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So I’m working on a step by step guide to installing LogMeIn Hamachi2 for some of our dealers at work.  LogMeIn hamachi2 is a program that sets up a VPN between two computers.  But whats cool about it is that it can be used as a gateway.  So by installing Hamachi we will be able to Telnet into their DMS.  Anyways, check it out.  They have a free version thats good for up to 16 people if you need any more then that they charge you like $100 a year or something.

Link: https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/

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I am going to a conference with my father-in-law this weekend.  It should be a good thing.  It goes Friday night and Saturday and we are going to do the “PrayerLife Track”.  Check it out if you would like to go.  It’s in Lakeland @ Trinity Presbyterian Church.

Link: http://www.seejesus.net/events/upcoming/JesusWeekend/JW_Welcome.php

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And he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?” He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half. And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him. Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”

You know I find my self asking that question alot.  ”O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?”  God has promised to give us, not a land, but to make us “fellow heirs with Christ” (Romans 8:17).  He has promised to deliver us from the bondage of sin (Romans 6:22) and so often I feel like Abram calling out “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?”  And like Abram the Lord has made a covenant with us.  A new and better covenant.  In Romans 8:32 Paul ask a question he asks “He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?”  Jesus is how I can know that God will keep his word.  He has already done the hardest thing for us.  How will he now not follow up and complete the work he started?

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So Dave Ramsey says that there are two types of people in any marriage.  The free spirit and the nerd.  I just wanted to say that I am the nerd in my marriage.  It’s not really a surprise and I’m sure none of you are shocked.  But I was just laughing at my self.

I love Excel (okay, I use Open Office Calc but it’s the same thing only free!) and I have several spreed sheets for all our money things.  I have one for our budget where I have all that we make and then all that we spend it on.  Then I have columns for “weekly”, “monthly” and “yearly”.  So for example we spend $30 a week on gas, which goes over to the next column for $120 a month and the next for $1,440 a year.   Then that amount gets subtracted from the total that we bring home.  And the goal is to make the bottom line as close to zero as we can.  Now the problem with this budge is that we start with week then times that by 4 to get months then times that by 12 to get years.  That will give you a 48 week year so I have an additional little section where I add in an additional 4 weeks.  To this number I add in an additional 4 weeks of pay and then subtract out the things that we get every week (gas and food).  Then that number should get us close to our real budget.

I also have a section for “Major Buys” and it’s pretty cool.  I have a list of items and how much they cost (car, roof, air conditioner, oven, etc) and how long we expect them to live and then do the math to see how much we need to save every month to be able to buy that item when ever we are going to need it.

Next I have a “Home Mortgage” sheet.  On this one I keep track of all our mortgage payments.  I track the date, amount owed, principal paid, principal paid for that year, total principal paid and total # of payments left.  It’s pretty cool, I like getting to see the total amount owed go down and the principal amount paid go up.

Anyways, if you managed to read all of that and get to this point in the post, I’m just wondering are you the nerd or the free spirit?

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After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.” And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

Abram believed God’s promise and it [his faith] was counted to him as righteousness.  Abram did not have a righteousness of his own. Last week we saw how Abram refused to take any gain from the ungodly king of Sodom and how he gave a tenth of everything that he had to Melchizedek.  But none of that was “Counted to him as righteousness”.  No only faith can we be counted righteous.

Psalms 51:5 says that “…, I was brought forth in iniquity,and in sin did my mother conceive me.”  We have all fallen with Adam.  We are all sinners and deserve only the wrath of the Holy God.  But God has looked on us with love and mercy.  He has provided a way for us to be counted righteous.  By faith in Abram’s offspring, Jesus.

My prayer for you is that it may be said that “you believed the Lord, and he counted it to you as righteousness.”

Please See Romans 4 for more on this free gift of righteousness.

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