how are you cheating God

so do you want a million dollars? if your like me, then heck ya why not. do you want to go to the middle east, turkey, russia and share the gospel. why yes i would love to, we are told in the Bible to"GO" so i think i should, BUT...... why is there always a huge but when it comes to God? well matt the trip would cost so much, and i dont think i could get off work, and i have to wash my hair!!!! so then if God gave you a million dollars and retirment you could go, right? one of the lessons i learned this weekend was that God will grant your prayers, in his time and in his will. why would he give you a million dollars knowing that you would never give 100,000 of it back to the church. well yes i would, i would have the million dollars. well what about after the gov. takes their share, then you will want to get out of debt,(pay off house for the kids, cars loans, ect.) then hey go buy your self something nice, and now your left with your same 50,000 dollar a year job. well now comes the delema, if you were like me, God didnt get his ten % when i was poor, so why would he give me more to waist. the same with "GOING" why do you feel you would be the greatest sharer overseas when you wont go down the street!!!! How is it that witnessing is only done in russia, iraq...... do you think that youre going to be any different? you might, God may use the expreance to pull you out of your shell and share. but then what, why do we have the same 60 people in the same spot every sun, and why are they nea sayers? why shoot down the members going and doing, when you are just being a hears(james1:22) lets at least encourage those doing to keep it up. please for the love of God, dont be a lukerm christian(rev3:16) dont do more work for the devil as a christian than for God. his Grace is worth so much more then that. see ya

to bad

well my Mighty Tennessee Vols fell last night in what i can say was one of the best games this far. So i will have to wait untill next year for Tenn dude basketball, but at least they fell to a Big Ten team. Now ill see Sun at 1204 how the Lady Vols do and if they continue in to the elight 8. Go Coach Pat. My kids and i are off at 4 To Disciple Now at Hillsdale Baptist. ill be speaking at like 8 tonight so pray for me and Pastor Josh as we bring God's word to the youth this weekend. now im off to Pizza Hut for all you can eat with Justin and the Headleys. oh yea we found a food lady for our wedding. she is great, the food was well, my pants wont fit after if that tells you anything. she is also Hispanic so big plus there. other than that, life is great. i have one of the best support nets around. I have great Godly friends, family and , of course a smoken hot Godly Fiance!!! later gaters

GO VOLS

wow what a great game sun, and the best part Tennessee is into the sweet 16!!!!! yea Jill (NAMB)and I are sure happy. so sitting in church i was slaped in the face. man i was all into justins seromen on "loving are stuff" when the onliner of the year was dropped. as christians if we dont come to church expecting to be changed in the preacence of God, and would rather come to look good with our arms crossed looking at our watches, why do we even bother coming. OH SNAP!!!! what a line to get our attention. then that night another one. why under prayGod? he said if we only pray those little things and use our .0003 faith on the rikter scale no wounder we have nothing. man have i been way under cutting God in my prayer life, so ilke our Pastor im going to pray for us to beable to by the DRUG MALL next door and make it our new STUDENT CENTER. BOTH UPSTAIRS AND DOWN STAIRS!!!!! why not the Bible teaches that we have not because we ask not. So God show us how big you are and if its in your will provide us with the means to rid the Drug dealers out of are area for your glory! why is it so hard to ask him for more space? we've almost out grown are space with NEW ministries, so lets use the property he gave us and build new areas to do his work.just remember that God will always be bigger than what you can imagin. so try him, you might be shocked what he will do.

just another thur.

well MSU is winning so far in round 1 of the NCAA Turnie. not much has been going on, Kadee bought her Wedding dress. from what little she will tell me about it, i look forward to seeing her on the day of our wedding. things . are still progressing well with Oct. 13, i will meet kadee's parents next thurs to meet the group doing all of our food. hope that goes well, because we then wont have that many big things left to do. the hall kadee and i went t0 go see is well perfect. it will do everything we want it to do, with plenty of room for everyone. i guess from what everyone else told me i didnt think i would have as much fun planning it out with kadee, but i so am. well thats it for now, see ya later

im happy

so why are you happy matt, you may ask. well as i sit in my office doing work, im hearing Chris Tomlin in the background. "You and i are made to worship, you and i are called to love, you and i are forgiven and free." We are why wouldnt i be happy, we have a God whom loves us so much he would make a way for us to be with him. In the back of our church we have a huge banner, it says something really cool on it.(if your staff here you should know it) it says Created for Worship; Commissioned for Ministry. How more direct of a slogan could you want, we are here to worship God. we do that by salvation, giving, singing, serving, and going, our life as a whole should be lived in such a way that in all we do we worship God. This week I got another SLAP in the face by God. it came to me from the book of James(go figure i know)1:22 it says," to be doers of the word not just hears." For the longest time ive wanted nothing more than to have a guitar and drum set to play in worship. Justin and i for Years prayed for it. so praise God when the cobbs moved and joined our church family.Matt is one of the most God gifted worship leaders i know. then out of no where, Kadee And Here Family(not the church) gave us the money to go and buy a drum set. Wow could God be ANY MORE clear on what he wanted out of us. this was like 2or 3 months ago and worship has been great, its brought us to another level in our praise to God, but i wasnt having the fun or worship i thought i would. then about 3 weeks ago i found out why; ill first off say that when God tells you something please listen. He is bigger than you and WILL win, three times he asked me why i wasnt worshiping him with the drums He provided. you know what my response was, to the God who died for me, who has given me almost anything I've asked for, because half the church was upset because it is loud and not right to have this stuff in church. sounds dumb i know ill be the first to admit i have been sinning against God to make others happy. For that i ask for forgiveness, and can proudly say that after 3 weeks of God telling me to be a doer, that this sunday morn and night i played the crap out of the drums for one person only. it was the first time iv ever played for God and i dont care how many people dont like it, their not God. i worship for him and him alone. other than my attitude in worship changing life has been great. Kadee and i to the shock of everyone who knows us have done more in 5 days of engagement for our wedding then most do in like 3-4 months. well i guess as the title of the post says, I am Happy. Are YOU?

The Engagement Ring and The Wedding Band!

The Engagement Ring

The Wedding Band

Hey all We are engaged!!!! The Wedding is October 13, 2007 and we have a wedding website that can be found at both of our blogs under links. the website is www.theknot.com/ourwedding/matthewkidd&kadeeborder
Enjoy!!!!!!