A Wonderful Day in the Kingdom

Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways. 2 You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours. 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table. 4 Thus is the man blessed who fears the Lord. 5 May the Lord bless you from Zion all the days of your life; may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem, 6 and may you live to see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel. Ps 128NIV

My Children had the day off today due to the national holiday. Today was painting day. My oldest daughter and my son both made other plans (although they knew the day was emanate). They wanted to get their new rooms painted but they also wanted to do other things. I reminded them of the importance of the day and why we needed to work and they quickly acknowledge the importance of the day.
It was not as if they wanted to go out and do evil things. Lauren wanted to get together with some friends to work on a school project due at the end of the week. Jet wanted to go out and try and find some buried treasure. (no Joke he really did). Haley like always just wanted to stay at home and play some games. Nothing evil, in fact all very wholesome and productive things. The problem was painting needed to happen. Our little kingdom/home needed to get painted.
The Kingdom of God is often found in disrepair or needing to expand. There are many good and wholesome things we could go and do but there are also some things that we need to do to make sure that we are growing each day and that the Kingdom is expanding. God has called this church to move forward and we are doing just that. Today was a BIG work day for us as afamily and those days must come along once in a while, just like in the Kingdom of God.
Real progress in not made in the bog days. Real progress is found in the consistently moving forward day after day. I want to encourage us all to be part of the Kingdom each day. Live everyday. Don’t just be alive but truly live. When each day is done. Let us recognize the progress that we have made and the miracles God has preformed. Let us look back on each day and know that we have done the will of our Father and have gotten to know Him more. Let us also make sure that as God blesses us that we are also being a blessing to others. We all have the ability to be Jesus to someone each day.
Today, I worked with my family. My wife, being pregnant, had to work from a far (due to the paint fumes) so she ran around and got supplies and took a few crazy pictures of us all. You see today was my day off from work and although we worked very hard at home, my family worked together for a common purpose. This was life building and life changing for them. We came together as a family to accomplish something they admittedly, didn’t know if it would ever get accomplished. We are far from done but we made progress.
Each day we need to ask ourselves did we make any real progress towards the hopes and dreams God has put in our hearts. Was their any eternal value to our day? The real progress of my day had very little to do with our new home addition. It had everything to do with my children learning to work together and building a stronger relationships with each other. We had a wonderful day in the Kingdom! Today you will have a choice to live in the Kingdom (Realm of God) following His Spirit or just exist another day! Have a wonderful day in the Kingdom.

-Kingdom Builders love and take good care of their families and love ones, Unity in our personal and church family is so very important to see the fulfillment of the will of God in our lives. Let our families be whole and let God’s church be in unity.
25 Jesus knew their thoughts and replied, "Any kingdom divided by civil war is doomed. A town or family splintered by feuding will fall apart. Matt 12:25

Current family and Ministry Update: I spent the early morning coordinating this weeks food donations. We are working with some churches and other ministries to help them with the excess of this last huge semi of food we received. I was so blessed Sunday to see the distribution begin. I loved seeing it going out to be used. Our Cottage Grove women’s shelter (love link) received the first boxes on Sunday. We also had two men give their hearts to Christ and many testified of a breakthrough concerning their battles with depression. One young lady came up to me after service was over and told me that she came to church today because she knew she needed to get her life right and from the moment she arrived she felt Jesus and made a commitment of her Life to Christ. She told me that she had never felt so free. Another lady told me how her and her son accepted Christ three weeks ago and each week God seems to use the message to speak to her with exactly where she is at with what she needs. Sunday evening Jon Fargher spoke about what it means in the Bible to shout. It was a great message that really got everyone stirred up! God is truly doing great things. Pray for me because tomorrow they find out if they can recover any of my lost data and contacts from my crashed computer. As I mentioned above, I spent most of my day off painting with my family. Then I spend a late night trying to get my programs restored onto my new hard drive. We are getting there. I finally have my Bible program back and working. Praise the Lord. It is honestly hard to live without that. I speak for Kristy and myself when I tell you all that we appreciate your love and support towards us. Have a wonderful day in the Kingdom and be a blessing to someone today, Pastor Aaron