Comments on: Here Comes the Rain http://www.disciplemexico.org/2006/05/here-comes-rain.html News, notes and personal reflection from the Godzwa family during their mission to make disciples in Mexico Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:43:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: GuyMuse http://www.disciplemexico.org/2006/05/here-comes-rain.html/comment-page-1#comment-54 GuyMuse Sun, 28 May 2006 15:26:00 +0000 http://disciplemexico.org/wordpress/2006/05/here-comes-rain.html#comment-54 How we loved our time in Costa Rica back in 1987. Hope you are getting the Spanish down while there. Thanks for linking to the <a HREF="http://guymuse.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">M Blog.</A> Indeed we do feel the great need to be filled of the Spirit of God and work in His power and not the power of the flesh. Pray for us as the Spirit brings us to mind and keep up the good blogging! I have added you to my blog reader. How we loved our time in Costa Rica back in 1987. Hope you are getting the Spanish down while there.

Thanks for linking to the M Blog. Indeed we do feel the great need to be filled of the Spirit of God and work in His power and not the power of the flesh. Pray for us as the Spirit brings us to mind and keep up the good blogging! I have added you to my blog reader.

]]> By: Mom http://www.disciplemexico.org/2006/05/here-comes-rain.html/comment-page-1#comment-53 Mom Tue, 16 May 2006 18:08:00 +0000 http://disciplemexico.org/wordpress/2006/05/here-comes-rain.html#comment-53 Amen on turning to the Psalms David, King David, a man after Gods own heart certainly expressed himself, as well as some other men that wrote some of the Psalms. Although David, knowing that God had called him to be King ;yet went through really hard times poured out his soul to the King of the Universe and it is refreshing to see his heart, because so often it is our heart. Praise God that we serve a God who loves us and is a rock on which to stand and that He alone is our Shalom. Amen on turning to the Psalms David, King David, a man after Gods own heart certainly expressed himself, as well as some other men that wrote some of the Psalms. Although David, knowing that God had called him to be King ;yet went through really hard times poured out his soul to the King of the Universe and it is refreshing to see his heart, because so often it is our heart. Praise God that we serve a God who loves us and is a rock on which to stand and that He alone is our Shalom.

]]> By: Dave http://www.disciplemexico.org/2006/05/here-comes-rain.html/comment-page-1#comment-52 Dave Mon, 15 May 2006 22:14:00 +0000 http://disciplemexico.org/wordpress/2006/05/here-comes-rain.html#comment-52 See the big picture... Good words, Jim, something that we so often fail to do. When something goes wrong, I know that I have the tendency to start tinkering, wondering what part of what decision or process went wrong instead of taking time to allow God to reveal to me His plan in the midst of the situation. I think that that might be the American tendency. We don't have health or money or the right clothes or even success in ministry because of what we have done wrong, like the formula that you mentioned, when the situation might something much more profound that God is trying to demonstrate in our lives. Let's pray that we all get a chance to stop and allow Him to reveal His big picture to every one of us. See the big picture… Good words, Jim, something that we so often fail to do. When something goes wrong, I know that I have the tendency to start tinkering, wondering what part of what decision or process went wrong instead of taking time to allow God to reveal to me His plan in the midst of the situation.

I think that that might be the American tendency. We don’t have health or money or the right clothes or even success in ministry because of what we have done wrong, like the formula that you mentioned, when the situation might something much more profound that God is trying to demonstrate in our lives. Let’s pray that we all get a chance to stop and allow Him to reveal His big picture to every one of us.

]]> By: Amy http://www.disciplemexico.org/2006/05/here-comes-rain.html/comment-page-1#comment-51 Amy Mon, 15 May 2006 15:18:00 +0000 http://disciplemexico.org/wordpress/2006/05/here-comes-rain.html#comment-51 Good Stuff! Good Stuff!

]]> By: Jim http://www.disciplemexico.org/2006/05/here-comes-rain.html/comment-page-1#comment-50 Jim Mon, 15 May 2006 13:28:00 +0000 http://disciplemexico.org/wordpress/2006/05/here-comes-rain.html#comment-50 That's funny - on Sunday our pastor was talking about praying about the weather. But of course your post goes a lot deeper. It's amazing to me how many people don't seem to want a God who is a person, but a God who is a mathematical formula. Not necessarily a simple formula (Pray+really-hard=more stuff), but sometimes something more complex. Still, just a formula. God simply isn't that predictable. Sure, He will always keep His promises - in that way He's predictable. He will always love us, always be faithful. But so often we don't understand what that means, and don't see the big picture. That’s funny - on Sunday our pastor was talking about praying about the weather. But of course your post goes a lot deeper.

It’s amazing to me how many people don’t seem to want a God who is a person, but a God who is a mathematical formula. Not necessarily a simple formula (Pray+really-hard=more stuff), but sometimes something more complex. Still, just a formula.

God simply isn’t that predictable. Sure, He will always keep His promises - in that way He’s predictable. He will always love us, always be faithful. But so often we don’t understand what that means, and don’t see the big picture.

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