As i was sitting here, i started to reflect on what God has really done for our lives. I am sick! My wife has an incurable back degeneration, i myself with an incurable digestive disorder. bla bla bla PRAISE GOD. i could go into detail just how my life has played out so far but i would rather testify to you that what i have in this life is precious because of God loving me. i was a soldier and fought in the war, but that is not who i am. God has changed me in so many ways, i am blessed to have a mentor (George Miller) who knows me and took me when my life was literally starting over. i had a green sea bag and some clothes a job that barely paid my weekly rent an 9 year old son who was taken by a drug addicted felon lover and homeless women and i had to give my 7 year old daughter to my brother for the better part of a year to get my life back in order.
I inadvertently answered my call to duty with the understanding that a little sacrifice would provide for them in the future, these of course were all lies had so much condemnation for the acts I was putting on fellow human beings, and to make matters worse i was extremely good at it. i was a crt specialist for the navy and was promised time in Hawaii and that to me was great. After 3 deployments and an experience in Russia that ended up with me standing all alone in an embassy I decided to quit. Only by the Grace of God i was given a Vision, one of many that I have now only started to get sort of used to. You see when you follow him you don’t always know where you are going but the things of God are well you know good and all that stuff!!! LOL When you do the job i was trained to do you really let go if yourself. i still today struggle with who i am really. Don’t get me wrong I’m not ashamed of what I was just a little bit wiser as we find with age and God in your life that ALL things work for His good benefit, and ours of course, but who am I?
So here I am today, again standing with a whole new set of life challenges this time with God at my side. In the last 5 years I was blessed with the most incredible person and mother of our kids. She has her 2 and they are great! It took me 13 months and God’s grace to find my son who by this time had moved over 6 times and was literally living with her in a truck I think. A constable for the police dept and a feeling he had in his heart that this needed to be done looked for over 3 hours to track her soon leading to the arrest of some really bad people that were found in his search.
We are all together and I can tell you that only God could have accomplished this. I have health issues and instead of looking for a way out I embrace what God has in store for us. He has given me the Gift of foresight and I say that because I don’t understand prophesy. I try to dismiss it but as I get closer to Him and am more intimate of a relationship I can honestly say it is truly prophesy. I no longer stress about myself but I am in observance of what is happening to the world. I have never read revelations but I can testify to you that the days are short and the ministries that are reaping in millions off the “feel good” faith are not going to be here and anyone who is close to God can feel this in their spirit. (prophesized by George Miller)What are we to do?
It is simple yield. I have been reminded over and over by my mentor about psalms Psa 32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. What does that mean? He loves us so much that we simply search the scriptures, not the TV radio blogs such as this one to find other peoples answers to how God moved in their life, but to let Him really in and see where he takes you. I’m not saying that it is all roses, learning about how the enemy and outside influences affected our lives even from the beginning, can be unpleasant and the least but the journey is the reward. I’ll repeat it the journey is the reward. What God does for you is more abundant than any bank account can ever do. I repeat that all things were created by Him for Him. Amen? So here I am, Christ at work in my life. I have been blessed to know all of you because I can honestly say you are all my brothers and sisters. I can’t emphasize enough that time for him every day is more important than that quick show or a nap or whatever, but if you acknowledge him in all the things of your day Blessings and bounty are for you. Rewarded for that closeness and giving Him the “first right of refusal” is more than anything you could ever do. For it is that relationship that keeps us. But don’t take my word for it, search the scriptures and see for yourselves
Andy