Happy New Year 2009 WOW!!!!

Happy New Year to all, I hope everyone had a special Christmas holiday celebration, surrounded by friends and family. I love New Years celebrations, the time of year always causes me to reflect on me altitude and longitude and my attitude.
It amazes me that every year, regardless of the balance on the checking account or the number of presents under the tree I always come to the same conclusion. I am filthy rich in the blessings of heaven.
In the mortgage and real estate business a pipeline is a reference to future business and you always want to have business in the pipeline. A good sales person may have as much as 6 months of future business in their pipeline.
As I survey my life, I can point out blessing after blessing to anyone who would ask to see my treasure here on Earth. I would have to first point to my relationship with my Creator, just the fact that I can walk and talk with the creator of all the Universe continues to blow my mind, to the point that I can’t even put into words with any real justice.
I would next point to the amazing woman that God has given to me as my wife, again I struggle for words to describe the love I have for this beautiful precious woman. I know that she loves me for me because God has placed us in each others hands and we are both in His hands. We have four amazing children that we have poured our hearts and lives into.
Talking with your children is like talking with God, at first you do all the talking because you feel you can help them by telling them what to do. Then one day you realize that you learn a lot more about them and life is so much easier if you listen to what they have to say.
I could point to many things that have passed but what is amazing is when I look to the future my spiritual pipeline is full as far as I can see. I have had the incredible privilege of being around so many awesome men and women that have taken time to pour Gods anointing and blessings into my life and my family.
Everyone is blessed; the bible says the rain falls on the just and the unjust, the saved and the heathen. The key is to look for the blessings and be thankful for the ones you have.

In 1 Samuel ch. 17 David is compelled to fight Goliath, King Saul sees David’s Faith and passion and allows him to fight the giant Philistine but first he tries to help David by giving him his armor. A noble and honorable gesture on Saul’s part after all David was a shepherd not a soldier and he was only a young man. Most men would have died in that armor fighting but David knew that he was blessed and gifted as a shepherd, he had defended his flock against lions and bears. David took off the Kings armor and fought with Goliath as a shepherd, with the tools of the shepherd and he defeated Goliath.

This year take time to discover who you are in God, don’t take on someone else’s stuff. When you do what you are gifted to do it is easy for God to bless you and you will grow and prosper in every area of your life.
God didn’t promise to make your life perfect, He said he would make you perfect.
Have an awesome New Year!!!
Be Blessed,

Ps. Stephen Alexander

See the Light

This week scientists have made an amazing discovery, they have for the first time seen another solar systems sun and planets. Scientists have known about other planets and solar systems but this week, after a 12 year project they saw what they had dreamed of for the first time.

 

Light moves at 299,792,458 metres per second or 10 trillion kilometers per year. Amazing to think that you and I can look up to the heavens and see the light of stars that have been burned out for years but their light is still shining. The same way we can look out for a light that we believe is there but we have not seen it with our eyes and yet we see it in our dreams.

 

How often have we given up on a dream because it wasn’t visible, we believed in our dream but when we looked for it we couldn’t see it? Unbelief whispers poison in our ear and we begin to doubt what we believe.

 

Can you imagine living in Noah’s shoes? You live in a desert and it has never rained before and you and your family are building an enormous ship. People stop by to watch you and ask what you are doing. You say there is a flood coming and I am getting ready for it. Can you imagine the ridicule and total mockery they faced.

 

It is like pointing to the sky and saying look for the star. For years people will look and see nothing, for years they will doubt and mock you. Day after day and year after year you point up and say look and see, but they can’t see the light, the star is there the entire time,but they can’t see it. Then suddenly after traveling for hundreds of light years the light arrives and everyone can see what you knew was there all along.

 

Within your heart is a promise from God, there are dreams and visions, words and prophecies and they are more real then the world around you. Believe in your visions and the truth that you feel in your heart. It is that which is God has placed inside you that will change the world around you.

 

Keep believing and never take your eyes off the light from heaven.

 

Hebrews 11

 1Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. 2This is what the ancients were commended for.

 3By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. 

America the Beautiful

Matt: 16- tells the story of a conversation between Peter and Jesus. Jesus has told Peter that he is a Rock and that his kingdom will be built upon his strength. Then Peter declares he will go anywhere and even die for Jesus. Jesus breaks the bad news that Peter will deny ever knowing Jesus in just a couple of hours, and he did just as Jesus had said he would.

Peter spoke his heart but he was filled with fear when challenged to prove his alliance and faithfulness to Christ.

 

Today millions of people here in the US will be casting their vote for the President of the United States of America. This has been called one of the most important Presidential races in our counties history, interestingly enough it is the candidates that are the big news, even more then the issues they each promote and believe in.

 

Hundreds of millions of people around the world live under a government that is oppressive and unwilling to listen to its people. Many counties control the religion and beliefs of their people. Freedom of speech and religion are not rights of their citizens, it is only a dream for them.

 

The campaigns run by both presidential candidates have been ugly, both men have shown the toughness and determination that is required of a leader and both men have shown how human and fallible they both are.

 

Today one of these men will win the election and they will have an enormous task set before them. Not only to fix many problems within our government, but to begin to bring about some kind of healing and reconciliation between the people of this 
wonderful country.

We must pledge to pray to support the President and the leaders in Government, who ever they are, they will need our prayers and support over the next 4 years.

 

I believe that our country can be a strong , fruitful, powerful, loving country, but only if all the people can answer some tough questions and think long and hard about the answer they give.

 

What do you want your country to be?

 

Before you answer that question you may want to think about what you can do to bring about this country you desire. What are you willing to do to see things change or stay the same.

Will you be like Peter, when faced with the fear of the cost of your choice, will you change your answer and run away and hide.

 

Most importantly have you prayed and fasted concerning your choice?

 

God bless you all on this great day and God bless America!

Now Get out and VOTE!!!!

 

Ps Stephen Alexander

Walking with Jesus

Prayer and Fasting, more prayer and more fasting.

It is amazing how some things never change and how we deal with the same subjects at very different times in our lives and in history.

When Jesus was facing something big he always did one of two things. He Prayed for guidance and he Fasted. Many times he did both. Jesus knew his Father had all the answers and prayer is our communications hotline to God. Fasting takes our focus off ourselves and puts it on God the Father. There is something about physical hunger that puts us in touch with our need for spiritual nourishment.

1 Corinthians 2:9 says it well, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"[b]— 10but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
We have no idea how big God is, BUT we can get a picture of Gods plan through spiritual connections, PRAYER!

Our focus can not be in two places at the same time, you must choose to either focus on your needs or Gods heart

The apostle Peter has taken a beating from most religious pundits for jumping out of a perfectly good boat and then sinking in front of Jesus and his friends. (Matthew 14:28 )

I only wish we all could have the excitement and faith that Peter had.
Not only did Peter love Jesus but he wanted to be just like him, he would do what ever Jesus asked and not question his every request. Peter saw Jesus walking on the water and said Lord call me out to you. Peter wanted Jesus to empower him and Peter walked on the water with Jesus. Only when Peter was distracted by the howling wind and crashing waves did Peter take his focus off Jesus and he did begin to sink, but Jesus was there for him. Jesus stretched out his hand and lifted Peter up and they both walk on the water back to the boat.

I would like to be the guy who took the chance, to have faith in God to walk hand in hand and sink, is far better then to just play it safe and stay on a sinking ship.

It is time we started walking on water, or at least try.
God has called each of us to join him on an incredible journey; it is up to us to take the first step towards him. God is calling, will you answer.

I hope you find time to pray and fast this week. Find a quiet place and spend some time with God. It will bring you places you could only dream of.

Have an awesome week.

Ps. Stephen Alexander

Raising your level of Faith

Wow, these past few weeks have been very exciting. A little too exciting for many, the fun is only going to get wilder, with a Presidential election (If this one doesn’t get you praying nothing will) and then the Holidays right behind that. We are in for a couple of crazy months.

The numbers we have been presented with hardly seem real, 700 Billion that’s a big number. I can’t imagine how many people will be affected by this enormous amount
of money.

 

Possibly some good will come out of this whole debauchery, at least one good thing. People will begin to question the way things are done and maybe they will challenge the status quo.

 

We can look back at history and think that things were better at one time then they are today, but in reality it only seems better because we know how things turned out.

( From John 11 )

 

Jesus was visiting a town not far from Bethany, when a message was sent to him that his friend Lazarus was very sick and near death. You would have expected Jesus to head straight to his friends side and pray for Lazarus and heal him, but Jesus doesn’t move.

For two more days Jesus continues to minister to people, praying for them and healing them. Then he announces to his disciples that they are headed back to see Lazarus.

 

Lazarus had been dead for days by time he arrived back in town to see the family, everyone was upset, Martha challenged Jesus as to why he delayed. Martha knew who Jesus was and believed that had he been there her brother would still be alive.

Martha had an incredible faith, but Jesus was challenging their thinking.

Lazarus is dead!

 

Not only was he dead but he had been in the tomb for a couple of days. Jesus was very sad and wept at the death of a friend he loved and cared deeply for.

When all hope was lost and all had given up on Lazarus Jesus speaks and raises him from the dead, He speaks life back into Lazarus.

Lazarus is alive!

 

John 12:24 

24I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

Think of this story in relation to your own life. We pray the message reaches God and then God responds, not always the way we would like and usually it requires faith on our part to see our prayers answered.

God gives us a vision and passion for his Kingdom and the plans he has for us, but then we must be prepared to die for these things to really grow. Everyone will be challenged in their faith and relationship with God. Your closest friends and family will not understand what you are doing when you choose to follow God. It will not be easy, but it will be worth it.

 

God wants to grow within you amazing gifts and ministries, but the old nature must die. Don’t look back when things get tough, press on for the prize is ahead of you. Put your faith and trust in God, it’s ok if you don’t understand, most of the time we don’t understand what God is doing, but we do understand WHO God is in our lives.

 

Shut off the TV and computer; stop listening to CNN, NBC and FOX and start listening to GOD.

 

We are rich because we have an awesome Father in heaven who will shower us with every gift and blessing if we just ask in faith.

 

Have an awesome week

 

Ps Stephen Alexander.