It is always amazing for me to watch how the Devil works, especially whenever there is an important message that the Spirit is trying to communicate with the church!  Today, before I ever even stepped into the building, the Devil was at work – nothing big, major or splashy!  I have noticed that the Devil likes to work behind the scenes whenever he can.  I was getting ready to preach a message on ANGER and the Devil was doing everything that he could come up with to make me and others angry.  I guess that he thought that if enough of us were angry, we would miss out on the message from the Spirit about anger and what we need to do with it!

The funny thing about anger is, it almost always takes you to a place of thought.  I do not always think when I first get angry, but give me a little time and I will think and when I think, my mind and heart get just still enough to hear from the Spirit.  What the Devil was intending to use to mess many of us up, actually back-fired and got many of us to thinking about our anger, where it comes from and what we are going to do about it!  The Devil gave many of us an object lesson before we got the message, so that when we got the message, we really got the message!

What is the Spirit trying to teach you – you don’t have to let the Devil get in the way!  Use the devils attacks as stepping stones to take you into the blessings and growth of God!

What an awesome day I had yesterday!  My day got started with a meeting at Myrtle Beach First Baptist Church for some training for the days events!  Our main task was to share the our testimony with as many bikers as possible.  There was a group of about twelve of us and we headed out to give away $10 worth of free gas to any biker that would listen to a three minute testimony!  We were swamped – for a couple of hours it was machine gun witnessing!  At the end of the gas give a way there were at least twenty seven new Believers that had come to know Christ as their personal Lord and Savior!  I pumped over five hundred dollars of gas and had the privilege of meeting people from Maryland, Quebec, New York, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina just to name a few!

After we finished up that we ministry – we headed a little farther down south and hung out at a free BBQ give away – were bikers could get nourished physically with some free BBQ and nourished spiritually with the love of God that flows through Jesus!  It was an amazing and very blessed day!  I thank God for letting me have the experience and joy that came through it!

This week – I am on the road!  I left out on Monday around noon to meet a pastor friend in the middle part of the state!  We spent a few hours kayaking down the Watree River – it was a beautiful and mostly peaceful experience!  God reminded me that it is important to take time to get out and away and be reminded of what an Awesome God He is by observing and enjoying His creation!  The water, rocks, birds, animals, trees, flowers, smells and all that you feel inside and out are simply amazing.  I miss so much, because I am often so busy!

I spent Tuesday in a class room setting with Aubrey Malphurs learning how to affect change in the church.  Most of the information I already knew, but needed to be reminded of.  If the church is going to be effective for God, then it is going to have to change, because what it is doing is just not working – not the way God designed it.

Today, I am in the lower part of the state in Myrtle Beach.  I am looking forward to a little study and reflection time with the Lord.  I also am hoping to go and join a local association in some ministry to people that are visiting bike week.  The association is doing a gas buy down – if the bikers will listen to a three minute testimony explaining what we are doing and why, then they will get their gas for free.  They had around 17 to accept Christ yesterday!

Thanks for your prayers, words of encouragement and for joining me in the Kingdom endeavor!