My Bible Journey

It’s been awhile since I posted on this…so here are a few things the Lord is showing me…

• Joel 2:11 - I need to read this before I preach sometimes!
• Joel 2:27 - My biggest prayer is that, through the ministry of NewSpring, that people will know the Lord is God!
• Amos 1:1 - God called a shepherd…He can use ANYONE!
• Amos 3:3 - A great verse for couples…to walk together, agree–this means hard conversations may need to take place.
• Amos 3:7 - As a leader I need to spend WAY more time LISTENING to God’s voice than trying to tell Him what to do!
• Amos 4:13 - I am continually asking the Lord to enlarge my view of Him…and verse like this cause me to just be in AWE of Him!
• Amos 7:12-15 - It seems that people were complaining about Amos and his ministry–but it didn’t cause Amos to budge…he simply said, “Listen–I was a shepherd, God told me to do this…and I can’t do anything else.”
• Jonah 4:11 - If numbers do not matter then why did God know how many people were in Nineveh that didn’t know Him?  God cares about people–so should the church!
• Micah 6:3-5 - I can never forget what God has done for me, doing so always leads to sin and rebellion.
• Micah 7:18-20 - YES, YES, YES–thank You Jesus!!!
• Habakkuk 1:5 - God is always doing something new!
• Habakkuk 2:2 - I have been asking the Lord if He wants me to write a book…and then I see this, it might not mean anything to you…but for me it just happened to rock my world! God answers our prayers through His Word!
• Habakkuk 3:2 - Some want to study what God has done, others want to see God do it all over again…I am in the latter while respecting (not worshiping) the former.
• Habakkuk 3:19 - God’s Word is full of encouragement.
• Zephaniah 3:14-15 - Understanding what God has done brings joy!
• Haggai 1:7-8 - I remember reading this verse before we built our current building…right after I had prayed for God to make it clear whether or not we needed to build it or not. WOW…God has been so good, He has brought us so far!
• Haggai 2:8 - I remember reading this verse after asking God, “Who exactly is going to pay for this?” Once again, God uses His Word in our lives…it is, as Hebrews 4:12 says, living and active.
• Zechariah 3:1-5 - This is my story, thank You Jesus!
• Zechariah 4:6 - No matter how hard we work–without God’s Spirit–nothing works!
• Zechariah 8:12-13 - God desires a harvest more than we do!
• Zechariah 10:3 - God takes leadership seriously, so should I!
• Zechariah 13:1 - THIS is the message the church should be declaring, NOT who to vote for or HOW to legislate morality!!!

Those are a few highlights!