I'm done

I am done settling.
So much has gone through my mind as I prepare for a new phase of my life.  The change will be dramatic, but I am very ready to see it coming.
But there are two different phases that I am entering into.
First one: Going to college.  I am excited to learn more about my loving Savior, and find new ways to apply His love to the community.  I am dedicating my life to do everything Christ wants me to do.  And I feel He has led me to enter into this.
Second phase: Revival.
I AM DONE BEING LUKEWARM!
I am done going to bed without weeping for souls.
I am done comparing myself to my fellow peers and thinking I know enough about God.
I am done not caring for each person that I come across.
I am done fooling around with these that have nothing to do with giving glory to God.
I am done not rebuking people when the Lord has called me to do so.
I am done doing anything that brings me glory over the Father.
I am done giving God a "good" effort, He deserves my best.
I am done not telling people that they need Jesus.
I am done thinking I did enough for God, now He needs to bless me for it.
I am done settling for the verses I have already memorized, I must memorize more.
I am fed up thinking that God will not do a miraculous thing in the lives of everyone around me.
I am done adding to my little bitty story, and am committed to throw in my life into the HUGE story of the Glory of God!!
I am done accepting Christians are normal.
I am done thinking that people will accept God, but won't catch on fire.
I am now expecting each saved soul to get baptized, obey Christ with their whole life, and bring others to Christ!
I am done thinking that my life story is good enough if I died today.
I am done thinking that I have tomorrow! Let's do everything we must today!
I am going to live as if Jesus died this morning, rose again this afternoon, and is coming back tonight!!
I am going to share my heart with my church.
I am done treating them as just members, they are family!
I love my family, so I will do everything I can for my family.
I am done thinking that I must do it all when it comes to leading a service. I am now expecting every Christian to serve through their spiritual gift they have been blessed with.



God is going to do so much through us.  We must wake up to that. We need to stop giving ourselves into the devil, and giving in for a small satisfaction.  Lets give our entire lives for the ultimate everlasting satisfaction of giving Him EVERYTHING!

I know that so many people have this sort of emotional experience, but by the time next week rolls around it was just a distant thought.
I am putting this on my blog to show the world, that I am dedicated to this cause.
The cause to follow the Word of God!!! The WHOLE Word!
Not just the verses that I think are comfortable.
I will step out of my comfort zone for the sole purpose of giving all glory to Christ!

Souls need to be saved! People need to be loved! We are not doing what God has called us to do!

33,887 less people were baptized in 2008 than 1950 in the SBC while the USA's population more than doubled. 

This sad fact has shaken my world. We MUST rise up against the tide and give Christ our all. For the sake of His name.

I must also inform you that it is not me who will fulfill these goals.  It will be Christ through me!!!
But I will set up perameters in my life so that I stay accounted for, and will not set up barriers between me and Christ.


Christ, I love you. With my whole heart. I am sold out.

Here is my soul.  Use it.   However you want to.
Holy Holy Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come.
Amen.

I saw a lot of hypocrisy today... It breaks my heart.
But the thing is, it happens every single day.  I have recently asked God just to reveal it to me how bad it is, and I am depressed to see how extreme it is.
This may sound like a gruesome statement, but if I were not a christian and saw most of the "christians" at our school, I am not sure I would want to be one either.  There is nothing special about the ones who say they are christians at our school. (There are some great christians at our school, but very few).  The reason why there is nothing special is because they really do not have it at all!
There is no way that Christ can be in your heart, and live the way so many of these "christians" live.
Please, if you are reading this and claim to be a christian, start acting like Christ.  Be aware of who is watching.
Please, those who are not Christian, do not sum up the christian faith by some of the people you see who wear that name tag.



It's no wonder we struggle with trying to overcome people's presuppositions of christians.  Hypocrisy is running rampant everywhere.

God, please remove the lukewarm christians and the hypocrites. And may they see the real christians who are actually living out the godly life.
Amen.

Convicted, Shaken, Revived

Wow, I am honestly trembling at God's word.
I am currently in the book of Jeremiah, and God has used this book more than any I have read so far in the b90x.  The book of Jeremiah, as most of you know, is about Jeremiah proclaiming to Judah their doom.  They continually turn from God, and turn to their other gods and yet always come dry (Jer. 11:12). Which reminds me a lot of how we operate.  We acknowledge that there is God, but turn to our other "gods" to pull us through.  And of course, we come out more empty handed than before.
But as I was so distraught over this problem, I began to reflect: do the people know that they are miserable because they are chasing so many other things besides God? And then it made me ask the question, have I as a pastor, and other pastors, proclaimed to our congregations the hard fact that rebellion from God produces condemnation?  Has it been on my heart to such a point that it has to come out?  Or are we like the false prophets who just tell people good tidings to get a good crowd(Jer. 14:13-14)?
I am honestly burdened about all of this.  Because as I read and pray, I see America being in the same situation as Judah was.  We no longer care about God's commandments but we act like we do (Jer. 7:8-15).
I will pontificate on all of this soon.  I am just burdened.  To conclude: We need multiple modern day Jeremiah's in today's world.  Especially in America.
God, please use me.  Make my heart burst if I do not proclaim the word!

Jeremiah 20:7-12

O LORD, You induced me, and I was persuaded;
      You are stronger than I, and have prevailed.
      I am in derision daily;
      Everyone mocks me.
       ⁸ For when I spoke, I cried out;
      I shouted, “Violence and plunder!”
      Because the word of the LORD was made to me
      A reproach and a derision daily.
       ⁹ Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him,
      Nor speak anymore in His name.”
      But His word was in my heart like a burning fire
      Shut up in my bones;
      I was weary of holding it back,
      And I could not.
       ¹⁰ For I heard many mocking: 

      “ Fear on every side!” 

      “ Report,” they say, “and we will report it!”
      All my acquaintances watched for my stumbling, saying,

      “ Perhaps he can be induced;
      Then we will prevail against him,
      And we will take our revenge on him.”
       ¹¹ But the LORD is with me as a mighty, awesome One.
      Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and will not prevail.
      They will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosper.
      Their everlasting confusion will never be forgotten.
       ¹² But, O LORD of hosts,
      You who test the righteous,
      And see the mind and heart,
      Let me see Your vengeance on them;
      For I have pleaded my cause before You. 


Jeremiah had passion for the Word!
He weeped for His people..


Will you?


I will! 
God by your grace, I ask you to use me as a modern day Jeremiah

b90x

A little update on the b90x!

It is going so great! I am in Ecclesiastes now!  I am chugging along and loving every second of it.  I am about 20 days ahead now and am planning on finishing around the 25th of this month!
As I read the Scriptures, I am realizing so many different things.  I see the prophecies that I never have seen before that are about Jesus.  I see so many parallels between the Old and New Testament.  I have read the Bible before, but not this fast, so I can keep a better memory about everything.

One huge thing I am walking away with so far, is that as I read the scriptures, I can't help but pray.  It is this amazing Chemistry.  Bible reading= devout prayer.  It is unbelievable and it is shaping me more and more like Jesus!

I again encourage all of those who are reading to try out the b90x.  I know some are on different walks, and different levels.  But pray through it, because I am so blessed by doing this!


God, I love you!