About Midnight Part 9 - She's Really Amazing

My mom is really amazing.
But what's really amazing is what God can do with her life when His glory shows up.
Some of the places in her life that God could visit and transform. 
She has a timeshare at the beach she hasn't used in years.  Infinite possibilities.
Season tickets to the Carolina Panthers.  Definitely not ordinary.
I'm not suggesting that she needs improvement.  What I am suggesting is that I need to have a perspective change and realize that I am really blessed in life to have a relationship with her.  She's really interesting when you get to know her. 
God can transform a desert into a lush oasis in the blink of an eye. 
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.  Psalm 126:5,6. 

About Midnight Part 8 - It's No Big Deal

My mom is pretty cool.
We watched a movie together today.
She liked it and so did I.
That's something that we have in common.
She likes the church that I go to.
She has never once complained about the music being too loud.
She maximizes her time and is able to accomplish alot with very little.
She lets me eat what I want to eat when I want to eat it.
She never gives me a hard time when I assert myself.
She totally respects that I'm my own person and I have the right to make my own decisions.
She doesn't hover and she's not clingy.
She's still very young at heart.
God is not through with her yet.

By Grace,

Travis

About Midnight Part 7 - The Sword

If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?  1 John 4:20.


There's a picture in my heart of a medieval broadsword.  A broadsword was a heavy two edged sword which could be wielded either in one or two hands.  It's definitely not a butter knife.  It's not a toy either.
The meaning of it to me is this:  it's time to put away our personal differences and personal preferences and rise up as one.
To be continued...
By Grace,
Travis

About Midnight Part 6 - Refills

As he lay asleep under the broom or juniper tree, behold, an angel touched him and said to him, Arise and eat. 1 Kings 19:5.

I've got a coffee mug.  Written on it are the following words.

Blessed is the man
  whose delight is in the law
        of the LORD.
He is like a tree planted
      by streams of water;
which yields its fruit in season.
  Whatever he does prospers. 
            Psalm 1:1-3.

For some reason that just puts a smile on my face.

By Grace,

Travis

About Midnight Part 5 - Ingredients

Ingredients

As if a familiar voice broke through the steel bars of doubt and discouragement in the confines of his imprisonment Dzeekishah had a moment of clarity.  Despite his chains he nearly bolted up off the floor.
Not because his life depended on it, but because the fate of Midgard rested on the knowledge that he had of the location of the stolen relics, Zeek listened attentively.
The simple yet compelling instruction was clear.  “Trust.”
Zeek looked at the now cold plate of Alb food on the prison cell floor.  The very sight of it initiated an unconscious gag reflex yet he was compelled by something deeper than hunger.
The voice called again, more strongly, “Trust!”
Picking up the fork in his dexterous hand Zeek lifted it up to about half the distance to his mouth.  The smell assaulted his cerebral cortex and ignited a spark of protest that flared into a flame of hope.
“I can do this,” he muttered and put the fork to his lips.
He opened up.  That first bite was sickeningly sweet.  As he started to chew a flood of euphoria hit -intense grief, bitter sorrow and terrible affliction swept through him like a river.  In it’s wake he was completely rejuvenated.  Something miraculous took place where the ingredients in the food acted like an antivenom to the injuries that he had received.  Every thing was in it’s rightful place and he felt good.
A word appeared, “Zeek.   Get ready.  We are coming to get you out.  Wiggles.”

About Midnight Part 4 - Sheaves of Joy

God can turn a desert into a lush oasis in the blink of an eye.  Where you saw sand and bare rock and dry bones there can be teeming life.  Where there was sadness there can be joy.  Beauty for ashes.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.  He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.  Psalm 126:5,6.

On the other hand Satan can turn a lush oasis into a graveyard in an equal amount of time.  Hell has an address and it's name is SIN.  Sin is both a tyrant and a slave driver.  It never stops demanding.

Sin will take you for a trip and leave you in the middle of nowhere.

By Grace,

Travis

About Midnight Part 3

Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.  Psalm 104:20.

The type of angels the Psalmist is writing about are the kind that do God's will in heaven.

In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus taught His disciples to pray, Thy kingdom come.  Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.  Matthew 6:10.

We proclaim the Word of God.  We proclaim the Word of God in places where the kingdom of darkness holds dominion in order to establish God's Kingdom.  Proclamation releases God's power into our situation in the same way that praise releases the glory of God:

But thou are holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.  Psalm 22:3.

Paul and Silas.  Two men sent by God.  Filled with the Spirit.  Singing praise.  In agreement.  Heaven came down.

By Grace,

Travis