I Serve An Awesome King

Hello Readers (if your still out there),

I promise I am still here and I still plan to finish this series on the Full Armor of God. I've been a little busy lately with summer activities for church and my time to write has been limited.

I wanted to give you all an update on the note I made a couple months ago with regard to being called to missions in my home town. While my original vision for this involved a few area trailer parks and low income houses, God has put that on hold. I don't think He is telling me NO, but He is definitely asking me to wait. In the meantime, He has opened a door through a friend from church who works in a Summer Camp locally. It is a camp that I was actually exposed to as a child myself. My friend, her husband, and her family run the camp in the summer and during the school year they do what is called a Release program where they can take kids off site from school with their parents permission to do Bible studies. The really awesome thing is that my friend has teenage boys and girls that come to help them run the camp. Some of these kids are quite troubled themselves and need lots of love and lots of teaching. I was invited for the past two weeks to come and share a devotional with the teenage girls. It was a great privilege and an encouragement to see God open up a door for me in this area. The camp is near my childhood home so lots of these girls are growing up where I grew up. While the camp season is now over, my friend and I are going to begin meeting to pray about how God might direct us to continue to minister to these girls throughout the year. We are hoping to get them involved in some service projects; perhaps volunteer at a local abortion alternatives clinic in order to help them get their eyes off of themselves and on to the needs of others and more importantly onto God.

I just wanted to share this to show you how God is so Awesome and how He works. So many times we want to make our plans and expect Him to bless them. I have learned that lesson the hard way. This time when God closed the door on my plans, I did not think that I had misunderstood His calling, but rather, I just began to pray and ask Him what He wanted and confessed my willingness to wait. I was so at peace just knowing that I had at least publicly acknowledged my call to mission work that He would bring it about even if I was 80 years old before He did. But, He is so good to me and He didn't make me wait too long this time. In fact, I would say since making my "announcement" to the church, God has thrown open so many doors that I am having to be very careful and prayerful about my time and my priorities.

Well, I am off this morning to participate in a baby shower that my church is hosting for 10 girls from a local abortion alternative clinic. We are celebrating their decision to "choose" life by showering them with love. Our hearts desire is to wash their feet today. One of my friends who is putting this all together described it that way and I just love that notion. It is so nice to be able to demonstrate to the world that this is how Christians fight the enemy of our souls: by love and service!

God bless you all and thank you for continuing to hang around while God breaks this vessel and changes it into something beautiful for His good pleasure. I tell Him often that I, myself, am amazed at the work of art He is performing in my life and that if anyone offers me any accolades, I want to be quick to point out that the beauty they see is the Spirit of God. Without Him I was a wretched, selfish, judgmental, self righteous, desperate, pathetic, hateful, and hideous creature. But with His spirit, I am becoming a New Creature. To God I give all glory, power, dominion, and PRAISE!!!!

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18