Life Lesson #1532

If you try to do it all yourself you’ll explode and be nothing more than entertainment for others to watch.

Sometimes we just complicate the message

Healer

A couple of weeks ago while teaching on faith we played this song by Mike Guglielmucci… The Holy Spirit minister to so many people as we simply played a you tube video. There’s no doubt that there’s a special anointing on this song and the reports of people connecting with God through this song have been incredible. The folks over at Integrity Music have created this site to learn more about the song and post prayer requests and praise reports.

Child Evangelists of one of the worlds greatest brands

Day two of Mac camp. Today it’s all about iPhoto. Aidan came home so pumped about what our iMac could do.
Incidently using the new WordPress app for the iPhone for this post. Blog posts as the events happen.

Another reason I love apple

I love apple for all it’s innovative products and great customer service… Now I have another reason. Today my nine year old son went to apple camp to learn about movie making… Tomorrow it’s photos. A free camp, great tshirt and a DVD to remember the experience. Incredible!

Tuesday

Spent the day at Great Escape with my kids yesterday – fun times! During the conference I was so impressed and convicted by the comments that Craig Groeschel made. Here’s a guy pastoring a huge church of some 25,000 plus with 12 different campus 5 different states. He’s extremely disciplined, works hard and makes sure he’s home by 5pm to be with his kids. He travels no more than 12 nights a year. Outside of God, family is his top priority. To be honest with you, trying to balance all the plates we’re spinning has become one of our biggest challenges. There’s no substitute for time with your kids.

Just a little

I’ve been struck by how often God asks us to do things that we don’t have capacity to do in and of ourselves… One sure thing about God is that he never wants us to depend upon ourselves or our own capabilities. Just take a look at the Bible – Moses had a simple stick in his hand; David, a sling and a couple of smooth stones; the widow, just a small jar of oil and some flour; the disciples had a couple of fish and loaves of bread. In fact Peter and John had nothing in Acts 3. The amazing fact and encouragement to all of us is that God took the little, or the nothing, and combined it with what He had to provide some explosive and miraculous results.

So what do you have? A little, nothing? What is it God’s asking you to do? Probably more than you have in your bank account or your talent pool to pull off on your own. Good. You’re right where God wants you to be… totally dependent upon Him.

I was reminded of the lesson over the weekend – I had prepared and studied to preach this weekend and on Saturday night with my bag of tricks and illustrations I preached and it flopped. I go back to my hotel to rework the message and God reminded me about dependence upon Him. More time praying, less time fussing over what I have in my hand. Sunday God showed up in an amazing way and touched people the way I could never imagine or be able to. The little you have with the lot God has is an equation that leads to incredible results. So if he’s telling you something (and make sure he is otherwise it’s presumption), step out with confidence knowing that his lot is being add to your little. That’s why Jesus said that if you have a teeny, tiny amount of faith the size of a mustard seed you’d be able to move a mountain. Why? Because its your little being added to God’s lot.