PITFH Newletter Blog

             Today some families will celebrate and fathers will be honored, respected and loved on.  It is a good time for all.  Some will not celebrate Father’s Day because it is a painful day.  This day is a reminder of abandonment, rejection, and/or abuse issues that never seem to go away.  Some do not know who their father is.  For some father is deceased.  For some father is just absent.  Some have substitute fathers they will honor today and that is good, but it not the real thing and falls short somehow to meeting their need for the love of their father. 

            There is a similar situation going on today in another family.  It is the family of God. Read the rest of this entry »

        For many years, I walked in huge co-dependency mostly with my kids, but also in other relationships as well.  I have discovered in my healing journey that this is not uncommon when there is an angry spouse in the household.  We co-dependents often over compensate with our love to try and make up to our children for the lack of expressed love that fails to come when one mate is angry and disengaged.   We should not, however, use that as an excuse for our own failures and sin.  Read the rest of this entry »

Here is an excellent article by our dear friend and mentor, Al Ells, of Leaders That Last, Mesa, AZ.   

“He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” There once was a parishioner who received recognition for being the humblest man in the church. As an award, the congregation gave him a pin to wear. The following Sunday, the pastor wore his new pin, and the congregation took it away from him for being too proud. Sometimes humility is like this: As soon as we think we are humble, we are not.

Humility can conjure up depressing images of self-abasement and groveling, however, this is not the true meaning of humility. Perhaps we can best understand humility by attempting to see ourselves through God’s eyes rather than our own.

Preacher Charles Spurgeon defined humility as making “a right estimate of one’s self.” Another noted speaker stated, “Humility is not denying the power or gifting you have, but admitting that the gifting is from God and the power comes through you and not from you.” After World War II, Winston Churchill embodied humility when he said, “I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.”

To truly repent from, or “put off”, pride requires that we embrace, or “put on”, humility. James 4:10 says, “Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord and He will exalt you.” I have compiled a list of 12 suggestions that I have gleaned from others regarding how to humble yourself. Since humility is a godly trait, you will find that they are all parallel to the most basic tenets of the Christian faith. Read the rest of this entry »

       Have you noticed?  Are you aware that major areas of life as we have known it in America are being challenged?  It seems more and more of us are fed up with the same ole – same ole and we want change.  That fits well with our Heavenly Father because He wants change also.  In fact, He has already begun the change in the Spirit realm and is moving ahead into His new season for humanity.  We humans have choices to make.  We can choose to follow God into our destiny with Him and the unknown of this new season, or we can choose to continue down the path of what we have known and feel safe and comfortable with.  This is a serious choice.  Following after God leads to life and blessing, but following our own path or remaining in our comfort zone (our control) will eventually lead to separation from God and His provision for us.  Read the rest of this entry »

From time to time there is an article that crosses my path that totally arrests me in the power of the Holy Spirit.  The following article, “Decisions That Define Us” written by Dave Crone of The Mission in Vacaville, CA is one of those articles.  What follows in written form describes our hearts here at PITFH.  We hope that you will be as blessed as we have been to see in print what we feel expresses the heart of our Father for His church today.  Blessings,  Roger Read the rest of this entry »