He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the LORD. -2 Chronicles 12:14

We have to be intentional about our walk with God.  Being stagnant will allow evil the opportunity to creep into our lives.  I know that one thing is for sure.  Our walks with God are never leveled off, they either rise closer to Him or fall farther from him.  To be stagnant or to do nothing is for our intimacy with God to decline rapidly. 

We all know that the longer we neglect our relationship with God the harder it is to make our way back.  May we always be resolved to SET our hearts on God.  Godliness doesn’t happen by accident.  Let us pursue God on purpose.

I know it has been a while since I last wrote.  I only know that thanks to you my faithful readers.  I formally apologize for my neglect of the blogging world. 

I read 2 Chronicles 7:14 this morning.  -if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land. 

May we never neglect to fall on our face and cry out to God for our depravity.  Do you want to see God move in your life or our church?  Humble yourself!  Pray!  Seek God’s face!  Turn from your wicked ways! 

God heal our land!

As many of you know Rachel Olreud has taken a turn for the worst.  If you don’t know, Rachel is a 6th grader at our church fighting cancer.  Stop reading and take a minute to pray.  I also ask that you wouldn’t pray the safe pray of “God’s will be done”.  In the scriptures, there were certain men of faith who would dare to pray prayers contrary to the predicted actions of God.  Dare to pray a prayer with no backup plan.  A backup plan prayer would say “God heal her, but your will be done”.  Just once try praying, “God heal her, and with everything in me I ask you to heal her”.  May we dare to look foolish with a prayer that may be answered with a no.  May we never fall short of asking God for big things, or of believing in Him to provide big answers. 

God, HEAL Rachel!!

The dividing line in the lives of most people isn’t between good or evil, most people struggle with the line between ordinary and extraordinary.  We are surrounded by the temptation to maintain the status quo.  How I dread the thought that believers everywhere would refuse to take hold of the adventure that God wants to give their lives.  There is nothing that the enemy would love more than to see a bunch of stuck, stagnant Christians. 

The thing we have to realize is that our pursuit of God is never, never stagnant.  Every day and every moment creates either a increase or a decrease in our relationship with God.  The mediocre decision of doing nothing creates a decline in our intimacy with God.

Don’t be history, make history!  We are all allotted a particular amount of time.  Don’t waste your life on trivial pursuits.  Whatever you do in your life make it a pursuit of the cross and making God’s name famous. 

Praise God that He gives us an adventure to live!  There is nothing stagnant about being intimate with God!  Fight for Him, it is worth it! 

I am a humbled man.  I realize that God is doing great things in our ministry, and yet I realize that I have a long way to go.  The most amazing thing for me was that Northpoint was esentially started out of a desire for ministers to be both hard worker and yet have great families.  They keep everything simple so that they might be great fathers, mothers, husbands and wives.  And because of this, God has blessed them incredibly.  Praise God! 

I have learned a ton.  I pray that God would cultivate the things He taught me into what we are now doing.  May His words and lessons not return to Him void.  Praise God that He continuously draws us farther and farther on a journey with Him.