August 2011 Blog Posts (12)

The Platform

By: Alan Smith

Can we really live a life that is full of joy and excitement, with great anticipation of events that are right around the corner?  Life is not to be endured, but enjoyed.  The Bible is full of truths that are unbelievable to me; and I am still trying to persuade myself to trust the Bible more each day.  Truths of the spiritual world are, at times, opposite of my own selfish thinking.  You know, like you go under…

Reconciliation in the ICU

This is a very recent and true story from a dear friend…

My dad had a brain aneurysm a few days ago, and here is an update. They think it was a vein and not an artery, but haven't confirmed that yet.  They are doing another angiogram today.  A hole was drilled in his head to release the blood and pressure. Some good news: he is able to move his hands and feet, and more importantly remembers who we are.  He doesn’t know facts like what year it is and…

Something that Surpasses Knowledge

By: Alan Smith

Eph 3:17-19

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. (NIV)

I thought that knowledge surpassed all…

PROVERBS 18:21

DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE.

SINCE WE CAN SPEAK LIFE --LET US BEGIN

ALL OVER PEOPLE ARE TALKING NEGATIVE

AND PRODUCING DEATH.

LETS BEGIN TO SPEAK LIFE TO OUR FAMILY-CHURCH

TO OUR COUNTRY-NEIGHBOR=ENEMY

AND SPEAK IT EVERY DAY UNTIL LIFE COMES FORTH.

JESUS CAME TO BRING LIFE AND WE ARE THE

VEHICLES HE WANTS TO USE TO SPEAK IT

INTO…

   Perhaps some of you have been in a season of change and realignment, praying and waiting seeking direction as to what to do next?  God has taken you through a wilderness experience to find Him to get your battle wounds healed and become strengthened by Him for the new season ahead in your ministry.  It has been an emotional roller-coaster the past couple of years, you have been just sitting in a pew doing nothing and feeling left out and discouraged.  The longer you sit there and do…

Just Do It

By: Alan Smith

Nike thought they originated the phrase “Do It”; but the Bible beat them to it.

1 Chron. 28:20: "And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the…

"When I was a child, I talked like a child; I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me." 1 Corinthians 13:11 N.I.V.



There is a huge difference between living in child-like simplicity and childish self focus. In childlike simplicity we can live free of pretence and masks. But a life of childishness will be more difficult.  If we don’t put childish ways behind us we will remain a child in an adult body; otherwise…

Do you realize how many uses there are for "corn"? Are you sitting down? Corn has over five hundred uses and still counting. Thanks to the "inventive" George Washington Carver, the peanut has over three hundred life enhancing uses. This blows my mind on so many levels. God purposely designed into each aspect of his creation multitudinous blessings and uses.…

When a man worships

He shakes the foundations of bricked hopelessness

And bridges the gap of generational schisms



 

When a man worships

The heavens bend receiving the

Surrender of its son called to go proxy

For the life of its seed



 

When a man worships

Unabashedly naked and not ashamed before His father

The earth stands still receiving the cry of this dear one

Wrapped in strength and might

Now rendered humbled and…

It’s not about you and me. How we feel. It’s about Jesus. It’s about losing ourselves in God. It’s about forgetting who we were and awaking to a brand new world in the Kingdom of God. It’s about the glory of God and being drowned in His great mercy and love, submerged, immersed. Let Him hold you till you cry. Let Him hold you till you die. Let Him hold you until you are…