Surrender

Today was a great devotional day from the book that I am reading, "Purpose Driven Life." It talks about the freedom of life when we can surrender ourselves to Christ. As the apostle Paul says, "I day daily." This is such an incredible concept that Christ offers us. He asks us to lay down everything in our life, so that God may take care of us. This seemed a little scary to me, because I think in my small little mind God may not take care of some of things I ask for. But how limiting is that of this amazing God. I do not know why this thought even makes it way into mind. God has incredible things in store for me, if I can give Him my life. The thought of surrender is completely against the grain of the society we live in. We are taught to win, succeed, never give up, and fight for victory. But God knows this life of ours is hard and all He is asks that we let go of our entire life for Him, so that he can give us victory and most of all eternal victory.

Amen!

Pastor Hodges always uses a quote, " If we are on our face for the Lord, we can never fall."

My buddy John and I have began praying everyday for someone, because we have seen the power of prayer in a number of our friends lives. So everyday either one of us will text message the other with someone that God has laid on our heart. We both will pray for this person throughout our day and keep them in our thoughts. I know God is working in this. It is awesome to know that we both are caring for our friends and wanting the best for them through Christ.

I just had a great lunch with Pastor Bryan Sederwell of Denver Church. I wanted to talk with him about his vision for the church, my visions/calling, and outreach in the Denver area. This was a great conversation. He has such a heart for the city of Denver and wants to work as hard as he can to spread the love of Christ throughout the metro area. This was great to hear! I then shared with him I felt God calling me to minister to the homeless in some capacity. And the first thing he said was the timing for this could not be any better. What a blessing! Denver Church is just getting set to move into North High School and this will allow major growth to take place. Outreach is major factor in the church and he mentioned a number of people to speak with. I told him I would love to be on staff to help out in this area of the church. We both are big vision thinkers and can see how God wants to work through us for the city. We are both huge on leveraging relationships/churches/organizations for the greater good of the Kingdom of God! This was certainly the works in motion of something great. Bryan's heart and energy is certainly echoed in the church and soon to be the greater Denver area, believe me! We talked about our families, sports, and just enjoyed the day on the roof at the Lazy Dog in Boulder. I am so fortunate to have had this lunch with him and I am super excited for the next few months for this relationship to grow!

"Don't ask God to bless what you are doing, get with what God is doing because that is already blessed." - A wiseman shared this with Bono of U2

be blessed,
your boy elbow