SEE YA!

im saying goodbye to this blog account in search of better blogging opportunites! i know i know its a dark day in the blogging world but fear not my faithful few i will be blogging again soon!

Fasting

In the bible Jesus refers to fasting many times. He also adresses it as"when you fast" not if you fast. This implies to me that He expects us to fast and regularly. Im fasting right now for 24 hours and its amazing! God is revealing Himself to me in so many ways. The hunger pains are intense but I keep fighting it and letting God be my strength. It works! The reason im fasting is to refocus myself on the thing that is most important to me in my life, my relationship with Jesus. What better way to do so than to deprive myself of food and rely on God to give me strength to get through! its awesome and i suggest you try it too. God works awesome things when you put your faith in Him!

Academy

So this is the first time ive written in a little while and i really dont have much to say. I just need you guys to pray for me. Im hopin to get an acceptance letter in the mail for the fire academy. Im so nervous! please pray for me guys. I love you all!

Mistaken

This song really; to me, cries out for what we all want as christians. Listen to the words and youll know what i mean

State of the Church (+-)

What is the state of the church when issues of doctrine get in the way of our true meaning of saving the lost and LOVING those who need love. Alot of "church folk" seem to mis interperate that word "LOVING" for a completely different word; "JUDGING". I only have one question, why? Why do we think that telling someone that what there doing is wrong before we show them the love that is needed to change this persons life is the right way to go about things. Im just as guilty as the next person in line. I struggle with judging people all the time. Jesus lived in a way that drew people to Him. His loved reflected something that people needed and after that love was given people listened. Im writing this as kind of a discussion type or at least though provoking type blog. Why do you think we continually judge before we love and what can we do to remedy that thinking? We know the sunday school answer but what can you do, practically to change your own thinking?

"Design Build"

So as many of you know i watch the discovery channel ALOT!! And last night i tevo'ed a show called build it bigger because i love this show and it makes me happy when i watch it. lol. (and yes i just made lol its own separate sentence.) The show if you dont know has a host named Danny Forester who is a recently graduated architect that goes around to some of the most outrageous building sites in the world and does every job on the site while also explaining the magnificents of how all of it is done. On this particular episode they were showing the new washington nationals stadium. Now when you think of building something usually you design it first and then hand a set of blue prints over to a contractor and they build it. Not so with this particular build. For some reason time constraints made them have to design this stadium as they were building it! This was a first for me. I had never heard of anything like this before and it seemed kind of sketchy. It also got me thinking about my own life and my relationship with God. I cant help but think that sometime thats how my life is. Like God is designing and then im building. now i know that God already has the blueprints laid out and everything is finished but think about it. Have you ever messed up sooooooo bad that youre like "theres no way God saw that coming!" Now i say this all in a joking manner but its crazy sometimes to think that even when we BOMB it and i mean totally drop the ball screw you life up kind of bomb; God knows what we were gonna do. Thats such a beautiful thing to think about because its says that all of these things are gonna work out for our own good! CRAZY!! haha

Ups and Downs

Its funny how life goes sometimes. One minute you think you've got everything together and then the next you're flat on your face again thinking, "how did i get here?" As christians were constantly searching for God's will for our lives looking at everything as a sign to what God wants me to do now. I think that time is the only thing that will truly reveal God's perfect plan for our lives. But what happens until then? what do we do in the interim? Mystery seems to be God's forte. While were constantly trying to figure everything out and make all these fool proof plans God sits back and chuckles knowing full well that what we plan for ourselves is nothing like what His plan is for us. The music career doesn't pan out, you dont get that promotion at work you were hoping for, the girl you thought you were supposed to marry is suddenly a distant memory. Whatever the case may be; the end result seems to be constant. "What now?" The Bible says that " our present sufferings are not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed in us." (Romans 8:18) Yet time and time again we seem to look back and think about all the bad things that happen to us with regret and distane. It makes you question God and pushes you to take back the false sense of control you think you have over your own life. All of the pain leads you to believe you can do it better and that you dont need God at this particular juncture in your life. Were constantly thinking of these "bad" things as a cruel punishment for something horrible we did in our past when in Hebrews 12:6-7 it talks about God disciplining those He loves, and to endure hardships as discipline. Later on it also talks about the discipline being for our good and that it will produce a harvest of righteousness and peace if you learn from it. I know its hard to believe but all of this time we spend getting hurt and messing up is for our greater good in the long run. "God works for the good of those who love Him", (Romans 8:28) and these hardships inevitably draw us closer to Him and His perfect will. So until time tells your tale were told to not conform to the world but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, and then we can test what Gods will is for our lives.(Romans 12:2) So time will tell what plans God has for you and our job in the interim is to offer ourselves as living sacrifices to God as our spiritual act of worship. (Romans 12:1)