God is Always at Work Around You

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God is Always at Work Around You

“Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.'” (Isaiah 30:21)

It is so easy to have tunnel vision and get our heads buried in the sand. We can choose to live like an ostrich, or soar like and eagle when it comes to seeing God at work all around us.

Today was one of those moments that every speaker, teacher and writer dreads — living what you preach! I hate when that happens.

I alluded yesterday to a very difficult situation I am going through, I had to be stretched out of my comfort zone. Quite honestly, I felt like Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane — “If it be possible, let this cup pass from me!”

I had to be a part of a phone call that was going to be hard and difficult. This morning, God spoke to my heart from his Word and through Streams in the Desert. The verse at the top of today’s blog was my prayer. This was the words He gave me from “Streams” —

When you have doubts or are facing difficulties, when others suggest courses of action that are conflicting, when caution dictates one approach but faith another, we should be still. We should quiet each intruding person, calm ourselves in the stillness of God’s presence, study His Word for guidance, and with true devotion focus our attention on Him. We should life our nature in the pure light radiating from His face, having an eagerness to know only what God will determine for us. Soon He will reveal by His secret counsel a distinct and unmistakable sense of His direction.

You must also have the courage to wait in silent expectation, even when everyone around you is insisting on an immediate decision or action. If you will do these things, the will of God will become clear to you. And you will have a deeper concept of who HE is, having more insight into HIS nature and HIS heart of love.

Part of the poem for that day was this:

“STAND STILL,” my soul, for so your Lord commands:
E’en when your way seems blocked, leave it in HIS hands;
HIS arm is mighty to divide the wave.
“STAND STILL,” my soul, “stand still” and you will see
How God can work the “impossible” for thee,
For with a great deliverance He does save.

I obviously cannot go into the details, but let me tell you this — GOD WAS FAITHFUL TO HIS WORD. It was an “exceedingly-abundantly-above and beyond-all you could ask or think” moment! You see — God was at work ALL around me.

What are you facing? My friend, HE wants you to experience HIM! Stand still! Get into His Word! Pray! Seek His face! And allow Him to reveal to you how HE is at work ALL around you! — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

God’s WORD for YOU: Proverbs 21; Esther 3-5; Acts 5:22-42

Great Quote: “He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.” Think of that when you are tempted to question the gentleness of His leading. He is remembering all the time; and not one step will He make you take beyond what your foot is able to endure. Never mind if you think it will not be able for the step that seems to come next; either He will so strengthen it that it shall be able, or He will call a sudden halt, and you shall not have to take it at all. Frances Ridley Havergal

Experiencing God — God is always at work around you

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Experiencing God — God is always at work around you …

“Look among the nations! Observe! Be astonished! Wonder! Because I am doing some things in your days — you would not believe it if you were told!” Habakkuk 1:5

The first of the seven realities of experiencing God is the fact that God is always at work around you! Sometimes we get bogged down in our circumstances, and as the old saying goes, “we can’t see the forest from the trees.”

I love the story in 2 Kings 6 when Elisha was confronted concerning the army of Syria that was about to attack Israel. The Israelite army was fearful and convinced that they could not defeat this “great army” that had surrounded the city.

Elisha told the kings attendant not to be afraid, “for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” (2 Kings 6:16). Elisha then prays and petitions the God of Israel to open the attendant’s eyes. I love this: “The the Lord opened the servants eyes, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha!” (2 Kings 6: 17

This fearful attendant of the king had the awesome privilege of seeing the curtain of the spiritual world pulled back so that he could gaze upon the army of the Lord that was all around them behind the scenes.

So often we are focused on the problem: finances, sickness, disappointment, hurt — we fail to see with our human eyes that our Sovereign Lord is at work in ways we cannot see.

Like you, I am facing one of those battles were there is a situation out of my control. From a HUMAN perspective, it would be easy to run to the hills. I see the IMMEDIATE and the enemy that is looming around me. BUT GOD is at work all around me, and if I am willing to trust HIM, He will see me THROUGH it in ways that can turn my life upside down.

What are you experiencing right now? My friend, remind yourself of a FACT not a feeling: GOD IS ALWAYS AT WORK AROUND YOU. — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

God’s WORD for YOU: Proverbs 20; Esther 1-2; Acts 5:1-21

Great Quote: No one switches on a flashlight in an area flooded by direct sunlight. We put on the light in order to dispel darkness. It is the darkness that makes the light necessary. God from eternity knew that men would choose darkness rather than light, and therefore He had to bring His light in Jesus Christ to shine in the midst of darkness. Anonymous

Experiencing God — The Seven Realities

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Experiencing God — The Seven Realities

“Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand).” Jeremiah 33:3 (The Amplified Bible)

God longs for you and I to experience Him. The Old and New Testament biblical characters did not have a corner of experiencing God. You and I have the same privilege. The question is do we long to have him enter into our world.

In his classic Bible study, Dr. Henry Blackaby suggests that there are SEVEN REALITIES to Experiencing God:

1. God is always at work around you.

2. God pursues a continuing love relationship with you that is real and personal.

3. God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.

4. God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.

5. God’s invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.

6. You must make major adjustments in your life to join what God is doing.

7. You come to know God by experience as you obey Him, and He accomplishes His work through you.

Throughout the next several weeks, I’d like to invite you to travel on this journey with me as we take our time exploring these seven principles. I want to suggest that you grab your journal and begin to open your eyes and heart, and experience HIM in a way that could literally turn your world upside down.

Will you join me on the journey? — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

God’s WORD for YOU: Proverbs 19 Nehemiah 12-13; Acts 4:23-37

Great Quote: What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, “Yes, Lord, YES!” to everything, and trust Him so to work in you to will, as to bring your whole wishes and affections into conformity with His own sweet, and lovable, and most lovely will. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one. Hannah Whitall Smith

Experiencing God

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Experiencing God

Yesterday I did not configure this Freedom Fighter correctly. It was only posted on the blog. I felt it was important for you to have this one since we were going to talk about this subject for the next couple of days.

“Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astonished. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if old.” Habakkuk 1:8

A number of years ago, a dear friend, the late Dr. Ruth Ann Breuninger, President of Invest in a Life, handed be a copy of a workbook written by Drs. Henry Blackaby and Claude King. The book study? EXPERIENCING GOD.

I have worked through the book several times now and would highly encourage my Freedom Fighter brothers to purchase the workbook and do the study. WARNING: IT COULD TURN YOUR WORLD UPSIDE DOWN.

I have been reading through the Old Testament again this year and have been amazed at the record of the godly men that have had an encounter with the living God. Their lives were turned upside down, inside out — and they were never the same.Moses was one of those characters that jumped off the page this year. Here was a guy that had the privilege of getting to know God on a really intimate basis. While he never saw the face of God, he was able to experience a side of God that we can only dream about.

What was it like for him to go on top of the mountain and have a one-on-one encounter with God? It was so intense that when he came out from the presence of the Lord, he had to put a veil over his face because his face shone with the glory of the Lord.

Paul reminds us that unlike Moses, we have the amazing of beholding the glory of God without a veil: “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory glory of the Lord, are being transformed (a continuous process) in the same image from one degree of glory to another.” 2 Corinthians 3:18

When Moses walked out from the Tent of Meeting, the people knew because of the veil that he had had an encounter with the living God. Today, because the veil of the temple has been torn down, we, by faith, through the Lord Jesus, have access into His very presence. Whenever we are in the presence of God, we are undone (Isaiah 6) and a transformation work takes place in our hearts.

I asked myself this question: If I am in the presence of the Lord, am I experiencing Him in such a way that when I come away from that precious time, does my very life radiate the glory of God to those around me? What would happen this Sunday if you and I experienced His glory in such a way, that upon leaving our church service, we’d be glowing and radiating that just walking into our favorite restaurant, they’d be whispering all around the room, “What’s up with him? He’s glowing! There’s something really different about him!”God wants you to experience Him, my friend.

For the next several days, I want to share with you the SEVEN REALITIES of EXPERIENCING GOD that Dr. Blackaby shares in his book. My prayer for you is that you will experience God in such a way, that your life will be turned upside down and inside out for His glory. — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

God’s WORD for YOU: Proverbs 17; Nehemiah 7-9; Acts 3

Great Quote: Don’t slack off seeking, striving, and praying for the very same things that we exhort unconverted people to strive for, and a degree of which you have had in conversion. Thus pray that your eyes may be opened, that you may receive sight, that you may know your self and be brought to God’s feet, and that you may see the glory of God and Christ, may be raised from the dead, and have the love of Christ shed abroad in your heart. Those that have most of these things still need to pray for them; for there so much blindness and hardness and pride and death remaining that they still need to have that work of God upon them, further to enlighten and enliven them. This will be a further bringing out of darkness into God’s marvelous light, and a kind of new conversion…” Jonathan Edwards, Advice to Young Converts.

Experiencing God

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Experiencing God

“Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astonished. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if old.” Habakkuk 1:8

A number of years ago, a dear friend, the late Dr. Ruth Ann Breuninger, President of Invest in a Life, handed be a copy of a workbook written by Drs. Henry Blackaby and Claude King. The book study? EXPERIENCING GOD.

I have worked through the book several times now and would highly encourage my Freedom Fighter brothers to purchase the workbook and do the study. WARNING: IT COULD TURN YOUR WORLD UPSIDE DOWN.

I have been reading through the Old Testament again this year and have been amazed at the record of the godly men that have had an encounter with the living God. Their lives were turned upside down, inside out — and they were never the same.

Moses was one of those characters that jumped off the page this year. Here was a guy that had the privilege of getting to know God on a really intimate basis. While he never saw the face of God, he was able to experience a side of God that we can only dream about.

What was it like for him to go on top of the mountain and have a one-on-one encounter with God? It was so intense that when he came out from the presence of the Lord, he had to put a veil over his face because his face shone with the glory of the Lord.

Paul reminds us that unlike Moses, we have the amazing of beholding the glory of God without a veil: “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory glory of the Lord, are being transformed (a continuous process) in the same image from one degree of glory to another.” 2 Corinthians 3:18

When Moses walked out from the Tent of Meeting, the people knew because of the veil that he had had an encounter with the living God. Today, because the veil of the temple has been torn down, we, by faith, through the Lord Jesus, have access into His very presence. Whenever we are in the presence of God, we are undone (Isaiah 6) and a transformation work takes place in our hearts.

I asked myself this question: If I am in the presence of the Lord, am I experiencing Him in such a way that when I come away from that precious time, does my very life radiate the glory of God to those around me? What would happen this Sunday if you and I experienced His glory in such a way, that upon leaving our church service, we’d be glowing and radiating that just walking into our favorite restaurant, they’d be whispering all around the room, “What’s up with him? He’s glowing! There’s something really different about him!”

God wants you to experience Him, my friend. For the next several days, I want to share with you the SEVEN REALITIES of EXPERIENCING GOD that Dr. Blackaby shares in his book. My prayer for you is that you will experience God in such a way, that your life will be turned upside down and inside out for His glory. — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

God’s WORD for YOU: Proverbs 17; Nehemiah 7-9; Acts 3

Great Quote: Don’t slack off seeking, striving, and praying for the very same things that we exhort unconverted people to strive for, and a degree of which you have had in conversion. Thus pray that your eyes may be opened, that you may receive sight, that you may know your self and be brought to God’s feet, and that you may see the glory of God and Christ, may be raised from the dead, and have the love of Christ shed abroad in your heart. Those that have most of these things still need to pray for them; for there so much blindness and hardness and pride and death remaining that they still need to have that work of God upon them, further to enlighten and enliven them. This will be a further bringing out of darkness into God’s marvelous light, and a kind of new conversion…” Jonathan Edwards, Advice to Young Converts.

Another Senior Friend in Heaven

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Another Senior Friend in Heaven

We lost a very dear senior friend today. She has been a friend of our family for the past 15 years. We first met when we were living in Maryland. She had a rough life, and in fact, she even ended up having her name changed because her original name was a reflection on her real family.

We sort of adopted her into our family. She was there before Zach was born and became a special friend to our kids, Laura, Josh and Julie. She was there for us in the good times and bad times. She demonstrated to all of us unconditional love.

It didn’t matter when we would see her. She would always greet us with joyfully. We could have not seen her for twenty four hours, and she’d treat us like we were gone for weeks.

She was one of those special ladies that comes into your life just when you needed the encouragement, the camaraderie, and a listening ear. You could tell her stuff in confidence, and she would not judge you or ignore you for something you might have said that could have been offensive.

It has been hard for us to watch her declining health during the past year. She’s had several close calls where we thought she was not going to make it. But for some reason, her fiestyness kept her going. We knew that one day we were going to face the inevitable. We’ve all dreaded it.
But during these past several weeks, many of her 73 year old body parts just started wearing out. Watching her move around was not just painful for her — it was for all of us.

Today was the day her life ended. It was a very sad moment for me. It was just as well that the kids weren’t around, especially Zach. With all we’ve been through, I knew that this was going to be a hard moment for all of us.

The amazing thing was that I had the privilege of being there for her final moments. While it was very difficult to let her go, I know she lived a long, fruitful life. Knowing that she would be free from pain and suffering made the outcome just a tad easier to deal with. Thankfully she closed her eyes and just went to sleep.

The sad part for me is that unless my theology is wrong, we’ll never see her again. Our precious black lab was a good friend to all of our family, and so many others that she touched. The vet told us today that she outlived the average lab’s lifespan. It’s just sad that we won’t get to see her in heaven — unless the movie was right, and “ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN?”

Probably not quite the Freedom Fighter you expected. We’ve learned many lessons from this special family friend — lessons that I can learn as I think about my friendships. — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

God’s WORD for YOU: Proverbs 16; Nehemiah 4-6; Acts 2:22-44

Great Quote: Heart-work is hard work indeed. To shuffle over religious duties with a loose and careless spirit, will cost no great difficulties; but to set yourself before the Lord, and to tie up your loose and vain thoughts to a constant and serious attendance upon him: this will cost you something. To attain ease and dexterity of language in prayer and to be able to put your meaning into appropriate and fitting expressions is easy; but to get your heart broken for sin while you are actually confessing it; melted with free grace even while you are blessing God for it; to be really ashamed and humbled through the awareness of God’s infinite holiness, and to keep your heart in this state not only in, but after these duties, will surely cost you some groans and travailing pain of soul. John Flavel

God is Faithful

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God is Faithful

Well you did not receive a Freedom Fighter on Sunday. No, I didn’t really forget — but our Saturday was quite the event.

I shared with you on Friday that we were heading to New Hampshire to await the arrival of our grandbaby. On Saturday morning, our daughter Laura, started with labor and headed into the hospital with her husband, Jon.
At 11:17 AM, our beautiful grandson, Case Will Groen, was born weighing in at 10lbs 2 ozs. He is a fine little lad … well not really little, and his arrival was special in many ways. Many of you have followed along with our journey with our granddaughter, Lindsay Alice Groen. On May 16th, Lindsay went home to be with Jesus, and yesterday would have been her 3rd birthday.
Case is not a replacement baby — nobody can replace little Lindsay. However, he is a gift from God to our kids. I believe that God sent him for such a time as this, and I know that our kids see him as an amazing “big” gift from God to them after such a very difficult year.
Yesterday, a number of walked 2 miles for the Children’s Hospital of Boston, walk-a-thon, in honor of Lindsay as well as a tribute to the amazing care that she received during her time in the hospital.
I am thankful today for God’s faithfulness. We can never thank Him enough for His love, care, comfort, and goodness to our family. Thank You, Lord. — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK
God’s WORD for YOU: Proverbs 15; Nehemiah 1-3; Acts 2:1-21
Great Quote: In return for the love which brought the Son of Man down from heaven, in return for the love which led Him to die for us on the cross, we cannot give Him holy lives, for we are not holy; we cannot give Him pure souls, for our souls are not pure; but this one thing we can give, and this is what He asks, hearts that shall never cease from this day forward, till we reach the grave, to strive to be more like Him; to come nearer to Him; to root out from within us the sin that keeps us from Him. To such a battle I call you in His name. Frederick Temple

Case’s arrival a day before didn’t necessarily take away the hurt and painful memories, but he was a huge reminder that God is faithful. He’s n

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How To Be Content

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“HOW TO BE CONTENT”

“Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such
things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, or forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me” (Hebrews 13:5-6).
It is difficult to recognize that our character (conversation) or manner of life is an area of ethics that deals with our responsibility to ourselves. Our society wrongly insists that success is determined by the amount we can accumulate. The love of money is a common form of
covetousness (1 Timothy 6:10 “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith . .). The love of money is a common form of covetousness because it can be used to secure many other things that we want which displeases God. Jesus emphatically warns Man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he possesseth (Luke 12:15).

Contentment cannot come from material things, for they can never satisfy the heart. The desire to have more, and more and still more (GREED) interferes with contentment and like oil and water they are just not compatible. A source of great peace comes to those who love the Lord with all their heart and have trusted in His Word enough to know that He will never forsake or leave the true believer (v. 5). Wow! What contentment this produces and what confidence it gives in order that we need not fear any man.

“But godliness with contentment is great gain” (1 Timothy 6:6). — Dr. Henry Lutz is a retired Pastor and a new contributor to Freedom Fighter.

God’s WORD for YOU: Proverbs 13; Ezra 6-8; John 21

Great Quote: And let no man lose heart, and abandon a good scheme because he meets chopping seas and cross winds at the outset, since God may be thereby driving him on a better course, and toward greater ends than he ever dreamt of. Thomas Guthrie

God Meant It For God (Part 2)

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God Meant It For God (Part 2)

“We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28

If you didn’t read yesterday’s post, you need to go back so that today’s makes sense. We experienced the reality of the what I wrote in an amazing way.

We were planning to leave for New Hampshire on Wednesday evening around 7:00 PM. For some reason the Lord led me to have my wife call my daughter to see if she wanted us to come Wednesday night or wait until Thursday. She was concerned about us leaving at 7:30 and driving six hours, so she told us to wait until Thursday morning. Our original plan was to leave at 4:30 AM.

We started out at 3:30 AM and have a pretty uneventful trip until all of a sudden the check engine light came on in our car, and within minutes we were losing power. It was pouring rain and we were in the middle lane with rush hour traffic. We were able to pull over to the right hand shoulder and put on our flashers. Within ten minutes the car was completely dead.

Miracle Number #1 — Just think … if we had not been able to pull over, we would have been stuck in the middle lane in rush hour traffic with no hazard lights!

Miracle Number #2 — Every time we see a Connecticut State Trooper — he looks big and mean! While we were sitting there waiting for the AAA tow truck, an unmarked car pulled up, and an officer in a “White” shirt came over to the car with the biggest smile and said, “You folks ok? Anything I can do?” He then told us that we were in a safe place to break down and would check back on us later.

Miracle Number #3 — We had no clue what was wrong with our car or where we were. When the tow truck arrived, the driver said that there was a Chrysler/Dodge dealership ten minutes from where we were pulled over. Our car is a PT Cruiser!!!

Miracle Number #4 — The dealership was amazing!!! This place had a barbershop, diner, car museum, and incredible customer service men. Bottom line was that the timing belt was the problem. A month ago during a routine check-up on our car, the mechanic told us that we need to think about replacing the timing belt sometime later this summer. He prepared us for the cost of $1500.

Miracle Number #5 — We could have broken down and been no where near a dealer and had some fly-by-night garage rip us off. The dealer told us he needed to check our warranty and that normally the warranty did not cover this job. We had purchased an extended warranty on the car, and low and behold, apart from our $200 deductible, everything, including a rental car, was fully covered!!!

Needless to say — we experienced the reality of God’s “all things working together for good.” As the rep was doing the paperwork, he noticed that there was also a recall on our power steering. He said, “You’re here anyway — we’ll take care of it for you!”

We are so thankful for God’s protective care and provision. Thank You, Lord. — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

God’s WORD for YOU: Proverbs 12; Ezra 3-5; John 20

Great Quote: Why doesn’t our contagious joy, enthusiasm, and gratitude infect others with a longing for Christ? Why are the fire and spirit of Peter and Paul so conspicuously absent from our pallid existence? Perhaps because so few of us have taken the journey of faith across the chasm between knowledge and experience. We prefer to read the map rather than visit the place. The specter of our actual unbelief persuades us that it is not the experience that is real but our explanation of the experience. Our beliefs – which William Blake called “The mind-forged manacle” – distance us from the grip of personal experience. Brennan Manning

God Meant It Unto Good

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God Meant It Unto Good (Genesis 5:20)

“We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28

I have shared with you that over the years I have made notations in my Bible and various devotional books that are reminders of difficulties, blessings, trials, and God’s provision. They are those benchmarks of God’s faithfulness that help us through difficult times.

On 6/10/03 there is a name of a dear friend listed in the margin of Streams in the Desert. I remember why his name is there. He was struggling in his personal life and had to be asked to step down from serving the Lord at America’s KESWICK. Is has been a rough six years for him and his family. Praise God that he came back to the Colony of Mercy this week.

There was a poem that was attached to the reading for that day … I know many people right now who are in that “why” mode. May this minister to you as it did to me in 2003:

“God meant it unto good” — O blest assurance,
Falling like sunshine all across life’s way,
Touching with Heaven’s gold, earth’s darkest storm clouds,
Bringing fresh peace and comfort day by day.

‘Twas not by chance the hands of faithless brothers
Sold Joseph captive to a foreign land;
Nor was it chance that, after years of suffering,
Brought him before the Pharaoh’s throne to stand.

One Eye-all-seeing saw the need of thousands,
And planned to meet it through that one lone soul;
And through the weary days of prison bondage
Was working toward the great and glorious goal.

As yet the end was hidden from the captive,
The iron entered even to his soul;
His eye could scan the present path of sorrow,
Not yet his gaze might rest up in the whole.

Faith failed not through those long, dark days of waiting,
His trust in God was reimbursed at last,
The moments came when God led forth His servant,
To comfort many, all his sufferings past.

“It was not you but God, that led me to here,”
Witnessed triumphant faith in later days;
“God meant it unto good,” no other reason
Mingled their discord with his song of praise.

“God means it unto good” for you, beloved,
The God of Joseph is the same today;
His love permits afflictions, strange and bitter,
His hand is guiding through the unknown way.

Your Lord, who sees the end from the beginning,
Has purposes for you of love untold,
Then place your hand in His and follow fearless,
Till you the riches of His grace behold.

Then, when you stand firm in the Home of glory,
And all life’s paths lie open to your gaze,
Your eyes will SEE the hand that you’re now trusting,
And magnify His love through endless days. — Freda Hanbury Allen

I trust that this will minister to those of you who are in the midst of circumstances that make no sense — God meant it unto good! — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

God’s WORD for YOU: Proverbs 11; Ezra 1-2; John 19:23-42

Great Quote: A saying I heard years ago: ‘It doesn’t matter what you do. Just do something, even if it’s wrong!’ That’s the most stupid counsel I’ve ever heard. Never do what’s wrong! Do nothing until it’s right. Then do it with all your might. That’s wise counsel. Charles (Chuck) Swindoll