Be That Perfect Gift From Above To Others

Text messaging back and forth the other day with a friend, we were able catch up with what is going on in each other's lives. It's encouraging to hear and share what we are doing to build the coming kingdom of Christ.

God has so much more to offer us and he is anxious to give us all he has planned for us. I told my friend about it via a text and I said I was going after it. He text back within a minute stating, "Ur right & I'm lined up 2 run that same race, or be an arrow flying 2 the same target! Yeshua! (Jesus)."

I thank the Lord God Almighty in Heaven for a friend like this. A friend that is in hot pursuit of King Jesus, just like I am. In God's holy word it says, "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." (Proverbs 27:17 NIV).

We need each other if we are going to learn to love God, love people and impact the world. We must join together to advance the coming Kingdom of God. God wants us to make good friendships and to be a really good friend of Jesus Christ. Pray daily for the desire to know him more.

It is written in James 1:17 (NIV) that "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights..." Make your friendships with others good and be that perfect gift from heaven to someone else.

Serving a living and loving God,

Rick Hawbaker

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God Has So Much More For You...

Our Almighty God has so much more for you to enjoy and do in this life on earth. He is a proud father waiting for you to get to a place so he can give you all he has planned for you.

According to the holy scriptures, "But the LORD still waits for you to come to him so he can show you his love and compassion. For the LORD is a faithful God. Blessed are those who wait for him to help them." (Isaiah 30:18 NIV).

Better than an earthly father that would do anything and everything for his children that he possibly could, our Sovereign Lord has given up his only son to die for us so that whoever believes in him will have eternal life through his son, Jesus!

The fact that God has to correct us doesn't diminish his love for us. "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10 NIV). We will fall, but we won't fail. For the Lord is forever with us. All glory and praise to the Almighty.

God has more gifts for you. Jesus told the disciples in Matthew 21:22 (NIV), "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." Believe and ask in Jesus name for God to give you spiritual gifts so that you may use them to help him build his coming Kingdom.

I know that God is alive. I have experienced him in my own life and have seen him working in others. God is every where and he is all things to all. "For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen. (Romans 11:36 NIV).

"As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people both now and forevermore." (Psalm 125:2 NIV)

Thank You King Jesus!

Rick Hawbaker

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Ohhh, Praise Him! Hallelujah!

I am excited! I returned home yesterday from a week-end Men's Advance in the Rocky Mountains. Nearly 200 men from our church were there. A HUGE blessing for all who attended. It was a GRAND time. One that will not soon be forgotten. We stirred it up for the Lord! Praise God Almighty!

It was the biggest piece of heaven I have ever experienced. I am still feeling glory bumps just thinking about it. We prayed for the healing power of the Lord to come. People there were healed by God and people that we prayed for who weren't there were healed too.

It was an awesome display of God's greatness. The holy spirit engulfed us the entire week-end. The spirit of God came down upon us and dwelt among us. We were on fire for the Lord!

Father God...I have a burning desire to pursue you and pray daily to be your friend. I am using this life to invest in my next life. I pray for healing and revealing power and pray that we will be healed of addictions. Break the lies that hang over us. Speak to us at a new level as you continue to sanctify us. All this I ask in King Jesus name. Amen!

Ohhh, Praise Him! Hallelujah!

Rick Hawbaker

"You Turned My Wailing Into Dancing..."

I have been flipping through the pages of the bible for years and reading here and there. Last week I ran across Psalm 30 and two verses stuck with me.

"You turned my wailing into dancing: you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever." (Psalm 30:11-12 NIV)

King David wrote this psalm of thanksgiving upon the occasion of the dedication of his temple. Although David was the anointed one to become King of Israel, he spent many days on the run from King Saul, whom he replaced at the helm.

David's dysfunctional family life haunted him from the time he was a young lad tending the sheep until he died and was buried in the city of David as the King of Israel.

You might think the king-to-be had everything, but the truth is he was plagued with troubles just like every other human being. David was connected to the Lord and prayed in desperation at times. We are blessed to have his prayers and thoughts recorded for us in God's holy word.

Like David, we too are faced with an unpaved rocky road to walk. Our God can change are sorrows into joy in an instant. He can turn our wailing into dancing and he does. But don't forget gloomy days will return for us as we are surrounded in Satan's kingdom of darkness until our days here come to an end.

Be filled with the GREAT HOPE of one day the Lord coming back to get us. Jesus tells us in John 14, "In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am."

We will rise and soar beyond everything imaginable and discover the place Jesus is off preparing for us to spend eternity. As we come to realize just how great our God is...it is then we worship him all the more passionately!

Thank You King Jesus - You are Awesome!

"For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen." (Romans 11:36 NIV)

Rick Hawbaker

Something To Think About...

"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done." That is what Jesus tells us in Revelation 22:12 (NIV).

Does that mean we are saved by our works? No, but it does indicate that as we are obedient to God, we will show works with our obedience.

The Bible teaches in Ephesians 2 that works do not save, but by grace we are saved through faith. However, getting a free ticket to heaven via grace does not give us permission to sit back and do nothing for one another.

God has given us "talents" and we have been instructed not to bury them. We are to make them prosper. We should be looking for opportunities every day, to show everyone just how great our God is.

"For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done." Matthew 16:27 (NIV).

God knows the intent of our heart. What we do is an indication of what we really believe. Increase your desire to know him more!

"The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you." 2 Chronicles 15:2 (NIV)

Rick Hawbaker

Jesus also lived for us and lives in us still.

Our God is Holy and higher than anything on earth. I thank God Almighty for the way he loves us.

There is none greater than our God and He soars above all the earth. His son, Jesus, told us in John 14 that "No one comes to the Father except through me." Jesus is the way and truth and the life!

My prayer for you this day is that you will seek the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and all your strength. Sing out to the Lord and praise his holy name. For His greatness is beyond compare and he is more than enough - more than sufficient.

Anything that separates you from God is a sin. Don't let sin be your downfall. "Repent! Turn away from all your offenses: then sin will not be your downfall. Rid yourself of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit." (Ezekiel 18:30-31 NIV)

Repent, believe and grow in faith. Just having knowledge of the Great One is not enough. In Romans 10:9-10 Paul told us, "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."

Live for an audience of one. And that one must be God. Be ever so thankful for all the blessings that our Almighty God has given to us and thankful for the blessings yet to come. Our God is awesome! His love for us is overflowing, over the top and never ending.

God made the ultimate sacrifice of giving up his own son, Jesus, that we might be saved by the blood of the lamb of God. Let us not forget that Jesus died for us, and also lived for us, and lives in us still. Thank You, Jesus!

Rick Hawbaker
'Born to Love'