Last night a friend, my wife, and I went down town to Summer on Trade in Winston to watch my wife's brother play in his band. As we were standing around I saw an homeless guy standing by him self watching the band play. Then I started noticing how people were walking around him so he wouldnt bother them. So I walked over to him and started talking to him. I introduced myself and reached out my hand for a handshake, and he ignore me. He acted like he was shocked that someone stopped to talk to him. He realized I was talking to him because i repeated myself and he reached his hand out and introduced himself to me. So as we were talking I asked him if he had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. He looked at me as honest I have ever seen anyone and he was like kinda of but not really. So I started talking to him and I told him I would be praying for him. He got a huge smile on his face and said Thank you. Then he grabbed his belongings which were two plastic grocery bags. I know most of us couldnt fit what we have in our cars into two grocery bags especially all that we have and I know I couldnt. So I reached in my pocket and handed him money that I had. He was so excited about how much I gave him. So as I am sitting here thinking of Floyd and how much of a blessing he was on my life lets lift him up to God that he will put more people in his life that will witness to him and maybe lead him to christ. Where ever you are at today Floyd I love you and most of all God loves you.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
God works through His servants
As I was sitting at my desk this morning for my quite time the first thing I read was:
This is so awesome because this is what is going through my life since God has lead me away from Lowe's to the mission field for God's kingdom. This past week Satan and his demons have been hounding me and hounding me. They started telling me I was a failure because I quit working for Lowe's, that I am not making any money for my family, and how can God use you for his work in Weslaco because you are just an ordinary man who doesn't have a lot of bible knowledge. So thank God I have a very loving wife and she can tell when things are bothering me. Because as I was letting Satan win this battle I stopped my bible reading time and Experiencing God study because I was deceived by Satan. Katie looked at me Saturday and said "What is wrong with you?" So as I started explaining to her with tears coming down my face she came over to the couch and wrapped her arms around me. The first thing she did was pray over us that Satan and his demons would flee away in the name of Jesus. Man was this a very powerful thing that happen in our living room Saturday. I felt like there was tons of weight lifted off me after Katie had prayed for us. It is so easy to let Satan deceive you. So I pray that we will put on the armor of God to defend us from the flaming darts from the evil one. Please continue to pray for us as Satan doesn't like for God's children to do work towards God's kingdom. Satan will try anything he can to quench our desire for God.
"GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME; ALL THE TIME GOD IS GOOD!!" Amen
You cannot stay the way you are and go with God!!!
1. God is always at work around you.
2. God pursues a continuing love relationship with you that is real and personal.
3.God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.
4. God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, Prayer, circumstances, people and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
5. God's invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.
6.You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing.
7. You come to know God by experience as you obey Him, and He accomplishes His work through you.
This is so awesome because this is what is going through my life since God has lead me away from Lowe's to the mission field for God's kingdom. This past week Satan and his demons have been hounding me and hounding me. They started telling me I was a failure because I quit working for Lowe's, that I am not making any money for my family, and how can God use you for his work in Weslaco because you are just an ordinary man who doesn't have a lot of bible knowledge. So thank God I have a very loving wife and she can tell when things are bothering me. Because as I was letting Satan win this battle I stopped my bible reading time and Experiencing God study because I was deceived by Satan. Katie looked at me Saturday and said "What is wrong with you?" So as I started explaining to her with tears coming down my face she came over to the couch and wrapped her arms around me. The first thing she did was pray over us that Satan and his demons would flee away in the name of Jesus. Man was this a very powerful thing that happen in our living room Saturday. I felt like there was tons of weight lifted off me after Katie had prayed for us. It is so easy to let Satan deceive you. So I pray that we will put on the armor of God to defend us from the flaming darts from the evil one. Please continue to pray for us as Satan doesn't like for God's children to do work towards God's kingdom. Satan will try anything he can to quench our desire for God.
"GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME; ALL THE TIME GOD IS GOOD!!" Amen
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Blessings
Here is another letter I have wrote from my Heart.
As sit here this morning I think of how blessed I amThank You Lord for saving this sinful man and for blessing me more than I deserve.
You blessed me with the best parents anyone could have
A brother who means the world to me
As I think back to how disobedient I was to You but You still blessed me
I have the most perfect bride any man would wish for or wants
You blessed me with another set of parents that are just like my parents
So many people in the world doesn't even have parents but I have two sets of parents I am so blessed
Also I am blessed with a brother and a sister that means the world to me
God thank You for blessing this sinful man and I am sorry for ever time I let You down
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Shine my Light
I have never been much of a writer at all but it is amazing what talents God can bring out of you if you trust in him and let the Holy Spirit guide you. I hope that you will enjoy this writing.
Shine my Light
Shine my Light
Oh how You are the light of my life.
When I don't fall into this world my light Shines bright
When I don't spend time with You I start falling into darkness
It is so easy to fall into the darkness
Many people have spent most or all of there life in the dark
When I start fighting out of the darkness I keep falling back
So as I pray this prayer Lord will You help me out of this darkness
After spending all this time with out You
I want my Light to shine bright for this world for Your Kingdom
No Greater Love
No Greater Love
As people saw You do miracles and full fill all prophecies.
They still didn't believe that you were the Son.
As they watched you get beat and as they mocked You Lord.
You still forgave them because they didn't know what they were doing.
As they pushed the crown of thorns on your head they cheered in excitement but there was John crying for his Lord.
You stood up and started your journey with a cross to Calvary.
You were beaten and mocked.
You carried until God's plan was for You to have help.
As Simon helped carry the cross he didn't understand why You were not giving into them.
When you were on the mountain top they started to nail You to the cross.
As I hear the sound of metal hitting metal my skin takes chills.
Then as You were hung between two criminals you still had compassion for them.
You forgave the one who confessed that You were his Savior.
Now as I see you stretched out across this cross I realize how much You love me.
Lord of My Life
Lord of My Life
Oh Lord I just found You today and I am a new creature in You.
I pray that you will take this sinful flesh of mine.
I want to give You all of me, so I can live for you.
So many of my friends don't understand why I am so different.
Please Lord keep my Faith strong in You.
As days go by the world tells me it's ok to be part of the world So now I am getting so far from You.
So as I fall on my knees tonight I realize all these things in this world are un Holy for Your children.
So I am going to be different I am getting rid of these things that don't fill me with your word I am not sliding back into this world anymore.
Thank You, Lord for saving this sinful man.
I am so proud to live my life for You.
I am ready to make You Lord of my life.
When we decided to make Jesus the Lord of our Life!!
As my wife and I started seeking the Lord for our lives He started showing us what he wanted us to do. Back in October of Last year God had lead my wife from Lowe's to become a stay at home wife. Then He lead her to start volunteering at the Wilkes Pregnancy Care Center. As she was volunteering a position opened up to work there. She prayed to see if this is where God wanted her and she accepted the job. She loved the people and what they were doing to spread the Gospel to these young ladies.
Then, in January, God started working in my life that I needed to leave Lowe's. I was very selfish and wanted to wait till bonus time at Lowe's so the bonus came and left I was still there. So then we started praying that if He wanted me to leave Lowe's I needed him to take the passion for Lowe's out of me. So he didn't waste anytime before my passion was gone. I use to get so excited when someone would make a sale and after the passion was gone I was like why would someone spend $30,000 on cabinets for their home. There is nothing wrong with someone wanting to improve their home but I was like I couldn't spend that much when I know there is homeless people, families without food or a home to stay in, and how much the Church's are dying in this world because of people are not tithing like they should. So then I started looking for another job I first started looking inside Lowe's and God was like "No Jason I want you to leave Lowe's all together." Well then I started applying for jobs outside of Lowe's and I never got a call from any of those jobs. Then on June 12th while I was praying God says I need you to have Faith like Peter and to step out of the boat and to start following me. Katie, my wife, was also told it is time for Jason to step out of Lowe's. So on the 14th of June I gave my notice to my supervisor and started sharing my Faith with him. We had numerous people come up to us and say are you crazy you are leaving a great company. They also said you are quiting your job and you don't have anything to go to. So this opened up a lot of conversations about my Faith and what my Savior had done for me. I had one of my specialist come up to me and say "I was so shocked when I heard that you were leaving Lowe's because when I think of Lowe's I think of Jason Church bleeding Lowe's blue, shouting the Lowe's cheer, and pushing sales. I can remember how you would talk about how we need to invest in Lowe's stock and how we should always try to move up in this company." I realized after this conversation that God wanted me to give up what my heart and passion had been all about for the past 12 years. After giving my notice it open many windows for me to share my testimony to believers and non believers.
After I put my notice in Katie and I would pray that he would use us for His kingdom and we are ready to go where he wants us to go. So on July 3rd at church I had prayed that same prayer before the service started. Our Pastor had mention at the end of the service that we have the opportunity to purchase the mission house in Weslaco Texas. Then as crystal is clear God says "That is where you are going" and I was like are you sure that is where you want us to go. Then Kevin says I feel that it might be a couple or family in this church that will go to run this mission house. Then God says again " I told you this is where you are going" and then I just started crying because the Holy Spirit had convicted me that this is where God wants you and Katie. Then Katie turns and looks at me with tears rolling down her face as well. She started asking me what was wrong and I told her "I cant talk about it right now" I was so emotional I couldn't even sing without crying. So we go up to the altar to pray and we can't stop crying because of the conviction of the Holy Spirit. When we got out of church we talked about what had gone on during church and we both had conformation that we were going to Texas. Later that afternoon Katie sent a text to Kevin, our Pastor, that the Holy Spirit is leading us to go to Weslaco, Texas to run the mission house then he texted back "I am not surprised".
It is amazing how Great Our God is that he had already put us on Kevin's heart and some other people that he wanted us to be in Weslaco Texas.
In these verses Jesus clearly states how He knew what to do. Jesus watched to see where His Father was at work and joined Him. This is what MPBC and us wants to do because we see God at work in Weslaco, Texas and Mexico.
I would ask for everyone to be in prayer for our vote on August 14th to purchase the mission house and that Katie and I will keep growing closer to God.
Then, in January, God started working in my life that I needed to leave Lowe's. I was very selfish and wanted to wait till bonus time at Lowe's so the bonus came and left I was still there. So then we started praying that if He wanted me to leave Lowe's I needed him to take the passion for Lowe's out of me. So he didn't waste anytime before my passion was gone. I use to get so excited when someone would make a sale and after the passion was gone I was like why would someone spend $30,000 on cabinets for their home. There is nothing wrong with someone wanting to improve their home but I was like I couldn't spend that much when I know there is homeless people, families without food or a home to stay in, and how much the Church's are dying in this world because of people are not tithing like they should. So then I started looking for another job I first started looking inside Lowe's and God was like "No Jason I want you to leave Lowe's all together." Well then I started applying for jobs outside of Lowe's and I never got a call from any of those jobs. Then on June 12th while I was praying God says I need you to have Faith like Peter and to step out of the boat and to start following me. Katie, my wife, was also told it is time for Jason to step out of Lowe's. So on the 14th of June I gave my notice to my supervisor and started sharing my Faith with him. We had numerous people come up to us and say are you crazy you are leaving a great company. They also said you are quiting your job and you don't have anything to go to. So this opened up a lot of conversations about my Faith and what my Savior had done for me. I had one of my specialist come up to me and say "I was so shocked when I heard that you were leaving Lowe's because when I think of Lowe's I think of Jason Church bleeding Lowe's blue, shouting the Lowe's cheer, and pushing sales. I can remember how you would talk about how we need to invest in Lowe's stock and how we should always try to move up in this company." I realized after this conversation that God wanted me to give up what my heart and passion had been all about for the past 12 years. After giving my notice it open many windows for me to share my testimony to believers and non believers.
After I put my notice in Katie and I would pray that he would use us for His kingdom and we are ready to go where he wants us to go. So on July 3rd at church I had prayed that same prayer before the service started. Our Pastor had mention at the end of the service that we have the opportunity to purchase the mission house in Weslaco Texas. Then as crystal is clear God says "That is where you are going" and I was like are you sure that is where you want us to go. Then Kevin says I feel that it might be a couple or family in this church that will go to run this mission house. Then God says again " I told you this is where you are going" and then I just started crying because the Holy Spirit had convicted me that this is where God wants you and Katie. Then Katie turns and looks at me with tears rolling down her face as well. She started asking me what was wrong and I told her "I cant talk about it right now" I was so emotional I couldn't even sing without crying. So we go up to the altar to pray and we can't stop crying because of the conviction of the Holy Spirit. When we got out of church we talked about what had gone on during church and we both had conformation that we were going to Texas. Later that afternoon Katie sent a text to Kevin, our Pastor, that the Holy Spirit is leading us to go to Weslaco, Texas to run the mission house then he texted back "I am not surprised".
It is amazing how Great Our God is that he had already put us on Kevin's heart and some other people that he wanted us to be in Weslaco Texas.
This reminds me of my study in "Experiencing God" that in John 5:17, 19-20 "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too, am working. I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these."
In these verses Jesus clearly states how He knew what to do. Jesus watched to see where His Father was at work and joined Him. This is what MPBC and us wants to do because we see God at work in Weslaco, Texas and Mexico.
I would ask for everyone to be in prayer for our vote on August 14th to purchase the mission house and that Katie and I will keep growing closer to God.
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