Continual thanks

So I believe I am learning a valuable lesson from God about finances, thanks, and discipline. When others want to blame the economy for their financial stress, and blame the government, right now in this moment, I thank God for the lesson I am being taught about managing my finances.

Seriously, I am broke y'all but I will have enough for food, gas, and transportation. I am also attending Dave Ramsey's financial Peace University and I am learning so much about money and hopefully when it is finished, my finances will be straightened out like I envisioned they would many many years ago. What does financial peace mean to you? Think about that, post your thoughts, comments please.

Clay Beach

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Riding in the rain

So I thought by now I would be done riding in the rain, but it lois like I was wrong

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New Beginnings

Ok so for todays post, I didn't know what to call the title. This will be a very short blog post, as my kids are waiting on me right now to take them to the swimming pool. But I just felt the need to post what happened t me on Saturday morning at around 6 am. 

So I woke up in a panic not able to breathe, I have asthma and I had been without my meds for a few days, Opal went and picked them up the night before, so I was awakened and not able to breathe, so I frantically looked for my Advair and my inhaler, once I found it, I took me meds and was getting ready to go back to bed, when all of a sudden(and it was already light out), the entire house was filled with a golden hue as the fullness of the sun made its way above the mountains, it was awesome to see! It doesn't happen all the time but I have seen it before, the golden sunrise like that, California has those like that from time to time. 

Just in that moment I dropped to my knees in worship and gave praise to God for the day, for His love, and for letting me see such a wonderful sight! 

Life Is Short

So I am driving down the freeway yesterday, on the 215/15 split, on the motorcycle and I was also splitting traffic. About fifty yards ahead of me there was another motorcycle, and he too, was splitting traffic. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, a blue Saturn hit the guy on the motorcycle, he went high side, which is what happens when the bike instead of laying down and sliding, it pretty much catapults you into the air. You never want to have to go high side, you would prefer to lay it down and slide with the bike so you have some semblance of protection.

Well he flew off the bike, and since the laws of physics demand it, the bike will follow the same trajectory as you do, and that's what happened, and when he hit the ground, the bike landed on top of him. Thankfully he wasn't seriously injured and he walked away. But since yesterday that is all I can think about. I guess you could say I pretty much got spooked, and if I had a car to drive, I would have made my 130 mile round trip commute in a car, instead of a bike.

Now to bring this back to scripture, I was sitting somewhere quiet at work, and pulled out my phone and turned on my Bible app, and I was last reading a scripture from Psalms from a sermon at church, and decided to keep on reading into the next chapter of Psalms 39 and then stopped at verse 5 in the Amplified version, it says, "Behold, You have made my days as [short as] handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight. Truly every man at his best is merely a breath! Selah [pause, and think calmly of that]!"

And I did, sit for a while, pause, and think calmly of just that.

Worry, Sorrow, and Faith

Not too long ago I was driving home from church, and saw another church sign that read"Worry looks around, sorry looks back, and faith looks up". Interestingly enough with my short term memory I memorized it.

Now here I am without going into too much detail, looking around, and looking back, shoulda coulda woulda but I didn't, then God reminded me, how many times are you gonna repent before you look to me? You are in a good spot right now Clay because now only I can deliver you from this, you can't do it yourself. You have to rely on Me, and after all didn't you ask for more faith?

So next time you find yourself in a bed of regret, shame, and overall just a bad situation remember the steps of the righteous are directed by the Lord, and if you should fall, He is there to pick you back up again, for you are not utterly cast down.

New Directions

Ok so without adding a separate URL, I decided to take my blog in a new direction and not only post just my prayer life, which quite honestly has been lacking lately, but as well as things that are happening in my family life as well. I plan on using this as a way to keep every body up to date and provide insight to those living far away from me and do not have or want facebook accounts. Look for more blog posts in the near future, as well as more spiritual insights as God provides them to me as I now have the capability to update this blog from my phone now as well.

Spirit of God

SO the Spirit of God moved freely today in our church as people cried out for Him. He has been showing up a lot more lately and I can't get enough of it. When I was growing up the teachings of the day was your bad and your going to hell if you sin, nothing you do is good enough, and while all this still holds true today, what was forgotten was the sacrifice God made to save us because He loves us so much. His love for us spans the fabric of time and the ends of the universe, that was never really emphasised to me, but now as He shows me more of Him, I can see more and more every day just how much He loves all of us. 

Pain of God

Ok so I know this post might be a bit touchy to some, but I will go ahead and post it anyways seeing as I only have two followers and I don't really post on here often enough to begin with. Ok so this weekend my sister-in-law who is in bad condition with the bottle, drank a lot again this past week. My wife and I are tired of helping her, not only that, we are tired of watching her destroy her life, while destroying ours by ways of collateral damage. 

But this isn't about all that, it is about a revelation God gave to me during all this. There was a moment in time when she was sitting on my front porch, drunk out of her mind, literally, when a though came to my mind, if her dad saw her like this it would break his heart into pieces. Then God spoke to me softly, how much more do you think this breaks My heart?

Sleeping in righteousness

Last night I fell asleep almost instantaneously as I meditated about Rom 1:17 "For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith [disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith]. As it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith." I am constantly reminded by satan of how bad I am and all the mistakes that I make on a daily basis. I hear other mature christians talk about how righteous they are and I used to think, wow, they don't have the sin in their life that I do in mine. Then I ran into this scripture and it tells me that I am made righteous in the sight of God by my faith in Jesus Christ as my saviour, not by works or by anything else that I could do, for the Gospel (good news) of Jesus is that He paid that price of death for our sins when He died on the cross, then God raised Him up from the dead and took Him into heaven. I can now say that I have been made righteous in the sight of God by the blood of Jesus Christ!!!