GREENE STREET LETTERS: Another Chance To Worship

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Another Chance To Worship

Update:
The young girl I posted about yesterday, who is in the hospital in Atlanta has successfully been brought out of a coma. There were no seizures or spike in fever. She was alert and responsive. Family said to thank everyone who prayed for her. God is a good God, isn't He?

Psalm 146:1-2
Praise the Lord! Let all that I am praise the Lord. I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to the my God with my dying breath.

I am all about the realization of what it means to praise God. To direct my love, appreciation and gratitude to the very one who gives me life each day. I am all about the realization that praise is more than songs. It is an act, or behavior, that reveals the true evidence that God is indeed working in a person. Everything we do becomes worship/praise to Him. Every task I lay my hand to, and the way I carry out that task, is evidence of my love for God. My attitude during the work I am doing shows the true nature of my heart.

Do I complain and grumble when I am working? Not sure such an attitude would be classified as "Worship and praise". Now don't go reading anything more into what I am writing. I am not saying that we all have to Pollyanna, sunshine, unicorns and lollipops all day, every day. I am saying that we need to be more in touch with the simple fact that the Holy Spirit of the real-deal God is alive and at work in each one of us who claim to be a follower of Jesus. We will have bad days and hard times, but such should not dictate our appreciation for what God has done to us, through us and for us. I choose not live in the doldrums, or get my mail at the corner of doom and gloom.

Now, tomorrow night, at Gadsden Vineyard, some of our extended spiritual family will be rolling into town to lead us in some worship time. As you can see by the image I posted at the beginning of this post, John and Marie Barnett, along with Raymond "Sleep" Ray" McDonald, Bobby McDonald, Joel Knox will be taking the stage at 7 p.m.. This isn't going to be a performance or a concert. It will be a time where we can gather and just be free to worship. There's no charge for showing up tomorrow night.....Come on out an join us. Worship begins at 7 p.m.

Here's a little taste of what to expect tomorrow night.
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.

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Another Chance To Worship

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