Gracias a Dios, Somos juntos

Bueno, as I sit here tonight thinking about what is going on in our lives and how God is moving miraculously, I am also angered over the attacks of Satan. It seems at times that there are just no easy answers. Satan has definitely increased the attacks on the body of believers and we are pushing back as hard as we can. There are times that I feel that we are at the top of the world and others that we are in the bottom of the barrel. This has really made me stop and think a lot about myself. I have begun to think of myself as a glow stick. First, because, sometime I think of myself as smart as a glow stick, just sitting there waiting for someone to just pick me up!! Just kidding, that is not really why!! The real reason is because of the absolute sense it makes thinking about it. The more that a glow stick is with a light source, the more it glows!! This is like us, the more that we are with our master Jesus, the more that we glow as well!!!! This is so amazing, yet SO difficult. I am learning all over about prayer and the effectiveness, the sacrifice, the joy, and the hardship of time in prayer. I will admit that I struggle in this area. I always feel like I have too much of this or that to get done. However, without prayer we are just a car running with no gas!! I am learning to "love again" the intimate time in prayer and study from my Master and King. I was just reading in Galatians 1-3 and it really hit me how hard living the true gospel of Christ really is. I seen in Chapter 2 that Peter was clearing walking away from the gospel of Christ and I thought "WOW"!!! I began pondering in my mind, if Peter could be mislead and walk away, how much easier for one of us. We didn’t walk with Jesus, talk with Jesus and eat a meal with Jesus. I always had it in the back of my mind that if I had just walked a little closer (physically) to Jesus, or had just lived when He did so I could have heard Him. Everything would be better. However, this is a lie from Satan!! Now that this has been exposed, I must deal with it!! Peter walked away from the truth. He literally walked with Jesus, and then that pesky old rooster crowing thing was there as well!! This wasn’t just some guy, this was Peter, a spiritual giant of the Bible!!!! We need to make sure we are on the right track with the true gospel and make Jesus famous in this world. The thing is, we need to make sure that what we are preaching is the truth and not some other teaching that we were just taught. We need that intimacy, that time in prayer, and that glow that we can only get from our precious Father. I know that with a glow stick you can put it anywhere and it will suck up the light, we however, have only one source of light and that is Jesus Christ. We must stay next to the Father and quit looking for our light in people. Jesus is the first and the last, the beginning and the end, and I give Him my heart my family and everything that I am. I am learning that I don’t need and shouldn’t expect anything in return from Him. Everything that He has given me is a blessing that I am not worthy of receiving. Thanks be to God for the wonderful life that He has given, and I pray that I am ready to ride out the coming storm that is on the horizon!! God bless you all and hope to hear from you. Ross