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Are you up for the Challenge?
How many times as you walk with God do you miss the mark? You just realize that the situation you have just entered or experience is stretching beyond the knowledge and wisdom you have learned. That is a time, for me ,that have always put me in depression. I want to specify I don’t stay there always God is good. I just want ppl to relate with me because a lot of ppl go thru this. I know some ppl just rise to a new situation like a bull running at a matador, but I know that a lot of ppl tend to curl up in a bowl some literally and some spiritually…
I remember I was doing the sound board for our church’s annual convention…. I had just started learning audio a few months before and was still getting used to how to adapt the eq and other things to balance the sound and of course to avoid the sound man’s greatest enemy FEEDBACK!!!! We had had many extra services and for the most part I was getting through each speaker and singer we had. I was sweating bullets most of the time, but kept doing what I could to make it work.. Then Sunday morning came, we got thru the worship service and up comes this wonderful man from our church and acknowledges the work I had done, he understood what I was going thru and really wanted me to know that it was appreciated and of course the whole place gave me a round of applause. Well, that was nice and wonderful to be appreciated, but I like doing things that put me far away from the line of site i.e. back grounds, so I struggled with it. Then the pastor asked a man to come up and bless us with a song ….. He starts singing away and then it happened… FEEDBACK,,,, oh no … why now?? How embarrassing!!!!! I did what I could … I did notice what was going on and from all I knew about the sound board I couldn’t fix it like I wanted to I got rid of the feedback but lower the volume but that was only a band aide…. The problem was out of my control… I could explain what actually happened but I don’t feel that is the key here…. I was embarrassed big time. I basically hid almost under the sound board as soon as the speaker started… I started to whine to God I didn’t deserve any acknowledgement see how poor I am at running this… why did my trainer have to be away at this time period??/ poor me I am so bad….. Then God spoke it “ARE YOU UP FOR THE CHALLENGE?” I really had a change of heart… yeah it happened but I did find a way around it … and I will tell you as god ministered to my heart in that one short questions I did feel better I wasn’t on cloud nine but I was sure not under the sound board hiding . I remember a pastor that was there for the conference come back and he was really wonderful he didn’t bring it just talked to me I really didn’t need to be built up, but it was just more support. He talked about different things his church was doing and a new device he had found about about to aid in feedback (wow a new toy me gotta check that out!!!)
You see lots of ppl will tell you knowledge only puffs up… yes knowledge alone will only puff up yourself, but it is the first step in having wisdom… I know that reading your bible some days will seem like a trivial time (and at times for trivia contests), but what we input in our selves (and spirit) I fully believe God will be able to work into wisdom. I really believe wisdom is knowledge is put in to use… so many college students I have worked with just feel I got the information I know it all!!! Well you need some experience there guy/gal…. and of course they learn it!!!
I wonder so many times now how often god whispers that in our spirit. I can see Jesus reaching for Peter’s hand as he started to sink “are you up for the challenge?” peter did have enough faith to get out of the boat!!! And to me he did sink but I believe that he did learn from this and listened closer to Jesus more from then on… Peter knew that Jesus had lots to give and I know that deposit was turned into hands on aid at many times in his walk when Jesus and gone to be with the father….
Take David…. Well I know that you are thinking when he went to face Goliath that god was telling him are you up for the challenge… I don’t think so if at all he was telling the soldiers that before David got on the scene….. Because when David came he was like this is what is standing in our way a dirty philistine?? Didn’t god say when we are faithful to him and keep him as our focus?? We don’t have to worry!!!! I keep wondering how David felt after he had Bathsheba’s husband killed in battle to try and cover up his own sin…. Are you for the challenge? David was a man after the heart of god you can sure see that in his psalm and when David would realize his sin he would goto god and say I have sin against you alone… he didn’t do the blame game….. What a standard to live by???
Are you up for the challenge? How in your own life has god used a time to stretch you beyond your own ability or even worse your own comfort zone??? I don’t like getting out of my own comfort zone…. I don’t easily make friends. I really don’t know how to make friends… I know that my past is in the past and it does not shape my future. But for me I didn’t realize how important friends are.. Now let me state this there is a huge difference between friends and acquaintances!!! And an acquaintance will not be allowed in to see the true self… and a friend is one that you will have the most huge blowout with and have such a hurt in side that you cant let it go till you work it back out… now for me I prob can count on my one hand ppl I would consider a friend….. part of that is my social inadequacy, but for the most part I tend t hide behind my humour, believe it or not ol’ jb is quite a mellow person, oh yeah I love to see a person laugh for all intensive purposes that is a cover… I want ppl to laugh with me before that have a chance to laugh at me. And I know that god has used my ability to make ppl laugh to help a person in a difficult situation… you see for me I have struggled with face to face times. That is why I am so thankful for the internet we can talk and share and laugh and have food fights (that someone else gets to clean up) and build a stronger body of Christ..
Why am I saying this? I am not expose myself I am sure there are many that can relate to this … how you are struggling with your own past and not really allowing god to guide your destiny letting him stretch you and challenge you with his hand reaching out when you sink and pulling up !!!God is good!!! I really want ppl to understand that he wants us to move past our present situation and unlike the ppl that will tell a depressed person to just “get happy” god knows how to minister to your very root of that issue or even the chemical imbalance that causes it (yes I believe it is not always a person choice to be depressed, there are situations that can cause depression to be out of your own hands) God can work out any thing that can hold you back. He does send challenges our way to build us stronger more valuable to him and His work but for our own personal grown in life….
I cannot say that for everyone that when you understand that when situation move beyond our control hearing the words are you up for the challenge will pull you out of the pit, but I do feel that you need to understand that god hasn’t left you he isn’t standing back and watching to see if you are going to pass or fail. He is right there!!! He is wanting to you to search out problems and get answers…. Remember god has poured out his wisdom all over the earth and many books and you will find it in magazines or books or internet or any place that can be seen!!!! God has put everyone in to places that you need to learn things and you will always need to learn.. I am talking more than just the bible… I remember a previous sound person telling me you need to study hard on what you using for ministry….. At the time I was doing the technical end of a TV ministry so I would get magazines and read up on things and I did prepare myself found out some new devices, learned about how to improve the quality show with different techniques. What ever ministry we are doing whether it speaking from the pulpit or sweeping the floor ( all are so important to God), what we need to find out different things that will increase our ability to perform this ministry. Don’t be afraid to study!!!!
I think one important key to getting through the challengers that arrive in our walk is those around us!!! So many times we get tunnel vision that truly impedes our progress. I do understand that god wants us to build a stronger body as friends but also as mentors and anyone can mentor the baby Christian to the maturist one around. I know that when you do hit a brick wall that God can take them down with the sound of a trumpet like in jerico.. and that sounds can be a friends voice that will show you something you never thought of or never knew. Wow what great gifts friends can be!!! And just how important it is to talk to them we aren’t left out a lone god can deal with any thing but he has so many servants that do help him out and it is such a blessing to help and to be helped!!!
I just so want ppl to know that the challengers in our life are always the winds of change occurring, and that is a good thing> God moving in any way is wonderful but the devil don’t like our growing he will try to lie to us we always need to stand firm and be prepared and of course grab hold of the word the lord and our friends!!!!! God is awesified.
When the storms blow in your life
And you are arguing with your wife
Does your bills keep a growing
While your heart aint a glowing
When your job goes south
And praise is gone from your mouth
Does it seem there are all around
But you just want to hit the ground
There is a light ahead for us to see
There is a heart that wants us to be
Are you up for the challenge?
Will you grow in his wisdom?
Is your knowledge seem small
Are you building up a wall
Does the words of life seem stale
And you just want to run and fail
There is a light ahead for us to see
There is a heart that wants us to be
Are you up for the challenge?
Let us go and seek his face!!!!
You ready to let your flesh go??
And let the love of god just Grow
The thing that was holding us back
Becomes a victory not a lack!!!
Friends that stand with your forever
Can be so wonderful and so clever
For forward with the family in hand
So we can take the promise land!!!!!
There is a light ahead for us to see
There is a ehart that wants us to be
Are you up for the challenge?
Let’s run to the next challenge!!
How many times as you walk with God do you miss the mark? You just realize that the situation you have just entered or experience is stretching beyond the knowledge and wisdom you have learned. That is a time, for me ,that have always put me in depression. I want to specify I don’t stay there always God is good. I just want ppl to relate with me because a lot of ppl go thru this. I know some ppl just rise to a new situation like a bull running at a matador, but I know that a lot of ppl tend to curl up in a bowl some literally and some spiritually…
I remember I was doing the sound board for our church’s annual convention…. I had just started learning audio a few months before and was still getting used to how to adapt the eq and other things to balance the sound and of course to avoid the sound man’s greatest enemy FEEDBACK!!!! We had had many extra services and for the most part I was getting through each speaker and singer we had. I was sweating bullets most of the time, but kept doing what I could to make it work.. Then Sunday morning came, we got thru the worship service and up comes this wonderful man from our church and acknowledges the work I had done, he understood what I was going thru and really wanted me to know that it was appreciated and of course the whole place gave me a round of applause. Well, that was nice and wonderful to be appreciated, but I like doing things that put me far away from the line of site i.e. back grounds, so I struggled with it. Then the pastor asked a man to come up and bless us with a song ….. He starts singing away and then it happened… FEEDBACK,,,, oh no … why now?? How embarrassing!!!!! I did what I could … I did notice what was going on and from all I knew about the sound board I couldn’t fix it like I wanted to I got rid of the feedback but lower the volume but that was only a band aide…. The problem was out of my control… I could explain what actually happened but I don’t feel that is the key here…. I was embarrassed big time. I basically hid almost under the sound board as soon as the speaker started… I started to whine to God I didn’t deserve any acknowledgement see how poor I am at running this… why did my trainer have to be away at this time period??/ poor me I am so bad….. Then God spoke it “ARE YOU UP FOR THE CHALLENGE?” I really had a change of heart… yeah it happened but I did find a way around it … and I will tell you as god ministered to my heart in that one short questions I did feel better I wasn’t on cloud nine but I was sure not under the sound board hiding . I remember a pastor that was there for the conference come back and he was really wonderful he didn’t bring it just talked to me I really didn’t need to be built up, but it was just more support. He talked about different things his church was doing and a new device he had found about about to aid in feedback (wow a new toy me gotta check that out!!!)
You see lots of ppl will tell you knowledge only puffs up… yes knowledge alone will only puff up yourself, but it is the first step in having wisdom… I know that reading your bible some days will seem like a trivial time (and at times for trivia contests), but what we input in our selves (and spirit) I fully believe God will be able to work into wisdom. I really believe wisdom is knowledge is put in to use… so many college students I have worked with just feel I got the information I know it all!!! Well you need some experience there guy/gal…. and of course they learn it!!!
I wonder so many times now how often god whispers that in our spirit. I can see Jesus reaching for Peter’s hand as he started to sink “are you up for the challenge?” peter did have enough faith to get out of the boat!!! And to me he did sink but I believe that he did learn from this and listened closer to Jesus more from then on… Peter knew that Jesus had lots to give and I know that deposit was turned into hands on aid at many times in his walk when Jesus and gone to be with the father….
Take David…. Well I know that you are thinking when he went to face Goliath that god was telling him are you up for the challenge… I don’t think so if at all he was telling the soldiers that before David got on the scene….. Because when David came he was like this is what is standing in our way a dirty philistine?? Didn’t god say when we are faithful to him and keep him as our focus?? We don’t have to worry!!!! I keep wondering how David felt after he had Bathsheba’s husband killed in battle to try and cover up his own sin…. Are you for the challenge? David was a man after the heart of god you can sure see that in his psalm and when David would realize his sin he would goto god and say I have sin against you alone… he didn’t do the blame game….. What a standard to live by???
Are you up for the challenge? How in your own life has god used a time to stretch you beyond your own ability or even worse your own comfort zone??? I don’t like getting out of my own comfort zone…. I don’t easily make friends. I really don’t know how to make friends… I know that my past is in the past and it does not shape my future. But for me I didn’t realize how important friends are.. Now let me state this there is a huge difference between friends and acquaintances!!! And an acquaintance will not be allowed in to see the true self… and a friend is one that you will have the most huge blowout with and have such a hurt in side that you cant let it go till you work it back out… now for me I prob can count on my one hand ppl I would consider a friend….. part of that is my social inadequacy, but for the most part I tend t hide behind my humour, believe it or not ol’ jb is quite a mellow person, oh yeah I love to see a person laugh for all intensive purposes that is a cover… I want ppl to laugh with me before that have a chance to laugh at me. And I know that god has used my ability to make ppl laugh to help a person in a difficult situation… you see for me I have struggled with face to face times. That is why I am so thankful for the internet we can talk and share and laugh and have food fights (that someone else gets to clean up) and build a stronger body of Christ..
Why am I saying this? I am not expose myself I am sure there are many that can relate to this … how you are struggling with your own past and not really allowing god to guide your destiny letting him stretch you and challenge you with his hand reaching out when you sink and pulling up !!!God is good!!! I really want ppl to understand that he wants us to move past our present situation and unlike the ppl that will tell a depressed person to just “get happy” god knows how to minister to your very root of that issue or even the chemical imbalance that causes it (yes I believe it is not always a person choice to be depressed, there are situations that can cause depression to be out of your own hands) God can work out any thing that can hold you back. He does send challenges our way to build us stronger more valuable to him and His work but for our own personal grown in life….
I cannot say that for everyone that when you understand that when situation move beyond our control hearing the words are you up for the challenge will pull you out of the pit, but I do feel that you need to understand that god hasn’t left you he isn’t standing back and watching to see if you are going to pass or fail. He is right there!!! He is wanting to you to search out problems and get answers…. Remember god has poured out his wisdom all over the earth and many books and you will find it in magazines or books or internet or any place that can be seen!!!! God has put everyone in to places that you need to learn things and you will always need to learn.. I am talking more than just the bible… I remember a previous sound person telling me you need to study hard on what you using for ministry….. At the time I was doing the technical end of a TV ministry so I would get magazines and read up on things and I did prepare myself found out some new devices, learned about how to improve the quality show with different techniques. What ever ministry we are doing whether it speaking from the pulpit or sweeping the floor ( all are so important to God), what we need to find out different things that will increase our ability to perform this ministry. Don’t be afraid to study!!!!
I think one important key to getting through the challengers that arrive in our walk is those around us!!! So many times we get tunnel vision that truly impedes our progress. I do understand that god wants us to build a stronger body as friends but also as mentors and anyone can mentor the baby Christian to the maturist one around. I know that when you do hit a brick wall that God can take them down with the sound of a trumpet like in jerico.. and that sounds can be a friends voice that will show you something you never thought of or never knew. Wow what great gifts friends can be!!! And just how important it is to talk to them we aren’t left out a lone god can deal with any thing but he has so many servants that do help him out and it is such a blessing to help and to be helped!!!
I just so want ppl to know that the challengers in our life are always the winds of change occurring, and that is a good thing> God moving in any way is wonderful but the devil don’t like our growing he will try to lie to us we always need to stand firm and be prepared and of course grab hold of the word the lord and our friends!!!!! God is awesified.
When the storms blow in your life
And you are arguing with your wife
Does your bills keep a growing
While your heart aint a glowing
When your job goes south
And praise is gone from your mouth
Does it seem there are all around
But you just want to hit the ground
There is a light ahead for us to see
There is a heart that wants us to be
Are you up for the challenge?
Will you grow in his wisdom?
Is your knowledge seem small
Are you building up a wall
Does the words of life seem stale
And you just want to run and fail
There is a light ahead for us to see
There is a heart that wants us to be
Are you up for the challenge?
Let us go and seek his face!!!!
You ready to let your flesh go??
And let the love of god just Grow
The thing that was holding us back
Becomes a victory not a lack!!!
Friends that stand with your forever
Can be so wonderful and so clever
For forward with the family in hand
So we can take the promise land!!!!!
There is a light ahead for us to see
There is a ehart that wants us to be
Are you up for the challenge?
Let’s run to the next challenge!!