God is still Good

Last night we had some awesome service with Brother Floyd Perry from Granite Falls, North Carolina. He preached on Psalms 1 vs 1 & 2, Blessed is the Man, talk about getting filled with the Spirit. Well afterwards we went with Pastor & Mrs. Kim to Los Asados, where we also had some great fellowship, by the time we got home it was about 10 pm. We were in the living room, well I was, and Dee Dee was on the computer. As I was passing by the dinner table a text on D’s phone came through, & it was no chance that I was passing by and I took a peek, it was my sister in law texting that her husband asked her to pray and she was asking if D could ask me to go over there to pray with them or for them, really mainly for Adam my sister in laws husband. You see he had a basic operation if there is such a thing. Well it turns out it turned worst, & he has an infection on his insides. Secondly you should know that Adam & I just don’t click we never have really gotten along. Well when I saw this text I was like, ahhh, this flesh said don’t go I knew what I had to do, but this flesh is weak, pride kicking in all that ugliness. Then I looked at my wife I know it bothered her the way I was acting, then I just let the Holy Spirit guide me to do this. So I told D, “Let’s go I have to do this”. On the way over there D, starts telling me about how her, & the kids have been praying for him every morning for a while. I just kept praying, “Lord I don’t know what to say Holy Spirit guide me, direct me, be my mouth, be in my heart, help me have compassion he may be lost”. You see Adam made a profession of faith a long while back, but no Spiritual fruit ever came out of it so you start to think did he ever get saved. He never changed the way he is. So we get there and D, tells me she has a knot in her stomach, I look at her “You, How do you think I feel”. I was all nervous. Well then we walk into the apartment he is laying on the couch, literally looked like he was on his death bed really. I ask him what he needs prayer I ask him specifically what he needs. He then goes on to tell me about his infection how it is causing him such pain. Then I look at him and tell him, “Well Adam first things first”. I didn’t know how to approach it but God is so good. So I just asked him, “Adam are you saved” He then gives me this look. Then I dare asked him the Question, “If you died tonight would you go to Heaven?” He then looks at me & tells me, “Honestly Juan I can’t say that I know that I will go to Heaven.” Amen I thought this is my way to lead him to Christ. So then I told him what he needed to do to know without a shadow of doubt, to know that he knows where he is going when he dies. Amen Adam got saved last night. I told him pride aside Brother I am here if you need anything. I prayed with him about his health, his family, his Christian walk as a father, a husband, but most of all as a Christian. Then, yes then after we left we said our goodbyes and parted ways. On the way home there was this tension in the car this overcoming joy, as I thought the angels in heaven are going crazy right know celebrating another for Christ. Then out of no where, “AMEN I yelled my wife started crying, with Joy, Then I started crying, Glory to God HE is so good to us, Glory Amen, I thought of how wretched a sinner I am and HE still loves me, AMEN. Just shouting in the car apologizing to God Confessing to HIM, Just rejoicing in HIM, MY Lord, MY Savior, My God, AMEN, God is still on the throne reigning Amen, And Amen, What a Joy, got home we got on our knees prayed some more, rejoiced some more what a night I say Amen one more time.

Testimony

Well lately I have been miserable due to a bad tooth ache, some may say awe just a tooth ache, but if you haven’t had one so severe it makes you want to cry, & makes your eyes all watery it really hurts. Well I have been like that for the past 2 days, & I pray I have time to go to Mexico to get it out, because I haven’t really been sleeping. When I left work on Wednesday, well trying to leave the alarms from the warehouse were tripped so there I go to go to remove stuff from the path of the laser beams, some doors weren’t locked so when I go to leave I have to go searching thru the warehouse to clear this up. I finally do finish this but before I leave I send an email to my boss asking him to show the head warehouseman how to check the alarms before he leaves I know he used to do it before, but we have a new alarms system so I didn’t know if he knew how, oh yeah I copied the warehouseman on it so he could see what I was talking to the boss about. So he then in the morning emails me, & the boss of course saying, he knows it his responsibility to check the alarms, blah, blah, blah, making excuses saying the other guys come into the warehouse. Letting me know I don’t have to tell the boss, but I have to because I answer to him for what goes on. Well as I was typing a strongly worded email, the boss comes to my office telling me he already sent an email to the warehouseman, to check it. So I did, & he had written back to the warehouseman, & copied me on it, just telling him what I meant short, & simple. It was nothing like ragging on him or nothing like that. Then I erased the e-mail I was going to send, because it wasn’t worth my time, & the hassle of bickering, I just thought of my testimony, & not say a word, just smile when I see him. Then later on he sends me another e-mail like nothing had happened, asking on the work schedule for the next day. Isn’t God wonderful how quick we forget HE is in control of everything.

HELP US

Father in Heaven I am depending upon you to touch people’s hearts and lives, only if they could get a glimpse of glory. Amen Lord help us revive the True Christian, those that think they are saved and just playing church, & don’t even know they are lost. Bring convictions upon the Christian to change their lives, starting with me Father. Lord Help Us. Those that look upon the sin of other while we have not looked upon our lives, just because our sin is not visual, doesn’t mean we don’t sin, help us Father. I have seen, and been those kind of Christian that has just looked upon people, & have lost track of You, while You were there I left You, please father don’t let the Christian do this. Help the Preacher that preach the one true word of God, help them keep on the firing line; help them be the example also. Help me Father be an example. Lord I ask that you help the Christian that has not grown with you, that is content to live that defeated Christian life & they don’t even know it, Help them open their eyes, and examine where they were one year ago, & where they are now if there has not been any change any growth, help us realize this. Lord In Heaven, help the Christian stop living such a rebellious life they know better, but yet chose to still rebel, Lord Jesus open their eye on this, Help Us. Lord Life is so short, what have we done for thee in this year, month, day, help us put us on check, check all of us Lord, seems today the church is no longer on fire for your, but the fire begins with me Lord help me Ignite that fire, Lord help my Christian Brothers & sister start their own fire from within Help us realize that this world is going to hell in a hand basket, and are we helping carry this hand basket, check us oh LORD. Seems today, yes today no one cares for anything having to do with YOU Lord. Start that Fire from within, Need some fire starters need some igniters, Help Us, be those Fire starters, those Igniters. Seems nowadays we live in a care free society where do what you want if it feels good, where has the conviction gone O h Lord have I Lord failed you so bad that the conviction is not there no more, I sure don’t wish to be that stumbling block for no one, LORD if it be me search my heart, let me know why, & how I have caused someone not to grow in Christ Jesus. I have not seen any growth so far LORD, How can I change that LORD I beg YOU help US help ME Lord, I love you I need YOU in my Life, LORD. I think of people off the top off my head that I know can grow, but refuse LORD why, are they waiting for your judgment upon them then they will decide to get close to you. Help Us. Help me be a better testimony in any way Lord, HELP US LORD, Be the Christians WE are suppose to be, HELP US JESUS, HELP US. I am tired Lord I get weary Lord, Give us the strength to go on, I would rather burn out for you Lord, than to fade away with the Devil. Sometime people give the devil so much credit for the things that go wrong in their Lives when they don’t realize it, that the devil has backed off, because they are doing it themselves, to themselves. HELP US Lord Help US. In Jesus precious & HOLY name I pray. Wont you Pray with me, when the man of God is at the pulpit asking you to pray with him at the alter do you go with him to try to reach heaven or do you just sit back, & just sit there, you can pray at your pew, but come on come to the alter help the man of GOD. I got an email today from a preacher friend today asking me to help my pastor to keep his hands up like the people did with Moses, it really touched my heart, so will you help keep the preachers arms up so we can reach Heaven, & God will open the windows of heaven, to pour out blessings with abundance. Amen Amen Amen…..

Get in on the Blessings

Ok so Sister Pat had asked me if I knew anyone that had a stove for sale for a Missionary Bro. Sage. Well I had seen one here at our warehouse, but the boss was out of town on vacation. I told Sis. Pat about it, and she got all excited willing to pay for it, I told her not to I was going to try something. I was going to go before the church to see who could pitch in, you know so they can be in this blessing. She looks at me with this serious look, & tells me, “You mind what God tells you to do”. So I told her I would keep her posted if not her & I would split the difference, hey I want in on the blessing, hehe. So my boss came into work today, and I asked him straight forward I told him if he would sell it to me so I could donate it. I told him it was for a missionary that needed it, so he just looks at me, & tells me, “He can have it”. Amen isn’t God so wonderful, so now a missionary will have a gas stove, yay. Can’t wait to tell Sister Pat.

Traveling

I was watching the travel channel the other day, when I hear a voice I recognize, as I look up it is Bro. Sammy Allen at a Bar-B-Que joint in Lexington, Kentucky called Monks. Well I quick ran to tell my wife because they showed this clip before they went to commercial, so she tells me to call John so I did, & sure enough it was him. It was so cool to see someone you look up to on TV. Then just yesterday watching the travel channel again, when I saw a place called Hebert’s or something like that in Maurice, Louisiana, then I said hmm I think I have been there sure enough I have. They had this traducky, yes traducky , it was on with the show with strange food. Well it was a rabbit, a duck, & a turkey all d-boned wrapped into one gymormouse hunk of a turkey looking thing. Well then they show the boudin, which is good, then a placed called Soups which is the same owner they just have a restaurant, Then it hit me yes I know where that is that’s where Melinda had a ladies meeting once with the other church in Abbeville. It was so cool to see these places on TV. Oh yeah then they showed some Nutria rat that lives in the bayou, john told me once they were called neutral rats, they showed some people who catch these rats & eat them, then he had a surprise dish & it turned out to be Squirrel. Made me miss those cracklins they sure are good, oh before I forget they had to had an interpreter for the Cajun brother, The Host seemed not to under stand him, seriously have you heard the real Cajuns talk. It is like our tex-mex language all made up. Then I got that feeling of missing Louisiana, or Oklahoma, but Nah it was that feeling of just getting away from it all here, just traveling. But in the end no one can really leave the valley without missing it. So till my next though or wishful thinking I was on vacation somewhere.

To Blog or not to Blog

When blogging becomes a

Prayer life

My Brother in Law Danny calls my wife ever so often to ask Hows your prayer life, I need some prayer to get God? Hows your prayer life can you be called on to pray for someone if they ask us. Sure we can pray but can we get through is there something hindering our prayers. Prayer are like a sweet odor to Gods Nostrils. We have fallen short when it come to a prayer life. Do we wake up in the middle of the night with conviction that we forgot to pray, forgot about God. Or have we stayed up so late we cant sleep, then we remember have I prayed. So many times we forget our father in heaven wants to hear from us. Just Pray , & we will see prayers answered, Have you ever had a prayer answered man it feel so good to know you were heard, & HE provided our needs.

Pondering

The other day when we went to Louisiana, my Brother from another mother John was doing Sunday school like he always does at his church. Well he said something that made me wonder about some things. Especially on the way people dress, you know modest (here he goes again with the modest) Define Modest-

Well he made a point on how we as Christian are different than when we come to church, & that it shouldn't’t be like that. If you will dress right only for church where God is then when you go home, & you don’t dress right then God is nowhere to be found. If our actions are totally different at church than at home then something is wrong, you behave, be nice, be meek, be kind, worship, pray, & none of those thing are around our home then God is not there. In my Christian walk I have seen some thing & been through things, I have noticed people like to pick & choose what they will obey God in; because if you say something or preach something that will contradict the way you live God is no where near that. John was mentioning on how people would say you know old so & so, yeah, man they go to your church. It is a shame when some one has to be told that it is really embarrassing. What is embarrassing is how some people present Christ to others. People may never pick up or read a bible, but they will read you. Just Pondering this thought in my wee little brain.

Workaholic

Well work has become sort of a drag lately, you know you have your good times, & your bad times. I just got told the other day I can’t leave early, I was thinking well I was fuming mad, but I didn't say anything.then 2 other incidents I was made aware which really ticked me off. They expect me to help others finish their work; I guess since in the summer when we get real busy some people which are doing nothing can help me call routes. Which is cool I understand that part. I asked if I could help with anything to this one person, but she told me no, she looked swamped; it was something she had to do herself, which I understand. Gosh I only left 30 minutes early. Well OK till 5PM is what they say so whatever I thought I was doing the company a favor not having to pay me those 30 minutes even at that when I was walking out I was taking phone calls, & I was clocked out. Sometimes I see other people just not doing anything then when it comes around 3pm excuse me after 3:15PM after their break then I see them hurrying up to finish their work. Even at that I work through my breaks, but not anymore, I will take my breaks just to get away, I go to my truck listen to some gospel music to sooth my soul, then I'm ready to get back at it. My job has to be finished daily; some other people can leave stuff for other days like they always do then it piles up on them. Since when did work have to be such a drag it is not like me I love to work, I put in any where from 40 plus hours to sometimes over 50 plus hours in a 5 day work week, I don’t get it, I am just venting. I see people all day long some even have 2 hour lunch sort of speak, grrr Just Pray for me, My testimony. Testimony you can lose it in a few second, but years to recover.

Mathew Chapter 6 /Sorry got stuck on Hypos

Vs 1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

HEED-pay close attention to; give heed to; "Heed the advice of the old men"
Pay attention to what you are doing are you doing it to be seen of men or done in secret for God.

Vs 2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

When you do the things you do for God don't make it seem that you have to be seen or noticed that your doing something, or giving something.

HYPOCRITES-a double person, the first he keeps to himself, & the other he outs on, as he does his clothes, to make his appearance before men.

Hypocrites have been divided in 4 classes.
1.The wordly hypocrite, who make a profession of religion, & pretends to be religious.(Mathew 23:5)-But their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments.
PHYLACTERIES-Greek mean "safeguard amulet"
2. The legal hypocrite, who relinquishes his vicious practice, in order thereby to merit heaven, while at the same time having no love for God. (Romans 10:3) For they being ignorant of Gods righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

3. The evangelical hypocrite, whose religion is nothing more than a bare conviction of sin: who rejoices under the idea that Christ died for him, & yet has no desire to live a holy life. (Mathew 13:20) But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receieveth it;
ANON-at another time.

4. The enthusiastic hypocrite, who has an imaginary sight of his sins, & of Christ, & talks of remarkable impulses, & high feelings, etc., while living in the most scandalous practices(2 Corinthians 11:15) Therefore it it no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness: whose end shall be according to their works.

Confesion/prayer

I have to confess before you I have been getting a little bitter towards church, seems like no one wants to do anything for God anymore, no one has time for God. Makes me mad, but you know what I need to just keep going on for God no matter who is there, who shows up, who doesn’t show up. I started to get my eyes of off Jesus, & onto the people. I keep asking God, “God why is this not real to them, Why are they not growing, why are they not changing for you, Why dear Lord Why, Help, I drowning over here, drowning in my own sorrow and, pity”. Then I realize I need to snap out of it before I get so far away from God, trying to find a pity party for myself. I keep asking myself how I can be more of an influence, than a hindrance. I don’t want to the stumbling block in any Christian walk especially my families. I have to step up, & be the spiritual leader; I have to be the Christian man God wants me to be. That is my prayer, that I would be the Christian that I am suppose to be, not looking on others, not to be quick to judge, but more compassion for the lost. Yes I am sorry to say Lost people go to church, the saddest thing is that they think they are saved. Lord open their eyes give them the notice, open their heart, let them know where they stand, have them check up before it is eternally too late. It is up to us to invite people to church, it is up to us to lead the to Christ, it is up to me, that is the way I need to put it, it is up to ME. Lord will you hear my humble cry, not for anything for me, but all the Glory to you God. Some people in church don’t know the Holy Spirit, some people have never felt the presence of the Holy spirit, Lord, JUST BE WITH US. Father I ask for your presence not only at church, but with us always in everything we do, help us Lord. I pray Lord Jesus you reveal your self your Glory to our church revive it Lord, Get the Fire going, get the Christian doing, get the Christian walking , not just sitting on the pew, get them involved Lord, I miss it I need it Lord. I need the fellowship, I need you in our Lives forgive me where I have failed, forgive me for I will fail you in the future

01/13/09

Well it is Tuesday, & same old same old at work. Went over to see my parents today , I haven't seen them in about 2 weeks, like if they live so far away, but I am always busy. Well anyway went over to drop off Mike at piano lessons, then went over there to the parents (rents), my dad was fixing my sisters explorer well he was trying to put a transmission in there. Well he bought a used one at the junk yard, & it turns out it is not the same, so he was trying to make one out of two trannys. I would of just taken it to the shop I don't mess with transmissions really. Well I went inside to use the Internet to find him a used transmission, I told him they were about $500, plus shipping & handling. He told me to forget it. I was just thinking of how he does things without the Internet, he goes from junkyard to junkyard looking for parts, pfft I would of have gotten the phone book , & started calling. Yeah right like if I have time. left my parents house went to Lowes to buy some light bulbs for my lights on the side of the house that went out the motion sensor ones. After I put one of them in I remembered your not suppose to touch the bulbs with your hands, grrr, something about it not working right after that. I put in the next one with the plastic bag on my hand like a glove, all mojo style. But then so it worked we will see if they burn any diffrent, oh yeah by the way they are 150 watts it looks like a spotlight when they go off, like a prison break, he he. My wife got the call that the couches will be in next week so I have to start to moving the gym to the back shed. OK till next time.