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God calls men to be the spiritual leaders of our homes, and He calls us to go forth and make disciples. As I look at the world today, I do not see an abundance of men being the spiritual leaders God calls us to be. If we look at the youth groups in our churches today, what is the ratio of boys to girls, or women to men? Who is influencing our men today? Are we setting Godly examples in our everyday life to men young and old?
Thank you for visiting Man Two Man – Men for Christ. I feel God has called me to start this work in order to glorify Him. I grew up in a small east Texas oil field town and lost my dad at an early age to illness and years of alcohol abuse. Within a year of his death, my mom married someone that she would spend the rest of her life with. There were both wonderful times and not so wonderful times throughout theses years. Severe sickness and more alcohol abuse plagued my teenage years.
When I look back at who gave me a Godly spiritual influence, it was my mom, her parents and possibly a couple of my dad’s brothers. They made sure I was in church and Sunday school on a somewhat regular basis and at eleven years old I knelt down outside my grandmother’s house and gave my heart to Christ.
Where were the men in my life? Oh they were there and even though they were influencing me it was not always Godly examples. So as I grew up and started making choices on my own, you guessed it, I started making some of the same choices the adult men in my life had made.
After marrying an amazing woman, and having a beautiful daughter, I made a bold decision to lead the Christian life I had professed as a young boy. I didn’t want my family to follow the same path that I had experienced growing up. Just as Christ shows us in his word, everyone comes to a fork in the road. One is wide and well traveled and one is narrow and lightly traveled. If you choose the wide road, it can be full of struggles, heartbreak, disappointment, heavy burdens. If you choose the narrow road it also will have its share of heartbreak, disappointment, and heavy burdens. So why would I choose the narrow road? Because Jesus is with me on the narrow road and He will carry the entire load for me if I let him.
I am asking you to follow Christ and stand up today and be a man of God. I am asking you be a man of God in everything you do, not just at church on Sunday. I am asking you to make a deliberate effort and be the example of Christ that He wants us to be to the world. I am asking you to be an encourager, a mentor, or maybe just a godly example to those around you. If you look at David, he was called a “man after God’s own heart”. David was far from perfect and he made some bad choices but he sought God’s forgiveness and wisdom. Today, seek to be a man of God and strive to be a man after God’s own heart. Remember, your example of Christ may be the only example others ever see.
Blessings,
Joe
Jesse Lopez
November 28, 2009 at 10:33 am
Greetings, Found you through You Version link and I am thankful that I kept exploring until I found you. Really Wonderful reading and I will look forward to daily reads. My story is long but maybe someday I will share it but Today I lift up His name and truly give thanks for pursuing me. Thank youb for your time and may God continue to bless you and your orginization.
james
January 9, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Just when God removes a good, godly male friend from close contact He brought this website. Thank you for the “iron” to sharpen this “iron”. I look forward to the daily encouragement to be a godly example that Christ wants me to be.
Don
February 7, 2010 at 8:20 am
I just found your site, and was very encouraged by your words of faith. I grew up in an outwardly functional family, but the unclean spirits of alcholism, abuse, & lust had a strong hold on my father. I am the baby of 10 children, & Satan took control of my life @ a very early age. My mother Never stopped going to church, and never waivered in her Faith. I accepted Christ my Savior at around 9 years of age, and thank God it was a real acceptance & conversion. As I reached my teen years I began to let the enemy control my life. I began to use alchohol & drugs, & lusted for every evil thing available. I married & had children @ a very young age, but the enemy was pretty much in control of my life by that point. I cheated on my wife, was abusive, & had fallen into every temptaion known to man. I ended up in prison @ the age of 27 for a monetary crime, not that I hadn’t done many other crimes against society by that time. Prison only made me harder, & I used to brag that when I died I would start out at least as a leutinent or captain in hell. Thank God that my Mother never stopped praying for me!!! I was released from prison after 13 years @ the age of 40, and was worse than I was when I went in, feeling that the world & everything in it owed me…..God began to call me through the Spirit and I heard him in the background, but I didn’t acknowledge his calling…I almost went back to prison, and I realized that although prison didn’t scare me at all, I really didn’t want to go back there for another 22 years. I sat down by myself and asked God that if he was real to prove it to me, and that if he did that I would follow Jesus the rest of my life, and that if I didn’t that he should allow me to go back to prison forever… To shorten my story, God proved himself to me in so many ways that I had to say “ok, I know that you are real”. Now I am a servant who knows, and more is expected of me as a result…I married a Christian woman w/ a Christian family and my life began to prosper..The enemy is ever present, and my faith is tested almost daily, but my promise to God is a covenant that I can not, and will not break…THANK GOD FOR MY MOTHER’S insistant prayer life on
my behalf. She has since gone to be with our Lord, but her relationship to Jesus directly changed the path of my life. Pray for me to have spiritual wisdom & discernment w/ God’s word, and strength to be obedient & remain in God’s will. If anyone needs encouragement or help finding God for REAL. Let me know & I would be proud to help you on your journey through this website. With Love through or Christ Jesus, Don
matthew may
February 13, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Looking forward to these daily devotions. I need daily refreshing through the word of God.
jkuhl
February 14, 2010 at 8:47 am
Thank you for the encouragment. I too need the refreshing of His word daily and sometime minute by minute. May God bless you today
Don
February 15, 2010 at 7:39 am
Do you ever read God’s word & feel like you just don’t get it? Let me tell you a little known secret that the enemy keeps hidden from us. When Jesus died on the Cross for us several things happened. The curtain that the Preists from pre Jesus tomes ripped down the middle, giving us DIRECT contact w/ God through Jesus’ Holy Spirit. Jesus said that through his death Satan no longer has authority on earth, and you can claim one of Jesus’ promises & get immedeate results. Before reading the Bible, cast out all unclean spirits from your body & mind in the name of Jesus & by the blood that he shed on the cross for our sins. Now you have authority over the unclean spirits, & all of the interuptions (noises, lights, etc.) that have been interupting your reading will immediately go away. Now ask Jesus to speak to you directly through His Word, beleiving that he will. Azingly you will be able to read whole chapters & not only understand & remember what you read, but you will know exactly what Jesus is trying to tell you. For those of you who have been having a hard time reading and/or understanding God’s word, this little experement for you is guaranteed to wo 100% of the time. Good luck! Fight the Devil! Jesus died so that you can Win Everyone of those fights….With Love through our Saviour Jesus Christ…..Don
jkuhl
February 15, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Thank you for your comments, I too am so glad for a Mom that never gave up on me!!!! I owe all to my Savior and am thankful my Mom prayed to Him for me daily. Your testimony is amazing. Thank You.
Brad W.
April 7, 2010 at 11:30 pm
Joe just found your link through you version and am very thankfull. This is a prayer request for all who may read this. was really raised in the church, mostly just “holiday Christian” with my mom nd sister untill I was about 19. My dad has only been in church twice that I know of. I have had the passion of God in my life from working with Teen Mania on mission trips and helping run and lead a college study. All this upto about 4 years ago when I started dating my now wife. I failed then to treat here right in Gods eyes and our courtship was damaged from the start.
Over the past 2-3 years after getting a job out of state from all our friends, family and church again I started to fail. Now I can remember the last time I lead my wife to church or even prayed with her. I have fallen back into internet problems…looking up and at stuff that I know I shouldn’t. And now have started to are where my life has derailed and has burdened down my wife and marriage.
I just ask for daily prayer to help me fight to stay free from internet porn. I ask if you all would also stand in prayer with me for that.
Second the I will fall back in Love with God and truly be the husband, man and leader to my wife.
Thank you Brad
Bradjw1980@gmail.com
jkuhl
April 8, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Brad, I can’t tell you how many times I have failed at being a husband, father, leader, or just life in general. You story hits really close to home with me. You are fearfully and wondefully made in His perfect image. I pray that you will fall on your knees and ask God’s forgivness in failure and make things right with Him first. I also pray that you will be honest and ask forgivness from your wife and make a commitment to her that you will be the man God has called you to be. I pray that you will lead your family to church and worship King Jesus as a family. I also do pray that you will surround yourself with people that build you up and hold you accountable. Lastly I pray that when you stumble and fall you will get back up and dust yourself off with His grace and mercy and start again.
You Brother in Christ
JOe
Brad
April 24, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Thanks Joe. I will ways take prayer. Do you guys, any whom may read these ever feel like giving up and quoting? I know others have hard times and struggles but so offten it feels like I may be the only ready to give up on Hoping He is working for and with me?
Thanks Brad
jkuhl
April 24, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Hey Brad, many times I have thought of quiting and giving up but I know God loves me too much for that. When we fail and we all do we must get back up, ask for forgiveness and start again. Don’t give into or believe Stans lies. I will continue to pray for your strength. Stay in the word and surround yourself with those who will hold you accontable and lift you up.
Joe
Brian
May 2, 2010 at 11:23 am
Hey, I’ve tried to give up! If God has sealed you with His Spirit then it is time to give up, give in and get going! Every other tactic is a BIG waste of time! You will find joy no where else. The world will not accept you.
leah
May 12, 2010 at 5:27 am
I just found this website and I was very encouraged by your faitj and your story, it really did move me, even made me cry! Because I know God is trying to change my life but I need his strength to allow me to have self control over certains situations and I feel that I did not find this site by accident! I look forward to reading more things and be encouraged to fully let God take control.
John
May 19, 2010 at 8:48 am
Brad,
As Brian mentioned, many try to quit. Taking the “easy” way often seems like the simple and worldly out, but it’s empty. Surround yourself with people on the narrow path and immerse yourself in His word, you will defeat temptations. Understand though, you cannot do this alone, you must ask God for strength; then seek wise counsel and companions. Your brothers are there to help.
Thanks to Scotty for pointing me to this site today.
jwc
Godfrey
May 22, 2010 at 2:03 am
Thank you for the good work u’re doing. May de Lord bless mightly in Jesus’s name.
jkuhl
May 22, 2010 at 8:28 am
Thank you so much for the encouraging words. I pray thay Jesus will touch and bless you today.
Marty S. Kent
December 11, 2010 at 11:43 am
I am from Shreveport, LA and would love to learn more about your ministry.I also am a man that wants to be the man God expects me to be.
In His Name,
Marty Kent
jkuhl
December 12, 2010 at 11:41 am
Hey Marty, I am from Mt. Vernon, Tx and have been to Sheveport many times. Man Two Man is a dicipleship program where one man disciples another. It is based on a Paul/Timothy relationship. I have done this several times and sometimes I have been Paul and somtimes I have been Timothy. Somtime we need to be dicipled and other times we need to be dicipled. Man Church is another part of the ministry and it is a monthly church service that is just for us guys. It is pretty laided back. We eat then get together and sing a few worship songs then hear a testimony and a word from either our pastor or a guest speaker. If you will find me on Facebook and send me a meassage with your address I will send you some dicipleship books. Then all you have to do is find a partner (Paul or Timothy) Also if you want to make the trip to Mt Vernon you can come to Man Church and see what its like. Its small but it is impacting our community for Christ. The next one in January 31st 2011.
Joe Kuhl