The Devil in Discouragement!

Hey Bloggers, 

One of the most precious people in my life is going through discouragement. It makes my heart ache because I have been there so many times before. Everything you have believed for, hoped for, worked for and dreamed for seems as though it will never come to pass. After a while your mind starts to think, what's the use, why try, does it really matter all that much or does it only matter to me? 

I've discovered in my own life that the Devil is in discouragement. It is the complete opposite of faith and trust. It is also one primary way he turns us back from our voyage to acquire God's Richest Treasures. It's in times of discouragement you have to draw from something greater than yourself because our flesh is prone to grow weary. 

When those voices are tearing you down there is a word that will lift you up. Just think for a moment about the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self control. These things are not produced in your heart by being discouraged. 

Wisdom that comes from God is first of all pure, peace loving, full of mercy and good fruit. There is no good fruit produced from discouragement, so tell that devil to get out of your mind because you are on the verge of capturing God's Greatest Treasures. 

You Are Loved.

Help

Hey Bloggers,

Being the rookie that I am at this blogging thing, how do I get my blog to more people? How do I promote it or advertise it? Someone give me some ideas. 4730Rock.blogspot.com I think.

Blessings

Love Me Tender

Hey Bloggers, God has blessed us with a beautiful day in the midwest and me and the wife are off to the annual marriage retreat. The theme this year is "Love me Tender!" Pray with me that the 18 couples attending will fall deeper in love, walk more as one, and learn to treat each other with tenderness. 

If those three things are accomplished in each couple it will be an awesome retreat. Our scriptures for the weekend will be Ephesians 4: 29-32. God is pro successful marriage so I know he will be with us as we endeavor to honor him and strengthen marriages. 

Be Blessed

The Prepared Place #2

Jesus said, "I do nothing except what I see my Father doing!" The Father was taking from what was his and making it known to the Son. When the Son saw it and knew it was the Father's will he could move toward it with confidence knowing it would happen just as the Father had shown him.

God is obviously preparing for us a place in eternity, the Spirit gives us his witness and glimpses of what that will be like. But God also has to reveal to us his purposes on the earth. What he has prepared for us here. 

He prepared for Israel a promised land, he showed them what that land was like, said it was theirs and then commanded them to go and possess it. I believe he is doing the same with us. God sees the Rock Church of our future, where it is, what it is, how it will become. "He calls things that are not as though they were!" It's not to be patterned after our ideals, but his.

We have to ask, seek, and knock and as we do God will unfold the plan, he will show us what his Rock Church looks like. His Spirit will reveal this prepared place that is now just a God thought.  Jesus said, "I will build MY CHURCH and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. 

Father, in Jesus name, Show us the place as you desire it to be. Amen

The Prepared Place

My attention has been on the words of Apostle Paul lately in 1 Corinthians 2:9-10. The phrase that really knocks my socks off is "what God has prepared for those who love him." That implies that God has been busy working, getting something ready, something he has in mind for those who love him. 

If you'll hang with me it gets even better. The next phrase is, "But God has revealed it to us by his Spirit." Revealed what? What does the Holy Spirit want to reveal to us? What God has prepared for those who love him. 

Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would take from what is his and make it known to us. He would take from what God has for us and show it to us. Why does God want to show us what he has for us? Tell me what you think and then I'll tell you what I think.

Blessings

Hurricane Stealth #3

Hey bloggers, if your not sure what this Hurricane Stealth thing is all about let me explain. Our American Military has a bomber they use for secretive missions called a Stealth Bomber. It is virtually undetectable by radar and can sneak in and do its damage before the enemy knows what even hit them.

God has given us as believers our own stealth capability. The Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit prays through us he only prays according to Gods will, the devil can't understand these prayers because they are uttered in words that only God himself can understand. 

Pray that God would give you the language of the Holy Spirit and don't be fearful of spiritual gifts. The benefits are eternal and unmeasurable. 1 Cor 12:1 says God does not want us ignorant of spiritual gifts. So get busy getting knowledge about these wonderful gifts of grace. 

Remember, the Holy Spirit always and only prays according to Gods will, when we pray Gods will God hears us, when we know God has heard us, we know we have what we asked for. 1 John 5:14-15. So get to praying.

Blessings.

Pastor Dan

Areopagus Concert

Hey Bloggers, Areopagus is making history with a concert tonight featuring Thao Nguyen and The Get Down Stay Down with The Lonelyhearts. This is what the coffee shop is all about. Connecting with the community. If you have nothing going on its happening until 10:00pm

Another Hurrican Stealth adventure is in the making so keep your spiritual light on and pray in the Holy Spirit

Blessings

Pastor Dan

Hey Bloggers,

Were winding down the Antioch School training here in Ames Iowa. It has been very enlightening and refreshing. Should be on the road by 8pm. Please pray with me about the future launching of Antioch School. 

 

Hurricane Stealth is still stirring and this school will be part of the storm. Start studying Acts 1:8 and 2:1-4. It has a lot to do with where we are heading in the spiritual arena. 

Blessings

Pastor Dan

Antioch School

I am 18 hours into the training for Rock Church's new bible school. Very intense but exciting. I have no doubt that God is getting us ready to prepare a generation of redefined believers for his work in the world.

If your faith is on fire, you have a heart to serve God, and your ready to prepare for a life of service to Jesus Christ, get ready. God wants to unleash a model for ministry that will plunder hell to populate heaven. I pray it begins with whoever has the courage to read this blog.

Blessings

Hurricane Stealth #2

Hey bloggers, for those of you who are on a spiritual quest to know God better I would begin by searching the scriptures regarding the Holy Spirit. We know he has been poured out and given to the church, but are we tapped into the potential His presence brings into our lives? Do we want to be?

Did you know the Holy Spirit knows the deep things of God? Did you know that God reveals things to us through the Holy Spirit? Did you know that the Holy Spirit always prays according to the will of God? Did you know that every prayer prayed according to God's will has to be answered?

Answer this next question and you will be well on your way to a life filled with answered prayer. How do you pray in the Holy Spirit? Answer this question and you will be well on your way to being connected to Hurricane Stealth. 

Blessings

Hurricane Stealth

We've been hearing a lot about hurricanes lately in the natural. I believe God is unleashing one of his own in the spiritual realm. What's causing this hurricane to brew is spiritual conflict. When the enemy comes in like a flood, God has promised to raise up a standard against him.

You may not see this hurricane because its coming in stealth. Many of you have been in such battles you have not known what to pray for or how to pray. Stay tuned to this blog because God is about to show you.

blessings

Dan