IT'S ALL ABOUT SERVING OUR SAVIOR!: I AIM TO PLEASE YOU!

Monday, May 9, 2011

I AIM TO PLEASE YOU!

As I normally tell you, I talk to God as I exercise on my daily walk. Gary and I get a little discouraged sometimes at this job. The kids may be misbehaving or we feel like we are not able to please anyone. No matter how hard we try, sometimes it's just not enough. And then today, on my walk, I thought; why? When did our job become about pleasing everyone but our God? When did we start working to please someone other than the one who saved us from a Devil's hell? Gary and I are here, not to please the children, not to please our co-workers, but to please God Almighty. If our work is pleasing to God, then it should be pleasing to everyone, right. Well, everyone but the Devil! I was walking today and was about 1/2 mile away when I looked down the road and seen Mr. Carpenter. He is an older man that walks in town and people give him money and feed him. (You can read more about him on this blog: Christmas shoes.) He is pretty old and not able to walk well. For the first time since I've been in Monticello, I seen him with his thumb out. He was wanting a ride. I watched one by one, each car pass him by. I thought, what makes our life so busy that we can't stop and give an elderly man a ride down the street. I watched as each car passed him while I approached him. I stopped and asked him how he was doing. He said he was doing fine and he reached out to hug me. I gave him a hug and asked him where he was trying to get to. He told me he was going to the Huddle House to get something to eat. The Huddle House was only about 1/2 mile from where we were standing. I hugged him and told him I loved him and I hoped he got a ride soon. He just smiled. I walked away and I kept looking back as I got further down the road. He still stood there, waiting for a ride. One by one, people passed him by. I prayed to God to please never let my life get so busy that I can't stop and please him. I don't want to ever pass someone by that needs a friend. I don't ever want my actions to be unpleasing to God. He gave me life, eternity with him awaits for me. The least I can do is try to live a life pleasing to him. A life to please my Savior!

MAY THE GOD OF PEACE, WHO THROUGH THE BLOOD OF THE ETERNAL COVENANT BROUGHT BACK FROM THE DEAD OUR LORD JESUS, THAT GREAT SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP, EQUIP YOU WITH EVERYTHING GOOD FOR DOING HIS WILL, AND MAY HE WORK IN US WHAT IS PLEASING TO HIM, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN.
HEBREWS 13:20-21

Lord you know my heart. Please let everything I do be for your Glory and pleasing to you, God. I love you Lord! Thank you for my Salvation and the tool's you give me to work for you.

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Our Beggining and how it all got started

My husband, Gary, was the pastor of a church in Conway, AR. He resigned because we felt like God wanted us some where else. We came back to our home church in Little Rock, AR. and waited on God to show us where to he wanted us to go. I prayed every night; Lord show me where you want me to go and I will be willing to follow. I prayed for a full-time ministry and for the Lord to show me how to love as he does. I felt I didn't really know how to love and I wanted to learn. Gary soon got a call from a church by our home that was looking for a pastor. We went there for several Sunday's for him to preach and was told that the church was going to call him to pastor. On that same day, I received a call from my best friend to please pray for a set of house parents at ABC Homes. Immediately I knew what God was asking us to do. Two weeks later we set off for our trip to visit ABC Homes. I was very excited to be going, but thought I can't do this. I liked my time to myself, I liked to get up and go when I wanted. I didn't want to be around a house full of kids and kaos all day! God put me in my place real fast. He let me know how selfish I was being. I had just told him the night before, you tell me where to go and I will follow. Now I was telling God I couldn't? Well, he convicted me real quick on that one. We spent the night at ABC homes in Monticello and got to know some of the kid's. They were so happy and so full of love. Gary and I got up the next morning and walked through the campus. I started crying feeling overwhelmed by the presence of God. God was all over the campus and he said; Denise, this is where you will serve me. Gary felt the same conviciton and we knew God needed us there. We stayed for almost a year and felt God asking us to move on. We gained custody of a 17 year old boy, Jackie, who is on fire for the Lord. We are very excited about what God has instore for our family and very excited to have kids to minister with us. God is so good! We seek his will for our lives always!

OUR LIFE

I am so glad you dropped by to read what we did today. It is so nice to know that we have prayer warriors on our side. Please continue coming back and viewing the blog so you will know where some of our prayer needs are. God bless you all. We love you and hope you have a great day!

Love, Gary and Denise