God is Faithful

Have you ever just taken a step back from your daily life and seen just how faithful God really is. I got up this morning to start with. What a blessing that is. Just to get up in the morning breathing and alive. My wife is with child, and he is healthy, growing, and moving in the womb. I have a job, house and computer. I have books and a bookshelf to put them on so the do not pile up around the house.
I have the Bible. I have Salvation that comes from the Lord. I have hope. I have peace and grace.
Did I do anything to receive such things as I have listed? No! I could never do anything to deserve the faithfulness of my God, but he is faithful to provide all of those things for me. I have been on a journey of testing the faithfulness of God. Not exactly purposefully but with excitement on what God is doing with me right now. God is in complete control. He is my pilot. He is my Father, my Coach, my Encourager, and Strength. I am helpless and hopeless without His guidance and love.
If you have been keeping up with me I am working on revitalizing a church with the wisdom and help that comes from God. He alone has lead me to do one of the most difficult and daunting tasks of the Church today. Church revitalization is exciting. I am delighting in the day that I step back and see all the miraculous things that God has done and will continue to do in New Orleans and the Local Church here.
I met with the intended people that I set out to meet with about a month ago. These people told me they would pray and encourage me. They have been faithful to me also.

I recently met with a leader of the local congregation that God has placed in my path. He agreed with all the proposals that I laid on the table. I thought that there was going to be some resistance or questioning of my motives or something of that nature. Nothing. I truly believe that this was because of God's faithfulness to the desires that he has placed in my heart and the prayers of the faithful that have been lifted up in the past month.

Please everyone that has prayed, continue to pray. If you are reading this and have not prayed, pray now that God would continue to prepare the avenues and people for the great work that he is doing in me and through me. I am truly blessed to be able to be the hands and feet of God, my Lord and Savior. Please let me know that you are praying for me. It is a great encouragement to my wife and I to know those saints who are supporting us daily through prayer and supplication. Keep up the great work of prayer in your lives because great works are truly be done in this city because God hears the prayers of the righteous. Not that we deserve to be heard but because he loves his children and B. Manning once said, He loves it when his children climb into his lap and talk to him and pray to him even if they do fall asleep doing it.
I cannot thank all of you enough for the prayer that you have yielded on our behalf. Thank You on holy ones who continually pray. And let us thank God for his faithfulness to hear our prayers.
Until next time: PRAY!!