The Return Home February 19, 2009
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Moving on! July 31, 2008
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I have moved to my new blog home: http://ephesians2eight.com
Sharing a name with a cult has been fun but I thought I would instead go for something a little more straight forward. It has been a slice but I must go.
Come and see me!
A Week at Camp Omagh July 30, 2007
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I returned to Camp Omagh for the first time in 9 years last week. I hadn’t been there for an entire week since I was out managing camp. It was just great! We celebrated the twins birthday (mine too). I have spent a few birthdays out at camp over the years. Here are a selection:
My Birthday 1973
My Birthday 1974
Liam & Daniel’s Birthday 2007
With All of His Strength December 29, 2006
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When considering resolutions for 2007 I remembered a story:
In 1983 the upstart Edmonton Oilers met the three time Champion New York Islanders in the Stanley Cup Final. It was an interesting story because it was the first and last meeting of these two dynasties in the Stanley Cup Finals. Gretzky was the newly named captain of the Oilers and had set multiple records that season heading into the playoffs. Despite having won three years in a row, the Islanders were considered the underdogs by many. New York shut out the highest scoring Oilers twice in a four game sweep to win their fourth straight Stanley Cup. What happened?
”They taught us so much,” Wayne Gretzky said years later. “After the 1983 Finals, we had to walk by the Islanders’ locker room and we saw guys limping around and putting ice on themselves. We didn’t have a scratch. We learned a lot about what it took to win.”
“We could have played four more games, but they were spent. They left it all out on the ice”
One of my resolutions for 2007 is to in a new way, stop holding back when it comes to my service to God. I sometimes guard myself against serving too much because it will make me tired but when I have decided this I have forgotten who’s strength I should be using.
If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
It is Him who provides the strength for the struggle, not me. I don’t need to worry about my strength running out, I only need to worry about God’s strength running out. What a foolish thing to worry about!
The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to go on the heights.
God’s strength knows no bounds. It is endless. As I return to his service in 2007 I need to take a step in faith, sign the bottom of a blank sheet of paper and return it to God as my ‘ministry contract’. Trust Him fill in the details. God in His infinite wisdom, his infinite grace will call me to do exactly what I need to do. He knows how best to use me. I resolve to let him provide the strength I need and wait on Him to provide.
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Expectant Living (part 3) June 9, 2006
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Continued from here.
Christians are called to live expectantly. We are called to believe that God is real and that he has great plans for us (Jer. 29: 11). We are called to be ready, to be prepared for God to do the great things he has planned to do. We are called to wait upon the Lord.
I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, And in His word do I hope. My soul waits for the Lord More than the watchmen for the morning; Indeed, more than the watchmen for the morning.
The waiting here in Psalm 130 does not mean killing time, twiddling your thumbs, God would you hurry up and get to work. It means providing your full attention. Declaring your dependence on God the provider. “He leads, we follow.”
It is important for us to accept at this juncture that God does not need our help! It is to our benefit that we call upon the Lord, not His. Scripture is full of examples:
After ten years of waiting Abraham took matters into his own hands and the result was Ishmael. What he did was socially acceptable, but it was not God’s plan.
God is ready to help. When faced with overwhelming odds Jacob grabbed hold of the Angel of the Lord and cried." I will not let go until you bless me." This is a true example of waiting on the Lord. Desperate, faith filled reaching up to God. As a result, God changed his name from Jacob, to Israel, which means "prince of God." His descendants inherited the land.
In Mark 5: 25-32, the woman who had the haemorrhage for 12 years reached out to touch the hem of Jesus as a profession of faith. It was a Jewish tradition that the Messiah, the anointed one would have such power that touching the tassles on the edges of his clothing would bring about healing. By reaching out to touch Jesus she was effectively saying “You are the Christ!” She was putting all her hope in this one attempt. She would make Him unclean by touching Him. This was a very risky manouver but she does it anyway. Great faith at great risk with great consequences and great rewards.
God wants us to be a divine demonstration of His Presence and His Power. We will do that by:
- Believing
- Being Ready
- Waiting on Him
Pray for more faith.
Pray for readiness.
Pray for a heart that is willing to wait on him.
May God richly bless you with a life that is full of expectancy!
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