Back from the mountains

I spent almost all of the last week in the mountains of the Southwest. We (our team) stayed above 8000ft. elevation about 95% of the trip. I will be posting outtakes of the trip in the coming days. We purposely stayed away from laptops and cellphones as much as we could and just focused on the beauty all around us. I will be posting links to some incredible photos also.

Shalom

Go Sam Go.

Today, Brownback's campaign circulated a memo making the case that he's a viable candidate for president. It cites the glowing report Brownback received from the Club for Growth and includes this quote from Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform: "What Brownback has is complete credibility on the social conservative issues and complete credibility on the economic issues." The memo also references a Rasmussen poll showing Brownback within striking distance of Hillary Clinton.How far can Brownback go? He has a long road ahead, but he's on a roll.

http://www.brownback.com/s/

http://blogs4brownback.wordpress.com/

Top of da mornin to ya!

This was the highlight of my day at the St. Patty's Day Parade.

To find out more check out Steve's blog entry:

http://theoffutts.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/st-patricks-day-in-photos/

This is where I will be staying for the next week.

The cabin we (Justin, LeeAnna & myself) will be staying in looks almost exactly like the one in the photo (I randomly found this photo on google images, but honestly folks, I really think this is the cabin we are staying in. I will get back to you on that)

It is a ranch in the Durango, Colorado area. Located at about 8000 ft. above sea level, with incredible hiking trails right out the back door. We will be sharing and ministering a home group on Wed. night and sharing at a local church on Sunday morning. And of course sharing Jesus with old friends and new ones.

Also we will be spending two days at the infamous Grand Canyon. Then the rest of the time in the breathtaking mountains of Southwestern Colorado. We will take a drive on the Million Dollar Highway. During all these activities we will be seeking the Lord in the beauty of His creation. The encounters you can have in nature are hard to beat. Because a lot of times it's just you and Him and His glorious creation speaking of His wonders and awe without saying a word. You can yell and let loose or sit there in total silence as all of creation praises Him with their beautiful sounds. My favorite pastime when I lived in the Durango area for almost two years was to go to a mountain river every Sunday after church and just meditate upon the Lord at the sight and sound of that rushing river. That makes you alive on the inside!

Join us in prayer as we are believing for the Word of God to be spoken boldly, for healings and for prophetic decrees to be released into the area!

Amen, let's stand!

Spirit of Truth

First off it is 7pm and I am outside the coffee shop with no jacket, Sweet!

In light of our tongues room de-brief and a conversation with a friend not long after I have to blog (sorry wordcasters). In the conversation I asked this friend what they taught in the class she is in. She said, "You know what, I can't remember, and the teacher said this would happen. He said in our culture we hear message after message but where does it go. That we don't really chew on the word enough to actually live out what was taught."

The conclusion we came to is that we have covetousness in our heart for revelation, but not much hunger to live in light of this revelation and not much satisfaction to have God alone as our inheritance.

Misty's set on Tuesday night shed some light on our true heart condition, but you left the room with hope that God can get us to the place that is impossible for our flesh attain to. A prophetic song came from one of the singers. He was singing, "I want you for my inheritance, and you alone, I don't want the mansion, I don't want the streets of gold, etc. I want you and you alone." It was an opportunity for people to say yes to being priests before God forever, their inheritance was the Lord (if we could only get it, for real, what that really means, look out when we do). The place we are (or I am) is that we really do want Him, but we want all the other stuff more. Like Revelation, power, rewards, joy, peace, living water flowing, supernatural encounters, etc. Oh that we would see that He is our exceedingly great reward (Gen. 15:1). This doesn't mean give up going for all the other stuff, but that all the other stuff is in Him. It should be the fruit produced from being intimate with Him. And there is fruit in many places of our lives. But I believe the Holy Spirit is convicting us and helping us to keep the first things first, as he always is, if we give time to listen. Because he longs for us to bear more fruit, in other words, he longs to be with us.

He will actually give us all the stuff without Him if we want it inordinately (which is covetousness). A friend of mind said recently that he wanted heaven, where there is no more pain, lots of gold, glory, etc. and he didn't care if God was there or not, ouch. That is the depth of blinding that can come, like the scales that fell off of Saul's eyes. Someone else thought this way too, and Jesus said that he saw him fall like lightning.

This resides in the human mind, which is desperately wicked and deceitful above all things. Let us continue to plow the fallow ground of our minds and hearts, and not go digging where the Holy Spirit is not leading us to dig, but let us have hope that He will give us hearts and minds that really do want Him and Him alone as our EXCEEDINGLY GREAT REWARD!

I'm back in the game

Well folks the surgery was a great success! (Cheers, rahs, hurrahs, the crowd goes wild!!) To get to the part I needed to replace I had to COMPLETELY disassemble the laptop. It was it like 20 pieces on my table.

Notice the red LIFE tape which is the duct tape of choice for anybody who has been in the Cause. Here is the part that was broken, the "dc jack." Notice the big chunk out of the one on the left:

Here is what it all came down to the "mother" of all computer parts. (that's the motherboard for all the non-techies.)

"getting down to the nitty gritty!"

For anesthetic I used shots of compressed air and Ruth Fazal cd's, it did the trick. At first I had a few mouse problems, but that was a quick fix and everything is good to go. Not bad for never soldering anything before in my life. The pros would of charged about 300 bones for that job. Maybe I will buy some junkers on ebay and give them new life and get them into the hands of ihoppers who need laptops and just maybe the practise will come in handy in the end times. Nevertheless, Jack Bauer would be proud! (that one is for you Lee)

right before surgery

Here is a photo of the "old dog" right before surgery. You couldn't even breathe wrong when it was charging!

Here is what I will be wearing tomorrow in my Hernhut apartment!

And here is what I will look like if the surgery is a success!!