My longest blogging absence in quite a while! But God has been speaking to me the last few days about making some changes in my life, and one of them was to start sharing it again with my friends. So here I am. It’s a hot summer day in Alabama, I’m threatening to run late for work, and I have lots to share and will only scratch the surface this morning. So where have I been?
- Well I have been in Tokyo for 8 days
- I have been in Arizona for 7 doing ministry on an Indian Reservation.
- I have a girlfriend whom I have hardly mentioned here, in what has been an interesting set of circumstances that I will dive into slowly to show you how God is working in my life, despite me even..
- I have decided to train for marathon #11 but right now I’m about 10-12 pounds heavy so I am counting on summer to sweat it out of me.
- I have a new niece, Jennifer Lynn, and she is awesome!
- Right now is a time I need to write and process things. God is starting to stir in my heart and tell me things, and I feel like the path I felt like I was on a couple of years ago might be coming back into play.
I’m doing a study called Experiencing God. And the memory verse for this week is John 15:5
I am the vine, you are the branches. If you abide in me, and I in you, you will bear much fruit. Apart from me you can do nothing.
Abiding is remaining. Remaining is staying in… And practically for me that is fleshed out when God becomes the object of constant thought, and prayer, like He truly is IN me. And when I reach that place, He bears fruit through me, and I will bear much fruit, and I won’t have to worry about doing anything apart from Him.
It’s been easy my whole life to give God lip service because there are very few things I have actually HAD to trust Him for. I talk a lot but most things I’m perfectly fine doing on my own, without His involvement. But faith is doing something that can only be done with His intervention, and trusting Him that He will do it.
So I am asking God to give me a picture of what He wants me to do, and to go for it, even if and especially if it can’t be done without God working through it. For anyone who lacks faith, or wants a reason to believe, perhaps this has been true in your life as well. Maybe you have never been at the end of yourself, and seen God come through. It’s a form of disbelief I think, and I hate that in me!
I’ll leave it there for now. Just know, God is always at work around you, and He wants you to be a part of that with Him. Abide in Him, Remain in Him, and you will see it. I’m excited about seeing it over the next few months!
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