Friday, March 27, 2009

Welcome to Harvest Church blogger

Hello everyone. This will be our blog for the Harvest Church team. I will be posting questions and or topics on a weekly basis. As a unique feature, we will respond to each others answers. Try to correspond to at least 2 answers to the question each week. Responses will consist of either readings other than the Bible, scripture, and life experiences that the Holy Spirit has given to us.

This blog will be for team members of Harvest Church -- that includes spouses and children. We are all one big family with one voice.

I love all of you...
Frank
Servant of God

14 comments:

  1. Hi Steph, welcome and look forward to discussing what God is talking to us about Harvest Church

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  2. Hey Frank, this is Pete, this is great, look forward to seeing things grow bro

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  3. Aaron is present and accounted for. I look forward to hearing from all of you and sharing with all of you.

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  4. Hey now I'm registered for the site.

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  5. Thanks for setting up this site, Pete!

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  6. This is cool, how do I get one, anyone have the stero instructions on setting this thing up?

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  7. Any new posts yet Frank?

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  8. Hi everyone: Cool, it worked. I pray you are all doing well and if you know God is with you, you have to be doing well, regardless of what you are having to face in this crazy world. One thing I know without a doubt; GOD IS WITH ME!!!! That realization alone makes me strong, confident, needing nothing else. May all of you have a keen sense of Gods' blessing in and around you and yours.

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  9. Hi Frank,

    Re: Q1. The crescendo of orphaned hearts we are experiencing in our American culture today is a pattern of history repeating itself, and a foundational tool the enemy has been using from the beginning of time as we know it. I don’t despair because I see this as an opportunity to hear and obey God; our Father is calling us back to our roots as His children. He wants to teach us His Father’s Heart, so we can father and mother the masses in His Name.

    This nation was founded on the principles of freedom to worship the one true God, godly family values, and the "judeo-christian" work ethic. America began with the understanding that we need God as our creator/sustainer/provider/ protector/FATHER. But just as in ancient Israel, Rome, and other civilizations throughout the centuries...the more prosperous we have become the more arrogant and rebellious we are. Arrogant and rebellious children don’t believe they need their father’s discipline, wisdom, lifestyle; they just want him to continue “providing” for them. So they expect the provision, and believe it is their right to reject the rest.

    But this isn’t so much a commentary about the children of this generation as it is about the fathers and mothers of this and generations past. Our children have learned by example, ie, the absence of experiencing the Father’s heart. They have orphaned hearts because their fathers and mothers have orphaned hearts, and haven’t known how to mentor their children with the godly love of the Father’s (Mother’s) heart. This is the fruit of satan’s key strategy from the beginning of time.

    Just as the serpent whispered lies to Eve in the Garden of Eden, the enemy is here constantly whispering those same lies into our ears, and into the ears of our children. As fallen man, we so quickly step into the sins of pride and lust. The serpent tempted Eve (and therefore Adam) to MISTRUST, DISOBEY, & DISRESPECT God their Creator by promising them that they could be like God (pride) and gain all knowledge (lust for power). And so the enemy has continued to do through all the ages…His strategy is to keep us from TRUSTING God to be our good and holy Father, knowing that when we stop trusting our one true Father, the family is broken, and we are broken.

    So the way through this is to go back to our roots, to the Father Heart of God, and receive the Father’s unconditional love and grace (and ALL THE DISCIPLINE & CORRECTION which is a part of that Love). Then, in TRUST & OBEDIENCE, we will be equipped to create Family, to become an expression of the Father’s Heart to all the orphaned hearts around us…and to mentor our spiritual children to become spiritual Fathers and Mothers…and so the Family will grow exponentially.

    Sorry I didn't have a nutshell to put all that in. :) golden

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