Sunday...and a good one at that

Today was Sunday...
After sleeping in until 8AM.......aaaaaaaaahhh, I could get used to that, and breakfast with just my wife (because the kiddos had already eaten) we were off to church.

It started with an amazing time of worship and a powerful and equally convicting message by Pastor Jason.  It was about the conversion of Saul to Paul.  It may have been geared to people making the faith conversion from an enemy of God to a child of God as Saul did, but there was definitely something in it for those of us who have already received His free gift of salvation.  The convicting thing for me was, when you are an enemy of God it is all about you, but when you are a child of God-it SHOULD be all about Christ.  The Bible, His Word, tells us all about this.  Everything in the Old Testament points forward towards the Christ, and the New Testament is all about the Christ, what He did for us and what our purpose in life is.  (Notice bold and underlined word up above.)  How often do I focus on myself instead of my Creator, Master and Best Friend?  I Corinthians 10:31 says, "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God."  That's right we are here for His glory!  We are here to bring Him glory!  Not ourselves! 

After, church we came home, had dinner and then went out to join the rest of our church in a Prayer Summit.  "What is this?", you ask....well, I'll tell ya.  Prayer Summits have had many faces over the last couple of years in our church.  Some have taken place at church, where we break up into small groups and pray for both specific and general needs in our church family.  Some have taken place at the beach and included baptisms!  Others have taken place in peoples' homes throughout the church-praying for a local community.  While still others have been called a Prayer Walk, where we will target a specific area or even your own street and pray while we walk.

Today's was different even than all of the above.  We have four ministries in our church that are reaching out to local communities.  There was at least one representative of each ministry at a location close to that ministry in its corresponding community.  When you arrived they would give you several very specific prayer requests pertaining to their ministry.  You could then pray with them or walk around that area and pray.

When we finished this, we went back home where I got to go outside and kick the ol’ futbol around with my two girls.  We then finished our evening up with an episode of The Dick Van Dyke show on Netflix…

….yeah, it was a good one.