DO YOU EVER FEEL YOU ARE NOT REALLY CONNECTED TO GOD EVEN THOUGH YOU BELIEVE IN GOD AND YOU GO TO CHURCH ? SO MANY FOLLOWERS OF JESUS RIDE FROM UNDERNEATH HIS BLESSINGS THAT HE CAME TO BRING TO YOU. JESUS CAME TO BRING YOU MORE THAN SEVERAL WAGON TRAINS OF BLESSINGS. THINK OF THE COVERED WAGON AS A SIGN FOR YOU THAT YOU ARE COVERED UNDER HIS LOVE AND THE BLOOD HE SHED ON THE CROSS.
JESUS CAME TO BRING YOU BACK IN UNITY WITH DADDY GOD. HE CAME TO BRING YOU INTO AN EVER SO CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CREATOR. THAT STATEMENT IS SO PHENOMENAL ! YOU ARE SO LOVED !!! HE CAME TO SHOWER YOU WITH BLESSINGS FROM ON HIGH. JESUS CAME TO REMOVE ALL THE WALLS THAT SEPARATE YOU FROM GOD. IN MATTHEW 27:50-54 THE BARRIERS ARE REMOVED WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE CROSS AND THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE WAS TORN IN TWO. THE VEIL WAS A HUGE CURTAIN THAT SEPARATED GOD FROM HIS PEOPLE THAT WAS IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES IN THE JEWISH TEMPLE. THE BLOOD OF JESUS AND THE LOVE OF GOD REMOVED THAT BARRIER. ALL THIS MEANS YOU NOW HAVE DIRECT CONTACT WITH DADDY GOD. MOST CHURCH FOLKS LIVE AS IF JESUS IS AN ATTACHMENT TO THEIR LIFESTYLE AND NOT THE TOTAL FOUNDATION OF EACH DAY.
MOST FOLLOWERS OF JESUS DO RIDE FROM UNDERNEATH THE BLESSINGS GOD WANTS TO BLESS THEM WITH. I HAVE BEEN AROUND FOLKS FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE (156 COUNTRIES) AND HAVE MET FOLLOWERS OF JESUS WHO DO NOT HAVE THE WESTERN MIND SET AND THEY REALLY UNDERSTAND WHY JESUS CAME AND THE BLESSINGS HE CAME TO BRING TO THEM. SO MANY OF THEM KNOW HOW TO RIDE UNDER THE BLESSINGS AND MOVE AND OPERATE IN LOVE AND GLORY.
IN II CORINTHIANS 5:17 PAUL WRITES, “THEREFORE. IF ANYONE IS IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATION; OLD THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY; BEHOLD, ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW.” MANY OF US HAVE READ THIS VERSE MULTIPLE TIMES, BUT DO WE GET IT ? AGAIN, JESUS IS NOT JUST ANOTHER ATTACHMENT TO YOUR LIFE. AS WE COME TO CHRIST AND HE COMES TO RESIDE WITHIN US, WE BECOME TOTALLY NEW. WE THINK DIFFERENTLY, WE TALK DIFFERENTLY, WE ACT DIFFERENTLY AND OUR MOTIVATIONS TO LIVE EACH DAY ARE NEW AND FRESH. WE LEARN TO OPERATE MORE AND MORE IN THE SUPERNATURAL. RIDING FOR JESUS BRINGS COUNTLESS BLESSINGS TO EACH ONE WHO TRULY FOLLOWS HIM.
WHEN WE RIDE THE TRAIL WITH CHRIST HE ALWAYS DESIRES FOR US TO TAKE THE HIGHER TRAIL AND TO STAY OFF THE lower trail. WITH JESUS CHRIST, YOU CAN DO ALL THINGS IN A KINGDOM WAY AND NOT THE WORLDS WAY. HERE IS AN EXAMPLE TO DEMONSTRATE THIS POINT OF TAKING THE HIGHER TRAIL WITH JESUS. THIS IS FROM A FAMILY EXPERIENCE IN WHICH WE ALL EXPERIENCED THE IMPORTANCE OF TAKING THE HIGHER TRAIL.
OUR DAUGHTER HANNAH, THE SUNSHINE KID, WAS INVOLVED IN THE SHOW WORLD BEFORE BECOMING A MOUNTED SHOOTER. AT THAT TIME WE HAD NO HORSES OF OUR OWN AND WE DID THE R.A.H. THING , RENT A HORSE OPTION. THE KID WAS INVOLVED WITH THE HORSE PROGRAM AT OUR LOCAL YMCA HORSE BARN. THE KID AND A HORSE NAMED DURHAM WON MANY BLUE RIBBONS IN THE WESTERN PLEASURE CLASSES. THEY RODE TOGETHER AS THEY WERE BORN IN THE STALL TOGETHER. THEN AN OBSTACLE APPEARED UPON THE TRAIL THE KID WAS RIDING ON WITH DURHAM. A NEW RIDER AND A NEW MOTHER APPEARED ON THE SCENE AT THE Y BARN. THEY DEMANDED THEY HAVE THE HORSE HANNAH WAS RIDING AND WINNING BLUE RIBBONS ON JUST FOR THEM SELVES. THE IDEA OF SHARING DURHAM WAS NOT IN THEIR THINKING PATTERN. WITH THIS DEMAND OF THEIRS, THEY WERE STIRRING THE WATER OF DARKNESS AROUND THE BARN. THE SITUATION WAS TENSE BECAUSE OF THIS PERSONAL DESIRE AND THE BARN MANGERS DID NOT REALLY KNOW WHAT TO DO. AS THE SPIRITUAL DAD OF THE FAMILY, I TOOK THIS TO DADDY GOD IN PRAYER AND WE WERE TO TAKE THE HIGHER TRAIL WITH JESUS. I TOLD THE KID WE ARE GOING TO TAKE THE HIGHER TRAIL. WE ARE GOING TO LOOK FOR ANOTHER HORSE AT THE BARN AND YOU AND THE HORSE WILL HAVE TO WORK REALLY HARD TO SHOW THE WORLD WHAT IT IS LIKE TO CHOOSE THE HIGHER TRAIL. THE BARN STAFF WAS SUPPORTING US IN EVERY WAY THEY COULD. THEY WERE ROOTING THE KID ON IN A QUIET WAY.
THE FIRST HORSE SHE TRIED WAS A CONFEDERATE GREY GELDING NAMED SMOKE. FROM THE GET GO, THIS HORSE AND THE KID WERE DEFINITELY NOT BORN IN THE SAME STALL. I LOVED SMOKE BUT HIS HAPPY MEAL WAS A FEW FRIES SHORT AND THEN SOME. THE KID THEN TOOK A REAL CHALLENGE ON. THE KID WAS TAKING THE HIGH TRAIL WHERE THE WIND OF HEAVEN BLOWS. WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY SHE CHOSE TO DENY SELF AND PICK UP THE CROSS AND RIDE WITH JESUS !
SHE CHOSE KYLA, ONE OF THE FASTEST HORSES AT THE BARN. THE KID WAS GOING TO GIVE WHATEVER IT TOOK TO TURN KYLA INTO A WESTERN PLEASURE HORSE.
MANY TIMES AFTER LESSONS WHEN THE KIDS HANNAH AGE WOULD LEAVE WITH THEIR PARENTS, THE KID AND STAFF AND OLDER CLIENTS WOULD SADDLE UP AND RACE. YOU KNOW WHO WON, THE KID AND KYLA. YES, MUCH WORK AND TIME AND LOVE WERE IN THIS HEAVENLY FORMULA TO TAKE THE HIGHER TRAIL FOR KYLA TO BE A WESTERN PLEASURE HORSE.
THE KID HAD AN INCREDIBLE INSTRUCTOR WHO I BELIEVE GAVE THAT EXTRA ORDINARY EFFORT FOR THE KID AND KYLA TO HAVE SUCCESS. MANY PEOPLE AT THE BARN AND FAMILY AND FRIENDS WERE OBSERVING. I HAD ONE BIG PROBLEM THOUGH; IT WAS DOUG’S FLESH, THE EGO WANTED TO TURN IT INTO A COMPETITION WITH THE OTHER FAMILY. I STRUGGLED WITH HONORING GOD AND DECREASING THIS COMPETITIVE SPIRIT FLOWING AROUND IN ME. I KNEW IF GOD WAS AT THE CENTER OF THIS HIGHER TRAIL JOURNEY THE KID AND KYLA WOULD SHINE FOR THE CORRECT REASONS, TO HONOR GOD.
FOR THOSE WHO CAN REMEMBER THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW IT WAS TIME FOR ,” THE REALLY BIG SHOW” FOR KYLA AND THE KID. IT WOULD NOT BE NICE FOR ME TO SAY STAY TUNE AND HEAR THE ENDING OF THIS ON GOING SAGO NEXT MONTH. DO NOT THROW YOUR BOOT AT THE MONITOR OR THIS COWBOY PREACHER.
WELL COWBOYS AND COWGIRLS, TAKING THE HIGHER TRAIL WHERE THE WIND OF HEAVEN BLOWS TAUGHT US ALL SOMETHING OF THE HEART OF DADDY GOD. WHEN WE DO THINGS HIS WAY WE WILL BE BLESSED WITH BLESSINGS FROM ON HIGH.
THE KID AND KYLA HAVE BLUE RIBBONS TO SHOW THAT TAKING THE HIGHER TRAIL REALLY WORKS !!! MISS KYLA IS NO LONGER DOING TRAILS ON THE EARTH JOURNEY ANYMORE. SHE WAS AN AWESOME HORSE FOR A YOUNG COWGIRL TO HAVE RIDDEN AND EXPERIENCED !!!
EVERY DAY WE HAVE CHOICES TO CHOOSE THE HIGHER TRAIL OF JESUS OR THE LOWER TRAIL OF SELF AND EGO. FOLLOWING JESUS IS A LIFESTYLE OF RIDING UNDER HIS BLESSINGS. 2010 IS THE TIME TO COME TO THE FULLNESS OF THE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THAT JESUS PROVIDED. YES, IT IS TIME FOR COWBOYS AND COWGIRLS TO JUMP IN THE SADDLE AND RIDE THE HIGHER TRAIL EACH DAY WITH DADDY GOD !!! YOU WILL GET YOUR BOOTS BLESSED OFF !!! BY TAKING THE HIGHER TRAIL YOU WILL LEARN MUCH ABOUT GOD’S HEART AND YOUR HEART; YOU WILL LEARN THINGS OF THE KINGDOM YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN ANY OTHER WAY. THANKS FOR READING THIS AND RIDE IN HIS LOVE.
Rev. Doug
