What Are You Believing God For In Your Life?
30. Nov, 2005 
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I have been believing God for some pretty big things in my life, church, and ministry. What about you? Several months ago, I wrote down several items specifically that I was believing God to do in my life. I have seen the Lord deal with many of those, one by one.
It takes faith to believe in God; not in yourself, but in the Lord and what He says. It is so easy to get ahead of God in our attempts, but if we do, we blow it. One of the real keys to prayer and walking with God is waiting on God to do what He wants to do. In reality, you may feel God wants to do something, but you may be wrong. It has happened to me. Let’s get it straight: God will do what He wants to do. Prayer is more about us getting into a spiritual posture to receive what God wants to do, rather than trying to convince God to do something. God is always working. I just have to get to the point where I receive what He is doing.
I began reading Jerry Falwell’s newest book, Building Dynamic Faith. He may be the most qualified man in our generation to write about faith. It is a 31-day spiritual journey where you read one chapter a day…mobilizing you to faith. I was moved by his statement I read this morning:
It is not the size of the miracle of faith that matters, but the size of our God.
That is where I want to be, realizing the size of our God. What about you? You ought to think about getting this book and going through this journey. It is an easy read, though challenging spiritually, and will help build dynamic faith in your life.
Josh’s football season ended on Friday night. They were in the 3rd round of the playoffs, which is really big for a team that still has only 10 seniors, three of which started on both sides of the ball in that quarterfinal game. After one of the greatest victories in the entire program’s history on the Friday night before, one day after my Dad’s death. One week later the team struggled against their opponent who was weaker than their previous opponent. Next year could be the banner year for the Shiloh program, as we have the potential of having 20 seniors playing next year.
Josh was named "Coach of the Year" for our conference in his second year of being a Head Coach. Yes, we are proud of him as his team won the Conference Championship for the first time I believe since 2001. His full-time coaches and families spent Thanksgiving Day at our home before leaving that afternoon for their Friday night game that was five hours away. The previous week’s game was six hours away. This distance in back-to-back weeks, especially in a holiday week, probably took its toll on our young ball club. Back to the coaches: they are special and I love them.
Nick’s class is exploding at Prestonwood in Dallas. God is using him to reach these young singles for Jesus.
Meredith will be performing in the 13 performances of the Dallas Christmas Festival at the Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas. This amazing churches will reach an estimated 60,000 plus people through this festival. Pray for Meredith as she works full-time, then gives her evenings to this ministry to reach people for Christ.
Kate continues to take care of Peyton in an excellent way. Peyton now has grown to 12 pounds…placing him in the upper 90% of all babes his age in weight! He is the man!
Jeana is catching up from all behind us and all before us. Pray for her to have God’s strength.
We are blessed…thanks for praying for us.
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Enjoy reading your posts. Thanks for being transparent and pointing to an inspiring book!
Pastor, you may not know it, but i enjoy playing the drums at The Church at Pinnacle Hills and I also enjoy reading your posts. Thank you for the inspiration and I’m praying for GOD’s guidance in your life through these times….and you won’t be disappointed by the CHRISTmas dinner theatre.
Ronnie,
Thank you SO much for your prayers for my dad Stan. We received your message. I hope my parents got back to you! We did appreciate it. My dad is recovering so well. God’s hand was truely on him. He gets a little dizzy every once in a while and his stamina is low, but he is healing and in no pain.
Praise Jesus.. Happy Holidays,
Karis Coleman Walker
Dr. Ronnie,
Also, our thoughts and prayers go out to your family during this time of loss. May God bless you for your service to Him. Your father is in a better place I trust!
Bessings,
Karis Walker