Just A Thought 04-30-2009

Did you hear what you really thought you heard?  Did you see what you really thought you saw?  Is God speaking?  Just a thought.

Blog 04-30-2009

Thursday

PRaP 04-30-2009

 

“Are You Listening?”

 

A toddler watches her daddy pick up trash and throw it in the waste basket in the kitchen and then goes wandering off into her parents bedroom.  Then she opens the drawers and begins to take clothes from within the drawer and immediately walks to the trash bin and throws them in and then she walks around the house and picks up the remote control and some other little knickknacks and proceeds to toss them in the waste basket.  Now a lot of you just thought she was imitating what daddy did.  Look deeper, the daddy was picking up what he thought was trash and the toddler not know what trash is began to pick up the things that her subconscious thinks as trash.  A child very young guided by what’s inside, what is that consciousness?  Could it be a message within this action?  I think maybe daddy didn’t see the message that God was trying to tell him through this child.  The message was “What about the rest of this trash you keep hanging on to?”  Maybe we aren’t listening with the right ears?  Maybe we aren’t seeing with the right eyes?  Maybe God’s message was what’s up with your stuff?  Maybe the message was it is time to clean up all things in your life because I Am coming soon?  Maybe it was just a child imitating what she saw but only grabbed the wrong stuff but why not look at things through a different pair of eyes maybe God was using His creation to send a message?  Not everything is a coincidence and as a matter of fact the Bible says that God uses ALL things for His glory, why not this?

 

Psalm 34

 

Key Verse:

Psalm 34:11
Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Psalm 34:10-12 (in Context) Psalm 34 (Whole Chapter)

 

Jesus Bless,

Pastor Steve

Just A Thought 04-29-2009

Storms come and storms go and the most important thing is how you handle that storm that matters most.  Just a thought.

Blog 04-29-2009

Wednesday

PRaP 4/29/2009

 

“The Storm Has Cleared But…”

 

I can see clearly now the rain is gone.  I can see all obstacles in my way.  But I will not let down my guard because I do not know what is around that corner.  Many times when the storms clear we drop our guard and become complacent in our walk and next thing we know we are in trouble again.  Now if we would have kept that shield up and that sword at the ready we would not have fallen into the storm again.  I guess it is just human nature to let the guard down and used to be it wasn’t so bad but today we are in the end days and we can no longer lay down the shield and we can no longer sheath our sword because in these times there will be lots of storms and lots of opportunity to share the Truth with those who do not know the Truth.  Be prepared in all things and at all times because we never know when the next storm will arrive and if you are not ready you will be knocked down and you sword and shield can be stripped away from you if you are not careful.  The things of this world are meant to kill steal and destroy all things that you have received from Christ who strengthens us.

 

2 Timothy 4

 

Key Verse:

2 Timothy 4:2
Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage-with great patience and careful instruction.
2 Timothy 4:1-3 (in Context) 2 Timothy 4 (Whole Chapter)

 

Jesus Bless,

Pastor Steve

Just A Thought 04-28-2009

Do you talk the talk?  If you talk the talk, do you walk the walk?  Do you slip and slide?  If you slip and slide your walk is on thin ice.  Just a thought

Blog 04-28-2009

Tuesday

PRaP 04-28-2009

 

“Get The Floaties Out!”

 

Even when the rain comes.  Even when flood starts rising.  I am washed by the Water.  Yep a rainy flooding day in beautiful Houston Texas.  ALL the weather people got this one wrong.  They say it will likely be sunny today I laugh and say it is more likely to snow!  Got to love this Houston weather though, if you don’t like the current weather hang around it will likely change in about 30 minutes.  I remember one day it was like a spring day when I woke up and then by the time I got to work it was a tropical storm and by lunch there was ice on the ground and then the sun came back out and it was hot like summer.  So if you are in Houston and don’t like the weather, stick around it will change.  The World is in constant change.  Moment by moment things are happening and changing and you never know what’s next.  Isn’t it wonderful to know that God is the same today as He was yesterday and even that He will be the same 2 million years from now?  You can depend on His every word because they are ALL Truth.  How about setting your life on that path, knowing it will not veer to the right or left but will always stay on that path God has already laid out for us?  I know it isn’t easy to get there and it is even harder to stay on but if you fully give your life over to God’s plan through a relationship with Jesus Christ the footing is not slippery, by no means, your footing is solid as if you were walking on bedrock.

 

Matthew 7

 

Key Verse:

Matthew 7:25
The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
Matthew 7:24-26 (in Context) Matthew 7 (Whole Chapter)

 

Jesus Bless,

Pastor Steve

Just A Thought 04-27-2009

In these last days many people have fear.  Time for a faith check.  Time for a trust check.  Time to find out how much you really love Jesus.  Just a thought.

Blog 04-27-2009

Monday

PRaP 04-27-2009

 

“HIDE ME!”

 

With all the things going on in this world I have sometimes wanted to shout that out.  Hide me Lord from all this stuff!  Then I feel His arm around me to comfort me and He brings me peace in knowing that He has my back and all I need to do is hold up my shield to fend off those arrows flying at me and when that shield gets full He will replace it with another one as long as I keep my sword at the ready and my armor on. 

 

Psalm 32:7 

You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. 

 

Be delivered today from everything that brings you fear and trembling and know that God the Creator is in your corner if you believe and have received His Son as your Lord and Savior you have no worries.

 

Psalm 32

 

Key Verse:

Psalm 32:5
Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD “- and you forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah
Psalm 32:4-6 (in Context) Psalm 32 (Whole Chapter)

 

Jesus Bless,

Pastor Steve

Just A Thought 04-24-2009

Wonder where the Wicked Land is that is spoken of that was once Edom?  Even today if you read and watch you should be able to figure it out without even looking at a map.  Just a thought.

Blog 04-24-2009

Friday

PRaP 04-24-2009

 

“God’s Love”

 

1 An oracle: The word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi. [a]

 2 “I have loved you,” says the LORD.
      ”But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’
      ”Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” the LORD says. “Yet I have loved Jacob, 3 but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

 4 Edom may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.”
      But this is what the LORD Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the LORD. 5 You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great is the LORD -even beyond the borders of Israel!’

 

Harsh ddduuuuudddeeeee!!!!!  God loves Jacob but hates Esau so much that his land will be destroyed for ever.  The Wicked Land where people will always be under the wrath of God.  That sounds like a cheery place.  NOT!  God loves those who follow His ways and live for His Son Jesus Christ.  Have you turned your house into an Edom, hated by God?  Got questions about who Esau is and why God hates him so much as to do these things?  You can find out about Esau and so much more if you would just pick up a Holy Bible and read it.  I could give it to you but you have the whole weekend ahead of you.  I challenge you to find out and go to our blog and blog it.  Share what God put on your heart.  Here have a shortcut to the blog http://c2cministry.wordpress.com/

 

Malachi 1

 

Key Verse:

Malachi 1:2
[ Jacob Loved, Esau Hated ] “I have loved you,” says the LORD. “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’ “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” the LORD says. “Yet I have loved Jacob,
Malachi 1:1-3 (in Context) Malachi 1 (Whole Chapter)

 

Jesus Bless,

Pastor Steve