GREENE STREET LETTERS: Alabama Power Got Nothing On God

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Alabama Power Got Nothing On God

Isaiah 60:2
Darkness as black as night covers all the nations of the earth, but the glory of the Lord rises and appears over you.

I love this verse....I love the power that God displays and the reality of His love for us. Darkness....spiritual blindness has come down and covered the hearts of men. It almost reminds me of the passage from Genesis where it describes the condition of peoples hearts during the time of Noah.

Genesis 6:5
The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.
Did you catch that?
Everything they thought or imagined?
What falls under "everything?" Dude! Everything.
Now when I read those verses, I see hopelessness.
I see a complete saturation of evil and spiritual blindness.
In my mind, I see no answer or way out.
But when God looks down into the heart of darkness, He sees opportunity.
He sees lives redeemed and returned.
From this point, He offers life.
Even during the time of Noah, God was offering a way out of the condition that covered mankind. No one need have perished. But they did because they chose.....get it? Chose? They chose to reject God as being foolish and fairy tale. In fact if you truly look at the story of Noah, God kept reaching out to mankind until it got to the point to where there was only "ONE" righteous man left. God was, and is, patient and longsuffering toward us. We just don't always see it that way.

What I take away from the Isaiah and Genesis passage, is that God is greater than any darkness that would seek to cover my mind and heart to keep me away from Him. God is not intimidated by the devil or his doings here on planet earth. SO if you are reading this and you feel your heart strangely warmed, it might be God speaking to you this day. God desires to remove all sin and darkness from anyone who turns will and life over to His care. Now I don't know about you, but it sounds like a good deal to me.

The video I am attaching to this post is from some friends of ours who came up last April and spent an evening worshiping and sharing. I will warn you that you need to be careful when the video plays...it possesses a strange ability that will cause you toes to tap and a smile come to your face.
Sorry about the ad that has to play before the music starts....just look over it.

God on you...
mbb

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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.

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Alabama Power Got Nothing On God

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