A Christ Follower: The Journey

Did you ever feel alone?  Did you ever feel like God was not anywhere around.  Did you ever feel abandoned by God, as if God does not care?  Well I know I have; yet, those are my weaker moments. Because the bigger question is this:  Did you ever think that God's presence is with you even when you don't know it?'   I mean, where can you go to escape the loving presence of the Holy Spirit? Try going up to the heavens... especially those heavenly spiritually emotional "high" places.  If you have any sense of spiritual sensitivity,  you will find that God is there; take a nap in the depths... God will be there watching you while you rest... even in the depths of depression.   If you were to get on the largest and fastest airliner and travel all across the pacific to wherever, you will find out that God was with you when you took off, and God will be with you during the trip... AND God will be waiting on the other side, "on the far side of the sea." As

    Below Is The Scripture That Caused So Much Controversy   1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Don't you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people-none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (NLT)     Recently the Patriarch of the hugely popular show, "Duck Dynasty" was caught up in a controversy regarding human sexuality that really has set up a fire storm.  The politically correct tradiophobic types  are demanding that he be removed from the show.  Some are calling him a "homophobe," and others are standing up for

Did you ever think about how The LORD is journeying with you through life no matter what:  HE is constantly, lovingly, observing you in the most positive way that you can imagine... from the first moment you open your eyes.   As a matter of fact,  HE has searched you, and He knows you.  (I am thinking HE knows you better than you know yourself.) HE knows when you decide to take a seat, and HE is right there with you, when you get up... if you can get up.  HE knows what you are thinking, no matter how far away HE may seem to be.  When you go out from your humble abode, HE is right there with you going along the way.  Indeed HE is very aware of all your deeds.  Before you open your mouth, HE already knows what you are going to say. All the while HE places a hedge of protection around you. ( I personally like to think of it as a hedge, bubble and shield of protection and prosperity.) YUP! It sounds just too good to be true... but it "ain't."  This is true intimacy. Bas

I don't know about you, but I have been to a counselor more than a few times.  Probably needed to go more.  Sometimes, however, the cost for seeing one of these folks is REALLY expensive.  Sometimes the sessions seemed to make a positive difference. Sometimes  the sessions made very little difference. Over all I do recommend this... just have someone listen. If you accomplish nothing else, sometimes it really helps to get stuff "off your chest."   On the flip side of this, I have served as a counselor.  Never charged anything. Yet what amazed me, so very much, is how the LORD, in spite of my skills... not because of them... seemed to work miracles right before my very eyes.  I see people today who are changed in positive ways that I could only imagine.   Now...there is one Counselor I visit ever single day.  And He makes an unbelievable difference in my life, as I each day spend about 2 hours or more with Him.  Now you might say, "Wow! doesn't that get