GREENE STREET LETTERS: Heart Beat

Friday, May 22, 2009

Heart Beat

Short night last night.
Left Rapha at 10 p.m. and didn't get into bed until after 11.
Vicki let me sleep this morning while she made the coffee.
I'm usually the early riser who prepares the Mocha Java for the ladies of the house.

I am currently reading THE NARRATED BIBLE "In Chronological Order".
What that basically boils down to is that all the scripture has been placed in order as to God's plan for the ages. I'm reading it like a novel in order to simply better understand what fits where. You know if you read in Isaiah something that happens in I Chronicles and Ezra (just an example...don't go looking for something) it is sometimes hard in your mind to place it within the entire scope of the Bible. This chronological version helps to do that. Kind of help make sense of all the different kings who ruled Israel.

Friday is here already and another meeting to prepare for.
I have some of the worship music ready but still not finished.
Message? Not sure.
I've been reading a lot about God's call for Israel to return to Him from their sin.
I have done a lot of searching this week to see what is in me.
I don't think we ever outgrow this behavior of searching our hearts.
It's kind of like PEZ candy.
You pull the head back on the PEZ dispenser and a piece of candy pops out. When you take it, another piece moves into place. I think that this is way it is with God. As I surrender things (behaviors and attitudes a.k.a. sin) to Him, as he removes it, another is revealed. I am grateful that he hasn't stopped and continues to work in me.

Vicki is off today, but she has a gazillion errands to run so I pray that she get some time for herself. We will be together tonight and hopefully go out to eat. She is my love and I am grateful for every day God gives us together.
That's about it from here at Rapha....
Thanks for reading the blog and tell your friends about us....
Until next posting.....
Hasta Lasagna!
mb

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Looking At The World Through Cracked Lens

As ol' Paul wrote in his Corinthian letters.."We see in part and we know in part." Now what piece of this bit of wisdom do we not get? I wish to not run around acting and trying to be some sort of Biblical G00-Ru (I meant to spell it wrong). Or a sage of sages.

I simply want to be able to communicate some of what God has given to me. Why? Do I think what I get is better than what you may have received from Him? Nope. But I do think encouragement comes when we share our daily story of struggle and victory in an effort to encourage each other.

Thanks for letting me share.

Time to soldier on..

mbb

Our Statement of Faith

We believe that God is the eternal king. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory. we believe that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born into sin, subject to God's judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness. We believe that Jesus, God's Son, was sent to this world, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, fully God and fully man in one person. He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ushering in God's kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Jesus' atoning death on the cross took God's judgment for sin which we deserved as law-breakers. Jesus' resurrection and ascent back to heaven opened the door for those who received salvation to begin a relationship with God.

Little Nets Into Deep Waters

Fishing nets were designed for one purpose only. To catch fish. Nets are no good if they stay on the boat. Nets serve no purpose if they are never used. I think maybe God sees us this way. We are all created for a purpose (by the way, the creator gets to define what our purpose is). Any other use besides the one we were created for does us no good. But when the creator places His hands upon us, casting us out into those scary, dark places with deep waters, it is then we can see the reality of our purpose. He knew there would be a catch waiting for us. I think I will be the net God has called me to be.

The Twelve Steps

As a community of people in recovery, we affirm that our higher power is Jesus Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Just as God told the children of Israel He was going to give them a promised land, He has revealed to us that He desires to give us a "Promised Life." When Israel got to the promised land, God instructed them to go and in a possess it, fight for it and claim it. In recovery, the 12 Steps are the directions given to us on how to fight, possess and claim this promised life.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Heart Beat

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