This is my life. This is what God taught me. Counseling from God’s Word

S Dr. John Street came to speak at Birchman Baptist Church today on families.  Even though I am  single and do not have any children I still think the conference was really beneficial to me and I  learned a lot.  The conference talked a lot about how to be a godly parent and how to raise godly children.  We need to raise our children in the wisdom of the Lord and we need to teach them how to fear God and not people.  One thing he said was that when a person fears the Lord more than anything else then they love Him more than anything else.  They are more concerned with rather or not God approves of their life than anything else.      He also talked about how we need to love others as much as we love ourselves. People say we need to love ourself more but truth is we already love ourselves.   “for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also  does  the ...

y’all I know I’m almost to the completion of my seminary career but sometimes I get tired.  Sometimes I think the closer I get to finishing and the closer I get to God using me and what He’s taught me in my degree the more the enemy just wants to discourage me and put thoughts in my head to mess me up.  I don’t know if you’ve been there before or if that’s happened to you but if it has I’m praying for you. “Be of sober  spirit ,  be on the alert. Your adversary,  the devil, prowls around like a roaring  lion, seeking someone to devour.”  1 Peter 5:8 “12  Not that I have already  obtained  it  or have already  become perfect, but I press on  [ a ] so that I may  lay hold of that  [ b ] for which also I  was laid hold of by  Christ Jesus.   13  Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of  it  yet; but one thing  I do :  forgetting what  lies  behind ...

Sometimes I think about the past and think I wish I could go back to this time or I wish I could go back to this day.  Sometimes I think what would have happened if had made this decision as opposed to another decision.  What would have happened if I would have stayed in the place I was at or in instead of moving forward and going somewhere else.  Why didn’t I see what I had when I had it and how good it was? But truth is we cannot go back and even if we could it would most likely never be the same.  Things are always changing and people are always changing.  You are never the same person that you were in the past.  You are hopefully becoming a better person and becoming more like Christ.  We are in this moment for a reason.  I went to a cooking class and question and answer session at the Horner house tonight and somebody asked if there was the one guy for you and what happened if you didn’t get the one or if he chose the wrong one.  Dr....

Y’all I admit it’s been way too long since I shared the gospel and today I don’t know if it would really count as a gospel conversation.  I was able to go out with other people and share the gospel with this young boy and I talked to him about Jesus and how He can forgive his sins so I think it counts.  Y’all today was amazing.  Going out and sharing the gospel sometimes requires us to go outside of our comfort zone.  Or we might have something else we need to do or think we need to do. Y’all today was freezing outside, like really freezing....like my nose felt like it was numb and I could barely move my hands.  I had stuff I could have done for school but y’all if I would have not gone because it was too cold or I had stuff I could have done I would have missed the joy and blessing of sharing the gospel and of getting outside of myself. Y’all I saw him and I knew God wantedus to talk to him.  If I hadn’t have listened to that I would have missed out on the...

y’a’ve been feeling really depressed lately, especially during the break, but I was talking to Dr. Catanzaro today and he reminded me that Paul wasn’t concerned with whether or not he was happy or sad but just that he was being obedient to God. Y’all that made me think.  Instead of thinking about how I feel all the time and focusing on self I should be focusing on obeying Christ and whether or not my life brings glory to God.   Y’all it’s easy to worry about the future and where we will be or what we will be doing in the future.  When you graduate from college or seminary people expect you to have a job.  We can’t worry about what other people think.  Dr. Catanzaro deminddd me that maybe it doesn’t necessarily matter what you are going to do in the future.  Maybe all that matters is that you are obedient and following Christ in this moment.  If we wake up every day asking ourselves how we can please God today then we will be doing good.  Nobody kn...