Saturday, January 12, 2008

The Truth Project Studies

WOW! WOW! WOW! We just finished our first week of The Truth Project study. It was hard to stop and not keep going with all the videos. :-)

We have about 70 people registered in 4 separate classes from now until the end of April. Each of them will be so blessed. God is going to use this project big time in our community and in our churches. It's so exciting to see the various churches that are represented by the people taking these studies. I know that God is already preparing the hearts of some of these people to take this study back to their homes, their communities and their churches to spread His Truths.

This morning, the verse that I started with today was this: "Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight." Psalm 43:3-4 NIV This is the bottom line truth - reality from God's perspective. Do I have this perspective - do you have this perspective? Do we see truth as reality from God's perspective? With all that the world bombards us with today, the enemies lies that keep us captive, what do we see? We are filled with lies everyday in our culture. Oh God, transform us with your truth. The lies keep us captive but the truth - your truth God, is what will set us free. I know how desperately I want to live in freedom and the only place to find that freedom is in God and in His Word, the Holy Bible, which is the source of our truth, the source of God's truth.


I know the enemy has been is fighting real hard for this project not to come to our church and community. The day that we brought it to our church was on a Sunday; we woke up hardly being able to move - our bodies had never been that stiff both at the same time before - both Roger and I were so incredibly sore. Then the dog had peed in his kennel - dogs never pee in their kennel - so we had clean up this kennel and bath the dog before we could leave for church which therefore caused us to be late. We had a potluck lunch that day for the kickoff and the dishwasher wouldn't work - the drain hadn't closed so it had emptied out the whole hot water heater in the church so we couldn't even wash the dishes right away. When we got home late that night, our van runner had been taken off - the demons must have had crowbars for that runner and the mud flap to come off cause there's no way that it would just come off on it's own. Then Roger's trying to fix it and he couldn't fix it alone so I had to climb out of my pj's and go help him in the garage at 11 pm at night. That's when I found out that our furnace wasn't working so we had to call a furnace guy at 11:30 pm at night. We didn't get to bed until 1 am in the morning. Do you think the enemy was throwing all sorts of things at us to get us discouraged and want to give up?? I think so.


So, then we come to the first week of the actual study. Well, I tell ya, something happened every day. :-) I just had to keep smiling because it didn't matter what was thrown at me, I was so looking forward to this study, I wasn't gonna let nothing keep me down - especially the devil. So, Sunday we start the study in the evening, but I can hardly move all day - my back and my legs had never been that sore before - I knew it was an attack. Wouldn't you know that after we started the study and prayed all together as a group, the pain eased up significantly. I had a terrible time finding babysitters for the Friday study with young moms - it was unbelievable. On Wednesday morning, when I was on my way to the study with our church staff, I had stopped to pick up capaccino's for them. I had asked a kind man to open my van door for me and as he was walking back to the store from my van, a truck that was driving onto the parking lot hit him. He wasn't hurt but they were both shaken up. The morning of another study, I was waiting at the church for 20 minutes before the doors got opened up and the TV didn't work so we had to use another one, causing me to become quite frantic that morning as well. Another morning of a study, my daughter forgot her homework and I had to bring it to school - causing me to be late for that study and my dog had been relentless in his troublemaking that first hour to get out of the house. :-) Many people that I had registered, had trouble getting onto the website and were getting quite frustrated. Those are just to name a few of the hindrances and attacks for the first week of the studies. Just the 1st week!!!!! But for those 70 people that had gone through the study this 1st week, they were blessed and they were filled with a hunger and a thirst and a desire for more of God's truth. Thank you God!! The enemy will fight hard, but God has already won! Amen!!


So, one of the biggest questions, that came out of this first study was this: DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS REALLY REAL???? Do you?? Do I? If I really believed that what I believe is really real then I would shake the world around me, would I not?? God help me to shake the world around me with your truths.

If you have gone through the Truth Project or are going through it, please leave comments as to how it has worked on your heart, what God has shown you through it. Feel free to check out their website www.thetruthproject.org and view the trailers. You can view the short one below.


2 comments:

Lisa's Pic's said...

This was something I shared with the 84 people that are going through the Truth Project series right now - I shared it on Feb. 7/08

Today (February 7th) when I read one of my daily readings on one of those daily flip calendars, the quote was by a Brother Lawrence:

"There is no mode of life in the world more pleasing and more full of delight than continual conversation with God."

I really like that. I right away thought of the Truth Project and the session where Del Tacket was talking about the watch being stuck in the time 'mode'. If I had not been introduced by the word 'mode' by Dr. Tackett, I would have wondered what this word mode meant. I think it's so neat when there are times throughout the week that God reminds us of what we are learning through the Truth Project series. It has spoken to me so much already and I know it has been transforming you and speaking to you as well.

God bless you as you continue learning and growing with Him.
Lisa

Lisa's Pic's said...

The following is a devotional from the Truth Project Daily Travelogue:

"Then God said, "Let there be light": and there was light." Gen. 1:3 NKJV
"No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him." John 1:18 NKJV
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." 2 Tim. 3:16,17 NKJV

Sin deadens and obscures. So powerful are the distorting effects of disobedience and self-will that we fail to see the obvious. Our search for God becomes futile. It's like looking for light in a sealed box at the bottom of the sea. But God has not left us in this self-imposed gloom. He has spoken to us. His revealed Word, like a lightning bolt, shatters the walls of our prison. Next to creation itself, this is the greatest fact in the entire history of the universe.

Question for contemplation: Do you understand the significance of revelation? Do you cherish the gift God has given you in His written Word?


Prayer: "I thank You, God, that You have not left me to find my own way in the darkness. I would never have known You if You had not spoken out of the silence and called me to Yourself. As it is, You have redeemed me and made me Your own through the power of Your Word, which cannot return to You void, but always accomplishes Your good pleasure (Isaiah 55:11). That Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105). Help me to walk in that light every day of my life."