GREENE STREET LETTERS: Weekend Coming

Friday, March 5, 2010

Weekend Coming

Saturday approaching.

Visitation here at Rapha.

Weather is going to be good.
Warm, sun, family, food....

It will be a good time for the guys.

Visitation always lifts the spirits and adds a little spring to the step.

Shouldn't that be the norm when we experience a

visitation from God?

Shouldn't our hearts beat a little faster when we come into His presence?
Shouldn't our thoughts become clearer as His Holy Spirit rises up within us?
Shouldn't the voices of the enemy that sometimes whisper in our heads, be silent?

I think so.

I am blessed beyond measure, and when there are those times where I know that I truly am in the presence of God, I am reminded of what has transpired in my life.

Let's be perfectly honest at this point.

I am a mess.

I know it.

I have a lot of things that God wants out of my life.

But He is working on me.

I'm not running around with a self-proclaimed blue print

thinking that I can change it all.

I want to write a verse here that may explain where my heart is.

It is a lengthy verse because I am using the Amplified Bible.

Philippians 3:10

[For my determined purpose] is that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted deeply with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [ in spirit into His likeness even] to His death. [in the hope]

Even as I wrote this verse, there was a part of me that squirms and wants to run away at the mention of joining the fellowship of His (Jesus) sufferings.

But here in this place of being identified with Christ, is where we find strength to carry on.

Strength to get up every morning and go about the business of the day.
Strength to not quit when everything looks hopeless.

Strength to recognize that what we are experiencing is not of ourselves,

but a gift from our Father in heaven.

God bless you this weekend.....

See you Monday...
Here at the Greene Street Letters.

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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, March 5, 2010

Weekend Coming

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