GREENE STREET LETTERS: New Week ~ Another Opportunity

Monday, July 19, 2010

New Week ~ Another Opportunity

We get to try again this week.
We get another opportunity to "hear" God.
To do what He says do.
I am grateful for each week that I am given, knowing all to well that I only have a limited number of them here on this side of eternity.

We had our second meeting of the "new and improved" Saturday night gathering.
What really has happened is that God has taken the simplest of things and used them to usher in His Kingdom. What might it be? New teaching? Fresh anointing? Guest speakers? Nope. It was coffee and cookies. My wife's cookies. Jesus was in the business of feeding body and soul. He took a "Happy Meal" (two fish sticks and 5 biscuits) and fed 5000. So through a simple thing like coffee and cookies, God has opened up something entirely new in our Saturday night meeting.

As my wife bakes the cookies on Saturday, she prays over the ingredients.
Sugar-- that whoever eats the cookie will be made aware of the sweetness of the Father.
Flour -- that they will be aware that Jesus is the bread of life.
Raisins - that sin robs us and dries us out like the sun does grapes.
there are so many other things she prays as she bakes that by the time the cookies come to Rapha, well, lets just say that the guys are truly being fed physically and spiritually.

We set aside some time to just fellowship on Saturday night. To talk and mingle and pray for each other. That alone sets the tone for our service. So I am excited about what is taking place and the fruit we are beginning to see come from it.
Until Tomorrow.....
God on you............
mb

New Message From Saturday night now downloaded: LIVING IN BALANCE.

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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.

Monday, July 19, 2010

New Week ~ Another Opportunity

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