GREENE STREET LETTERS: Can't Sleep

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Can't Sleep

Woke up 1:49 a.m.
Can't sleep.
Turned on television.
Turned off television.
Can't sleep.
Sick.
Congested.
Sore throat.
Not enough to "whine and cry" about.
Just enough to rob me of sleep.
So now that I'm up....
What's next?

Today is visitation at Rapha. It is one of my most favorite times there.
I get to watch family and clients interact.
Some are rebuilding relationships that were once thought to be beyond repair.
Daddy's will chase their kids all over the compound.
Laughter and giggles will be a'plenty today.

Tonight is our weekly service.
Teaching tonight on "FEAR AND FAITH."
In the life of someone overcoming addiction, fear is huge.
Fear of the unknown is one of the many stumbling blocks that stand in the way of people and their recovery.
Fear causes us to look inward.
Fear keeps us from moving forward.

Psalm 27
V1.-
The LORD is my light and my salvation...so why should I be afraid?The Lord protects me from danger....so why should I tremble?

V2.-
When evil people come to destroy me, when my enemies and foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.

V.3 -
Though a mighty army surround me, my heart will know no fear. Even if they attack me, I remain confident.

V.4 -
The one thing I ask of the Lord... the thing I seek most--- is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. Delighting in the Lord's perfections and meditating in His Temple.

Learning to depend on and trust in God is what my heart longs for.
To not be swamped when "life" come in like a flood.
To be a good steward of what has been trusted to me by God.
To love as He loves.
To speak only what He desires me to say.
To go only where He directs me to.
To not fear tomorrow but cling fast to today and use it wisely for His kingdom.
To grow up more today. I want to grow up before I grow older.
To never loose my gratitude for what God has done to me.
To never be so arrogant that I cannot ask forgiveness from someone I have wronged.
To see myself simply as God sees me.
To never stop telling "the story" of Jesus.
To recognize and bless all that God is doing.

I hope you have a great weekend and a happy Fourth of July!

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.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Can't Sleep

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THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD