Ps 46:10
Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
I feel that this is the time for us to be still and listen to what the Lord will be speaking to us. I believe the Lord is ready to be exalted among the lost of the world. I feel that this next season will be a time of salvation and healing for many who are lost, and a time of God redeeming those who have fallen alway.
We need to be at the place where we can hear what His heart is. John 15 tells us that we are no longer slaves but friends because we do what He commands us. Therefore He is making known to us what He has heard from His Father.
I want to be a part of what God will be doing on the earth. Not of watching it, but an active doing of it. His Kingdom is being established here on earth as it is in heaven.
Take time to be still from all your stuff and listen to what the Spirit of the Lord will speak to you.
Being still and listening so I will be a doer.
Doug
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
where is your trust
In the mid 80's, God spoke to me about getting out of farming and move to the DFW area to go full time in the ministry. So I moved to Graham Texas and got in the oil business, not what the Lord had spoken to me to do. But what my leadership said I should do, so I thought I missed the Lord in what I thought He has spoken to me and moved to Graham.
The oil business went south and I had lost a bunch of money. I didn’t understand what was going on. I then heard the Lord say, go back to Oklahoma, so I moved back and bought a restaurant, and it went broke. I thought well, I could get back in to farming and every thing would be good and I could get out of debt.
I starting farming, and it looked like things where going good, my cattle where getting fat and the price was good. The week before I sold my cattle, they started dying, and I thought that is weird. But I said it’s ok because my wheat was looking good and would make up the difference. But the week before I started cutting the wheat, a hailstorm come and hailed out my wheat. I thought, that is weird. But it’s ok; my cotton crop is looking good. The week before I starting harvesting my cotton a hailstorm came and hailed out my cotton. So I said to the Lord. What is going on? He said, I am showing you what you can do.
That is when the Lord gave me Jer 17:5-8
I learned that I couldn’t trust in the arm of my flesh, but had to make the Lord my trust. It is one thing, to trust in the Lord, and another thing to make the Lord your trust. When the Lord is your trust you will be fruitful, even in dry places. The blessing of the Lord are always before you; you just can’t see them because you are trusting in the arm of your flesh or your gifting.
That is when I made the Lord my trust, and not my ability. So the next year I planted cotton and made the best cotton in the county.
The thing that I learned was the Lord had to be my trust and my hope, I couldn’t trust in what I could do or even in what the Lord had gifted me to be. He is my trust, and I can do nothing outside of Him that will bring life or produces fruits.
I have been serving the Lord for 33 years, I am debt free, out of farming and travel the world preaching His kingdom and making disciples.
I pray that this will help you from making some of the same dumb mistakes that I have made.
Make the Lord your trust, He is faithful.
Blessings
Doug
The oil business went south and I had lost a bunch of money. I didn’t understand what was going on. I then heard the Lord say, go back to Oklahoma, so I moved back and bought a restaurant, and it went broke. I thought well, I could get back in to farming and every thing would be good and I could get out of debt.
I starting farming, and it looked like things where going good, my cattle where getting fat and the price was good. The week before I sold my cattle, they started dying, and I thought that is weird. But I said it’s ok because my wheat was looking good and would make up the difference. But the week before I started cutting the wheat, a hailstorm come and hailed out my wheat. I thought, that is weird. But it’s ok; my cotton crop is looking good. The week before I starting harvesting my cotton a hailstorm came and hailed out my cotton. So I said to the Lord. What is going on? He said, I am showing you what you can do.
That is when the Lord gave me Jer 17:5-8
I learned that I couldn’t trust in the arm of my flesh, but had to make the Lord my trust. It is one thing, to trust in the Lord, and another thing to make the Lord your trust. When the Lord is your trust you will be fruitful, even in dry places. The blessing of the Lord are always before you; you just can’t see them because you are trusting in the arm of your flesh or your gifting.
That is when I made the Lord my trust, and not my ability. So the next year I planted cotton and made the best cotton in the county.
The thing that I learned was the Lord had to be my trust and my hope, I couldn’t trust in what I could do or even in what the Lord had gifted me to be. He is my trust, and I can do nothing outside of Him that will bring life or produces fruits.
I have been serving the Lord for 33 years, I am debt free, out of farming and travel the world preaching His kingdom and making disciples.
I pray that this will help you from making some of the same dumb mistakes that I have made.
Make the Lord your trust, He is faithful.
Blessings
Doug
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
How We See One Another
Most of us spend our whole life knowing one another after the flesh. We judge people by what they do and don't do. It is all about the way people preform according to our judgements and expectations that we have. If they do this, that means this. If they do that, it's means that and so on. We get caught in the trap of trying to be what people want, instead of being who we where called by God to be.
I think what Paul was talking about in 2 Cor 5. was not to regard one another from a worldly point of view, but a Kingdom point of view. We are to know one another after the spirit and not after the flesh. When we see people by the spirit, then we see them through the heart of God's love and purpose. Remember in Christ we became spiritual beings no longer fleshly beings.
Let us try to see and encourage one another with the heart of the Kingdom, which is not counting people's sins against them, but reconciling them to God's love in Christ the King.
Blessings
Doug
I think what Paul was talking about in 2 Cor 5. was not to regard one another from a worldly point of view, but a Kingdom point of view. We are to know one another after the spirit and not after the flesh. When we see people by the spirit, then we see them through the heart of God's love and purpose. Remember in Christ we became spiritual beings no longer fleshly beings.
Let us try to see and encourage one another with the heart of the Kingdom, which is not counting people's sins against them, but reconciling them to God's love in Christ the King.
Blessings
Doug
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Cure for Anxiety
Have you ever found yourself worrying about stuff?
Stuff like what you will eat or what you will drink or what you will wear or even how you are going to pay your bills.
Mat. 6: tells us to seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
His Kingdom and His righteousness, that is the key. It is in finding your life in Christ the King. When you know who the King is and that you life is hidden in the King, then you have every thing that you need. For there is nothing you need outside what the King’s heart is for you.
We have been told that we have every thing we need in Jesus and that is true, because He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
He tells us that His peace He leaves us. So stop worrying about the stuff and rest in the fact, that the King has called you and chosen you and appointed you for good things.
Remind the King of what He has said, and watch Him do it.
Blessings
Doug
Stuff like what you will eat or what you will drink or what you will wear or even how you are going to pay your bills.
Mat. 6: tells us to seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
His Kingdom and His righteousness, that is the key. It is in finding your life in Christ the King. When you know who the King is and that you life is hidden in the King, then you have every thing that you need. For there is nothing you need outside what the King’s heart is for you.
We have been told that we have every thing we need in Jesus and that is true, because He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
He tells us that His peace He leaves us. So stop worrying about the stuff and rest in the fact, that the King has called you and chosen you and appointed you for good things.
Remind the King of what He has said, and watch Him do it.
Blessings
Doug
Monday, September 17, 2007
Is Life Like Golf
I was playing in a golf tournament this last weekend with a friend in Granbury, and I realized that golf was like life.
In this tournament, you had to reach a certain score to win the event, ours was 38.5 and that was what we where looking at. Then it dawn on me that we couldn’t look at the end score, we had to look at every hole, and try to get the 2.14 per hole so we could meet our goal, and not just every hole, but one shot at a time. When we hit one shot at a time then the whole would take care of itself. We couldn’t make 38.5 points on the first hole, so we didn’t try. Each hole one shot at a time, we started out making what we needed on the 1st few holes, and then something happened, we went 3 holes without making a point. We said that’s it; we won’t make our goal. But we stayed focus and played each shot at a time and made 38 points. Didn’t win, but reached our goaled. Well almost, what’s a .05?
The thing I learned is that God knows our goal, and shows it to us at the beginning, and then helps us one day at a time to reach the end. We are not to get distracted by one or two bad shots, but know, that the whole will take care of the end.
Blessing
Doug
PS
Jesus is the whole.
In this tournament, you had to reach a certain score to win the event, ours was 38.5 and that was what we where looking at. Then it dawn on me that we couldn’t look at the end score, we had to look at every hole, and try to get the 2.14 per hole so we could meet our goal, and not just every hole, but one shot at a time. When we hit one shot at a time then the whole would take care of itself. We couldn’t make 38.5 points on the first hole, so we didn’t try. Each hole one shot at a time, we started out making what we needed on the 1st few holes, and then something happened, we went 3 holes without making a point. We said that’s it; we won’t make our goal. But we stayed focus and played each shot at a time and made 38 points. Didn’t win, but reached our goaled. Well almost, what’s a .05?
The thing I learned is that God knows our goal, and shows it to us at the beginning, and then helps us one day at a time to reach the end. We are not to get distracted by one or two bad shots, but know, that the whole will take care of the end.
Blessing
Doug
PS
Jesus is the whole.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Be Steadfast, immovable, what does that mean?
I was reading and ran across a verse that told me to be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that my toil is not in vain in the Lord.
My question is, what is the work of the Lord for me?
Why did God chose me and appoint me to bear fruit?
What did He see in me, that I have not seen in myself!
What is this that Christ laid hold of me for?
What is the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus?
So many questions, who has the answer.
Doug
My question is, what is the work of the Lord for me?
Why did God chose me and appoint me to bear fruit?
What did He see in me, that I have not seen in myself!
What is this that Christ laid hold of me for?
What is the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus?
So many questions, who has the answer.
Doug
Monday, August 6, 2007
walk worthy of your call
Paul tells us in Eph. 4, to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which we have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
When we understand that God was the one looking for us and He was the one that chose us, and appointed us to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain. (John 15) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before hand so that we would walk in them? (Eph 2) Then we wouldn't have a problem loving one another, for God is love. We would begin to know one another after the Spirit, not the flesh.
The problem is that we don't realize that we are nothing, outside of Christ. We need to remember that God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise. We need to have a sober understanding of which we are, and not to think more highly of ourselves than we should.
God is building His Kingdom, that is one of the reason that Christ came, was to take back what Adam lost. Jesus didn’t come to start another religion, but to take back the Kingdom.
We have to understand that we each have a part, and that we need every part to make the whole. That, which every part supplies, brings the fullness of God.
Let’s be preservers of the unity of the Spirit, and see His Kingdom be established on earth.
Blessings
Doug
When we understand that God was the one looking for us and He was the one that chose us, and appointed us to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain. (John 15) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before hand so that we would walk in them? (Eph 2) Then we wouldn't have a problem loving one another, for God is love. We would begin to know one another after the Spirit, not the flesh.
The problem is that we don't realize that we are nothing, outside of Christ. We need to remember that God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise. We need to have a sober understanding of which we are, and not to think more highly of ourselves than we should.
God is building His Kingdom, that is one of the reason that Christ came, was to take back what Adam lost. Jesus didn’t come to start another religion, but to take back the Kingdom.
We have to understand that we each have a part, and that we need every part to make the whole. That, which every part supplies, brings the fullness of God.
Let’s be preservers of the unity of the Spirit, and see His Kingdom be established on earth.
Blessings
Doug
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