OntheROAD

  Forming Your World     Have you been in a place in life where you feel like your world has no form, reason, nor rationale to it… like it is void of meaning or direction… and it seems like the darkness is so deep and thick that you not only can't see, but are so disoriented you have no clue as to which way is up?     How do you get out of THAT?     Gen1:1-2 describes just that scenario, but on a grand universal scale: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.”     The rest of verse 2 begins to show the hope in the midst of the vast void…                   “…And the Spirit of God MOVED UPON the face of the waters.”             “MOVED UPON” is from a primitive Hebrew root word meaning: to brood: to hover, flutte...

LET YOUR FRUIT SPEAK?     People say, , “God told me”…  or “Holy Spirit directed me…”or… “this business belongs to Jesus, He tells me what to do!”     WHY?     Why do they preface THEIR works with such statements?     Isn’t it a ruse of the enemy to keep them unapproachable, uncorrectable, and continuing their own way without interference? … ITS INTENT: prevent ANYONE from speaking into them or the situation… After all… “who are YOU to contradict what God has said?”     “Every tree is known by his own fruit.” (Lk6:44) “…by their fruits you shall know them.” (Mtt7:20)   An apple tree does not have to tell you it is one… it just bears apples! …a cherry tree bears cherries.    You can tell a Dogwood Tree by its “Bark”… well… maybe that doesn’t fit the analogy.     If I have to tell you I am a certain type of tree, it is probably because there is NO FRUIT to make identification easy.     “He that speak...

  I STARTED A CHURCH       I HAVE STARTED several “churches” over the years.     Each one I built after the pattern in which I had grown up and had seen modeled by other ministries.  The first thing I did was run out and rent a building… and then worked hard to “believe God” for the rent. I spent a lot of time praying over finances and the ability to reach more people… all of this with the idea I was building something for Jesus Christ… His Church.     After several years of this process, a particular church I had “planted” was meeting in a section of a strip mall right across a small street from the ocean. As was my habit of using the beach as my second office, I was out one day sitting on some boulders overlooking the bay… just telling the Lord how excited I was about how everything was growing… how people were healed… the lame walked, the blind saw, the deaf heard… the dead were raised… there were people coming in just to be delivered… I w...