April Showers/ May Flowers!

Happy Monday Friends!

It’s raining here this morning… and you know what they say, “April showers bring May FLOWERS!”

In Psalms 126:5-6, the bible calls it like this:  

“Those who plant in tears… will harvest with shouts of joy. They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest.”

In other words… prayer and tears are like the April showers that bring about the May flowers! 

Farmers rejoice over the spring rains… because they ANTICIPATE the flowers and harvest that are CERTAIN to follow! We should do the same! As we water our personal situations with prayers and tears (some of them with lots and lots of prayers and tears)… we should KNOW that FLOWERS AND HARVEST are CERTAIN TO FOLLOW!

God always answers prayer… so never stop praying and trusting all things into His loving care! 

What happens if we don’t pray? What if we take matters into our own hands? Then there will be no water to bless the soil of our situations… and very little chance of FLOWERS and HARVEST! 

So as you pray about things today… KNOW that MAY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER! Don’t get bummed out with these cold and rainy days. Look beyond this month… to NEXT MONTH! Look beyond the rainy days… on to the days of FLOWERING AND HARVEST!

I am praying more than usual for you guys and gals this morning… I’m praying about specific situations I am aware of and other things that come up in my spirit concerning you all. I pray that todays blog adds tremendous value to your amazing lives! Thanks for reading…

My 10 Prayer Points 4 You Guys Today :)

Good Morning and Happy Friday! 

Hope you’re all ready for a great weekend! Are you doing anything FUN AND UNUSUAL you want to share with the world? We’re all ears! 

This morning I read a really cool prayer in the book of Colossians… and I prayed this prayer over you guys! It’s a prayer that the Apostle Paul prayed over the Christians from the city of Colosse. (Geographically located in modern Turkey) 

Here’s the prayer… “So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.

We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy, always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light.”

 So here are my ten prayer points for all of you today!

  1. That you will all have complete knowledge of Gods will for your life!
  2. That each of you will have spiritual wisdom and understanding!
  3. That you will always live in a way that honors God!
  4. That you will produce every kind of good fruit with your lives!
  5. That you will grow as you learn to know God better and better!
  6. That you will be strengthened with all of Gods glorious power!
  7. That you will have endurance!
  8. That you will have patience!
  9. That you will be filled with joy!
  10. That you will always be thanking God… all day every day!

That should make for a fantastic Friday… let me know if it works! Love you guys… chat with you later! :)

I Live For These Moments!

Happy Sunday Morning Everyone!

I just finished one of my best prayer times in a very long while. Today, I’m going to speak from the Christmas story… specifically, the name “JESUS” which means the Lord SAVES.

As I study the topic of salvation this morning… It is almost as real to me right now as it was on the day I first understood it. Do you remember that day? What an amazing moment this is for every person who ever experiences it. That one moment in life when your eyes are OPENED and it all makes sense

When I look back over my life… I am so thankful for the gift of salvation! Where would I be without Jesus?

I just finished about an hour of walking around my office being foolish all by myself, celebrating my salvation. And these kinds of realities don’t come through careful and tedious study… they are gifts from our Father. Every once in a while, he OVERWHELMS us… and that is what he has done for me this morning!

This should make for a pretty phenomenal church service… my God, I am BURSTING with JOY right now… I simply cannot explain this! These are the moments I live for! See you guys today at DFC or tomorrow morning with the FIRST PREVIEW of my exciting book! God bless you all and God bless the USA!!