We had a great staff meeting yesterday!  It began with the usual updating of calandars, discussion of upcoming events and general discussion.  We then took a ten minute break to go out, fnd a comfortable place to read and spend that time reading an assigned passage.  We then came back and shared what we had received from our reading.  We had a great exchange that pretty much left all of us on the same page.  Bottom Line:  We need to get better at seeing things and people through God’s eyes!  If you want to read and think about it – check out 1 Samuel 16:1-13 and then join us this coming Sunday evening at 6:00 PM as we walk through and think about some ways that this passage applies to our lives!

This morning I woke up and thought:  “I need to go work out!”, but I talked myself out of it!  I then went into the den and had my devotion time with the Lord and the Holy Spirit got all over me about the fact that I needed to go and work out.  When I finished my devotion time – I went and worked out and guess what?  I survived to talk about it, in fact – l loved it!  I feel great!

While I was working out – I was talking with one of our church members and could not help but realize that for a lot of people have the same battle spiritually to have a daily time with God as the battle that I have physically to have a daily time with the treadmill!  We know that we need to do it, we just can’t convince ourselves to get things going.  We want to and then we don’t want to!  We start thinking of all of the reasons why we can’t or why we shouldn’t.  The result is rather than getting stronger – we get weaker and sicker and then some stress blows into our lives and we are really in trouble!

As I discovered this morning – if my spiritual is right then I am going to have to work to make my physical right too!  I’ve got a feeling that you know what I am talking about.  So get up and talk to God and listen to God!  You know – The Creator of the Universe really has some intereting things to say!  Get up and get busy physically by allowing God to get you in shape so that you can enjoy the things that He has created!  It is a tough battle, but we can win it!

Sundays wear a pastor out!  Yesterday, I preached on “The Power Of Storms!”  and when I got home, I discovered that I had a flat tire on my truck, which I decided to ignore until Monday!  Last night when we got home from church, we discovered that Joy had a big bolt stuck in one of her tires.  I removed the bolt and the tire went flat in a little under three minutes.  I laughed and said to God:  “Are you correcting, perfecting or is this the devil?”  (If you were here yesterday – you will understand!)  It’s Monday morning now and I have taken care of fixing both tires and I am back on task doing the things that God has called and gifted me to do!  (By the way – fixing flat tires is not one of them!)  God’s grace is sufficient, but a flat tire will really give that a testing!  (HA HA)

Just wanted to remind everyone – as you face your storms this week – make sure that you:

Talk to God!  His persective is the only one that really matters!  Don’t get caught up in the blame and complain game!  Talk to God and He will keep you and your life on track!  Don’t ignore your sin!  Deal with it by confessing it and God will forgive it and you can be free from it!  Learn something!  What is God trying to help you learn, know and understand about your life?  Remember:  God is more and has to be more than a good luck charm!  Make Changes!  If you are going to grow the way that God intends for you to grow you can’t stay the same.  Life is about growing and growing is about changing.  What is God saying to you and what are you going to do about it?  Don’t wait – get busy right now!  Today is the day of Salvation – take advantage of all that God has done, is doing and will do for you!