One Week!

In one week as I write this post I will be in Guatemala preaching the Gospel and preparing for the VBS. As the days draw nearer I am finding myself getting more and more nervous. Not in a bad way but in a good way. If I am not nervous then I would not be doing it in the right mind. Those of you that read these posts, the last two I have posted I was wrestling with the Lord. I finally gave in the by Friday and was able to get some sleep finally that evening while I was on duty for the Reserves. I have been praying to God to change my view towards people and I ask those of you that follow this Blog to pray with me as well. God has something in store for my life in the future. What that is where I will go what I will be doing is still a mystery. I wait patiently for His answer and continue my weekly quiet time in the Word that I have been faithfully doing for the past several months. Thanks Pastor Rick for holding me accountable and showing me what I need to do.

God has put an individual in my life that has been dealing with many issues and I have had the honor to minister to him on a daily basis. Please pray for this individual that God will show himself to him.

I believe in my heart and have the peace that God wants me to start preparing to do His will. I truely believe that it is more than just my ministry to reach out to the military through Soldier4Christ.org. I believe it is much bigger than that. I feel like Abraham in the book of Genesis when God told him to go. The path is very hazey and is unclear and I continue to wait patiently for a clear open door of the path that He wants me to take.

God is in the details

One of the things that Gos has been showing me since my last entry has been the details. In preparation for the missions trip coming up here in the near future. God works in those details that you forget to attend to. Even those details that have a huge effect on the main mission! Everything for the VBS is coming together and I still pray that God will change my entire viewpoint of people! I desire God's eyes! I have now doubt that God is preparing the harts of those that will be hearing the Gospel! The kids, the adults and even those of us that are prearing to go and do God's work. Not just stopping there but our families that will be left behind for that week. Our jobs, coworkers, airport personnel, translators, those that we encounter in transition! Just thinking about it sends chills down my spine. The God of this universe is working even now to prepare each and every one of us that is going on this trip to experience GOD and radically change us.

He is in the details.

Nothing but a God Thing

Today I woke up this morning at 430 to get back in the routine after being sick off and on over the past month and a half or more. The first thought on my mind was the people of Guatemala and how many people that God will allow us to lead to the kingdom. I went and worked out about 30 minutes or so and was thinking about the what if's, but they were good what if's. For instance what if on the last day of this missions trip I am able to lead the last person to the Lord and the rapture occurs? Imagine that! Sends chills down my spine just thinking about it.

I started to read the Book of John and God showed me just in the first chapter how he had a contageous spirit! Duh.... Jesus is God manifest in the flesh! What caught my eye was verse 50. Nathannel was supprised that Jesus knew him already and asked how? Look at verse 50 of John Chapter 1

Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.
(Joh 1:50)

He saw him under a Fig tree before he ever met him! But then the second half of that verse is absolutely amazing. "thou shalt see greater things than these."

Heaven is far beyond the human minds comprehension! I dont care how moch of a bible scholar or how smart you are. You may be the most smartest person in the world and you will by no means be able to comprehend Heaven!

In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
(Joh 1:4-5)

Jesus is the light of men He is the one that is going to decide wether you will be able to pass in to heaven! If you dont have his Holy Spirit and have not repented of your sins TO GOD NOT TO MAN you will not enter. You are darkened and need the light of Jesus to light your way. I was in those same shoes but I repented to God through prayer and asked Him to change my life and save me from Hell believing that Christ died on the cross for my sins! God turned the Light on and I was radically changed!

It was a God thing! Not anything that I did myself. My comprehesion of the Bible turned on and the indwelling Holy Spirit showed me things in His Word that only someone that has been saved can understand!

No Turning Back

I just made my deposit for the Guatemala missions trip scheduled for November 7th to the 14th. I am nervous and I am sure that I will become even more nervous as the day draws nigh. I have to raise over 1000 dollars over the next 3 months or so that only God can provide. This is my first expierience outside the military that I will be experiencing in a foriegn field! The mission is to share the Gospel by evangelism which means standing in front of crowds of people and preaching. This will be different compared to American way. Full of pride and self righteousness. I have preached on the streets of Kansas City and it is more dificult and Satan has domonation and control providing us with access to anything we want to try an satisfy the flesh! Everyone that has been on the foriegn field has stated that the people are so receptive to the Gospel and once they are saved they become hungry for the Word! It brings me back to the day that I was saved on July 14th 2002 and how hungry I was and still am for the sweet truths of God's Word.

Some people I have approached with the Word of God don't understand it and they find the Word to their eyes false fables. That is only because their eyes have a vail over them and they dont understand. The bible is TRUTH from cover to cover beginning to the end and there is not one word in it that is false! The bible says that they are blind. Not physical but spiritually!

(1Co 1:18) For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

(Joh 3:3) Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.


I am going to attempt to journal or blog my daily experiences with God from this point till I return from Guatemala! Wether that is a daily entry or every few days or weekly I do not know.

As a testamony of what is currently happening I have already seen God work since the day I committed myself to this trip back durning the missions conference. Several days after my commitment I recieved a letter from the VA stating that every disabled Vetran would recieve a one time $250 check in the mail. Our deposit was $200.00 Secondly today I should have been doing my military weekend and I would have missed my first meeting for the trip. God fixed that! He set it up so I spent my Friday with the VA Hospital and offset my drill days to Friday and Saturday just so I could attend the meeting today! Tell me thats coincidence? I dont thinks so!

If you are reading this today and you have not recieved Jesus Christ as your personal savior you can have this too! The bible says that without faith is is impossible to please God! It also states that For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Eph 2:8-9) You cant get to heaven by works by yourself or any other man you cant get to heaven by baptism going to church or by any ammount of things or money you have or even a communion! There is only ONE way to heaven and that is by REPENTING of your sins turning from them and asking God NOT MAN to forgive you and save you from those sins and ask Jesus to come in to your heart and life!

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, BUT BY ME. (Joh 14:6) That ME is Jesus Christ!