Oswald Chambers Devotion

I desired  for this Oswald Chambers devotion to be typed out for you, but I was unable to copy and paste.  Please click the link below to read "The Light That Never Fails"

http://www.myutmost.org/04/0422.html

I pray as we walk each day, we will not look to people but look upon the very face of our Savior-God Himself.

Summit Church-North Little Rock Arkansas

A church in Little Rock Arkansas is experiencing a moving of God's Spirit.  This has been exciting to follow for the last week.  Click the following link to read what God is doing there.  Pray and ask God to manifest His Spirit among your local body of believers.

http://thesummitchurch.org/blogs/summit

Surrender and the Paint Brush

Organization and clarity are two great things.  When they are teamed together, many goals are obtained.  Don't go through life living in a state of uncertainy and choas.  Surrender yourself to the Lord and ask Him to give you life goals, a life verse, and a ministry verse.  Stop long enough to find the theme of your life and write that out before the Lord. 

We all have a theme of life.  We all have a story-A God story. Our very life is His canvas.  He is painting a glorious picture of who He is upon our life.  Our sin, our hurt, and our pain is woven into the very fibers of the canvas.  They are evident.  You are not able to pull out the fibers for then the canvas would be no longer, for our  lives depict this canvas. God in His mercy and grace picks up His paintbrush to begin a work, to begin telling His story upon our lives.  Each stroke of the paintbrush reveals His love and goodness.  Each paint drop reveals His mercy and grace.  God covers that canvas with a beautiful picture of His shed blood upon the cross. 

Friend stop and ponder the paint drops upon your life.  Ask God to paint a picture giving you a life goal, a life verse, and a ministry verse to live by.    Live each day in the power of the Holy Spirit in light of these goals.  I can look back over the canvas of my 47 years and see God's hand, His mercy, His conviction of sin, His grace of forgiveness.  I can see Him and His glorious picture on my canvas.  What about you?  All it takes is surrender to His paintbrush!

BEBO NORMAN God Of My Everything

Stinkin Thinkin

When I seem out of sorts in my spiritual life, when my thinkin becomes quite stinkin and I need a reality check, I place myself under some tough sovereignty preaching.  I say tough because our flesh does not normally like to hear the truth.  We are so wrapped up in "self" and questioning God as to why tragedy is happening to us that we forget who the God of the Bible truly is.  I need to be reminded of His sovereignty and my humanity.  I need to be reminded that I am not entitled to anything.  I need to be reminded that all I have is on loan from God. "Naked I came from my mother's womb and naked I shall return there.  The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD" Job 1:21.  It is difficult for us to wrap our small mind around this great God and understand His ways.  That is just it..do we really want to serve a God we can explain away?  Do we really want a God who fits into our explanations?  I don't. 

That is why I listen to men like Sam Storms, John Piper, Charles Spurgeon and the likes.  They paint a picture of God being great, holy, and righteousness.  I can serve this great God who is so much bigger than me.

I want to share a  link from Sam Storms.  His message titled, "Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and the mystery of suffering and sovereignty of God", has spoken to my heart and brought me back to reality of who this God is of whom I serve.  Dr. Storms teaches out of the book of Job. Listed are some thoughts from his podcast.

"Is God worthy of our worship and devotion even when He remains silent in our suffering?"
"Would we trust/commit our lives to Him even if there were no benefits?"

Great questions and the purpose of his message is to prepare our hearts for the time of tragedy.  We live in a fallen world.  Pain tragedy and heartache will come.  But how will you respond to this God when your world is turned upside down?  I pray his message encourages your heart as it has mine.

http://bridgewaychurch.com/podcast/category/bridgeway-messages/page/2