Cutting The Chord

Well I guess that you could say that on my last blog I de-railed a bit. I just let frustrations get the best of me. So I'm now gonna try to start a new leaf so to speak. I'm "cutting the chord" on some things in my life. I have allowed some things to hold me back...So now I'm starting a fresh new life. I've cut the chord from what people think about me, from fear, from past sins and anything else that has a negative effect in my life. I just want to totally surrender to God and let Him have control in my life I want Him to be the for-runner of all of my decisions. So my advise to anyone that might actually read these things is just to not be held down by anyones expectations and don't let anyone hold you back! Just cut the chord and Let Go and Let God use you in any way He may choose. Rest a sure...it will be a rockin ride!!!

Frustration....

I'm somewhat..well actually I'm really frustrated. I find it so frustrated because people in the church are so...well they just don't trust God to put it lightly. It seems that everyone goes to church to do their "churchly choir" and amens the preacher while when the rubber meets the road, they don't believe everything that the Bible says.
I felt the call into ministry. So I decided to presue that calling and attend Lee University. I went and I absolutely loved every second of it until I ran into some health issues that cause me to have to take a break. All the while I was receiving statements like "You really can't make a good living as a youth pastor" or "Money makes the world go round and you won't get it being a youth pastor" and my personal favorite "There is no security in the ministry, especially youth ministry."
All of these comments frustrated me to no end. Everybody carries their Bible to church and we've all read the God will supply all my needs scripture, but yet it seems everyone tries to make it on their own ability.
Now I have no problem with people who work hard and earn their livings. That is great and wonderful, but I get totally frustrated when so called "Christians" put doubt in the mind of people possibly wanting to presue the call into ministry. I thanks God for PW because he has had the single greatest impact on my life and I'm so glad that he presued the call into his ministry.
Well that was just me venting a lil bit.. lemme know what ya think!
Peace!

Complacency

So this is just something on my mind...that that is what bloggins' for!
So I don't know if its just me but complacency is killing the church. Does the "members" in the church not realize that there are teens that are in the world that are dying. A generation is just dying and it seems to me that there are only a few good workers that are out there. There are a ton of people who start out with good intentions and just "fizzle out". My heart goes out to those people also, but its def not far to make the teens suffer. Might not make since..but there it is

Flat Tires and Faith In Jesus

So I get off of work today, walk outside and realize that I have a flat tire. Just great. Not only is it a flat, but it is a flat on my back set of tires, which are new. Ya not to mention that I need to get some new tires on the front. Right now is not the best financial time of my life... I mean, I work at a thrift store for crying out loud. So I walk to the Dollar General and buy a can of Fix-a-flat. It airs up and I head home!
So on the way home I'm contemplating how I'm gonna pay for a new tire. My car insurance is due next month, which is like 300 dollars, and now this? I was so overwhelmed. I didn't know what to do, and still don't. But as I was on my way home, I just sighed and said "God I don't know how I'm gonna pay for this, but I know that You are in control. So I continued my drive home and I past a church sign and it read "Just Be Faithful And Let God Worry Bout The Rest"
So I guess to rap up this first post. I'm not really sure HOW I will find the money to fix this, but one thing that I do know is that God Will Provide!!

Is There Any Hope???

Is there any hope? Is there really freedom to be found? Or are we all just wondering in circles trying to find answers that do not exist? I sound a bit "anti god" there, but I'm am just wondering? Seems as of late things on the outside are going great, but on the inside things are falling into so many pieces that I can't see them ever being put back together correctly... I know what the Bible says and all bout how God will never put more temptation on us than we can bear, but I'm alot weaker in my own eyes than God's I suppose...seems as tho every time I'm faced with a temptation or trial... I always fail.

Am I all alone on this one...just being real...

Spring Cleaning and Spiritual Discipline

So for those of you who don't already know, I work at the Downtown Rescue Mission in Albertville... its pretty much a thrift store, but we have a homeless shelter in Huntsville...anyways. So at work today I get asked to clean the floors. This would be an easy task if the floor was vinyl, but no..its carpet. And under the shelves there is a build up of dust and things that have fell off and broken and rolled under the shelves and God knows what else!
So I approached this task reluctantly. And I'm not one to say that I "heard God Speak", but I did feel like it was one of those "mysterious ways" that God works. Anyways, as I am cleaning I was thinking to myself "This would be so much easier if they would have just kept it vacuumed from the beginning...it would be sooo much less work.
Then God started speaking to me about how our lives would be so much easier if we would just come to him and let him "vacuum and clean" our hearts. This hit me pretty hard. Then He continued to say that the church has took the same approach that earlier employees had taken....we (the church) didn't address some subjects and just slide them under the shelf so that when people come in we appear to have everything in order, but at closer inspection they find that things are really getting out of hand.
That got me really thinking....I mean how often does someone hear a sermon on lets say.....fornication. The word may occassionally pop up here and there, but the subject is rarely addressed. The church just "swept it under the rug" and now we have a whole other relm of things that come from that issue not being addressed: homosexuality, abortion, ect. I wonder if the church would have taken a more defined stand, not in hate, but in love if things would be somewhat different.
Now for those of you who are thinking I'm being judgemental... I'M NOT!! I'm just simply tired of seeing teens that struggle with the same sins that satan has been using for decades and when you go to a youth rally or service you hear "Bible Stories".
None of this might not make any since, but I believe with all my heart that God needs, and is, raising up some leaders that will tackel the tough issues that are attacking this generation and take an offensive stand on these issues....
Teens today face a lot...more and more each day.. its not just peer pressure any more folks. Its time that we, as the body of Christ, rise up a standard against the enemy and reach out to save a dying generation that is simply looking for one thing.....Love