GREENE STREET LETTERS: Sustainable Energy.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Sustainable Energy.

Psalm 51:12
Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me.......
The greater, higher Power come down to the suffering creation.
Flesh and blood created from the mind and Words of God.
Yet a creation that was never intended to suffer like it has.
Granted much of our suffering is self-inflicted, but it is suffering none the less.
He hurts because we hurt.
He stands with us in our darkest hour.
He is constantly wooing us back to His side with words and movements of His Holy Spirit around us and in us.
He knows that it is a choice we have to make and He waits patiently for us to cry out to Him.
When that cry comes, He will not be stopped by anyone or anything.
He will come and rescue you.
He will save you.
He will bring restoration to you.
Not a half-hearted attempt at salvaging a life, but a complete---new creation----stand back and watch what I can do----act of redeeming a life from the pit of hell.
Now under His care, our life is transferred into His kingdom of light.

I love the words of Psalm 51:12! Restore the joy...the sheer unadulterated joy of the being made right in the sight of God. It goes beyond any joy that the world, the flesh, or the devil could cook up. Unequaled by any other form or type of joy, God's joy brings stability to our lives.

Grant me a willing spirit.
Grant me what I truly want....to serve you. To live for you. To walk daily in your ways. I have turned my will over to you, Lord....now grant me a willing spirit from your hand that will sustain me in all my ways and in all my days. Funny how the world talks about looking for alternatives to sustainable energy, and right here in scripture we have the eternal sustainable energy of God himself.
I want to spend all my days with you, Lord....and then beyond.
I want to live above the noise and death of this fallen world.
I want yours to be the only voice I listen to.
I want you, Jesus!
If the Spirit of God resurrected you, Jesus.....
I believe He can resurrect me.

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

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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.

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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.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Sustainable Energy.

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