I heard a message where Bro Barnes said that he was in a bad place in life and when he started to do what the Lord had called him to do... he started to come out of that bad place.

Starting today.

It starts with prayer.

It will touch every part of my life.

How I eat, what I eat, my prayer life, what I watch, listen to, etc.
It also, affects how I deal with troubles.
How will I deal with the child being sick, etc?
Will those things continue to put me off track?

Start today.

 I don't even know the guy who wrote the posts below... he has been replaced by an old, legally blind guy with a child. Maybe I will meet that guy again sometime. He seems pretty cool.

Revival and Sickness

We are having revival! We went through a low period.. but then revival started.
We baptized and man and his wife from the community... they came from the adopt a block thing we did...

We baptized another lady from the community who came to church with a friend.
She is also bringing her boyfriend!

Several others have been baptized.

I am still feeling very bad in my stomach.
Confusion as to whats going on... maybe this antibiotic or another... or something different.
Waiting on test to come back.

Stopped 2 diff antibitotics due to side effects.

Needing direction on what to do with our house, jobs etc.

I know Jesus can heal me of all of this.
I can just trust him and leave it at that.

All about the hard times

It looks like I only blog in the hard times. :)

yep... I am sick again...

had some type of "urinary" infection with fever etc. before we went on the birthday cruise in July.

Then a massive sinus infection.

Then severe stomach problems... maybe from the antibiotics.. worse that I had in Austin in late 04.

And again... God is teaching me and doing great things!

The message "worthiness of the Lamb" by Jason Sciscoe has been a blessing.
Here is the mp3

Many times we dont feel worthy for God to give us a miracle..
We think that if someone else prays for us that God will accept that person and give us our miracle.

We are accepted in Heaven because of Jesus Christ!

He took our pain... and all of our bad stuff.
He trades us His healing and all His goodness!

Abundant Life Church in Alabaster, AL had our first revival!
It was great. A young guy from the community was baptized.

We also did a community project by mowing and cleaning and abandoned house.
We are having slow steady growth.

It's good to blog

With this post I am starting to blog again...

I just looked back at some of the posts I did 3 years ago.
It really helped me remember some things I had forgotten.

There were some times I did not think I would make it through.
Now I can look back and see that the Lord did bring me through.

Now I can look into the future and see that he will bring me through the hard times I am facing right now!

I have some sickness that is making my hands and feet swell in the cold.
I am waiting on blood tests right now.
I have several other pains etc.
Denise is having trouble with her diabetes and more.

I am posting this so we can look back and remember.

God is good.
He cares about us.
His plans for us are perfect even when we don't understand them.

Moving to a new town

The home missions church we are part of now is actually located in Alabaster which is about 25 - 30 minutes away from the city of Hoover where we live. Living so far away makes it hard to evangelize the city the church is in because we only go there for church.

The GOOD NEWS is that we are moving to Alabaster on Monday!

My prayer is that God will anoint us to reach people all over town.
I pray that He will lead us to people in Wal-Mart, at the gas station or just where ever we are in town.

I have some friends who are in Florida starting a church and they told me that they have reached several people by just striking up a conversation with them in the store etc.

I pray that God will help us to NOT be so consumed with living our own lives that we that we do not hear His voice and follow His lead while we are out and about.

Fear keeps us from working for God

Fear is what keeps us from doing the work of God.

Our mind gets attacked with thoughts of WHAT IF...

We want to talk to someone about God but we think...

What if I get embarrassed?
What if they think I am stupid?
What if they yell at me and tell me to get lost?

We want to pray with someone at church but we think...

What if I offend them?
What if I look dumb?
What if I say the wrong thing?

It goes on and on...

We want to teach a bible study BUT...
We want to reach out to new people in the church BUT...
We want to have a prayer life BUT...

Sometimes I think we need to get a little reckless.

We just need to realize that our life will not last forever.

We need to go outside ourselves...

When you get outside of your comfort zone it's scary!

BUT that is where the work of God gets done!

That is where the work of God gets done.

Lets go for it.