GET OVER IT, GOD DOESN'T PARTAKE IN PITY PARTIES, OR DOES HE?
Have you ever come off a great victory, overcome a temptation or had God use you in a big way in someone else s life just to be followed up by an attack on your faith, your heart or your physical well being? What we do, or how we respond in these times of testing will determine your next level of victory. Elisha had just experienced fire coming down out of heaven to consume the sacrifice, slew 800 prophets of Baal, and had this great mountain top experience with God, only to find himself running as fast as He could away from the biggest blessing of His life, afraid, alone, discouraged and suicidal. Sound familiar? Can you relate? When we step out with the confidence that God is with us, nothing can stop us or thwart our faith. But when we allow the enemy to speak lies into our hearts, we shrink back. He'll tell us that giving up our vacation to go on a mission trip and be used by God to change the lives of many people, only to be followed up by an illness or an infection upon your return home, that keeps you in the hospital wondering if was worth the sacrifice. We are all faced with the same questions, you write a big check to support a ministry or a cause to feed hungry people in Africa and the enemy always comes to question Gods love for you. He always, always questions Gods love for us. But I have found that getting back in the game and stepping out in faith with a continual desire to see God move and use you, keeps the enemy at bay, because He knows that your faith is firm and you can not be shaken. We can be stirred a little , but not shaken. So God does use our pity parties and our hiding to find out "WHERE ARE YOU" ? The same question he asked Adam in the garden, and the same question He asked Elisha and the same question He asks us. And it's not a question of physically where are you? It's a question of where are you in your walk of faith with the One that loves us and gave His life for us. Do we trust Him? Do we believe that the One that rains fire down from heaven, dies on a cross and then is raised from the dead with all power and authority, can move mountains, created everything out of nothing, thinks about YOU every second of every day, has YOUR picture on His refrigerator, has everything worked out in your life according to His plan and will, provides your every need (even if it's a bird bringing you something to eat), cures your diseases, heals your wounds, brings joy in the morning,shuts the mouths of lions, OH THAT GOD!!! YES I KNOW THAT GOD. You see, I'm over it just by typing this, as The Holy Spirit brings all these great and precious promises and facts to mind.
RAPID ROAD TRIP
Yesterday, Rick Caywood arrived with a load of water going to The Way of the Cross ministry in Harlingen. They are staging some 7 semi truck loads of food, water,toys, candy, to be part of the Celebrate Jesus Mexico edition next month. They needed some beans, so Rick stopped here and we gave him 5 thousand pounds of beans for the cause and he left us a few skids of water. We headed to Way of the Cross at 5:30 in the morning, unloaded by 7:30. headed up to Eagle Lake TX ( a seven hour drive) and loaded 45 thousand pounds of rice, drove another four hours to Waco where Rick lives, picked Wes's truck up to bring back to the Valley while Him, Jess and the Kids are in Africa for a year, went to Ricks warehouse and loaded the pick up with buckets of corn and then drove 7 hours back home and arrived at 1:15am. Just your normal day of service to The King. As I type this, our good friend Alan Wells has been admitted to the hospital yesterday after cutting Himself on a piece of the roofing while they were here last week building a house in Mx. I didn't even know he had a cut, but it's infected big time, so PRAY FOR ALANS' HEALING. HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL MEXICAN WOMEN, (they celebrate mothers day on May tenth no matter what day of the week it is). It also happens to be my birthday today, so happy birthday to me.
INDESCRIBABLE
It's so hard to describe what all took place in the last ten days. Now that we have a few pictures of some of the ministry that took place, you can see the results of some hard working Saints, giving of themselves for service to the poor. I was hoping to get a picture loaded of the 44 thousand pounds of beans delivered Thursday night by a sweet couple, John and Marge from Manitoba Canada. He took a pass on getting paid to drive the truck for Essen Transport to bring the load down, which saved us $800 and can be used for the next load of beans or rice, Gods Blessings on them as well as team that left yesterday and Saturday. I think people would say it was a great week and it would be a little better if God would extend the grace and control my tongue. It has been said that I can be a bit, how shall I say it, harsh and insensitive and it takes some good friends to point your faults out to you and a GREAT GOD to change me! Yesterdays message at church was the lesson on sowing and reaping and I was in awe as to how we started 5 years ago sowing small amounts of beans and rice into the lives of the poor and now the warehouse is full of beans and rice and we have been reaping a great harvest to feed even more people. Yesterday I got a check for $764.00 from a bunch of guys in western Illinois that have been scraping metal that's just laying around their farms and they send it to us to feed the poor. When the passion wells up in the human heart to be a blessing to others, I believe that the smiles of heaven rain down on those that choose, I must stress choose to be a blessing to others. There are so many thank you letter we need to send out, but thanks is in the rewards we will experience when we see our Savior face to face. So consider this your thank you letter from us for being a blessing to us and the poor God has entrusted us to serve. There is no reason for us not to be the happiest people on the planet, doing what we're doing and you should rejoice also for being such a vital part of it, for we couldn't do it without you. MUCHAS GRACIAS PARA TODO!!!
HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO
As I type this, the last of our friends from Chicago and Arizona are packing their bags and we're heading to church before taking them to the airport. Al, Lynnea, Dave and Karen are flying home and Larry from Az. is driving to Chicago to continue His ministry of service helping His daughter. It has been one heck of a week and a half as they partnered with us building two homes, feeding the colonia and handing out hundreds of gifts to the women and children in Mexico. And most of all helping us with things around our house. So for the last 10 days, people from Harvest Church in Burbank and Moraine Valley Church in Palos Heights, Il allowed God to live His life through them as they reached out beyond their comfort zones and served The Living God. The houses were built and decorated in the usual way, but on dedication day, GOD CAME DOWN!! He visited us as we prayed a prayer of Salvation with Victor and Elda, kneeling on the ground with Eldas' sister Julianna and her husband Eliazar, who had prayed to receive Christ just one month ago. A true visitation from The Holy Spirit as we sang songs and prayed, that God would bless these new believers and their families. The team was a real blessing to us and the people in Mexico. So happy Cico de Mayo
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