I'M HALF WAY THERE! 

This past October, I turned forty-four years old. Usually, I just move right through my birthdays without much thought, but not any more. I have become acutely aware of time and how fickle it is. I know I'm not old, but I now realize I am getting older. I've lived a lot of life, witnessed and experienced a lot of pain. I have cried, laughed, loved, gained and lost a great deal for one man. I have noticed the pain in my back and wrinkles on my face haven't gone away. I am still startled by the thought that twenty-year old men and women look at me like a father. I gasp at the fact that forty-four is over half of eighty and my grandmother died in her seventy's (that was thirty-two years ago)! I realized that I don't want my children to grow up anymore; that I want them to stay just like they are. I find myself wishing time would stop.

But I also realize there's a good chance I may have another forty-four years to love and live and heal and cry and forgive and help and hope and give and strengthen and build and pray and preach and listen and care. I realize there are seven people (my wife and six children) that I'm not expendable to; seven people that will not walk away from me if I stagger. I realize that my babies are going to grow up and be my best friends, so I better cultivate that friendship now. I realize I actually have some friends that are good and faithful far often than they are bad and unfaithful. I realize that I have some people that I can call at midnight and they will answer. I realize when they act stupid and forget me, they are important enough to remind them to not forget me anymore. I realize I have been bad and unfaithful at times and they are still my friends. I realize that I have forgotten them sometimes. I realize I had better pick the phone up at midnight when they call.

I realize a smile goes a long way. I realize that I haven't been laughing enough and laughing is fun. I found that I am at my wisest when I'm just listening and shaking my head up and down and saying "uh huh".

I realize people are fallible, very important, but fallible. I realize people are going to lie to me, ignore my wife and I, talk about us, use us, think they're better than us, forget us, and a million other things that fallible people do. And to my surprise, I realize I don't mind it as much as I used to; that I've come to expect it, and I can always forgive them and act like it didn't happen when they come back around and bless us. I now realize I want them to come back around ... if they want to. And if they don't want to come back around, I can hope they are happy. I realize they are hurting, too, and that I can choose to heal, even if they do not.

I realize that the pure in heart see God; that all things are working for me and not against me. I realize that God has used every person in my life (family, friend and foe) to make me a better Christian, husband, father, friend, and preacher. I realize pride and selfishness are two of the most deadly things in the world because they build walls and shut life out.

I realize that although He wants my best, God knows I'm human and doesn't expect me to be anything but human; that He doesn't expect greatness out of me. He wants me to die, so He can be great through me. I realize that through Christ I can be truly free, liberated from this world.

I am also overcome by the thought that my days are few and that I must make the most of them. So since I'm blessed enough to have a handful of people that actually care enough about me to read this little note, I promise you, I am going to love, live, and bless more the second half of my life than I did the first.

Sincerely,
David Lamb

GOD IS TAKING US TO THE NEXT LEVEL! WANNA GO?

 I love the Lord! His favor has been upon Revival Tabernacle for 2 years straight. We've faced great opposition, but God has seen us through it all. While our enemies shot arrows, the hand of God was our shield. This month marks 13 straight months that we have carried out the great commission in Richmond, KY. We have knocked doors at least 45 out of the last 53 Saturdays, having never been rained out a single time. We had over 40 on the evangelism team today! God has supplied the means to feed hundreds of people thousands of pieces of food. Hundreds of lost men and women have prayed on our altars, dozens have gotten soundly converted. We've watched those new converts draw closer to God, seeking Him for His love and holiness! We've went from about 8 to 140-150 regular attendees in less than two years. We have witnessed numerous incredible miracles that doctors can't explain any other way than, "Your God is powerful." I've watched men and women that lived rather mediocre lives becomes awesome tools in the hands of their divine creator. I'm humbled. God is using us to inspire people and churches from all over this world to rise in these last days, becoming the hands and feet of Christ. Hell is angry. I don't blame Him because we're just getting started. God is getting ready taking us to the next level and I ask each of you to pray for us. Without Him we're nothing! With Him, through Him, we can do all things!

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TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!

 

JUST DO IT! From the first day God sent me back to Richmond, Ky to start Revival Tabernacle the gossipers, talebearers, liars and haters began working overtime! At times, it really bothered us, but we started building the Kingdom of God anyways (knocking hundreds of doors every week, feeding hundreds of down and out folk, reaching out to the children and loving the addicts, alcoholics, homeless and abused). One day (a couple months ago), I realized that I wasn't hearing as much gossip and slander as before. It really felt good to think these vicious people were starting to leave us alone, but then God opened my eyes to the truth of the matter. The talebearers and hypocrites were still talking, but we are so busy doing Kingdom stuff we no longer hear it and no longer care. What the enemy says and does doesn't really matter anymore because we're too busy winning souls and seeing people get healed to think about it! God has set us a bountiful table in the very presence of our enemies! 

IF YOU WILL GET BUSY DOING SOMETHING FOR GOD, MOST OF YOUR PROBLEMS AND ENEMIES WILL BECOME MINISCULE! YOU'LL BE TOO BUSY BEING BLESSED TO BE STRESSED! NOW, GET OUT THERE AND DO SOMETHING FOR GOD!

Pastor Lamb