Is anybody out there

I sometimes wonder what blogs are for and if people ever read them. Once this, as a brother puts it, flesh moment enters me I realize that my Father reads every blog and knows what is always on my heart.

I am so humbled every day by the thought and feeling that I have for my Father. I know that He walks with me every day on this journey and has opened doors that I never thought would open and has closed doors that I dare not enter. It is those doors that are cracked along the way though that give me the greatest trouble. I know that some of the doors are put there by the evil spirit to entice me to walk the wrong path. Unfortunately, the evil spirit doors are the ones that are cracked and allow us to see enticing moments.

I read a friends email today again after almost 2 weeks and felt like it was the first time that I read it. My heart just opened up to this brother and sister, and at that moment I prayed for them again.

I go through every day reading emails and posts on Facebook to see people rejoicing and struggling and I do not stop to think that these people need help and they need the guidance that is available to all of us. Just because one prayer is answered does not mean that all prayers are answered. We have so many ways to communicate our feelings to one another today, but do we stop and think about what these people are asking. There are so many unbelievers in our circle of friends that I want to reach out to, but at the same time I never pray for them. I have friends that will post one word messages on Facebook, I get emails and phone calls from customers that will pour their hearts out to me and I listen to them, but I don't hear them. I pray that I will make more of an effort to pray for these people to come to Christ like I have so that they can have the same comforts that I have every day. I do not have comfort 24/7 because I do see those cracked doors but I am so thankful that I can reach out to my Father and my brothers and sisters to help me walk the right path.

I want to challenge everyone to reach out to those around you by any means that your feel comfortable. Whether your conversations are in person, phone, email, text, chat, Facebook, or prayer, reach out and reach out as our Father reaches out to you with every step that you take.

In the words of Toby Mac and DC Talk

What will people think
When they hear that I'm a Jesus freak
What will people do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they label me a Jesus freak
There ain't no disguising the truth

Ephesians 2

Made Alive in Christ

 ¹ As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, ² in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. ³ All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. ⁴ But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵ made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. ⁶ And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹ not by works, so that no one can boast. ¹⁰ For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Jew and Gentile Reconciled Through Christ

 ¹¹ Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— ¹² remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

 ¹⁴ For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, ¹⁵ by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, ¹⁶ and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. ¹⁷ He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. ¹⁸ For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

 ¹⁹ Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, ²⁰ built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. ²¹ In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. ²² And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.