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.

I Am Still Wrestling!

I dont know why, how, who, what or when. All I know is God is telling me to wake up and that Salvation is nearer than ever before. I gave my future to the Lord a couple of years ago and now I am coming to the point of a descision. I dont have a clear path I dont know what to do. All I can do is sit and wait and get ready because I know that the day that God says move it is not going to be as subtle as it is now. I pray for guidance and direction Lord!

Wrestling With The Lord

I am currently wrestling with the Lord on a verse that has embedded in my head. For the past 3 weeka or so. Romans 13:11 And that knowing the time, that now it is high time to wake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. I am starting to be more tuned to the voices of others around me. Things I hear or see are starting to pierce my heart with sadness more and more. The mocking, the luke warm people, the false converts, those that believe their good works can get them to heaven when the bible clearly says that our works are as filthy rags in the site of a Holy and just God. Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Those that spew out the very depths of their heart at the very God that gave them life. It looks like God is beginning to give me what I asked for. The compassion and the desire to share with those that do not know the peace of God that surpasses all understanding.

I am wrestling what what I believe God is asking me to do but the fear of the unknown overcomes me. I dont even feel I have the ability to shepherd or deal with people day in and day out at least on a full time basis anyways. I can handle Sundays, but every day?

As I sit here and write this blog there are people all over the world dying or have died already by the time I reach the end of this sentence. Dying with out the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Dying because they are too prideful and too arrogant to understand that they need a savior or spend and eternity in hell! People died without the saving knowledge of Christ because some of us Christians are too scared or even arrogant to share the Gospel and ask the simple question "If you were to die today do you know for sure that you would spend an eternity in heaven!"

Those of you reading this blog where do you stand? Are you someone like me wrestling with the fact the God has called you to sell out for the Lord?
Are you one of the ones that is on the side lines? Or are you completely lost and know that you will not spend an eternity in heaven?

The bible says that you can know without a shadow of doubt that if you were to die this very second you will spend an eternity in heaven.

1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

The bible states in Ephesians 2:8-9 it states "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (9) Not of works, lest any man should boast."

Salvation is a gift that only comes through the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ! Doesnt come by baptism, Doesnt come by good works, doesnt come by confession to man. It comes by repentence to God! There will be people that think they are doing the right thing by thinking their good outwieghs the bad and they will still be cast head long in to hell.

The bible in Matthew 7:21-23 says "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. (22) Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? (23) And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

With a heart felt attitude. Repent to God of your sins, Turn from them. Ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart and believe that Jesus was God manifest in the Flesh and was on this earth and was crucified and on the thrid day rose again! Then ask Jesus to save you from an eternity in hell!

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.

Suffering of the Christian

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
(Romans 8:18)

In my quiet time with the Lord God showed me something. Most people get a misrepresentation as a Christian that life should be all fun and games. This verse doesnt tell me that. "sufferings of this present time" Think about what Christ went through. All through the Gospels, Matthew Mark Luke and John and part of Acts Jesus did not have parties and fun and games and pure happiness. He was persecuted, mocked, made fun of, beaten, flogged, spit upon, rejected, ridiculed, crucified by His own people and last but not least sent to Hell for three days because He took on the sins of the whole world and became the perfect blood sacrifice just so those who believe might be saved from Hell!

The bible states that He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
(John 1:11)

Becoming a Christian is not fun and games. I look back at my life and see persecution, rejection, mockery, rejection even from friends and loved ones. I then turn around and look at what I have gained! I have not gained the world as the world is my enemy and is temperal and carnal. I have gained EVERLASTING LIFE and will be avoiding the deep dark place that burns with everlasting fire. A place that is VERY REAL called Hell. If that is what I have to go through in order to spend an eternity in Heaven with my Lord and Savior it is worth all the happiness in the world!




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The dreaded debates and the New Age Versions!

God hit me with a ton of bricks tonight while reading the Word. Debating the trues of God that are not even worth debating because the Word of God stands up for itself! I can only pray that the Holy Spirit of God can convict those that don't see the truth as what it is. Right in front of their faces. It is sad that the ememy gets in between believers and breaks them apart. If we don't look for ourselves and allow the Holy Spirit to teach us we might as well be lost with those that do not believe that the Word of God is pure and preserved through the translation from the TEXTUS RECEPTUS. It is sad that there are believers out there that like to take short cuts in the Word of God and would rather choose a watered down version over a correct one and the watered down version is more difficult to comprehend than the true version. It does not make sense that even though those of the NIV translation stated that they made mistakes they still chose to use that version!

The signs of the times are coming to pass and the rapture will get here before you know it and the Tribulation will begin, the lost will be left behind and half way through the 7 years the enemy will sit down on the throne of the Tabernacle and will claim to be God! If you are not saved and you have never had a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ then you are bound by the enemy and are destined for hell. Jesus made salvation so simple a child could do it. All you have to do is repent of your sins to God and turn from them (dont go back) and believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh and died for your sins and ask Jesus to save you from hell and come in to your heart and become the Lord of your life!

I did that on July 14th 2002 and I was radically changed! I no longer had the desire to use vain language, the attitude of racism, pro choice, and eventually God took the desire of alcohol away after about 3 months and many more things that I am not proud of doing. He then replaced that with His LOVE, something that man will never be able to produce!

Turn to Him. Submit to His authority of His Word and watch your life become more exciting than you have ever experienced!

My message for Guatemala open air preaching.

Can I take just a few moments of your time? I want to talk about death and the answer. The bible says in Ecclesiastes 3:1” To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” Everything on this earth including our lives has a set time. Everyone here including myself will die. When that is we don’t know. It could be today, tomorrow, next year, 5 years or longer. There is nothing we can do about it we will die. Our own heartbeats are a drum beating to our own funeral march. The Bible says in Hebrews 9:27 “As it is appointed unto man once to die, after this the judgment” When we die we will stand before God. You say that’s cool I wonder what that will be like. The bible says in Ezekiel 18:20 “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” The reason why we die is because we have broken God’s commandments and we are not aware of it. Time is pushing us closer and closer to the edge of death every second of every minute. We will die and we will stand before a just holy God whom we have angered with our sin and headed for a Christless eternity called hell.
So let us compare our lives against the 10 commandments and see how we do. How many of you have told a lie? I know I have. What does that make us? A liar. Have you stolen anything doesn’t matter the size of the item. I have. That means we are thief. Have you ever used Gods name in vain? I know I have. The bible says in Exodus that “for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” What about murder? The Bible says in 1 John 3:15 “that whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.” This is how God sees us. He sees us as a Lying, Thieving, Blasphemer, and murderer at heart and we have to face God on judgment day. Guilty as charged.
We will stand before a just, righteous, holy God that does not allow liars, thieves, blasphemers, and murderers in to His heaven and our soul will be cast in hell for eternity, but there is a solution to that! Over 2000 years ago Jesus, God manifest in the flesh was born of a virgin and died on the cross sinless for you and I so we don’t have to spend eternity in hell. The only way to heaven is through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ by repenting of your sins and turning from them and putting your faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. No amount of works, money, baptisms, fastings or church attendance will get you to heaven. The bible says in Ephesians 2:8-9 say for by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: Not of works, least any man should boast. You can change your destination. I cannot do it you have to do it yourself. John 3:16 says For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
The Bible says in Romans 10:13 “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life. No man can come to the father but by me. In the Bible 2 Peter 3:9 says that the Lord is not willing that any should perish that all should come to repentance. Jesus Christ came to earth and died on the cross for you and me so we didn’t have to spend eternity in hell separated from a God that loves us so very much. You can change your path you can receive the free gift of everlasting life and you can know for sure that if you were to die this very instance that you would spend an eternity in Heaven. Just bow your heads with me and pray this simple prayer:
Lord I know that I am a sinner. I have lied. I have stolen, I have done everything there is to anger you. Forgive me of my sins. I believe that Jesus Christ died on the Cross for my sins. I ask you Jesus to come in to my heart and life and become the Lord of my life and change me into your image. I thank you for your gift of everlasting life, in Jesus precious name. Amen.