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The Quest for the Zero Inbox Has Been Delayed

I try to live in the cloud both spiritually and naturally.  For the spiritual part see 1Ki 8:10-11.  For the natural part I am talking about cloud storage.  I use online apps for almost everything.  The few tasks I don’t use it for are prohibitively expensive.

I use a variety of platforms when working and living my life an cloud based applications make me able to live life not tied to one computer or device.  The problem I have recently discovered is that I have not done a great job of organizing that system. 

In an effort to start the process I wanted to clean my inbox.  I use GMail exclusively for my email.  When I decided to start organizing my email I discovered that I have 536 emails in my inbox . . . that are unread.  Not total emails, I have no clue how many emails are in my inbox.  I just know that there are 536 unread emails.

If you use GMail and are curious how to find unread emails search for “is:unread” without the quotes.

Before you judge me, they are almost all emails that are automatic notifications, newsletters and the likes.  But nonetheless they are just a small taste of what I need to do to get organized.

Pray for me. lol

Monday Morning Musings–Don Estridge Edition

What a great day at The Mission.

It started a little early for me.  I had to show up at Isaac’s school around midnight to pick him up after getting home from his trip to Washington D.C. with the safety Patrols.  He had a great time.  He is going to tell all about it when he has his spaghetti dinner.  –>That’s a pic of him getting off the bus.

I was exhausted but excited when I woke up Sunday morning for a couple reasons.  We set up on Friday night and I thought the new location looked really good.  We have to figure out some things with children’s ministry but all in all it worked really well.

For the first time I got to stop by my office and pray and look over my message before I got to church and the office not be in my house.

Worship was great. 

We had a good attendance.  Like every other week we had first time guests.  That amazes me.  I am not exactly why they don’t always come back, I am thankful people keep coming to check us out.

I preached on the baptism in the Holy Ghost.  Plan to do that for a while.

Had a great altar call.  the Holy Ghost moved.

Met a bunch of really cool people. 

Tear down was flawless.

Did some pre-marital counseling with a couple that are going to have a great life together. Then I watched her Patriots lose to the Giants.  I did not care who won the game but it would have been really neat to see the win come on that last hail mary.  Oh well.

Monday Morning Musings–End of the Trail Edition

Oh the joys of being a portable church.  We showed up at the venue for Sunday morning service and found that we had mail there waiting for us.  Also, it was still set up for a party from the night before.  We were able to change some things and some things we had to live with.  That is the nature of the beast.

When you are portable, you have to get to the place where you are satisfied with lights and air conditioning.  We had both, we were good.

We had a worship service where we talked about worship, then went back into worship after the word.  I love those services.

Donnie Williams sang a song with the band for the first time.  I hope we see more of that.

Our bass player is getting married and is taking some time off.  If you play bass, and you love Jesus, see Khamille.  There may be a place for you on the team.

At the end of service we had a fire tunnel simply because it seemed like the thing to do.

Had a first time visitor come through and get delivered.  How do I know?  You had to be there.

After service we went to look at The Mission’s new office space where we will be storing stuff and I will have an office.  Really excited about what is coming in the future.

Podcast, pix and video are sure to come up soon.

Next week at Don Estridge High Tech Middle.

Less than 5 Days Left on the Awakening Fast

Less than 5 Days Left on the Awakening Fast. Let’s finish strong.

Monday Morning Musings–Final Marriott Edition

We had a new room at the Marriott this week.  The last service we had at the Marriott was really good and I was looking forward to another.  This room was bigger and it fit us much better.  We are meeting this week at The Loft at Congress and hopefully we will no longer be on the trail after that.

Khamille lead worship.  Good as usual.  Little better than normal for some reason.

Lucas is straight killing it on the drums lately.  I was really digging his playing this Sunday.

I am hoping either we have more musicians raised up in the house or God brings some to join what we are doing.

Told the folks that we are should have a lease on a new place this week.  Keep that in prayer.

I am looking forward to having Friday night prayer again.

Had a teaching I was really excited about regarding prayer. 

If prayer seems like a chore, you are doing it wrong.

The Lord told me to deal with the spirit of barrenness. Had amazing altar ministry at the end of service.

We are looking at getting office space for mid week meetings and a moving truck for storing our gear.  If you have the hookup let me know.

Fast with Purpose

In this last week of our Awakening fast, fast with purpose.

Don’t Give Up!

Don’t give up. Some is better than none.

Awakening Fast, What’s Coming Out of You?

It’s not what goes in your body, it’s what comes out you need to watch.

Half Way Through Awakening 2011

We are half way through our time of prayer, fasting, devotion, and worship. Time to get focused!

Monday Morning Musings–MLK Day Edition

Another great day to be saved, set free, and filled with the Holy Ghost.

We met at The Loft at Congress in Boca.  I like the room we meet in but it is not so great for Mission Kids.  We also seem have more warfare there.

Lillian lead worship and it was great as normal.  I love that we have such talented and anointed worship leader in our church.

We had first time guests again this week, just like every other week.  The funny thing is that we have not had a service in the same location three weeks in a row since we left Orchard View but the guests keep coming.

One plants, another waters, but it is the Lord who brings the increase.

We continued our Awakening message series.  Last week we talked about fasting, this week devotions…kind of.

Earlier in the week the Lord spoke the words, “The Baptism of Fire” to me.  When I started preaching I knew that’s where we were going.

We had a first time visitor get the Baptism of Fire.  BAM!

Great altar call.  Love the anointing.