– I am like so totally stuffed right now.
– I just returned home from the LongHorn SteakHouse.
– I enjoyed the mother of all MASSIVE meals big and small.
– It was fun indulging with Patricia, Venus, Leo, and Martine.
– I think that I surpassed the 5,000 calorie mark with that one meal.
– But before all of that good food we dove in to the Good News LPC-style.
– Pastor Travis led us through Week 5 of our current study of the Book of Joel.
– It’s all about the “Devastation And Redemption”.
– My opinion – I think that this has been one of the most powerful series in awhile.
– I’ll remember this message series several months into the future.
– God saves us to use us to help save others.
– We serve God by expanding His Kingdom.
– Look up towards Christ, for you can’t lose when you’ve got Him in charge.
– May the God of all creation be inside each and every one of us.
– The Lord will return, and on that day we will be judged.
– Does the Holy Spirit truly live within our hearts and our souls ?
– He that wins souls is the wise One.
– God created us to raze hell.
– God created us to be His hands and His feet on His creation.
– Let’s roll !
Category: God
This month of August 2009 marks several notable anniversaries for me. It’s the 3RD anniversary of my new Life courtesy of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. It’s the 8TH anniversary of me being a homeowner after renting this same home for 6 years prior to that. Further back into the 1990s it’s the 16TH anniversary of me working for my current employer – the 482ND Fighter Wing. That was an indirect result of what happened 17 years ago this month – Hurricane Andrew’s destruction of Homestead. And going way back 25 years ago this month it’s my silver anniversary with the USAF. I actually joined the Delayed Enlistment Program a month prior to my Senior year in High School in August of 1984. 10 months later I was getting yelled at in Basic Military Training.
Here’s a U.K. TOP 25 hit from 25 years ago from one of my favourite electronic pop groups of all-time – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD). It’s from their critically-acclaimed 1984 album “Junk Culture”. It’s a virtually unknown song here stateside, so this ‘Saturday Night Retro’ pick-hit of the week is for all of my European readers who enjoyed the OMD pop phenomenon back in its day. Here – my friends – is that song all about those “Tesla Girls”:
One of the hottest Christian Rock songs in the entire free nation is the latest radio single from Abandon entitled “Be Alive In Me”. There is no music video for it, so you won’t see one this week. But the lyrics are so powerful and amazing that I wanted to capture them here:
Here I am without a place to start.
Lost inside the desert of my heart.
All of my mistakes are adding up.
Take them all away I’ve had enough.
Heal my jaded soul.
I want to feel the weight letting go.
[CHORUS]
Be alive in me I know I’m – I’m Yours forever.
Be alive in me I know I’m – I’m Yours.
So take me and shake me I know I’m needing You to
Be alive in me.
I need You here so we can talk it out.
I’m giving You the things that pull me down.
Jesus can You teach me how to stand.
And if I fall I want to fall into Your hands.
So Heal my jaded soul.
Cuz I want to feel the weight letting go.
[CHORUS]
I’m Yours.
I’m Yours.
Excite me ! Ignite me ! Relight this fire !
Excite me ! Ignite me ! Relight this fire !
[CHORUS]
I’m yours.
Be alive in me.
I’m yours.
Be alive in me.
This month marks the 3RD anniversary of when my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ rescued me, saved me, and gave me a second chance at Life (always capitalized). I wasn’t particularly searching for God at the time, but He was there waiting for me to fall into His arms at the right time and the right place. Call it a miracle if you will because if you had told me three years ago that all of this would happen over the next three years then I would have laughed at you and written you off as a member of the loony bin.
The words to the song above accurately depict my feelings at the time of my unscheduled “Rebirthing”. They remain to be just as true today right here right now as they were yesterday, last week, last month, last year, and three years ago this month. The euphoria never ends. I want Jesus Christ to be alive in me always and forever Amen. Deep within my heart and my soul. I want Him to rule what I am all about, for I am absolutely nothing whatsoever without Him. I am His creation. I am His Disciple. He IS alive in me !
It’s my takeaways from this morning’s Life Pointe Church experience:
– The devastation and the redemption continues …
– We all need help from above.
– God does not wish to redeem our harvest.
– He wishes to redeem our land.
– That way we can be fruitful and produce.
– It’s all for the purpose of us redeeming other people’s land.
– God wishes to use us to be His hands and His feet here on His Earth.
– God wants the ‘us’ back that He created.
– He wants all of His creation to return to Him so that we may all be redeemed.
– The world has corrupted us, and God is waiting for us to repent to Him.
– His Holy Spirit will be poured on to us all once we call on Our Father.
– We shall be witnesses of Him, and tell all about His miracles.
Acts 1:8 (NLT, 2ND Ed.)
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere — in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
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