Living Water Worship Center Blog

The title Might grab your attention, but I am talking about a different type of stripping. This week God has been dealing with me about integrity and lead me to Ephesians 4:22-24 Amp version
22 Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion;
    23And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude],
    24And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God’s image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness.
I don’t know much about painting but what I do know is that you don’t paint new finishes over old without stripping the old paint off. Why? If you don’t the new finish will eventually peel off. Then you will have to start all over again.  So it is with our spiritual walls. So many Christians want to jump right into the new things of God and skip the stripping process. How can God give you a new Job, friend, house, car etc. if you still have those old fleshy characteristics that will cause the new to peel off. All those new thing are just a cover up of the old self. Just like stripping paint, tripping our former nature takes time, is hard and not fun at all. But we must if we want true integrity. I want to stand the test of time and not peel at the first sign of pressure.
Join with me and pray to endure the stripping process!
 

I realize there are many that don’t know much about who Pastor Chris is or were he came from. So I am going to use a few posts here and there to let you in on the big secret. I was born in Prattville AL. and raised in a very poor and strict family. There are many things that I would change about my childhood but over all I was blessed.  I did not turn out so bad, I guess? J/K. God was so faithfull to me and my family we were just grace away from  ending up torn apart. It was hard back then. I remember having to eat hotdogs in many differant ways. My mother is a chef  master at hot dogs. If she was on the Iron chef and hotdogs were the secert ingrediant she would be invinceable. Thats all I have time for right now stay tuned for more. Oh and those that would like to know.

I am currently reading the Five Love Languages of God by Chapman.

Whats in my cd player right now

Jeremy Camp, STAY

Bible book I am studying

James (what great wisdom about self control)