Ministering reconciliation...

Philippians 4:19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. God has been reminding me a lot the last few weeks about how He supplies. In the words of my mother-in-law, "Where God guides, He provides." This has all been coming about over the last few weeks with a bit of a nasty situation in my finances. If you have been following my blog for awhile you may realize that the last year for me has been a bit crazy. I won't rehash here, so go back and read the post titled "Stirring the Pot." My life has been a hotbed of blindsides and unexpected stuff. It would be one thing if I was going around in my life and saying "when's the other shoe gonna drop?" I don't, and no Christian should, that is a reaction out of fear rather than faith. God called us to be people of faith. In my journey, God has been reminding me of simple truths that have been taught to me since the time I was a little baby. Bu...

John 12:23-25 23 Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. So I had a conversation with a new friend, Pastor Nick Lembo, and he was telling me about how he as been increasingly aware of the cycle of death. Now, before you go off thinking he is really old, he's in his prime! (that's for you pastor Nick, hope it edifies you.) Well I was thinking and pondering what he shared with me and it kind of got "Stuck in my craw." I went back to a verse God reminded me of in John (see above) where Jesus says, "Its time," then says "unless the wheat falls to to the ground and DIES, it remains only a single seed" then he finishes by saying "whoever hates ...

In reading, and studying Acts with my friend Travis, I began realizing that when you stir the pot, all hell breaks loose. After saying that, I didn't realize what i was dealing with. God began stirring my pot last year. A lot. I went through leaving a church, the loss of a child, the one area that I had left was finances. I chose to no longer send my money to the Assemblies of God, as required by their by-laws. In so-doing, I sent a clear message to GOD that I was His man, all the way through. I stirred the pot by getting closer to God. Now I find out, after telling myself and Satan that my money is Gods, that I can't really afford school anymore, I owe $800 AFTER financial aid was paid, and now I am looking at an additional $4200 for the next year and a half to keep going. Where am I going with this... Acts 9:1 1 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest Saul in this part of the story is doing w...