Dirty Laundry

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dirtylaundryandlife — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:10:26 +0000

Psalms 23:2-3

² He lets me rest in green meadows;
he leads me beside peaceful streams.
³ He renews my strength.
He guides me along right paths,
bringing honor to his name.

He is my shepherd.

He
Lets me
Leads me
Renews me
Guides me
So that I can bring honor to Him.

I want to allow Him to have full control of my life, allow Him to Lead, Guide, Restore, and Renew me. So that He may get the Glory and the honor out of everything that I do and say.

This scripture part of Psalm 23 is used during funerals, “even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.” Psalm 23:4

We will have no fear from the shadow of death as long as we have allowed Him to Let us, Lead us, Renew us, Guide us. If we are outside that guidance, then we do have something to fear. If we don’t have a relationship with Him we aren’t allowing him to be our Shepherd. Then we don’t have His protection. In John 10 Jesus speaks about being the Good Shepherd. The One who is the only way to heaven. He also speaks about another shepherd; the one who comes to steal, kill, and destroy. If we don’t follow the Good Shepherd, then we are subject to the other shepherd who will take from us with no remorse and lead us on a path to destruction.

I recently lost a childhood friend, and as I have looked on Facebook to see what friends are saying about him and who he was, it is very eye opening to me. What will your legacy say about you? What will your friends say was the most important thing in your life? How will you be remembered? The legacy you leave will reflect the shepherd you followed. Who are you following? Who is your shepherd?

6 Month Check up

dirtylaundryandlife — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:53:18 +0000

No, it hasn’t been six months since I’ve written, it sure does feel like it though. We are just a few days away from christmas. Although, this year christmas has come and gone and I haven’t realized it. Its already dec 21 and I feel like thanksgiving was last week. Why is it when you’re a kid christmas seems to never get here, but as an adult, its already here. I have so much I wanted to do this year for christmas and here we are 3 days away and I only got to do a little bit of it. But what I have been able to do has been amazingly awesome. I could sit down and write out all the things I didn’t get to do and the movies I didn’t get to see and be bummed about it, or I could be in awe of the things I was able to do and the memories I was able to create and the blessings the Lord has given me this year and especially this christmas season. I feel like this year has been a year of blessing and a year of goodness and the Lord teaching me to be patient, but what it has taught me for certain is not to waste a moment of life, use every min, make it count. Honor Him with everything you do. Because He is faithful to us and is always there with us. So why should we whine and cry about this or that when He has paid our debt and this is the time of year when we celebrate the beginnings of that. So I pose these questions, what have you done to celebrate Christ with your life? Is it more than just at christmas? Are you ready for a new year, new beginnings for change?

Merry Christmas

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believe

dirtylaundryandlife — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:57:08 +0000

John 1:50-51
50 Jesus said, “You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than that.” 51 He then added, “I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

Why is it we only believe God when He has to spell it out for us? We know He knows what’s best yet, we “need” to know the plan and the next step before we take it. Why do we feel that we are so important that we don’t need faith, we need to see the plan? When will belief and faith walk hand in hand in our lives? When will we just know He knows what’s best for us and we just follow it? How hard is it for us to just listen and obey? Or is it just me?

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Long time..

dirtylaundryandlife — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:27:07 +0000

So its been over five months since I have had a chance to, scratch that, made a chance to sit and write. My company has been working on a huge install for the past 9 months.. Well now everything is getting finished up, what was once dirt floors with no walls now is polished concrete with a glass wall in the lobby, beautiful, as I have paced this building working, it makes me think about my life and what the blueprints say for what it is going to be, and am I helping or hurting the building process? Am I making excuses for not being farther along than I am. Am I distracted by everything else going on in my life to make the progress that I am supposed to be making?
Lord, please keep me focused on what you have for me, what does your blueprint say for my life. Let me follow that. Amen.

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seeking him

dirtylaundryandlife — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:58:46 +0000

sitting in sunday school today we discussed faith. The question came up would we have the faith that mary had to just say Yes? it got me thinking, what about the wisemen? search for God for 3 years, follow a lone star, no angels came to them, no words from the Lord just a lone star. Do we pay attention and are we willing to follow him with all it takes, with all that we have?

recently I was with rebekah and the funeral of her granddaddy, it was a celebration of a life served truly and completely to God, to the point that 2 hour before he passed he was on the bench at wal mart sharing the love of Christ with a stranger.

that is the faith and dedication that I pray that I can have. I pray that when I am gone that I can leave a legacy of our spiritual fathers and grandfathers. Can I hold to the legacy and heritage that has been put in front of me?

I know I will mess up and I know that God will love me through it, but will I keep seeking him through the tough times, when its not easy.. I pray so…

moving forward

dirtylaundryandlife — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:15:34 +0000

have you ever found yourself in a place where you were spinning your wheels so to speak? where you were doing everything the best you could but it didnt seem like it made a difference? Well you know you have the random breakthrough but you for the most part are just spinning trying to keep up, like a lab mouse on one of those wheels. It just hit me this morning, maybe its plain as day to everyone else, but the reason we are on the wheel the reason we are just spinning is because we dont make any kind of effort to change our situation. We dont get out of the car and try to put something under the tire so we can get traction and move out of the rut. we can sit there and spin for days, weeks, months or even years if we dont realize what is happening. I am finding this in my own life, I am way happier and way better off than i was a year ago or two years ago but i still feel in that rut in that place where if i dont start making a bigger effort to change the little things i am not going to go anywhere but where i am. There is no reason for us to be sitting in a rut when God has plans for us, He has goals for us. But as I was sitting in the elevation retreat this past weekend, I was challenged, i was challenged about my surrender if i have fully surrendered and does God have complete control of my path? am i willing to give it all to Him? This is a constant battle this is a daily walk.. and for the first time in a really long time i can say that this is the path and the walk that i want. It wont be easy but all i can do is ask for His help and draw as close to him as possible.

Lord be my strength and my guide and my rock and i will follow you, I give it all to you now. Please draw me close to you and never let me go, or let me let you go. amen.

fog

dirtylaundryandlife — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:01:08 +0000

its funny how the weather can create an attitude in us, when its sunny and bright I seem to be happy. when its rainy and cold, kinda depressing and hard to find the good in things. But when its foggy i just can not seem to focus, i cant seem to find my “flow” if you will. i feel like i am spinning my wheels and i cant get any traction to get moving. buy i guess my question is, why does it affect our spiritual life the same way, when God is there, we know He’s there, why is it we often feel like we are spinning our wheels spiritually? why cant we grab ahold of things and keep moving?

doing new things…again

dirtylaundryandlife — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:07:48 +0000

as i am sitting here on a plane for the first time in almost 5 years, heading on a business trip for the first time (which makes me feel very grown up) i realize how much i enjoy flying, i also love free wifi on the plane.. anyway. as i was trying to fumble my way through the airport i realized how nervous i get when i am doing something “new” but then i think about the fact that I HAVE flown before and i dont have any carry on bags and everything is in order. I look at other parts of my life things that i am doing again for what seems like the first time but it isnt. its just the first time in along time. I was able to speak at the end of september to a group of students in galax virginia, and this past wednesday i was able to share a quick devotional with the student ministry that i am apart of in cleveland, and my nerves were all over the place. Its really crazy how much Isaiah 43:18 is coming true in my life, that God really is doing a new thing, and He does want me to be apart of it. There are things that are going to be happening over the next couple of months that i have never done before and i am just ready to see what God does have in store.

Monday Morning Blues

dirtylaundryandlife — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:14:04 +0000

So it’s another monday morning, ironically enough it’s a monday morning with lots of rain. After a weekend with LOTS of rain, I recently have moved offices at work and now i can see the weather outside all the time and its very cool, before the only way i could tell if it was raining was if i heard it hitting the roof. I say all that to say over the last three years i have been on a roller coaster in EVERY sense that you can imagine. It could just never be a smooth ride something was always happening it was very taxing and tiring, so through prayer and just making the decisions i knew i needed to make(another blog for another day), Things in my life are evening out, not to say that it’s all easy but it is for sure getting much better than it was.

That was a rabbit trail, back to the rain. it has been this soaking rain, just flood like rain, where the grass has taken all it can get and its running off from everywhere the roads are covered the puddles are getting bigger. Here in Tenn we have had a bad past two years weather wise(ironic, you’ll see why in a second) I have been amazed at where my life has come over the past 2-3 years and I said many times that i felt like i was in a desert, waiting for God to bring me into the promised land(again another blog for another day). I feel like this rain to me at least isnt just a physical rain, but a spiritual rain, a rain of God’s presence in my life filling me up like i have never been filled before my spiritual thirst quenced like it has never been quenched before. My prayer as i enter this new season is that i wont stop thirsting for the rain, that i wont end up back in the desert because i got comfortable, I pray that no matter what happens from now, that the words to the song would be true in my life

Blessed be your name
In the land that is plentiful
Where the streams of abundance flow
Blessed be your name

Blessed be your name
When I’m found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed be your name

Every blessing you pour out,
I turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say…
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name

Blessed be your name
When the sun’s shining down on me
When the world’s all as it should be
Blessed be your name

Blessed be your name
On the road marked with suffering
Oh, There’s pain in the offering
Blessed be your name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to stay
Well Blessed be your name

My prayer is that i wont be thirsty when all i have to do is ask the one who has the drink that will never have me thirsting again.

New to this world…

dirtylaundryandlife — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:11:15 +0000

So Here it is… my first blog

more to come on my thoughts on anything that could pass through my mind.. within reason its a small mind.