Election ‘08

Well it is finally over.  I am so glad to be honest with you.  I have had some of the hardest conversations with people about this election than any other before.  I remember back when it all first started and people were asking me for advice and you know me i probably didn’t give them advice i gave them my opinion.  Some people liked my opinion and some tried to change my opinion.  Today it is what it is and Barack Obama is the President elect.  This is history in America and he has done something that will be written in history books.  The advisors and his team knew exactly what to do. They ran a campaign that won the election.  I would like to discuss a few things about again what does this mean to me.

   It means that Obama’s statement about America not being a christian nation any more is 100% right.  So knowing that we have to pray for him and we have to pray for America.  The church needs to get on her knees and pray that God helps us.  We have to ask God to pour out His Spirit on us.  We don’t need to talk about what you think of Obama,but pray for him.  Although it seemed that people talked Bush in the ground.  We can’t do it about Bush nor should we do it to Obama.  Backbiting is of the devil and if you have talked about Bush,Obama or Palin you should repent.  I am not saying you can’t disagree with their beliefs,but we should never talk bad about anyone. 

Let me just remind all of you that change starts in the Church House not the White House.  I have to get on a soapbox for a minute.  I would love to know the number of christians who stayed up and watched the results.  I saw last night all of the parties being held and I thought man where are all of these people when we call a prayer meeting.  You know with me being a youth pastor I get a lot of excuses on teens missing meetings and gatherings all of the time.  Last night I saw people who stayed up well past 12am and it made me wonder how many of them have complained about being in church too long or a sermon going to long?  So to end what this post I want to encourage you again campaign for Jesus,support your pastor or your leader like you have supported your candidate.  Realistically your candidate is not calling out your name in prayer like that pastor is.  I am not saying this for myself I am saying push for Jesus harder than you did for your candidate and lets see people’s lives be change by the power of God.

 

Paul

Election Time

Here we are again with another election getting ready to wrap up.  Thank you Lord.  I have heard so much on both sides and to be real with you both have made me sick at times.  I have seen the people and I have heard the debates and to be honest I am a little down that these two guys are the best we can offer.  Either way we have to vote and which ever issue is the most important to you I urge you to vote based off of the word of God.

I would like to ask some of you about a few things that have baffled me about you .  Some of you go and stay out late at night (i have actually got a call from someone during the middle of the week and they were rallying for their candidate).  This confuses me because i see people who go knock on doors and put signs up and just do all of this stuff for their candidate.  I can’t not ask what do you do for Jesus.  Well Paul I don’t want to offend anyone with Jesus.  I have heard so many people be so rude about these candidates and have been very offensive,but they are not caring because their candidate is the only choice!!!  Let me tell you Jesus is the choice for any of this stuff and no wonder prayer has been taken out of schools and babies are aborted every day.  We should take on this same method about our Lord way more than any politician that you do not have a clue what the guy or the girl is really about.  Even right now you may be thinking wow Paul you are being legalistic and my answer is when did telling people about Jesus every opportunity you get turn in to legalism?  This is a side note, we have FHC yard signs if you would like to put some out.  Maybe you can replace all of the signs you put in your yard or on the street for your candidate.  We also have bumper magnets that you can cover the sticker that you put on your car too. 

Well that is my feelings about this election and I know some of you don’t agree,but Jesus is the reason that we are here.  If you read the back of the book(Bible) you will notice that it is going get a whole lot worse than what it is now.  So I guess who is your source?  Is it Jesus or is it a politician?  If your answer is Jesus then how about lets campaigning for Him. Love you guys!! (please remember that)

Paul

Corn Maze and Harvest Carnival

Hey don’t forget we are going to the corn maze on the 25th. The cost will be $10 and bring extra money for food.  We will be meeting at my house at 9am so be there and be on time.   Also the Harvest Carnival is coming up on the 26th. If you want to volunteer see me this Sunday and I will hook you up.  We still have some openings.  I love you guys have a great weekend and I will see you Sunday hopefully????

Contentment pt.1

I recently spoke on this topic the other day and as I began to think more about it I think that I am going to do a blog series about it.  The scripture that I used was 1 Timothy 6.  As I began to think about these passages of scripture I started to just repent.  Which does not mean to turn away from sin,it actually means to change the way you think,but any way I have really started looking at my life about whether or not I am content. 

I think a good definition of content is trusting in God for where you are right now.  When I thought on that statement yesterday I was just blown away.  Consider this if you allow your atmosphere or your circumstances to determine your contentment then your happiness will always be unstable.  Joy will be absent basically.  We have to know that the same Jesus that saved you has everything about you under control.  That is not easy.

You would think life with Wilson would be totally complaint free.  I mean I am a pastor at a church that have over 1000 people.  Vertical is going awesome.   Things are really going good,but guess what I still complain sometimes.  Which what I am saying is Lord I don’t trust your will for my life.  How do you feel about this so far?

Appetite pt.3

I have had two posts now about appetite and really up until now I have not thought about one thing that really is the most important thing about your appetite.  That one thing is hunger.  If you are hungry you will eat alot of different things including things that are not that good for you.  The fact though that you  are hungry really is the key.  Especially when we talk about the church.  I can deal with lack of maturity when they are hungry for more of God.  What I can’t take is people getting into a religious rut and not being hungry.  Like they have fully come to a place spiritually that they don’t need to call out for God during services or better yet at home on their own time( I am saying this to myself).  In Revelations 2 the Bible talks about all of the things that were good about the church,however the one thing that He had against them was that they lost their first love.  I began to think about that when I first really met Jesus and that hunger began to just go crazy in me.  I had to ask myself today if I am still hungry.  Or even better yet am I more hungry now then back then?  My answer is no.  Today has been a day for me that I have had a go to town meeting with myself,Pastor Troy talks about those talks all of the time.  Well I had one today and I tell you I repented and asked Holy Spirit to fill me again and cause a spirit of hunger to never leave me again.  So to end this about appetite I say please God never take my appetite for you away and renew a hungry spirit within me and never let it go away!  Are you hungry?

Appetite pt.2

So we have been talking about appetite and I really have been wondering why do we do the things that we know are not good for us.  Have you ever thought about it before?  I heard Damon Thompson say the other day that good seed planted in good soil does produce good fruit ,but not always.  He said that if you take an orange seed and plant it in Idaho that tree will not grow and produce fruit.  Both seed and soil is good.  He then went on to say that the reason it doesn’t grow is because of the atmosphere that the seed and soil is in.  You can produce orange trees in Idaho but they have to be put in a hot house.  Which made me think.  If we want to have an appetite for the good things then we must be around the good things.  There are seeds both good and bad that are being planted in us every day.  Depending on the atmosphere that we are in determines which seed comes out and that type of fruit we produce.  So it would be safe to say that at first you may not like something ,but after you acquire a taste or an appetite for it you will then begin to crave that thing.  So the question is are we craving wrong things?  Then look at your appetite.  Then look at what atmosphere you are in.  This has challenged me because it is easy to have the appetite of t.v or Internet.  So what do you think about this?

Appetite pt.1

This post I want to talk about the appetite.  As you know our lives are based off of appetites.  If you have never tasted of something or partook in something you will not want it.  Here is an example: when I first tasted soft serve ice cream I immediately fell in love with it and now even as I type I have a desire to go get some. So it would be safe to say that we are creatures of appetite.  Usually when we talk about appetite it is dealing with food. I do have an appetite for fresh gulf shrimp from the Original Oyster House in Alabama anytime!  I have to stop I am wanting to make a trip there.

Today’s talk is more about the appetite of the soul.  As I said earlier you can’t have an appetite for something that you have not experienced before.  However we are made as creatures of God to be totally consumed with Jesus.  So I want to convey to you that while we are living our life we have to really try Jesus.  When I say try Jesus I am not saying to just go to church on Sunday and go to some type of mid-week gathering.  I am talking about getting by yourself and eating Jesus.  We have to understand that we build our own appetite.  I would be willing to say most alcoholics did not try their first beer and say I want to be an alcoholic.  No, what that person did was they kept trying and trying it until they began to acquire a taste for it. Now I believe that once you have really tasted of Jesus you will never be the same.  Your soul no matter how hard you try to  reject Him will cry out for Him.  That is it for today give me your feedback with part 1.

The Call D.C part 2

The Call D.C was amazing! We really had a great time from touring Washington to the actual event was wonderful.  The group that went carried themselves very well.  Parents and FHC you would have been proud.  We had 31 people attend and I would like to tell everyone that donated money and bore going to CiCi’s Pizza to help raise the money thank you so much.  To my LDG thank you so much for your time on the yard sale.  I can see the change still in the lives of all who went.  To all of you that went I would like you to tell everyone how much you appreciate them making the cost so low.  We love you guys so much !!!

Paul

The Call D.C

I am so excited to say that we are finally leaving tomorrow to go to the Call in Washington D.C.  I believe that our teens are ready for it.  We have been going after God strongly this summer and I feel that this will be a big shift in our lives and I believe this will be huge for America.  As I have spoken before about America needing to turn back to God I believe that this will be a way that this really happens.  This is not just a Washington D.C thing ,but you can pray and fast with us on this day.  The day is this Saturday.  I hope that every single person comes back changed and ready to impact the world for Jesus. we will see you when we get back.  Stay in the Glory!

 

Paul

Its Coming Off Today

Well I am finally here.  The hair color will go and the length will go away also.  This hair thing was just too much for me.  I play softball and it was just hot also some days I would like it other days I would hate it.  Now the color thing of course was just for Kid’s Kamp,but seriously no one could hardly take me seriously. So I am so excited that the old Paul is coming back.  Maybe not like really short ,but definitely shorter and more normal.  So pray that the lady can get the original color back and that I didn’t mess my hair up trying to do something for the kids.  Let me know what you think on Sunday.