Why God

Good morrning. I am excited about today. I get to hang out with my wife and child. But what I don’t understand is why I am stressed out over money. Why God. Why money. I Just want you too take control of my life. Free me of the pain I feel with having money issues. Lord I love you am I am glad that you are here with me. Lord bless my family. Keep us safe and lead us into your will.

A day is of a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day! Genesis 5:3-11

As I was reading today I was kinda hit in the face with this statement. I know I have heard that God lives out side of time but our day is one thousand years and one thousands years is one day. God told Adam in Genesis 2:17 that if he was to eat from the tree that he would surly die. Now lets look at what happened.

That day Adam hid from God and was moved out of the garden. Then his life moves on and on Adam has kids, he grows old until Adam is nine hundred and thirty years old and he dies. I think I missed this every time I have read it.

Adam Dies.  Okay I knew that part. But what I did not grab was that Adam dies the same day that he ate of the fruit according to God’s time. Can you say Wow.

Also in today’s reading we see that Adam before he dies has a son who brings the family back to God named Seth.

Seth means appointed.

Seth has a son named Enos.

Enos Means subject to death.

Enos has a son named Cainan which means sorrowful.

Today is a good day to know this. I now understand that Jesus will return in his timing. Think back to when Jesus was here and he said Only the father know when I will return. Well Jesus has only been gone about two maybe three days. No one will know the time or place of his return. I am waiting in exception for that day, Are you?

Genesis 5:1-2

Wow this book has been incredible. I have learned so much in such a little time. That is why I wanted to share with you some of the information that I am learning.

In Genesis 5:1-2 God is showing us that Adam and Eve were created as one (named Adam). It was the first marriage ceremony and God was the officiant. Can you imagine getting married and having God preform the wedding.

Do you Eric take Becca to be your wife-God

Yes Lord I do-Eric

I think that it would mean more to some people if they remembered that God is there and the pastor is just acting in place of God.

God created man and women to be one.

On that Day God took two and made them one. What could ever split them apart? Today we split because of many different things yet when God make us one he commands that we stay one.

I like this, because my wife and I are one. We chose each day to be one. Not allowing anyone or anything to come between us. Jesus said the only reason for divorce is fornication. The reason for that is because the bond made through intimacy between husband and wife is broken when fornication happens.  As for me and my wife we will chose to keep our marriage as one bonded through love and relaying on God. What will you chose?

Working Hard or Hardly working

I am at a lost for words. I want to be done with School but I still have a few years. God will keep me Going. Today is nice as I sit getting ready to start my homework. I am at Jazz n Java. The weather is nice and cold. It is raining off and on. I love it. God speed.

We are challenged

This is part three of the we are the grove series. Video link.

We are the grove
Part three
We are challenged
Philippians 4:10-20

1. We have been challenged
• to live distinctively different
• by our local and world economy
Prov21:1-2
• to mature in every part of our Christian walk

Never to stay the same
Mature in our faith
Mature in your understanding the bible
Prayer
Relationship
Giving
Good works
Obedience to scripture
In gods will

2. We have been challenged
•Before
•to trust God completely
Prov3:5-6
•To believe the impossible is possible
• To live content and sacrificially
Phil4:10-20
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3. We have been challenged
To believe we are all important
To believe and depend on each other
To believe we can afford to give

4. We have been challenged
• By the evil one
• By fear of tomorrow
God brings hope for tomorrow Satan brings fear for tomorrow.
Matt6:25-34

5. Are you ready to meet the challenge?

When it come to our house or Gods house than Gods house always comes first.

At Christmas God always gets the biggest gift

If God is first in our life that God gets the first Gift.

God teach me to Give the way you want me to give. I am a man trying to learn from my God how to be the man after his own image. I love you Lord use my family to grow your kingdom.

We are called

This is part two of the three week series. Video link

We are the grove
Part two
We are called
Romans 12:1
1corth

When we are called by God we are called to:

1. Make a difference. Do I ?
•live differently
Write Am I whiling under living sacrifice.
• pick up our cross
Mat 10:38
•make disciples
mat 28:19-28
•mature
heb5:11-14
•be transformed
Romans 12:2

2. Do our part
Romans12:3-8
We each have a part in this body. Each have a gift.

3. Be Generous and give what we can.
2cor9:6-15
•giving matters to the kingdom
•are you a generous giver
•give first to God not after the bills are paid
•cheerful, consistent, sacrificial, first fruits.
•it’s not the law it’s the spirit.

4. Does your giving matter ? Is it worth your sacrifice?

It matters today.

It will matter throughout eternity.

We are committed

The last three weeks at the Grove have been amazing. Here is the first weeks message. click this link for the video

We are the grove
Part one
We are committed
Mark 12:28-34
Eph- we are set apart, loved

1. Committed to God first and always.

When we don’t put God first we have no chance to make it in this life.

Being a Christian is a growing process

As we move through the levels with God his question is always are you still going to love me. Do you still trust me. Put God first.

If God took a way your joy the thing you look forward to each week, would you be okay with that?

2. What does commitment look like?
Joshua 24:14-24

He made a line in the sand have you done that?

If you don’t chose God as number one the life will fall apart.

•Correct choices not always easy choices
•we can only serve one master
What’s number one in your life.
Put me first and everything will be put into perspective

3. Committed to a vision and uniqueness

Every church is different.
One is not better but different
• core values: biblical truth- outreach- relationships- teamwork (we are better together)
•friendliness
•all people
•lost people
•obedience
•generosity
•truth telling
•next generation
•sacrifice
•ministry
•changed lives

4. Committed people stand together; they never run. They don’t battle from within

5. Committed means you do whatever it takes for family.

To hear the story of Pastor Toms grandson click here.

When life goes through hard time what do you do. Will you chose God and allow him to do a miracle.

Dreams connected to real life a friends story.

A friend of mine needs some help to Go where God has called her. Please read and pray about how you too can help God use her. Thanks. Anna Thank you for being the Women God has called you to be. I am happy to be called your family.

Dreams connected to real life

Posted in Real Life by Anna Coffey on 5/4/2010

The other night I had a dream that I had to jump out of a plane to prove I wasn’t scared of heights.  People told me that I couldn’t do it because they knew my fear would take over.  So, to prove them wrong, I had to do it. The exhilaration was neat and I found that I enjoyed parachuting very much.

Last night I had another dream of having to prove myself.  This time, I had to prove I was not scared of needles.  So, I did something I know I will never do in real life (because they are just not my thing).  I got a tattoo.  This too, led to a new habit.

Anyway, I woke up and thought of how this seems to relate to my life.  Back in 2003, I did my very first mission trip and this sparked something in me, you can say I was addicted.  (Though I know it isn’t an addiction at all, it is just something God placed on my heart.)  I did a couple other short mission trips after that and they made my heart burn for more!  I know that I am called to long term and am just waiting at the starting line for God to pull the trigger.

In 2009, I got to experience first hand what it’s like to be away from “home” for longer than 2 months (longest I had ever been away from home) by going on The World Race.  I had many people doubt I would ever raise enough money to go in the first place, others tell me that it was a bad decision and that I needed to grow up and take on responsibilities of life around me here in the USA.  And though those comments hurt, I wasn’t going on the race because I wanted to.  I was going on the race because God told me to and I was being obedient.

I am now going to Bolivia, and it seems like I have less people behind me and more people telling me what I NEED to do.  I want you all to know that I have prayed for countless days about this and never made a decision to go until God confirmed it.  I just want to be obedient to my Father.

Know that I love all of you and am thankful that you all want to make sure I make right decisions in my life.  I understand where your heart is coming from.  But I want you to know that we all need to be obedient to God no matter the risk.  I want you to be behind me and support me.

Thank you also to those of you who do understand my heart!

Would you please prayerfully consider supporting me.  To support me, click on the link “Support Me Please!” to the left.  Thanks and God bless!

Mess of me Video

This is a great video. I have to say that I feel like this song was written for the world to understand how messed up I was before I started my relationship with Christ.

A prayer of failed pastor.

As I lay here in my bed thinking of everything I could have been or should I say done. I feel the need to ask for forgiveness. From who I don’t know. I failed you I feel like. I wanted so much to see my Lord will come to fulfillment. Did I rush it, was(is) this training for what is to come. Oh Lord my God everything I worked so hard on is (has) fallen apart. Lord was this all in vain. Father you have told me time and time again to be still, and this time I thought that you said move go now is the time. Was I hearing you or was that my will so loud I could not hear your wisper calling out saying peace be still.

What do I do now? I have steped away. I am pulling back. I want you more then ever to move in my life. I’m sorry please lord forgive me for taking the road I have. Use all the chuncks of junk and make them into a master peice. Lord how I want to know you. Keep me in your loving hands and hold me and my family up.

Oh so ture not my will but thy will be done. I miss you and love you. Peace be still.