At Home

I love relaxing at home with my beautiful wife. Life has been great the past week and a half and I love going through life with her. I never realized how much strength you can gain from letting the Holy Spirit lead your life.

I am eating better and spending more time in the Word!! God is doing great things and I am so excited to see what he has in store for me!!

Grace and Peace
Ben

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Life is Good

The past week of my life has been wonderful.  I have a renewed sense of the Holy Spirit working in my life and I am back on track with a lot of things that I have let slip.  I am trying to constantly be in a state of prayer and give God the glory for all He is doing and will do.  I know at times we try and fit God in when we have time because we thing about prayer as an activity.  Something we have to stop from our daily routine and pray.  In my devotion this morning it talked about prayer and thinking of it less as an activity and more as an awareness of God.  Now don't miss take what I am saying.  You still need that quiet time with God every day, but being in a state of prayer doesn't mean stopping what your doing. It means to be fully aware that God is walking with you and thank Him for all He has done.  I have found that when I am trying to keep myself aware of God presence in my life that issues that arise don't seem to be as drastic because I am not relying on my own strength to get through it. The Holy Spirit gives us that ability to have within us the power to overcome things through Christ. You need to have it well conditioned within you so it can be outwardly used in times of need.  I also think that having that conditioned body filled with the Holy Spirit lets you enjoy the happy times in your life as well because you are able to let go of the issues that are holding you back from, well, the fruit of the spirit.  Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self Control.

I am blessed the have a lot of Love, Joy and Peace in my life and it truly does help the rest of the fruit to grow.  I have been seeing a great deal of strength in Self Control.  I give all the credit to the Holy Spirit at work in my life right now.  He has empowered me to do things outside of my physical strength and I am so grateful for that. 

I pray that your weekend is filled with good times with friends and family and that you keep an awareness of what God is doing in and through you!!

Grace and Peace
Ben

God Loves You

I hope everyone is well.  Not a long one today but wanted to let you know that God Loves You.

He is jealous for me
Loves like a hurricane
I am a tree
Bending beneath
The weight of his wind and mercy
When all of a sudden
I am unaware of these
Afflictions eclipsed by glory
And I realize how beautiful you are
And how great your afflictions for me

Oh how he loves us so
Oh how he loves us
How he loves us so

We are his portion
And he is our prize
Drawn to redemption by the grace in his eyes
If grace is an ocean we're all sinking
So heaven meets earth like a unforseen kiss
And my heart burns violently inside of my chest
I don't have time to maintain these regrets
When I think about the way
He loves us

Grace and Peace
Ben

A New Outlook

Today has been wonderful so far.  I have a new sense of purpose and focus on life.  I am trying to let the Holy Spirit work in and through my life.  I just want to be a good witness to others and have my body as holy of a temple as it can be.  That comes with praying, reading the word, exercise and eating right.  I feel that it's more than just a mental thing as far as the body as a temple goes.  I think a physically health body is a desire from God as well.  I have been lacking on that and I really think that it's tied to my lack of digging into the word.

I am praying for the Holy Spirit to help me in those areas so that I may be a better vessel for Him to work with.

Grace and Peace
Ben

Post Summit

All I can say is I serve an awesome God.  If you didn't get a chance to make it to the Summit I pray you will attend the next one.  It was a spirit filled evening with a lot of people truly seeking the one true God.  I witnessed people worshiping with no reservations and and an outpouring of their hearts to God.  We had several stations set up for prayer, communion, an art station and a prayer wall.  I think it was well needed for everyone! 

I am hoping to carry the energy from the Summit into my everyday life.  I know at times after an event like this we are good for a week or so then we go back to the same routines.  I pray that we can keep that fire going.  I know for me its digging into the word and truly seeking after God with unhindered passion.

I hope you all have a great weekend and light that fire inside you with the Word of God!

Grace and Peace
Ben

Humbled by a Loving God

Sometimes I don't think about it enough...... 

At times I go through life and don't take the time each day to recognize it...........

I am humbled by it......

God so loved us so much that he sent his one and only son to die on a cross for OUR sins. I am so humbled by the fact the God wants to love us after what we have done to him over and over again.  I, as a human, can't imagine someone doing something to me that effected my life in a negative way over and over again and not look at them different.  God has new mercies for us every day.  His love never fails.  He has stayed the same through ages and will continue to.

God, who breathed out stars, knows us by name.  I have been stuck on that concept for awhile.  The star breather, creator of the universe knows me, cares for me and wants whats best for me.  Humbling to say the least.

Take time to be humbled before The King.  Recognize that all things come from Him and he will provide if you put your hope and trust in Him.

I am looking forward to The Summit this weekend to give God all the glory that I can give.  It's nowhere close to what He deserves but I want to give Him my all.

Grace and Peace
Ben

The Summit - Brokenness:The Pathway to Worship

Alright enough time off.  Back to the blogging.

I had a great weekend with leading worship to celebrating my wife's birthday with my family to relaxing at home.  I have a very blessed life and give all the glory back to God.  He is the one who has made all things possible and opened doors for me when He knew I was ready.  I hope everyone has been well since I last blogged.

One think I am very excited about at my church LCC (Lancaster Community Church) is The Summit- Brokenness: The Pathway to Worship.  It's going to be an evening of worship.  Worship through music, art, scripture readings just to name a few will be on the agenda for the evening.  Sometimes we focus to much on the aspect of worship through music that we forget that worship can take all forms.  We are looking forward to have all of the worship leaders leading music together for the evening and a variety of worship stations that you can participate in however you feel moved.

It's going the be Sunday March 6th @ 6 p.m.

LCC is located at
230 N. Columbus St
Lancaster, OH  43130

http://yourlcc.org/2011/02/the-summit/


Even if you don't attend LCC it will be a Spirit filled evening and I hope you all can attend.

Grace and Peace
Ben