It's All About Ability

These last few months have been a whirlwind. My family is now on field at our new Ministry in a new town. God has really done some amazing things in working out these details. We sure miss the folks we have been with for the last 8 years. They have really been a blessing to us.

But we are making new relationships at our new church. It is really interesting though, that even though the faces have changed and the church building has changed, nothing really changes. Church work is still church work. Preaching is still preaching and soul winning is still soul winning.

I have challenged our church in the last few weeks to consider how and why we do the work we do. There is a Scripture verse that I want to commend to you all today and it is simply this:

Ephesians 3:20 "Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly more than we could ever ask or think..."

I have found that far to often, I try to make things up as I go along. I have an idea and I try to implement this profound idea. Very rarely have those plans succeeded. I have known this for a long time, but sometimes I forget what I know, you know what I mean?

We cannot do this work alone. Jesus himself said, "without me you can do nothing" I am not sure why I/we continue to try to do things on our own. But when we remember, that without him we can do nothing and begin to allow Him, beg Him, desire Him to empower us to do the work He has called us to, and allow Him to be the source of our "Ability" it is then and ONLY then that what we call success begins to happen.

And it happens in floods. Because we serve a big God who has a BIG plan and when we allow Him to accomplish his plan the results are so much bigger than we could have ever imagined.

So my encouragement to US today is to remember that we are "disabled" but HE, Our God, is Able and He will do what we cannot!!!

By His Grace and For His Glory,

Bro. Chad
By His