Monthly Archives: August 2015

Christian Living, Inspirational, Motivational

Walking, Leaping and Letting Everyone Know it!

Acts 3:8 [widescreen]Pastor Joshua’s Two Minute Blog: Walking, Leaping and Letting Everyone Know It.

I have always been of the opinion the best testimonies are those you continue to repeat. Daily the miraculous is performed in our lives, and before our eyes, but the grind of life causes us to downplay the extraordinary and miss the unexpected.

There is nothing ordinary about being crippled. Whether you encounter a physical, mental or emotional obstacle to be crippled prevents you from living a high quality of life and reshapes your identity around “what you are” and not “who you are.” 

For many years the crippled man, from the Book of Acts, was all known to his community and written of as just another sad fixture in society. He was a man to be pitied, perhaps laughed at and often passed over. Do you not think his physical handicap also effected him mentally? How many hurts, tears and wounds did he accumulate over the years he sat “stuck” and unable to do anything but beg?

But one day God’s redemptive power walked past his life and the result was a new narrative, and identity, that forever reshaped this man. Rightly so, the Acts account, focus’ on the physical healing that pulled a cripple from the streets to his feet, but if we only stop at the physical healing we may miss the deep identity healing that took place as well.

“He went walking, leaping and praising God…” The long time cripple could no longer be identified as, “the man who is” but now, “the man who was.” Do you know what he did with his miracle? Now given a second chance at life (born-again) he became the man who let everyone know God performed a miraculous work that was so amazing it was worth seeing and hearing.

Some of us may be bogged down in adversity, hurt, regret and even physical challenges that are crippling us. While they are all very real we must trust the love of God, and His desire to restore us, by refusing to allow these “crippling moments” to shape our identities. Remember the God who heals and restores can restore your life and purpose as well!

While you may be in a season of begging and pleading trust He is walking by your street corner today and looking to perform a miracle in your life. But don’t stop with your miracle and don’t just get up and walk away after you receive it. Continue to allow the miracle to bore down deep within and heal you entirely so you can testify as one who also knows how to walk, leap and praise God.

You have a story to tell and an identity to live in Jesus! So speak loud and live boldly!

Blessings – Pastor JOSHUA

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Christian Apologetics, Christian Living, Inspirational, Motivational

Rebuild…Renew…Restore…Revive

John 2:19 [widescreen]Pastor Joshua’s Two Minute Blog:

Several years ago, in my neighborhood, there was a beautiful home that caught fire and burned throughout the night into the early morning hours. While fire crews had the situation well in hand by the next day it was evident the structure would be a total loss. Over the following months the house continued to decline as legal parties debated what would happen to the property and eventually the house was demolished. Two years later all that remains is an empty lot where a beautiful house once stood.

How often do things get torn down without any hope of ever being rebuilt? Daily you can find old buildings being restored, new subdivisions built and towering structures pressing up toward the sky; but what should you do when, in your life, something is torn down and you can’t see any way it will ever resurrect?

Set backs, failures and burn downs are hard to overcome but they are not impossible. In fact, nothing is impossible with God! Imagine Jesus speaking in front of accusers, skeptics and supporters when He shares the words of John 2:19. Most agree Jesus was speaking prophetically as to His identity and soon coming passion, but do genuine people of faith doubt that God could have also done the naturally impossible supernaturally?

When we experience the tearing down process the last thing on our mind, or in our will, is to imagine rebuilding. In fact, Scripture shares the responses of shock and disbelief at the very idea of rebuilding a structure that took centuries to build. But Jesus’ revelatory words, then, speak to our short sightedness and shortcomings today.

In a world of decay it is accepted that all things will fail at some point in time. But Jesus, and His Kingdom, is not of this world while He is very present in the world. Scripture affirms His Kingdom has no end, will endure throughout every generation and will even usher in a new age that will look, feel and behave nothing like the world we live in or comprehend.
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What a promise we have in knowing our citizenship gives us residency in an everlasting Kingdom and under the loving care of a King who is always renewing and reviving. Therefore, while most of us may feel as if our plans and purposes have been torn down, by the fires of circumstance, don’t forget what is true of the King is also true of the King’s people.

If God meant to resurrect, for the glory and restoration of all things unto Himself, then part of His Kingdom culture is to also resurrect, restore and revive the Kingdom dream in your life. Don’t allow a negative and skeptical world to leave your “lot” empty without any hope of rebuilding. Rather, accept the remarkable promise that God means to restore you to place of honor so your life may glorify the King.

Perhaps some things, in your life, needed tearing down to make room for Jesus’ rebuilding project in you? Many of us have great structures waiting to be launched for the Kingdom so don’t allow a temporary loss to rob you of hope; and don’t allow and your lot to sit empty…it is meant for a new structure! Be a person of great faith and ask the Holy Spirit to breath on your emptiness, once again, and help you rebuild. It’s time to rebuild and revive with Jesus as your chief architect.

Blessings – Pastor Joshua

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Christian Living, Inspirational, Motivational

Purpose in Your Heart…Don’t Give Up…He Will Deliver

Daniel 6:16 [widescreen]Pastor Joshua’s Two Minute Blog:

There is nothing fun about a lion’s den, that is unless your the lion. The wild, powerful and predatory instinct of a lion kills without mercy or remorse and yet Daniel found himself locked away with these massive cats awaiting a certain death. Or was he?

Often we hear people say, “God would never…” but for Daniel God had placed him face to face with very real and deadly lions and for one reason: “That your God, whom you continually serve may deliver you.” 

For some it may seem as God sort of made His point backwards. But we cannot loose site of the fact that God didn’t place Daniel in the lions den, Daniel’s uncompromising faith, in God, put Daniel in the den of lions…and God delivered him!

I often look at my own circumstances and wonder, “How did I get here?” Or “What have I done wrong to find myself in this trap?” Certainly, at times, we can all make poor life choices that place us in challenging circumstances. But not every adversity is because of something negative you have done; nor have you arrived in such a place because God has put you there.

Again, consider Daniel…he was placed in the den of certain death because He loved God with all of his heart, soul and being. It was known to Daniel’s enemies, friends and earthly king Daniel continually worshipped and served God above all others. The result? He was now face to face with lions. Was this a test of faith? Certainly! Was it a personal bad decision followed by worsening situation? Certainly not!

I tend to think everyone knew (except the lions), from Darius to Daniel, somehow Daniel’s God was going to deliver Him. Do you know why? “Because I was found blameless before him.” Like Job, despite how bad the situation became, Daniel didn’t give up on God’s deliverance. You may have questions, doubts and even lion like struggles but never give up on God’s love for you and His desire to deliver you from all adversity because you are committed to a life that is blameless before Him.

This amazing testimony of uncompromising faithfulness, a blameless heart and God’s miraculous work should encourage us to better understand our own “lion’s den” moments and remember the conclusion of our story can read like the king’s decree, when we are delivered,

“I decree that in every part of my kingdom people should tremble with terror in front of Daniel’s God, the living God who continues forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed. His power lasts to the end of time. He saves, rescues, and does miraculous signs and amazing things in heaven and on earth. He saved Daniel from the lions.”

May God deliver you from your lion’s den and allow the fame of His name be spread far and wide!

Blessings – Pastor JOSHUA

GOD’S WORD Translation. (1995). (Da 6:26–27). Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group.

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Christian Living, Inspirational, Motivational

“Hang Up’s That Need to Be Hung Up!”

Ezekiel 34:30 [widescreen]Have you ever attended a social event (IE: Party, family gathering, community occasion or church meeting) and upon meeting another individual your thoughts race asking such questions as, What do they think about me? Am I making a good impression? Do I connect with them? Etc… Ironically the very people we are inwardly concerned about making a solid first impression on are probably asking similar questions. As the awkward introductions progress into deeper conversations we either find ourselves rambling on or providing such little responses that a new level of anxiety kicks in. Finally the discussion ends with a sigh of relief only to then torture ourselves by revisiting the meeting over and over wishing we had done or said things differently.

Of course there are other individuals that, in such social interactions, are completely self-unaware and say anything they want while thinking or caring very little on what others feel. While some may find such an approach very liberating the reality is such people are often sitting in a corner of the room, alone, with others doing their best to avoid any contact with the individual at all.

In conclusion what both groups of people suffer from are a series of hang-ups. While everyone struggles with different hang-ups the very purpose of a hang up is to hang us up! Of course there is validity in desiring to make a strong first impression as well as possessing an honest and direct approach; but there is also a need for us all to consider others when we are trying to express an opinion or belief.

I have hang-ups, my wife has them, your pastor has them even your banker, doctor, coach and best friend…WE ALL HAVE THEM! But guess what? While we have become used to, and in most cases accepted, hang ups God’s prescribed way of living makes no room for such road blocks in our life and desires us to remove the hang ups for a new image, and confidence, in His identity being manifest in and through our life.

Most, if not all, hang ups come from hurts and offenses that have become so familiar we no longer realize their crippling effects. But what would our life be like if we replaced the hang-ups with a God reality of who He sees us to be and what that life looks and behaves like? “Our lack of identity controls us and keeps us from truly being who He has called us to be.” – Jeannette Johnian

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The covenant promise God extended to Israel (Ezekiel 34:30) echoes loudly to every Christian within the context of everyone knowing He is with us. We can be down, in a dark season or even in a time of blessing and great reward; in either case everyone should know our God is with us and we are His sons and daughters and that reality is far more rewarding than the hang-ups.

What is true of the King is also true of the Kings people and the call from Jesus, to all who will listen and obey, is to draw closer to Him in the higher places. We are all called to be in Him and project His image without the hang-ups that keep us focused inward. It’s time to hang up the hang-ups and pick up our identity in Jesus! God is looking for a people in whom He can declare, through our circumstances, He is our God and we are His people. While the hurts and hang ups may want to keep us bound in a false narrative let us reject the lies and embrace the liberating freedom of an identity in Jesus and how such as likeness will bless others we encounter along life’s way.

Blessings – Pastor JOSHUA

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Christian Living, Inspirational, Motivational

Seize the Moment! Don’t Let Go! You Have a Promise!

Proverbs 4:13 [widescreen]We have all experienced the adventurous, fun, foolish and even rebellious pre-teen/ teen years where often the best thought of the day was created in our own mind and greatly influenced by whatever made us feel good at the moment. I know this to be true because I am often trying to instruct my sixteen-year-old son through some of his random life choices, and whenever I try to walk him through his odd thought process his reply often sounds something like, “Every time you talk to me it is like a life lesson.” It is as if my son believes I am incapable of seeing far beyond the snapshot of life, he is passing through, when I am try to share my insights.

Just when I want to get frustrated with my teenage son I remember I also ignored more wise instruction, and warning, than I took in. At the time I honestly believed the counselors in my life had never been a youth, made mistakes, learned from their past and, from a heart of genuine love, were trying to save me from my own immaturity.

Despite best efforts the fool-heartiness of youth pressed on and throughout the journey I, like many of you, collected my own tales of setback, disappointment, failure and loss; adventures I could have avoided if I had just listened to wise instruction. Unfortunately we are all guilty in allowing seasons of personal failure to dominate our journey when Jesus offers an alternative path.

What is Jesus’ alternative path? Cling to instruction and don’t let go! In all of Solomon’s wisdom, also learned through failures, he encourages us to, “Cling to discipline (instruction). Do not relax your grip on it. Keep it because it is your life.”[1] Said another way Solomon, like a wise and loving parent, tells the reader to be strong, hard and even harsh when seizing instruction and wisdom; and once you have a firm grip on that counsel don’t relax your grasp because the words will keep (preserve) your life and promise!

Our best journey is the one when we allow Jesus to set our life to listening, learning and retention mode. We have all been guilty of hearing but not listening, given answers but not learning and having the best solutions but never applying them. Jesus is not some killjoy grump that wants to ruin your years of purpose and enjoyment. In fact, it is just the opposite…Jesus wants to impart into all the years of your life and fill them with growth, maturity, blessing, joy and purpose. How does He do this? By speaking into our life daily and providing us with loving instruction so we learn how to navigate the foolish and dangerous challenges of life. The end result? If we will cling to instruction and not let go then His guarantee is our life will be preserved with great promise. After all are not Jesus’ promises, “Yes and Amen” to those who believe?
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Therefore, “Seize the Moment! Don’t Let Go! You Have a Promise, from Jesus, on the line and His love desires for you experience all of it!

Blessings – Pastor JOSHUA

#SeizetheMoment#DontLetGo#YouHaveaPromise

[1] GOD’S WORD Translation. (1995). (Pr 4:13). Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group.

Inspirational

God’s Promises Are Complete

Hosea 2:18 [widescreen]Have you ever lived through despair and joy during the same season? For me the seasons of despair always seem to “feel” longer than the refreshing periods of joy but I would gladly trade my despair for joy any day.

The Prophet Hosea has the unenviable call to share, with God’s covenant people, the reality of their despair; yet in same breath he also points them toward their coming season of joy and reunion with Jesus. What I find especially encouraging is the complete nature of this prophetic promise. God not only reminds them of a wedding reunion but a day in which all things, in creation, will be perfect as it was intended.

Imagine a day when “On that day I will make an arrangement with the wild animals, the birds, and the animals that crawl on the ground. I will destroy all the bows, swords, and weapons of war,
so people can live safely.”

In an increasing age of war, violence and societal despair creation longs for the restoration of all things back unto Him. What a day when we live no longer under the social and moral ills that plague our daily life. What a life to expect when we are no longer burdened with unfaithful thoughts, misplaced affections and distractions that turn our priorities all around. I am longing for that day of joy in my life…what about you?

One final thought….All of God’s promises are complete. Remember Hosea not only prophesied to Israel but the entirety of creation. Perhaps many of us have only experienced partial seasons of blessings that too quickly passed and were replaced with times of despair. While we can all reflect on the “How we arrived at such a place?” let’s also live with the glad expectation that seasons of refreshing and joy are waiting. God never leaves life half-done. The complete and perfect nature of God guarantees He will see His promises fulfilled as He spoke them.

What does that mean for us? Those who are part of His wedding plans have the joy of anticipating a great reunion, festival and eternal season of happiness….one where despair is so distant a memory we can never feel its curse or remember its burden…and I, for one, gladly anticipate that soon coming day!

Blessings – Pastor JOSHUA

GOD’S WORD Translation. (1995). (Ho 2:18). Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group.

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The Purple Ink Society and the Need for Watchman

neighborhood_watch_sign Not to long ago I read an education article that wrote in certain schools teachers were no longer going to use red ink to mark a mistake. The reason? Certain educators felt the color red was to psychologically harmful and the color purple was a “softer” way to let students know there was a better answer than the one they provided.

 

You have no doubt heard similar stories range from athletics, education, or society but it seems as if our purple ink society is expressing a deep anxiety over matters of right and wrong, correct and incorrect and absolute or relative truth.

When I was a young boy I remember seeing an eyeball sign posting a neighborhood watch was present. By itself the sign could do nothing but its very presence made you wonder who was watching and what were they looking for? Long before the neighborhood crime watch God addressed the necessity of watchmen always being present and alert. But I wonder if we are now living in a day where absolutes are not absolute and right may be wrong, or a vice versa, what can the watchmen be looking out for? Said another way do the majority of people still believe there is a need for watchmen in an age of social, moral, societal and spiritual relativism?

Despite what society may want you to believe, and accept, Scripture actually weighs in heavily for the ongoing need of watchmen, and thankfully their role has not changed from antiquity to today. While civilization has always had some version of local police, military support and spiritual shepherds their assignments were never designed to remove the individuals responsibility to be watchmen for their personal walk, family and spiritual identity of their community.

By its very name a watchman must be watching for something. Simply defined watchmen must watch for danger and potential enemies that may be abroad or much closer. While society is prone to define and identify certain evils, or wrongs, there are many dangers that continue to sneak in past our “walls of safety” because we are missing qualified watchmen who are looking out for clever errors, mistruths and willful deceptions. Such inaccuracies have a way of subtly seeping into our spiritual culture and infecting the minds, and spirit, of many who are living under the assumption they are safe when they are very much at risk. If we have become comfortable accepting unaware watchmen, or assuming someone else is looking out for us when they are not, then not only are we at personal risk but our future generations are in danger of being overtaken with duplicity and deception.

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While the police and pastors provide a great line of societal and spiritual defense you must, yourself, build your own watch-tower and faithfully continue to stay on duty. Certainly God foresees all would be attacks, and attackers, but He has also positioned watchmen for the express purposes to hear His voice and follow His instruction so as to protect those He so greatly loves. Charles Spurgeon once encouraged fellow Christians, “Continue O gracious Watchman, to forewarn us of our foes, and for Zion’s sake hold not thy peace.”

Could it be that today’s church and culture has lost the need for watchmen? Have we arrived in such a place of spiritual and natural safety there is no longer a need to watch in the night or day?” Has the local church prayerfully watched for what weather may be coming in this season? Does our nation discern the spiritual and natural clouds that are lowering and warning everyone what may be overhead? (See Isaiah 21:11)

The reason Scripture provides us with the role of watchmen is because we must care for the Church with the same measure of anxious love the King has for His bride. The additional reward and responsibility for the watchmen is their ability to also see the Lord’s promises on the horizon. While a watchman may be looking for dangers he or she is also looking to Jesus, as the lodestar, so they may prepare His sons and daughters for the seasons ahead.

Get your ladder, climb your tower and stay on watch!

 Blessings – Pastor JOSHUA

Christian Living, Inspirational, Motivational

Am I My Brother’s Keeper?

Genesis 4:9 [widescreen]How often have I heard this verse applied to Christians, and Christianity, when the secular world is looking to criticize a “loveless church.” When the very real suffering of a world, void of the love of Jesus, reaches a painful point instead of turning to Jesus the hurting world criticizes the church with this verse.

Are Christians, and the church, supposed to be the “keeper of world?” No! In context Cain was specifically speaking about his relationship to his brother; but we must remember these two men were raised, as a next generation, with the full knowledge of God and even giving sacrifices of worship unto to Him. This is a very different relationship Christians (light) are called to have with world (darkness).

Today’s world / society hardly acknowledges God let alone offers Him any kind of worship. The result? A suffering world without any relief from their sin. Of course complete relief, from all sin, is in Christ alone; but when the world comes face to face with their sin it is not the fault or place of the church to be the “keeper of the world.”

The church, and Christians, are called to be keepers of the Word and our relationship to our “brothers” are to be experienced, as well as nurtured, through this dynamic and not one a godless and loveless world places on us.

As Christians we will only be able to serve a hurting world, not as their bonded brother, but as a lifeline pointing a drifting soul toward the direction of adoption. But the process of adoption must come through Jesus and not through a relationship with “the church.”

Christians and the church must first be keepers of their relationship with Jesus, than keepers of His Word and finally voices of hope… but never offering themselves as the hope…the only hope of the world is Jesus!

Blessings – Pastor JOSHUA

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