Thought for the Moment...

...well actually the 11:15pm thought as my daughter is still awake and my wife is trying to nurse her back to sleep so we can get some rest.

We were away last night and stayed down in Goleta so that Kelly could see her brother and sister-in-law when the came in from NC for Christmas, and what to our pleasure did we find when we came home ants and lots of them we just can't seem to get rid of the little evil insects and what else has happened that caused our stress level to be raised to another notch our daughter has decided that she doesn't want to sleep at night any more and I'll tell you what my wife is exhausted and it is wearing me out to see her not getting enough sleep. Why your asking yourself am I writing about this, let me explain we have been praying that the baby would start sleeping through the night I don't know how anyone goes through this I really think that we are beginning to loose our minds and it is really wearing on our "personal" lives yes we do get away for a few hours at a time but I really don't understand why God is allowing this to continue. This is not a question that I can answer all that I can think is that God wants us to learn to come to the end or ourselves to see Him in all this. Don't get me wrong but I don' t like it and really would like this stage of our lives to come to an end, I want to see my wife get some sleep and feel rested. That is what I am praying for amongst other things.


Now as for the ants, I hate them. I guess that we will have to deal with them untill we can bait and get rid of them. I'm gonna make them take a long walk off a short pier, if you know what I mean. Seriously I think that all of this and all of this stress is directly related to our spiritual lives. Think about it a lot of crap happens and we get a card from a friend that says they are looking forward to serving Jesus this next Year with us. I know that God has some great stuff planned for us. and It is my prayer that we will be able to serve in full time youth ministry this up coming year 1Peter 5:1-5. God Bless and


More to come...

Broken chains.

Those things in my life that were holding me back from effectively ministering to my family and my wife and others are now broken, I no longer have to fear what those things can do to me, God redeemed me a long time ago and I allowed satan to grip me in fear that I would fail at being pure in my marriage, with my wife and to my church, God had begun that work in me over 10 years ago and as I began to heal and allow him to work in me and direct my walk with Him all of those Chains began to break. God has moved us away from that which was binding me Broken those Chains.

Our God is a God that Breaks Chains, I doesn’t really matter how He does it, it is just the fact that He can and will Break those chains of sin that are binding you and keeping you from a truly intimate relationship with Jesus, keeping you from an effective ministry of reconciliation.

God is great and whatever may be binding you right now Porn, Lying, Drugs, Alcohol, an Affair, it doesn’t really matter what it is that is holding your heart captive Jesus can and will break those chains, you see it starts with replacing the bad with the good Psalm 119:15 I will meditate on Your precepts And regard Your ways.

God after God and His word the world tells us lies that the junk that it offers is good, it does look good, The bible tells us and shows us that what the word has to offer really is junk and the more that we spend time meditating on the Word of God the easier it will be to over come temptation. I leave you with this Matt 6:33 Seek first the kingdom of God and it’s Righteousness and all these things will be added unto you


Till next time

Opportunity! Part Two

Last time we talked about the opportunity to live like Christ, to do what He has called us to do. First what is that He has called us to do, well 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 says 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

If you look closely at the text we can see the Jesus dies so that we could be reconciled to God, and He has given us the ministry of reconciliation. You might be asking yourself or just screaming at the computer screen. what does that mean, I sure am, Reconciliation as defined by Webster's online dictionary is to restore to friendship or harmony. As sinners and since the dawn of time we have been at odds with God because our sin separates us from Him, He may be a loving God but He is a just God and cannot allow sin to enter into His presence. So the ministry of reconciliation through Jesus because He is the only reason that our debt was paid in full and that gives us the opportunity to have a relationship with God. We have been given a mission that is to be an ambassador for Christ. We all have the opportunity to share Jesus with others, what He has done and how He restored His friendship and harmony with us (Romans 10:14-15). Once our relationship with Jesus has been restored God will then work on us to place our trust in Him and not in this world, as we talked about last time. It does take time to actually not worry about earthly things and the more that time that we spend with God the more that we will be placing our focus in Him.

Opportunity! Part One

If you check this blog for new posts I am sorry that it has been a while, forgive me, II will try to do better at getting these up.

Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.(ASV)
Interesting why Jesus would say this Seek first His kingdom. If we look at the context of the whole passage He is telling us that the animals and the plants don't worry about the earthly things such as food and water God has already provided those things, He has even given them clothing to where. What I believe that Jesus is trying to express to us, is we spend to much time worring about the newest and greatest thing, whether that be a gadget or clothing line, you see even later on we learn that earthly things will not last. Have you ever seen a hearse being followed by a U-haul, didn't think so, or have you ever seen some one buried with their new iPhone, well not yet anyways. We are called as Christians to be like Christ, that's right just like Him, thats what being a Christian is a little Christ. When we are seeking after the Lord the earthly things don't matter much any more and we will not be worrying about the latest and greatest thing on the planet, not that having that stuff is bad but it is not to be our primary focus. God gives us opportunities here on earth to fulfill our call as christians, next time we will look at that call and opportunity.

Psalm 139:14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

As we think on the fact that God created us. I can't help thinking that I got to take part in helping to create our daughter, God is truly the designer of her whole being all the way dow to the amount of hair on her head as well as her personality. Stop and think for a second that a baby has a lot of needs all the way down to the dirty diapers (pun intended). Lets look at these needs. They need to be fed, clothed and most importantly loved. In the same way our heavenly father provides the same for us He gives us the things that we need and even some of the things that we want, (Matt 6:25-32) Here's the deal Our Father in Heaven will provide all of our needs and no matter how hard it may seem we will always be provided for. Next time we will be looking at Matthew 6:33 and how seeking first the Kingdom of God is so important and why it will keep us from freting over worldly worries

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Nick