Make Every Breath Count & the Cara Young Fish for Life events!

Very blessed to be able to present my personal testimony and information regarding the "Make Every Breath Count" campaign to my State and National Representatives today. A big thank you to our local State Representative Mr. Rob Orr and our United states Representative Mr. Roger Williams.

This new campaign through the cystic fibrosis foundation is to renew public awareness and collaboration with our State and National Representatives on this terrible life threatening disease that effects the lungs and digestive system in approx. 30,000 children and adults in the United States. It also highlights local children's hospitals and I'm always ready to promote our local hospital which is Cook Children's in Fort Worth, TX.

We also have our 4th annual Cara Young Fish For Life event and tournament coming up September 15th at Lakeview Marina at Eagle Mountain Lake. There will be, of course the fishing tournament but if you are like me and don't fish, there will be lots to do such as kids fishing tournament, silent auction, raffle drawings, live music and a fish fry after the weigh-in, courtesy of Cabela's! 
A special thanks to all our sponsors which I will be listing after the event!

Call me for more information on supporting the cystic fibrosis foundation, Cook Children's or the Cara Young Fish For Life which benefits Cook Children's Hospital! Or, click on any of the links in my blog to get more information as well.

Why pray and or end your prayer in the Name of Jesus?

Colossians 3:17 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Himto God the Father.

Why? Because as John 1:1-5 states, 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. 5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

And then in v. 14-And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us,

and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

From the old Testament all the way through Jesus was heralded as the coming Redeemer. In the new Testament John the Baptist stated, behold the Lamb of God that hascome to take away the sins of the world-

From just a few Scriptures we can see that all things were created by Him, through Him and all for Him, Hebrews 1:1-3. No one else could have ever paid the price of the perfect sacrifice and shed perfect, “without sin” blood for our Salvation and deliverance, Hebrews 4:15!

It’s no wonder that Acts 4:12 states:

And there is salvation in no one else ; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.

Also we see in 1 John 2:21-23 & 1 John 5 that those who claim that we all have the same God are wrong per what God says about it! His Word clearly states in these Scriptures, along with Acts 4:12 that Jesus IS the only Name and Way!

These are but a few of the myriads of Scripture that point to Jesus, the Author and Pioneer of our faith. He is the living Word, the Creator and I hope that you will search and find other Scripture that lifts up and Glorifies the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and share them with others.

We can not nor should we ever get into the position of trying to force someone or an entity to pray in Jesus Name, but share in Love the Gospel of Christ and why Jesus and Him alone deserves all our praise, honor, obedience and love. As Romans 1:16 states-

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone whobelieves, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

The Grace of our Lord and Savior be with you,

Steve Young

Joshua 24:15

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After obedience—what?

And straightway He constrained His disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side.… Mark 6:45–52 .

We are apt to imagine that if Jesus Christ constrains us, and we obey Him, He will lead us to great success. We must never put our dreams of success as God’s purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not. The question of getting to a particular end is a mere incident. What we call the process, God calls the end.
What is my dream of God’s purpose? His purpose is that I depend on Him and on His power now. If I can stay in the middle of the turmoil calm and unperplexed, that is the end of the purpose of God. God is not working towards a particular finish; His end is the process—that I see Him walking on the waves, no shore in sight, no success, no goal, just the absolute certainty that it is all right because I see Him walking on the sea. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God.
God’s training is for now, not presently. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the afterwards of obedience; we get wrong when we think of the afterwards. What men call training and preparation, God calls the end.
God’s end is to enable me to see that He can walk on the chaos of my life just now. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present; but if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.

Chambers, O. (1986). My utmost for his highest: Selections for the year. Grand Rapids, MI: Oswald Chambers Publications; Marshall Pickering.

Kerby's Point of View - The Ten "You Cannots"

Thank you Kirby for this, these are some powerful, common sense statements. Merriam Webster Dictionary: common sense, noun
: sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Well, that pretty much left out most of our politicians! Just as I wrote that I was prompted about this Scripture in 2 Timothy...Which is "A Call to Prayer"...
1. First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,
2. for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.
3. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4. who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth

Thank you Lord for Your Great Love!

July 26, 2013 The Ten “You Cannots” by Kerby Anderson     In the aftermath of all the congressional spending, there have been some e-mails circulating with common sense sayings written by wise people long ago. One of those is the ten “you cannots.” If you have not seen them, here they are: 1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. 2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. 3. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. 4. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. 5. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. 6. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. 7. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. 8. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. 9. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. 10. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they will not do for themselves. Over the years they have been incorrectly attributed to Abraham Lincoln. Actually they were written in 1916 by the Reverend William Boetcker, a Presbyterian clergyman and pamphlet writer. The confusion stemmed from a pamphlet published in 1942 entitled “Lincoln on Limitations.” The pamphlet had a Lincoln quote on one side and these statements by the Boetcker on the other side. Although the pastor was given credit on the pamphlet, many reading the pamphlet wrongly assumed that all of the statements were by Lincoln. Sometimes people confuse it with a statement by the late Adrian Rogers. “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” There is wisdom in both of these pastors’ sayings. We live in a world today that really believes we can help one part of society by harming another part of society. We need to listen to these wise pastors before we enact more legislation that attempts to help some by harming others. Click here to sign-up for Kerby's Point of View Point of View | P.O. Box 30 | Dallas, TX 75221 Click here to view this message as HTML in your browser. Click here to forward this message. Click here to change your email preferences. Click here to Unsubscribe from e-mail.

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“Even thou wast as one of them.”

This was a "daily read" I came across and it really hit home!

         — Obadiah 1:11
Brotherly kindness was due from Edom to Israel in the time of need, but instead thereof, the men of Esau made common cause with Israel’s foes. Special stress in the sentence before us is laid upon the word thou; as when Caesar cried to Brutus, “and thou Brutus”; a bad action may be all the worse, because of the person who has committed it. When we sin, who are the chosen favourites of heaven, we sin with an emphasis; ours is a crying offence, because we are so peculiarly indulged. If an angel should lay his hand upon us when we are doing evil, he need not use any other rebuke than the question, “What thou? What dost thou here?” Much forgiven, much delivered, much instructed, much enriched, much blessed, shall we dare to put forth our hand unto evil? God forbid!

A few minutes of confession may be beneficial to thee, gentle reader, this morning. Hast thou never been as the wicked? At an evening party certain men laughed at uncleanness, and the joke was not altogether offensive to thine ear, even thou wast as one of them. When hard things were spoken concerning the ways of God, thou wast bashfully silent; and so, to on-lookers, thou wast as one of them. When worldlings were bartering in the market, and driving hard bargains, wast thou not as one of them? When they were pursuing vanity with a hunter’s foot, wert thou not as greedy for gain as they were? Could any difference be discerned between thee and them? Is there any difference? Here we come to close quarters. Be honest with thine own soul, and make sure that thou art a new creature in Christ Jesus; but when this is sure, walk jealously, lest any should again be able to say, “Even thou wast as one of them.” Thou wouldst not desire to share their eternal doom, why then be like them here? Come not thou into their secret, lest thou come into their ruin. Side with the afflicted people of God, and not with the world.


Spurgeon, C. H. (2006). Morning and evening: Daily readings (Complete and unabridged; New modern edition.). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers.