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awakening // Monday E-Devotion

Back in the land of reality. A week at the beach and a week on mission have left me thirsty for reality and overflowing with some sweet time with Jesus, family and others. Thanks for your patience and continued partnership as we walk with Jesus.

I have found God speaking in almost every place I was the last 17 days. First at the beach in the calm and in the eyes of my children. Next (and at many other times) on the banks of the New River in West Virginia. As the new sermon series DNA comes together, God speaks about the basis and foundation of what we believe. The simplicity of faith and relationship with Him.

Around the corner I would a person who was need of a kind word or prayer and even a great deal of people who are in love with Jesus. Pretty awesome.

The fact is that I have been looking, searching and digging into those realities. Where God spoke, it was awesome and eye opening. When God guided in a fresh way, it was sweet in so many ways.

The song "Awakening" from the band Switchfoot has a great message for where I have been in the last two weeks. It talks about being in a dream world with no where to go until the dreams started to have meaning with great ambition. Literally it was an awakening. My prayer is for the people around me, especially lost people, to find an awakening toward and from God.

Life without God is desperate and meaningless. Life with God is full of meaning and full of purpose. I am excited about my direction and the direction of The Community Fellowship . How about you?

Paul got it right when he said this...

Philippians 3:10 (hcsb) --- My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

Join me on a journey in the next few weeks looking at the DNA of what it is to know Jesus.

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