"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13

What a Way to Start the Week

2008-03-06T05:38:00.000-08:00

So, we finished up the revival last night in Jackson, Tennessee, it was awesome to see how God did some mighty works at that small church in the middle of no where...There were about 40 salvations all together, and what is so awesome, is that it was not just teenagers, the majority were adults, I remember that one teenage girls got to see both of her parents come to know Christ, how exciting is that!!!! It was an awesome week, now I am headed to Nashville to do some sight seeing for the rest of Spring Break, but man oh man, what a way to start the week off!! So amazing. Anywho, I just wanted to update on the end of the revival...if you have never heard of Ken Freeman, you should check out his website, he is a phenomenal speaker!!! www.kenfreeman.com

Anywho, God Bless!!!

God..........

2008-03-04T22:32:00.000-08:00

So yeah, I have not written a blog in a month...my bad...but I have been so busy and had my mind in so many other places that I did not even think of writing a blog. However, I think that I want to sit down now and share some life with whoever chooses to actually read this.....as my last blog said, GOD IS AMAZING!!

You guys will never know how God has dealt with me in so many ways..jus the fact that God could love this lousy person that I am is phenomenal..I mean, He loves us no matter what we do...gosh, I just cannot fathom it...but I fully believe that He loves me, and will never leave me...I love JESUS...

Let's just start with my Spring Break trip, which is going on right now....I am in Jackson, Tennessee with my brother JT who works for Ken Freeman, who is an Evangelist...I was really looking forward to this week because we would be attending revival every night with Ken preaching...phenomenal preacher!!!!

Anywho, I just really planned on Christ speaking to me, and what do you know...He did, God has just revealed things in my life that I need to change and focus on Him...I get so distracted in life and find it so hard to fully focus only on Him, being Christ Jesus...

But I just want to share some of the key points that Ken has preached about the past few nights and what really spoke to me and effects my life...also want to share some quotes that he gave us as well...

Sunday night, Ken spoke about the Excuses that we make up for not going to church, not accepting Christ, not praying, not reading the Bible, not doing this, or not doing that... Ken defined excuse as (EXCUSE- The skin of a REASON, stuffed with a LIE)
Ken preached on the Parable of the Large Banquet in Luke 14:15-23
He gave us three excuses that we gave to Christ in this parable...
1. My property/wealth is more important than the party or person of Jesus Christ (LUKE 14:18)
2. My possessions are more important than the party or person of Jesus Christ (LUKE 14:19)
3. People/Friends/Spouse/Etc. are more important the the party or person of Jesus Christ. (LUKE 14:20)
These are the excuses the people gave to Christ in this parable. What excuses do we give God, why? Did you know, that after we give these excuses and refuse the invitation, God will not invite us again...make you want to change your answer doesn't it? THINK ABOUT IT!!!

On Monday night, Ken preached the message titled "It's All About the Heart"
-Whatever fills your heart, comes out of your mouth, and whatever comes out of your mouth, is what you mean-

Ken gave us Five different types of hearts using the Parable of the Sower Matthew 13:3-30....in these Five hearts, only ONE is the right heart. We need to ask ourselves, Do we have the right heart?
1. Calloused heart (Cold hearted) (Matthew 13:19, the seed that is sown on the path)
2. Careless Heart (Matthew 13:20-21, the seed that is sown in the rocks)
3. Crowded/Confused Heart (Matthew 13:22, the seed sown among the thorns)
4. Christ-Like Heart (Matthew 13:23, the seed sown on the good soil)
5. Counterfeit Heart (Matthew 13:37-43) The heart looks just like the christ-like heart, but is fake, it is plagairized, its a phoney...these verses talk about the weeds that were sown with the wheat, and how they look alike, but at the harvest, the weeds are first taken and thrown into the fire, and the wheat is taken and put in the barn. This illustrates that the weeds are those who do not accept Christ, and they are thrown into the firey pits of Hell, and the Wheat are those who have accepted Christ and have a relationship with Christ, they are stored in the Barn which symbolizes heaven. Don't you want to be the WHEAT!!! I want to be stored in Heaven at the harvest time, which is the end of time....

The last thing I would like to share tonight it this, it was from the sermon Ken spoke to us about at tonight service. The title of the sermon was "Good ain't Good Enough"
But the thing that stuck out the most was an illustration that he shared at the end of his sermon, it was this...He told of how some hunters in another country would catch and kill these small monkeys that they wanted. What the did was drill a whole all the way through a coconut, stick food inside the coconut, and hang the coconut in a tree with string, then the hunters would go hide themselves. ALong would come a monkey and smell the food, he would stick his hand in the coconut to get the food, and began to realize that he could not get it out, because the only way to get their hand out of the coconut was to let go of the food. Ken used this to illustrate in things that we need to let go, and to give to God! Do you have your hand stuck in a coconut, allowing the hunter to kill you. We must let go and let GOD..it is the only way anything can happen...is through God....

CHOOSE GOD PLEASE!!! HE WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD!!!

(Well guys, this blog seems really long, because it is, and I will try and update it more often, but I really just wanted to share what God has spoken to me this week, and I am just really blessed to have been able to attend revival over my spring break, God knows when we need Him, and boy, do I need Him ever so much right now, as I always do!! I hope that you all who read this know that Christ loves you more than anyone else in this entire world, and he CARES for YOU!!! CHOOSE HIM!

So Amazing

2008-02-05T19:45:00.000-08:00

Basically all I have to say is...

GOD IS SO AMAZING!!

Craziness

2008-02-04T20:50:00.000-08:00

So, I have found out today that I am crazy...like literally, I mean I guess I have known it for a while, but, like, I am just weird...guess what I have really fell in love with, Soundtracks to movies/plays/musicals.....All day today I have been singing one line to a song in the musical WICKED, the song is Defying Gravity, "I think I'll try defying gravity" thats the line, and I just sing it over and over and over again.....I drove people crazy, which is insane, since I am crazy myself.....I also told Meredith tonight that I thought I was funny, just out of the blue, because I am....not really because I say funny things, I just am random, so that is funny..

so yeah, I also found out that the application on facebook "free gifts" has games that you can play to earn "gift money" to buy better gifts to send people....ha, they are crazy fun...and addicting, and pretty dang easy...I should probably of spent my time doing homework, since I have not done any for a while...oh my.....

I have 4 tests on Thursday!! (Just wanted to share that with you)

and thats all I have for now!

God is AMAZING!!! Please choose HIM!!

2008-02-02T23:19:00.000-08:00

So, I don't think I have ever shared my testimony with any of my friends since I have started college, and I guess that could be that sometimes we or at least I feel, that I don't have this phenominal testimony of a background of drugs and alcohol...but God has given me a great testimony, and that is that I choose Him to be my Savior. I thank God that I did not have to go through all the "crap" to get to Him...

I grew up in a Christian home, my dad is a pastor, so I knew everything that was right and wrong, what to do and what not to do! You know, the whole "role" of a Christian...Around the age of 7 a bunch of my friends decided that we wanted to "get saved" and be baptized. So I got baptized..I was not until I was 13 that I realized that I had not made the decision to ask God to be my Father, my Savior, my Lord..I had not asked Him to live in my heart.

In the Summer of 2002, I went to my first youth camp with my youth group, and during one of the service that week, God spoke to me through a song "I'm Coming Back to the Heart of Worship", as I was singing, God just said, you need to come to ME...That night I remember asking my youth leader how is works to ask Jesus to live in my heart. My youth leader shared with me a prayer and I said this prayer, now it was not a magical prayer, but because I believed in my heart what I was saying, that is what matters, I believe that night that Christ began to live in my heart. and I know that He is living there now, and that nothing I do can make HIM leave..

After I asked Jesus to live in my heart, my lifestyle did not seem to change much, because like a said, I was never caught up in anything that would be considered "bad" if that makes sense..

In Spring of 2007, God really got a hold of my heart and called me into Full-Time Minstry....and to start living as a Christian so that others can see Christ through me, in my actions, in my words. I know that I am not perfect and I have not always been doing what I should be doing, but I really want to be doing what God wants me to do now. I have no idea as to which ministry God has in store for my life, but I know that He will reveal it in His time, not mine.

However, in May of this year, I have an awesome opportunity to go to Greece on a missions trip. I cannot even say how excited I am about this trip...I pray that God will prepare me physically, mentally and spiritually for this trip. Because it is not about me, it is about HIM, and I pray that the people in Greece will see Christ through me and not myself.

But what I want to talk about now is this, DO YOU KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT IF GOD WERE TO COME BACK RIGHT NOW, THAT YOU WOULD SPEND ETERNITY WITH CHRIST? You guys, the only thing that I desire is that you know this for a fact. I do not want to offend anyone, but what kind of friend am I if I had the cure to living forever and ever and ever, and never shared it with you. I would be no friend at all! I just want you to know the awesome Savior that I know, He is my God, My King, My Lord, My Father, and most awesomely MY FRIEND! A friend that will "never leave you, nor forsake you." (Hebrews 13:5b) He is Alpha and Omega, Beginning and End, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Messiah, there are so many names for the Lord of the Earth. I just pray that you guys know who Christ is, and that He can have an amazing impact on your life.

HE COULD ROCK YOUR WORLD, IF YOU WOULD JUST LET HIM!!

Just remember that Christ died for you, what have you done for HIM?

My first Blog!

2008-02-02T13:13:00.000-08:00

Ha, So I was sitting at a table with some friends the other day, and I said I was not going to make a blog, however, I pretty much wanted to make one, so here I am sitting here typing random stuff...the thing to see is if I can keep it up....

Let's talk about a little bit that has been going on in my life.
In Spring of 2007, I surrendered my life to full time ministry. I have no clue as to which ministry God has in store for my life, but I am looking forward to see what He has ahead! This past semester Fall 07, I had the opportunity to apply to go on a mission trp to Athens, Greece and work with the Turkish Refugees. It turns out I do get to go, and that trip will be in May of this year. I am so blessed as to how God has provided financially for me to go on this trip, because there is no way without Him, that I would have been able to go. I am really excited to see what He has in store for the trip as well as before and after. God reveals His word to us in so many ways, and I am blessed to have a Savior who cares, and who knows my name, how many hairs I have on my head, and my every thought.

Wow, thats scary, He knows my thoughts? Have you ever sat back and thought about that? ha, God can read your mind, He doesn't need us to verbally ask/talk to Him, but He likes to hear us talking to Him...it's so exciting to know that I have a God, a Father, who is always by my side, and will never leave me. It amazing!!

Just a couple of things to remember:

Colosians 3:2-3
"Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God."

Psalm 145:18
"The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth."