hat an incredible day with the Lord!  Lake Sylvia and the Ouachita Trail are a little slice of heaven :)   It was so refreshing to just take in His creation while meditating on His word and in prayer.
God confirmed in me that we are on the right path and to be BOLD in pursuing Him.  As I walked through the woods on the trail He kept putting a phrase in my mind…Breaking Free.  In order for us to join Christ where He is and to live Counter-Culture for a Cause we have to break free of the ties that bind us:  materialism, pride, prestige, money, safety, comfort, work, kids, family, security, sin…All of these things were like the spiderwebs that hung across the path.  To attain my goal I had to break free of them.

We can not sit and hope that God will just loosen the ropes…we must struggle (press forward) to break free of them in pursuit of Him.  It is about action, movement and passion.  We can not be complacent where we are.  The prize is worth the effort, and should be our driving focus.

Today I am breaking free!

kh

PS - I strongly urge you all to sit down and read Acts 1-7 and take care to note the posture of the Apostles.  They start with prayer, and then proclaim with boldness and confidence…those guys were convinced to their core that Christ was the Messiah and knowing Him was worth EVERYTHING.  Oh that we could be so strong!

hat an incredible day with the Lord!  Lake Sylvia and the Ouachita Trail are a little slice of heaven :)   It was so refreshing to just take in His creation while meditating on His word and in prayer.
God confirmed in me that we are on the right path and to be BOLD in pursuing Him.  As I walked through the woods on the trail He kept putting a phrase in my mind…Breaking Free.  In order for us to join Christ where He is and to live Counter-Culture for a Cause we have to break free of the ties that bind us:  materialism, pride, prestige, money, safety, comfort, work, kids, family, security, sin…All of these things were like the spiderwebs that hung across the path.  To attain my goal I had to break free of them.

We can not sit and hope that God will just loosen the ropes…we must struggle (press forward) to break free of them in pursuit of Him.  It is about action, movement and passion.  We can not be complacent where we are.  The prize is worth the effort, and should be our driving focus.

Today I am breaking free!

kh

PS - I strongly urge you all to sit down and read Acts 1-7 and take care to note the posture of the Apostles.  They start with prayer, and then proclaim with boldness and confidence…those guys were convinced to their core that Christ was the Messiah and knowing Him was worth EVERYTHING.  Oh that we could be so strong!

Some poignant words from Adrian Rogers / Love Worth Finding (www.lfw.org)

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
For the first time in history, man is afraid of what he knows. His head and his hands have outrun his heart, and we are being faced with things for which we have no answers — the plague of AIDS, the tinderbox in the Middle East, the outbreaks of famine, the irregular weather disturbances, and much more. But, we don’t have to wring our hands and say, “What is the world coming to?” We can look up and say, “Who is the world coming to?” It’s coming to Jesus! Praise God!

BIBLE MEDITATION:
John 12:32 - “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.”

God has created each of us uniquely, but we must not forget that He is the fullness of all things - Head, Heart and Hands.