The Life Group we’ll be hosting begins on October 14th. Cornerstone Community Church, our home church, has agreed to support the group and pay for child care!!! I’ve got the “Syllabus” prepared, house cleaned/painted and getting contact information for those planning to attend. So cool to have the date coming close.
Marissa and I are both prayerfully entering the ministry again and this is one of the steps we’ve taken toward His service. We will be hosting, in our home, a meeting on Wednesday nights to go verse by verse through the Word. We’re going to start in James, because it’s such a no-brainer for the Christian that is looking for direction; for the “where to now?” that eventually comes in ones relationship with Christ.
After our move to Virginia we put our primary focus on being partners and parents again. This was such an awesome and blessed time for me personally. I went months without serving in a church. I was able to talk with the kids again, and get closer with Marissa, and most of all, get re-focused on my own relationship with Jesus. I was able to take the time to strip my life back to the basics, understand where my priorities needed to be, and basically start over on my daily life. The job, the friends, chores, grocery stores and utilities all changed.
I realized how much I had neglected which should have been a priority. Exp. We returned to faithfully tithing. I don’t say this to boast, but to show that even this core principle had been neglected for a time. We had justifications, just as everyone has justifications for what they do. Bills, debt, getting out of debt, but this move, and this change in our lives, allowed us to re-focus/re-prioritize again. WooHoo!!!
It’s so exciting now to be entering into the field again. I feel like the harvest is waiting for me. I remember studying for one of the first or second messages I taught the youth in Florida, how excited I was, how right, blessed, confirmed it all was and I’m happy to be there again!!!
We’re praying to keep our lives balanced, to keep our priorities where they need to be and to let everything we do be used for His service. I want to remain a good employee for my company. I want to be a good servant for Jesus here. I want to remain a good husband to my wife and father to my children.
James is going to really open my eyes. I’ve been studying it for a long time, preparing, getting ready, and I’m anxious to get it out there and hash it out with some brothers and sisters. That’s a really good time, just talking one on one with others about the Word. It’s like, a guarantee to get Jesus’ attention. Especially this book; there will be more than one spanking in there for me.
Say a prayer for my family and I, and our success, not for the life group, but for us, for our strength, love and unity as we give our time back to God again.
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