Each of the different instruments have their part to play and sometimes it is beautiful and some times it seems like just a series of notes. But when it all comes together and everyone is playing it is an amazing sound….

Each one of us is unique and has a specific purpose in God’s plan… Individually your part may seem boring or difficult but without that part the musical piece God is creating is not complete…your part is just as vital as the one “playing the beautiful melody.” don’t ever doubt your,significance in God’s masterpiece.

There was so much good information that I am still processing it all but here are some of the cool “sound bites” from some of the sessions yesterday. Enjoy and let God use them how He may in your life…

You do your best work between an appropriate challenge level and over challenged – Bill Hybels, Willow Creek Senior Pastor and Author

We need to call a problem a problem and work to resolve them as soon as possible – bill hybels

Our job is to move an organization from here to there, you have to believe that God is willing to help you move from here to there. If not, get on the sidelines. – Bill Hybels

Pray that the next 5 years will be your best 5 leadership years – Bill Hybels

Entrepreneurship – It’s a discipline and can be learned – Len Schlesinger, president of Babson College

If you can’t predict the future, create it – Len Schlesinger

Failure does not mean quit it means try again with experience – Len Schlesinger

Stop worrying about what you want to do now and start thinking about what to do next. – Len Schlesinger

Every person you meet has the opportunity to give you wisdom in life – Honorable Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ

Use your blessings to move things forward. – Honorable Cory Booker

You are the result of a grand conspiracy of love…. – Honorable Cory Booker

We are born originals but most die a copy -Abe Lincoln

We are here because of the many who had the courage to stand before us. – Honorable Cory Booker

What you see in the world around you is a reflection of what is inside of you – Honorable Cory Booker

The only way to make change in this world is to start with yourself. If we live our values we can make transforming change come about.- Honorable Cory Booker

Put your thoughts into action. Infuse your truth into your action- Honorable Cory Booker

Kindness can transform people and circumstances – Honorable Cory Booker

Stand in humility and don’t give up…reach out to each other…- Honorable Cory Booker

Stand for a cause… Faith with works is alive… – Honorable Cory Booker

Threat to-justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere- Honorable Cory Booker

Let us now stand up and tell our truth to the world – Honorable Cory Booker

Make change because you decided to – Seth Godin, Blogger, Marketing Guru

We need to innovate thats what gets people’s attention and makes you stand out – Seth Godin

If you want to do something go do it….Too many people are holding on to a gift and letting it rot… Not using it – Seth Godin

What the world needs is for you to lead them.- Seth Godin

If you vision is not intimidating to you, then its insulting to God. – Pastor Steven Furtick and Author of Sun Stand Still.

The difference between a daydream and a vision is audacious faith and action – Pastor Steven Furtick

Faith believes it before it sees it – Pastor Steven Furtick

Audacious faith has ambiguity to it – Pastor Steven Furtick

The difference between a daydream and a vision is audacious faith and action- Pastor Steven Furtick

Tip – If you EVER get a chance to hear Steven Furtick speak – Take it… He’s amazing and preaches the word straight up! – http://www.stevenfurtick.com

Just like others…

I lean toward certain views when it comes to the rapture, tribulation, and millennial kingdom, but I try to objectively look at things with the understanding that I could be wrong and God could be doing it another way.

It’s this open minded approach that has allowed me develop some possible THEORIES (not facts) about what is happening in our world right now.

As I said in my last post on this topic, I believe we could be moving rapidly toward seals 5 and 6 in Revelation 6. But at the least we are definitely living in a world that looks exactly like what Jesus talked about in Matthew 24. Check out this chart below. Keep in mind that Jesus talked about these situations as being like “birth pains” – gaining strength and frequency as the time nears…

I would love to know what you think of my thoughts here. Again my goal is not to figure it all out because the scriptures clearly state that only God knows the true timeline of events. But there is some value in knowing and being aware of what is happening and what is coming today.

I want to make sure that you also don’t get lost in the details… The whole point of all this is that Jesus is coming very, very soon and the hope that is found in that. Don’t lose sight of that hope and expectation of His return or you will become overwhelmed.

My next post will reveal some of the events in the heavens that are happening that could potentially be pointing to the very, very soon return of Christ.

Until then, Keep doing His will and spreading His Gospel…

Enjoy…
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In a world that is falling down around us God calls us to a place of peace with Him. A place of quiet rest where we can clearly hear from him and know his loving guidance. Where we can trust in the grace, mercy, and love He provides. Our hope is in the Lord. A transcendent God who loves his creation and will do anything to redeem and restore it.

Now I know he was talking March with his “prediction” but what he has to say about celestial events and earthquakes adds some more credibility to my last post where I theorized that something significant could happen between June 1 and June 15. One idea I have been researching is that it could be a major North America Earthquake. Apparently I am not the only one thinking that. I also read on another site someone who talked about planetary alignment and the possibility of a June 9 or June 13 earthquake.

NOW I WANT TO BE CLEAR, I AM NOT PREDICTING THIS NOR AM I SAYING “GOD TOLD ME…” BUT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE TIMES WE LIVE IN.

The birth pains of matthew 24 are getting more intense and to me this is another example of that. Also the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association) just issued its june report on the upcoming Atlantic Hurricane season and they are predicting an above average year for hurricane activity with the possiblity of 5 major hurricanes (Cat. 3, 4, or 5)

Again, I am just observing and putting pieces together… Some may say it’s just coincidence… I don’t believe in that… I believe in God-Incidence – God orchestrates everything according to His design and we are told to be observant and aware of the times.

Please… Family, friends, new comers to my blog…. Just be ready, if I’m wrong on all this – Great, I’m wrong… But if I’m not – well – May God protect us all through whatever comes our way…

God Bless You Till I Blog again!

This whole “faith step” thing has been quite a wild ride over the last two months. From moments like today where we see God move in ways only He can to dark days where, if it was not for Kim’s faith, I would have thrown in the towel.

So you’re probably all wondering what happened… Well,

1. God answered a deep concern of mine on the financial front by providing not one but two checks just in time to pay some upcoming bills!

2. For those who don’t know, one of my kids is going on a “trip of a lifetime” as a student ambassador for the United States (contact me for the details – don’t want to put them on a public forum like this). Well this child has been selling Hula Hoops as a fundraiser. It turns out that my wife told her mom, who told her co-workers, and one of her co-workers told a friend who overheard a lady in the nearby store complaining about their cheap hula hoops. So this friend of a co-worker of my wife’s mom told her she would put her in touch with my wife about getting some hula hoops – Turns out she works for a daycare and wants about 20 hula hoops! YEAH BABY! only God could orchestrate that one!

3. While watching Pirates of the Caribbean with one of my kids this evening, I felt this prompting to pray for a friend of mine living in another state. So I did and then text messaged him to let him know…Turns out he’s on a 5 day retreat learning about listening to God (It gets better…) He literally just finished a chapter in the book he’s reading on praying when God prompts you to pray… WOW, God is Amazing – His Timing is perfect.

My faith and trust in God is flying high today. This day will be a “stone marker” like the nation of israel set up after God parted the Jordan River so they could enter the Promised Land of Canaan.

God, please me remind me of today in those dark days when worry and fear creep in, AMEN…

With the chaos that is happening all over the world, we see a growing evil.

I challenge you to know God, don’t take my word for it…research what is truly going on in this world. You will begin to see a pattern that suggest at a minimum we are experience the “birth pains” that Jesus talked about in Matthew 24. And it’s not just starting, it is increasing in intensity quickly.

The whole idea of labor in the birth process is that it starts slowly and as the birth gets closer the pains increase in frequency and intensity. That is exactly what is going on now…It started with Greece and the Chaos there, then a while later Tunisia, than a couple weeks later Egypt, and most recently Libya. Now we are looking at chaos breaking out in several other countries in the mid-east and even in some states here in the US.

We need to be aware of what is going on and how we can be prepared to discern the Truth of God’s word from the deception of the evil that is growing.

This morning I was listening to Glenn Beck. Please don’t get hung up on that. Whatever you think about Glenn Beck, he has an important message that is similar to the one I feel God is calling me to. Please continue reading…

On the heels of listening to a sound clip by  Louis Farrakhan, he said the following, “There is a great evil growing on this planet…We are on the eve of terrible things and great, great things…” – Glenn Beck

In the sound clip, Farrakhan told a large crowd that “God is causing the revolutions” He is saying that the current chaos in our world is being caused by God.

God is not a God of chaos but of order and love, do you know God well enough to refute the deception that these sort of people are putting out  there?

“Jesus stood for something… but he was about peace and love…I’m convinced many of our brothers and sisters will lose their soul…” – Glenn Beck

Don’t fall prey to the hate that the evil out there espouses. Do what God is calling you to do. Make sure you know what you believe and what you know is Truth.

“Have no fear and stand where the Lord tells you to stand…You will see the power and the hand of God…make sure you are on the right side.” – Glenn Beck

“My cry is this, know where you stand, know what time it is…know who  you are, know what is true…” – Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck ended his first segment with a challenge that I pass on to you who read this today…

“The chips are on the table…the question is, ‘Are you all in?’”