All things

 Praise the LORD!!!

    This morning I'm still in a bit of pain from my herniated disc and the last several days of work. I've been sitting here reflecting upon the last several years, those since I gave my life to the LORD. To all the work I've been doing on the ministry, for the ministry is basically my life. I live but to bring it into existence.

   The LORD's know better than any, all that I've been through in doing this and has totally been at the heart of the matter. Every little detail has been according to HIS purpose for me. Every detail!!! There has been many victories and many setbacks along the way. Sometimes so many setbacks, that I've felt like giving up and giving in to all that others were saying. I've not though, because the LORD has blessed me with a great faith that can see that it isn't that which I can do, but that which JESUS can do through me, that gets accomplished.

   As I was sitting here and viewing all that has been accomplished over the last twelve years and all that I've fallen short on, I began hearing all those voices of defeatism. I'm but a carpenter's son, a man of common labor, I've failed at three business', a drug addict, convicted felon, I think you get the idea. This is when it started. I've the T.V. on in the background, listening to Sunday morning services. First one preacher lays out a sermon and than another and though recorded at different times, both have the basis centering on one set of verses.

  Philippians 4:12,13 (KJV)

      12 † I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.  13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
   If  all that you've done in life seems to be nothing in comparison to that which you think it should be, don't worry! If you've seen trial after trial pile up upon your shoulders, don't worry about it! Focus only on the fact that all that life holds ahead of you, can be accomplished through JESUS!!!


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GOD bless and good day,

Rev. Marshall Barth
Vine of CHRIST Ministries