Mom

The other day my Mom called and had a question about facebook which she is new to and I am glad she is catching up with tech world. She had made a comment about how much she likes reading my blog and how she is impressed with my writings (not that I can write) her words LOL. That got me to thinking about why I put so much into this then it hit. For years I watched my Mom a single mother give everything she had to give me and my sister the best life possible. She gave 100% at everything she done and still does which very awesome. Seeing my Mom give her best at everything has some how been tattooed on my brain and it just comes natural to give it all to even the smallest of things and for that I want to say thank you Mom. Now I'm not saying everything turns out good or the way I hoped but as I look back not a lot went as Mom planned either but the one thing I can say is she never stopped giving it all and keep joy in her heart. Now for all the guys out there when you think there is nothing you can learn from your mom you better step back and take another look. Your mom like mine is the heart of God loving you in your screw ups and on your greatest day and always there to cheer you on and when you wonder why you give 100% at even the simplest of things you can thanks Mom, I love you.

Lost in Chaos

In life it seems that every day we wake up and go through the same motions. We get caught up in our routine you know you get up at the same time have the same thing for breakfast etc........ day after day. We go through life doing what has to be done and most of the time we go through life doing what everybody else thinks we need to do. This is what I'm gonna call Lost in Chaos. This is chaos that we put on ourselves we feel the need to live by the standards of this world do go do go do go you get the point. Why do we do this? We have seen what it does to people it has drove them to the point of mental and physical breakdown. Yet we still always say yes to any and everybody who ask something of us. Why do we weight ourselves down burdens that 5 years from now nobody will even remember. I want to come at this from a personal level for a moment. Yes I am one of those people who wants everybody to be happy all the time I do not like conflict. I can not say no to people and I always take on more than need be and yes I had a routine to get it all done. Then one day it hit me. What am I doing? I give up my joy my happiness the happiness of my family trying to please everybody and doing any and everything people wanted me to do I became the Yes Man. My life had become full of Chaos, Chaos I put there which was not doing me any good and at that point I was not doing God any good. I realized I had become something God can not stand a people pleaser. I made the focus of my life doing God stuff instead of doing what is pleasing to God. Now I have to take that step back and refocus. The hardest thing about that step back is the sick feeling you get when you realize you broke Gods heart but we serve a God that has so much Love and Grace that when we get Lost in Chaos that He is faithful and just enough to jerk a knot in our butts as my granpa says and get us back on the right path. Even when we feel like a failure for having to step back just remember Jesus took breaks, not because He overwhelmed Himself but to keep from it as a example to us. I hope some how this has blessed you and always remember God loves each and everyone of us.

Life

Well I'm back at it! For the past month satan has been stepping up his game with me. I believe God is moving me into somewhere I have never been before and about to do some AWESOME things, things like never before. The only thing my mind keeps going to is when God allowed satan to hit Job like a bomb. No I am not putting myself on same level as Job! I do believe God has allowed this to happen to strengthen me and learn to turn to those who He has put in my life. A great friend told me to let other people help, my first thought was (like most of you) they can not do it as good as I can. Thats CRAP! They just do not do it the same way I do but it does get done and done very well. I truly believe God is about to move in a awesome way here in Amory MS. We as followers of Jesus Christ need to just hang on and STICK together. This is a AWESOME trip God has got us on and it's a hard lesson I have learned but He is always there. Right by our side and He will never leave us. God Bless

Paying the Price

You know God tells us to seek out the One! I had the honor this week to go to Atlanta to the Velocity conference and In a breakout session with Pete Wilson he really brought the point home of seeking out the One. I felt God speaking directly to me about one of the students that attends our youth ministry on Tuesday nights. So When I got home I give this alot of prayer and just like God He opened the door for me and said now did you really mean it? I had no other choice but to say yes God I mean it. This friday night the Pointe stayed the night at the church and the One showed up I let the Spirit lead me in every choice I had to make with the One. Now as if I didn't see it coming satan has struck and I feel condemned for the choices I made and I feel people are striking out at me for this. How do we overcome this? I know I am not a people pleaser! God I pray you help people to see that I am working for the BIGGER picture not just the small corner we see with our earthly eyes. Give us ALL your eyes to see people the way you do and if the ways you chose to bring people to the cross is not what the world thinks is right give us the strength to keep on your path and not conform to this sick world we live in. Amen!! The road to this cross is full of blood sweat and alot of tears the ONE thing we must focus on is what is on top of that hill and that is the CROSS!!! The cross Jesus Himself hung on to pay for the sins of each us. It was not the easy way it was a struggle, the HARD way but shows us the compassion we need to have. Jesus loved US so much he chose the HARD road not the punk way out. So why do we always want things to be easy all the time for all people. It was NEVER easy for Jesus. Do you honestly think you are so much better than your Creator that everything is going to be peachy for you?

Wow

Well our youth group at LifePointe church (The Pointe) started the 30 Famine. We are about 8hours into it and I believe the worst part was having the group give up their cell phones. We have played some games and the got to experience what water is like in 3rd world countries. We took a tub and put 50lbs of sand in it and then added water. I had all 18 of them wash their feet in it and showed them what these kids have to drink. Yeah it was nasty!!! Put it got the point home with them. I believe God is doing no I know God is doing in major work in some hearts.

Heart

You know things can get really crazy really fast in our lives. This past Sunday I ask God to put His heart inside of me just let me see everybody the way He sees them. I cut myself off from Facebook, Twitter, etc....... I even went as far as to put people I am really close to on my call reject list on my phone. Yeah I know it seems cold but you can not truly give yourself over to God with everything in your way. Not saying people bother me LOL. You know this worked God opened my eyes to a hurting would that is seeking something but they do not know what it is. Tonight I was at Wal-Mart waiting to pick up my meds and of course they where slow. It was 6:15 and I had to be at church in 15 minutes to share the Gospel with a group of teens. This is when God said ok lets see if you are willing to see people the way I do. A elderly lady walked up to pick her meds up and she came up about 30 dollars short. Now here is the problem I live on a budget and 30 dollars might as well be a 1000 dollars and I had a group of teens waiting on me at church with no clue where I was. All of a sudden I found myself in tears telling her I would pay for her meds. The big picture God gave me a chance to share His love with that lady her 2 grandchildren and I looked up and the dude behind the counter was crying and another heart had been touched by Gods love! A simple thing like money hinders all of us but in the end if we look past ourselves and have a heart like God money becomes nothing but a means to help others as I believe God intended it to be.

Love

Love is more than saying I love you. Words mean nothing people want to see you act out the love you say you have for them. We do not have to go to great lengths to show our love. It is as simple as writing a encouraging message on facebook twitter or whatever network you use. You can show your love by being there for someone when everybody else has left them. Laughter is one of the greatest gifts God has given us why do we not use it? Who out there does not love to laugh? Think about it when someone starts to laugh like they have lost their mind and gone off the deep end you cannot help but to join in and you forget about all that silly stuff you thought was so important. I had the chance to talk to a young man this week and he was so burdened down by things in his life and it broke my heart. I told him that when I was his age I thought the same things that he is going through was the end of the world for me too but now those things don't even cross my mind. The point is this we have to look at the big picture and stop focusing on the little things that are just bumps in the road along this path we call life. Thats love. Taking time to listen even when you think it's silly. People want to see how much you love not just hear about it.