reading it, studying it, memorizing it, and meditating on it. I will share on this blog some of my thoughts and record the goodness of God in transforming my life into the man he has called me to be. I pray that God would use this blog as a way for me to cement the things he teaches me in my mind and in a place I can go back to and remember what he has done, because as any human I now I forget things. Also I hope that their will be a record of the death of a small, selfish, helplessly insecure boy being filled with life and transformed through the power of the spirit into a man of God.
God has begun a good work in me and I know from scripture that he will complete. I choose this day to co-op with God in the transformation of my life through the making new of my mind through a mass influx of his word into my mind and soul. I hope to take a 5-pronged approach through hearing it, reading it, studying it, memorizing it, and meditating on it. I will share on this blog some of my thoughts and record the goodness of God in transforming my life into the man he has called me to be. I pray that God would use this blog as a way for me to cement the things he teaches me in my mind and in a place I can go back to and remember what he has done, because as any human I now I forget things. Also I hope that their will be a record of the death of a small, selfish, helplessly insecure boy being filled with life and transformed through the power of the spirit into a man of God.
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