tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post2300710621906188896..comments2024-03-12T10:35:54.578-05:00Comments on Homeward Bound: The Holy Spirit: Power Presence and Purpose Part 144Michael Boldea Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09695469447648193872noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-49067737171277609822011-12-31T01:04:57.726-06:002011-12-31T01:04:57.726-06:00When I was first saved, my plans, which carried ov...When I was first saved, my plans, which carried over from my old life into my new, were to join the US Air Force and be trained there to be a military policeman and also go to college there. I was about 60 pounds overweight and could not enlist. I forsook the plan. So I decided to maybe join the state patrol which hires at 19 and a half, so I started to get fit, but quickly I decided I wanted to be a city policeman instead, and I'd have to be 20 and a half to join. I spoke with a police officer I knew at our church about this, and he made me discouraged to pursue this anymore, and I was quite upset for a few days, and quickly enough the plan died. This was about less than two years ago, and for many years I was excited for November 2011 to come because then I could finally be a police officer. The time came and went, and it didn't bother me at all. I had many plans since I was saved, and over this time I did seek God and came to know Him, and wept to Him in love and hurt, and only since this past year did my will shift from mine to His, and the rest of my sins were burned out of me. Now I pray He use me in all ways He desires, whether big or small, and that I will do anything He wants me to. I just need Him to be my life in every which way, and I can do all things. My only true pleasure and peace and delight and care is now in Christ. I can plainly see that everything I was, wanted to be, had, cared about, has been destroyed. Even the little things.<br /><br />I just want others to know that truly, we must be sanctified by God. I had a great zeal early in my walk and I was far from ready to work. Now I can see what needed to be done. We are to be little Christ's on this earth, so God must refine our lives to live as Christ. Let Him do this. It may be painful being chiseled, but in the end you will not be disappointed.Kevinnoreply@blogger.com