This weekend has been the beginning of something amazing. We have been painting, cleaning and preparing for our new office space. I have never really realized how much work goes into making a space your own. We have been very busy doing this working till the late hours of the night, but it has been a great time for our team to get to know one another.
I personally love painting. To me it is so much fun to see a room transformed by color. You can quickly turn an old out of date space into a hip and modern office with just a touch of color. Underneath the paint it might be pretty nasty but just covering it up changes everything. I like to think of paint as the attitude for the space. It can be dark, mild, bold or happy. Our lives are very much the same. People look at the outside to determine a lot about you. They decide based on appearance or as I would like to say our attitude to determine what they think about us. How we paint the outside of our lives makes a big difference to others. How often we smile, how we respond to circumstances, our outlook on life, or how we communicate verbally paints a picture for others.
What kind of picture in life are you painting?
Are you bringing joy and hope to others?
The great thing about life is that everyday we get to choose the color scheme of our life. Remember that your attitude determines your altitude in life. Let’s be a people that soar so when others see, they stand in awe amazed at the beauty of God inside of us.
On a side note, we were blessed to be given some desks to put in our new office space. We are traveling to Ft. Myers in the morning to pick them up. Can’t wait to get this place furnished and done so we can start using it for some functions. I am telling you that God is up to GREATER THINGS in Ft. Lauderdale. Please be praying for us as we begin having informational meetings coming up next week. We are believing that God is going to bring us an unbelievable team that is going to build His church.
Outreach was great this morning anyways. It is always great to bless others to be a blessing. There response always is so genuine and appreciative, in fact most of the time they don’t know how to react. Why is it that when someone else does something helpful or gives us something that it blows us away? Jesus told us that “He did not come to be served but to serve others by dying on the cross.” You would think that if we embodied Christ words that we would all be use to people serving and doing things for us. Makes me wonder a lot of times why we want the deeper things of God when we don’t embrace the simple.
I am just always amazed at how God works things out. Planting a church has been the hardest, most challenging and trying thing I have ever done in my life. The funny part about that statement is that we are just in the process of planting the church and haven’t even done our first service. In the midst of all of this chaos in life God always seems to show up in profound ways like I never thought he would.
Crisis is a thing most of us try to avoid like the plague. When crisis comes our way we run as fast as we can go. The reality is that crisis is the fuel that propels change, growth and success in our life. Crisis don’t come in our lives to destroy our faith but to expose it. Instead of running from crisis, we should run to it. Often times our crisis is the opportunity we have been looking for in life, we just have to endure it. We should embrace it as an opportunity for each one of us to achieve the Greater Things that God has is store for you and I. It is the way we grow our faith and trust in God. In our crisis we truly find out if we have faith. See a faith that is tested by crisis is a faith that can be trusted. By running from the crisis, we are saying that we don’t trust God but are looking at our own ability. In and of ourselves we will always fail, but with God we can do Greater Things.
How do I say goodbye to what we had?