A Prayers Chance

Have  you ever spent any time in a  place where your faith is all you have? You believe that Adonia is telling you the best will come, however circumstance screams of how impossible the situation is to improve. Then you get attacked with discouragement. Shortly after that fleshly temptations will follow, You are feeling so down the temptation weighs in against what is right.

Many times in the last weeks I have faced this horrible place. All I have been able to find to fight this battle is to make the choice to believe in Yeshua's love (agape)despite the fact that it feels very hidden. Most times it is of great benefit to verbalize this choice several times over. Then pray about the situation.  I personally have seen the situation degrade in hours because of a failure in the temptation stage. This has happened to me many times. I always felt that it was to make a point, sin hinders prayer. And something willbe coming that I could not afford to loose over something stupid.
When we pull through the time of temptation it is easy to expect something great to suddenly happen. This most times will not. However rest in the fact that your prayers have not been hindered, then strive to find what ever evidence of Yeshua's love love that can be found.
And remember to hang on to the faith that even if you can't see it, it is there somewhere.  The bible says faith is attributed as righteousness.

Leading to Honesty

I figured something out some years ago about honesty. I made it part of my life. But in the last few days I have had the idea resurface. I am on a few social networks and on one in particular I have been seeing a lot of ladies wishing they could find honest men. I feel for the non christian ladies as thier plight is near hopeless. But that is to digress.
I want to aim this post not so much at women but rather men and parrents. And hope that lady readers will apply it through common sense understanding. First men who want honest wives or girlfriends. Men have anger issues. As a man I think we all do to some degree. The question is when a situation arises do you as the man promote an honest response. 1 Peter 3:7 This verse is critical to promoting honesty in your wife. Please take the time right now to look it up. Here is a short list of questions that if answered incorrectly will promote dishonesty in your wife.

Do you guilt trip?

Do you manipulate?

Do you accuse her of being unloving?

Do you yell and scream?

Do you get overly angry?

Do you accuse her of anything out of line for the situation?
The wrong answer to any one of those questions on a consistent basis will promote a lying behaivior in your wife. You are making the effort of honesty not worth the pain of it.
Col 3:21
The last time your child was caught unaware in the cookie jar, how did you approach the situation? More than likely you asked them if they were into it. Now comes the point of impact, will they lie or tell the truth. Question time.

Do you sweat the small stuff?

Do you discipline over spilled milk literally?

Does the discipline fit the crime when discipline is nesisary?

Do you belittle or humiliate them?

If you over kill for the small stuff do you under kill for big stuff making you unpredictable.
How you speak to both children and spouse will either make or brake honesty. Eph 4:29
"It is better to be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt" Ben Franklin

Ignighters Car Show.

     The town that I am staying in had a free car show so I walked to town and took a look and tried not to drool on any ones car. Though I strive to keep my head clear of material items these fine American machines still get my attention.  Here is some pictures..


68 GTO


67 Cobra


GT 350


70 AAR Cuda


69 Camaro SS

Should we Expect Reward?

This is a reply I was posting on a forum and decided I liked how well it was coming out so I decided to blog it. I dare not post the other persons quote without permission. So I am apologize for some of this that may seem a little odd because it was in reply to implied post. However I will say that he/she said that in faith we should take action in our faith without expectation of a reward. Below is my reply.


If we expect no reward, does that not mean we truly don't believe His word. The bible is full of promises of reward. The greatest reward is of coarse God himself. But if I read this correctly (and I may not have) to try and take action toward God with no expectation of reward from him whatsoever is to try and take action with disinterest. I desire to do the good that the bible commands simply for just that the promises of the bible being revealed.
Ps 37:7 PS 145:19 Mat 6:33 Each of these verse have promise in them. And each one has a command in it as well. Our focus should be on the command not the promise. Focusing on the promise to much creates bitterness when things are not going well. However focusing on the command and believing that the bible is true and we can stand on the promises is key to a enduring faith. When you stand on a large rock playing king of the hill you do not focus on the rock but on the task of holding your position on the rock. Standing on the promises of God is much the same as that battle. The world,satan, and flesh wants to take us off the rock of salvation (aka biblical promise) Do I expect that God will give me all my [b][u]wants[/u][/b]. No. But I do expect to receive my desires. And since the bible says that our heart is renewed, I will conclude that wants are much of the time fleshly and real desires align with what God wants. The real hard part is knowing the difference.

Our Pleasure in Yahweh Vs Our Pain.

As you know I have children. However I have not seen them in sometime. It was a nasty divorce and because of a feminist judge I lost everything. Right now I am trying to find a gainful employment to recover as much as I can. But that is another topic that I may or may not cover at some point.


Since loosing my children I became full of pain. I hurt because I failed them. I hurt because I felt like Adonia failed me. I have done my best to grow beyond these pains without letting go of my children. In this process I have held on to much pain and not willing to let it go. Mostly because I miss my children and don't want to loose any more of them than I have. But in the search for understanding Gods love I came across a book in which I am reading. It introduced the idea that holding on to the pains of the past can be a deadly hindrance in finding pleasure in who Yahweh as a whole really is. Or taking pleasure in His true nature and character. This road will be a hard one for me to travel but I will post things that come out over the coarse of the road.

The first thing that hit me was that in holding on to the pain such as I did has caused a barrier or shield between Adonia and myself. This was revealed when I screamed into the air why is it a sin for me to hurt. The answer was that the hurt was not a sin but the hanging onto it and letting shape much of who I am was. And that is what I know I have been doing. I wonder if this is why Yahweh has been withholding a deeper committed relationship aka to find a christian spouse. I can see plainly how it pertains. It does affect me and the way I handle life in general. So I am doing my best to find the pleasure of Yahweh's full character and trying to cope with some deep pains. A deep pain of rejection starting with some attitudes that my dad showed me when I was younger and still maintains those same disappointments in all that I am today. Don't worry forgiveness will be easy here it has been for a few years now. The other source of rejection has been because of relationships with the opposite sex especially my ex-wife. When she told me that she would do what it took to drive me off and did exactly that. The last feeling of rejection is direct from Adonia. Mind you I understand this is just a feeling. However when you greatly desire to take care of your own responsibilities such as paying child support and every job you try fails it becomes a source of pain. And in ignorance you begin to grapple with the understanding of what is going on any way you can which can mean that you come to a wrong conclusion toward the nature of Adonia's intentions over the suffering in question.

I pray that as I go through this struggle and post what I learn here that some of the readers will find some resolution to their own struggles with pain. In a past post I left my face book and twitter available please consider that you have any questions or comments about this issue feel free to contact me there. I will be posting again shortly on this subject as I face the pain of letting go of the pain that I have held onto so dearly for the last 6 years.

Thoughts on Children

This was a blog I originally had posted elsewhere and decided to close down that blog and do this one. I should let you know that yes I am a parent of 3 children. I believe that if more parents were to understand what is being taught in the bible and showing it to there children it would change the outcome of so many relational problems between the two generations. Here is my old blog

Should Children Obey their Parents in any given situation? That is something a child must face every day. I remember asking myself many times what was the chance I would get away with something versus that I would get caught. When I got to be a teen My parents started attending church and quoting these versus to me. My dad was always yelling at me about it, probably because I rarely did it. Now the bible says this about it:

Eph 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Eph 6:2 HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Eph 6:3 THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH YOU, AND THAT YOU MAY LIVE LONG ON THE EARTH.

But there is several things that are over looked about pushing this bible text on your children.
Let me ask you this Dad. What would happen if you preach this to your wife?

Col 3:18 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

I have tried this on a occasion or two. I have asked other men about it. They all laugh In other words it is a good way to get your self put in the dog house. This is NOT something we should go yelling at our wives. (This will be talked about on another blog)
We know that yelling at our wives about that bible verse makes her mad in many senses you would be provoking a fight with her. Very very few women will tolerate having this shoved down their throat . But we yell at our kids all the time. "Bible says obey your parents. So we shout this verse at our kids and expect a good reaction out of them when we know for a fact that our wives will refused to cook dinner for a week over this. Why do women react so badly after all its just the bible right? Because it is a insult its is flat out provoking your wife.

Eph 6:4 And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Notice the Key words "do NOT provoke" (emphasis added) The question should become then How do we correct with out provoking?

Eph 4:15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ,
Eph 4:16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

1Co 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
1Co 13:5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
1Co 13:6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
1Co 13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

The next time you feel the urge to let your kids have it ponder their reaction to it. If you yell and holler and boss them around in a non loving fashion this is provoking them is it not? If your boss comes up yelling screaming and cussing at you what do you feel like? Humiliated put down discounted and with out value. And it is only fear of the loss of your job that restrains you from turning right around and giving your boss what he is giving you. I have even felt extreme anger because of a boss treating me badly. hoping that they get a flat tire on the way home from work or that they get a ticket for one mile an hour over. People flat out hate being humiliated. Your kids are no different. If you come up to your kid and shout at them something like "I can't believe you did something so stupid." In their mind you just said kid your stupid. Then they get angry in anger they react in disobedience. Even if it is just in there own minds by simply thinking I hate my parents. God hears that even when you don't. By them hating you they are NOT honoring you. And that takes away the promise that was offered. And you provoked it.

If you are not correcting your child in love then you are provoking to anger. Which means that you are acting as a stumbling block to your child.

Mat 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depth of the sea.

A finishing suggestion. Next time you need to correct your children. Stop and pray about it pick your bible ask God to lead you to verses that just might help you know what to do. And ask HIM simply Lord what is the appropriate reaction to this. In many cases you might just find that it simply is not worth the argument because it just might be to petty.

Footnote
All bible next was from Nasb printed 1977. All bible text is in red to help differentiate from my words and the official bible text. It does NOT indicate that Jesus stated it.

A Hunger For Yahweh's Providence.

How much do we as followers of Yeshua (Jesus) really hunger for His providence? I have met a few that did over the years. But not to many. I suddenly realized in a time of great physical hunger, how much we should be craving His providence in all things. I must admit at this point that if you have a hard time understanding any of this, it may be in part to low blood sugar. I apologize  for  any short comings in this writing.  As I sat thinking over the predicament I remembered the verse "I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength". I also remembered some words on this topic by Paul Washer All things can mean enduring a time of hunger. And I began to see how much we as followers of Yeshua should be depending on His providence in our lives for everything. Not just in a time when food is scarce.

Right now I am facing another great need in my life one that is just as or maybe even more important than my physical hunger. That is a greater understanding of Yahweh's love. I was talking to a friend some months ago about this topic and he had this to say which I have spent allot of time thinking about. " I do feel  the love of God. His love is real to me. It is revealed in many ways but one of the easiest to find would be through my wife and children" I marveled at this because this was exactly my desire. To know Adonia's love through my wife. ( My wife left me and I am hoping to find a godly woman to fill the emptiness that she never desired to.) In this time of physical hunger I realized I am craving Adonia's love as much as food right now. I crave the gift of companionship as deeply as food. (I have not had a solid nutritious meal in several days.) But most importantly I am wanting the fulfilling of some biblical promises.
Ps 37:7 is just one of them. In realizing that Yahweh is not the great red suited gift giver I decided to not focus on the promise in verses like this, but rather the commands in the verses. "Delight yourself in the Lord." This has been a real struggle. Taking joy in Adonia when He feels so distant on a day to day basis. Soon I started craving even more than food and a bride was to be able to take pleasure in Adonia (The Lord)for who He is as well as what He does. Don't get me wrong I still would about step over a mean dog for a cheese burger with pickles and a side of fries. I would try and swim the english channel for the love I desire (LU) and I can't swim  well enough to cross a swimming pool. I believe with all that I am that the greatest pleasure in this world and the next is Yeshua himself. And the reason we do what we do as followers of Yeshua is the pursuit of that pleasure. I believe to obey out of duty or fear and nothing more is to show a disinterest in the nature and character of Yahweh. Think about it this way. If a man does something for his wife based on fear of her anger he has a begrudging attitude and it is reflecting at her and causes emotional strife. However if he  does the same action with the attitude of giving his wife pleasure this to will be revealed to her. I personally would rather my wife feel that I am doing what I am doing to give her pleasure and hopefully she will reciprocate. Hello cheese burger! "Sweety can I have desert later please?" So I hope you get the just on what I am trying to get across.

If you would like a deeper look please check out the book Desiring God by John Piper. If you have the desperate feeling I don't want to do that consider the book When I don't desire God. Also by John Piper. This is the book I read first myself.

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