Dr. Fink

Just because we receive a sign doesn't necessarily mean that what we had intended in our heart is the direction we should go. Many times God can give us a sign in order to prove our self control in that area. God is always concerned whether we are obedient to what He wants in regards to work...school...ministry and relationships. What is the will of God in your work...school...ministry...and relationships? We are farmers by nature *2 tim 2*, and so farmers gravitate towards those decisions and areas that are producing growth, but Satan knows this nature of ours and often times throws things in our way to get us going away from God's will. See, God has a perfect will.. there is the good, the greater, the best, and the blessed decision. The blessed decision is the decision that Lord had planned out for you way before He even created you. God is still able to make a crooked path straight, so despite poor decision-making, it is not too late for the Lord to turn things around. If we choose to be disobedient to the will of God in regards to work, school, ministry and most importantly, relationships, we will be cutting short of the wonderful pleasure that we have in Him and the work of His kingdom. Seek His will through the Word, His people, and His invisible spirit.

Enough Said

11 And do this knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therfore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

--Romans 13

God, my time grows shorter with each day. Let me not waste it on the worthless trappings of this world.

Grace

Lately I've been struggling with the concept of grace.

The fact that nothing we do or don't do can separate us from it.

There is no way you can drift so far away from it.

There is no way you can out-sin it.

All we can do is accept it, for what it is it's a blessing.

It's deeper than that it's a testament.

We are made new from the day we professed his name.

Even those days that we make his name an open shame.

At the end of the day it's your shell you blame.

Cuz God sees Jesus, believe me your appearance changed.

Sometimes the things I do I know I'm a disgrace.

But every time I check if I left-wait no I'm still there, I'm still caught up in his embrace.

This is grace.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him.

For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Now if we be dead with Christ, we shall live with him.

Sin has lost its power, death has lost its sting.