May God remember you like Noah,
favor you like Moses,
honor you like Mary,
fight for you like the Israelites ,
prosper you like Isaac,
promote you like Joseph,
intervene for you like Esther,
protect you like Daniel,
use you like Paul,
heal you like Naaman,
answer you like Elijah,
anoint you like David,
and keep you safe like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.

Faith Working Like a Dog

Faith with out works is dead. My last post I shared what God was doing in our lives and the amazing promise He has given us. well about two weeks after that post God sent me some amazing resources and mentors that I can draw from. I am glad I stepped out in faith and spoke the words that God asked me to share.

Because of the stepping out in faith God has blessed us with not only a direction, but also the means of getting there. I feel like all the things that God has been speaking to me for the last 15 years about is coming together and I can see where God has orchestrated everything in my life to bring me here with my Wife and Family. Word of the month, AMAZING!!

The Dream, The Vision, The Prayer

Let me start off by saying this has been such an amazing year that I am looking forward to see what God is going to do next. We have made some huge transitions over the last 7 - 9 months and God has moved upon us and taken us way our of our comfort zone in just about every area of our lives. This blog is to inform and get the Vision cast out there so God can do what He will.

There was a lot the led up to this Dream & Vision, but to keep this short I will share the last 7 - 9 months of happenings.

The Dream:

God Gave my wife a dream while we where searching for the next level that God wanted to take us to. God was moving us out of the place we where in into something new and different. We felt it was planting a church. God came to my wife in a dream and give her a vision of us (with a team of people) growing a small group into a huge group of people to further the Kingdom. The Dream was amazing you can read the whole thing here

The Vision:

God shortly after the Dream give me a vision while attending River Of Life Family Church. During worship services he showed me leaving the old fulfilled promises and moving into another level through an opened door of His new promises again you can read the whole thing here. The Vision was to show that He was starting a new movement and we where to be apart of it and Plant a church with a group of people.

The Prayer:

The core group of the Church that we are called to plant will be formed before the end of 2010. In the beginning of 2011 we will start having church services and reach 500+ people for the Kingdom.

We are believing that God will fulfill His promise and we are praying with audacious faith that we are going to move into this promise. This is a public proclamation that we are expecting God to be our guide and position us in the right place to get started in the natural what has already be released in the supernatural. Please join with us in praying this prayer of audacious faith. You can send us your prayer request as well if you would like us to pray for you.

Thank you

Fulfilling your purpose, while waiting on the Promise

Luke 2:49 - And he said to them, How is it that you sought me? knew you not that I must be about my Father's business?

I have a huge Promise from God that is about to explode and waiting for it has been both exciting, yet frustrating. Something God spoke to me about in this time of waiting is fulfilling my purpose, while waiting on His Promise. Jesus demonstrated this perfectly as a 12 year old boy teaching to the priest. It was not until he was 30 that he was baptized and started his ministry and the promise God had on his life came to pass, but at an early age he was fulfilling his purpose.

Sometimes we get in a place where we are frustrated because the Promise is on it's way, but not here yet so we tend to go stagnate. A lesson learned here is to fulfill your purpose as a worshiper, an ambassador, a child of the King and be the salt and light of this world. Because it is in fulfilling your purpose that you can receive the Promise of God.

agricultural promises

Something really cool I read from this book I am reading, "a call to die" by David Nasser regarding the principal of sowing and reaping. He said what you sow you reap what you sow, more then you sow, and after you sow. This is either great news for you or bad news depending what you sow.

If you are sowing nothing, but trouble it is going to come back on you and then some...think about it, if you plant one apple seed in the ground and that seed grows to be and apple tree (reaping what you sow) that tree produces more then just one apple (reaping more then you sow) and it took some time for that tree to grow and mature to produce the fruit (reap after you sow).

So I ask you what are you sowing? Because what ever it is it is going to come back multiple times over. The Choice is you.

Can't Grow with out Rain

Matthew 5:45

NIV
that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

New Living Trans:
In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike

Just like every good home owner I am over seeding my lawn and putting things on it to grow and look oh' so pretty and green. I keep it trim and neat so that it looks nice, and to tell you the truth I don't get sited by the city for it being to long.

I was spreading grass seed the other day so that I can try and get grass to grow and choke out the weeds and lettuce looking vegetation that seems to be growing. I was reminded of a portion of scripture in Mathew 5:

⁴³"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' ⁴⁴But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, ⁴⁵that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. ⁴⁶If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? ⁴⁷And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? ⁴⁸Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

God Blesses everyone, not just those that serve him so who are we to be any different? Are we better then God? What got me thinking was that the water and sunlight that is going to make my grass seeds grow is the same water and sunlight that is going to make the weeds grow.

If you look up weed it is just defined as a nuisance plant so it is all based on if you want that plant to be there or not. Grass becomes a weed when it is in your flower beds or flower planters. So do we define some people as weeds when we look at them when God sees us all as a diverse group of people in different stages in our blossoming? Do we slap labels on someone because they look different and don't fit out "culture"? If so, maybe we need to change our personal culture to be that of Jesus, not the American Culture that has corrupted the Religious community.

I was then reminded when Got took Peter in Acts 10: 9-48 where he told him to preach the gospel to the gentiles. Peter said they are unclean, but God replied with, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

So in the case of souls It is good that God sheds his light on the just and the unjust, and causes the rain to fall on the good and the bad. If you did not go through "storms" you may not even know God. Most of us come to Him through the adversity of life and the storms we go through. It is those same storms that cause us to draw closer to Him and build a relationship that is even deeper.

So the rain is meant to help us grow no matter what stage in our relationship with God we are in. So when the rain enjoy it because it is bringing you closer to Jesus. If you are not in your rainy season, look for someone who is,even your enemies, and bless them. who knows maybe the storm will make them a better person and your enemy will become your best friend.