Hope Church Lakeland

Hope Church Lakeland
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Raining and Reigning!

Vivian, Robby and I are in a Lakeland, FL hotel after a morning of worship at Crossroads Community Church in Auburndale, FL and an early afternoon searching for housing.

Right now, the afternoon Florida rain showers are clicking on our hotel room window and the satellite can’t acquire a signal. Note to self…..Don’t get satellite TV. Fortunately the Cowboys play tonight. Rain, rain go away…..

Every day we feel reassured about the direction God is leading us. This morning, Mark Nelson (lead pastor at Crossroads) preached on “Craving;” Craving more of Jesus which necessarily moves us to crave the things of God. We were stirred by the testimony of a young girl who spent weeks in a home in Kenya teaching very young orphaned children. Risk-taking for Jesus ran through both the sermon and the testimony.

But this risk-taking is not blind faith. Rather it is faith in the reign of the King of the Universe.

We desire to follow God wholeheartedly. How about you?