Sunday, July 11, 2010

Deliberately Random....


Well Today Was A Day! Today was Sunday So It was time for some church!!! As soon as I woke up this morning I felt an excitement deep down inside me. I was even running around the house singing so much that I think my wife may have told me to go back to bed and wake up on the other side....;) Once I arrived at church this morning we went right into our ministers prayer meeting. I love when you can walk into the church and hear the prayers going up and feel the presence of the Holy Ghost. Pastor Gray was preaching today and mentioned how we needed not to just feel the Holy Ghost but we need to do more than that. The thought came to my mind that we need to continue to "EXPERIENCE" the Holy Ghost. I truly Believe that we can never have enough Holy Ghost. We should always have a longing for more.
The Power of God Was Strong at F.P.C. of Paris today. I challenged church to move to the next level in living for God. It is a must that we never grow content in our walk with God. We Should Always strive to be a Greater Christian, better witness, Greater Prayer warrior, and a more studious student.
I Love all that God has done for me, and I am thankful for all the blessings that he has bestowed upon me and my family. If worked from now until the end of eternity I could never begin to repay Him. The Great thing is he knew that I never could, but He did it anyways.
Little bit of a subject change.......
On Sunday nights we have prayer meeting and fellowship at the church. Sometimes for our fellowship we go to a restaurant in town instead of bringing food & eating at the church. Tonight was one of those nights. After eating the children were all playing in the Play place at McDonald's when all of a sudden my oldest boy flipped out of the slide and landed on his arm wrong. Of Course that made for a trip to the E.R. where for the second time in his life they had to pop his elbow back into joint. I told him when he was walking out to the truck from McDonald's that I was starting to think he was going to be my child that always hurts himself, since this is the third time he has had to go to the E.R. to be put back together and he's only 4.
It is never an easy decision to make when I am trying to decide weather or not one of my children need to be seen by a doctor. Because anytime I see them hurt I want them to be better instantly. It tears my heart out to see them in pain or sick. I would gladly at anytime change places with them whenever this is the case. I am Proud to say that although that may be a hard decision to make, that as a child of God the thought never crosses my mind should we pray about this. Is this serious enough or not? Because I Serve a God that there's not a problem to big or a problem to small. Just like the old song says "Bring all Your needs to the alter, Bring all you needs to the Lord, for He is so willing and able to help you, bring all your needs to the the Lord. The God That I Server is a healer! His Word tells us this. Bishop Holley Taught on it today: James 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let the pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
I Thank God Today that He is here for each of us to call on whenever we need Him even if it is in the Middle of the McDonald's Play Place! BE BLESSES!!!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Well Here Goes!


Well Let me First say that that this may not be the greatest blog in the world, but it will be true! I have never blogged before but for the last several months I have been telling myself that I would like to start one. Well here it goes! My vision for this blog is great. I have named it "The Life of a Chad" because I want to blog things that I do, things that I experience, feel, think, find, taste, overcome, and anything else that may be part of my Life.
I do not have aspirations to have a great host of followers but I will be pleased with what I have.

So I have never been one to read a lot. In fact I have never been one to read at all. Not that I can't, But i have never really found it interesting. so as of late I have challenged myself to read.
I have heard it said time and time again that "LEADERS READ". So to hold true to image I have of myself and hopefully what others see, that I'm not a follower but a leader I have started making myself read. The Funny thing is is that once I get sat down and become focused on what I am reading (which is a task all in itself) I enjoy what I am doing.
For that last couple of days I have been reading a book (my wife would call it a pamphlet) called Found God's Will by John MacArthur, Jr. it is about Finding the direction and purpose God wants for your Life. As I said earlier that so far I have been enjoying it. So today let me leave you with and excerpt from this book that I read the other day and stuck out to me.

"It Is God's will that men be saved. If you are stumbling around in life and tossing up some periodic prayers to God but have never come on your knees to the foot of the Cross and met Jesus Christ, then you are not even in the beginning of God's will. God has no reason to reveal to you anything particular about your life because you have not met qualification number one: Salvation."