Lie # 5 - Total Surrender Will Bring Pain and Loss

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 62

         

Michael’s book is available through:

Abiding Life Ministries International

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Just the word “surrender” seems to mean “losing” to many…but there are different uses of that word, and Michael shows us the “best” meaning of “surrender” in this unmasking of another of the devil’s lies.  Get the victory with surrendering self as Michael points out!

Lie #5 – TOTAL SURRENDER WILL BRING PAIN AND LOSS

excerpt from pages 180-183 of SIW (5^th printing, March 1998)

excerpt from pages 182-185 of SIW (14^th printing, March 2012)

                   (used with permission from ALMI):

Will total surrender bring pain and loss? Actually, the opposite is true: The lack of total surrender will bring pain and loss!  The enemy invests great energy in this lie.  It is whispered continually to the growing believer who has given up all but one thing to serve the Lord, that one thing which is coveted, which has brought pleasure, which allows independence, and that allows the enemy to maintain a foothold in the believer’s life.  What is this one thing?  It differs among Christians but will generally have to do with some right which we believe we should have: a right to be in control, not to forgive, to keep that one idol, or to have some kind of worldly possession or pleasure.

…So it is with this one small thing; it never quite allows us to enjoy all that God has given because of its nagging presence…

…When it comes to taking up the cross and denying self-life residue, the lies will take this form: “You must wait for others to die to self-life and abide before you do.”  “If you deny yourself you will not be happy.”…Since you have heard the message of abiding, you are to be the first to deny self and, therefore, the first to experience the blessing.

…The kind of forgiveness, love, submission, and respect toward others which the Lord requires of us will never come if based on their actions.  The Lord makes such demands on the basis of how He has treated us, not how others have acted.  We are commanded to love because of the intensity with which He has loved us…Giving up all brought Him great joy…

As we give up all, we, too, will find great joy, not pain and loss.  Do not allow the enemy to have this foothold; right now with your mouth give up that one thing which is allowing him to steal joy that is rightfully yours…

Isn’t it just like the devil to take and twist a meaning of a word to make it a negative instead of a positive!  And of course he uses words like “rights” to further confuse and confound life.  All the while to keep us from participating in and being free in Christ.

When will we Christians learn to believe and trust Scripture?!?  It is God’s words to our pathway to the abundant life of Christ.

And must we be reminded that the Lord’s way is 99 times out of 100 the complete opposite of the world’s way…let us not be led by the world’s thoughts and ways.

Just the word “loss” brings shivers to too many…we could lose everything except Christ (and we can never lose Him once we are one of God’s kids!) and still be the Victor!

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NOTICE:  another blog…on Michael Wells’ book, My Weakness For His Strength, called Living Life With a Capital “C”.  You can access by logging onto www.leemccm.blogspot.com

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Lie # 4 - The Confusion Over Where The True Battle Is

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 61

         

Michael’s book is available through:

Abiding Life Ministries International

Littleton, Colorado

(303) 972-0859       www.abidinglife.com

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The devil’s deceit takes on many faces.  Some are so subtle that apart from Holy Spirit’s leadership, including His giving us counsel from those who have been on the battlefield for years (like Michael Wells was), we would never see where the true battle is.  “Lie #4” is one of those subtleties that escapes us more than it is recognized.

As a pastoral thought, I was taught years ago: there is usually someone “behind the one doing the speaking and writing” that is the instigator in church battles.  Many battles won by knowing who the “real enemy” was!

Lie #4 - THE CONFUSION OVER WHERE THE TRUE BATTLE IS

excerpt from pages 179-180 of SIW (5^th printing, March 1998)

excerpt from pages 181-182 of SIW (14^th printing, March 2012)

                   (used with permission from ALMI):

The enemy would never have us fighting the battle where the front lines actually exist; he will always bring something to our attention that has nothing to do with the real issue…in so doing, the believer will more often than not be fighting a person rather than the enemy who inspires the false thoughts that are emanating from the person.

…In the midst of spiritual battle, take time with God; allow the realization of your being “seated with Him in the heavenlies”; let Him show you where the proper battle lines are, so that knowing the position of the enemy you will no longer be wasting your energies.

There is another problem with not fighting the battle on the proper line: We can unknowingly aid the enemy in his work to destroy other believers.  When someone is acting in a way that is unpleasing to the Lord, and we continue to bring it to his attention, what are we doing?  We intensify the problem by helping the enemy place the person’s eyes on something other than the solution…The only hope that we have is to place their eyes on the Savior who can deliver them from vexing behavior.  None will find deliverance anywhere else save in Christ.

As we choose to fight the battle on the proper battle line, we recognize that the problems we see around us are manifestations of life void (at least in the present moment) of abiding.  We will then join the struggle to see those around us abide, and in this way the problems will disappear.

Do we see ourselves giving “intensity to the problem” instead of “placing someone’s eyes on the solution”?  Wow!  What a beautiful perspective that Michael has given to all of us Christians who want to help someone dealing with an issue.  And which of us have had someone who has come asking for help to whom we have given them more of the problem to think about instead of focusing on the solution?

I love Michael’s statement: “the problems we see around us are manifestations of life void (at least in the present moment) of abiding.”  I immediately thought of Michael standing there showing me his 2 hands!  “On my left hand is my problem.  On my right hand is Jesus.  If I place my left hand in front of my right hand…all I can see is my problem.  If I place my right hand in front of my left hand…all I can see is Jesus!  What’s my problem?  Which hand I am looking at!”  Well, amen.

Boy, howdy, do we ever need to get a grip on which hand to always look to first!!!

Note: if you don’t have one of Michael’s Sidetracked In The Wilderness books, please contact ALMI (www.abidinglife.com) and get one today!

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NOTICE:  another blog…on Michael Wells’ book, My Weakness For His Strength, called Living Life With a Capital “C”.  You can access by logging onto www.leemccm.blogspot.com

Lee McDowell Christian Ministries

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Lie # 3 - To Possess I Must Experience

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 60

         

Michael’s book is available through:

Abiding Life Ministries International

Littleton, Colorado

(303) 972-0859       www.abidinglife.com

Notice:  this email is part of a BLOG, called Getting Out of the Wilderness.  Why a blog?  So that many can receive the weekly thoughts I express on Michael’s writings in an easy manner.

Michael gives us great counsel against this subtle lie of the devil.  Every Born Again Believer must POSSESS based on what God has told us, not by the enemy’s definitions, our emotions, any experiences, or any other qualifiers.

Lie #3 - TO POSSESS I MUST EXPERIENCE

excerpt from pages 177-179 of SIW (5^th printing, March 1998)

excerpt from pages 179-181 of SIW (14^th printing, March 2012)

                   (used with permission from ALMI):

Many are working to have oneness or one in their marriages, when in fact oneness is something that is given, not worked for.  Experience must come out of faith, which is the “conviction of things not yet seen.”  Because we have not experienced all does not mean that we do not possess all.  If the experience never comes, still we believe what He has spoken.  The other side of this problem is that the enemy would like to define for us what the experience should be and have us believe that until we have those feelings he specifies, we do not possess what God has given us.

Take, for example, the whole issue of knowing whether a person is going to heaven.  Many have allowed the enemy to define for them what this assurance will feel like, such as a great emotional release, visions, appointments, the list being as varied as are the believers.  We must remember that our assurance is based on what God tells us, not anything else…

There are those who are so governed by emotion that the worst thing the Lord could do for them upon first accepting Him would be to give them an emotional experience, for in so doing, God would be encouraging them to continue to be led by emotion.  For this type of person it would be important t have no emotional experience and to learn to walk by faith without feeling.  The experience that God gives each individual will always be just the one needed.

We must also be careful to allow all experiences to transpire without trying to force them, because the enemy (sometimes by way of other believers) may have defined a particular experience as our assurance.  Know this, that one sure sign of assurance is questioning the fact of being born again.

We must be careful to allow only God to define what is ours in Christ, and not allow the enemy to add qualifiers.  We also must not allow the enemy to define what a successful believer is, because it will so often have to do with accomplishing something great for the Lord; his logic is characteristically, “If I can do something great for the Lord, then He will be pleased, and I will gain His favor and acceptance.”  Such a thought has its roots in hell, for it denies the Christian’s standing before the Father by faith in Christ’s work, not his own.  Nowhere are we commended for doing the great thing; rather, the emphasis is on faithfulness in the smallest of things: for the child, in such as obedience; for the wife, simple respect for her husband; and for the husband, loving his wife.  Successful Christianity involves forgiving, loving the unlovable, giving instead of storing up treasures on earth, and abiding in Him.  We must always allow God to specify what Christianity is, and we will find that it is rarely what we think it is.

Isn’t it beautiful what all God has done for every believer, what all God has given every believer…all simply because of who we are in Christ.  Well, amen!

Michael clearly gives us two great truths to live by:

1. We believe what GOD has spoken, therefore possessing because HE has said so.  It is only sad if we don’t experience what we possess, but never an indication we don’t possess.

2. We live based on GOD’s definition of what an experience should be.  Again, it is only sad if we don’t experience an experience exactly as God has prescribed, but we cannot let the enemy re-define or add qualifiers to change God’s definition.

I so appreciate Michael telling us what “successful Christianity involves," and also his telling us to “always allow God to specify what Christianity IS.”  We must not let “what we think it is” rule our living as a Christian.

Thank You, Lord, that You have given us Yourself to live in us, so that living life as a Christian is merely living the life that is Christ.  Hallelujah!

Note: if you don’t have one of Michael’s Sidetracked In The Wilderness books, please contact ALMI (www.abidinglife.com) and get one today!

To access ALL past weekly blogs, go to Getting Out of the Wilderness by logging onto www.leemcchristianministries.blogspot.com  

NOTICE:  another blog…on Michael Wells’ book, My Weakness For His Strength, called Living Life With a Capital “C”.  You can access by logging onto www.leemccm.blogspot.com

Lee McDowell Christian Ministries

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1737 CR 2051    Nacogdoches, Tx 75965                                         936-559-5696

Lie # 2 - I Must Work To Be What God Says I Am By Birth

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 59

         

Michael’s book is available through:

Abiding Life Ministries International

Littleton, Colorado

(303) 972-0859       www.abidinglife.com

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Every once in a while there comes the realization of a staggering reality from Scripture showing us how pitiful we can be in using all that God has given us to live the life He designed for us.  From Adam and Eve to us, Satan uses his weak, ridiculous, inept weapons to get us to be someone we already are…and we buy into his deceit like we have never heard anything so cunning and attractive.  Poor, pitiful man.

Lie #2 – I MUST WORK TO BE WHAT GOD SAYS I AM BY BIRTH

excerpt from pages 177 of SIW (5^th printing, March 1998)

excerpt from pages 179 of SIW (14^th printing, March 2012)

                   (used with permission from ALMI):

One of the Brazilian brothers pointed out to me that when Adam and Eve were tempted to be like God, they were already in the image of God.  In a like manner, Christ was tempted in the wilderness to prove that He was God, when in fact He was already God.  And so it is with us; the enemy will continue to tempt us to work to become what we already are.  Once we succumb to this temptation, we cast aside faith, along with walking as who God says we are, and give in to unbelief.

…The enemy will rarely give up on his attempts to brainwash the Christian.  He never wants us to realize who we are in Christ, for in so doing we will take an offensive position against him, entering into the battle to take from him those whom he has worked so hard to hold captive.  The truth is that believers never have to live a carnal life or place their will under his power; we can choose to abide in Christ.

In every walk of life the most critical issue for everyone is to determine what family, what team, what group we are a part of.  Once that is settled, we learn the colors, the sounds, the looks, the “plays,” the position we are to play.  When we learn that we are on the winning team, we begin to act like winners.  Michael dispels the enemy’s lie he keeps pounding man with: don’t believe and succumb to his tempting us to become what we already are…LIVE like the victor and overcomer we ARE due to being a part of the family of God.

And Michael gives us the key to living like who we really are: KNOW who we really are in Christ, and TAKE the offensive position against the enemy…instead of casting aside faith and walking as who God says we are, giving in to unbelief. 

It’s a choice, isn’t it?

Note: if you don’t have one of Michael’s Sidetracked In The Wilderness books, please contact ALMI (www.abidinglife.com) and get one today!

To access ALL past weekly blogs, go to Getting Out of the Wilderness by logging onto www.leemcchristianministries.blogspot.com  

NOTICE:  another blog…on Michael Wells’ book, My Weakness For His Strength, called Living Life With a Capital “C”.  You can access by logging onto www.leemccm.blogspot.com

Lee McDowell Christian Ministries

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1737 CR 2051    Nacogdoches, Tx 75965                                        936-559-5696

Lie # 1 - Satan Has Not Been Stripped of His Power

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 58

         

Michael’s book is available through:

Abiding Life Ministries International

Littleton, Colorado

(303) 972-0859       www.abidinglife.com

Notice:  this email is part of a BLOG, called Getting Out of the Wilderness.  Why a blog?  So that many can receive the weekly thoughts I express on Michael’s writings in an easy manner

Everywhere the Lord has taken me in ministry I have run into one Christian after another who has lived in defeat due to their thinking they had no hope of overcoming the constant attacks of Satan.  If he hasn’t been out to destroy them, he has been out to make them do things they didn’t want to do.  And yet, everyone of these Christians has said they believed 1 John 4:4.  Really?

Lie #1 - SATAN HAS NOT BEEN STRIPPED OF HIS POWER

excerpt from pages 174-177 of SIW (5^th printing, March 1998)

excerpt from pages 176-179 of SIW (14^th printing, March 2012)

                   (used with permission from ALMI):

…Once Christ as our life is accepted by faith, we will begin to take an offensive position against the enemy, refusing the lie that he has more power than we do in Christ, and exercising the release of the life within us that has already defeated Satan at every turn.

In conjunction with this deception, many are told that when there is something in their lives they cannot overcome, they should seek the Lord to see if there might be some type of demon dwelling within them.  Though there is no scriptural basis for a demon’s inhabiting a believer, this will be taught with fierceness because of what has been seen or heard…

Again, the issue is to find what works in terms of being conducive to a victorious Christian walk…when problems recur, these believers are then told they didn’t struggle hard enough to keep the demons out, which avoids the real issue that the whole process did not work…

If Satan can possess Christians as easily as many report, isn’t it reasonable to assume he could wreak much more havoc than we now see?...Why does Satan not do such things, given his nature?  The answer must be quite simple: he cannot!  But he can lie and deceive and make Christians waste time casting demons out of one another, not standing against him with heavenly power to accomplish the work of the Kingdom.

…Church history does not bear out that casting demons out of Christians was ever a solution to defeat.  It does, however, bear out that the enemy has continually introduced one-time solutions into the Church, all calculated to keep our eyes off of Jesus.  If demons are so much the problem, why is it that Paul and the other writers of the New Testament neglected to come right out and tell us so?...

This is not to say that a Christian cannot be oppressed; we know that does occur.  And all too often what the enemy uses to harass the believer are particular manifestations of the flesh; these, as we have already mentioned, are removed by taking up the cross daily, which will cut the ground out from under the enemy and free us from his influence…

If Christ in you cannot keep demons from dwelling in you, what chance do you have of keeping them out?  Victory belongs not to those who try to generate power over the enemy, but to those who receive Christ’s power.

Listen carefully to Michael giving us a detailed explanation of just how powerless Satan is:

·         Scripture details his powerlessness.

·         His total ineptness betrays his weakness.

·         Christ in us is our overcoming and Satan’s losing.

So, what’s the problem?  Why is it so many Christians believe the lie?   Because lies are manufactured to satisfy the emotions.  Too many are too quick to believe their lying emotions rather than God’s Truth.  The Truth is invariable.  Unless one is prepared to stand and not compromise, they should never fool around with the Truth.  That is the Victory Michael gives us in his last sentence: “Victory belongs not to those who try to generate power over the enemy, but to those who receive Christ’s power.”  Amen!  So much for Lie #1.

Note: if you don’t have one of Michael’s Sidetracked In The Wilderness books, please contact ALMI (www.abidinglife.com) and get one today!

To access ALL past weekly blogs, go to Getting Out of the Wilderness by logging onto www.leemcchristianministries.blogspot.com  

NOTICE:  another blog…on Michael Wells’ book, My Weakness For His Strength, called Living Life With a Capital “C”.  You can access by logging onto www.leemccm.blogspot.com

Lee McDowell Christian Ministries

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1737 CR 2051    Nacogdoches, Tx 75965                                      936-559-5696

The Deeper Work of the Enemy

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 57

         

Michael’s book is available through:

Abiding Life Ministries International

Littleton, Colorado

(303) 972-0859       www.abidinglife.com

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Even though Satan is a defeated foe, God has allowed him the ability to impact a Christian’s life through his vast array of counterfeit and deceitful measures.  We enter the last chapter of Sidetracked In The Wilderness with Michael introducing to us some of the key tactics used to cause havoc in our lives.  The title Michael gives this concluding chapter is a clear warning to alert us to the subtlety that can catch us off-guard.

THE DEEPER WORK OF THE ENEMY

excerpt from pages 173-174 of SIW (5^th printing, March 1998)

excerpt from pages 175-176 of SIW (14^th printing, March 2012)

                   (used with permission from ALMI):

As we begin to live out our life in Christ, experiencing the deeper walk that abiding in Him yields, the works of the enemy correspondingly intensify.  No longer will he use the obvious and overt (lust, gossip, slander, and all worldly desire) to turn us away from Christ, but rather sly new attacks which consist of well-placed lies (99% truth) to thwart the production of so much fruit.

…I have frequently watched him unleash everything at his disposal to drive a brother or sister back to the state of saving self, denying the cross, and unbelief in order to keep that one from abiding in the truth…A person moving in a falsehood that will not bring deliverance will be greatly encouraged by Satan along the way.  Those who are on the path of do’s (seeking God’s acceptance by performance) will likewise be urged along, while those on the path of believing will find many obstacles.

…Satan’s tactic is to either have us disregard him, treating him as though he does not exist…or be consumed with fighting against him…  We must see that Satan is alive and very active, our adversary (1 Peter 5:8) against whom we battle, with his many schemes (Ephesians 6:11) and snares (2 Timothy 2:26), and we must all take heed lest we fall

(1 Corinthians 10:12).

Satan is, of course, a great liar – the father of lies (John 8:44).  We will now turn our attention to some of his most significant lies, which are most subtle and therefore most dangerous.

Michael closes out his book with 9 lies the enemy tries to get us to buy into.

In the next 9 weeks, we will look at each one of these individually.

Why, we might ask, has God allowed Satan the power to be so cunning and deceitful in Christians’ lives…when he is a defeated foe?  One answer has to be this: God is allowing a test of our faith to show whether we will be strong in our trust of Him, or succumb to the deceit of our defeated foe.  Some of that is relative to just how much “faith” do we have…how much truth have we gotten that we completely trust God to do what He says He will do?  The more trust in God, the less possible deceit we can, or will, succumb to.

One foundational truth we should always operate from is what Michael mentions at the close: “Satan is, of course, a great liar – the father of lies (John 8:44).”  There, God has given us a heads-up…beware…the Liar will always be coming at us with Lies, Deceit, and Counterfeits.  We have most of the battle won when we are prepared with Truth BEFORE the Liar shows up!  Think about it…what lie could the Liar bring our way to deceive us as Born Again Believers that there is “more than one way to get to Heaven”?

Think long on those three statements in the 2^nd paragraph above from SIW…  In each case, the believer has GIVEN the enemy ground to operate on and to bring more lies, more deceit, more counterfeit to further keep that one from abiding in the Truth.  He can’t make us do anything, but he can deceive us far away from the freedom and victory that Truth gives us (John 8:32, 36).

And goodness gracious, I already know the nine (9) lies that Michael has prepared for us to study these next nine weeks…

Note: if you don’t have one of Michael’s Sidetracked In The Wilderness books, please contact ALMI (www.abidinglife.com) and get one today!

To access ALL past weekly blogs, go to Getting Out of the Wilderness by logging onto www.leemcchristianministries.blogspot.com  

NOTICE:  another blog…on Michael Wells’ book, My Weakness For His Strength, called Living Life With a Capital “C”.  You can access by logging onto www.leemccm.blogspot.com

Lee McDowell Christian Ministries

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1737 CR 2051    Nacogdoches, Tx 75965                                         936-559-5696

Freedom To Fail

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 56

         

Michael’s book is available through:

Abiding Life Ministries International

Littleton, Colorado

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In three pages, Michael gives us a great picture, explanation, and application of the compassion of God.  And simply put, where would we be without His compassion?!?

FREEDOM TO FAIL

excerpt from pages 170-172 of SIW (5^th printing, March 1998)

excerpt from pages 171-174 of SIW (14^th printing, March 2012)

                   (used with permission from ALMI):

The only way out of failure is faith.  We do not wallow in self-pity and guilt, but we allow failure to bring us to a place of true dependence, which will bring maximum productivity as Christ lives His life through us.  Regrets are for unbelievers, not for those who walk in Christ’s righteousness.

…we must understand the character of God…His very nature is compassion.  The repentant man, no matter how far he has fallen, can count on God’s hearing him and being overcome by His own compassion!

Israel was warned that if she forgot the Lord and worshiped idols she would be destroyed, but if when in distress from that behavior she would seek the Lord, then God would hear her…We are free to fail because God is a God of compassion; over sixty times in the Old Testament is He described thus.

…One thing we see over and over again is what I call God’s Compassion Cycle.  That is, whenever we are punished by God, our resulting suffering stirs His compassion, so He brings us back again to Himself…

What is your excuse for wallowing?  To what end or benefit do you continue to punish yourself because of unbelief after you have sinned?  God is compassionate, whether you believe it or not.  His character is not dependent upon what you believe or feel, but on what He says…Have you learned to lean on the compassion of God, or do your lying emotions tell you God does not hear and show compassion?

God continued to forgive and restore Israel even though He knew that they would continue to fail and not keep their promises to Him.  It is the compassion of God that has brought all of us thus far…

…When we walk in compassion, we are free to fail, our love covers a multitude of our sins, and our mercy delivers us from judgment…

Wow!  How beautiful is all this?  Absolutely gorgeous!

Michael has much more in the way of illustrations, particularly of God’s work in the life of Israel in the OT, on these three pages.  I hope you have one of the books from ALMI and are working through the life-changing truths from He Who IS the Truth.

Let me see…I think I can summarize this with all simplicity:

We all will fail God.

We need to repent and return to God.

God is full of compassion and will forgive us and restore us.

When we walk in compassion, we are free to fail.

We who know the compassion of the Lord must show the same to others.

Compassion readily forgives.

That seems to bring me to the following questions:

Do I wallow in my failures?  Do I punish myself for unbelief?

OR…am I repentant and turn to God?

Am I learning to live a life of true dependence on God?

Note: if you don’t have one of Michael’s Sidetracked In The Wilderness books, please contact ALMI (www.abidinglife.com) and get one today!

To access ALL past weekly blogs, go to Getting Out of the Wilderness by logging onto www.leemcchristianministries.blogspot.com  

NOTICE:  another blog…on Michael Wells’ book, My Weakness For His Strength, called Living Life With a Capital “C”.  You can access by logging onto www.leemccm.blogspot.com

Lee McDowell Christian Ministries

leemccm@gmail.com

1737 CR 2051    Nacogdoches, Tx 75965                                             936-559-5696