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Mitosis can only be summed up into one word FANTASTIC!!!
For those of you who don't know what Mitosis is you will have to come to next years conference it will change your whole way of thinking.
The weather was so amazing I got to ride my Bike (love it) and on Saturday me and Robin had a little training session and she is now riding her bike. WE rode to family and friends house, worship practice, the races (rode home in the dark), and she rode to church yesterday all alone (I was already there). It is so much fun riding with my best friend beside me (I like it when she is behind me too (-; )
So Bikes.... Bikes.... Bikes ... it is all I think about now
Here is a picture of happiness
and look at the new pipes I got from her for Christmas (PRETTY!!!)
I "IMAGINE" great road trips with these babies ;-)
The term comes from the military which basically means that the people firing and killing are on the same side as the killed.
I don't know about you all but I am so tired of hearing about God's kids falling to "Friendly Fire". Christian tearing down fellow Christians, for what? The Bible tells us to be each other’s keepers, It tells us to be stepping stones not stumbling blocks, It tells us that we are to be Christ like not act like a pack of devils to each other.
I think (personal opinion) we as Christians need to get our heads out of rectal seclusion and get it in "The Game". There are real people going to hell cause we are so busy tearing down the ones that are already saved, sanctified, and forgiven that we are not focused on the people God is telling us to minister too. I heard too many things of this nature happening in "The House" to just sit here and watch it happen anymore. "United We Stand, Divided We Fall". Do not allow the enemy to ensnare you into being divided. Resist the temptations of Gossip and back biting. Watch your actions that you don't cause your brother or sister to stumble. Love, Love, Love as Christ loves you. ALL of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, we all have mud and dirt and blemishes we are not proud of. The past is the past. Forgiven by God and is what it is….the past. Fellow Christians today is the day where we stop looking at what we did, or what someone else did and we move forward sharing the Love of Christ with those in need of a God just like we all needed a God before we were introduced to our God.
Easter is this weekend and a perfect time to get those in need to “The House” so that they can meet The One that is ready to heal their wounds.
Do you really know what makes a friend fall into the "Great Friend" category?
I have a few really great friends, no we don't talk every day, no we don't hang out as often as we want to, in some cases we don't see or talk for a year or more. You know it's a great friend when you do talk and it's like you just saw them yesterday. I have a few of those that fall into that description for me, my Dad (Bill), James, Rory, Todd, Jason, Chris..... I know there are more but you get the idea. A Great Friend doesn't care if they see you or not (they would love to hang out with you), or have a long talk with you (even though it would be a good time), you see a Great Friend is just that, no matter what. A friendship shouldn't be hinged on such things as whether you talk to them this week or not. A true friend is there always whatever life might bring. Some of those in my list are not God living guys, one isn't even God believing, but still a Great Friend. No conditions, no requirements, nothing but being Great Friends.
Are you being a Great Friend to your friends?
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
Was blind but now I see so clearly
I don't care how bad you were/are what you've done or to whom you've done it too. I was up there with the worst of the worst, and now my life is 180 degrees thanks to the Grace of God. He can do the same for you.
I do, constantly. That is my way of living. It is nice sometime to know what to expect most of the time, but it can also really just flat out suck due to the fact that you over analyze EVERYTHING. Some of the simplest statements can cause a chain reaction of thoughts to try and figure out if it is really possible. The results of this way of life often end the same way....fear to try. I struggle with the fear to try thing every day, only due to the unknown outcome. It is not impossible to overcome, but it is difficult at times. I learned how to recognize this normal way of thinking for me, and also learned how to deal with this from Pastor Mel. She held this class called Leading With Your Strengths, and it changed my life. It introduced the four basic elements of the way people think and act and re-act. It made it allot easier to notice what I was doing and why I was doing it and more importantly that not everybody thinks like I do so don't expect them to. In fact it also helps me when Robin needs to talk or is going through a challenge, cause Robin isn't like me and requires a different approach to dealing with things than me. So don't get frustrated when others don't think like you do, learn to deal with people how they are, and you will see better results. You can find more information on Leading from your strengths at The Rock Church website under activity based reach teams.
So some of you may know me well enough to know that I have an addiction. An addiction I am working on one day at a time. "My name is Kyle, and I am a Diet Coke-Aholic". Thats right I would drink anywhere from 12 to 24 cans a day. I used to carry a case (yes I said a case) in my truck so that I would always have some to drink. I have heard from a lot of people about how bad it is for me and blah blah blah... I still don't care about that. The thing I don't like is the fact that my body would go through withdraws from the stuff that is in Diet Coke. Here is the breakdown. My Church at the beginning of the year does a fast (preying and fasting something that has meaning in your life) when I fast I would make sure to include soda which means no Diet Coke. The first year I did this I went from 12 to 24 cans a day to ZERO cans a day. I made it about a day and a half before puking up everything that went down. I went through Major withdraws that I thought to be from no caffeine. After that I cut back my intake of Diet Coke to 2 to 4 cans a day (way better), and I started drinking Lattes again (still not good for me, but better than Diet Coke). Then I go and change jobs about a year and a half ago, and guess what FREE DIET COKE!!!! You have got to be kidding me, I can not believe this I cut WAY back on my Diet Coke intake and now I can drink as much as I want for free??? How am I going to do this???
I have never been a fan of drinking water, and my work also has a water dispenser much like one on a refrigerator, only this one sits on the counter. So I go out and I fine a water bottle I like (32oz) and I get started on my journey, a journey to as little Diet Coke as I can handdle.
I made a decision, if I go get a Diet Coke then I also fill my water bottle. I go to my desk I drink the Diet Coke, then I drink the water, and it worked great. Some days better than others. I was making ALOT of trips to the bathroom.
Now it is 2008 and it is 1 week from the fast, and I got to thinking..... "before I cut out all my caffeine intake, I'll cut the Diet Coke cause not drinking lattes is easier than not drinking Diet Coke and then I can cure the caffeine withdraws while slowly cutting out the caffeine in my system". This is a great idea, right? Wrong! What I thought was caffeine withdraws headaches (which I tried to cure with other forms of caffeine) did not go away when I had caffeine. Which means that they are not caffeine withdraws headaches at all but withdraws from whatever else is in Diet Coke...... I am crushed, but I don't like something having such a grip on me that my body withdraws from not having it. It has now been 23 days Diet Coke Free.
Will I ever have a Diet Coke? Probably. Will it become my drink of choice again? No.
What an amazing week. Just what I needed. For the past few months I have not been getting much sleep, and the sleep I was getting was not very restful. After a week of prayer and fasting, to eating real food again which make me more active has caused me to sleep better. More sleep makes for happy times :-)
There has been a tremendous enlightenment that has also resulted from the fast, and I look forward to seeing what God has in store for me and for Robin in the near future.
How about last Wed Fuel service??? What an amazing night of worship, prayer, and prophetic words. Absolutely off the hook incredible.
OK Everybody it's Robin's Birthday today.
So last night I rented a hotel room just up the road from work so she could sleep in a little, and have time to go get a coffee to break the fast (I got a doughnut too, karma lol)
Alright campers we are in the home stretch lol
I have never been so excited to eat in my life (well other than fruits and veggies). I am on a Daniel fsat and I am NOT a veggie eater. Probbably why it is a good fast for me ;-). I think the hardest part of this fast for me was Robin not being on the same fast as I am. The last fast we were on we did the same fast so we were eating the sme things (more or less). This time was so much harder with Robin eating "real food" while I am eating a salad. I came out of the shower one night and she was sitting in bed watching TV eating Nacho Cheese Doritto's, and I could smell them from across the room. So I went to the living room and ate an apple (lame).
I have to say this about the whole situation. I have a whole new look on division in the house you live in. When you are not on a singular vision (like Robin and my fast difference) it makes it really hard to be together on everything. Lets face it, when you are hungry from lack of meat and potatoes you don't want to smell chilli cookin in the kitchen, cause it makes it harder to obtain the goals set out before you. So you ask what does that have to do with you....well like our fast difference, the House you serve in (your local church) has a goal to achive with a vision to follow. If you are not on the same vision, you are in division with your church. So while your church is eating salad your in the kitchen makeing chilli and possibly causing your not as strong of a brother or sister to loose focus on the goal set before them and may even cause them to not obtain that goal.
I have seen the light on division and now I look forward to putting a piece of pizza in the darkness of my belly at about 12:01am tonight :-)
Last night was the worst. I laid in bed praying, and praying, and praying. I just wanted to fall asleep, but couldn't.
All I could think about was.....
I almost made a late night run :-)
Then this morning I go to a company meeting and there is DOUGHNUTS lots of them. I could see the maple bar (my favorite) peeking over the edge of the box at me the whole time, and all I could smell was the coffee. Oh man, this has been the biggest challenge, but I remain strong in my commitment.
