1Corinthians 3:4-6

4Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. 5Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 6He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

I love this passage. It has helped me so many times through out my years in ministry. I am not naturally a confident or bold person so I often 2nd guess myself and I tend to get pretty insecure. (I know what a sissy, huh!) But, thats me and I hate it and I have to allow God to use me with all my insufficiencies. Since coming to Olathe Life fellowship, I have all the confidence in the world. I am confident that we will be okay, I am confident that OLF will grow and do incredible things for the Kingdom of God. I am confident that //epidemic will explode onto the scene and transform student's lives in awesome ways. I am full of faith and confidence, which is so uncharacteristic for me. But, I realize my confidence is so overwhelming because the Spirit of God is so overwhelming in what we are doing. OLF and //epidemic are doing God's work free from any restraints. No religious restraints, no tradition to consider. We are just calling on God asking for His Spirit and His direction and we are going. We are receiving vision from God and going in that direction with great confidence. Not confidence in ourselves, just in God and His Spirit.

Apply that principle in your lives and wow, what a difference it makes. It feels so good to actually be confident in what you are doing in life because you know you are doing God's will and you know God is blessing everything you do.

Seek God

In Christ,
Pastor Geoff Lundy

Life IS Good

Life is so good. We are soo blessed. It is just ringing in my Head.... "Blessing and Honor Glory and Power be unto the ancient of Days". Can hear the inflections and the music going. Ever since our family has moved back to Olathe and started up with Olathe Life Fellowship. our lives have been filled with blessings and good things. God id so awesome and He has made himself evident in such amazing ways. When our family left here and went to Michigan things were so difficult for us. We had such a hard time and so many things seemed to go wrong for us and to go against us. I remember that there were so many of those Sunday school answer Christian-ease type people that would say to, "well that is how you know that you are doing God's will and that God is in this, because Satan is coming against it s strongly " They would say, "God's work is never easy and when things go wrong constantly and it seems unbearable that's when you know you're doing the work of God"
Well, now we have moved back to Olathe and we truly feel in our hearts, in the core of my being, that this is God's will for us and that we are truly involved in God's work, and things are going wonderfully for us. Each day I wake up with a smile and filled with joy. There are countless practical blessings that I can look at and rejoice. More than that I can rejoice and be filled with joy and peace and love and etc even when there arent material things staring me in the face to be thankful for.

All through the book of Philippians there is a theme of Joy. Even Joy in tough times. I am thankful for our tough times in the past because God has taught me so much and I thankful for this time of rejuvenation and blessing. Life Is Good.

I dare you, read the book of Philippians and then try to have self pity and sorrow. If you read it and open your heart and mind to it you cant.



In Christ,
Pastor Geoff