"He's Able"!

As I was singing with "The Booster Band" yesterday, (Yes I do sing at times!  The Bible does say, "make a joyful noise to the Lord"!  The "noise part" I have down really well!!!) I thought about my times when I was their age we would sing before Sunday School class & at times sing before the church.  How well I remember the old kid's songs we sang.  One of my favorite songs was, "He's Able".  It had a catchy toon & moved pretty quick!  It went something like this: 

   

          He's able, He's able, I know He's able;
          I know my Lord is able to carry me through.

He's able, He's able, I know He's able;
I know my Lord is able to carry me through.

He healed the broken-hearted
and set the captive free;
He made the lame to walk again
and caused the blind to see.

He's able, He's able, I know He's able;
I know my Lord is able to carry me through.

 

This song came back to me this MONDAY morning in my office.  "Monday" is bold & in caps for a reason.  Have you ever had one of those MONDAY's when you started off on  the wrong foot & then it just seemed to spiral downhill from there?!!!  That's how "my" Monday morning has been.  Nothing has seemed to go according to "my" plan.  Satan has already thrown-up "roadblocks" this morning to make the day even "better"!!!  Then God brought back this song to me again from many many years ago.  The same song that was true when I was 3 years old is the same true today.  You see, I had to realize that this is not "my Monday" nor "my plan".   These are God's.  So many times we get tied up in the "my" that we forget that it is God's Monday & our plans should be God's plan's.  And as for the "roadblocks" that Satan puts up in front of us to turn from God's plan, discourage us & ruin our day;  Ephesians 3:20 says, "Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think."  (NLT).  Thank you God for reminding me that He's able, He's able, I know He's able;  I know my Lord is able to carry me through! Even through Mondays!  And that's the thought for the week from a 44 year old Youth Pastor!

 

   

"He's Able"!

As I was singing with "The Booster Band" yesterday, (Yes I do sing at times!  The Bible does say, "make a joyful noise to the Lord"!  The "noise part" I have down really well!!!) I thought about my times when I was their age we would sing before Sunday School class & at times sing before the church.  How well I remember the old kid's songs we sang.  One of my favorite songs was, "He's Able".  It had a catchy toon & moved pretty quick!  It went something like this: 

   

          He's able, He's able, I know He's able;
          I know my Lord is able to carry me through.

He's able, He's able, I know He's able;
I know my Lord is able to carry me through.

He healed the broken-hearted
and set the captive free;
He made the lame to walk again
and caused the blind to see.

He's able, He's able, I know He's able;
I know my Lord is able to carry me through.

 

This song came back to me this MONDAY morning in my office.  "Monday" is bold & in caps for a reason.  Have you ever had one of those MONDAY's when you started off on  the wrong foot & then it just seemed to spiral downhill from there?!!!  That's how "my" Monday morning has been.  Nothing has seemed to go according to "my" plan.  Satan has already thrown-up "roadblocks" this morning to make the day even "better"!!!  Then God brought back this song to me again from many many years ago.  The same song that was true when I was 3 years old is the same true today.  You see, I had to realize that this is not "my Monday" nor "my plan".   These are God's.  So many times we get tied up in the "my" that we forget that it is God's Monday & our plans should be God's plan's.  And as for the "roadblocks" that Satan puts up in front of us to turn from God's plan, discourage us & ruin our day;  Ephesians 3:20 says, "Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think."  (NLT).  Thank you God for reminding me that He's able, He's able, I know He's able;  I know my Lord is able to carry me through! Even through Mondays!  And that's the thought for the week from a 44 year old Youth Pastor!

 

   

"Give Me a Hand, Lend Me Your Ear!"

Let me first apologize for the fact that it's been over a year from my last blog!  Youth ministry has been busy over the past year & is still going strong into this fall year!  God has truly been awesome over the past year.  Sense the last blog, God has allowed me to take a two separate youth groups to Chicago,ILL (July 2009) to help with an intercity basketball camp, Memphis, TN (Aug. 2009) to work with a home mission church, go on a ten mile walk for missions in Wycliffe, KY (June 2010), & to Phoenix, AZ (July 2010) to help a church pull off a V.B.S. for their outreach in their community. 

Over the past three weeks I have been speaking to our youth on Wednesday nights in "The Extreme!"  about unity in our group.  Last week we looked at 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 in where Paul compares the human body to the body of Christ.  1 Corinthians 12:12 it says, "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body:  so also is Christ.".  It brought to mind of all the mission trips I've taken with our youth groups during these past summers.  Within our own youth group you can see all the variety & diversity.  With that in mind, you have to get the group to see the same thing that Paul saw nearly two thousand years ago with his friends in Corinth.  As Christians, we are to work in unity for the same cause to win others to Christ.  In order for these mission trips to work, each person has to put aside their self & realize that unless each of us are doing our part & is in the right place doing our job, mission trips don't work the way God wants them to.  It would be like a "praise band" with only five bass players;  a football team with nothing but quarterbacks;  and a bike with no pedals (would only work great going down hill!).  So goes the body of Christ.  Take a moment and see if there is a way that you can build someone up & working with them in unity for the same cause of Christ.  We should work at eliminating attitudes & behavior that hinder our unity.  When it come down to it, we really need each other in order to work & serve! 

Philippians 2:3 says, "Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.".  And that's the thought for the week from a 42 year old ( I'm sorry, I'm now 43 years old!!!!) Youth Pastor!