A Divine Dance

God wants your answer to by "YES!"

A Colorful God...

The first time I saw this woman at church, I was a little surprised to see the colors in her hair; a most unusual do for a retirement community. I finally had the nerve to ask her the story behind her hair (the following is paraphrased by me)

“Last summer I was doing a Bible study and I really was impressed by how colorful God is. The theme of color kept running through my head. I was at the beauty salon and saw a hairdresser adding colors to hair and I felt that God wanted me to represent His color through my hair. So I did it, a little nervous as to what all the ‘old people’ at church would think (the ladies love it…the men not so much). A few weeks later I went to visit my grandkids who are teenagers. Both were shocked at my hair. On Sunday they asked if it was ok to go to church with hair colored like this (as they have some crazy hair too). I told them it was; they joined me for the first time at church. One is now walking with the Lord.”

Is that not the coolest story of how God can use the weirdest things to bring others to Him. I was so blessed by this woman’s story and am glad I had the guts to ask her to tell me her story. What are the stories that are around you that you might be missing out on because you don’t want to ask?
For another story of a great Christian who was asked to do something that went against his culture read Reese Howells - Intercessor

You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness,
O God our Savior,
the hope of all the ends of the earth
and of the farthest seas,

who formed the mountains by your power,
having armed yourself with strength,

who stilled the roaring of the seas,
the roaring of their waves,
and the turmoil of the nations.

Psalm 65:5-7




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Nothing is Impossible with Faith

"Faith has the genius of transforming the barely possible into actuality."

-Samuel Zwemer, missionary to the Muslim World, 1911

Don't Waste Your Life

This is an excerpt from John Piper at the One Day Conference in 2000.

"I tell you what a tragedy is. I'll read to you from Reader's Digest (Feb. 2000, p. 98) what a tragedy is: "Bob and Penny... took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30 foot trawler, play softball and collect shells." The American Dream: come to the end of your life - your one and only life - and let the last great work before you give an account to your Creator, be "I collected shells. See my shells." THAT is a tragedy. And people today are spending billions of dollars to persuade you to embrace that tragic dream. And I get forty minutes to plead with you: don't buy it."

"Don't waste your life. It is so short and so precious. I grew up in a home where my father spent himself as an evangelist to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to the lost. He had one consuming vision: Preach the gospel. There was a plaque in our kitchen for all my growing up years. Now it hangs in our living room. I have looked at it almost daily for about 48 years. It says, "Only one life, twill soon be past. Only what's done for Christ will last."

To read more go to
Desiring God.

Or read his book "Don't Waste Your Life."