Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), CMA Bike Crew
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR000056C
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00:13 Welcome back!
00:14 It's amazing to me what we have seen on this program, 00:17 what we have heard on this program. 00:18 I want to say that I knew you had some other things that 00:22 you wanted to say, and I also know that you know people 00:25 in the Café. 00:26 There are some people we haven't met yet. 00:27 So can you tell us who they are? 00:30 Well Dale and Bill have been awfully quiet today and that is 00:33 unusual for either one of them. 00:35 When you know it is really funny because Bill walked in and 00:38 I said to Bill, Bill are you going to talk today 00:41 and he said, nope! 00:42 Well he had that planned, didn't he? 00:44 And then Dale said, I caught him when he was walking, 00:47 and he can't walk and talk at the same time. 00:49 And Dave he won't let Darlene talk, so. 00:52 But everyone here is part of the CMA? 00:59 Everyone here are part of some kind of outreach. 01:01 Some kind, yeah some kind. 01:02 We are all different yet we are all the same. 01:05 I was thinking that I remember out in Colorado once, 01:12 when I was sitting and looking out over a couple mountain 01:14 ranges, and I just thought of it is some of you were talking 01:17 because we were addressing the church. 01:20 How church's view strange things that come in the back 01:26 door once in awhile, and what ever label that happens to be. 01:29 I was sitting there and said Lord, Your creation is beautiful 01:33 He said, that is not My creation. 01:35 It was just like we are talking and it caught me off guard 01:39 where I just sat down and hid. 01:42 I thought then who's is it, but He finished the sentence and 01:46 He said is, what you see is who I am. 01:47 Had there not been mountains, and oceans, and blue skies 01:53 within Me, I couldn't have spoken let there be oceans. 01:55 But He finished it with saying, and every face you ever saw, 02:01 was within Me first, and then He nailed me. 02:05 And the face that you liked the least was within me first. 02:09 - because you liked the least your own face. 02:11 And He said don't do that. 02:13 So sometimes you are the hardest one to forgive, is yourself. 02:17 Because you are still living in the memory when you look in 02:21 the mirror, and the hardest one to get past is 02:24 the guy in the mirror. 02:25 - How do you get past that? 02:27 - Time and realizing eventually that God is exactly 02:32 who He said He was. 02:33 And forgiveness is exactly what it is, 02:35 and grace is exactly what it is. 02:37 Undeserving, you are not going to earn it. 02:41 It will never happen, it is just a gift. 02:45 So finally you decide to accept the gift, - Amen! 02:49 And you know I'm going to say thanks for being on the program? 02:51 My pleasure - and you know when you do accept it, 02:53 it washes you. 02:55 I mean there is something that happens that you just feel 02:58 that cleanness, that I am new. 03:03 All of this is real. 03:04 That God is telling the truth. 03:05 It is amazing to me when you see God worked in these kind of 03:09 situations where it looks hopeless, and you get a whole 03:12 other view on God. 03:14 At one point it was interesting to me because someone said, 03:17 how do you find God? 03:19 Do you find God by giving a great Bible study? 03:22 Do you find God by learning to pray or memorizing scripture? 03:25 Or being in the body of Christ that is incredible? 03:27 Or do you find God, by finding a body of Christ, 03:30 by joining a church, and all those things. 03:32 A friend of mine said, no you find God by reaching out and 03:35 doing Ministry and to find Him any other way is like taking 03:38 swimming lessons through correspondence course. 03:40 There is no way you can do it. 03:41 Somebody can write to you how to swim, but you don't know 03:44 and you cannot figure it out until you jump in the water. 03:47 Until you actually do ministry, 03:48 you cannot figure out who God is. 03:50 Do ministry, accept God, go out and tell someone. 03:54 Until next time I just want you to know, 03:56 always remember that God is crazy about you, us too. 04:00 Bye, and God bless! |
Revised 2014-12-17