The Rock San Diego – 3/8/09

When building a building there are three groups of people involved in the process:

1.  The person with the plan / vision
2. The person who executes the contract
3. The project manager – the one who is there to ‘get it done’

The Old Testament was the plan.  The New Testament is the contract execution (Jesus) and the execution of the plan (Holy Spirit).

Trinity:

1. God the father
2. Jesus – executed the contract
3. Holy Spirit – executing the plan (doing the work)

1 – God the father establishes the plan of salvation (big picture)

2 – Jesus, the mediator, executes the plan’s contract (1 Cor 6: 19-20)

3 – The Holy Spirit, as helper, implements the plan

• The Holy Spirit is 100% qualified to radically change your life – to guide you in every moment of your life
• Your "person" is not your body.  Your "person" is unseen – the soul
• The Holy Spirit can do more than you ever think to ask, but if you don’t know what those things are, then you won’t know to ask and won’t take advantage of the power that is available to you
• You can be saved, but not know the Holy Spirit

4 – Understand that all three (God, Son, Holy Spirit) are all one God

(The Holy Spirit is God)

5 – Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit to you.

• Names of the Holy Spirit:  The Helper, The Spirit of truth (He teaches you spiritual truth – ask for Him to help you),

6 – The Holy Spirit is omniscient (all knowing), omnipresent (everywhere all the time), and omnipotent (all powerful)

• You don’t even know what you don’t know

Imagine you had a friend that you trusted so dearly, so completely, to know the right and true answer to any and every question you could ask.  You would be talking to that person constantly!  You would never let that person out of your sight!

Great First Step in Web Development

I feel like I’ve been in a flurry.  I’ve been so driven toward learning about web development lately.  I think it’s good, and I believe that it is what God is calling me to do.  I have realized, however, that it is not a race.  I don’t need to force it.  God will teach me what I need to know, when I need to know it – and that’s that.  I can rest in faith in Him and His plan.

[My client] really liked my initial design of their website.  She said that my and [my wife’s] proposal looked very reasonable.  She wants to talk about what the three options entail.  This is encouraging.  It’s like God has given me a perfect ‘first step’ project.  Truly perfect.  Their expectations aren’t enormous and it has lead me to become more serious about my approach with this.  I’ve purchased the Adobe CS4 Web Premium software, which should arrive in a few days.  I need to learn all I can without feeling pressured to have to know it all right now.  People spend their lives doing this; it’s going to take time and practice.  I pray that if this is God’s direction, that He would grant me wisdom and aptitude for learning this material easily.