Cheap Imitation or Authentic Reproduction?

Cheap Imitation or Authentic Reproduction?

I encourage you to delve into scripture and to analyze the way you are living your life. I beg you to ask yourself if your life is a true embodiment of the image of Christ or are you simply a cheap carnival Imitation? The message below was preached on 3/24/2018 and I encourage you all, not only watch it but to take to heart the matters of which I discuss. Take Christianity and take being a follower of Christ into true and mindful thought, ask yourself what that truly means, ask yourself the tough questions, ask yourself where you truly are, do you really know who Christ is or are you simply talking a talk you will never walk? God Bless!

Different Languages, Same Prayers!

This was a short worship I shared via video in my absence at church in preparation for my upcoming presentation about what amazing things had occurred while our group was in Brazil on a mission trip!

Labor Day

I know it has been I while and Im sorry, I'm hoping to upload some of my sermons soon in my podcast section so keep a heads up for those and the following is what I will be sharing tomorrow for sharing time at my church. I hope you enjoy :) 

“Then He said to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”

Luke 10:2

    Labor Day weekend is my weekend, I claim it!  Not only has it assured me an extra day off from work or school but it has always guaranteed that there would be a day off to celebrate my Birthday! It wasn't until recently though that I actually looked into the history of Labor Day and where it comes from. “Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.”1

    When I first read this, there were three key words that stuck out to me; Contributions, strength and prosperity. I began to associate these words with another type of “Labor Day”.  By exchanging the use of the word country for church or Body of Christ we can draw a directive from this September holiday. 

    For this brief interlude of time for which I have your attention I want not to give you answers, but to make you think. As you go throughout the rest of your day or week and you go into your own mission field, be that your work, home, or your own neighborhood, I want you to muddle through and contemplate the following. Are you doing all you can to Contribute, as one of the laborers for the bountiful harvest of God? Are you lending your Strength when others may stumble and fall or giving encouragement to the downtrodden God has placed in your path? And lastly are you listening closely to the Holy Spirit so that in whatever you may do you may be Profitable in your witness that the day of the Lord may come soon and his Laborers may go home?

1:https://www.dol.gov/general/laborday/history

Crossroad

    Have you ever been there, at the cross roads of life? Looking both ways but not knowing which is right. Staring into the distance trying to see  just a glimmer of light? As if at a stop light that never turns green, your stuck at the intersection of me and He. But the roads aren’t labeled for as far as you can see. 

    As you cry out for guidance with this burden on your heart it seems that your still standing in the dark. You fear that this time He has left you alone to weigh for your self the things that you do and do not know. Although in your heart you acknowledge that its not him, in this moment that negative idea is the strongest of all of them. 

    Where do I go? Which way to I turn? Tears fill your eyes as you seek to learn. Learn of your path and learn where it leads, surrendering to something that you can’t even see.If the faith of a mustard seed can move the earth how little is yours? Is it even the size of a grain of dirt? Stepping into the dark when you can’t know what’s next is the hardest test man has been handed yet. I what something solid, tangible,and real, at least to the standards that world sets for my feels. Why can’t I know, why can’t I see, why does trusting have to be so hard for me? Are there people out there that God still speaks to and if there is why can’t it be me or you? What have I done wrong which way did I turn. to prevent me from hearing the voice that I especially yearn?

    Is God actually talking yet his voice is so still that I can’t seem to slow my life enough to hear his will? I think I am asking and I think I am really there , putting all of me in front  of Him, down on my knees in constant prayer. “God please lead me, show me my path because I am terrified of incurring  your wrath”. Wait there it is there is, the crux of my spiritual life, the fear in my heart in the realization that my sense of God has fallen apart. When I look at the past I know what He has done each time and I realize my prayers were not filled with words rather silence was all that was there as I simply set down tuning my ear.

    So I now re-close my eyes and bow my throbbing head as the prayer I now pray changes exponentially. “God I don't want to see where my path leads because I know where I go is where you will lead. You've shown me time and time again the road I should take and though rugged terrain has gotten in the way, the scars I have gathered the muscles that have grown, the person I am is one who now knows. Knows of your love and knows of you plan and is willing to follow you even if it is to foreign land. I have this trouble because somewhere along the way there was a seed planted that should have been thrown instantly away. Satan has bombarded me with the things of this world, he has made me too busy to see the things of my past, of where I once was to where I now am. So give me your eyes to see people as you do to look on the world with a heart of flesh gifted from you. So here it is as the core of my plea at this point I hand over my life for I am truly tired of this inward strife. Wipe away my concerns and the voices in my head competing with the words you have already said. Make clear in my mind the path of which you would have me go. Allow me to see only the footsteps your Son has made for me to follow. Make me the Christian I long to become and add to my faith when I seem to have none. Forgive me for my doubt and not listening to your will. Open my heart so that I may be wholly thine, never questioning what has been made clearly divine. Please open and shut the doors that I need and to trust that you will never mislead. The Devil is the father of lies his deceptive devices are not thine. You lead with clear insight showing the way so send Satan out so that I may not be lead astray. I die to myself so that you might live and that the resurrected life I now lead is yours to give. Give to your people, give to the world, take everything I have and use in anyway you see fit, for by giving my all and surrendering my will I know that you have the ability to heal. So touch my lips with the coals from heavens door and anoint my spirit that I may listen forever more.

Published!

So I know that it is a couple of weeks late, but I have been very busy and it is not slowing down! But since I finally have this site up and running I am able to say that I have been officially published! Like at a real place! Its just one of my previous blog posts but its still pretty awesome! If you click on the title of this post it will take you there!