It's not about me!

Hi all I just needed to mark a couple of milestones that just happened to me last week.

I am joining the setting Captives free mentor course. It is my hope that the Lord will use me to help others be set free! Please Pray for me as delve into this 120 day course, I am sure the Holy Spirit will give me strength and perseverance to follow through.

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It was pretty amazing how God was "cooking with Gas" as my pastor jollybeggar said last Sunday.

I shared my testimony of my Journey back to Christ and how he freed me from the captivity of my habitual sin. It was awesome and very humbling at what Christ accomplished that day!

WOW!

Then something else exciting happened as well. I passed my 60 day Way of Purity Course, on Thursday May 24Th, 2007. God was with every step of the way through my mentor and accountability partners(my beautiful loving wife and Jollybeggar) Thanks for you help guys, I couldn't have finished without all the support!

Thank You!

Here's a poem I just found looking for some inspiring photo's. It hit home to me, and I just had to share it:


You ask me how I gave my heart to Christ,I do not know.There came a yearning for Him in my soul so long ago.I found earths flowers would fade and die.I wept for something that would satisfy.And then, and then somehow I seemed to dare To lift my broken heart to God in prayer.
I do not know, I cannot tell you how,I only know He is my Saviour now.
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May God Bless everyone, who stumble's upon this Blog, and know that he is always there watching over you, waiting to take you back into his loving arms. As a testimony of his Glory, he has taken me back and he will welcome you home too! Just lay it all down at the cross and be free!

I was listening to a Hillsong album and I was overcome with goosebumps and thoughts.
I began to pray, and a section of a book "Enter the worship Circle" that I had just recently feasted on came back to me.

I had this picture of a circle around the cross of Christ, and this is what I envisioned: I connected the dots, on earth in our fleshly bodies we are called to worship GOD and are given the choice to enter this circle. The world is outside this circle and cannot touch this circle. Well as I see it Christians are walking around on this earth and in their lives working from this community circle of Christ(the body of Christ) to spread the word and be a presence of this circle to let other's see a glimpse of this circle that exists beyond this mortal plain. It just seemed so real to me. We have to break free of the mortal bonds that sin entices us to hang on to and ask the Lord Jesus to pull us across the threshold of death and Chaos. Until we can lay our lives down for Christ there is nothing that we can do on our own to uproot ourselves to cross into that circle. We must ultimately lay it all down and ask our loving savior to carry us home!

We can all come home we just need to lay it all at the Cross and he will carry us home!

Thank You God for your infinite love and Wisdom!

Let me put it this way, God is great!

Just recently I was called to repentance by the Holy Spirit, to return to the Lord and break free from my habitual sin, that was keeping me disconnected from the Lord.
This is how I felt while I was in sin! I bet you we have all felt this way sometime in our lives.
This happened one Sunday Morning when our Pastor was speaking on the Call of God and the Courage it takes to follow that Calling.

Well low and behold, God called me to repentance and it has all been for his Glory since.

I proceeded with a meeting with my pastor and repentance of my sins, it was as at that moment, a weight had been lifted. You can never know such freedom until, you have exposed your most hidden private sins into the Light. Now that I am free in Christ, I am not ashamed to admit that I was addicted to internet pornography and self gratification, it was an addiction just as bad as alcoholism or any other drug addiction, but worse, you had constant access to this drug and you couldn't separate your self from it. Thanks to the love of Christ and the strength of the Holy Spirit, I was guided to freedom, via counseling and support of my pastor and this great site called http://www.settingcaptivesfree.com. This site is so awesome because all the mentors have been just where I was and all the testimonies, were not far off from my own story. The best part is that it's free, and they are doing a most noble calling of all helping people be free through the Grace of God and Christ's death on the Cross. We must Learn to admit that we cannot do anything without God's Grace.

John 4:13-14 13 - Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."



We must turn away from sin and drink from the well of Christ's Water. Sin can only lead us to thirst and death. We must not drink from Sin's well of stagnant water.

We must understand that no matter how deep we are in sin, that Christ is always there to accept us into his loving arms.

I just came back from a trip to Las Vegas the city of Sin, wow and let me tell you about sin.
I wondered why the Lord wanted me to go there, but a few things did happen. He showed man's undoing by not relying on him, and he showed me how wide and deep his love is for man through Nature.... The first day at Vegas, I took a trip to the Grand Canyon(if you haven't been there before, you need to!) Just the vastness and Grandeur of this place just put me back into my shoes. Here's a picture of the Canyon. That's little old me on that rock!


The view reminded of Ephesians 3:14-18:
14For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15from whom his whole family^[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.


So needless to say, I have this calling to witness to other men who are slaves to sexual immorality and to be there to give them counsel and prayers, to help them come back to the Lord and be free in Christ! Through him we can do anything. Men can be pure at heart, we just need to have our lives focused on the right prize, and that's Christ!

I welcome all your prayers out there. With the help of my pastor, I will be pursuing this ministry calling, and possibly following his calling deeper into a pastoral calling if that is ever God's will. Please pray for me that the Lord grant me courage, wisdom and the heart to continue with this mission he has given unto me for his Glory.