Seriously though, at Calvary, we are in the middle of a sermon series called, "I love the 80's". It is based on the Psalms in the 80's. I guess it's the number that has stuck with me today cause I don't remember much of the sermon series. It's not that Stac is boring or anything, it's just that I have been checking out the Phyrst Church lately.
Jeremiah Kingshipp came up with the idea to have church in a Irish bar called the Phyrst while the bar is open for patronage. What an awesome thing! I remember leading worship there for the first time thinking, "I could go get a beer during the message if I wanted to!" I still haven't been able to shake that one.
My point is, last week Jeremiah talked about excess. Boy was I convicted! My excess is shoes. I have so many pairs of shoes it makes most women balk. I felt God telling me that I needed to give them away. For the first time, in a long time, I chose to listen to Him. I packed them up and gave them away.
We have a mission trip leaving tomorrow for Rwanda. Without going into too much detail, I approached the owner of Rapid Transit Sports last week about donating shoes to this trip. This wonderful man agreed to do so simply asking how many we could take. I made some phone calls to my 3 foot tall Egyptian friend (36 to be exact! I couldn't get a hold of her but needed an answer.) When Lo called me back, after much delay (prolly cause I was a goof ball in calling her so often), we decided we would shoot for 6 per person. We have a 12 person team. Thats 72 pairs of shoes! By the grace of God we were told yes, we could have that many.
I went this morning to pick up the shoes. Man was it early too! We filled 6 boxes as Terry (the owner of Rapid Transit) asked me how many we had packed. I counted and we had 80 pairs of brand new, top of the line, running shoes. We were given all sizes ranging from women's 6 to men's 12.
It thought about the number for a minute and said to myself, "I love the 80's!" As I think about it now I feel a gentle nudge from my Savior telling me, "See what I can do when you trust Me and listen?"
I have to be honest, I haven't done much of that lately. My life in the past year or so has been marred with stupidity, not trusting Him in many ways. It's been only recently where I have stepped out in faith and started to trust Him. I'm glad I did. Once again, He proves to be faithful to one such as me.
Much luv ya'll,
Rando
Jeremiah Kingshipp came up with the idea to have church in a Irish bar called the Phyrst while the bar is open for patronage. What an awesome thing! I remember leading worship there for the first time thinking, "I could go get a beer during the message if I wanted to!" I still haven't been able to shake that one.
My point is, last week Jeremiah talked about excess. Boy was I convicted! My excess is shoes. I have so many pairs of shoes it makes most women balk. I felt God telling me that I needed to give them away. For the first time, in a long time, I chose to listen to Him. I packed them up and gave them away.
We have a mission trip leaving tomorrow for Rwanda. Without going into too much detail, I approached the owner of Rapid Transit Sports last week about donating shoes to this trip. This wonderful man agreed to do so simply asking how many we could take. I made some phone calls to my 3 foot tall Egyptian friend (36 to be exact! I couldn't get a hold of her but needed an answer.) When Lo called me back, after much delay (prolly cause I was a goof ball in calling her so often), we decided we would shoot for 6 per person. We have a 12 person team. Thats 72 pairs of shoes! By the grace of God we were told yes, we could have that many.
I went this morning to pick up the shoes. Man was it early too! We filled 6 boxes as Terry (the owner of Rapid Transit) asked me how many we had packed. I counted and we had 80 pairs of brand new, top of the line, running shoes. We were given all sizes ranging from women's 6 to men's 12.
It thought about the number for a minute and said to myself, "I love the 80's!" As I think about it now I feel a gentle nudge from my Savior telling me, "See what I can do when you trust Me and listen?"
I have to be honest, I haven't done much of that lately. My life in the past year or so has been marred with stupidity, not trusting Him in many ways. It's been only recently where I have stepped out in faith and started to trust Him. I'm glad I did. Once again, He proves to be faithful to one such as me.
Much luv ya'll,
Rando
