Ben Pettit

New Years Eve is here.

2008 was a year of a lot of changes. I graduated college, bought a car, found the love of my life,  and started my first full time ministry position. I have hope that the Lord is going to do BIG stuff in my life during 2009. To you and yours.

I felt creative this morning and started to write a new song.

pour |pôr|
verb [ intrans. ]
(esp. of a liquid) flow rapidly in a steady stream

Who is pouring into you? Who do you let speak into your life? Who do you allow to see the depths of who you are?

Motive

Many times even in the church calling there will be people who want tell you things that they believe are truth. What you must do is discern their motive. Have they been an encourager in the past? Or have the repeatably torn you down? If it is the latter you might want to listen to them. I know what your thinking but hear me out.

• It will help your job security to listen to that person.
• That person wants church to be catered to them so you should probably listen to them.
• That person also probably has a lot of friends in the church who listen to him. He is an influencer.
• It will make your church job very easy to listen to that person and do what that person says.
• So what if your listening to the voice of Satan? Your job will be easier.

DO NOT listen to people who have bad motives and cheer at your failures. If you do listen to them, you are listening to the voice of Satan NOT Jesus. You do not have time to be torn down by them. YOU have potential because God says you do. When God says something, it happens.

Charismatic

Listen to charismatic people. The word charisma comes from the greek word “χάρισμα” this word means “gift”. The word charismatic literally means “gifts of the spirit”. We know that the Holy Spirit gives everyone at least one spiritual gift. Listen to those who are walking in the spirit, talking in the spirit, praying in the spirit. If they are not speaking to you in the spirit, they are speaking to you in the flesh and you are NOT to listen to them.

I feel like that’s enough for you to think about and let sink in today. Pray this prayer with me.

Jesus, help me to listen to your Holy Spirit. Keep me close to those who love you and exalt your name on high. Let me be so close to your heart, your ways, and your will for my life. I surrender my all to you. My everything. Consume me Lord.

A friend of mine Charlie wrote a very good post. Charlie is a gifted song writer and blogger. I’ve enjoyed his blog for the past several months. He has a heart for the Lord and creativity. Many people are lucky to call Charlie friend. His red beard inspires us all.

This post reminds me that the Lord often breaks us down to the core for our good.

“Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.” - Oswald Chambers

The Lord is near the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. - Psalm 34:18

I’ll be back this week with more posts and the follow up posts I promised a couple weeks ago. Until then…

If you haven’t heard of David Walker before, you need to remember his name. David is an anointed worship leader here in the Upstate of SC. By week he leads worship at Crossroads Community Church. By night he leads worship for Engage ministries. On top of that he travels and writes his own music.

His new CD “Closer Than Angels” is releasing this month. On Dec 8 at the Handlebar he will have his first CD release party. Then on Dec 14 he will have his second CD release party at Crossroads. Head over to his scheudle to see when he will be leading near you.

And lastly, a brand new website!! www.davidwalkeronline.com