The Good News in Cleveland

It's hard to believe all that has happened since my redemption. He called me to Israel and away from my own plans. I did not know how much I did not know about Him and His Spirit. He has taught me so much and how to know more from His Word. Looking from the outside, someone might have thought that I was dumber than a bag a rocks in my life plan. I have degrees and have neglected the subsequent opportunities to be comfortable on the outside and dead on the inside. After Israel, God brought me back to Cleveland. That is a hard place to do ministry. And in the eyes of global missions, it is not the most alluring place to go or even support. However, God has a different ideas about Cleveland. Since the time He called me in the fall of 2014, He has slowly but surely formed in me His affections for the lost and difficult to love. This was never my plan for what I thought of as "my life." No, it is so much better. And even now, more than two years later and not a penny riche

I gave my mind and my heart to Jesus as a child, but even demons know of God and that He is in the business of redeeming. James 2:18-19 "But someone will say, 'You have faith, and I have works.' Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith from my works. You believe that God is one; you do well. The demons also believe - and they shudder." It was my will that He did not have. It is my will that He demands. Without the giving of my will, my faith was incomplete. And without faith it is impossible to please God. Matthew 16:24-25 “Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it.'" I had never sang in front of a soul before, but God has a calling on my heart. Into the fire I went to sing "If I Stand" by Rich Mullins, a solo from the piano. God