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