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iamronwahl — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:34:03 +0000

I’m blogging cause I feel like God is calling out to me. What does God want me to do? That’s the selfish question I ask myself all the time. What is God’s doing? Is the question I should ask myself. You see it’s about God, not about us. It is what he wants to do in the lives of others through us, not what he wants to do in our lives. Cause truly its life that he shares with us. Without God we are meaningless and life itself has no purpose, no destination, and no meaning.

John 15:5 says “I am the vine: you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”

Apart from God, Ron Wahl can do nothing. Put your name in that verse. You can do nothing apart from God. Our God loves his creation so much he even takes care of the unsaved, the people that don’t follow him, even the people that don’t believe he exist. We can do nothing without Him. He gives us our next breath. So life isn’t ours to live it as we please and take advantage of God’s grace. We should not be so selfish, worrying about what God wants to do in our lives. We should rather be looking for what he is doing and join him and as he works through us. We will then see clearly where he is leading us, And the great plans he has for us, but we must first seek him out. Then we must find out what he is doing, and join him, and this can only be revealed to you by seeking Him in perseverance. Once God has revealed what he is doing, or what he wants you to do. You have an option to join him in what he is doing, or wants to do through you. Your other option is to ignore Him. And this is were I have been for a few years now.

I came across this passage….

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. But my people would not listen to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. If my people would but listen to me, if Israel would follow my ways, how quickly would I subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!” (Ps. 81:10-14)

I’ve felt called to go into the ministry for years now. What this says to me is that, If I do not submit, God will allow me to follow my own devices. In following them, I will never experience what God wanted to do through me for others.

That just drives me insane, with the worldly view I have from living in this place. I am so stubborn. To submit to God, and to trust him to take care of everything, when it comes to money and getting through school, scares me. But He says “If my people would but listen to me.”

I can’t deal with living my life the way I have anymore. I’m not going to miss out on what God wants to do, and do through me. Cause how quickly will he use me? I can’t die in this place knowing, I could of made a difference in people’s lives for eternity, and didn’t because I was scared, or lazy. It’s time to step up in faith, and carry my cross!

God Reveals things to us in all places even in the shower.

iamronwahl — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:54:01 +0000

I was in the shower when this came to mind, and I grabbed my notebook and started writing it down as soon as I got out of the shower.

We are all like puppets with clipped strings, there is a direction in which we should move and we find its easier to make the next move on our own understanding, rather than to look up and see where we are to move. Even when we are tried, beat up, or discourage, we must again look up and realize we are just a puppet crafted to bring joy and entertainment to the one that created us. If we just look to see what the puppet master is doing and join him. Oh how our hearts will rejoice. And Oh! how the puppet master would reap all the glory.

After writing this down, and thinking about it intently. I remembered a verse I memorized long ago.

Romans 12:1-5

Therefore, I urge you brothers in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any long to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is– his good, pleasing and perfect will. For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

Turning Around…

iamronwahl — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:40:25 +0000

Where was I headed? Yrs ago I was heading in the same direction I am now. Something happened on the W.V. Mission Trip (GO HERD!!!). It’s quite unexplainable to tell you the truth, But ill do my best to put it in to word so you can grasp what God is doing in my life. I was headed down hill, building speed as I went the whole way. I was fading from God slowly from Junior yr. until now I have faded, This was pointed out by one great friend who I have to thank for really impacting my life, Hayley Gibson you are awesome and bold! I love you girl. She called me out, Asked me “where my standards went?” And reminded me of the passionate God-loving person I was at one time. It pierced me, and I thought about how meaningless these past few yrs of life have been. I mean the yrs have been good for nothing really, other than ruining my witness to hundreds that I went to school with, and friends that I spend all my time with. I decided I can’t do this anymore, battling with the Holy Spirit it is always either a loss in the fact that, you will never overcome God’s unfailing devotion to be near to you, or his conviction for what you’re doing wrong in your life. I weighed my options for far to long, and decided to put my life back in the hands of God. Fighting was getting me nowhere or anything, but realization that ill be miserable if I don’t surrender. So I had to decide, continue down this road of sin until it gets so dark that if I decided to turn around I’d have a hard time depicting dark from light, or surrender. I surrendered my life once again and I have to say, I have never felt better in all my life. I feel so free, happy, loved, united, and joyful. It’s unexplainable!

So weeks prior to this awakening I had, Quinton Mathews and I were talking about his experience at J-Creek, and I was just blown away to see how far he had come in his walk with Christ, and I bought this book called Experiencing GOD, KNOWING and DOING THE WILL OF GOD. I had went through it several yrs ago,after I had first came to Christ in 2004 at J-Creek and, it led me closer to God than I’d ever expected to get on this earth,and in this world we live in. I never finished the bible study but, Quinton and I both have a copy of EXPERIENCING GOD and we are going through it together, meeting once a week to talk about how God is working in our lives. Tonight we met up at B-Dub’s and I’m just excited to see what God has in store for the both of us. I feel like, I’m being called to go into ministry. I want to drop everything and just go to school at Boyce Bible College, or somewhere in the area and see where God is taking me. But how great is it that I bought that book not knowing when I’d need it, only to find out I bought it cause I was going to need it sooner than I intended to. It’s changing my life!!!

Word’s can’t express how meaingful my relationship with Jesus Christ is at this point in my life. I’m in aww. And God is REALLY WORKING in me.