I m Back !!!

I hope everone had a wonderful Christmas like we did ! Off for week at work during the Christmas ( with out pay ). Not much I can do about it but ,it just gives me a chance to think , to be with my angels , and to to see how much faith I have in the Lord Almighty. It has been awhile since I have posted anything ( shame on me !!) The plan for work this week is work three days off two .This gives me more time to think , to be with my angels, and to put more trust in the Lord. One of the coolest gifts I received was a FireProof T- shirts from Paul ,and Julie and I bought the Love Dare for each other . Then today at church our church bought each couple a Love Dare book to read so we have two books , it gives us a double challenge. And believe me since we have started three days ago satan has been bombing this marriage ! We have found Gods bunkers have doctored our wounds , and we are going to have a OPERATION GODLY FREEDOM !!!
And we have found the weapons of mass destruction . 11 years with Julie have been the greatest years of my life . And I want to make the next 11 even greater , and that is with a Christ driven marriage .

With Christ Love ,
Charlie

praying for your wife...

the following is an excerpt from "The Power of a Praying Husband" by Stormie O'Martian (a book that Julie bought me about 7 yrs. ago and I am just now seriously reading, ouch.) :(

"I once saw a football game where the home team was losing and there were less than 15 seconds left in the game. They needed a touchdown to win, but everything was against them making a score in that amount of time. The game appeared to be over, and the opposing team and fans were already celebrating. Some people were even leaving the stadium. But the losing team and coach didn't give up or let their morale fall. Instead they pulled an unlikely play out of thier book, and through the most astonishing sequence of events, the home team made a winning touchdown in the last few seconds of the game. It was so amazing that news reports of it even referred to it as a miracle.

Your marriage is like that football game. You and your wife are a team. And she wants the security of knowing that when things are tough and down to the wire-even when the enemy is already celebrating your demise and all appears to be lost-you have the faith to believe that up to the very last second everything can turn around. She needs the assurance you have a play in your pocket that can take you down the field with the ball for a possible winning score. She wants you to trust that with God nothing is impossible and because of that you will never give up hoping for the impossible to happen.

When your wife knows you are praying, she is confident of all of these things. In my survey of wives, 85 percent of them said the most important prayer their husband could pray was that he would become the man, husband, and head of the home that God wanted him to be. This is the most important place for a man to begin praying."

*Men, I ask you, what's holding you back? Step up to the plate for your family.

*Shall we pray?

Heavenly Father,

I come to you today to repent of all that I have done against your will. I repent of the sorrow I have caused my wife by not praying for her and our children. I pray that you would show me the way to be the husband and father that you want me to be. Guide me in your ways, Lord.

In Jesus name,
Amen

Charlie

Thankfulness

*If you own just one Bible, you are abundantly blessed. One -third of all the world does not have access to even one.

*If you woke this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

*If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the lonliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

*If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harrassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

*If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep , you are richer than 75 % of this world.

*If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among 8 % of the world's wealthy.

*If your parents are still married and alive, you are very rare, even in the United States.

*If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can but most do not.

*If you can hold someone's hand, hug them, or even touch them on the shoulder, you are blessed.

*If you prayed yesterday and today, you are blessed because you blieved in Go'd willingness to hear and answer prayer.

*If you believe in Jesus as the Son of God, you are part of a small minority in the world.

*If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two million people in the world who cannot read anything at all.

*found this in a box of things yesterday. Hope it blesses you as it did me, Happy Thanksgiving!

Charlie

verses to ponder on this Thanksgiving week and always...

"Be anxious for nothing, but n everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God" (Phillippians 4:6)

"And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father."(Colossians 3:17)

"In everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" (1 Thessalonians 5:18)

*Be back later;

Happy hunting & happy eating!

Charlie

VACATION!!!!!

Finally, I am back! I am on a 10 day vacation starting tonight so maybe I will get something posted this week? We shall see. :)

God Bless & Happy Deer Hunting (I mean, Thanksgiving) week!

Charlie

GREAT MOVIE!!

Just went and seen FIREPROOF . Its a must see movie for couples or for the whole family . It was great to see a movie with no bad language or scenes.And o my word they talk GOD and saving a marriage not destroying it! All I can say is who needs Hollywood and Brad Pitt or whomever?

MUST see this movie!!

Matthew 6:25-34

25“So I tell you, don’t worry about the food you need to live. And don’t worry about the clothes you need for your body. Life is more important than food. And the body is more important than clothes. 26Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or save food in barns. But your heavenly Father feeds those birds. And you know that you are worth much more than the birds. 27You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it.

28“And why do you worry about clothes? Look at the flowers in the field. See how they grow. They don’t work or make clothes for themselves. 29But I tell you that even Solomon, the great and rich king, was not dressed as beautifully as one of these flowers. 30God clothes the grass in the field like that. That grass is living today, but tomorrow it is thrown into the fire to be burned. So you know that God will clothe you much more. Don’t have so little faith!

31Don’t worry and say, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32All the people that don’t know God try to get these things. Don’t worry, because your Father in heaven knows that you need these things. 33The thing you should want most is God’s kingdom and doing the good things God wants you to do. Then all these other things you need will be given to you. 34So don’t worry about tomorrow. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Tomorrow will have its own worries.

*This passage puts to rest a lot of the thoughts I have been having this week. This really just says it all and tells us exactly what we should be doing. And the one thing that we should not do is, WORRY!!

Have a good weekend!

Tuesdays turnout

No matter what happens in this election ,we must keep going and fighting the good fight of faith . And that is a fight for your souls eternity .Not passing judgement on any one,fighting over nonsense ( majority of the time over a brothers law not Gods law).My point is we have a duty to fill , and that is to go out and teach all nations the gospel and baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost .Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you .Matt 28 :18-20 Because all power has been given unto Jesus Christ vs. 18 Not to Obama nor McCain. We must live our faith no matter what . Even if its just for our families .Look at what Titus 2 vs 1 teach with sound doctrine ,it mean you live out your faith in a godly conduct no matter who you are or how old you are male or female.But here at these home things are NOT GOING TO CHANGE ! AND THE ONLY HOPE THAT WE HAVE IS FROM GOD.

Joshua 24:15 (King James Version)
King James Version (KJV)
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15And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: >but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD>
AND HIM ONLY!!!!
Charlie

Vote Tuesday!!!!

When life gets you down , puts a knot in your stomach.Or what ever life puts before you day in and day out . Remember this verse, write it in your heart.

PHILIPPIANS 4:6
DON'T WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING ,
BUT PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING!

More on Titus tomorrow

Charlie

titus 2

I have studied Titus 2 a few times , and for some reason I keep coming back to it .There is a lot of instructions for us as Christians and as couples and as parents to follow . So many things todays generations have failed to follow or to ignore or just hasn't been taught .A few years ago ther was an ad on tv about a child who was on drugs dad finds out , dad asked him where did you learn to do this? The son said by watching you dad! This chapter is about example . The older ones are the mold the younger ones are the jello. We need to make sure our words and are actions are grounded in the Truth , and it sets up in their minds firm!

More in depth thoughts to follow this weekend.....

Husbands

Found this article in some old papers of Julie's grandpa, Lloyd Treat. He has some great stuff there. Read this and let me know what you think. Anyway, some good stuff on marriage right here.

Ephesians 5v25-33: Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it; that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word. That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and the two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery; but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Netherless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Here we see that marriage is a picture of Christ and the church. Husbands have the responsibility to love their wives even as Christ loved the church. Christ's love was self sacrificing, so likewise a husband should sacrifice self giving preference to his wife, caring and nourishing her. If a husband loves his wife as much as Christ loved the church then surely the wife will find it easier to submit herself to her husband. Paul concludes the passage by exalting men to love their wives as themselves.

1 Corinthians 7v3-5: Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Husbands here are commanded not to deny their bodies from their wives. Unless it is for an agreed pre-determined period of time to give themselves more fully unto the Lord. Paul warns that the time must be agreed before hand lest Satan should tempt them.

1 Corinthians 7v11b-12: .. let not the husband put away his wife. But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not. 1 Corinthians 7v14-16: For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us unto peace. For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man whether thou shalt save thy wife?

Husbands are exalted here not to put away their wives. Even if he is a believer but she is not, he should not seek a divorce, but if she desires to leave then he should let her leave peacefully. The believing husband should continue to live with the non-believing wife for two reasons. First, by having a believing husband she is sanctified. Note not saved but seperated out from the world and married unto a believer. Secondly, he does not know if what she sees of the Lord in him may yet turn her to Christ.

Colossions 3v19: Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Husbands are here reminded to love their wives and not to be bitter against them for any reason.

1 Peter 3v7: Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Marriage is a partnership, husbands and wives have different roles to fulfil but both should be seen on an equal level and as fellow heirs of grace. Husbands are here reminded that failing to give honour to their wives, i.e. failing to fulfil their role in the partnership, will cause their prayers to be hindered.

Pornography-the secret sin

okay, you will find on this blog that I do not pull any punches on how I feel about issues. THIS is one of those issues. I am a man. Therefore, I can relate. Pure and Simple, porn is wrong. It is SIN. It can & it will destroy you. Believe what you will. But, read this first.



Charlie

thoughts

Sorry for the delay in posting. I have just been very busy. I want to share some thoughts with you for now that have been rolling around in my head. I will write more on them later as I work through them. So, here you go:

* And they call me a Christian (this is a DEEP topic)

* Psalms 119:19

I am a stranger and needing guidance.

I promise to go further into all of this as soon as I get a minute. Until then, please read the scripture I listed and think on it a while. Until next time,

God Bless.

*PS. please pray for my Dad.

Charlie

It's just me...

Thanks for dropping by and Welcome to my blog. I hope to use this to reach people for Christ. I plan on posting things about every day life, my opinions(get ready for some politics) lol. and stuff about Jesus Christ. I hope you keep reading.

Charlie