recharging the batteries

I get UCB's Word for Today through to my email everyday, mainly because I know taht I wouldn't get round to reading it if I didn't.

This week there was a quote in the article by James MacDonald

'I've lived long enough to know men and women whose lives were sold out to God a few years ago, but who've since walked off the track... gone AWOL... lost their longing for God. Fear of following in their footsteps haunts me... and it should you, too...'

I think most Christians can think of people just like this, those that were once on fire, running after God's heart, seeking Him with their entire being. But decisions made, mistakes etc had their walks taking them away from God, taking them from the narrow path walked by Christ, and onto the highway that is the world.

The quote continues 'The faithfulness of my walk with God depends on my willingness to stay in a relationship with Him. I never want to lose the grip His greatness has on my life and the privilege it is to... serve Him till the day I'm welcomed into His presence. That passion compels me. It keeps me honest and humble... the last thing I want to do is crawl across the finish line a defeated, derailed Christian, or worse - give up the race before my life's over. I want to break that tape with arms high, my face to the sun.'

I got to thinking about this. About how our lives are paced at 100 mph most of the time, and how that fact often leads us to the place where we become dry and stale. But since our lives are not likely to get less busy, how then can we guard our lives.

1 corinthians 15:45-49 shows us that we are two things at the same time. We are natural and we are spiritual. Just as Adam was made from the earth, we too are (ashes to ashes, dust to dust - and all that)


At the same time, when Adam was created, God breathed life into Him, God breathed His spirit into Adam, and likewise when we are saved, God breaths His spirit into us.


During a recent service, my Pastor spoke much of what I am sharing with you, and He said that from that point of view, before our lives are submitted to Christ's salvation, we were spiritually dead, that without God, there is no spiritual. I agree with that statement 100%, anything claiming to be spiritual and is not of God is a deception.


Picture yourself as a rechargable battery, you meet with God, you are filled with the spirit, and you head out into your daily life, as time goes on, you are drained by the world. The everydays of life. 


For most of us, we head off to church once, maybe twice on a sunday, and for a lot of Christians, that is the extent of their walks, I myself am guilty of this sometimes. I can talk the talk, I can walk the walk, and over the years I have learned to 'play the game' I can look like the got it all together christian in church on a sunday with my 'all the time' responce when someone says 'God is good' But the reality for a lot of people is that once he service has come to a close, the rest of the week is just a tipping of the hat to God.


I think I have shared this quote previously, but Brennan Manning is credited with saying 'The single greatest cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who ackonwledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him with their lifestyle...'

Its mostly known as part of DC Talk's song 'What if I stumble' from the Jesus Freaks album.


But the scary thing is that its totally true. 


ANd for me this fact is what aids the fall of people ho were once on fire for the LORD.


As we go out into our daily lives, our 'energy' is drained, its pulled away, and since we only top up from the source once a week, we lose the ability to follow the narrow path, to fend off the temptation of the world.


How do we avoid this, the theory is simple, the practise is the harder part, the way to shore up our defenses to temptation, to make sure that we dont lose all our 'energy' is to regularly tap into the source, regularly connect with the main power (Father God)


Regular bible study, prayer, fellowship etc, brings about the filling of the Holy Spirit. 


A friend of mine, told us about a resturant he went to where the light were dimmed, and He said when they first arrived at the place, He could not even read the menu it was so dark in their, but by the time it got round to ordering sweets, there was no problem, His eyes had ajusted to the dim light.


This is what happens in our lives when we dont connect to the source regularly, your eyes become used to the darkness, and your begin to not even notice it any more.


That leads to us walking off the path and our lives, that once burned with desire for God and more of Him. Have suddenly become the same as all those people you were thinking of when I first started this blog.


How important then is it for us to guard our hearts to the darkness. How important is it that we steer clear of the dimness that sneeks in without being noticed. How much more important is it for Us to connect with God, not just on a Sunday in church, but in the week.


Don't be like those Brenan Manning talked of, don't allow your batteries to run dry. Connect to the source, relationship with God the Father is 24/7/365. Its the only way to live, the only way to protect yourself from an enemy that the bible describes as being like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour 1 peter 5:8 and The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy john 10:10

Trials

Recently my wife bought a bunch of John Grisham movie adaptations. And as usual these films have had me thinking about things, and how the natural often speaks of the spiritual.

I am not sure how familiar people are with John Grisham, but he writes legal thillers, I have read several of his books over the years and for te most part they feature around the legal system and lawyers and the like.

We watched the Pelican brief one night and as I write this blog the Firm is playing on the television in the background.

I got to thinking about how these films are all about legal proceedings or practise, the acts of lawyers and legal students and so on. And watching these two films started me thinking about another of the John Grisham adaptations we own on DVD - A Time to Kill, and how that film is based mostly within a court room.

The comparision to the spiritual really started at this point. Thinking about that court room, and its set up and how it is a very natural picture of our state as humans,

Since Adam disobeyed God and broke the command of God in the garden, we have been breaking God's law throughout history. We inherited our sinful nature, and we willing continue to participate in that sin. We enjoy it.

I once heard a speaker at a conference refer to sin as being like a Double Chocolate geteau, and that we start with the intention of just having a small slice, we eat that and enjoy it so much taht we have to go back for another 'small' slice and before we know it the entire thing is gone.

We are guilty, completely, totally and fully. Just like Carl Lee Hayley in A Time to Kill, we did exactly the thing we stand accused of.


The bible tells us that God is the judge, and that the day of judgement is coming. romans 14:10-12 is very clear that we shall all stand before the judgement seat of God and give an account of ourselves.

This is a scary place to be, knowing that we are completely guity
and will answer for our lives before a judge. This situation becomes even more frightening when it is noted that the standard that we shall be held to is not the standard that we look at.


God is Holy, he holds such a high standard that lust is comsidered adultary, and hatred considered murder. The simple fact is that you and I can never measure up to those standards, being a good person is just not going to cut it att he white throne described in Revelation.


However, as we looked at in my last blog, there is good news to be had. Jesus' actions at the cross has done the one thing we could never manage alone. He stepped into the dock for us. Took the judgement and washed us clean.


Its a case of Jesus, being God, steps down from the seat of Judge, just as sentance is cast, and takes us out of the dock and steps into it in our place, he is lead away, beaten, nailed to a cross and killed, all in our place.


The result of this, for those that believe, our names are written into God's book, the book of life.revelation 20:11-15


This is the security of salvation. That Jesus actions has placed our names on God's list and at the throne of jusgement, we answer for our lives, we are viewed through the blood covering of Christ, so that God the judge sees only His perfect spotless Son, and frees us from the wrath of the soveriegn LORD.

Dead Man Walking

Want to start this blog with a video

Green Mile

Its a clip from the Movie, The Green Mile, an adaptation of the Stephen King Novel of the same name. Its a fantastic movie and this clip is the near the end of the film.

But why start this blog with something so graphic and so touching at the same time?

Its something that has been a big impact on me and the way I have been looking atthings this week.

I have been re-reading a book I bought a number of years ago called Extreme God Chasers by a man called Tommy Tenny. In the book there is a chapter called 'Dead men see His face'

As the chapter progesses Tommy Tenny outlines the fact that God made it clear in the bible that alive we can not stand in His presence.

Starting with Moses in Exodus 33:18-19 God tells Moses that he can not see His face as...there shall no man see me and live

And so I started thinking about that very thing, about how dead men see God's face and started to wonder about it, thinking through the scriptures about what I know about what it says and I started to notice that death is a recurrent theme when meeting with God.

The OT preists would tie a rope around their foot incase they were to die in the Holy of Holies, as the only way that others could retrieve the his body should God's glory destroy the living flesh.

Paul tells us that to live is Christ and to die is gain, even Jesus himself said that to follow Him we must lay down our lives and take up our cross.

These are but a few of the examples of where the bible points out that death is a key.

Romans 12:1 - 1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship

Well what is a sacrifice? The dictionary calls it an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something deemed as more important or worthy.

Even love is about death - for greater love has no man than this, than he who would lay down his life for his friends

As Christians we are told to love not our lives even unto death. Should this not be our outlook of life, as Dead Men Walking.

God moved upon the alters built in the Old Testament, from Cain and Abel to Abraham through to the prophet Elijah, they each loaded up the alter and a sacrifice was made, and God came upon that sacrifice, fire fell on the alter. and Fire will not fall upon an empty alter, there has to be a sacrifice.

But are you willing to be the fuel? Are you willing to climb up on the alter and call down God's fire?

John Wesley is well known as a founder of the methodist movement and his involvement in the first great awaking in the 1700's once explained that the reason that huge crowds gathered was because
'I set myself on fire, and the people come to see me burn'

Wesley was prepared to climb up on the alter as a living sacrifice and say 'God whatever it takes, I lay on the alter send your fire to consume me Lord'


We need to see Christian more like this, as Philippians 2 tells us to be like Christ in our attitude

And being found in appearance as a man,



he humbled himself


and became obedient to death—


even death on a cross!

Do you want to see Revival, do you want to see God move, we have to get past this mindset of seeking God's hand, looking to God for what he will do, looking for the miricles and the healings.

Stop praising the healing and start praising the healer. Stop looking for the gift and focus on the giver.

We need to seek after the Face of God, and to do that we must die to self, Moses was hidden in the cleft of a rock and could only see God as He passed Moses by, he could only look upon God's back as He walked away.

Moses was desperate to see the Face of God. Are you???

DO you realise that you are in a priviledged position as a redeemed son of the most high. You can see His face because of what Jesus has done on the cross. But you must lay down your life, die to your sinful nature, and become a dead man walking.

The New Testament equivelent of this death is brokeness and repentance. Because of the spilled blood of Christ the work already done on the cross (which by the way if you look at the greek word for cross - stauros - means figuratively, exposure to death ie self denial) we no longer are in need of the blood that the preists of old would spread on their ears, toes and thumbs to depict the dead. Instead you are now the meeting place of the Lord, not the church building you go into on a sunday.

You are the dwelling place of the most high.

Christ in YOU the hope of glory.

It means that you can seek God's face, you can have what Moses desired most, to meet with God face to face, and you can be assured that if you come through repentance and brokeness that you will not die.

why???

Because God looks upon you through the sacrifice of Jesus, you are a dead man walking.

Faith Guitars

Todays blog is a little different from my normal posts, as instead of the usual ramblings of the inner workings of my mind and the thought processes of things theological or things that have struck me from a christian viewpoint, this blog is more of an announcement.

As of This week, The Wap has become the newest endorsee of Faith Guitars. I am now the proud owner of a Faith Eclipse Saturn Cutaway electro acoustic.

Its a beautiful guitar and I must say it is the best acoustic guitar I have ever played and the sound is amazing.

From the first time I played a Faith guitar I fell in love with the sound, I was blown away by the clarity of the sound and the balance of its tone, and frankly had to have one.

SO I wrote off to the nice people at Barnes and Mullins in Oswestry telling them all about the things I have been up to over the years musically, leading worship and running the Sanctuary church, and they were kind enough to offer me an artist deal which I gladly accepted.

For me it was proof of a biblical principle I will not quickly forget.

James 4:2 says you have not because you ask not

also Luke 11:9 


want to finish up by saying that I highly recommend you acoustic guitar lovers to go out and get yourself a Faith Acoustic. Check out their website here

until next time

Brotherhood

Its been a fair whie since I last wrote a blog, life has been getting in the way of me pouring the inner workings of my mind out onto webspace, Its not been through a lack of things to say, but rather more a case of I have two small children and getting at the computer for long enough to type anything even remotely coherent is next to impossible. Yet here I am in this rare moment of peace rambling on again.

I say that life has been hectic, yet recently we have managed to find a new TV seres to watch on DVD, since we dont have normal TV in our house, we have to get everything on DVD, normally a long time after everyone else has seen and forgotten something Menna and I start raving about how great something is. Now you may have noticed that a number of my blog are about things I have seen on DVD, movies or TV series and the like, and that is simply because it is a passion of mine, I love movies. ANd for me I find God uses that to speak to me,

So recently we had run out of things to watch and started looking to rent a movie from our local Blockbuster, when Menna stumbled across a trailer for a TV series called Sons Of Anarchy. The trailer looked pretty good so we decided to treat ourselves and bought the series off of the internet. And boy oh boy were we glad we did, two weeks later we bought the second season on DVD because we just HAD to.

For those who have not seen it, it based around an Outlaw Motorcycle club in the fictional town of Charming, California, I found this synopsis on another website that covers the basics

"Sons of Anarchy" is an adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones about a notorious outlaw motorcycle club intent on protecting their sheltered small town against encroaching drug dealers, corporate developers and overzealous law officers. The club is equally determined to protect their ruthless and illegally thriving arms business. Charlie Hunnam stars as Jackson 'Jax' Teller, a man whose love for the brotherhood is tested by his growing apprehension for its lawlessness. Katey Sagal stars as Gemma Teller Morrow, Jax's force-of-nature mother, who along with Ron Perlman as Clarance 'Clay' Morrow, Jax's stepfather and MC president, have their own darker vision for the club"

While I do not wish to spoil it for anyone, at one point in the show a member of the club fails to show up for a meeting at the clubhouse and so the main character Jax go looking for him, drive to his house to see whats going on.

It got me thinking about my experiences with Church. The series is about a brotherhood, and looking out for each other no matter what. During one of the interviews with the shows creator Kurt Sutter said that for the MC's if they get a call telling them to strap on a gun and go help, theres no excuses, no gettong out of it, you strap on a gun and go help out your brother.

Those two things combined, the depiction of Jax heading out looking for a member of his club when they dont turn up along with the interview with Kurt Sutter, really got me thinking about how that should really speak of how we are in the church.

Now dont get me wrong, I am not saying that I condone or encourage the church or christians to start doing the things the Sons do in the series, illegal activities and so on are not the way fporward for the church and that is not what I am saying. However the unity and the brotherhood that is displayed in the series, the fierce loyalty of the members to the club, and each other most of the time, these are the things that surely the church should be displaying to each other.

When was the last time you called someone that you didnt see in church sunday to make sure everything is ok? In this age of text messaging and facebook, its so easy to paper over the issues in our lives in a way that you feel that you have done your bit by sending a text and getting a flat yeah I'm fine reply.

Motorcycle clubs wear colours, a back patch that is earned and respected, they often have different charters to represent where they are from, bt the top rocker and logo are the same and it means something. when was the last time you were so fierce about your christianity that people came up and asked you whats so different about you? Are you proud to wear the colours of Christ?

Are you willing and ready to act upon the words of Christ John 15:13 do you love your fellowship enough to give it all up?


John 17 talks of us having unity with each other as Christ had unity with the Father, John the baptist talked of Christ increasing as he decreased, Ephesians speaks of unity as bringing about the fulness of God.

Are we not one body, are we not one family, should we not fight for each other?

Yet its the one thing that we lack, the fall down point of our lives, we have too much of a 'them and us attitude' and the scary thing is that it is not limited to a few, but its a curse that effects the many, we try to cover it over with 'church in the city/churches together' meetings or events, but when the rubber meets the road (sticking to the motorcyle theme) How many of your church would go to the local apostolic/baptist/presberteryn/add a demonination here when they were putting on an event to support them. How many of our churches would cancel their normal meeting on a sunday for the change to join with the other churches in your area for a corporate worship time?

Sadly the answer is few, there are some exceptions to the rule, but generally we are to interested in our own little services, to caught up in the way that we do things, the 'we cant change this is the way its always been done' or the back biting, name calling, cant trust them they are XYZ and they do it this way, so they cant be saved.

And then we wonder why we dont see revival, why moves of God seep away, how the enemy gets into our churches breaking up marriages and families. How the occult takes a foothold in our towns?

Is it really any surprise when the only authority to stop it s infighting and concentrated on themselves or pulling down those we should be supporting and building up.

We wont see these things we desire until we adopt an attitude of brotherhood, not just in your church building but for all the churches in our areas. Our denominations should be like the charters of a MC, it shouldnt matter if you worship with hymns or to contemporary music, or if your church building says evangelical or baptist etc. For the Sons of Anarchy, the thing that counts is that its says Sons of Anarchy on the back patch and for us as christians all that should matter is the Cross, Jesus paid much to high a price for us to pick and choose who should come. Much to high a price for us to fight each other, we should back our brothers

Body of Christ Casting Crowns

Prayer Of Jabez

This was something that exploded onto the Christian scene a few years back. I was the next big thing in Christianity, despite it having been a part of the bible since it was God breathed.

It can be found in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 you can read it here

About 4 years ago I moved from my hometown in London to Neath, leaving behind a box of books with a good friend that I simply didnt have room for at the time.

This past weekend, I got the chance to get back up to London to visit and my friend handed me my box of books.

I had almost totally forgotten them after all this time, and as I looked through them, I found books that I had forgotten I even owned and a few that I am still convinced are not mine, but obviously God wants me to read them.

Within the books was a small book by Bob Gass, many people may know the name as part of UCB and the Word for Today. This small book offers 'Fresh insight on the prayer of Jabez.  First of all I want to recommend reading this book, it took me no time at all to finish and God spoke to me all through it.

I want to share some things that grabbed me and to do this I am going to use quotes directly from the book as I think it holds a timely message for the church and us today. (therefore I would like to add that a fair bit of what follows is directly copied from the book and no my own work)

here it is

'Because God's promisescome with conditions...in this 'microwave mentality' generation, we risk turning the Prayer of Jabez into a get rich quick formula, or a way of manipulating God to get what we want, instead of taking the time to ask what we need'

 As a church, but maybe even more importantly as individuals, we have to grasp this fact. God doesn't pander to us. It is we, as examples of Christ that should take on the serving role just as we are told in philippiams 2 read

We need to be the ones serving God in what we do.

'...if you want what Jabez had, you have to do what Jebez did. His prayer was backed up by a lifestyle of obedience...'

Bob Gass continues in his book with what follows, and I want to state now that I in no way have gotten there with this, I am not yet at this point and I am learning this lesson even as I write this today.

'As a devout Israeli...Jabez would have been a tither. Actually the thought of not giving the first tenth of his income would never have occurred to him...'

Malachi 3:10 gives us the promise of God on this very subject, Matthew 23:23 then shows us that it is not a teaching just of the old covenant.

'Jabez would have grown up hearing the words of scripture on a regular basis and Deuteronomy 28:2 says "You will experience all the blessings if you obey the Lord your God"

...God can not bless you beyond your last act of disobedience'

Also read Dt28:1-13

'Now let me show you something else that will keep the prayer from working for you... Psalm 66:18 NLT

this scripture simply means, if you refuse to acknowledge your sin and seek forgiveness, God wont answer your prayers. He cant! if He did He'd be violating the very conditions He Himself laid down in His word'

You see we have to come before God with a confidence, in who HE is, who WE are, and mostly in WHERE we stand before Him.1 john 3:21-22

'...its not praying for what we want that brings God's blessing. But having the confidence that we're praying according to what He wants for us. He already has a plan in place for us. The trouble is most of us have no idea where we are in His plan, so we ask for right now things that He hasn't scheduled until later ( and in some cases not at all) You see, you can pray for a roof until you are blue in the face, but if your foundation hasn't been properly laid, you wont get one because you dont need one yet'

Hebrews 10 tells us if we continue to do God's will then you will recieve His promises - isnt that what we ultimately want out of life, the promies of God, His best for us???

The bottom line in our lives has to be Christ, He must be the ficus, we cant continue to live for ourselves, when the price that was paid was so great. We need to refocus our lives on what the cross is all about, john 15:13 'greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' But thats not the end of it there at all. its that the price that was paid was in our place. And if our God can give up that much in sacrifice in our place then we need to grasp this final thing from the first chapter of the Bob Gass book

'...God knows the where's, the when's, and the how's of blessing you. You can trust Him to know WHAT you need, WHEN you need it, and HOW to get it to you...'

Lets stop trying to rip the calender of our lives from the grasp of God telling Him that He somehow forgot about x,y and z on our agenda, and realise that to fully experience the blessings of God we need to know He is in control and take the choose to life by the John the Baptist principle 'He must increase, but I must decrease' John 3:30 KJV

I leave you with a fantastic song by OneHundredHours that I love

At the foot of the cross

The Old Man and the new

I recently rented Solomon Kane from Blockbuster, its a film about a man who spent his life as a mercenary, until he comes face to face with the Devil Reaper and tells Solomon his evil deeds have irrevocably damned his soul, and he is now destined for Hell.


As a result of this encounter, Kane finds sanctuary with Monks, until he is forced to leave one day. Having enbraced a life of peace in an effort to attone for the evils of his past, when events take place Kane choses not to fight back. However when a family that befriends Kane are attacked, mostly killed and the daughter kidnapped, Kane vows to return the daughter to the only surviving member of the family. And the film follows Kane as he embraces his past life of violence to fulfill his vow.


The important part of the film for me is the reason that Kane makes the vow to find the kidnapped girl. With his dying words the father of the family declares that Kane will redeem his soul if he rescues Meredith the kidnapped daughter.


Its a film about redemption fundamentally


Now from a completely theological standpoint, Solomon Kane, could not be any less biblical if it tried, the idea that you can save yourself with your actions is so far short of the mark we know that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and that it is faith and not works that brings about our salvation and therefore our redemption, however, as I walked through town today after finishing the film, I felt God prompting something to be learned from its mistake.


The bible in Colossians 3 says
...seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. (ESV)

As Christians when you accept the gift He offers of salvation you become a new creation,  (2 corinthians 5:17) the old things have passed away and everything becomes new. The past is something that we need not focus or linger on, Paul himself writes in Philippians 3 that he was focusing all his energies into this one thing, Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.


And so we too should be doing this also. An this brings me to the point I would like to look at.


Paul says he is forgetting the past and looking to the future and I agree with this sentiment, however I believe that we can not pass our life experiences up to today out of hand in our walks with Christ.


Now for Solomon Kane, when looking for redemption he sought Christianity out and found sanctuary with God and a lifestyle of peace, however ultimately it was in the film his past that brought about his redemption, the previous life he had chosen gave him the skills and the ability to complete the vow taht lead to His avoidence of Hell.


For us as Christians, its not quite the same, but we need to keep our past mindful, not dwell on it, but learn from it. Our past experiences have formed the person we are today in the same way the our future experiences will continue to create what we become. Character, personality etc are all effected by our circumstances.


A fantastic speaker called Denis Morgan-Donar once said 'we need to stop praying that our circumstances will change, because what do you get when they do???


Another set of circumstances.'


Whats my point here, - simply that we are told to learn from our past mistakes Hebrews 12: 10-11. SO we can not totally forget the past.


The Old testament showed the Isrealites making notches in their staff as a reminder of the things God had done for them, and our mistakes should be viewed in the same way. Not to dwell on them but to learn from them and move on.


This is what I believe Paul was talking about. Remember that Paul was a Pharasee, he persecued christians and was standing at the stoning of Stephen before being knocked from his donkey in a visitation with the Lord. That he was leaving the past behind him and learning from what had gone on and hoping for the coming future.


Your experiences will always colour your view. They will carve out how your react to situations, how you approach something. AN example from my own life is this: -


Not too long after we moved into our home, I had been feeling unwell and decided to go to bed early. Normally I go round checking that the house is locked and secure before going to bed, however since it was so early I assumed that my wife would do the locking up. SHe however assumed that since I always do it out of habit, that I had done this night also.


At about 3am the following morning, I was woken by the sound of someone downstairs, naturally I flew out of bed, to find a man standing in my hall way. No the sight of me at 3am in my undies is probably not the best view point of me, in fact its probably pretty frighting I must say, add to that at this time I owned a jet black huskey lab cross (who looked very much like a black wolf) who slept at the top of the stairs and had somehow not seen this guy walking into our house as a concern until I hit the stairs at pace, and she went nuts. Being dark it was fierce barking and white teeth and not alot else could be seen.


Thankfully nothing had been stolen from our house, but I learned a valuable lesson that night. Every night since that day, even if I know tha its been done I will go and check that the house is locked up at night.


Its learning from past mistakes, I dont dwell on what could have happened that night, the possiblities are worrying, but that I might not be so lucky next time, so there will not be a next time.


We are an ongoing process, to be Christian means to be christ like, 'little christ' you are not there yet. Aerosmith sing 'lifes a journey not a destination' and for us as christians we know the destination, its the journey that we are on currently to become more like Jesus each day


Philippians 2:5-11 should be the focus of our journey, that basis of it, chooseing everyday to take this on board.


Learning from our mistakes, learning from what the bible calls the old man and becoming a new creation in Christ Jesus. Putting on the New man. Its a process.


28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28


Not somethings, but ALL things - Past present and future.


Amen and Amen