This is a page out of my personal journal that might help you to know my heart a little better.  I hope that it will be a blessing and encouragement!

I know that God desires to do great things in and through our lives!  I know that He wants to and is willing to use me to help grow others.  I know that the blessing and fulfillment in my life and the life of my family comes from God’s activity with, to and through me.

God is teaching me that I cannot do the things that He is calling me to do by myself.  There must be a team!  This team starts with my family and their willingness to understand and remind themselves of the High Calling that God has placed upon my life.

It is no small thing to be called, gifted and equipped by God to do something that is bigger than yourself, bigger than what I am able to dream or imagine.  This is the work that I believe that God has called me to and words cannot even come close to describing or explaining it!

There must be a supporting team of staff – paid and volunteer that will walk with me, trusting that I am trusting God.  Personal agendas must be laid aside for the pure pursuit of God’s prize!

I cannot do all that God has created me for without the help, assistance, support and encouragement of a congregation of growing and developing Believers!  This world can be impacted by our faith!  But it must be a real and genuine faith that changes our lives first and then the world.

I love God with all of my heart – I cannot exactly explain why – I just do!  And the great desire of my life is to live for Him, serve Him and do whatever I can to give Him pleasure.  I believe that the best way for me to accomplish this goal is with and through His Bride – The Church.

May His hand continue to guide my life, select my goals, develop my strategy and bring real and powerful blessings into all of our lives!

There are a lot of people living in our world today, that are just living an existence!  And if we are not careful we can become one of these people.  People who do only the minimum to get by and then cannot understand when they wake up one day and find that life has passed them by.

God created us to be a committed people, but commitment is hard work.  There are not many people in our world today that have experienced the feeling of being lifted above their normal and ordinary limitations, but this is exactly the gift that God has for each of us as we learn to say “yes!” to Him.

We need to find this thing that we can commit our lives to.  The thing that deserves our complete and singular focus.  We need to find this one thing that will motivate us to be willing to risk whatever it takes.  This is the thing that will change our lives, by allowing us to change other’s lives.

I must admit that I sometimes get so caught up in myself and the weariness of life, that I don’t even take the time to really think about my commitment – what it is and who it is to.  I like to think that I am committed to a degree, but not really.  Or, perhaps I am committed to too many things at the same time.  Either way, it is really easy for my focus to get messed up and my life always seems to follow suit!

In many of our lives, we associate success with activity!  We live with the belief that the more activity – the more success, so we get busy and stay busy with as much activity as we can cram into our already busy schedules.  But this lie of busyness that we tell ourselves is just not true!

It is important for each of us to remember that we are human!  We cannot do everything.  Our humanity demands that our fatigue level build up to a limited point, to where we can’t go on.  Many of us have been at this point and it is not a fun place to be.

When we reach this point of exhaustion, we are no good to anybody, because we lose our passion and our spirit becomes weary.  We find that our lives erode away in the busyness of life.  We become sloppy, undependable, irritable and cannot help but to think about just quitting it all.

We must protect our passion by guarding our commitments.  We cannot be committed to everything and everybody.  Only one thing matters and He is Jesus!  Now before you leave this article take just a moment to think about that statement:  ONLY ONE THING MATTERS AND HE IS JESUS!  Allow this amazing truth to redirect your focus and you will be pleasantly surprised at the difference that it will make in your life!