Have you ever been really excited about something - So excited that you find it difficult to sleep? That's how I feel about #mydeeperlife. 

On Sunday we had a great guest speaker in - Tom Waltz. We have worked together for almost a decade. We share a similar vision for the Kingdom. It is a vision that requires true intimacy with YHWH which overflows to intimacy with each other. This intimacy is not easily attained and must be fought for and protected once it is acquired. 

As I sit on this wooden bench the delivery trucks bellow behind me, a splinter waits for one wrong move so that it can work its way into the backside of my thigh and the homeless are moving about. 

I am excited because I feel the anointing all over me and I am, maybe for the first time, confident that Yahshua has given me a plan that is truly doable and global. 

Let patience have her perfect work. 

My coffee tastes especially good this morning. 

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Obedience -- there are rewards for obedience.  Privileges are given.  Authority is delegated and Responsibility is increased.  Disobedience - there is punishment for disobedience.  Privileges are withdrawn.  All possible authority is withheld and responsibility is withdrawn - leaving the disobedient party in an ineffectual place.

Riding in the SUV with Warden Cain we could see that there was trouble in the fields where a crew was laboring.  The mounted guards turned to attend to the issue.  One guard raised his rifle and fired a shot into the air.  The other guard did nothing.  The fight stopped, but Warden Cain pushed the gas pedal to the floor.  He left the road and raced across the field.  He jumped out of the car and moved quickly toward the guard who had not fired his rifle.  "Give me that rifle."  the warden said.  Warden Cain proceeded to empty the rifle, by shooting repeated shots into the air.  "I pay you to shoot your rifle when fights break out.  I pay you to do your job.  You're fired.  Get off this farm."

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Some important reading for givers -- I have learned a few things over the years. I wrote this a few years back.

Chapter Eight

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As I move to bring this book to a close, I am reminded of Jesus words to the lawyer who asked “Who is my neighbor?”  The Lawyer seemed to want to hold the discussion in a place where more discussion would need to take place.  Jesus finished the thought with a direct instruction.  “Go and do as the Samaritan has done?”  Now is the time to start taking action.  Now is always the right time to help someone and action is what is going to take people past the varying perspectives and priorities.  So, we have come full circle.  Yes, we have to plan before we help.  However, we have to help while we plan.

What is help?

Everyone would agree that, to help is to give assistance or be of service.  “Can you help me carry this package?”  We would also agree that helping would include being of use.  “Hey friend, you wash the dishes and I’ll dry them.”  Another definition that we might all agree upon would be to improve another person’s condition by making some form of supply available.  “I was able to help my elderly mother by hiring a cleaning service to help her keep her apartment clean.”

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