Ministering reconciliation...

Proverbs 2:1-8 1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, 2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— 3 indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, 4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, 5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. 7 He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, 8 for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones. My wife and I are in the process of looking for a house. We started toying with the idea last week and decided to just dive in and see where it takes us... Well, in the process of looking, I have had this lingering feeling of fear. Now I know what the bible says about fear. We are not to be people of fear, but somet...

Psalm 18 I will love You, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. 4 The pangs of death surrounded me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. 5 The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me. 6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry came before Him, even to His ears. 7 Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken, Because He was angry. 8 Smoke went up from His nostrils, And devouring fire from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and...

My High school sports stories • Tried sports- Kicked off C-Team bball • Tried track, but couldn’t run very well • End up doing Wrestling. • Loved it • Physical contact, high energy, high drama • Last home match of the year, pinned a guy on varsity 24-25 But Jacob stayed behind by himself, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he couldn't get the best of Jacob as they wrestled, he deliberately threw Jacob's hip out of joint. There are some things that we are dealing with emotionally, or otherwise, that are strong, tough adversaries. How then, when we are right in the middle of it, do we wrestle victory from the Jaws of defeat? 1. Understand that we are in a fight and fight the enemy. In this case, Jacob was actually fighting the good guys. It strikes me now how many times we as the BODY of Christ fight each other. This denomination says that this one is bad, the bad one says “we’re not as bad as these guys over here.” My worship pastor...

My wife and I were chatting this morning before I left for work. During the course of the conversation, we were talking about a friend of ours. As we were talking, we were talking about the attitude of the person in specific and how the person seemed very "off" lately. As we were talking, I came to the understanding that not everyone likes change. But as I prayed more, on my way to work, God gave me a revelation that was very cool! He told me, "If you are not liking change its because you are stuck in your ways." WOW! So what God was telling me was that as human beings, corrupted by sin as we are, we want to stay the same. Now it says in Malachi that God doesn't change, but if you look in the bible, there are literally hundreds of times that God changes circumstances. The way I usually tell people is: "God doesn't change, but He AUTHORS change." So in essence, God was saying to me that if we are not liking the idea of change its because we are ...