Great white eating machine

I had this dream last night that a great white had gotten a hold on me waist down, holding me in it's mouth. This great big eating machine had me in it's clutches and wasn't letting go. Then I had some kind of really sharp arrow, so I started poking, slicing, cutting in any way I could, poked it's eyes out so it couldn't see, then realizing it could still smell and that's how it feeds, I cut around there too. The weapon in my hand even changed soI could use it like a knife or dagger too.
The eating machine was me. The lust for whatever I wanted and often did not deny myself is consuming me. I hate this man of sin, and I commit to the Lord that I will not entreat him in any way, I will not fulfill the lusts with it's passions, but I will crucify that fleshly man so he no longer has place in my life, or my children's, or my wife. SO that I can be an effective witness for Him in every way.

This eating machine it's eating you and me
It starts out with very little, then half of me
It chews and gnaws till there's nothing left
It grabs what it wants, feeding with no regret
I give in to it's passions so much
It consumes the very life , as I feed it so much
Never satisfied it craves so much more
More than I have noting left in my store
Why do I give into these passions of shame
Given over to another this is no game

It's like a great white eating machine
Consuming all in it's path
Never satisfied until I crucify it all
This tendency to lust that covers me in it's bath
Of fleshly indulgence
It's a death path

Why do I wander to pastures unknown
Leave the grassy plains to where my fancies are flown
It carries me to places of no rest
A cancer eating away at my chest
where my heart resides I give it my all
To take away all this my life it will gnaw
Until it's all gone
I've benn played like it's pawn

Feasting on my lusts, it craves more right now
Can't wait another moment or I'll have a cow
Impatience breeds anger no love found here
In this place of self satisfying driven by fear
Or maybe it's just passion, results the same
A hole in my heart no full of shame
There's no good in the me of my self
a pitiful end a mindless gulf
Turn instead to a God of Love
sent in the form of a son and settles like a dove
In a wandering wagon of lust and despair
I wander no more, my will His fare

For He paid the price with His sacrifice of Love in the air
On that cold lifeless day where He was crucified there
He did not ask me to die in His name
He asks me to live just the same
For Him with all that I have and do not
Trusting in His love to fill my cup
Not with everything I wanted and more
But everything He has in store

You see He loves me and redeems my shame
Calling on Him, and trusting His name
The name that is above every other no matter
He fills my plate, with no room for the latter
Now I fill on His mercies anew
All around lay my that no longer stick like a glue
Of torrential rain
Filling my heart and my brain
All the things I've ever needed are here
Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh will follow me there
My wife and my kids will no longer suffer cause I
Could not put down that last piece of pie

Hey fat guy

I saw a fat guy sitting on a rock eating his food with his hands, he seemed homeless and destitute, and I heard the Lord say that could have been me. It was His saving grace that set me free!! This could have been the picture: sitting on a rock feeding my flesh, given over to my lusts, coveting most things around me. A little song seemed appropriate!
Hey fat guy sitting on a rock feeding his own flesh with his hands
That could have been me, a stark realization of what I could be; stands
Fat guy sitting on a rock, what about me
A fat guy in the mirror you, have become me
Given into the flesh I want to go wild
Eating all the chocolate I can heaped ip in a pile
Hey fat guy I'm looking at me
Trade the ice cream for a seat by the sea
Watch the waves roll from the horizon
By the sea where He sits to teach me
I go off on my fleshly indulgence
And wonder why the time flies
My clock tells me there's only so much left before we die
Spending the time on me instead of You
What have I done with my self I'm through
It's the whole power of one that separates the men from the boys
One is the Body all else is the noise
We compromise all we do, should be plain to see
Our lives are for You and not for me.
But there's choice to make
Will it be He or me
I'm choosing Life
Cause He set me free

The sins of their fathers.

Gal 6:7 What a man sows that he will reap. If I sow in my flesh will I not reap dead things, lifeless things? But also if I sow in The sweet Holy Spirit will I not reap all the fruits of the Spirit; Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness and self control? Yes! (Gal 5:22) One of the fruits of the Spirit is self control, and patience so if I'm not walking in the Spirt will I still display the fruits of the Spirit?

Exodus 34:7 The sins of the fathers will pass on to the children. If I am a fleshly man, will I not pass this on to my kids? But if I walk in the Spirit will my children not inherit those blessings as well? I believe so. "Lord, please remove the things of the flesh in my life, and in my children's lives, they don't need it and neither do I, in Jesus name, amen."

So let us be children of the light, and walk as children of the Light, and not in darkness any more!
In Jesus Name, amen!

The Lord is not slack, but we are!

2 Peter 3:9, the Lord is not slack concerning His promises...but is long suffering...not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
If we are to be evangelists, because He wishes for none to perish but for all to come to repentance, shouldn't we be working feverishly to see people being called to repentance? Should there not even be a certain percentage of the Church whose focus is this?
"Thank you Lord for not being slack concerning Your promises, You are so kind to wait for us, more than a perfect gentlemen, holding the door open for his lady, You wait patiently for Your Bride, hold that door open for years, waiting...let us not make you wait, with hand extended. For 2,000 years now you've been standing at the door knocking, waiting. Please wait a little longer, please help us to be obedient not frittering away the time you give us. It's precious and short the time we have, help us not barry it in the ground for fear of what You may think, or worse yet of what "they might thing, help us to be obedient to Your word.
In Jesus Name, amen."

Do we steal from God?

Do we steal from God, YES WE DO! 1 Cor 6:20 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body[a] and in your spirit, which are God’s.& PSalm 24:1 1 The earth is the LORD’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein. 1 Cor 6:19 & 20: 9 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body[c] and in your spirit, which are God’s.
So since we are not our own if we do whatever we want with our bodies, and don't even ask the Lord, or do things with our bodies that He would not approve of, are we not stealing what is His? If I take a neighbors lawn hose and poke it with a bunch of holes soI can see how cool it looks when it sprays in all different directions because I think that's neat, isn't that stealing? Or if I stretch out that hose by stuffing it full of stuff to see how much it can handle, and I cause all kinds of problems and end up ruining it, don't I owe that man a new hose, because it's not mine? Even if I borrow it for 20 years and plop it on his lawn all stretched out, or full of holes, I have still taken what is not mine and done what I want with it. The biggest difference is, we still think our body is ours, so we use it like it is! We are robing God!It's time we start living in every way for our Lord, our Great and Mighty God, who paid an incredible price for us that we may live for Him.


There's a new Sanctus Reel song on the radio and part of it say, "Lead me with strong hands" and it's talking about how we as men need to lead with integrity, faithfulness, not with weak faithless hands, it just really touched me! Here it is:

“Lead me with strong hands
Stand up when I can't
Don't leave me hungry for love
Chasing dreams, what about us?

Show me you're willing to fight
That I'm still the love of your life
I know we call this our home
But I still feel alone

Let us as men lead with strong hands and glorify God who is in us! Here's 1 Cor 6:12-1815 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.”[b] 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Thanks Bible gateway .com! & elyrics.net & Sanctus Real! (Way to go guys, write them lyrics from God's hands!

Hate this life? Honored by God?

John 12:25 & 26 "He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor."

Imagine being honored by God! Wow. Because of insecurities this verse is hard for some to understand. Hate this life; usually people who hate this life are not happy people, but unless you love this life a lot less than you Love the Lord, love this world and the things of this world a lot less than your heavenly home, there is at least a misplaced loyalty there and at worst some idols. How many loves can we have and still remain faithful, the Lord says only one, Him. "Lord help us to Love You way more than anything else, in Jesus Name!"

Titus

We need to live this way everyday! Titus 2:11-14

11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, 13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

It is hard to deny ourselves, but it is possible, and through His grace can be incredibly rewarding. Sobering, as if we're in some kind of drunkenness, giving in to our desires instead of His! "Lord forgive us for being like drunk men chasing after our own lusts and being controlled by them as in a man who is controlled by the alcohol he gives into, forgive us and free us, please Lord in Jesus Name."