Climbing Legacy Mountain Men's Fellowship Dinner

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The True You (Ransomed Heart)

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The True You “What people think of me” is a very powerful motivator. It is still shaping us more than we’d like to admit. It shapes our theology, our politics, our values. Do any of us go through one entire day being utterly true no matter how many different environments we move through? Do you even know the true you? Is there a true you? Whether it is born of fear or longing or uncertainty or cunning or wickedness, it so natural for us to shape ourselves according to the moment we scarcely notice how much we do it. Now, toss in the promise of reward—wealth, power, success, the adoration of others—and boy, oh boy, is it hard to be true. Only when you have taken an honest look inside yourself, and seen what really fuels the things you do, will you appreciate how utterly remarkable it is to be true. And how utterly desirable. We are given the story of Jesus’ wilderness trial to help us understand that Jesus has been tried—and proven true. Remember now, Jesus wasn’t cheating; it was a genuine test of his character, so profoundly terrible, to be seduced by the evil one himself, that Jesus needed angels to minister to him afterward. We typically think of integrity as the ability to resist temptation by resolve. And that’s a good thing; self-discipline is a good thing. But there is another level of integrity, the kind where you don’t even want the seduction that is being presented to you. Goodness runs so deep, so pervasive through your character and your being that you don’t even want it. We respect the man who is able to reject sexual temptation. But how much more the man whose soul is such that he does not want any woman but the woman he loves and is married to. (Beautiful Outlaw, 147, 148) To read past Daily Readings, Click Here.

Do you know who you are?

We live in a country where people hide behind falseness.  We tend to act like people want us to act and sometimes that goes against everything God intended us to be.  Do not hide anymore.  Show everyone who you truly are on the inside and watch your world come alive.

Jay

Courageous: The Movie

Courageous: The Movie

Thank You For the Storm! A simple prayer from a child.

Recently I have started a family devotional time in my house.  I felt like it was time to start sharing my love for God with my kids.  Don't get me wrong, my kids know God.  They are taught to know and love God.  I just felt like it was time for us to get deeper into the Word together as a family.  So I found a good devotional book that was written for children.  I needed to find a way to keep their attention.  This book has pictures and it also has audio downloads on the net that has a song for each devotional.  So we got started about a week ago.  We have not been able to read one every night but I told the kids that we would try and read it as often as we can.  Part of our devotional time is to pray together.  I want my kids to learn to pray from their hearts. Prayer is defiantly an important part of my faith and it has pulled me through many of life's obstacles.  So I want them to be able to rely on God like I have.  With that said, we decided that we would each say our own little prayer.  Sara (my wife) would start and then Madison (My 4 year old daughter), then CJ (my 6 year old boy), and then I close.  This went great and as the week progressed I began to see my kids open their hearts.  I saw them put away their fears and lay it all out for God to hear.  One night Madison really laid it out.  Her prayer that night was really humbling.  Let me explain one thing first.  In our devotional that night, there was a picture of a rainbow.  We talked about praising God and things that we were thankful for.  I told them that during our prayer we would thank God for something.  I told them it could be anything.  I kept an open mind because I was expecting to hear they were thankful for their material things.  But to my surprise Madison started her prayer off by saying "thank you God for the rainbow that comes after the rain.  Thank you for the storm.  But most of all, thank you God for sending us Jesus to die on the Cross for our sins, so that one day when we die we can come and live in heaven with you".  WHAT!!!  Did I just hear a 4 year old say that prayer?  Wow!!!  What a simple way to look at life.  Madison understands that for there to be a beautiful rainbow you must first have a storm.  Why do we have to lose that innocence?  In life God will put us through many storms only to revile a beautiful rainbow at the other end.  Remember that when you are going through tough times and thank God for the storm.


God Bless, Jay