The Pruning in Life

Good morning and happy Friday. Well the groups are reset and back to an easier way of posting. It's really been an eye opener to go through this little time of refreshing. The groups are fewer and less people to text. I wonder if I was bugging people and just didn't realize it. Is this how it is when you take the Word to other places? But do you stop?  No, obviously not. I simply can't make this about me but about what God shows me in His crazy little way he does things. When you know it's Him, you have to tell it. Someone may truly be hearing a message He has for them and no one else. God talks with us all, all the time. Sometimes you can't help but hear and others it's so quietly spoken because He needs you to lean in close. Our relationship with Him is very personal. Who else knows everything you've done and thought about doing? It's an intimacy that can't be described. So when He prunes us a little, it's really for the good of the body. So He has pruned me some and got me to step back a little. Who knows what He has in store for us next?  How else will He shape and mold the lump of clay we are?  I'm just glad He cares enough to do it. In love always. <><

The Demons Within

Good morning and happy Thursday. We studied the demon possessed man last night at church, and the story got me to thinking about what possesses me. It's a dig into the truth of who we really are. Once we can find it we can be set free from it. The demon's name was legion, because there were many of them. How many "demons" do you have hidden away that are keeping you from a closer relationship with Jesus? This is why stories that are in the Bible are there. Written a long time ago to still be relevant today. We have to be on our knees before God and let Him cast out our demons, but we have to name them and claim them in order to be set free. When Legion saw Jesus they immediately knelt before Him. Even the evil spirits know Him and bow before Him. Who are we not to? Find what it is that keeps you from Him and have it cast out of you. Turn loose of your demons. In love always. <><

Are You Ready?

Good morning and happy Wednesday. The week is half over and if I live to be 80 so is my life. Not really a whole lot of time left when you look at that way. All of our lives could be over by the time we're done reading this. The point is, are you ready? Are you really ready to die and stand before God and have judgment of your life on Earth passed? I think that we feel like we have time to get it done and clean up some loose ends just before we go. But we don't know two important things: when we're going to die and when Jesus is coming to get us. I believe very much that we are in the end times here on Earth but it still doesn't make itself known has to when. Eternity is a long time and this life here is so short compared to it. It doesn't even leave a spec on the time line. So which is more important to you? And if it's this life, carry on. If it's eternity, what are you gonna do to ensure your place there? God is waiting on you. He's ready for us to be with Him. We have to decide if we want to be with Him. That relationship is what keeps you going in the right direction. In love always. <><

All The Pretty Things

Good morning and happy Tuesday. I like to look at all the scenery along the road when I'm driving. To see all the pretty things along the way. It's ok when the road is straight and easy, but when it's in the mountains and curvy and stuff; forget about it. But isn't that us with God. All the "pretty" things in life take our eyes off Him. We get distracted by doing too much "good" for others that we forget our time with Him. And I hear you saying, Bryan you've talked about helping others, doing for others and then another day it's time with God. Well which is it? It's both. A balance has to happen. Mary and Martha with Jesus is your example. Some times it's ok to just sit at the feet of Jesus and listen. Work and feeding people have to be done too but it's ok when it's time to. This is not easy this road of Christianity. It requires our time and an effort that does not look normal to the world. Please don't let all the pretty things of life distract you from the One who gave it to you to begin with. In love always. <><

Putting on the Good Front

Good morning and happy Monday. So every things good in your life and you're just workin. Chasing kids from one thing to another, but it's all going good. Sounds like what we say when we run into someone we haven't seen in a while. When really it's not so good, but that's the front we put up to not look as though we aren't making it. FB is full of our good life. Not much in there about the bad stuff unless it could get another job or info towards something we need. Nothing wrong in that, but we are a community of Gods people. He wants us helping each other and in order to do that, sometimes we have to share some stuff that's kinda messy. Being a Christian is being willing to get messy. Homeless moms with kids trying to feed their babies is messy. It's gonna take being involved. But just our regular stuff is a good place to help so that an able body is back on track to help ones in deeper need. We all need our hands out, but not for help. To lend a hand. It's not easy and good intentions sometimes get in the way of the work needing to be done. This is the work Jesus did and others were shocked at what He was doing. Our world today is still shocked by people helping "those" people. Give your time and your love to help others see a Jesus who came and died for them so He could be with them for eternity. In love always. <><