Follow the Blog Across America at: www.37one.com

Likely, you know.  I write a lot of blogs and other stuff.  To make it easy for those wanting to track with me across America, I have created what I am calling my “Life Stream” page.  It’s a new approach I’m developing to pull information from multiple sources and display on a single page.   It will be continually updated with my latest blog posting, pictures and comments.
 
You can find my Life Stream at:  http://37one.com/
 
To make it even easier, at the top of the page I’ve provided all the links to my other popular blogs.  Check it out and see if you like it.  Otherwise, the “Bus Across America” website is:  http://isrv.org/ .  That is where the detailed content will be.
 
Hopefully, all that makes sense.  I hope everyone finds the trip interesting and God is glorified. 

Federico and I leave Thursday, March 5.  See you there!

God bless,

Archie

Sanity is greatly overrated

Am I crazy to listen for and to God? Does He even talk and if He does talk, can I hear?

Some say listening to God is insane.  I was reading from some old writings of a guy that experienced a piece of the great Welsh Revival, a hundred years ago or so.  The truth pulled from these papers are easily remembered and impactful.  LDOG.

1. Listen to God
2. Do what God tells you to do
3. Only do what God tells you to do
4. Give God the Glory for what you do

My bus trip across America started with listening to God.  He speaks in lots of ways.  For the bus trip, He spoke out of a trapped feeling I was experiencing in the circumstance of life.  The trip was my way of getting away for a time to realign and get closer to God. 

It seemed God was ok with my bus trip as it is usually easy to know when God is displeased with my choices.  I kinda get this sick feeling in my gut that I really blew it and I need to ask forgiveness quick.  As He was ok with the trip, what would God want me to do?  I think being available for His plan is paramount in my obedience.  I don’t know exactly what He has planned for the adventure.  I do hope to be obedient as He reveals His perfected plan and will for my life.

Only do what God tells you to do refers to the Moses trap.   God told him to tap the rock and he struck it instead.  It is important to Listen and Do.  But only Do what God tells you to do.  Don’t add to it.  Don’t take away from it.  It is God’s show.  As I travel across America and back again.  I expect to hear from God.  I expect to be obedient and Do.  I hope to only do what God tells me to do.

As the many God Spots are lived out during the trip.  I pray I will give God the glory for His handiwork.  I need to continually remind myself.  This is not about me.  This is all about God.

I trust you will follow me on the trip at www.isrv.org .  I look forward to reading your encouraging comments as we bus and blog across America!

What’s in a number 37?

Fred drove me to the Greyhound Bus station to pick up tickets for the great bus/blog ride across America. 

You know I chase God Spots and can be seen here, but follow our bus trip in search of God Spots at  http://www.isrv.org .  We accidently parked in space 37 across from the bus station.  That was 37 minutes, ago.

Was that a coincidence or might that be God’s fingerprint? 60/60 i am listening…

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60/60 Healing – God Spot!

Readers: I want to apologize in advance.  I did not have the direct permission to publish this and desire to give total credit to the participants.  So if you’d like to comment or email me, it’s ok.  I’ll be pleased to add your full names.  I did not want to infringe on anyones privacy, but did not want to miss an opportunity for the world to know the grace of God!

The God Spot goes like this … ”I wanted to share this with you and include you in the happenings of our group as we go through the 60/60 study. Two weeks ago, we began group as always sharing prayer requests and praise reports from the previous week.

After praying for the beginning of our study, one of the ladies interrupted me and shared a burden that was obviously weighing her down. As she shared, I began to sense that she was in an incredible spiritual battle and had even experienced the opression of the enemy not only as she was trying to share, but also the night before as she was asked to pray for her brother-in-law and literally couldn’t speak because of the weight she felt on her throat.

We gathered around her that night and laid hands on her and prayed for her. This is her story she wrote for me to share with you: “As I started my study on 60/60 Soul Revolution, I was really excited as to how the Lord was going to use me. I really did not know what He had planned for me.

My brother-in-law Lalo started feeling very ill with a lot of pain. We went to see him at the hospital when it happened. The Lord spoke to me and I was too scared to listen. The enemy held me back and installed fear in my soul. My husband and I did not speak a word on the way home about my situation.

On Wednesday night at our Bible study, I mentioned the situation and they all prayed over me. I felt the love of my sisters in Christ and the love of God all over me. The following day we visited my brother-in-law again. This time I was well prepared and listened.

As we walked in the room, all was dark and gloomy and he looked lost and hopeless. Dovtor’s diagnosed his illness as a fungus that overtook his body. At that moment I felt it was now or never. Lalo looked at me and I asked if he needed prayer. He nodded yes as he became teary eyed.  As I prayed I thought, well I did it. The Lord was not done yet.

As I asked everyone to please leave the room for a few minutes, I kneeled in front of Lalo, took his hand in mine and I made it very clear that the Holy Spirit was speaking to me. I needed to ask him one question. “Would you like to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?” As to my surprise, being 30 years in the family and praying for him, he said yes.

I lead him into the prayer of salvation which somehow was spoken in Spanish when I normally do not speak to him in Spanish. After that the Lord was pleased. You could see the room light up with love and hope.

As he went into surgery he said his eyes were focused on Jesus Christ and only Him. We all smiled as he went into surgery. Two hours later we get a call to the surgery waiting room and Lalo left a message saying that Jesus smiled upon him. I just want to thank God for allowing me the privilege of reaching someone and bringing him into the Kingdom of God through salvation.

Listening and obeying…there’s times His voice is so soft that you have to be still, other times it is as loud as thunder. All we have to do is listen.

Your sister in Christ, Mary ………… The story is so much richer when you know the background of their relationship and the many, many conversations she has had with him over the years. And of course, this happened the week we were talking about listening to God. God is SO good.

Enjoy Him today, Nancy”

It’s not wise to go before an angry God.

My dad before he passed, shared this word of wisdom. “It’s not wise
to go before an angry God” There was great substantiated truth in
the words. It is just as true today as when he told me a few years,
ago. God woke me up this morning with the thought that He was angry
because peoples’ actions were threatening to invalidate His promises.
He was angry and was putting things in order.
 
Jonathan Edwards was one of the principals in a religious movement
known as the “Great Awakening,” Edwards typified the “Hell, Fire, and
Brimstone” preacher. His classic sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an
Angry God,” reportedly had such a strong effect on his congregation
that some of its members ran screaming from the church in terror.
 
His sermon in part went like this…
 
As he that walks slippery places is every moment liable to fall, he
cannot foresee one moment whether he shall stand or fall the next; and
when he does fall, he falls at once without warning: Which is also
expressed in Psalm 73:18-19 “Surely thou didst set them in slippery
places: thou castedst them down into destruction: How are they brought
into desolation as in a moment!” The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and
the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at
your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere
pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or
obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made
drunk with your blood. .
 
Thus all you that have never passed under a great change of heart, by
the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your soul; all you that
were never born again, and made new creatures, and raised from being
dead in sin, to a state of new, and before altogether unexpereienced
light and life, are in the hands of an angry God….
 
And now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein Christ
has thrown the door of mercy wide oepn, and stands calling, and crying
with a loud voice to poor sinners; a day wherein many are flocking to
him, and pressing into the kingdom of God. Many are daily coming from
the east, west, north, and south; many that were very lately in the
same miserable condition that you are in, are now in a happy state,
with their hearts fillled wiht love to him who has loved them, and
washed them from their sins in his own blood, and rejoicing in the
hope of the glory of God.
 
Then God’s Word says this…
 
“But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and
wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over
truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes
and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has
created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such
can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine
being. So nobody has a good excuse.
 
What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they
didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized
themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither
sense nor direction left in their lives.
 
They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life.
They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands
for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.” Paul from His
Word

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Joke: What’d the atheist say to the believer?

I blog, twitter, facebook, email, text and whatever else I can to contribute toward building a social network.  Today, with twitter I followed a number of other people who also twitter.  Uniquely, the people I chose to follow had used the word God in their “tweets”.  Now that can be good or bad depending on how you use the word.

One of the twits said he was a “self confessed atheist” or something like that.  He said he was being followed by someone that claimed he had seen god at least 37 times and was willing to convert if I had.  My gut reaction was a desire to reach for the nearest Bible and beat him with it.  Why is that?  Why would I want to beat someone with a Bible?

You know that type of reaction is not just from me.  It is typical of the way one religion feels and reacts to another religion.   Each one thinks they have it right and the other one is suspected of going to hell. 

In reality it was only a few seconds before my mind drifted from Bible thumping to finding humor in the proclamation of being willing to convert if I had seen God 37 times.  I really have spotted God more than 37 times so I look forward to one day seeing this twitter convert to a belief in Christ. 

My response was one of giving thanks that God has no borders.  He is not confined by religion, race, size, gender or whatever.  God loves us all.  He really wants us to see Him and acknowledge His bigness by submitting to His authority as Creator.   He wants us to return His love.  Is that so hard…

thelastepoch God Spot

Guest post by: thelastepoch

“I guess the last ‘God spot’ would be when my Grandmother died (earlier this month). Had been praying for her salvation for ages. Then my sister was able to say the prayer of salvation for her, two days before she died. I know I don’t kbow for sure if she understood or accepted Jesus as her Saviour but at least, she heard the gospel and it gave me hope for her. We’ll never know for sure until we get to the other side what happened but I live with hope”.

What do i and 156 others have in common?

I follow you on Twitter.  I want to tell you something.  You are not just a TWIT.  To me you are an evolving relationship.  Forget what you just thought about your and my relationship.  I'm not gay and I am happily married for 37 years, but this is a "COME ON".  Surf over to http://37stories.wordpress.com.  I saw God. Really!  At least 37 times.  Drop me a comment and tell me about the last time you saw God.  Or have you?

archie

PS Don't forget to check out my bus/blog adventure across America.  8 days to go and counting.  http://isrv.org/

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its a grind with eric. Social networking

its great meeting new friends. Grace point church rocks or whatever
is cool to say about gpc. Is it bad in good way or do i get down w
gpc. I dont know…

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working on a new concept in social networking

The concept of life streams has yet to be defined. Www.37one.com is in the mix.

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