An Unforgettable Dream!!!!

I had a dream that seemed and felt to be so real. About a month ago my fathet in law, Charlie went home to be with Jesus. Charlie was a great source of encouragement for me and he was my hero. Since his death nothing has truly been the same.

Through this time of grief I have been praying to God for strength. Two nights ago as I was sleep I started dreaming that we were at my mother in laws house when all of a sudden we were in shock when Charlie came through the door. We were all wondering how was this possible we knew he had died, we talked about seeing him in the casket at the funeral but there he was standing before us, steonger than he ever was before.

As we stood there, Charlie could not help but tell us about Heaven and how beautiful it was. He described the beauty of the city that was beyond our understanding. You could see the excitement in his voice when he talked about meeting Jesus then he went all and talked about the saint of old. He mention talking to Job and then he started telling us about the Apostle John and he would describe to us what type of man that he is. Then he told me that he was able to ask the Apostle about a scripture he had always wondered about. The funny thing is that I thought to myself when he told us that, "I never knew that he had a question over what John wrote I had so many questions I still wanted to ask but then I was called out of my sleep. I awoke sad for it was a dream but after sitting in awe I felt so much peace and encouraged that one day I too will get to go there!!!

I believe that dream was given to me for a reason and a reminder.

What an unforgettable dream!!!

Keep on Keeping on

Bro. Henry

To Be or Not Be Stretched

Everytime that I write a blog, I write to you what God has laid on my heart. Today is no different!!!!
This morning for the first time since I have been in this area I went to Mayor's Prayer Breakfast, usually I will not send the reply card back in but this year I felt God wanted me to go and I can honestly say once I got there I could see why.
For months I have been preaching on how we should leave our comfort zone, well this morning He took me out of mine.
I have to remind you that the congregation I have is only about 25 people but when I got there they have probably about 500 people and I went by myself. I was nervous and the truth was I wanted to run the other direction. Once I found a place to sit, I was sitting by people I never met before, trying to strike up a conversation.
Through the course of that breakfast, God started speaking to my heart and He was saying, Henry, I want to stretch you, I want to make you to be the type of Pastor that others can turn to and be able to talk and in order to do this I will bring you to places like this, have you to run across people you do not know. I am doing this because I love you!!!
When God spoke that to me, I found myself praying to Him and saying, Lord I want to leave my comfort zone, I want to be stretched. Stretch me Lord till it hurts, stretch me to the point of where one day I will be able to say, "Oh, it feels so good!!!!!

True Forgivness

This Sunday I will be preaching a message on True Forgiveness and I wanted to share with you. This sermon this week is very special to me because it actually reveals a process on which true forgivenss comes. True forgivness first starts with being Unconditional. YOu will hear many people say that they believe in unconditional love but you rarely hear them talk about unconditional forgivenss. Unconditional forgivenss is when you say you frogive a person...you really forgive them just as God forgave us. Then from unconditional it brings reconcilation. When you truly forgive a person you give an opportunity for harmony and friendship to be restored then finally that leads to restoration. Restoration goes hand in hand with reconcilation. Reconcilation looks to the present while restoration looks to the future in other words as you and the person are reconciled you will find that in time trust is restored in a relationship. The relationship that was once broken and gone has now become whole as it once was.Anyway that is the thought process, please leave your comments and your thoughts.

Keep on Keeping on Bro. H