What a blessing to sit down and think back over the events of the day and see how from beginning to end, the hand of God was moving in and on our lives!  Northwood is continuing to take amazing steps at becoming the great church that God has called, gifted and equipped it to be!

Great worship at both campuses today!  Thank you to our worship team and choir, who continue to do an incredible job of listening to God and yielding to the Holy Spirit!  It blesses me to see my spiritual family getting into the presence and power of God!  Many of us are really beginning to get worship and that it is about God  and His glory, not our personal preference!

I have to say it again, because I really love my Bible Fellowship class – I love my Bible Fellowship class, we really have a great bunch of guys and gals and we learn so much from just sharing with one another about what God is showing and teaching us from His Word.

Life Classes tonight were terrific!  Thankful for my wife, who is helping me to team facilitate “Six Secrets To A Lasting Marriage!”  Loved the sharing from everyone in the class, was great to hear how you met and have grown in your love.

Top it all off with very meaningful and relaxed fellowship and it has been a really great day!  I wonder what made it special for you today – feel free to share!

God’s vision is our light and His will is our path!

This is not something that we have to discover and it is not something that we have to make up on our own.  It is already in existence, just waiting for our yielding!

To miss His vision and will by choosing our own way is to be in bondage.  To mentally disobey the Lord it to physically enslave ourselves and take ourselves away from the plans and blessings of God.

It is not my vision that matters, it is God’s vision and my surrender to it!

Do you ever feel like something is missing from your life?  You can’t put your finger on it, but you just have this feeling that there has to be something else and if you can figure it out, then your life would be better!

Have you ever stopped to think that maybe instead of something missing from your life, that maybe you are missing from something? Your problem may not be that you are missing something, it may be that you are missing from something.

The issue is not something else that we need to bring into our lives, but something that we need to bring our life into! We spend most of the energy in our lives trying to bring things into our lives that we think will make them better or more complete. This is why most of us never seem to have enough time, because we have filled our lives with busyness and activity – trying to fill what we think is an empty void.  We cram our schedules with activity hoping to find what we are missing, but always seeming to come up just a little short of what we are in search of, and ending up with more frustration than fulfillment.

Instead of bringing all of this stuff into our lives, maybe we would be better served if we brought our lives into something.  Think about it – instead of working to bring it into you, start working to bring you into it! It’s a different way of thinking, living, acting and reacting to life around us!

This is what I am confident of:  God made you and He made you for something!  You are not random.  You are not an accident.  You have purpose and the ability to fulfill that purpose and in its fulfillment, the opportunity to become!  Become what?  Whatever it is that God has created you to become, something magnificent, beautiful and special.  Someone who adds value and makes a difference.

Try today to bring yourself to the something, instead of trying to bring all the different somethings into yourself.  There are some things in life that are too big and awesome to be brought to you, but you can bring yourself to those things and when you do, you are guaranteed to walk away with blessing of fulfillment!