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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Seek His Face
There is a set time limit for all of us to seek God. For some it extends to the last seconds of life. While for others, that time period is reached long before death. In Isaiah 55: 6 the prophet makes what I consider and call a "sleeper-profound-statement."
"Sleeper-profound-statements" can slip under the radar of our consciousness. We hear the statement but do not take the time, perhaps, to do the math: We miss the implication.
"Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near" (Is 55:6 - KJV)
That statement says to me," Don't pursue God at a laid back pace. Don't put off for tomorrow, what should be done today."
The amplified version of Ephesians 5:15-16 gives a nice "New Testament" flavour to the idea that we need to pick up the pace in our search for the hidden mysteries; the treasures that are hid in Christ. I won't reprint it here but paraphrase it this way:
"Check your lifestyle. Do everything with a purpose and goal in mind...Squeeze out as much time as possible to study the word and implement what you study in your life. Watch how much time you spend doing things that don't move you closer to your goals and God's purpose for you, because time is short. We know time is short because things are getting worse and worse."
Saturday, January 13, 2007
I Lost My Hair
Can you believe it! We are a full five years into the 21st century. Who would have guessed that we would have come so far.
I hope this letter from us at Living Big in Christ finds you moving forward and not backwards. If you are moving forward, look up. If you are moving backwards, look up.
I remember one year, it was around December, when I made a flawed choice. About three weeks before that event, the Sunday minister in the church I attended preached on Samson and his choices. I didn’t pay attention. The message seemed so dry at the time.
That same week I lost my hair.
Have you lost your hair? Don’t worry it will grow back. I can feel mine growing back. By faith I can see yours growing back too.
One minister stated that, “many people give up when they slip backwards. They give up because of the hard work that it took to get to the level which they fell from. They give up on God because of the hard work it will take to step back to where they fell from.”
Don’t give up! Paul wrote in the book of Ephesians that God works to bring all things into conformity with His will. It is God’s will that we should be holy and without blame.
Let God do the work. He will restore your soul. God will restore you to a greater level of anointing. You just continue to make the right choices and let God bring about the change in your nature.
The flawed choice I told you about has brought me to the place where I can truly say that I hate sin and every evil work. May Christ strengthen you inwardly through the working of His Spirit so that you may attain unto the fullness of Christ Himself. Live big in Christ.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
The Big Things
Let me start out by saying that I had fought long and hard, in a sense, before beginning to take tentative steps to bring the ministry to fruition. God has joined me with two great men in their own right, Pastor Walter and Bro. Lalsingh, to move His God's vision forward. Two men who are deeply spiritual and want and desire to live that life practically. No pretense. No hypocrisy.
The name of the ministry came out of a Young Adults Conference. I was privileged to be chosen by God to lead a wonderful group of individuals at my local church.
In 2002, the idea came to me to hold a prophetic conference, but in a hotel. That conference was a step of faith, hotels are expensive. It was in retrospect a bold one. I love bold moves. The theme of that event in the fall of 2002 was Living Big in Christ.
I remember riding in a car with a visiting minister from Trinidad. He started to talk about what at the time I would classify as his over imagination. It's only now that I truly understand what God was saying to me through him. In a nutshell the big things of this world, ships, skyscrapers, are not really big. Men have never seen big. The world has yet to see big Christianity: Christians living big. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.