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What I want to do is be completely honest and write a journal on what is going on day to day. I am not trying to glory in what I do but rather keep a journal of what is going on with me and my family. Any prayer or discipline in my life is to get closer to God not to brag on what I am doing. My life has radically changed since I started this walk with God. I will be writing about my experience with Jesus. Here Goes….

I will start with yesterday the 23^h of January 2007. Woke up at 5am got ready and went to pray from 6-7am with friends. During the prayer more than once my prayer matched what the song was singing. It was a good prayer. I was impressed with Psa 146:7  Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners: I got to work and was feeling great. I got a call from a customer who was very belittling and it discouraged me a lot. I let that call get to me and it ruined my morning. A teammate of mine called me and we had a good prayer. Feeling a little better after that I went on with my day. On the drive home turned off the radio and tried to meditate on God in silence it was hard my mind kept wandering. Evening now got home early at 5:45pm really tired snappy at my kids and wife. I ate dinner and after Brad and Rees really started getting on my nerves. Sarah started in on me to right before prayer meeting at the church with every right to. Didn’t feel like going to prayer meeting but I wanted to talk to Bro. Steve so I went.  Had a good prayer, prayed about being a better father and husband repented for being snappy and other various things thru my day. Prayed for revival and the churches around us etc….. Teach us how to pray Lord…. Didn’t get a chance to talk to Bro. Steve, I probably wouldn’t have gone to prayer meeting if I would have known that because I was so tired. Came home had good time with the kids and Sarah …listened to the Audio Book walking the bible….

Ezekiel 11

Eze 11:12   And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

Eze 11:21   But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

The Targum is “and after the worship of their idols, and of their abominations, their heart wanders.”  

I am still reading and I am really impressed with the fact that what is HOLY is HOLY and what is profane is profane. It is time to stand like Josiah- 

2Ch 34:30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

2Ch 34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

2Ch 34:32 And he caused all that were present in
Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of

Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

2Ch 34:33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in
Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.   

Wordless Wednesday

Juice mama, pleeeeease?

This morning @ 4am I got up and my son who is usually asleep said “Juice momma” in a faint sleepy voice. I didnt get him any because I thought he would just fall back asleep. Well he didnt and about a half hour later he said it a little more robustly “Juice momma pleasssse” at this point I hit the fridge poured some chocolate milk and handed it to him. As soon as the sippee cup hit his hands he said “thanks Da”. It was real quit in the bedroom, I could hear him drinking the milk and it was just as rewarding for me as it was for him~

Celebrate! If you are confident that God will help you, then why is misery and anxiety written all across your face?

If you are really confident, celebrate!

Where are the men?

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Just being yourself

I hate fronts and yet I seem to employ them from time to time. On the way into work I was thinking about a song that is talking about a father and a son playing tag. I went back to wehn me and my 3yr old son play hide and seek or wrestle. He is transparent, he asks with his whole heart, he plays with all his heart, mind, and soul when we play. He has a place in the closet where he hides and I mean he runs in the closet and dives head first into his spot all out 100%.

“Daddy come get me I want you to catch me again. Daddy come get me I want you to catch me again. Daddy come get me I want you to catch me again, I tagged you your it, I tagged you your it. Daddy play with me I want you to touch me again, oh the purity everytime you touch me touch me again”-Upton

Today I will run as hard as I can into your love…..

Scriptures that came up today

Seems like salvation was hit hard today—-

Isa 45:17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

Psa 27:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Eph 3:21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.Psa 62:5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

Psa 62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved.  

Sojourner

 Holding on to anything in this world is covetness. Destroy that ite right now put that thought into captivity and crush with the overcoming power of the blood! Is what your living for worth Christ dying for? Whatever you are holding onto today money, bitterness, clothing, anger, etc…. What is it? We are passing thru looking to that World without end(Eph 3:21) sons and daughters of the living God (1John 3:1-2)!

SojournerSO’JOURNER, n. A temporary resident; a stranger or traveler who dwells in a place for a time.

We are strangers before thee and sojourners, as all out father were. I Chr29

John Gill on 1 Chr.29:15

1Ch 29:15 – For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers,…. For though they were in possession of the land of Canaan, yet they held it not in their own right, but as the Lord’s: who said, the land is mine, Lev_25:23, they were but tenants in it, and were not to abide long here; they belonged to another city and country; the consideration of which might tend to set them loose to worldly things, and the more easily to part with them for the service of God, and the honour of his name:

our days on the earth are as a shadow; man’s life is expressed by days, not months and years, being so short; and by days on earth, in distinction from the days of heaven, or eternity; and these said to be as a shadow, of a short continuance, empty, mutable, and uncertain, dark and obscure, quickly gone, like the shadow of the sun; and not only like that, or of a mountain, tree or wall; but, as the Targum, of a bird that is flying, which passes away at once: and there is none abiding; not long, much less always, being but sojourners as before; so Cato in Cicero (p) is represented as saying,”I depart out of this life as from an inn, and not an house; for nature has given us an inn to sojourn, not a place to dwell in:”or “there is no hope or expectation” (q); of living long, of recalling time, and of avoiding death.  

Do what only YOU can do

Well let me see nothing groundbreaking or earthshaking has happened today. Transperancy  was brought to my attention yesterday by a friend and here. We can be in a house closed in. Or we can have the roof off so we have a clean connection with God. Then we bust the walls down and there is a clear connection with your neighbor. I want transperancy w/God today complete transperancy in this house. Examine me Lord and let me live deep deep on the inside.

Words I associate with transperancy:

1. Brokeness

2. repentance

3. humbleness

4. meekness

5. dying to self

6. caring for you

continuing to apply these words to my life daily 

Psa 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Psa 51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Psa 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 

 TransparentTRANSPA’RENT, a. [L. trans and pareo, to appear.]2. Admitting the passage of light; open porous; as a transparent vail. 

Lord Appear thru our LIVES! Let others see you thru this vessel let me be busted wide open so you can shine thru! 

Monday

This weekend it seemed like I was reproved and rebuked. It is hard to deal with certain aspects of my personality. The Lord pointed out some things to me weekend. I am going to be writing daily even if I have nothing. I was reading about Hezikiah in 2kings this morning I will post more thoughts on that later this week- Heb 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Heb 12:12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; Heb 12:13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. Heb 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: