Why don’t we ask God for more? Why do we give up on our prayers? Is it because we doubt Him?
You see as much as we try and make faith an action that we take, it has it’s root in the confidence that God has already or will act on our behalf. Faith at it’s core is believing God. Faith is taking God at His Word. Faith is trusting God.
We can try and make faith about us, but it really isn’t. Faith is not something you conger up. You don’t psych yourself out about faith. You see if you have faith or not, God is still God. If you have faith or not, God is still good. If you have faith or not, God has acted on our behalf in Jesus Christ. If you have faith or not, God will bring all things to a conclusion in Jesus Christ.
So our faith, or should I say lack there of, doesn’t really have a bearing on the matter. What does matter is that God has acted. God has moved. God is good. God is just. Our right response to who God is and what he has done is called faith.
So when we pray, we should have faith that God will do whatever He said He will do. (And we should also be careful not to put words in His mouth.) So if we know about injustice in the world and we know that God hates all injustice, then we should pray that He will bring justice to the world and we should pray knowing that God will bring justice to the world. We should also note that when His justice comes it may look different than what I might have pictured in my head. You see God is God and by definition He doesn’t seek my approval on anything.
Father,
I ask that today I would simply trust you. Where I am weak I ask that you would increase my faith. Renew my mind and transform the way I think. I want all my confidence in you and not in my own flesh.
Game Plan for Life by Joe Gibbs is a fantastic book! Joe Gibbs is a 3-time Super Bowl Champion, 3-time NASCAR Champion, and a man’s man in the sports world. I was greatly encouraged and motivated reading this book. (To be honest I thought it was going to be another corny sports book, but was greatly impressed at how Joe and his team use sports to illustrate God’s game plan for life.)
Joe writes a few chapters of autobiography and then introduces a team of all-stars in their fields of expertise who take on the tough questions that men are facing. Joe writes a brief intro to each chapter explaining his own struggles and triumphs in a given area and then turns the chapter over to the expert. The chapters cover topics such as: Finances, Health, Relationships, Vocation, The Bible, Creation, God, Sin and Addiction, Salvation, Purpose, and Heaven.
I found the book to be very genuine and very encouraging. I think it would be especially helpful to men who have questions in these areas of life or for a believer to share with those who have questions about Christianity or how the Christian life works out practically.
Overall I really enjoyed reading this book and would highly recommend it for men who are looking for practical answers to some of life’s questions. The retail price of Game Plan for Life is $14.99 (Paperback), and is available around the web in places like Amazon.com for $10.19. I gave it five stars.
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Sometimes we are all about the recognition. Sometimes we just want people to say our name. To see that we have been holy. To see that we have spoken truth. To see that we have studied and put in a great many hours of preparation so that they could feast at the table of God’s Word. Sometimes we want to be recognized.
Sometimes we just want people to feel inferior. Sometimes we hold grudges. Sometimes we believe we have a right not to offer forgiveness. Sometimes we think we deserve a reward when we do forgive. Sometimes we think its an option. Sometimes we forget that the master told us to forgive. You see it’s his forgiveness that we offer our brother. When we find our selves able to forgive, we shouldn’t think that it was anything extrodinary. Forgiveness is a way of life for those who follow Jesus.
Do you forget who you are sometimes? Do you forget that you were bought with a price? That you were transformed out of the kingdom of darkness and into the light? That you have been called out, set apart, chosen? Do you forget that you are to be holy even as He is holy? Do you forget who you belong to now? Do you forget how He has seen past your sin and forgiven you in Christ? Do you forget?
Don’t be proud today. Be humble. When given the praise for what God has done in your life be sure to point to Him and say, “I have only done what was my duty.” You see, in Heaven there will be no shrine set apart for you. It’s not about you. It’s all about Him.
Father,
I want to do only what you have called me to today. I ask that I would walk with you with a joyful heart and a cheerful spirit. I realize now that I can do whatever you have called me to do. I am your servant. Bid me as you will.
In the middle of all the excitement, He was finding a place to be still. While people were desperately searching for Him, asking, begging Him to lay his ministering hands on the injured and bring healing, He was looking for a place to be alone with the Father. It was that important.
The day before had been busy. Maybe He should have slept in, but instead He is out in a desolate place seeking an opportunity to speak the Father. People were looking for Him. Didn’t He know that they were lining up at the door? His ministry was taking off! He could be doing ministry at that moment, but instead we find Him with the Father.
It’s just then that I’m reminded. Ministry isn’t His objective. It’s not the end. It’s the means to the end. Worship is the end. Bringing people to worship is the end. And you can’t bring people to a place where you haven’t been. You can’t lead people to do something in public that you haven’t at least done in private.
He wasn’t on His own in the mission. He had constant contact with the Father. He got up and spent time in prayer. He could have stayed, but He left, the mission required it (Lk. 4:43). He had every reason to stay and be “successful” where He was, but that wasn’t the mission. He had spoken to the Father and obedience to the Father is more important than a seemingly “successful” ministry now.
Healing, calling people to repentance, declaring the work of the Lord were all secondary to worship! Real and authentic worship! Worship not by song or way of lip service, but worship wrought out by obedience! Obedience wrought out by a time of solitude in prayer.
Father,
Today I hear you calling. You call just like every day. You say, “Come now and drink deeply from the fountain… come now and drink!” You say, “Jonathan, you drink now from the fountain… before you call others to drink and immerse themselves in Me, you be immersed! Don’t preach with a parched mouth! Don’t attempt to do ministry for Me without seeing Me first.”
I admit O’ God that I am tempted some days to run into the day without seeking You first. Thank You Father for drawing me close to You. I almost mistook the ministry for You and that is a dangerous place to be (Mt. 7:21-23). You have my obedience today and I pray you have it for the rest of the life You have given me. I am yours.
So this thought has been on my mind for a while now. When I got my undergraduate degree I minored in communication. One of the first things they teach you in communication class is that verbal communication (speaking) is only a small portion of communication. Non-verbal communication also plays a key role in how people understand your message. You and I get this. If I never make eye-contact with you while talking to you in a private conversation, you will think somethings up. If you say yes and shake your head no, I’ll be confused. If you frown at me and tell me that I did an outstanding job, I might think you’re mad about it. We get non-verbal communication.
We judge people on how they present themselves. We evaluate the kind of handshakes we receive when meeting a client or sales person for the first time. We imagine that students who wear nice cloths are more respectful to the teacher than those who show up to class with their hair disheveled wearing a t-shirt.
Our body language says a lot. So why is it that when it comes to communication with God, we would want to leave that out? I know God knows our heart and doesn’t need us to get on our knees to signal that we are ready to talk with and listen to Him. Forget for a moment how the message is received. I’m confident that God knows our own hearts better than we do. I’m more concerned about what we are actually saying when we don’t assume a posture that expresses what our heart is saying.Can you really call out to God face down on your pillow a few minutes before you drift to sleep? Why not kneel or lay on your face on the cold hard ground. One of the things I noticed reading through the Bible is the physical response of people to God. It’s not as though God doesn’t understand the heart, but I’m not sure our heart is really saying what we want it to if we can’t make our bodies say it as well.
I’m sure these aren’t new thoughts. I’m learning more and more about a false dichotomy that exists in me and many others between the mind and body. I’m thankful for what I have learned about Bonhoeffer and others when it comes to “making our bodies say what our heart is saying.”
Just so you know, I don’t think holidays are evil. But some Christians do have a hard time navigating the holidays. They are troubled by Jack-o-lanterns, Santa Claus, and the Easter bunny. I guess we could add a few more holidays to the list, but we will keep it down to the big 3 just for the sake of time.
Why its a big deal: No doubt somewhere somebody once told you that all the “Christian” holiday’s like Christmas and Easter are really just “pagan holidays.” Christmas wasn’t really on December the 25th and that the Easter bunny is all about fertility, being twitter-pated, new life and stuff. I know, I know, its disappointing to have your whole Christian holiday stuff upset by some great big “pagan conspiracy.” Why did they have to go pick the “Christian” holidays, why couldn’t they have hijacked some other holiday like Grandparents Day? No, the pagans had to come and take our Christmas and Easter. Or did they?…
How it might of actually started: I think it’s the Pagans that should be upset that we are talking so much about Jesus around their holidays. I guess that’s how it really started. Some pagan got up to say, “through these winter months we look with joy to the new life of spring,” and a Christian in the room stood up and said, “let me tell you about how God loves us and when the world was dark and cold, God came in the flesh and dwelt among us.” And later in the spring when they were sitting around talking about how new life springs out of dead things a Christian got up and said, “They killed Jesus, but he rose from the dead three days later!” All of the sudden these pagan holidays centered around pagan ideas were hijacked by Christians telling their wonderful stories about the incarnation and the resurrection of Jesus. Yes, my friends, it is the pagans who have had their holidays hijacked… not the Christians. Truth be told, I don’t know why we have a Christmas tree (nor do I care), but I do know why we have a manger.
The Real Danger: The real danger with “Christian” holidays is that we only think about the incarnation (birth of Jesus) and resurrection on holidays. SEC football is a bigger threat to my kids than Santa Claus because I’m an Auburn fan. The real danger is that I might look more excited about football for 4 months out of the year than I am about what Christ has done in my life. The question isn’t, “do I make Christmas about Jesus or Santa?” The real question is, “do I make all of my life about Jesus?” The real evil would be to tell my kids Santa isn’t real, tell the truth about Jesus, but forget about Jesus the other 11 months out of the year.
A Way Forward: I say we hijack all the holidays for the sake of the gospel… starting with Halloween. I know it’s scary; kids all dressed up like witches and demons and stuff. But think about it, when was the last time you were invited and expected to knock on every door in your neighborhood? (and rewarded with candy I might add!) It’s how we met most of our neighbors beyond just a few doors down.
You see there aren’t any front porches in my neighborhood, or side walks, or parks, most people park the car in the garage, all of our backyards have 6 foot privacy fences, and most of our houses have TVs and computers so we never have to see each other. But once a year, Halloween changes that and kids come to our house and we take our kids through the neighborhood. Halloween has become an avenue for relationships which is the avenue for the gospel.
I know, I know, your scared that the secret origins of Halloween now have a dark hold over my kids… Can I just say, “It’s not so.” We serve a risen Savior who beat death, and destroys demons. We dabbled more in the spirit world when we obeyed God, packed our bags and moved our family to Pensacola (trust me, my daughter had more nightmares and we wrestled through more demonic stuff in our obedience than we ever have with her dressed as a Strawberry). It’s time that we worry more about the mission than the top-secret pagan origins of a holiday.
Where to draw the line: I think the line on holidays looks different for each family. We draw the line at deception or dishonesty to our kids. We teach our kids that Santa and the Easter bunny are not real. We also teach that Satan and his demons are real. Most importantly we teach that Jesus Christ has conquered death and is stronger than any demon will ever be. One of our core values is the ability to discern truth from error. We still teach a healthy amount of pretend and play. Because we aim for this balance of truth and pretend we are a little weird. The things we draw the line on are probably different than you family and that’s okay (you can be weird too!)
To be honest I really have mixed reviews about David Platt’s book Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. Maybe with all the hype, I was expecting more. If you want my honest and straight forward opinion I think its weak, premature and largely borrows from the work of others without giving them fair credit: While at the same time, I sense that Dr. Platt is pointing us in the right direction.
First, I think Dr. Platt’s arguments are weak. He is like a doctor who can find the pulse, but has no cure. Yes, America is consumed with consumerism. Yes, we are materialistic. Yes, we are wealthy compared to three-quarters of the world. Yes, a large portion of the world in need of the gospel and basic humanitarian aid. Yes, we should change that. If this book were just about that, it would be prophetic: Find the issue, declare what God has said about it. The weakness arises when Platt tries to usher a new way forward based on his limited experiences as the pastor of a mega-church.
That is why it may be a bit premature. We are in no shortage of books touting short-term and even untried solutions. Everyone sharing the gospel should have success stories to share. The fact is that the Holy Spirit moves both in us and sometimes in spite of us as pastors, teachers, and leaders. The real question is, will the “Radical Experiment” produce long-term results or will we have forgotten about it by next year?
I’m troubled that much of what Platt says appears to be patterned off of messages, books, and articles I’ve read by Dr. John Piper. I guess I wouldn’t be as troubled if I saw that Platt recognized that he has been heavily influenced by Dr. Piper. To me this just appears to be complete ignorance of the loudest voice and call to the “radical” lifestyle or intellectual dishonesty on Platt’s part.
That being said, I sense that Platt is on to something. He is pointing in the right direction. I heard enough of his voice in his writing to sense that he caries a genuine passion to revolutionize the world with the gospel. I hope he does. I pray that God uses him and his book to stir many more into awareness and action. I really liked his 5 fold challenge to take up the ‘radical experiment’ at the end of the book. I hope he writes another book or even revises “radical” in 10 years with more of what God has taught him. He has a voice at the table of American evangelicalism, I pray he uses it well.
If you are looking for an emotional stirring to challenge you to take up the mantle of global missions to the poor, this book is for you and I would recommend you to read it. The retail price of Radical is $14.99 (Paperback), and is available around the web in places like Amazon.com for $5.50. I gave it three stars.
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Is it me or is there something seriously wrong when a company makes over 50% of its profits in the 3rd quarter? Are we really that consumer driven as a society? Is that what Christmas really means to America? Spend your cash or take out credit and “help” the economy?
Is that really what we have made it? Are we really that worried that aunt sally won’t like us if we don’t buy her a toaster? Our kids won’t have anything to brag about if we don’t buy them the latest video game accessories for Christmas?
I know families who go into debt every year to “buy Christmas” and spend the entirety of the next year paying it off. Others are a little better at planning and so they set up a Christmas club account. Threaten not to buy presents this year and in some families you will be disowned (or at least it will feel like it). Because Christmas is all about the gifts, right? I mean it wouldn’t be Christmas without the gifts, would it?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against gifts. I’m against Idols. If Christmas isn’t “Christmas” without the gifts, then you are worshiping the wrong person come December 25th. It might be your aunt sally who will threaten to disown you and collapsin a pile of tears if you don’t get her anything. It might be the imaginary judgments made by your kids friends and parents when they hear that you didn’t get little johnny or Suzie everything on their little Christmas list. It might be the reporter who shares that sales were still down this year. It might be the little voice inside your head that tells you that people won’t like you if you don’t give them gifts.
You might say, “I give gifts to honor Jesus.” That’s right, we do celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas. Jesus who stepped out of heaven, came to earth and was born practically homeless and in the care of teenagers. Jesus who humbled Himself and gave Himself as a sacrifice for our sins. We owed a debt we couldn’t pay and He payed a debt He didn’t owe. Jesus.
If we would truly honor Him, then lets give as He gave. Give to those who cannot repay you. And don’t just give them the left-overs, give them the lion share. Fill the shoebox for your kid and give the rest away to those who have no way of paying you back. I think the folks at Adventconspiracy.org are on to something. Check out the video below.
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. – Matthew 5:46-48
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” (John 4:31-32, ESV)
Now the disciples are getting to know Jesus. They were around when he cleaned out the temple, they may have been around to overhear Jesus talking with Nicodemus, they know that sometimes Jesus speaks a little funny. They also know that they just saw him talking to a Samaritan woman which was a very socially unacceptable situation. They also know he is hungry and tired.
Right now they see that he needs something to eat. They knew how hungry they were when they went into town, they know how tired he was when they left him by the well, so they imagine that his number one priority right now is to get something to eat. Jesus, you’re hungry, eat.
They don’t see a man on a mission to save the world, all they see is a hungry and tired teacher. They miss the reality of who Jesus is. They won’t get it until later, much later.
So then they start to look around and see if someone has taken their spot of getting Jesus lunch?
So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”(John 4:33, ESV)
They see themselves as providers for Jesus, they don’t get that ultimately He is the one who is going to provide for them. They imagine that someone else has brought a party tray by and fed the master. Perhaps they become indignant. It was their job to go into town and buy lunch. Great, now they have too much lunch.
Jesus lets them wrestle with the issue long enough and then fills them in on what he really means when he says, “I have food that you don’t know about.” They need to know that they ultimately do not provide for Jesus, but that Jesus provides for the whole world. They need to see what really drives their master, beyond human appetite. Beyond the desire to have a full stomach, Jesus desires to obey they father. This is worship.
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. (John 4:34, ESV)
He challenges his disciples to see past hungry stomachs and see hungry souls, to look beyond the physical reality of a hungry tummy to see that true worship is a heart rightly submitted to God. What fuels Jesus? The disciples must learn here that food is for the body, but worship is for the soul. Jesus is seeing past the physical into the spiritual. If the disciples are ever to be like him they must come to a place where they desire God’s will to be done more than they desire their daily bread. Indeed later Jesus will teach them to pray to the father and before daily bread comes the request that God’s will would be done.
Now like the Samaritan woman before them, he presses his disciples to see all the people coming out of the city. See them with spiritual eyes. They walked into the city to get food, never once did it cross their minds to see the great spiritual need, but now they see it as the whole city comes out to the well.
Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.” (John 4:35-42, ESV)
It was a common saying in the day of Jesus to say, “there are four months till harvest.” It was a way of saying, “relax,” don’t worry, don’t be in such a hurry, there isn’t anything you can do right now. Our modern saying is something like this, “Good things come to those who wait.” Here Jesus is saying the opposite. He is saying, “look! You didn’t plant anything and now there is a harvest field.” You didn’t tell anybody in the city about me and now the whole city is coming out to meet me.
I can’t help but be reminded of one of our Wednesday nights a few months ago. I was running around trying to get everything set up. I’m a firm believer that service is more caught than taught and so I set out all the chairs, place connect cards and pens in the seats, open the student center, help count out the cash box, etc. I also speak.
One of our girls was talking about her life. Something told me that I needed to sit down with the band who was already engaged in talking with her. She had several great questions and we listened and prayed with her and then it struck me that God was really dealing with her heart. Long story short she prayed to receive Jesus as her Lord and Savior. What was really interesting about the situation thought was that while she was praying, I was thinking, “you have this all backwards. I haven’t even spoken yet. I’m supposed to preach and then people are supposed to respond.”
The truth of the matter is, it rarely ever works out that way. Sure people may respond after a sermon, but most often times someone has been there before. A praying parent or spouse, a concerned youth worker or Life group leader. I may be the one that someone prays with, but seldom do I sow the first seed.
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” (John 4:15-18, ESV)
She says, almost sarcastically, “give me this water.” And then Jesus does something strange by telling her to go get her husband. To us it looks like he is changing the conversation or we think she may have turned a corner and is really interested at this point in what Jesus is saying. But Jesus is doing heart surgery here. He is helping her to see who He is, by asking her to be honest with herself.
It is not as though divorce in Jesus day was unheard of, or that people didn’t get remarried, they did. So it was socially acceptable to have been in one or more marriages. However, if the marriage ended in divorce, it was the woman who was generally though to be at fault. And even if all her husband’s had died, the rule of the day was 3 marriages, beyond that and you were damaged goods. So for a woman to have had 5 husbands and shacked up with another guy there is no hiding the fact that she is a sinner and now this strange Jewish man knows it.
Jesus knows the weight that she carries around on her shoulders and he presses the conversation in a way that must hurt her. I can imagine that her whole life is spent trying to ignore how many bad decisions that she has made; trying to avoid the stares of the town people.
Some people assert that at this point the pain is unbearable and that she is trying to focus the spot light off of herself and so she brings up a theological question; one to steer the conversation away from her painful personal life. But that’s not it at all. Her question actually centers on the proper place for a sinful person to offer sacrifices for their sins. Her question is about worship.
The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.” (John 4:19-26, ESV)
This woman’s question is about the right place for worship. When we say worship, we may think of songs and preaching, but when she said worship she was talking about making restitution for her sins. In our day the question might look like this, “The Catholic’s say go to a priest and confess my sins, my Baptist friends come forward at an invitation and rededicate their lives. Which way is right?”
Jesus answer is designed to help her see past the physical reality. She is looking for a place, she doesn’t know that worship isn’t about the right place, it’s about the heart. Jesus tells her that the place is about to be made irrelevant. His sacrifice will be the last sacrifice ever needed. What is needed is a humble and contrite spirit; an attitude of the heart. She also needs to know the truth; worship the true God.
She knows that the messiah is coming and she looks forward to that day and there she makes a startling discovery and Jesus makes a bold claim. I am the messiah.
Jesus declares that he is the messiah just in time for his disciples to come up on the conversation. The next few verses will reveal their thoughts and we will look at them, but first see how this woman responds to his declaration. It is as though a veil has been lifted. All at once she see’s who Jesus is; she sees who she is; she sees what worship is really all about and now she sees her home town of Sychar different than she has ever seen it before.
Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” They went out of the town and were coming to him. (John 4:27-30, ESV)
She runs back into town, leaving her water jar (as if to say, “I don’t need it any more, I’m satisfied in Jesus). She runs to all those people who’s stares she has tried to avoid. She is no longer worried about how they see her, she see’s them for the very first time. They are thirsty just like she had been. They need to meet this man. Who cares what they think of her. The reality of her situation has just changed. Before her sign might have read, “looking for love in all the wrong places.” And now it reads “rescued from my sin and shame.” She is different and she sees the world as different.
Her neighbors take note. What has caused this shy sinner to now go running throughout town compelling everyone to go out to the well? Something has changed this woman!
In the meantime Jesus is about to help his disciples see the spiritual reality around them. They have just come from doing business in town to buy lunches for everyone and where they saw filthy Samaritans, this woman was now seeing people who needed to meet Jesus.
Why don’t we ask God for more? Why do we give up on our prayers? Is it because we doubt Him?
by Joe Gibbs is a fantastic book! Joe Gibbs is a 3-time Super Bowl Champion, 3-time NASCAR Champion, and a man’s man in the sports world. I was greatly encouraged and motivated reading this book. (To be honest I thought it was going to be another corny sports book, but was greatly impressed at how Joe and his team use sports to illustrate God’s game plan for life.)
. Maybe with all the hype, I was expecting more. If you want my honest and straight forward opinion I think its weak, premature and largely borrows from the work of others without giving them fair credit: While at the same time, I sense that Dr. Platt is pointing us in the right direction.
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