kenneprobstHey all this is just a quick update because I thought I would have time to write a blog but I am running out of time so I will post a real blog maybe tonight or tomorrow 
Have a blessed day …….
Incandescent Lustrous Morning!!!
With only 17 more days until my arrival home and my checklist growing ( will try to bust out a blog today ) at a steady pace the Lord gave me some amazing encouragement this morning not only through His Word but through the people in Bulgaria. Today I was reading Philippians 3 which in my Bible is intitled ” Joy in believing….. No Confidence in the Flesh”. that title alone makes you sit back and make you honestly evaluate who your putting your trust in God or yourself? Often times I hear but I pray and God doesnt answer……or I am to worthless for God to care about me or help me! Statements like these break my heart because the Lord wants and will answer you but on His time not yours but you have to be ready to have His answer not the one you “want” to have. Also God does care about you!
John 3:16 ” He gave His only begotten son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”
….. God gave his son up so that we can live….He loves you the choice of if your going to accept it or not is up to you! To me the act of rejecting Christ as your savior is saying His death was not good enough for you and that your bigger then God. Now lets bring this thought full circle and check out
Phil 3:7-10…..
“But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is morem I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus as my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things, I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith. I want to know Charis and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death and so somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.”
It’s amazing to see pauls heart and humlity in this passage! He is saying that any of his past achievements and or improvements that he made in his life were nothing when comparing it to having the Lord in his life as his savior. We should becareful in our walk to not discredit God for all that is done in and through us! The best we can give God are “dirty rags” or translated from greek ( or maybe Hebrew I can’t remember ) “bloody tampons” . So the choice is up to you on what side of the fence your going to walk. As for me I give all of my life to God and I will do my best to serve Him despite my flaws.
Now for something a little different…on my way to work today I was ridding a bus and God gently but firmly reminded me of my calling for childrens ministry. As I was sitting in the bus across from me sat a mother and her child who was about 3 or 4 years old. without saying a word or even making a funny face to this kid he just started smilling at me and started playing peek-a-boo with me…. This happens often little kids will come up to me and just start playing with me or just come up and hug me and well its odd I know its God dragging my focus back in….there is times when we roll up into a Roma community and kids will swarm me and there is not a better feeling that warms the heart then that. Kids truly are Gods gift.
Matt 9:14 ” Jesus said, ” Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these”
The Lord has given me a heat for Kids that I often times believe that Jesus Himself had. Kids are amazing gifts from God while they are terd lickers at times they have the kind of attitude we should have towards God. We need to have child like attitudes towards God and trust him fully. We should have the receptiveness of children rather then the stubborness of the religious leaders who hold their degree higher in importance then having simple child like faith towards God. Take sometime today and love on a kid so many kids these days need love also take some time to examine your faith is it child like or……?
Lastly I met an 86 year old man who not only loved my hat but spoke english! We had a small chat about America, Americans, the mormon religion and what not! I got about 75 feet away and wanted to turn back and ask him out for coffee but he was gone 
I am kinda bummed but I am in the hopes of running into him again because I met him near my house! and I want to share more of the gospel with him !
with that said take care all and have a blessed day Amen
Kenne
