I'M THINKING GOD IS TRYING TO TELL ME SOMETHING HERE....

For the THIRD time since this morning (and it's not even 3:00pm yet) I have come face to face in different areas with this verse.

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10

I first wrote it in a comment on someone's blog as an encouragement early this morning, after reading it yesterday. Then, a friend posted it on Facebook. Then, I visited a blog that I rarely drop by due to lack of time, and there it was again in my face. When God does something three times in a matter of hours, I have learned in the past to take note.

Praise God! I love how He speaks! Now, I'm going to spend some time studying this passage.

WILL YOU ENLIST?

After last night, Evan and I were both convicted that we need to be better armed before going into battle, especially in the area of prayer. We need to pray more and we need to fast for our Thursday night studies. We both felt completely over our heads last night, but praise God, He didn't leave us hanging by ourselves. We do need to have better advanced communications with our Commander in Chief, however.

I think we are only beginning to scratch the surface of understanding what we are up against. Evil. Pure evil. But, praise God, the battle is not ours, but His, and greater yet, we already know the outcome! What a privilige it is to be used to fight in the battle with Him, but no one said it was going to be an easy battle.

To give you a glimpse.... a young man we'll call "Jesse". He came in completely stoned last night. His brother is dying in the hospital, and "Jesse" was angry. For the first half of the night, he did nothing but scribble satanic symbols on our worship music and interrupt with completely disrupting questions that pertained to nothing of the Lord. He talked about fights, even killing someone if his brother dies. His neck was full of hickies that he bragged about being from someone other than his wife.

Praise God, He stepped in. Thank you to those who WERE praying! It was amazing to watch Evan go from uncertain as to how to handle the situation to very boldly speaking truth into this man at the end of the evening. The boldness and the words were not from Evan, but the Holy Spirit, and that was obvious. "Jesse" heard the truth plain and clear last night. At this point, he has rejected it, but after his first visit 4 weeks ago, I never thought we'd see him again, and here he was. I don't doubt that he'll be back. God wants to take his heart of stone, and turn it to a heart of flesh. Please pray for him!

Another man, we'll call "Ray". He sat very peacefully on the couch all evening, listening. I seriously thought God was doing a work on his heart. The end of the night, as we were walking out the door, he starts talking about how there is one God, but everyone can just see him differently. We listened for a time, and Evan stepped in and said that there is One True God, and that's the God of the Bible. It was very obvious this man was fashioning a god in the image he wanted him to be. We have to be SO VERY CAREFUL of this! Even as Christians, we can so easily do this if we sway away from the Word of God. He admitted he didn't believe in the God of our Bible. What a sad, stoney heart, but he was drawn to that study for a reason. Praise God! Now we pray.

I could go on and on and on with stories, just from last night. People need truth, not only in our town, but in your very neighborhood. The only way to make sure that we aren't creating our own god is by spending time in the Word of God. We have to be so careful! God is not who we want Him to be. He is who he is... but, I'm getting off topic here.....

We are in a battle, and its very fierce. We could see the demonic realm last night right in front of our faces. We need an army to surround us in this fight. Please, consider praying and/or fasting on Thursday nights for this study. I realize you are all involed in various things that require prayer, etc., but I KNOW that God wants to move mountains in this tiny shelter of this small rural town in Montana. God loves these people. He hates their sin and their addictions, but He wants to see them set free from them, and the only way that will happen is through prayer. Please enlist with us! We need you to help fight this battle. It's a lot tougher than we first thought, but praise God, that greater is He who is in us, than he who is in the world. He can conquer all these demons! It's His battle! But, we need to be ready!

JOHN PIPER ON LOVE AND GLORIFYING GOD

“Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one.”

HUNTING SEASON IS UPON US....

Evan shot 3 Pheasants on Saturday in about 20 minutes! Myah helped to clean them. We had them for dinner tonight -- yum!!

And I shot this antelope buck today. (Couldn't have done it w/o Evan, though!) :) It was a fun weekend!