Falling Forward

This might be the shortest post in history, sometimes I don't think I have the ability to think too deeply. I can't get out of my mind something I heard on the radio this week. A woman called in to the Spirit radio station in my town talking about a huge mistake she had made in her life. The host of the station said something to the likes of " a crucial part of living a successful christian life is learning to fall forward". That was exactly what I needed to hear that day. How often do we get ourselves in the right direction( or so we thought) and here comes temptation soon followed by failure and sin. Too often we sin and use that as an excuse to fall backward and in turn stay in the desert. Its not always Satan can truly win until we fall backward, that is what his true agenda is for our sin, To make us fall backwards. When we choose to fall forward, repent and learn from that failure Satan's agenda has failed. When I started this blog Satan hit me with temptation from all directions...I fell, thought to myself ' I have no business posting blogs about Christianity or my faith'. I then chose to fall forward, I repented....I learned. My savior reminds me no one is good enough without the sanctity of his blood. Thank You God for your love.

My testimony and purpose for this blog

I received Christ as my personal savior October 12, 1993 at the age of 16. I was attending a revival at Eagle Heights Baptist Church in Harrison, AR. Like so many I was raised in church baptized at a young age but not ever really understanding what the decision meant for me as a believer. Sitting in that pew at the invitation that night I knew the Holy Spirit Was calling me, I knew if I didn't go forward and I died that night I would spend my eternal life in Hell. I also knew at 16 my life was empty for something it was born to have. I went forward and accepted Christ as my personal savior. Here is where my testimony gets pretty common.....too common in our culture. The rest of my high school days I pretty much lived a hot again, cold again christian life and carried this trend much thru college. I lost a whole lot of more battles with Satan then I ever won. I eventually settled into a mediocre Christian lifestyle....went to church on Sundays mornings, prayed the occasional prayer, asked for forgiveness when I figured I had compiled enough sins it was time to get a clean slate. Sadly I have been a born again Christian for 15 years and had missed the boat...I have resided in what I refer to as the Christian desert and I had a whole lot of company with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Thankfully I have been brought out of the desert. Almost a year and half ago I moved to Lebanon, MO. My wife and I were unhappy at our current location in south Arkansas. I made a decision to actually take a demotion at my work to get away from where we were living. We didn't pray much about the decision and quite frankly I didn't much consider what God thought about the move. We were miserable...It wasn't a smart career move, We didn't really pray about it, It was really for selfish reasons alone but we moved....moved to a town I had never seen, didn't really know where it was. All I knew it was in south central Missouri and It was spelled like a foreign country. What I didn't know was that God took my decision that was made for selfish purpose and He changed my whole perspective of who He is, and He changed my life. He met me where I was. He has came and brought me out of the desert where I lived with Christian mediocrity for nearly 15 years. He has sanctified me of all my sins and continues to do so daily. I am not a minister, a Christian psychologist, never been to seminary. I am however a sinner sanctified by the blood of Jesus. I have a heart for all Christians living in the desert, living in mediocrity, living a hot cold Christian faith. My prayer is maybe this blog would touch someone who reads it some night. I also pray this blog will be accountability for me as I have an open diary documenting some of my walk as Jesus leads me out of the desert to become a Jesus freak. Jesus came out of the desert after being tempted by Satan for 40 days to change the world and save our lives. Just think if all the born again Christians in the world came out of their personal desert they lived in and got thirsty for God. Became Jesus Freaks! WOW how the world would be different