Prayer
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Talk To Him
Posted by Paul on 23 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Coffee Thoughts, Encouragement, Friends, General, Hope, Ponderings, Prayer, Remembering, Writers
I am thankful for those that the Lord has put into my life, those that I pray with. To know the Lord is in our midst. That He will speak to our hearts and make us sensitive to the Holy Spirit, letting us know how to pray and what to pray for.
Prayer, Worship and Praise is what drives the Heart of God , with supplication and a desire to know Him, not just about Him. Sometimes we just listen, other times, we talk to Him, as a Father. To let him know how we feel, what is on our heart. A time of just being honest to God!
When we take time to come into his presence,. it brings joy to His heart, as we delight in Him, He delights in us!
As we touch the heart of God, He touches ours and He shows us how to love with His love. How to love our families, our friends, our brothers and sisters in the Lord, with His love.
That He will show us what it means to be one with Him. That we have been reunited with Him through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and that we have all been made one in the Lord and with each other and that is awesome to think about!
Take time to talk to Him today! Set aside some time to let Him know how much you love and appreciate Him. That He is your Father and you thank Him for revealing Himself to you!!
Let us bless the Lord with our whole heart, with our soul, with our whole being. As the Psalmist David said, “ My mouth is filled with God’s praise. Let everything living bless him, bless his holy name from now to eternity!” (Psalms 145:18-21 – The Message)
Till later,
Paul
Pain
Posted by Paul on 02 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Cancer, Coffee Thoughts, Divorce, General, Hope, Prayer, Remembering
Why Write About Pain?
Pain is one of the things that I have been dealing with for the last seven years. It is part of my normal, everyday life. It never, ever goes away. The medications that I take, dull it and the side effects of the medication cause drowsiness and other effects and because of that I have to rest a lot.
This pain and the side effects are the very things that keep me focused on the Lord, reminding me of how far He has brought me and how much He has been changing me, that I am in the process of changing daily, becoming more like the Lord in heart, in attitude. It is an inner journey, that I am not the same man, that I was seven years ago, that I am becoming more conformed to the Lord.
Yes there are days that it takes everything within me to move forward, to go out into the marketplace, to be out in the coffee shops, etc., for those are the very places the Father wants me to be, For it is there that I can focus on others, to look outward, not inward.
It is there that I get to meet new people. To listen, a lot of listening, to encourage, exhort, lift up others. To share the hope, the peace, the rest that I have in the midst of this journey called life. The pain, the things I physically go through maybe my thorn, for they keep me focused and remind me that my strength comes from the Lord.
Yes there are days, I want to let go, but I cannot because I know that the life I live now is because of the Lord, that he is allowed my children and grandchildren to see the changes he has made in me over these last seven years. That others can see and know it is the grace of God, that has enabled me to be where I am now spiritually, and emotionally.
Though I’m on full disability and I can’t do the things I used to, I can do what I’ve been called to and that is to go out into the marketplace, where people are. For me it is the coffee shops, it is amazing how long I can make a large cup of coffee last
I have met so many awesome people over the years in the coffee shops and made so many new friends. I’ve been able to exhort, encourage and lift others up. In a coffee shop you overhear so many things and many times I feel a sense of the Lord to lift those things to Him in prayer and I do, others may reap the fruit, but I get the honor of planting the seed, even though I didn’t talk to them personally. I have learned it is important to respond to those promptings of the Lord. In a coffee shop as well as other places, you overhear conversations, even when you don’t want to.
I don’t know exactly why I felt to share this today, but I have learned when the Lord says to write, I write, the rest is up to him!
I hope the words that I have written will encourage you in your walk, in your life, for we all deal with pain, not all of it is physical. He uses the things we go through to make us stronger and enables us to touch others, because we share out of a relationship, out of a life with the Lord, and we share that very life with others, not out of theory but out of a relationship, that our lives reflect that reality, for often our lives speak louder than our words.
Till later,
Paul
Real
Posted by Paul on 01 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Coffee Thoughts, Encouragement, Friends, General, Hope, Ponderings, Prayer, Writers
What keeps us from being real?
From sharing what is on our hearts?
Are we afraid of what people will say?
What they will think?
Rather than letting others know we are in pain, that we hurt at times, we keep it within, rather then letting them know that we need those who will stand with us, who will pray and lift us up during these times, that we can be real?
It seem’s like the past year I had basically laid my pen down, I allowed my passion to write to be reduced to a flickering flame that was almost extinguished!
I feel a stirring again in this new year 2010, the breath of the Lord breathing life into me, to refocus my vision on Him?
Please lift me in prayer, that I will once again write from the heart, to share what is being made real within, that I might be an instrument in the hand of the Master Writer, to shake off this last year of heaviness and once again to be free indeed, to Write from the Heart!
Till Later,
Paul
New Direction For 2010
Posted by Paul on 22 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Art, Cancer, Coffee Thoughts, Encouragement, Family, Friends, General, Hope, Ponderings, Prayer, Remembering, Writers
Hi Everyone,
Just want to let you know that beginning in January 2010 I will be concentrating more and more on writing, to share the things that have been made real in my life over these last sixty plus years, especially these last six years.
You will noticed that I have changed the title of my blog to “Write From The Heart“ to reflect more of the direction that I feel like the Father wants me to take.
The most important thing that I have learned over the last six years is how important relationship is and that is the one thing that He has made real. That He desires to walk with us, day by day, be one with Him, with the Lord!
We indeed serve a living Saviour, a risen Lord, Jesus Christ!
My desire is to be honest, open and real, to share from the heart, hopefully that which will uplift, encourage, exhort others in this walk called life, that I will be able to share the hope, the rest, the up’s and down’s, victories and defeats, but more important, the hope that I have in the Lord Jesus Christ, in a heavenly Father, who has taken all that I have gone through, to turn me around. New doors and new opportunities will be happening in 2010.
Thank you my many friends, for the encouragement, the reminders, and the hope you have shared with me. I ask for your prayers as I begin this new path, that I will be sensitive to the Lord, to the Holy Spirit, to give out of what has been given too me, the hope that I have in God, that through this journey, I have never, ever been without hope!
Blessings and Merry Christmas my friends!
Till later,
Paul
The Mayor 
The View From Here
Posted by Paul on 02 May 2009 | Tagged as: Cancer, Coffee Thoughts, Encouragement, Family, Friends, Hope, Ponderings, Prayer, Video Posts
Reflection
Posted by Paul on 27 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Cancer, Coffee Thoughts, Divorce, Encouragement, Family, Friends, General, Hope, Ponderings, Prayer, Remembering
“Your life was designed to be a mirror that reflects all the best things about Him to the world around you.”
I am re-reading “The Air I Breathe” by Lou Giglio and the above quote from page 19, of his book really touched my heart, opened my spirit and reminded me of the events of the last five years and how the Father has taken every bit of that which I have gone through, to reflect to others, to family, to friends, to those I meet everyday, the amazing peace, the rest, the hope that we can have, when we simply stay focused on Him.
That in the midst of the storms and in the battles of life, that we build a relationship with Him. That we can truly praise Him, that it is not simply a cliché, but a reality that is birthed within, as we yield to the Father, to the Lord and the Holy Spirit.
It is that hope that touches the lives of others because they see the reality of it in our everyday life. It is not theory, it is real, it is written on our hearts, it enables us to walk with Him, to build a relationship and intimacy with Him, with others, with family.
We are no longer what we where, we are becoming more and more like Him. As we yield to Him, we are being transformed, being changed, becoming a mirror, that reflects the Christ within.
Is it not time to reflect that reality, the reality of the Lord, not so much by words, but by the life that we live, at home, at work, in the marketplace.
Let your life reflect outwardly what the Spirit of the Lord is doing inwardly!
Till later,
Paul
