What are we called to?

I have fought for years to understand who I am. Actually I have been afraid to be who I am suppose to be. As i look at my life in the Navy and since then. I have had to debate with hundreds of people. Many of my work assignments have been to debate and change the thought process of someone else. When I was at NSSF I was put in the creation of the Work Authorization Group and we had to get every Submarine on the water front to change the way they did business. We spent a month during the development of the group debating and interpreting what the manuals said about work control. Then we had to train all of NSSF to change the way they do business. It was 18 months of fighting everyday with someone. Then I went to Electric boat and more debating in STO and then as a tech writer. Now I am through Bible college and I feel God is showing me my true calling and it will be again debating. I hate debating many would not know that. To change someone's mindset I believe is the hardest thing to do. I will have to continue to pray this through. Maybe you are going in circles because you haven't accepted who you are? Maybe there is a place you have been disobedient and until you rectify that, you cannot step into what God has for you. That is where I am at, God is really waiting on me to get some things done. So I have repented and am moving forward to finish it.

God of the smallest detail

God has been revealing Himself to me through His Word. I am reading in Leviticus and Numbers and it is not boring as it has been before. I see the God who is very detailed oriented. Each time He says something it is not vague but very precise. Who is to do, and what they are to do. The church today hates it when the leaders call for detail. We are called religious and control freaks, it is not only in the Old Testament but in the New Testament. Many times God gave direct instructions with great detail. He is the God of the sudden-lies and the wind of His Spirit can take us to something unplanned. We cannot only look for that and not understand that we have to do the everyday detailed work. Lets do whatever God wants to do, the sudden-lies and the details!!!

Don't stop!!!!!!!!!!!

I have seen in my life many times when things got to hard and I had no strength left that if I stopped I would not have received anything. Many today are discouraged and confused, you fill like God and man has abandoned you. God has not and in His silence He has been working behind the scenes preparing you and the circumstances around you to explode with deliverance and His purpose. God always has purpose in the waiting no matter what we may think. Don't Stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What are you eating?

In today's christian society we have become a mirror to secular society in that we believe what we read and the culture tells us is acceptable. As followers of Jesus we must make the scriptures ours through careful prayer and meditation allowing the Lord to feed us. I am not against commentaries or books written by good God fearing people. But the norm is not to study ourselves and become mature. It is to grab whatever teaching tickles our ears. I wonder how many starving christian we have out there eating porridge when if they took the time to study and meditate on the Word of God, HE would give them feasts? Are we weary because of where we are getting our rest and food?

Structure

This week I really had something throw me off track. Since I haven't blogged in three days you can tell. I was screaming at the Lord about it at bluff point and felt better after that. The Lord said are you done and I said yes HE said good and that was that. Then yesterday the Lord came into my prayer time and showed me that I valued man made structures more than I loved Him. You see I have always done different things because my leaders say this is the way to be raised up. But God has shown me that I have never been promoted in any way that is common. He has always forced me into positions to promote me. Years ago at Seaport I was not on Pastor Brad's radar yet to be a cell leader. I wasn't being mentored by a cell leader and that was the structure to get there. I told him my idea for a cell on the base in March and He told me to go spend time with so and so to get mentored. Two weeks before Easter the Lord told me to call the base and talk to the Chaplin about the idea. I did and a Catholic Chaplin jumped right on board telling me to start it the next week. Talk about an open door. I went back and told Pastor Brad and he was like what, Rusty you haven't been mentored, and pastor Debbie said what do you mean you have been mentoring Rusty for years, Pastor Brad looked at us and said Yes. Then He promoted me and we jumped on the opportunity the Lord gave us. There had not been a church sponsored bible study on the base in 32 years. PTL!!!!!!! It is never easy because it always humbles me and cost me dearly. I don't think people understand that when you are a prisoner of the Lord and he wants to stir up something HE will do it. Since HE never waste anything he does it changes all of those through the process. What has God asked you to do that might be out of the box and do you love Him enough to do it?

Where is the seperation

In today's Christian society there really is no separation of the the holy and unholy. We have twisted the teachings of the New Testament where there really is no dividing line. We just say that because of Jesus, nothing is unclean. There is no standard because tolerance has crept into the church and what wrong for you may not be wrong for me. I do not think Paul had this in mind he avidly studied the Old Testament and would not of redrawn the lines of scripture so hazily. We need to read the whole Word of God and understand how the New Testament and Old Testament flow together to tell us about the Covenant God has with man through His Son Jesus Christ. Somethings are gone in the Covenant with Jesus as our sacrificial lamb. I don't think we should throw away concepts central to the Old Testament way of serving the Lord. They were important to God than and I am sure they are just as important to God today.

We are media driven christianity

It is kinda funny how we have gotten behind Tebow but there have been a lot of Christian Players. Kitna got fined every time he came out on the field because he wore the cross on his apparel. I am so sick of the media driving us into being BANDWAGON fans. i honor all of the athletes who go on the field before and after the games to pray and with players from the other team. We cant even get two churches to pray together.