So Much to Tell
The past few weeks have been a kaleidoscope of events that had my head spinning. Some days are better than others it seems. I do know that God is in control. Some days you feel like a puppet with someone else guiding the strings. Some days you feel like something is blocking you from stepping out as God commanded. The Bible tells us not to worry, I try not to worry or to be anxious about anything, but as you get caught up in life you find yourself worrying. Some call it being concerned, but it is still worry.
A few weeks ago I talked to Jeff Steele. We go back a few years. I met him in Mullens back in 1995. At the time me and Gary Hosey were doing MC work at concerts. We had been invited to MC a concert. Jeff has had some really good songs "We Want America Back" < "God Kept His Promise", For The Sake of the Children, most of the went to number one nationwide. He has been to Beckley. I hadn't heard from anybody since 2010 and out of the blue, Jeff Steele calls me. He has a new song out called "But God". Now the song talks about we don't know where we would be, "But God". As the saying goes, that will preach a message by itself. We caught up on each other lives. he pastors a church full time, he still writes and records songs from time to time. He is not on the road. He is a grandpa now. We talked about some of the songs and life in general. It weas really good to hear from Jeff. I think life and age mellows a person. We share common stories, Jeff was a former radio person in Mississippi who went to work one morning and found himself without a job, at the time he was also pastoring a church and on the road with the Steeles. So he had the choice to go into full time ministry with the Steeles. As the economy began to change, and God began to call him back to pastoring full time. It was good to hear from Jeff.
I turned on the 700 club on morning to see Serita Jakes and her daughter Sara, talking about Mega fest. The Bible tells us "Do not despise the day of small beginnings". I watched her do the interview and my mind went back to us being teenagers at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. She also seemed a bit older than I was. Sarita was one of the young people who did the church announcements on youth Sundays. She has that soothing voice, I thought she would be in radio. I think she went to college for public relations. I remember when she and Bishop Jakes were first married. They were at a church and the church gave them a pounding. Which is a pound of this and that in grocery items. As Terry interviewed Serita, (no disrespect intended), it was interesting to see how the Lord worked in the lives of the Bishop and First Lady Jakes. From Beckley to Texas is a long way, and you don't get there unless God has something to do with it.. Life with all of its twists and turns. God is faithful. Sometimes I wonder if there will be a time that I won't have to struggle as hard to just do things everyone else takes for granted.
I am now taking "Evangelism Explosion". This is class invented by Dr. D. James Kennedy that shows you an effective way of witnessing to people. The steps to leading someone to the Lord. It is a great class. It is a ten week class taught at Calvary Assembly. You visit neighborhoods and witness to people. If they are already saved, you can take prayer requests. You are sent in groups of three. My first time out was amazing, awesome and scary at the same time. With EE, you don't have to worry about what to say, you have a CD to listen to and lessons that tell you how to do that, so the guesswork is done. I guess the scary part for me is where I don't see well, I am nervous about going in peoples yards and walkways. The focus is on Christ and not me. I just pray that God will give me the eyesight that I need to do this.
Classes this year, will mostly be online. This is where the worry comes in at. I just hope I can log in to my classes without any trouble. They had me classified as a Bluefield Student at first and I didn't want any trouble with classes, especially with the terms of my agreement with the school, so I can keep my financial aid. It is also August. Many things have happened to me in this month. A rollercoaster of events. I had my first eye surgery, I preached my first message. I went back to school at 51. This was also the beginning of the end for my mom who passed away in November 2008. As I see the days starting to get shorter, I get this sense of foreboding at times. Other times there is a sense of adventure. I am often amazed at the twist and turns of life. I am in the same building doing a job that is different from the one that I had three years ago. Some of it is the same , but a different company, some of the same people, but different. I find myself looking at people who seemed to be lost in time. As I re-entered the radio world, I realized that for the last three years I have been in "A Different World:. Dealing with loss, learning to REALLY trust God and depend on Him for everything. Dealing with college as a full time student balancing running a home and managing schoolwork. Learning how to cut corners on things, I am not all that good at this, but I learned. A friend of mine told me that it takes about a year to adjust to not working, for you to really know what you can do without. I survived and I am rejoicing in the fact that God is faithful....
A few weeks ago I talked to Jeff Steele. We go back a few years. I met him in Mullens back in 1995. At the time me and Gary Hosey were doing MC work at concerts. We had been invited to MC a concert. Jeff has had some really good songs "We Want America Back" < "God Kept His Promise", For The Sake of the Children, most of the went to number one nationwide. He has been to Beckley. I hadn't heard from anybody since 2010 and out of the blue, Jeff Steele calls me. He has a new song out called "But God". Now the song talks about we don't know where we would be, "But God". As the saying goes, that will preach a message by itself. We caught up on each other lives. he pastors a church full time, he still writes and records songs from time to time. He is not on the road. He is a grandpa now. We talked about some of the songs and life in general. It weas really good to hear from Jeff. I think life and age mellows a person. We share common stories, Jeff was a former radio person in Mississippi who went to work one morning and found himself without a job, at the time he was also pastoring a church and on the road with the Steeles. So he had the choice to go into full time ministry with the Steeles. As the economy began to change, and God began to call him back to pastoring full time. It was good to hear from Jeff.
I turned on the 700 club on morning to see Serita Jakes and her daughter Sara, talking about Mega fest. The Bible tells us "Do not despise the day of small beginnings". I watched her do the interview and my mind went back to us being teenagers at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. She also seemed a bit older than I was. Sarita was one of the young people who did the church announcements on youth Sundays. She has that soothing voice, I thought she would be in radio. I think she went to college for public relations. I remember when she and Bishop Jakes were first married. They were at a church and the church gave them a pounding. Which is a pound of this and that in grocery items. As Terry interviewed Serita, (no disrespect intended), it was interesting to see how the Lord worked in the lives of the Bishop and First Lady Jakes. From Beckley to Texas is a long way, and you don't get there unless God has something to do with it.. Life with all of its twists and turns. God is faithful. Sometimes I wonder if there will be a time that I won't have to struggle as hard to just do things everyone else takes for granted.
I am now taking "Evangelism Explosion". This is class invented by Dr. D. James Kennedy that shows you an effective way of witnessing to people. The steps to leading someone to the Lord. It is a great class. It is a ten week class taught at Calvary Assembly. You visit neighborhoods and witness to people. If they are already saved, you can take prayer requests. You are sent in groups of three. My first time out was amazing, awesome and scary at the same time. With EE, you don't have to worry about what to say, you have a CD to listen to and lessons that tell you how to do that, so the guesswork is done. I guess the scary part for me is where I don't see well, I am nervous about going in peoples yards and walkways. The focus is on Christ and not me. I just pray that God will give me the eyesight that I need to do this.
Classes this year, will mostly be online. This is where the worry comes in at. I just hope I can log in to my classes without any trouble. They had me classified as a Bluefield Student at first and I didn't want any trouble with classes, especially with the terms of my agreement with the school, so I can keep my financial aid. It is also August. Many things have happened to me in this month. A rollercoaster of events. I had my first eye surgery, I preached my first message. I went back to school at 51. This was also the beginning of the end for my mom who passed away in November 2008. As I see the days starting to get shorter, I get this sense of foreboding at times. Other times there is a sense of adventure. I am often amazed at the twist and turns of life. I am in the same building doing a job that is different from the one that I had three years ago. Some of it is the same , but a different company, some of the same people, but different. I find myself looking at people who seemed to be lost in time. As I re-entered the radio world, I realized that for the last three years I have been in "A Different World:. Dealing with loss, learning to REALLY trust God and depend on Him for everything. Dealing with college as a full time student balancing running a home and managing schoolwork. Learning how to cut corners on things, I am not all that good at this, but I learned. A friend of mine told me that it takes about a year to adjust to not working, for you to really know what you can do without. I survived and I am rejoicing in the fact that God is faithful....
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