Kurt Steele - I am learning to be patient...

James 1:2 states that we should consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the tesing of your faith produces endurance and let endurance have its perfect result that you may be be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing...

The key to christian maturity is endurance through trials. I am learning to delight in God through the process of trials. My focus must remain on Him and Him alone. I am memorizing the scriptures and this is powerful because it causes me to meditate over and over again on God's word.

Kurt Steele - My process of documenting was interupted by a stroke...

God saw it His will to lay me up with a stroke and I am learning to be still and know that He is God. I never realized how impatient I can be with His perfect process. I want to go and do instead of just sitting at His feet and resting in His presence. Who does that sound like? Martha and Mary! I feel I can just get busy and God wants me to slow down and hang on to Him and Him alone.

Kurt Steele - The 30 Day Challenge Continues

This has been a bit challenging because I am so easily distracted from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. I have renewed my commitment and it is powerful because it once again becomes apparent that it is His power in the process of sanctification. But I am reminded of Philippians 1:6, "For I am confident of this very thing that HE who began a good work in me will perfect it till the day of Christ Jesus." AND "it is He who is at work in ME both to will and to work for HIS GOOD PLEASURE.

Kurt Steele - Day 2 - Happiness in Conversion

The Gospel is ALL about God. He causes everything in conversion. I am a dead man in my sin born in sin and God awakens me and gives me the gift of faith. A key to being happy in God is to realize his sovereign work in our conversion. We need to realize that this is "the glorious gospel of the 'happy' God" (I Timothy 1:11)!

Kurt Steele - Day One - The Happiness of God

The foundation of this pursuit is that God is absolutely happy with all of His works, His Son and Himself. This is security for us and I am meditating on this fact. God is completly happy in Himself. He is consumed with Himself, His glory and His name. I meditate on this fact. I glory and revel in the fact that God is a happy God.

Kurt Steele - 30 Day Challenge

I am challenging all of you to join me in a 30 day challenge to "Glorify God by Enjoying Him." I am intensifying my focus on my happiness and finding ultimate and satisfying happiness in God. Yes, I am a Christian Hedonist and I am going after this with fervency. For the next 30 days, I am going to powerfully focus on pursuing happiness in God.

My discovery and commitment to Christlikeness

I am growing and realizing that I must delight in what my Father in heaven delights in. He delights in His Son and that should be my focus, Jesus Christ and His character and actions. I realize that the more I gaze on Him, the more I become like Him. The hymn is correct:

Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His wonderful face
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace!