SO Basically I was talking with Papa and He has been silent for the last week because I was blantanly pushing it aside. It allll started almot 2 sundays ago. Nikki woke me up before church around 5:30 am and said Oi wana go surfing? My body and head shouted NO! but God shouted louder GO! We went out, had fun, dolphins have been out with me surfing for the last month everytime and everywhere I go surfing theres my army I prayed for and God promised me to keep me safe from any sharks or animals in the sea, they swam right under our boards and right up to us :) It was beautiful.
As I got out of the water God said "Now don't go surfing for the rest of the day." Im thinking humm ok God? Nikki asked me to go out after church said no, that night We went to church again and Pastor Nev [our surf pastor] comes up to us and was like "Today they saw a huge great white in the bay!" Well theres my answer Papa was protecting me.
Anyways Tuesday comes go for a surf, God says again Don't surf or skate tomorrow [wed] focus on Me, well wed me and Nikki end up discussing further plans for missions this year, Getting resumes sent out and meeting with managers for job, kinda just getting errands done that I felt God was telling me to do. Thursday Morning, He says spend 2 hours reading the bible and dwelling in my word this morning. I want you to read 1 Kings, Matthew, and James. Dont surf or skate untilyou've finished.
Me I start 1st Kings, and within 30 mins already had arranged to surf for a break, So I disobeyed and went for a surf. the first half was crap surf, so I went to get out, and then I loked back and it all of a sudden went form messy to clean and more consistant. So we went back out. My ear [the one I had an infection in a few weeks back] had started plugging with water here and there and by the end of the surf it was fully plugged.
Friday morning woke up with horrible ear pain, loss of all hearing in my right ear, swollen ear and face. Went to the doctor he said I had an outter ear infection to just gave me drops. The drops over night made it worse, Saturday excrusiating pain, Doctor said go to hospital. The ER saw that not only did the infection get worse but I had torn my ear drum as well. Started me on pill antibiotics and strong pain killers.
This whole time I'd read a chapter of Kings a day but couldnt focus. What I had learned in this process Was that King David had gone through many wars, He had always wanted to build a temple for God but as I understood it he had too much bloodshed on his hands to fulfil it. He had delt with many wars and hardships in his lifetime, that when Solomon became King, God said He would have a reign of Peace and He would be the one to obey God and be able to build the temple. So He spent years building the temple, so much Gold, and huge, and just this glorious amazingly beautiful Temple to worship God in.
And in this God said to me, look you have to endure trials to get to the peace period.
You have to endure pain, and trails in order to learn and grow and get the amazing gifts He has for us after we go through these tests and trails. God also asked Solomon out of anything what did He want, and Solomon asked for Wisdom and because of this selfless act, the act of not asking for more riches and honor God blessed him with His Wisdom but also with everything else he could imagine! Heaps of Gold, and wealth and took care of every need plus heaps more.
The Message//remix 1 Kings 9:1-9 "After Solomon had completed building The Temple of God and his own palace, all the projects he had set his heart on doing, God appeared to Solomon again, just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. And God said to him, 'I've listened to and received all your prayers, your ever-so-passionate prayers. I've sanctified this Temple that you have built; My Name is stamped on it forever, my eyes are on it and my heart in it always. As for you, if you live in my presence as your father David lived, pure in heart and action, living the life I've set out for you attentively obedient to my guidance and judgements, then I'll back your kingly rule over Israel, make sure thing on a solid foundation....But if you or your sons betray me, ignoring my guidance and judgements, taking up with alien gods by serving and worshiping them, then the guarantee is off:...'"
Well tonight I finished chapter 8 to the end of 1st Kings and I learned this...God told Solomon He warned him about the women, and if Solomon fell his children would therefore fall after him. Solomon in the end fell after the women and their gods and rejected God, and because of the the kingdom fell apart afterwards. But after what Gods been telling me and Nikki and working on us in our sacrificial fasts the last couple months [me with veganism] [Our Temple] We are rebuilding our temples [bodys] and as long as we make them new, and healthy and obey God He will bless us abundantly with everything we need plus more, even though fasting and exersizing and sacrificing is HARD work and not fun it's to better our temples continuously. If we're going to strive for sponserships in skating/surfing/snowboarding, we have to also remember that its NOT about us, its about bringing Gods light into an otherwise lost industry, Taking the light off the partying and bringing it back to Gods blessing of performance.
But if we get caught up and lost in anything we do, God will turn away from us, and itll all fall apart, and He will end His blessing over us, we have to continually be reminding ourselves that in Everything we do we do it for the Glory of God.
Anyways the next chapters were of the fall of Israel and how king after king would fall more and more away from God and get worse and worse and God would redeem him self and a new king would reign and then that same king got caught up again and fell away, and so the children kept getting cursed, and there was drought in the land for 3 years and Elijah the prophet Kept sharing Gods word until it hurt, and was on the way to costing him his life. But in 1st Kings 18:30-46 God is redeeming Himself showing He is the true God over baal, they tried everything to get the god baal to light their alter, and it doesnt, they even cut themselves and stomp around. Then here comes Elijah does his preperation has them pour 3 buckets of water on his alter, then He askes God to light it and in an instant God lights it plus the water in the bucket even! then He brought the end of the drought.
But this was such a great lesson from Papa, and After I finished God ended his silence to me and quietly just praised me saying "Good job for reading all of that, your going to have a blessed skate sesh in the morning, I'm so proud of you." God is not only my surf coach, my skate coach, but he's my Papa, My Daddy, He praises me just as I praise Him. Man I love my relationship with God. Its just so real. So much more real to me then there being water to drink or a taste to it.
Verses of the month
"Dwell in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart"
Luke 18:27 "What is impossible with man is possible with God."
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