February 2008
Monthly Archive
On The Road Again!!
Posted by Paul on 15 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Encouragement, General, Hope, Prayer
Hey Everyone,
Just wanted to share with you all how God answered your prayers for me concerning a vehicle!
What an awesome gift from him.
I picked it up Thursday morning!
I will share more in the next post!!
We serve an Awesome God!!
I am on the road again!!
Blessings,
Paul
You Wonder!
Posted by Paul on 06 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Coffee Thoughts, Family, Friends, General, Hope, Prayer, Remembering
Sometimes you wonder about it!
The whys, the how comes.
Why am I where I am at?
You look at life, you look at the events around you and you wonder, how did I get here?
I don’t remember signing up for this event in my life.
This is not where I expected to be!
You look back at what was, to what is and ask why?
Why am I alone, in a room, no car, no family, everyone gone, no one to turn to, with a sense of aloneness that can be like a cold breeze to the heart!
Then you realize that you are in a place of pliability, a place where the hands of the Father can begin to work on you. To mold and shape you and take the events of life to transform you into an instrument of grace.
Of being in a place of learning to see Him in the midst of all that is going on. That like Joseph, in all that he went through, he was in the very place that the Father needed him, that he would be used to touch the lives of many, his family, those around him.
He saw with the eyes of the Spirit! His heart, his spirit, his hope, was focused on the Father!
You begin to realize your not alone, you are where you need to be, a place of being pliable, molded and shaped into the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. Being transformed and brought into relationship with Abba Father!
You begin to see with the eyes of the Father, you see the friends that the Father has given you, the brothers you walk with, He opens your eyes to see, to no longer see dimly but with clarity, with hope.
To have a heart of anticipation, of expectation, of hope, that today, this day, even this day, a new day has begun, life has sprung forth and the Father and you walk together, into this day and a sense of wonder floods your whole being, to see what He has in store for you!
Till later,
Paul
Prison?
Posted by Paul on 01 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Coffee Thoughts, Encouragement, Family, General, Hope, Ponderings, Remembering, Writers
That’s what it seemed like to me!
That is, till last weekend at the Joshua’s Men 2007/2008 retreat in Blue Ridge, Ga!
The closing out of the old and the birthing of the new and what an exciting time it was for those of us who where finishing and beginning the second year of service, watching our new Joshua’s brothers begin the 2008 journey, knowing that a year from now they will look back in wonder and see what great things the Father has done!
One of the things that I learned that weekend, is what I felt had been a prison, my room, where I lived in Holly Springs, though a very nice room, was in reality a birthing place, where the Father was working on me and in me, dealing in areas of my life that needed his touch, refining me!
And as I found out Saturday night, there was yet work to be done and by Sunday morning, the surgical knife of the Holy Spirit began to work in me and removing some roots in me that were will hidden but brought to the surface so that He could remove them and bring healing and move me forward into His purposes.
It has been rough to be without a car, not be able to get out, to go places, to be around people, in fellowship with others, as I have been doing for the last four years, almost on a daily basis. No Starbucks, Serene Bean, no life group, no church.
Literally it was the room, me and the Lord and I was fighting it, though once in awhile I did get out but only to feel locked in again. But now as I look back, I have begun to see, even in the midst of all of this, the Father was and is working His purposes and as I yielded to Him, it released me to simply trust Him and reminded me that I know, that I know, that I am where I am suppose to be and that the birthing of new directions is about to take place and I am to remain focused on Him, knowing that the doors will be open.
That He is teaching me to see with the eyes of faith, to have a heart of trust and hope, knowing that He who has begun this, will finish it. That gives me hope that is beyond words, a peace of knowing a new day is dawning and that a day is coming, when I will look back and say, “So this is what it’s all about Father, it’s all about you!”
Is that not what our life, our writing, our songs, our poems, our lives are about? About our fellowship with the Father, with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and allowing the Holy Spirit to teach and instruct us, teaching us what it means to be one with them!
So my prison has become a birthing place, a place of intimacy, of knowing Him and in that knowledge , a freedom to trust and to simply be able to say, “Yes Lord,” and follow Him where He leads!
How about you?
Are you in prison or a birthing place?
Till later,
Paul
