End of a long year

Funny how as soon as I woke up this morning the Lord was on me to write in my blog. This is the last day of a tumultuous year for many of us. It was one year ago today that Stephanie and I canceled our lease and I quit my job to move here. There have been great times and really bad times. This has been a year of breaking up some hard soil in my life and pruning. God has used this time to make me walk in the way he has made me. I have always lived under my full potential. Last night a friend came over and we had a great time together, boy is he going to do amazing things for the kingdom. As we talked and ministered to each other I saw that in the coming year we are going to need each other more than ever. We have to get over our faults with relationships and mature into loving each other enough to walk with people. Now let me preface that by saying some people will not walk with you and will keep you from what God has, I am not talking about walking with them. I am talking about those who have poured so much into you or that you have poured into them. My pastor is also one of my very best friends and we have walked through this last year together, some things were rough for him and I was there and at times rough for me and he was there. I have another best friend who also partnered with my family, he and his wife sheltered, fed and gave us provision to stay and help my pastor and church during this last year. We  cried out to the Lord on each others behalf. There are many more I could mention and I am appreciative of you all. This is the true meaning of ekklesia-church. I am telling you that this year will be a year of jubilee for the church and no matter what is happening around us in the world, if we stick close to the Lord and our friends walking together we will see great things. I believe that a great season of blessing is coming and we need to be like Joseph putting it away for the coming years so that we can be a blessing for others. The things that are coming will be very rough and we will need to be the hands and feet for the body taking provision and God's love to others. I tell you to cut the things that are stopping you off and push forward into all that God has for you. If someone tells you to come down from the proverbial wall you are working, tell them you are doing a great work and cannot come down.

The Long Walk

I have been on my walk with Christ since the age of five. That is when the gospel became real to me. I went to school the next day and told my friends about Christ. This was the beginnings of my life as a plower. What is a plower, someone who goes in and breaks up the hard ground preparing it for planting. Many of the ways God uses me is to break up hard ground or shell shock someone so that the hard area of their heart can be broken up and He can get through to them. This is not always easy and nor do people usually like it. I have become comfortable with it now finally after thirty plus years of doing it. So if you are looking for a blog that tells you everything is ok, then look elsewhere I hope to be catalytic to help you step out from behind your own hard ground and become open to the Lord of the Harvest and His plan for you.