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31
Dec
2007
A New Dawn awaits us!
The 31st of December 2007 is upon us, another year has flown by, a year full of trials and success’s, for some it has had mountain top experiences and for many others its been probably the worst year of their lives, but at the end of this year I’m sitting looking out my back window asking myself what has changed for me? What has been positive for me in 2007? What things do I want to leave behind and what do I want to build on in 2008? I get quite emotional around new years, for me it feels like I’m leaving parts of me behind, and taking risks going into the future.
2008 has a major change for my little family with the expected arrival in early February of our third child, we’ve had the name books out over the last number of days drawing up possible names for a boy or a girl. (why we do this I don’t know, We’ve yet to use a name found on any baby names list we draw up)
Looking into a new year brings many challenges, ambitions, hopes and plans but the one thing I need to invest more time & energy in, is the voice and word of God, For me 2007 seems to have had ‘excuses’ written over everything, sometimes its to easy to use situations your in to try to escape doing what you know deep inside needs to be done. I’m not going to highlight my planned changes but the only advice i will leave you, ‘write stuff that is possible and do it in small steps not in giant leaps’.
Great Years are made up of a collection of Great Days, So lets face one day at a time and put all our energy into making this the best year yet!
May I take this opportunity to wish everyone that ever stops by on this blog a God Filled Year in 2008 in your Health, Family, Career, Relationships and everything you turn your hand to.
May this be your Greatest Year Yet.
God Bless
Phil Stone
17
Dec
2007
God Created the World
Jeremiah 51v15
“He made the earth by His Power
He Founded the World by His Wisdom
and stretched out the heavens by His Understanding”
Just loved this verse when I read it this morning …
Be Blessed and Inspired by Gods Word!
3
Dec
2007
What are we training for? PT2
Yesterday in Church we looked at the idea of becoming a Contagious Church/Contagious Christian, We discovered How we are responsible to make God unavoidable to every human inhabiting this earth – what a challenge! The Christian life seems to have become for me anyway a constant struggle/battle/challenge (a bit of all 3) to improve my standards, actions and everything about me, This Training programs just seems to never end.
Every time I look in the mirror I see many imperfections, So trying to understand that God sees deeper than that, that He sees a deep beauty inside me sometimes can cause me t0 get totally lost in trying to understand God. The Facts are that His Love towards me is just unexplainable, unquantifiable and unending. Unfortunately though I see a parallel at times with Gods Love and my sin, and i hate it! I hate this constant struggle to die to self, its so hard at times, Satan has glamorised Sin, often I think it’s a little easier for those in poor countries were materialism is not a problem. But then I can’t even imagine how I could cope not knowing were my next meal would come from.
We only get to do this life once, Everyday now I’m asking questions now like…
- What do I want to do in life that will Last when I’m gone?
- How do I want my kids and friends to remember me?
- Who have i offended in the past that I need to apologise to?
- Am I fulfilling my role as a Husband, Father & Employee?
God is in the business of making us clean vessels, the problem is we keep tripping in the mud, Today I urge you and I to…
1.Identify the ‘stuff” you do that you don’t like
2.Get away from the ‘stuff’ that keeps tripping us up
3.Rely and Depend more on God, Get Deeper with God!
4.Ask for Help, we all try to hard to do life alone!
Lets run and finish this race together for Gods Glory!
