Enemies.

Have you committed a sin lately, before you read this, yesterday to your best friend, to yourself? Sin creates walls that are impossible to take down. Building a house is like sinning, brick by brick you are adding more and more on top of itself until all is going to cave in. By yourself, there is no way you can take that house down, that is without tools at least. God is the only tool that can conquer your wall of sin and make it clear for you to live in his ligh that was blocked by the wall.
You become as a enemy to God when you sin. He loves and does everything to keep you from sinning, God is always right there beside you when bad times and temptations come around. He will be more than happy to see you avoid that sin and keep another brick from that wall. What if you were separated from everything you’ve ever known, and the only thing making that happen was a ‘little white lie’ you told this morning to your wife, sibling, husband. Wouldn’t you want to avoid that misery and pain. Guess what though, a few words to Jesus in a prayer can make that invisible wall of Separation disappear and make you able to see what’s really around you.

“Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions. But now He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him — if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.” -Colossians 1:21-23

How about you, can you say that you’ve evoke a server of Gods will & word? Can you replace Paul’s name with yours without saying a lie? Are you willing to serve God even when you least expect it?

Times will come when you are questioned, times have been where you have questioned. This time your governing the answers, but only God can give you the truth first. Are you on defense or offense? God wants you to decide.

 

Moving?

As a Christ follower we are often told to follow Gods path and do His will for our life. Many people know their plan and instantly jump into what they believe is Gods plan for their life. Then they jump right into action. Like in volleyball, you see a ball coming to your side of the net and run to it no matter where you positioned, but also in volleyball, when you move, you leave a spot open for the volleyball to fall. Sometimes if you hadn’t moved, the volley ball would have been hit, but instead you missed it and have to wait on another serve. So back on Jesus, people who instantly jump into action and aren’t aware if Gods plan for their life might miss it when the are unaware of the volley ball coming their way. If you stay where you are and do Gods will where you are, your plan may appear. Instead of waiting on God to serve you another milestone for you to follow His will.

Not all Christians who say they are know for sure if they really are a real saved Christian, do not see a professed Christian at church or school and think, “I don’t want to be a Christian if Christians act THAT way…” think along the lines of, “when I’m saved I know I’ll be living forever with my one true God, the savior and Lover of my soul.
As a preachers kid, I hear a lot of things that aren’t repeated and ignore many things as well. I get pressured way more than any other person I ever met, on the outside I’m a well put Christian Perfect little child, but why on the inside do I feel like a big bank full of secrets and issues, I don’t know everything and can’t fix your problem, if you wanna be my friend then fine, if not… God bless and love you, have a nice life.
I see people join church leave church, I see drama from both sides of the story, I hear language from Christians who shouldn’t be, I know things that no one should ever know, I’ve heard lies that I knew from the beginning were not true. I find things out unintencealy. And I haven’t even gone to school yet…
Some things are better done then said, some things are better unsaid, some things aren’t for me nor you, some things are unlikeable, but fitting all plays out in the end… As for me, I can only do this through Christ. Sometimes it’s easier to be quiet in the background then to talk it out. Sometimes a cry for help is never heard…. yet is set free and flows through the universe.
I’m a preachers kid, your excuse…?

 

A Light Bulb Went Off.

In the restroom at my house, there are vanity movie star like lights on top of our mirrors. They provide intense light throughout the whole room. Each light was working. One day while I was stepping out of the shower and was wondering why it seemmed so dark. I did a quick glance out side through the window, but it was really bright out side and I could see the sun. Looking up at the lights I realized that one of the light bulbs was missing. I as still confused why that one little light bulb made the room feel so dark and empty. When the little light bulb was replaced, the room was brighter than before. The new light bulb was dust free and clean, brand new provide a new brightness to the room. Just like a Christian, you are surrounded by many other Christians, wether you realize it or not, and are all working together to provide light to the world. We are all sinners and get ‘dusty’ and it builds up on top of each other and we feel so bad, eventually you break from all the pressure and heat. When your broken only one thing can happen, restoration. Your restored and now the light you were once showing is much brighter than before, and your helping the world see Jesus. But without that One lightbulb, the world will seem much darker… So are you a dusty, broken light bulb in need of dusting? You see, there’s another way then being replaced when your broken, the housekeeper can clean off the dust you have collected. With one prayer to Jesus, one beautiful meaningful prayer, all your ‘dusty’ sin can be cleaned away, and your still the same bright shinning light bulb you would have been if you WERE replaced, but through prayer, there isn’t that moment of brokenness. When your setting there lifeless, almost as if your burnt out of sin and tired I the same old thing. And once again, pray to Jesus right now, He can fix your brokenness and ‘dustiness’!
Pray this, “Jesus, I’m a sinner and get a little dusty at times, but I know through your grace and unfailing mercy I can be saved from all the heat and pain of life. God, please come into my heart and save me from the sin of the world, and thank you for sending your son to save my life from eternal hell, in Your name I pray, Amen”. Now what do you do? Tell somebody! Being saved is a remarkable thing, it means that all your life and for eternity you’ll have a person to rely on and to talk to God, who will love you forever, even when your in doubt. Just stand up and see the world around you, ignore it and keep walking with God. Time for a dusting.

 

Copycat!

Do you remember as a little kid trying to have a conversation but instead of a conversation, your sibling would say the same thing back in a bratty like voice. What if copying someone wasn’t bad, not to annoy you but as a sign of respect. As a Christ follower, praying is a must. But that doesn’t mean stop in the middle of anything and close your eyes and pray, you can simply pray any time any day. Everyday the average person gets up and drives or ride to work, school, etc… So let’s do some math, maybe 15 minutes to and from work, 5 days a week. So that’s 150 minutes a week. Over two hours a week you could pray to God. When you pray you want to be true to what you say and mean what you pray. Often times you hear and read about prayers that people in the bible pray and when you pray, you want to put across the same pint. But say it in your own words. I want you to know that if you say the prayer from the bible and truly mean what you pray to God, the words you pray are apples to Gods eyes. God may also not answer your prays right then, soon , or even in three years. If your prayer is Gods will, the prayer will come true through Gods power, however, if your prayer isn’t Gods will, it’s not happening. So if you get anything from this, get this, God hears every mumble, word, and stutter, you say when you pray, so pray for those two short hours combined throughout the week. For just those short moments…

 

Wish YOU Were Here.

My youth group watched a video as part of the altercall. It was about a guy who had a Christian friend that never told him about Jesus. When this guy dies he ‘writes’ a letter to his Christian friend. He writes about how when he was in line for judgement; and the line was moving along and he got to the front and was asked his name, to find it in a book called “The Book Of Life”, but when they couldn’t find it, he was then pulled away by to angels to a ‘holding sell’. He asked to know where they were taking him and they said that only those people whose names were in the book of life could enter the Kingdom Of God, all others were sent to a place called Hell. Hell, also called “The Lake Of Fire”, is a place of eternal pain, depression, hurting, sorrow, and torture… and it never changes. You then have an permeant separation from God, the Person who spoke you to being, the One who has known you since you were designed. If your not saved when you die You ARE going to Hell. This concept is so overwhelming that I have trouble explaining how horrid Hell IS. You’ll never get used to the heat, but that won’t matter if you have no Hope. This hope only comes from Jesus, the hope of being able to live and know when you die you’re going to spend all of eternity with God in Heaven where all His Children will be Praising and Worshiping God in ways never imagined.

At the very end of the video he has been cast down into the flames and eternal separation but the end of the letter says, “P.S. Wish you were here…” You see when Gods name comes up, take that instance to use it to the best of your ability to somehow convince someone to come to church or even walk through how you get save and what it means to be saved. Start with the ABC’s.
The ABC’s may be a childish VBs kid thing but it’s the best thing to remember and use to lead a person to Chirst.
A- Admit to God that you have sinned and your no perfect, say that you’ve messed up and will always mess up.
B- Believe that Jesus Christ was sent from God to save the world from the sin that we live in everyday.
C- Confess to everyone that you saved so that they may help you along your walk with God. Confess Him as your savior and Lord and that He will always be.

God will always be there and will be in your heart with just a prayer.

 

“In Church…”

“In Church…”

In Church things happen that make most people say, “You shouldn’t do that in church”. Being a preachers kid I hear this very often. After they say, “You shouldn’t do that in church…”, they add ,”…especially in front of the preachers kid.” All my life I’ve heard this saying. You shouldn’t; lye, curse, steal, skip (as in come but not go in service), or start drama… In Church. You wanna know what I think, I think that you shouldn’t do any of those things anywhere I don’t care where you are. If your gonna cuss at school, at work, or even at Walmart, you mine as well cuss in church. You’ve got to understand that God is with you regardless of where you are, EVERYTHING you do and say already is known to happen in Gods eyes. You know what, if you didn’t cuss, lie, or steal in the first place NO ONE would EVER have to say,” You shouldn’t do that in church.” Regardless, God is always watching, even if he wasn’t, which is impossible, you’d still have to see it happen again when you’re held accountable for your sin. I bet you DYEING to see you sins replayed in front of your eyes before your judgement… Most people ARE dyeing too… Think about it.

 

Da Ja Vu: Kicking In.

My friend had recently posted a status about how Christians can be really good and being a Hypocrite. How we go to church and worship like nobody’s business, go home and sin like nobody’s business, then go to bed and pray for forgiveness. But aren’t you tired of all this stuff just like my friend is, I guess I just needed that status to really reopened my eyes to what the world is doing to us believers. And although it feels like a stab in the heart to me to see someone backstab Jesus right in front of Him. At the Church I attend, I’m the “tech” guy, I see what everyone’s doing during worship and how there arms are raised and eyes ate closed pouring out to God. When it comes to the world I see the same people cussing and doing sinful things, at school, at church, when I hang with them… It really does blow me out the window and over the boarder. You know what though, God is so merciful and so passionate for us that He will Forgive us time and time again. Even we dint deserve I or do anything for it. Even if your known to be the Hypocrite, the time is now to literally get up and start this life over. All you do is take one step and He’ll take any others that need to be taken.
You may find your self doing the same thing over and over, sin, repent, repeat; sin, repent, repeat; sin, repent, repeat; and the Da Ja Vu Kicks in. God can really help you kick it out, and kick you into your rightful place, as a God-Fearing-Loving Christian, who tries there best live for God. So go ahead Kick the Da Ja Vu back to where it came from.

James 4:7
7 So then, submit yourselves to God. Resist the Devil, and he will run away from you. 8 Come near to God, and he will come near to you.