Praise Him. Anytime, Anywhere!

 Do you know that you can praise Jesus, anytime, anywhere. You don't have to wait till church on Sunday or Wednesday. Special function or conference. You can do it right where you are at. 

Do you think that Daniel waited when God shut the lions mouths when he was in their den? 

Did David wait when the stone he hurled at Goliath hit him in the exact right place to kill him? 

I hardly doubt it.

I'm sure that they gave thanks and praise immediately. 

Psalm 146:1-2 New Living Translation

1 Praise the Lord! Let all that I am praise the Lord. 2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.

I praise God from the moment I wake up, until I go to bed. The good and the bad. I praise Him for waking me up another day. A warm house to live in (especially the last couple of days). Food to eat, car to drive and a job to go to. A beautiful wife and daughter. An amazing family to do life with.

I praise Him when things go wrong as well. Had a long difficult day at work. Nothing seemed to go right, but, it could have been worse. If not for Jesus. The car accident I was involved in earlier in the year. I praised Him that it wasn't worse. No one was hurt. Just the vehicles. When I lost my job a few years ago. I praised Him, for I knew that He had a better plan for me.

If you were given a promotion or a raise at work. Praise Him! Your on top of the world, praise Him!

You lost your job. Having money or relationship problems, praise Him! If you are in the valley, praise Him.

He is worthy of every and all praise.

Revelation 4:11 New Living Translation

11 “You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things, and they exist because you created what you pleased.”

So I encourage you tonight. No matter what season or station of life you find yourself, praise Him. Anywhere, anytime! He is worthy!

God bless.

Rev. Kev.

Leaves!

It's that time of year again. Where you drive around and marvel at the tree leaves changing color. From green to red to orange to yellow. The colors are magnificent! I've been doing a lot of driving around our area the last couple of weeks. The trees are just beautiful.

Looking at the leaves changing got me to thinking about us (people). How when we accept Jesus, He begins to change us. At first we are like the trees in the winter, dull and dark. Then when we accept Jesus He starts to change us. We start to bud and produce some color. Then as He continues to work on us and through us, we change again. Into the beautiful fall colors. Full of splendor and life. We were one way and now we are another.

Isn't that just like God? He never leaves us where we were. He keeps working on us. Shaping us, molding us to be more like Him.

Colossians 3:10 Living Bible

10 You are living a brand new kind of life that is continually learning more and more of what is right, and trying constantly to be more and more like Christ who created this new life within you.

We were dark and lifeless in the winter. Jesus comes into our lives. We start showing life. New things start to happen. New life. As we grow and blossom during that season, He keeps on working on us. Just like the tree keeps moving through it's seasons, so do we. Until we produce beautiful leaves.

Then when the leaves start to fall to the ground, it reminds me of how God chips away at us and has all the unnecessary baggage that we carry, fall to the ground. He wants to lighten our loads. Not to carry more than we can handle. He wants us to leave everything with Him.

Psalm 55:22 New Living Translation

22 Give your burdens to the Lord, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall.

So give everything to The Lord. Every worry & burden. He will take care of you. He wants you to shine just like the leaves in the fall. He wants our lives to be full and vibrant.

Let go and let God!

God bless.

Rev. Kev.

This Woman!!

This woman. My amazingly gorgeous, talented, awesome wife! I can not tell you how proud of her I am. She has been involved with our local community theater (Stage Coach Players) for the last seven years or so. She decided to audition for a role in a play and got it. She loved the experience and continued to audition for other roles. When she wasn't chosen for a certain role, or there wasn't a play that she was interested in auditioning for, she still wanted to be involved somehow. This lead her to learn how to do lighting. She would help out whenever she could and then eventually became a lighting designer herself. After her first designed lighted play, she was highly sought after. She loved doing that role, but she also wanted to be on the stage. So she had to make choices of which play she would audition for, or do the lighting for. She was being pulled in both directions. People wanted her in their play and directors wanted her to do their lights.

After a few years of this, she was asked to become a board member. She accepted and has been the recording secretary for the last two years. 

So after all of this comes the big deal. 

She is directing her first play at the  theater. 

She is directing  'The Night Witches'. That's a pic of her with her first promotional poster at the theater. Look at that smile!

She has been in rehearsal now for the last few weeks. They open in two weeks, (Oct. 19). I'm telling you this because she is doing all of this while working a full time job! She has been given more responsibilities at work and her work schedule is not easy, to say the least!

Proverbs 31:25-27 Living Bible

25 She is a woman of strength and dignity and has no fear of old age. 26 When she speaks, her words are wise, and kindness is the rule for everything she says. 27 She watches carefully all that goes on throughout her household and is never lazy.

This is my wife in a nutshell. Trying to make sure our family is taken care. Caring for others, working full time and trying to fit in something that she loves, community theater. I don't know how she does it, or where her energy comes from.

God could not have provided a better life partner for me, than her!

Proverbs 31:10-12 Living Bible

10 If you can find a truly good wife, she is worth more than precious gems! 11 Her husband can trust her, and she will richly satisfy his needs. 12 She will not hinder him but help him all her life.

May God bless all you gentleman with a wife as awesome as mine!

God Bless!

Rev. Kev.