Listening

School has started back and taking my New Testament class it's very interesting so far. We have started out focusing on the four hundred year dry spell of no word from God. You know the thing that is amazing for four hundred years there not a single word from God then out of no were He shows up right in the middle of mankind! Our God came down to this earth to share his love with us face to face. You can't get much more personal than that. People claim God has given up on mankind and He doesn't care anymore. Well how many of you are four hundred years old and have never felt God's presence? God shows up in our lives everyday it's just that we fail to see it. Every morning when you get up out of bed God is right there waiting on you to acknowledge His presence waiting on you to see that He has given you another day another chance to seek Him and His will for your life. If we want to hear God speak we need to open up our hearts and minds and realize that He is still in the middle of mankind and wants to share His love with us and have us pass it on to everyone one meet.

Wierd

Tonight at the Pointe the students got to break into a CSI case and figure it out in their groups. I have to say some of the ones I thought didn't listen or have any knowledge of the Bible are the ones who shined tonight. WOW!!! What also amazed me is they had a chance to act out the event in question and without even reading through the event they got up and done it. I have to say this is one of those times where God showed me things beyond what my eyes can see. Well I went to do the job God put me here to do and to my surprise He taught me a lesson I have tried to get across to these kids it don't matter how old you are God wants to use you. God used those kids to show me it don't matter what I see on the outside it's whats going on, on the inside and I can tell you there is some major stuff going on in the hearts of these kids.

Nap Time

The boys have had lunch and now they are sleeping like babies. I had a rough night last night trying to keep the baby comfortable and checking temps and keeping it quite for my wife and daughter so they could have a good day at school but they helped more than I wanted them to,what a awesome family I have. Well back to the point of all of this I have been reading and praying and thoughts have come to the front of my mind things I have been told in this past. I can remember being told at the start of my ministry that this is something that comes first above anything else. And yet another voice came in of something a great man of God told me, God gave me this family to take care of. Yep you can imagine I wanted to slap my self in the head a shout STUPID but I didn't. I just sat back and laughed and told God I get it and you know the people God has put around me stepped up and took charge and God's plan is not going to miss a beat. Dude how awesome is that. As I sit here and look at these precious gifts God has blessed me with all I can say is this, what looks to be a bad thing God is making into something beautiful and when it is all over God gets the glory and we will all be better. AMEN!!!!

Thinking

Well being stuck in the house for next 5 days seems to be a bad thing but as I sit here and pray and let God show me what the next move is I can't help but to think it has to something major because He has put me in a spot where it is just me and Him. Maybe it is something I have over looked or somewhere I am lacking or who knows, but I am thankful for a God that loves me enough to stop me and show me what He wants instead of letting me run wild. Well time to pray read and seek HIS will. When it all comes together I will let you know.
GOD BLESS
Mike

Another Day

Well spent most of night in the ER with my oldest son Dylan last night and come to find out he has the swine flu. When the Doctor came in and told us Dylan broke down crying, he thought he wad gonna die. It took me an hour to convince him he was not going to die. As we sat there and talked he ask me why God done this to him, I told him that God didn't do it to him it is one of those things that just happens. Everybody gets sick. That stuck with me, and I thought on that some more how many of us blame God for the bad stuff that happens in our lives. As I explained to my son God did not do this to him, the thing God wants from us now is to turn to Him and run and blame Him. A 12 year old child got down and turned to God in prayer and ask all of his friends to pray for him. How is that a child gets it and most adults don't? Lets start looking at the bad things like this. FAITH BUILDERS! When we learn to turn to God in every bad situation it will become habit forming and you will turn to Him in everything good and bad.

Who are you?

This is a thought I believe crosses all of our minds more than once in a blue moon. With me it goes through my mind often. I know that I am a child of God but I mean who has God put us here to be? Most of had some kind of dream of what we wanted to be when we grew up or know what we will be doing when we grow up. But lets go further with this. In what we are doing or will be doing how are or will we be serving God? Yeah thats strikes the core! It did with me last night when the Pointe was starting our CSI series. I never really looked at it from that point but honestly God made it so simple for us to apply Him and His teachings into our lives and share it with everyone in everything we do but we complicate it up with all this crap that doesn't even matter. That is not who God calls us to be He wants us to be people of love kindness compassion and obedience but are we? These are not things we can go to wal-mart and buy, It only comes from God. It does not matter what you do or going to do find out how you can serve God doing it. This is where you will find out who you are and why you are here and how our BIG GOD needs you for His big plans.

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You know young Christians depend on the mature Christians help them with their walk with Jesus but you know thats what God told us to do. With that in mind lets ask ourselves this question, what are we doing to help them? As I sit here and think I look back and think of some of the things I have done and I am guilty of making Christianity out to be some kind of perfect fairy tell that you watch on Disney. How sad is that? We all know that is not the case at all, it is the hardest life you could ever imagine. Now that would turn anybody in there right mind away. Where it all pays off is in the end, when we get to meet Jesus face to face. The Christian life is something we can not go through on our own we need each other. Let me say that again WE NEED EACH OTHER!!!!! Take every chance God gives you to tell somebody you love them and give them a hug.

First Sunday of 2010

WOW! what a Sunday dude you could never imagine how great this day has been. Everything just seemed to go perfect. I know it was all God because i have kids and every Christian parent knows the next comment is true. On Sunday mornings satan shows up in my kids! There is fussing fighting and etc............ But not today it was peaceful and they even helped. What a blessing that was. During our Prayer and Share my wife and I keep the children and tonight that was so awesome too. We played some crazy games and ate a jar full of chocolate and I know their parents love me even more for that,LOL. I am really looking forward to Tuesday night when the Pointe our youth meet together for our service we will be starting CSI. I really love that show so I jumped on the idea when it passed on to me. I believe this is going to help the youth dig deeper into Gods Word and discover things they may have never see and old things in a new light.

2010

Well we made through 2009 Christmas is over and LifePointe church brought in the New Years with a party that God truly blessed. There is no way that ordinary people could have put together something where people connected like a family. As I sat back and just watched God allowed to me to see what the first church from Acts was truly like. There no feeling like that it was like God stepped down from Heaven and sat with us. Its moments like that when you can't help but to praise God with everything is in you. Going into this New Year I want to give all I have to God and to the ministry He has blessed me with. So watch 2010 here we come with with our GREAT BIG GOD who can't be stopped!!!!!!!