GREENE STREET LETTERS: Good Weekend

Monday, October 25, 2010

Good Weekend

I will be posting the message from Saturday night later on today so feel free to check back and listen to it.
There was much prayer and ministry Saturday night which is always something we want to happen.
I don't try to manipulate a response from the men who come to the meeting, I just want them to see and experience of being prayed over and ministered to. Then I want to teach them how to pray and minister to others.

Our worship time was the part that set up what happened the rest of the meeting. We just wanted to worship God...not sing about him or talk about him but direct our hearts and minds and voices to him. Worship is new to a lot of the men who come through the Rapha program. Because there are musicians up front and it's music, sometimes they feel like it is suppose to be a concert. I remind them that WORSHIP is verb not a noun. A verb denotes action, therefore worship is something we participate in.

Luke 11:28- He replied, "But even more blessed are all who hear the word of God and put it into practice."
The word of God should not be relegated to Sunday's only.
It is what gives me strength.
It is what the Spirit inside of me uses to direct me.
It is something I can hold in my hands and yet be the recipient of divine wisdom that is older than anything I know.
Sure it's just paper and ink and a backing to hold it all together.........
But beyond the natural aspects of this book we call the Bible, is the divine interaction that God brings through the book.
It truly is a most wonderful gift ever given to mankind (let me rephrase that....2nd most wonderful gift....Jesus is No.# 1).
To be able to read and study and digest what is written is worth more than anything the world has to offer.
But.....
Unless a heart is awakened and takes these words as life, it is all for naught.
Obey!
Read...
Study....
Do....
Obey!
That is where the life comes in.
Directed by the Holy Spirit and walked out in a fallen world, we see the power and purity that we could never possess on our own.
We become New Creations in Christ Jesus.
For that I am grateful.
Fall in love with the Word of God today.
Listen to the Spirit of God in you as he guides you today.

God on you.....
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.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Good Weekend

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