I am a minister because this is what God has called and gifted me to do with my life! I am a minister because I love God and want in some way to try and express love back to Him through the service of my life lived for Him and His Kingdom! I am a minister because I love people and really do care about their living the incredible and amazing life that God has for them!

There are days that being a minister gets to be more than I can handle, but I get up the next day and can think of nothing else that I can do with my life that would satisfy or fulfill me. God calling me to serve as His minister is not optional for me! Even though there are brief moments where I might think about hanging up the ministerial robes, it is nothing more than a thought of the flesh passing through my life to try and cause me to miss out on the great blessing of a God. Remember: Some of God’s greatest blessing flows through challenge!

Loving God and loving people present me with plenty of challenges as I live my life in this world, but with every challenge comes a greater opportunity to be used by God for His glory and man’s blessing. You love God and you love people – how does God want to use this in your life to help you accomplish glory for Him and blessing for others? Think about it – you’ll be glad you did!

God wants to change your life! He really does want to change your life! And if you knew, could understand or come close to grasping the change that He has in store for you, then you would embrace the change and be amazingly excited about what your life is about and where your life is going!

Most of us do not like change, but we know that we need it and we often even want it, but are not willing to open our lives to change, because the change that comes might not be the change that we think we desire or want.

God wants to change your life and change it in an amazing way, but you have to have faith. We have to trust Him! If we’ll trust Him, then He can and will do amazing things! Open your heart, soul and mind to God. Trust Him – you’ll be glad you did!

It has been one of those crazy weeks, when everything that could go wrong has gone wrong.  I was going to cut my grass, but the tires were flat on the lawn mower.  I went to pump them up and discovered that the valve stem was bad.  I went to the store to buy a new valve stem and they were out.  I went to another store to buy a valve stem and they were out.  I finally found a valve stem, went home, changed it out, pumped up the tires and began to cut the grass.

As I was cutting grass, I noticed that I had a rather large mud puddle in my front yard.  What makes this really strange is that we have not had any decent rain amounts in since I don’t know when.  Upon closer examination, I discovered that when my house was built they ran the water lines right beside two big ole trees.  The roots of the trees had attacked the water supply line and the tree was enjoy the water that should have been going into my home for me and my family to enjoy.

What I thought was going to be a minor repair, ended up requiring that we replace the whole water line from the road to the house.  We got that taken care of and were looking forward to no more worries, until we cut the water on and after a few seconds of good flow, discovered that we had almost no flow!  It seems that when the line was replaced, some trash got in the line and caught in the pressure regulator which stopped up the flow.

All of this kind of junk is the kinda stuff that most of us will allow to stop us dead in our tracks.  We get frustrated, angry, discouraged, mad and despondent, when what we need to do is realize that this is life and that which does not kill us, will make us stronger!  Every step of the way, I kept reminding myself that God is in control and has a plan – a plan that I do not want to miss out on!

Being a Christian is not easy!  God never promised that it was going to be easy.  God promised that He would be with us and that He would never leave us or forsake us.  In fact, I have noticed that during the tough times of life, I get more dependent upon God and more open to whatever plan He has for my life.

So, the next time you have a problem, just remember this:  Your problem is God’s opportunity to prove Himself real and active in your life! Don’t have a bad attitude.  Have a good attitude, knowing that as you trust God through this tough time, He is going to grow you in an amazing way for His glory and everyone’s blessing!