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God Speaks, We Listen, and I’m Not Kidding

This year I’m doing things a little bit different than other years. I’m reading five chapters a day in the old testament. I started in the prophets and just finished with Malachi. Now I’m reading in the Psalms.

Things Are Changing

It’s weird but the world seems worse than before the pandemic. It may not be worse but it sure seems to be. Or maybe I’m just on the media thread too much. Whatever, I get discouraged if I listen to the common thread for today. People need the Lord.

But One Thing Hasn’t Changed

God is still in control. Let’s not forget that He is in charge of the world. But why doesn’t it seem like it? you may ask. There’s a mixed bag of answers for that question. We are losing our way but make no mistake, God is still bringing people to find Him. I listen to some YouTube videos that prove God is still at work.

God Is Still In Control

Start looking and you will find Him. Through videos He speaks loudly. However, the message is being delivered in many unique ways. I listen on the YouTube videos to a variety of Christian messages intent on sharing the gospel of Christ. It is being shared far and wide, from coast to coast. His word speaks loudly.

Intention To Listen Well for Him

People are being bold with their message, but warm in sharing the grace of God. When you figure it out, you become intentional. You decide to be careful with what you watch. If you aren’t careful, you get stuck listening to stuff that leads to despondency. So, you must determine what you will allow yourself to listen to.

God Meets Us Where We’re At

God waits for us until we’re ready and willing. We think we’re waiting until God is ready but in reality God is waiting until we’re willing and able to carry that cross. In many respects we are ready but there are things we don’t quite understand or grasp. And, maybe, it’s just not the right time.

Follow God Through It All

Often the following is hard for us. We get ahead and work it out the way we think it should go. We don’t even realize we’re doing it because we’re so focused on doing it right. Learning to lean on His directing and facilitating makes a world of difference. God brings things about in His way and according to His purpose. Our eagerness causes wrong impressions and may lead to troublesome actions.

In My Life

I have had this problem big time. I mean well but I do it my way. God has slowed me down. I have learned to listen and wait. But the wait is active. I don’t just sit and twiddle my thumbs. I am waiting while I learn and listen. LEARN + LISTEN = WAIT. God is constantly teaching us. He waits and wants and wishes for our attention, but He never forces His way.

We Can Do This

The more we listen, the more we ascertain His wishes, the more we learn to follow His lead, the more we step into His fulfillment in our lives. It’s kind of uncanny how it works. God leads, we follow. Simple, yet difficult. Good, but hard. Yes, sometimes we are unsure. We aren’t sure when we’re leading or following. Ask Him. He will guide you to find the answer. He uses His Word, people, or circumstances to bring the issues into focus in ways we can understand. It’s really beautiful the way in which He teaches us.

If You Aren’t Sure

There’s a lot of confusion about some of these things. We aren’t sure of God’s plan for us. Lean forward, lean inward, and lean outward. Look to God. Make yourself open to Him. Be honest. Be willing. Invite Him in. Trust Him. Confess your problems. Open up to Him. Seek His way. Rest in His truth. Obey His word. Really, take some time and look to Him. In every way you know, you are His child and precious to Him. Always remember this. He loves you.

Go With His Plan

You can do this. He is with us. We are God’s children. We mean the world to Him. He means the world to us. We’re in this life for a reason, and part or all of that reason is to glorify God. We don’t feel adequate but that doesn’t matter. Give your all to Him. How do you do that? Give your whole self, bit by bit, thought by thought, to God.

We Are No Mistake

God us our most precious Father in heaven. Tell Him you love Him. Maybe you already have. God’s love is the most precious thing we have on earth. He has a far-flung mission that you may not realize. . .yet, it’s in a beautiful plan of God. He wants to use us, but He waits until we are willing. Though, we must be willing and without any reserve. As our Father, He knows and keeps us in the palm of Him hand. So glorious it is to be used by God in the world in which we live.

God be with you.

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Following Jesus Makes All the Difference

No Matter What It Costs, You Need Jesus

Is God enough?

Has Jesus Failed You?

I often say that Jesus is enough. Is it true?

I just listened to a podcast by Delafe Testimony. It’s so good that I’m going to share it with you. The interviewer asked Angel questions, which he one by one attempts to answer. He believed in God but his daily walk was pulling him down. He had homosexual tendencies that wouldn’t go away, no matter how hard he tried to shove them to the side. This troubling scenario went on for quite some time. Then he got shot at the club, left to die, and prayed to God for help.

He Was Struggling

My curiosity was picked. I listened. I believe this is where many of our young people and even the older generation are stuck. The more I listened, the more I agreed with the content. When people are helped by praying, God hears us but He doesn’t usually help us kick the problem until we are more interested in the path of God.

Let Me Explain

Angel went as far as he knew but it wasn’t enough. He would be back and forth, and back and forth. Finally, when he was really stuck, the trouble intensifies. He gets shot multiple times. He gives in, really and truly gives in, and God becomes real. He makes the decision to follow Jesus at all cost.

When Jesus Becomes Real

Jesus is enough, no matter what. You can’t deny that the world has become more uglier. Everywhere, children, adults, and teens are screaming how crazy the world has become. Christians are seen as the losers. They don’t seem to have the answers that help. Unfortunately, that is not the truth in most cases. God has become really real.

Jesus Is Real, I Mean, Really Real

That’s true. That’s real. That’s the truth. God makes beautiful testimonies out of the most ordinary lives. It’s true! You can’t deny the truth of what God does in people’s lives. But first, they must empty themselves of the many things that get in the way. If you understand the gospel. Ask Jesus to understand your problems. Seek Him when the problems surround you. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He is the great enough.

Read the story at the bottom then click on Angel’s story. Thank you.

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Delafe Testimonies. Angel Colon Link

This Lifestyle Almost Cost Me My Life But Then Jesus Did This…

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Positive story D. Berger, on fishing  9/5/2020

GOOD MORNING today. The smoke from CA fires is so thick that we did not go for a walk this morning so I decided to go fly fishing. Love those stocked trout – 8 casts 5 fish later I was wondering why I didn’t bring one of  the grandkids when a young Chinese girl (7 or 8) asked me if I could teach someone to fish. I said sure so she giggled and ran off. a few minutes later she came with her mother and asked me to teach her mother to fish (her dad had given her a heavy salmon pole, 50 lb line, a huge hook and rubber worms). I went to the truck and took out spinning gear, cast out and gave the pole to the girl while I tied on a leader and trout gear. Before I was done, the girl had her first fish. Next cast, mom had her first one – 20 minutes later we had two limits. Mom started laughing and asked me to tie the original hook back on so they could go back upstream to dad. They went up the path laughing so hard they could hardly walk. Come on up, tomorrow is “free” fishing in Oregon so no license needed. I have a spare bedroom…  A fun part of the story… the mom walked out on a log, stood in a yoga pose (right knee bent with right foot against her left calf) in flip flops, and she fished from a couple feet above the rapids. Haven’t seen that before. I can stand on the log, but fishing from one foot when she has never caught a fish before?

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