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Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Monday, June 27, 2016
Property Development | June 27, 2016
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Day 13 | Future
The American culture, more than maybe any culture, is driven by the future. And why shouldn’t it be? It was the very reason so many people migrated here. The American dream. We are a land called the great melting pot. Our very roots were grown from the hope of the future.
As a child growing up in our culture, everything revolved around the next step. We must perform a certain way to make it into an elite University. We must get the degree, to get the job, to get us to retirement as quickly and richly as possible. Plans are what form the basis for our future. We need to have an air-tight plan. So as a Christian in our culture, what I find myself doing is making plans even though my life was purchased by Christ.
"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body." 1 Cor 6:19-20
We make plans and try to pray them into being as if God is a genie. Surely God will honor my plans if I have fit him into them. How often do we ask God for His plan and then wait for the answer? By designing our own future we place ourselves in the position that should be held by God. James calls it an “evil arrogance.”
"Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit'-- yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.' As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil." James 4:13-16
So today, though there are many things that we here at Casas want for our ministry’s future, let’s pray that God’s desires and plans would come to fruition. Pray that God would grant us peace by revealing His heart to us even at small steps at a time. Pray that we would trust God to be the leader of our ministry and our lives.
God we ask that Your kingdom come, that Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven…
-Justin
As a child growing up in our culture, everything revolved around the next step. We must perform a certain way to make it into an elite University. We must get the degree, to get the job, to get us to retirement as quickly and richly as possible. Plans are what form the basis for our future. We need to have an air-tight plan. So as a Christian in our culture, what I find myself doing is making plans even though my life was purchased by Christ.
"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body." 1 Cor 6:19-20
We make plans and try to pray them into being as if God is a genie. Surely God will honor my plans if I have fit him into them. How often do we ask God for His plan and then wait for the answer? By designing our own future we place ourselves in the position that should be held by God. James calls it an “evil arrogance.”
"Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit'-- yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.' As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil." James 4:13-16
So today, though there are many things that we here at Casas want for our ministry’s future, let’s pray that God’s desires and plans would come to fruition. Pray that God would grant us peace by revealing His heart to us even at small steps at a time. Pray that we would trust God to be the leader of our ministry and our lives.
God we ask that Your kingdom come, that Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven…
-Justin
Friday, September 23, 2011
Day 12 | Future Missionaries
There has been a lot of talk lately about “short-term missions.” Some people love them and some people would do away with them all together. That’s a blog for another day. I tend to fall into the “love” category. I’ve been leading these trips for over 10 years of my life, but I think the reason I love them so much is the two-fold purpose behind them. A short term trip impacts those serving and those being served. It’s a win-win, really. I think that it’s amazing to be a part of an organization that changes lives; making a huge difference in such a short time that lasts for years to come (through a home and more importantly through the connection to local pastors.)
I’ve heard hundreds of stories of lives changed because of a short-term trip. I’ve heard stories of people committing their lives to ministry because God called them or revealed something to them on a mission trip. I know of missionaries serving in other parts of the world that wouldn’t be doing so if they hadn’t first gone on a week long mission trip. These trips do make a difference.
I don’t think that everyone is called to make “that” kind of commitment. However, I think we are all called. I think the trip itself is a catalyst for so much more. I think God uses the short window of time to reshape and remold our vision as Christians for the whole world. All of us are called to be missionaries, not just those of us serving full-time with Casas or other missionaries serving in different places with other organizations; all of us.
Plain and simple, we are all called to show Christ to everyone we come across. All throughout the New Testament there are testimonies of people that are going and showing Christ’s love as missionaries in their daily lives wherever they are. Will you?
Today we simply ask that you pray for God to raise up new “missionaries.” Pray that as people return home they have a vision for their communities and their cities. Pray that others would answer the call to full-time service in the ministry. Pray that God will use these trips to change and mold all of us into the followers He desires us to be.
-Pete
I’ve heard hundreds of stories of lives changed because of a short-term trip. I’ve heard stories of people committing their lives to ministry because God called them or revealed something to them on a mission trip. I know of missionaries serving in other parts of the world that wouldn’t be doing so if they hadn’t first gone on a week long mission trip. These trips do make a difference.
I don’t think that everyone is called to make “that” kind of commitment. However, I think we are all called. I think the trip itself is a catalyst for so much more. I think God uses the short window of time to reshape and remold our vision as Christians for the whole world. All of us are called to be missionaries, not just those of us serving full-time with Casas or other missionaries serving in different places with other organizations; all of us.
Plain and simple, we are all called to show Christ to everyone we come across. All throughout the New Testament there are testimonies of people that are going and showing Christ’s love as missionaries in their daily lives wherever they are. Will you?
Today we simply ask that you pray for God to raise up new “missionaries.” Pray that as people return home they have a vision for their communities and their cities. Pray that others would answer the call to full-time service in the ministry. Pray that God will use these trips to change and mold all of us into the followers He desires us to be.
-Pete
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