Just a Guy and his Journey Back to God

Send us Fan Mail Do you feel overwhelmed with your circumstances? God can and will help you through them. Paul and Barnabas were given a mission to complete, and they faced many hardships, but God walked with them, and they completed it for Him.  Join me in reading Acts 14 and be encouraged!   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail When we gather together and pray, God is in our midst! Do we forget that and not understand that God is there, next us when we pray? Instead of understanding the power that we have in God and His grace, do we ask for too little when we pray. Is God limited to a prayer list instead of fellowship in our midst? Too often, He is and that's what this journey is all about, learning...

Send us Fan Mail Peter is miraculously freed from prison, but us sinners are even more miraculously freed from sin! While the guards wondered what happened to Peter, do your friends wonder what happened to you once you were freed from the bonds of sin? Have we really understood what it means to be free? We explore that today in our readings. Join me and be encouraged!   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes, we just want to feel special. We want to feel that something is just for "us". However, when it comes to God's love and redemption, it's available to all! The initial church was made up of just Jews and when they found out God's grace was available to Gentiles too, some felt a little disappointed. However, once Peter explained it was God's...

Send us Fan Mail Conelius the Centurion became the first documented gentile to receive the Holy Spirit and be converted to Christ! Why was he the one? Because he was a "devout, God fearing and prayed regularly". It was during one of his prayers that God gave him a vision and he acted upon it without question. Why was he able to act so quickly? Because he knew God through his prayers! Lik...

Send us Fan Mail Charles Spurgeon shares that "Praying will make you leave off sinning or sinning will make you leave off praying".  If I was asked, "Are you a man of prayer?" My answer would be an ambiguous jumble of words. Instead, it should be a resounding YES! I've had wonderful role models in my life. MY father and mother were incredible prayer warriors. My churches h...

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Send us Fan Mail Are you waiting until you have your act together so God can use you? Do you need to brushoff some of the dust from the past and get yourself straightened out a little bit more before you're ready? Stop waiting because none of that is necessary! As Casting Crowns says in their song Nobody, "David brought a rock to a sword fight (Opps), Moses had stage fright (not good for...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes, it's important to know you aren't alone in your struggles and that others have been faced with many of the same issues and challenges. It's even more important to know, others got through them with God's help and you can too!  Join me in listening to my friend, Tony Caico's testimony and be encouraged!   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail The unbelievers tried to stop the spread of the gospel, but God used their actions to further His Kingdom! They thought they were driving the church away and killing it, but the truth is they were causing it to be spread farther afield and to more people! Just when you think your situation is bad, know that God has a plan and it won't be thwarted! Join me in reading Acts 8 an...

Send us Fan Mail Have you been falsely accused? Stephen had false witnesses brought against him, yet he was defended by the Holy Spirit. As a result, he was able to see God's glory and demonstrate His love to all! I know I'm usually too busy fighting on my own to seek the Holy Spirit in those times. This scripture reminds me to slow down and rest in Him. Join me in reading Acts 7 and be...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever felt so happy, content or filled with the Holy Spirit, that it felt like you were glowing? Now imagine that same feeling, but you're being accused of blasphemy which could result in your death! That's what Stephen was facing and yet, he glowed "with the face of an angel"! He relied on the Holy Spirit for his peace and wisdom during his time of nee...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever struggled to hear God? The Spirit is there and ready to speak to us and empower us! See how it gives Peter insights about people and empowers the apostles to heal the sick. It's also why the apostles could celebrate being persecuted for Christ! They were living daily in the Spirit! Join me in reading Acts 5 and be encouraged!   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail The flame of the Spirit is also intellectual. Reason, say the theologians, is one of the divine attributes. There need be no incompatibility between the deepest experiences of the Spirit and the highest attainments of the human intellect. It is only required that the Christian intellect be fully surrendered to God and there need be no limit to its activities beyond those imposed u...

Send us Fan Mail You remember how Peter denied his Lord in the time of His trial. Now notice what a change was worked in him after the Holy Spirit had fallen upon him on the day of Pentecost. We have often read the story of the man healed at the beautiful gate of the Temple. See how the Holy Spirit transforms Peter from scared denier to amazing healer and proclaimer of God! Join me in reading Acts...

Send us Fan Mail Every encounter with God has been such that man went flat down and went blind. Paul went blind on the Damascus road (see Acts 9). What was the light that blinded him? Was it a cosmic ray coming down from some exploding body or from two colliding galaxies? No! It was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God that dwelt in the bush, the God that dwelt in the Shekinah between the...

Send us Fan Mail "You will receive power.” By those words our Lord raised the expectation of His disciples and taught them to look forward to the coming of a supernatural potency into their natures from a source outside of themselves. It was to be something previously unknown to them, but suddenly to come upon them from another world. It was to be nothing less than God Himself entering into t...

Send us Fan Mail Essentially, salvation is the restoration of a right relation between man and his Creator, a bringing back to normal of the Creator-creature relation.  A satisfactory spiritual life will begin with a complete change in relation between God and the sinner; not a judicial change merely, but a conscious and experienced change affecting the sinner’s whole nature. AW Tozer How does tha...

Send us Fan Mail "You cannot have back your wasted time. But there is a strange and wonderful way in which God can give back to you the wasted blessings, the unripened fruits of years over which you long. The fruits of wasted years may yet be yours." Charles Spurgeon  What do you really long for? Is it money or love, peace or contentment? As we learn in Joel, God can give you back the lo...

Send us Fan Mail "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. " 2Cor 4:8 The Apostle is here speaking for himself and all the members of the Apostolic college and, also, for all the early saints. They appear to have been very much troubled and sometimes to have been very much perplexe...

Send us Fan Mail Hear these Inspired words, dear Friends, as though they came fresh from Heaven, as though God Himself spoke them at this moment out of the excellent Glory, for, indeed, He does so. The Word of God never grows old — these messages are just as new as if the ink on the pens of the Prophet and the Psalmist were not yet dry.  As Spurgeon says, the words of God are as true today as they...

Send us Fan Mail Are you content or are you wishing for more? Do you see others and wonder why they have so much more? A content heart is critical for my well being and I bet it is for yours too. Today we read Psalm 37 and see what God has to say to us and we spend a few additional minutes reading Charles Spurgeon to gain a little of his insights too! Join me and be encouraged!   Just a Guy and Hi...

Send us Fan Mail Change is necessary in created things, but no change is necessary in God, therefore God does not change. And God, being the eternal, holy God, cannot change. He will not go from better to worse. You cannot think of God being any less holy than He is now, any less righteous than He is now. God must remain infinitely holy, fixed, forever unchanging in holiness. He cannot go from wor...

Send us Fan Mail If there were no fire in hell, hell would be hell enough, because moral creatures are cut off forever from the sunshine of God’s face. And if there were no golden streets, no jasper walls, no angels, no harps, no living creatures, no elders and no sea of glass, heaven would be heaven enough, because we shall see His face and His name shall be on our foreheads. AW Tozer The battle...

Send us Fan Mail Revelation 19 and 20 brings the world to its final end and it's amazing! It begins with the sound of rejoicing over the defeat of the evil world system called Babylon. It ends with the Battle of Armageddon and Christ’s glorious second coming—events that mark the close of the Tribulation. Then we see the binding of Satan, Christ’s thousand-year earthly kingdom, Satan’s final r...