another passion zapper!

So I have met a lot of talented people through the years, but never have I seen someone so unhappy and so undriven than a friend of mine a few years back. He was called into teh full time ministry, and had pastored a church in the Carolinas. He worked bi-vocationally at first and then the church grew into a full-time position. He worked hard to keep the church going and eventually it grew from almost 20 to well over 150. At that point things kind of plateaued and as time went by they decided he had done an awesome job of growing the church and leading them to where they were, but it was time to move on. They let him go, and he spent a few years seeking another job as a pastor, working part time jobs and doing construction for a time. He was a fiery, extremely driven person who would sit down and tell you everything you needed to know to live a godly life the moment he met you. But, as time went on he slowly deteriorated, he still spent time in the word, still prayed daily and still attended church in another town. But he just couldn't get it in gear.
He eventually came to the point of depression and decided "he thought" that God just didn't want to use him any more. His passion for the ministry was completely zapped.
1 Peter 4:10 says "Each of you has been blessed with one of God’s many wonderful gifts to be used in the service of others. So use your gifts well."
Every person, each of God's creations has a purpose and a gift. God has given each of us those gifts to use for God to fulfill His purposes on earth. The very second we stop using them (whether by choice, or by force) we lose our passion for them. Nothing can zap passion for God like sitting stagnant and not using our gifts for Him. So think about your giftedness in God, what is He expecting from you and what are you doing to get things accomplished for Him. If you are not using your gifts, you are going to become lazy and eventually be drained completely of all of your enthusiasm for those gifts. SO use them, even if it is in a small way, use them or lose them!
Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

Keeping your passion

Tonight I am starting a series with our youth on things that zap your passion. The series will last us about a month and will include 7 different passion zappers. I found all kinds of Biblical principles that when not followed or when broken can completely take away all of our passion for something. I for one am a pretty passionate person, the things that I endeavor to do are things that I pour my heart and soul into.
First, I am extremely passionate about God's ministry in my life. I pour everything I have into reaching this community for Christ. I do my best to be able to lay my head on my pillow each and every night knowing I did everything I could to take advantage of every opportunity that day. Second, I am very passionate about my family. I spend as much time as I can with my girls, true we do a lot of things all over our community but we do them together. My family is my #1 ministry and without them I would be nothing. THird, I am quite passionate about the sports that I participate in. True I read a couple books a week, usually one that betters me as a pastor or as a believer and another that betters me as a softball coach. I am very passionate about my racing too, it can completely ruin a Saturday if things don't go my way(this has been a regular Saturday occurence for me this season, haha).
In all that I have looked at, all that I have studied the number one passion zapper is unconfessed sin. This is a thing that hangs over our heads and completely takes us down.
Look at David in Psalm 38:4-6 "My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning"
This entire chapter is actually about this very thing, David is talking about God's wrath and the things that he is struggling with, but it all boils down to guilt.
I want to share a funny thing about our bodies just quickly. We are emotion driven, we can feel any number of emotions and physical things at the same time. But, there are two things that we can NEVER feel at the same time. You will never be able to feel enthusiasm(which is the fuel of passion) and guilt. These two things cannot be present at the same time. So if you are feeling less passion in an area, think about the sins in your life, are you openly repenting of them?
Thanks for reading and have a great Hump day!

Your view becomes you

Have you ever thought about doing something bad? Have you ever viewed something that made you think about doing something bad? Finally, have you ever purposely viewed something that made you either do or want to do something bad? That is exactly how our minds work, and unfortunately that is what pornography is all about. It's about people doing things that they shouldn't so that people will watch and do things that they shouldn't. It roots itself in lust and creates monsters out of people that may have been raised to have good strong morals. It's very hard to undo views and scenes from movies. I know that there are a whole lot of times when I am talking about the cross, or talking about what Jesus did for us that I picture the movie the Passion of Christ. Those images of the beating and the blood and his side bursting open all come rushing into my mind. Why? Because our minds are banks and what we put in will eventually come out of there.
I am working hard to help Alexa get better at softball, and one of the ares we are working hard at is visualization. I am trying to help her visualize and store images when she does good. When she throws a great pitch, or has a great hit I immmediately tell her to visualize what she just did. I also, on the flip side, do my best to have her erase the bad pitches, the swings and misses and the not so great moments. Unfortunately you can't erase them, I can only work hard to help her remember the good ones and not focus on the bad ones.
Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
There you have it, we need to offer our minds and bodies as living sacrifices and we cannot do that unless we are renewing our minds regularly. We must renew in our minds a clean and pure thought process and this cannot be done with some of the things we are viewing on television, the internet and in magazines(I assume those are still around). Every time you put a new image into your head, it is stored for good.
I did a lesson as a young youth pastor where I had one of our teen guys pose in a pair of short shorts and a bikini top. We looked at that image in the opening during part of the lesson and then we went on like it never happened. Then, we finished up the lesson and I asked the kids how many of them could remember that picture an hour later, everyone started giggling and laughing. No one was able to erase that image, well, guess what you never will. Our only hope when these things happen is to not look at those images that are not pleasing to God, and focus on good images that will not cloud our thoughts and minds.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!

working His way

I remember working for a close friend in the masonry field. I recall getting trained and taught how to do all the things that we needed to be able to do to get jobs done in the stucco area. I remember that first day looking at my buddy Steven and thinking that there is no way I was ever going to get more mud on the wall than what I dropped on the ground. But, a few days later we were actually getting it on the wall. Then, we thought we had it so we took on some larger jobs and did some whole houses and even a few large businesses and office buildings. We would work all day, work our way around and feel good about ourselves. That is, until a friend of Steven's who had taught us showed up on a job one Monday morning to see how we were doing, he then checked in again on Thursday thinking we should be done already and we were a little over half way done. He actually asked us if we enjoyed our vacation because surely we had taken a day or two off. To be honest we were physically exhausted. Then he showed us some tricks, and taught us how to work smart and more efficient instead of so hard. That was a valuable lesson that I could never put a price tag on.
"So he said to me, 'This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: "Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit," says the Lord Almighty."'" - Zechariah 4:6
God says, not by might or power but by His SPirit. We must learn how to work smart, and how to use our lives and abilites efficiently. In all honesty this means anything we are doing that isn't God's will for us is wasted energy. And wasted energy will only frustrate you in the long run. THere's no need to exhaust yourself when you're chasing your own desires instead of GOd's. God's will and His desires for your life will never come back void, yours will.
So pray over all the things that you do, every endeavor from the small and minuscule to the overwhelmingly huge. Let God reveal to you His plans in every aspect of your life and find complete and true efficiency in life.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!

SO I know that a lot of people think I wear too many hats during the week. Just a few weeks ago I coached highschool softball on Monday, Little league softball on Tuesday and THursday, did Youth on Wednesday, on Tuesday and THursday of that week I went to pedro football as the chaplain, Thursday before football I went and helped coach middle school softball, and on Friday I played in church softball, I worked 4 full days at the Betty Griffin House, I raced that Saturday night, I made hospital visits with my Pastor hat on and lunch visits to 3 different schools to hang out with our teenagers. I did all this plus played ball with my daughters, went to little ninjas with P.J. and did the daddy time as well. Why? Why on earth and what in the world would drive me to live like that? One simple verse from Paul in 1 Corinthians chapter 9.
Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God's law but am under Christ's law), so as to win those not having the law. To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
I am by no means a Paul, or a prophet by an stretch of the imagination, but I do everthing that I do for the spread of the Gospel. I cannot say that all of my endeavors have been fruitful or productive in the world's eyes but I can say that none of them have come back void.
Monday afternoon I was at football practice at Pedro, Tuesday I was at football then helping coach Alexa's softball team. This morning I will be helping a friend at Murray set up for their dance recital and praying with the dancers who want to pray before the show starts. Again, I will become everything I can, wear every hat possible that will allow me to share the Gospel with more people. It honestly is not about growing a church so much as it is about impacting God's kingdom.
Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

My favorite tract

Through the years I have admired bumper stickers and CHristian tracts alike. For those who aren't aware, a tract is a little pamphlet cleverly put together for a Christian to give a non-believer to peak their interest. I have met a lot of people who use them, I am not a big fan of using them but I don't mind quoting them from time to time.
There's one I found at Crescent Beach Baptist Church while we were in between churches that was our church home, they have a rack outside their sanctuary with tract in it and I'm sure you can guess why I picked this one. It has a picture of a football player, a basketball player and a baseball player on the outside. It says, "I've always been a sports fan."
Inside it lists reasons people don't go to church, but uses pictures to illustrate the sports theme idea. Here are the reasons they list that people don't go to church:
1. They always ask for money - next to it is a ticket booth where at sports games they ask for money.
2. The people I sat next to weren't very friendly - next to it a picture of rowdy fans of the other team outnumbering a fan.
3. The seats were too hard - have you ever been to a sporting event where they weren't?
4. The coach never asked my advice - but we expect the pastor to.
5. The referees made some bad calls - don't we all!
6. Some people cared more about their looks than the game - fanatical fans with their faces painted.
7. Some of the games went into overtime - in sports this is a blessing, in worship you are in big trouble.
8. The band played some songs I didn't know- this one really hits home doesn't it.
9. Too many games just didn't fit into my schedule - every Sunday?
10. My parents took me to too many games growing up - this is a good one!
11. I just read a book on sports and I know more than the coach does - doesn't everyone know more than the pastor?
12. I don't take my kids to games so that they can make their own decisions - this is a real attitude toward church, certainly not mine when it comes to sports or church.

So let me ask you, does this tract make you think? Do you use these same excuses for skipping church?
Isaiah 55:6 tells us to "Seek God while He can be found"
Don't make excuses for church that you wouldn't make for your favorite sports team.
Thanks for reading and happy Hump day!

The true foundation of knowledge

There are so many books and seminars out there on how to gain knowledge. There are courses in college and books and online resources gallore on become a wise person. All of that is fine and good but reading, listening and recieving the imformation is only the first step. It is the crawling before you walk if you will. You can read every book you get your hands on, you can listen to every speaker you can find, you can go to every seminar ever offered on a particular subject but until you learn to process and use the imformation it is useless.
I kind of look at it as a card catalog in a school library. You could walk into a library when I was younger and find a shelf full of drawers. Little narrow drawers with letters on the outside ( like A-D) marking them accordingly. You would rarely see anyone except for the librarian over there using the card catalogs. Inside them were lots of index cards with book information on them and put in order by author's name. If you knew the author's name of a book you could go over look it up and figure out the exact number of the book in the library and save yourself a lot of browsing. But rarely did anyone use them, they just walked aimlessly around the library lap after lap looking for a book that seemed like a needle in a hay stack.
We take in a lot of knowledge and a lot of information but rarely do we put it into practice. I love to talk to athletes and see all the camps they go to in hopes of becoming better, but they come back exactly the same. They learn all the things they need to and then don't apply any of them. As a coach this is frustrating, and as a Pastor it is equally frustrating. I don't even want to imagine how frustrating it must be for God. To see His creation in Sunday services every week, in Bible studies and spending quiet time in devotionals only to apply very little of it to their lives.
But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand." - Matthew 7:26
So what are you building on? I hope you're not building on sand. I certainly hope you aren't walking around life aimlessly like that student looking for a book in the library. Tap into the knowledge and the database that God has given you, take what you learn from your Pastor, Youth Pastor and teachers at church and apply it. Until you apply it there is no foundation at all, recieving knowledge is important, but applying it to your life and your lifestyle is far more important.
Thanks for reading and have a great Tuesday!

A Biblical Blindside story

So I will admit I stayed up past midnight last night watching a movie, "The BLind Side". The movie was great and I was thankful that Tara talked me into staying up all night to watch it. I trust most people by now have seen it and it has a lot of great points to it. I think one of the main points is how we can compare it to God. Every person on the face of the earth has been through some type of rough time or rough relationship at some point in their life. Big Mike was just that, a boy with a really rough childhood and an even rougher teen years who overcame. He was able to overcome because some of the things that were missing in his life were given to him by a loving family. He was given his first room, his first bed, new clothes and the like all by this new family. More importantly a huge hole in his life was filled because he was not getting any kind of loving support from anyone. Think about your life, no matter how good of a life you had, you had a hole in your heart that was just the right size for Jesus to come and fill it up for you. Jepthah had the same thing, he was born to a prostitute and had several brothers who would not let him in because he was not from the same mother, he was the result of his father's mistakes and viewed as such, "a mistake." Jepthah however gained strength and went on to live a good and prosperous life. Not because someone took him in or because someone provided for his physical needs, but because he found the Lord.
"Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah." - Judges 11:29
THere you have it, the Spirit of the Lord came upon Him and every hole, every void and every shortcoming life had ever dealt him suddenly was swept away. I loved the movie the Blindside, I did, but to tell you the truth I think we need to spend more time filling spiritual voids than physical and emotional ones. We can feed people in need, we can clothe people in need, we can even build relationships with those in need, but until we give them what they really need (a personal relationship with their Saviour) we are failing them completely.
It's great to feed and clothe the needy, it's far greater to share with someone God's plan for their eternal life.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!

What is life?

Do you ever really think about your life? We way things out and justify things in a human like manner because we can only see what is on this side of heaven. We see what has happened, what is happening but we have no clue about the future, we think we do but we really don't. I like to look at it this way:
If you had lived in the days of the early church and you were born in 1 AD and you lived to be 90, that would mean that you passed away in 91 AD. And by my Math(yes a graduate of St. Augustine High, haha) this is the year 2010. That would mean that you spent 90 years here on earth and right now you would have spent 1,919 years in eternity. If you were a Christian you would have spent 1,919 years in heaven as opposed to just 90 on earth. So, I hope that offers some perspective for you .
"Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow." - Psalm 144:4
It's interesting how we think we do so much, and we are so important and we offer the world so much when in reality our greatest contributions are almost nothing in the greater scheme of things.
I liken it to filling my fish tank up. We have a 100 gallon fish tank in our living room that is the most awesome thing in the world. I love it and I like to watch my fish but every now and then when I had the koi in there the water would get a little messy and I would have to change some of it out. When I did this I would mix about 5 gallons of water with the water conditioner and let it sit overnight. Then in the morning I would dump it into the aquarium, this would take weeks to get it back to the level I like the water to be at. Each night I would get that 5 gallons ready and in teh morning dump it in knowing I still had to do it several more times. We think each morning we get up and make a huge difference in the world in reality we don't even compare to my 5 gallons of water in the aquarium. Our contributions on our greatest day are more like a glass of water in the ocean. That's right we make little dent in the world and we need to stop thinking we are so important and start living for Christ, that's what is important!
Thanks for reading and happy hump day!

COnfessions of a pastor

So there is so much in the world that is justified and taken so wrongly. I know there are a lot of people out there that teach young people that if they work hard they will achieve all that they want to, this is a good motto but it teaches a little bit of broken systems. I worked hard all my life, I have worked 2 or more jobs at a time for over 17 years. I don't feel entitled but I do carry with me at times a bit of an attitude that says "I've worked hard I deserve this."
Well, truth is just because you deserve something doesn't make it yours. I can honestly say that I worked my days off and spare time to get my family some of the things that we now have. I felt like we deserved the new car I bought my wife in 2007. After all I was working every moment I had, Tara was working two jobs and I had driven a truck that almost blew up on a youth trip for over 3 years. THe truck honestly sounded like it was going to die at every traffic light. People told me to go buy that new car as soon as we could afford it because we deserved it. Entitlement is a tough thing to deal with sometimes. We get it from all different directions, teh world throws it at us at work, at play, at home all over the place. And we accept it, we like it because it tells us we deserve something for all that we have either done or endured. That isn't exactly right because there is one major story in the Gospel, actually it is the Gospel. JEsus deserved to live a plush life, to sit back and relax and sip drinks on the beach. Jesus deserved to be treated as royalty and not as a common man. He deserved all this if He was going to die for my sins and yours. To top it all off, He certainly didn't deserve to die, not for me He didn't.
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death-even death on a cross!" - Philippians 2:8
Paul says entitlement is nothing because Jesus himself did not think He was entitled to anything. And if God's own Son who was with Him at creation, who lived in Heaven for thousands of years, came to earth to be born in a stable mocked and made fun of, beaten severely and hung on a cross wasn't entitled to anything, then guess what I know I'm not and you aren't either.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Train them up!

So yesterday was mother's day and I can't help but think about the influence that moms have on their children. Moms are so important to their young in all stages of life from birth and nurturing to the teenage days through adulthood moms are pivotal in all phases. Moms many times don't realize the role they play, some times because the father is always the disciplinarian, or sometimes because children just aren't as appreciative as they should be. Either way they need to be thanked more than just once a year and honored more than just for 24 hours. Moms do so much that isn't seen by the public or many times their own children and husband. While dads are working hard to make their children independent and strong, tough and able to endure life's hardships moms are worrying and praying for their young. Moms pray in the morning and the evening worried about how their children will fare that day, that week and even how their young children will turn out as adults. Moms start this at a very young age, while their little ones are a few days old they start the ritual of daily prayer and worry.
Proverbs 22:6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is older he will not depart from it.
Sure kids falter, sure there are those early adulthood years and mistakes made and poor decisions but the training never goes away and many times they grasp that the moment they slip. Nonetheless continue to train your chldren in the way God would have you to and know that when the grow older they will never depart from the roots of that training.
Here's a story I shared yesterday in my sermon. A young boy had gone off to college and settled into the dorm life. He was a great young man trained and raised by a godly mom. When he settled into his dorm room he decorated it with pictures and posters and all sorts of things just like a lot of young college students do. For the first time in their lives they are completely in charge of the decorating of their rooms.
Well, about a month into the school year mom decided to pay him a surprise visit. And boy was she surprised, she called his roommate and had him meet her and walk her to the dorm room. When she walked in she was both shocked and embarassed by the pictures and posters on the walls of women some barely clothed and others, were nude. This was the theme all accross her son's side of the dorm room. She waited, composed herself and decided that she wasn't going to say anything. She waited for her son outside and then they went to dinner and not a word was spoken of the room or the posters. A week later he recieved a large manilla folder in teh mail, he opened it and it was a picture of his mother in a nice Sunday dress. THere was a note with it that said "I cannot be there with you in college but I am constantly thinking of you. Please hang this picture on your wall and think of me too."
He did just as she said, and the next morning he awoke to her picture and started taking every poster off his walls. She called him later that week and asked him if he had received the picture and he said yes. She asked him if it was on the wall and he told her right where he had put it. He then went on to tell her how he had completely redone his room because he could not have a picture of his mom hanging in the same room with those posters and pictures.
So there you have it, train up a child in a godly way and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Thanks for reading and have an awesome Monday!

pet peeves

Through my life I have developed very few pet peeves, you know those things that make you want to plug your ears or run away as fast as you can when they are happening. One of my pet peeves is people who talk to teenagers like they are 5 years old, this is annoying and they deserve to be talked to differently. Second, I get frustrated when people jump in conversations that they aren't involved in. There you are talking to someone about something and some walks by and says, "What", what are you talking about. THis too is frustrating and unfortunately I have recently worked closely with people who do both of these things regularly.
But, if you had to know what my number one pet peeve is it would have to be swearing. Not talking about cussing or using bad language(I can't stand that either and it would be top 5), but saying I swear after a statement. It's so frustrating to have someone tell you something and then expect you not to believe them, so they immediately go into defense mode by saying, "I swear, or I promise", and on occasion "you wanna bet?" Jesus addressed this pet peeve as if it was one of His own. He told them how to handle letting truth out and speaking about things.
"And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one." Matthew 5:36-37
He says we should keep it simple in that when we say something just leave it at that. There is no need to swear or make promises or defend yourself if you are telling the truth. You simply say what you need to say and because you know for a fact that it is the truth you will have no reason to say anything further. Jesus also knew that people that lie regularly need to defend themselves, so when you swear by something you are putting yourself on the same level with liars.
Yes I did see that, or guess what I saw, saw ....... the end. No need for defensive speech or swearing, just tell the truth and be done with it!
THanks for reading and have a great day!

feed them

There are so many times in my life when I have been frustrated by ministry. You plan for hours, pray for hours and put together a message or a lesson and only a few show up. You feel like you have wasted your time and then you put your Jesus glasses on and you see what you should do. I can remember times when we had 5 youth or less show up for a BIble study and you just have to smile and feed them. I recall Sunday mornings(not long ago at all) when I had spent hours of preparation for the BIble study and the worship service only to have 20-25 show up. What do you do? There are so many excuses out there, we were tired, we have been real busy, little league, work, grocery shopping, etc.. etc... THere are so many excuses, that sometimes you want to make your own. Wait for that day when everyone is there and tell them you are tired, you've had a busy week so you didn't prepare a sermon. Then you think about how Jesus would handle it. He would just feed them.
Armando Silverio told me as a young youth pastor how I should handle these situations. He told me that if I had 6 children of my own and one night Tara had cooked a huge dinner and we had set the table and been all ready for everyone to eat a meal together. What would you do if only 3 of your children showed up? FIrst of all you would be concerned about the 3 that didn't show, and probably be upset that they didn't show. But, in reality you would feed the three that did show. This is a very simple concept that many people don't get. You are talking for God so you feed the ones that come hungry.
But He answered, 'You give them something to eat.'" Mark 6:37
That's what Jesus says, they came here with needs so feed them. Feed them physically, emotionally and most importantly spiritually with all that you have to offer. When God calls people to do things He doesn't bring the masses, He may be calling us to reach one or two souls at a time. And if that is the case, you will never change anyone if you don't feed them.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!

laboring in vain

There are so many great things about living your life for the Lord. I don't know where to start with all the riches and blessings and feelings that come from getting up in the morning asking God to use you that day, and then thanking Him that evening for having used you. You don't know what a conversation, smile, or even a few minutes of listening to someone might do for them. There are so many things that we do in vain. I can honestly say I am not a great fan of dishes, lawn mowing and laundry(although not many people are). It seems like you wash dishes just to see a full sink the following evening. You wash clothes just to see the hamper overflowing a few hours later and you mow the grass just to watch the weeds take over a few days later. Your job may ask you to do things that are rather monotonous and empty like waxing and cleaning the floors of a supermarket just to be doing it again, blocking the shelves every evening before closing and so on.
Well you can rest assured that everything you do for God will not come back void. If you block shelves for God, if you wax floors for God, people will notice it and there will be some kind of fruit that comes from it. God will not allow you to do things in His name and not see the fruit at some point.
You may have a conversation with someone while performing these tasks, or even do a great job on a night that you aren't feeling well, someone will notice it.
Planting seeds of GOspel is a busy job that is so rewarding. I have had conversations where I mostly listen with people numerous times and wondered if I would ever see them in church. A few times it seems, months or even a year later there they are sitting on a pew wanting to be fed God's word. Was the conversation I had fruitful, yes it was, did others play a role in it? Yes most likely they did.
"Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain." 1 Corinthians 15:58
There you have it, Paul tells us to give ourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because that labor is NEVER in vain. Never will you do anything for God that turns back void and empty, at some point in some way it will touch someone. That's the greatest thing about working for God, Solomon in Ecclesiastes tells of how empty everything he chased after was. It wasn't until he filled the void in his heart with Christ and the toils and work of his life with God that his life had meaning.
So start your day out by asking God to use you, then look for opportunities to be used by God and see that there will be fruit in some way that day!
Thanks for reading and have a great day!