I was scared to let my sin come out into the open. I was fearful of the repercussions and I mostly was fearful of the idea that I would never be able to commune with my Holy Father. I wanted so badly to worship God freely until I realized all the pain involved to do so.

“Afraid to let your secrets out
Everything that you hide
Can come crashing through the door now
But too scared to face all your fear
So you hide but you find
That the shame won’t disappear”

“Empty me
Of the selfishness inside
Every vain ambition
And the poison of my pride
And any foolish thing my heart holds to
Lord empty me of me
So i can be
Filled with you”

But God allowed for an opportunity for all to come crashing in, for all that I cherished to be on the line. He was gracious to keep my life and allow all things that I make my central focus to be taken. Broken I came to the Holy One, wanting to be filled. I was and am willing to give up those things because they have become smaller than the God that has become my central focus. I want never to have Him leave my presence.

Lord Jesus, Keep me and Purify me, O God.

“Spirit of the living God fall fresh again
come search our hearts and purify our lives
we need Your perfect love we need Your discipline
we’re lost unless You guide us with Your light”

“Cuz everything is a lesser thing
Compared to you
Compared to you
Cuz everything is a lesser thing
Compared to you
So I surrender all”

Sin has a beginning with the Father of Lies and with birth of sin nature. I haven’t any escape to be sinless but I have a choice of willful sin. I knew that this started a long time ago, wanting nothing more than to be disgusted with the very thing that consumed my life. Redeem my heart, O God.

“You saw the very day we fall away from You
and how desperately we need to be redeemed”

“Lord Jesus
come lead us
we’re desperate for Your touch”

Now let me not run from this opportunity, Lord. Let me embrace it full heartedly with all diligence and allow it to pierce every aspect of my life. My heart wants to be free of this so I can be full of You, Jesus. Pour Your blood over my words, pour Your blood over my thoughts, pour Your love over my heart.

“Sparks will fly as grace collides
With the dark inside of us
So please don’t fight
This coming light
Let this blood come cover us
His blood can cover us”

Cleanse me Lord, keep me only in Your commandments. I want to live a life worthy of the Gospel, Christ. In the powerful name of Jesus I want nothing more than to have You reign fully in my heart. Revive my dead heart. Peel back these ribs again and breathe into my lungs, Lord.

“So reign please reign in us
come purify our hearts
we need Your touch
come cleanse us like a flood
and send us out
so the world may know You reign You reign in us”

Take away the lies thrown to me by the Adversary, Lord. Allow me to be free of this in time and through diligence in your Truth so that I may learn truth. Real truth is my only hope in this life but my only way to confidence in eternal life with You. You are Truth; open my eyes to see Your truth.

“So you thought you had to keep this up
All the work that you do
So we think that you’re good
And you can’t believe it’s not enough
All the walls you built up
Are just glass on the outside”

Break down these walls, Mighty One. Break them from their foundations. Shatter my hopes and false promises in sin and open your flow of blessings in Your righteousness.

“So let ‘em fall down
There’s freedom waiting in the sound
When you let your walls fall to the ground
We’re here now”

Humbly at your feet I come to see that darkness will no longer prevail in this soul of mine. Make this heart and soul Yours forever, God. Keep this life to glorify You only.

“When you come to where you’re broken within
The light meets the dark
The light meets the dark”

Please let my only desire be that You would seek and pursue my only love. You are worthy, Lord. Help me, O God, to have you be the center of my life; my ONLY life.

“Oh great and mighty one
with one desire we come
that You would reign that You would reign in us
we’re offering up our lives
a living sacrifice
that You would reign that You would reign in us”

Keep me blameless and from stumbling Lord in this journey of pain. Give me accountability, give me love, and give me Your body to help me survive this in spirit and body. Hear my cries Lord as I purge this sin from my life.

“we cry out for Your life to revive us cry out
for Your love to define us cry out
for Your mercy to keep us
blameless until You return”

“I do not write to you because you not know the truth, bue because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.” 1 John 2:21

Through prayer and meditation lately I have discovered a truth that has been long hidden in my heart from fear of animosity. Now I come to stand my ground for the Lord that has saved my life.

Church culture.

Church culture spews nothing more than a gospel that saves once and leaves many hanging dry for an eternity in Hell. You are not saved by a prayer you pray. You are not saved by a confession you make to others. You are saved through faith by grace. I say this not to scare you but to heed you to examine yourself and see if you are in the faith.

I am not saying you must work your way to Heaven, for all works are as filthy rags. I am not saying you must profess a new prayer everyday in order to be saved. I am saying that your life should be nothing less than abundant evidence that the temple of the Holy Spirit is your body.

I have been thinking a lot about reckless abandon for Christ and how the “radicals” went about it. I like their style. Taking all things that hinder them from the Lord and giving it up.. not in the way of the monks.. but by actively pursuing Christ and leaving all else behind. I want to be radical for Christ. I want to share love through my actions and my words so that only the testimony of Christ can be proclaimed through my life.

As of today I proclaim my undying love for Him who loved me first. I want to live a life that is purely unmistakable for Him who sent me to live a testimony into a dying world. I want to sing a song that glorifies His name and give with hands covered in His grace. I want to be lower than the lowest and exalted with the redeemed.

I want nothing more than to live for God with more than words but to love deeply, adore greatly, and worship fully.

“God, I pray Thee,
light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee.
Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine.
I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.”

Coming to the understanding that Psalm 20 and Psalm 21 are twin warfare psalms, meaning that one is before and one is after some sort of battle. Brings about a sort of shock to see David praising God before the battle. It always seemed surprise to me to always see David turn his psalms around from despair to praise. But now in due time I understand. We as believers have victory before the battle. How must this be? We can’t know the outcome, and all things are subjective right? Wrong.

With our saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ we have a chance to give God praise and celebration in faith of His loving power in our lives. Recently, I have read the growing popular book “The Shack.” With this comes a realization that we cannot trust those whom we don’t think have our best interest in mind. Mack, the main character came to this realization that God loves, not just him but everything about his life. Now granted this is where we turn to understand that the Lord is the Creator of all and He must have our best interest in mind. Understandably, humans come from an experience background. We long for experiences and new things. We also learn from experiences and judge based on them. We can come to a place of humility to see that the Lord has been faithful through all times. Romans 8:28 even says that all things work together for the good of those who love Him. He has our best interest in mind, if not do you think we would have sent His Son to save our damned souls?

In transparency, I can state as a fact that when it seems like the Lord ignores your prayers of deliverance and now you stand alive with the scars… it seems like He forsook you. He hasn’t. This is a promise I rest assured in. He will use it. He has a perfect and pleasing will, Romans 12:2, and He will not abandon His nature to make your life miserable.

“I will bring praise, I will bring praise.
No weapon formed against me shall remain.
I will rejoice. I will declare.
God is my victory and He is here.
This is my prayer in the battle
when triumph is still on it’s way.
I am conqueror and co-heir with Christ.
So firm on His promise I’ll stand.”

Before the battle, Psalm 20, David exclaims that God: hears, protects, helps, supports, remembers, accepts, gives, is victorious, grants, saves, answers, is trustworthy, and is a firm foundation on which to stand. This is a mighty testimony to stand before the enemy and trust that your God will provide a way out of this. Much like Muhammad Ali. He would play mind games, and by no means was this man a prophet. He would know that he would win and would be sure to tell his opponent that. We are much in the same place as the great boxer. We stand before our opponents of life of many varieties knowing that we will be victorious.

The battles may not seem won on your side but when it comes to cease the war is on your side. We have a saving knowledge of our Lord; we know He is faithful.

“Victory in Jesus,
my Saviour forever.
He bought me
and sought me
with His redeeming flood.”

Can you praise Him with clean lips to say that you know that He will provide? Even when things don’t go the way you planned will you still praise like Psalm 21 to know that He has the best interest for all things, especially your life?

Our God is an intimate God longing to see the very fractals of your life make a glorious way for His kingdom.

Just some thoughts to think about…

Have you ever been in a manger or a stable? They are not pleasant. The smell itself is enough to make the typical Americans’ stomach churn. Rather yet the condition of the stable, is frankly one for beasts. Beasts of the field deserve and belong in a manger not the Son of God. There is a reason why in Genesis the place for the beasts are in the field. We as humans are above beasts.

But why for the Son of Man to come down from the glorified throne in Heaven above to a manger of all places? In the times of old it was seen that Shepard’s were not the most highly respected class. They frankly were lowly in their culture and often so disrespected. This very small infant of glory was born in the stable where the flocks and animals lay to show the servant hood of his life to come. This parallels with the idea in Philippians 2. He came and emptied himself, became a bond servant, and was obedient. He was obedient to the point of the cross.

It is great to look back on this holiday season and know that through all the commercialism, tradition, and frenzy; there is one purpose. The death of the Son of God, Jesus, to redeem His race back to Himself for all glory to belong to Him. He is the one that we praise, He is the one we adore.

“I thank Thee Lord for the work that you have completed in your elect and the work to be done in Your race. I praise you for the work of Your hands, and how You’ve planned all things out for Your glory and praise. Lord, we adore Thee with emptying ourselves for Your calling for us. Thank You for the very life we live and the very chance we get to call You Saviour.”

Who are you? You are unmistakably you, [insert name here]. No one is better at being you, aside from you. How does this tie into a Christian’s life? No one can walk your Christian walk for you. This is your walk, this is your life, and this is your faith.?

Religion so often seems to be like a disease. You are born with it, live with it without consent and never take it as yours. Diabetes can be like this; you can have diabetes and be a diabetic but unless you start doing things to help your disease you are just being owned by the disease and not owning it. Religion can so often become much like a disease. It is something that owns you, you go to church and practice a stale Christianity through the motions but you never come to a place to make it yours. You don’t do anything to improve your faith, your walk or your devotion.

Now is the time where you become not only a Christian but rather a follower of Christ. American claims to be a “Christian” nation but rarely do we even see within our very walls of our church, people who genuinely love and follow the Lord.

What does a genuine follower of Christ look like? They are unmistakable. Christianity becomes more than a bunch of rights and wrongs to perform but to a follower of the only true God; it becomes an act of devotion to avoid sin and honestly live according to the gospel. The gospel being the redemption and reconciliation to God and others through the truth of Jesus Christ. Are you living your life according to the reconciliation that the Lord has called for us (2 Corinthians 5:18-19)?

We are called to reconcile ourselves to God through His grace, to call upon His name to be saved (Romans 10:13). To reconcile ourselves to others through His grace (2 Cor 5:18-19) and reconcile our lives to His will (Romans 12:1-2).

Are you ready for your calling to be unmistakable?

There are infinite variations in how people see any single event. Thought provoking isn’t it? I mean we were all there, weren’t we? Why can’t we see the same thing?

With recent illustration from my life I was privileged to watch 2008′s Movie of the Year, “Slumdog Millionaire.” While many watch movies to follow a plot and get really attached to characters because they interact with the movie; when I watch movies I am more distracted by the social issues and background ideas to even catch onto who the main character was. Reaching the end of the movie, I heard many rumbling conversations about how the plot is better than any American could make and I realized then that I hadn’t a clue as to what the main idea was. The only things I noticed in “Slumdog Millionaire” were the social issues of poverty, idolatry, sex slavery, and abuse.

This brings me to my main point, what about the crucifixion? Do we view it as a story? or as if there were bigger underlying issues? Satan in regards to the cross thought victory…until the empty grave of course.
Where God seeing the same cross in eternal stance was for the redemption and victory over Satan and sin.

What about the disciples, soon to be apostles? They thought the cross was full of fear and they even questioned the idea because of the unknown nature of the future of their Master. Christ had it all in mind, He knew that we would come again and even told them so. The Roman soldiers thought they won when Christ gave up His last breath. But on the same coin, the other side, the Father had more in store for them… the Messiah!

How are you viewing the cross? Are you seeing it as just a mere story of a man, or that God hopped off His mighty, great throne to come to earth and become mere man to die for your (willfull) sinful actions…?

Take a look at how you view those two mere pieces of wood, life preserver or story?

I felt as if on my last blog about grace and discipline I wasn’t specific as to what I meant to wrap it up on the end. I want this to be a series almost; as I find new information about this I will share it with you. Before I continue I want to tell you that the information that I am citing is the Bible and based of two classes at my previous college, by Ray Pritchard and Jon Bouquet, and personal study.

“What shall we say then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin–because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.” (Romans 6:1-8)

Frankly, Paul puts it out there for us to be in awestruck wonder about the resurrection of Christ but even more about our blatant sin against our King. When Paul says, ‘By no means,’ he is saying the equivalent to, ‘No, No, No.’ In Roman culture it is normal to repeat things three times to emphasis, note the angels in Revelation 4:8 where it says, “Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.’”

We are dead to sin, we are dead to anything of our own desires but we choose to walk back and seek them through diligence and self discipline rather than putting our faith in the One who created us. Seems silly? I would concur. I was in this stance for a long time in my own walk with the Lord. I saw God’s goodness through every act in my life and still wanted my own pride, lust, and boasting to be first in my heart and definitely what I sought after. The last verse of the passage says how we are freed from sin and we should live with Christ. Are you genuinely living for Christ?

“It is an absolute impossibility to be saved and be in a constant state of sin.” (Nate Pfeil)
Granted this may be kind of harsh, but doesn’t Jesus preach that very thing. Jesus said in John 15:16 that we are chosen to bear fruit, fruit that will last. Compare this with the parable where Jesus said bad trees will bear bad fruit and good trees bear good fruit. If you are bearing only bad fruit in your life, sin, can you be a good tree?

“‘Everything is permissible’–but not everything is beneficial.’Everything is permissible’–but not everything is constructive. Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.” (1 Corinthians 10:23-24)

So many times I hear that it is my liberty to do so and even my right. Let me redirect your thinking past your political pulpit and more to the direction of Christ. We have no rights. Period, we are dead to this world, we are dead to ourselves. Christ calls us to deny ourselves, take up His cross, and follow Him in Matthew 16:24. Do you see rights in that? Self denial for the kingdom cause of Christ is more than a command; it’s a way of life. Jesus also says to love your brother like yourself, also known as the golden rule, and we can’t be doing that if we love ourselves so much that we are gorging on our culture and less on the love of others.

“Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.” (Galatians 1:10)

I heed against this for I live in this very sin constantly, a genuine battle. I am here and adored by my Lord so who else do I need to impress or even please? We cannot please men by fitting into a ‘perfect’ mold of Christianity by self discipline but rather more pleasing God by showing Him who we really are. I want to be servant for God, not a slave to men. Join me in this adventure!

“As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!” (Galatians 5:12)

Paul is so angry at the Gentiles that they would rather choose the law of the land over the living God that he states how instead of doing circumcision to prove the adherence to the law, they may as well castrate themselves. This is probably the boldest statement I have ever read in the Bible. It is not the law that will save you it is the death, burial and resurrection of Christ that will. This is essential to the lives of believers, to live like Christ.

“Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision mean anything; what counts is a new creation.” (Galatians 6:15)

As far as living like Christ we are a new creation and even Paul makes mention of the fact of partial adherence to the Law of Moses is as compared to not following it… Now granted he is speaking here about the Jews and Greeks. Jews tried to merge the Law into the gospel of grace, where as the Greeks didn’t use the law and only stuck to the gospel of Christ. This left a slight controversy among them because the Jews felt the need to tell the Greeks to circumcise themselves in order to be saved, which is heresy. There is nothing we can do as people of Adams race to save ourselves. Through grace we call on the Lord to save us, and the Jews were sticking to the self righteous acts of their forefathers to save them rather than trusting the aspect of faith and grace alone.

We are in a strong predicament where we are torn to see the liberty of the American dream and continue to live in a way that is pleasing the men, and not God. And also, we sense that our calling is to deny ourselves and live solely by the grace of God. I can tell you that the difference between self discipline and grace is placed on the part of the heart mostly. We sense that our heart is wicked and even Jeremiah says so, but not even that we never seek after God. God gives us grace to call on His name for salvation. God gives us grace to choose to say no to certain, and should be all, sins. Without grace there is no self discipline. Self discipline is just pure religiosity rather than a sign of complete devotion to our Lord and Savior.
Where is your devotion? On the world or the Lord of the world?

I challenge each and every one of your to seek the grace God has given to us abundantly in your life this week and hopefully your life, to make the right decisions in your walk with the Lord. You are not held accountable by men but more rather to your God. Men can do nothing for you, but the Lord your God has a stronghold on your life and gave you instruction on how to live, use it.

This video radically changed my life and hopefully will penetrate your heart to understand these truths. I highly encourage that you watch The Fire by Nate Pfeil.

As of late I have been reading through multiple books; “Blue Like Jazz” by Donald Miller, “Crazy Love” by Francis Chan, “Irresistible Revolution” by Shane Claiborne, “Sex God” by Rob Bell, “The Ragamuffin Gospel” by Brennan Manning, and finally “Sex, Sushi, and Salvation” by Christian George. I don’t mention these for my own scholarly ego but rather so you can know my sources.

The work of the Lord is ever constant in my earthly existence but more prevalent when I allow Him to work completely through me. Through a couple of these books I am learning the difference between grace and discipline. I have seen in two cases, Christian George and Donald Miller, where a pact is made for a “spiritual” contract of the sorts which often includes, no television for one year, no pornography for one year, fast once a week for a year, no movies for one year, no cursing for one year, etc. Have you ever made a pact of the sorts in your time walking with the Lord? I certainly have in the past three years, especially in my first year of being saved.

I find myself stuck completely extremist on one side, grace or discipline, depending on my walk. When I am willfully sinning before the Lord I stick more to grace, and when I feel as if I am righteous enough to save my own soul from damnation I stick to discipline. Where is a middle ground? I mean there must be some, or am I the only Christian who wavers with this. I think not. After talking with some very godly, others not so much, friends of mine I come to the conclusion that they are stuck in the same rut.

“Though lip service is paid to the gospel of grace, many Christians live as if it is only personal discipline and self-denial that will mold the perfect me.” – (The Ragamuffin Gospel, p15)

“The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two hundred proof grace– of bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that god saves us single-handedly.” (Between Noon and Three, p114-115)

After reading those wouldn’t it be easy to just sit on grace, giving it heat to live, and let self-discipline die from neglect?

“You intentionally indulge in your favorite sin, and while there is still time to stop, while there is still time for you to think about it and say no I don’t want to do it in the same breath you say, ‘Boy, I’m sure glad God is merciful.’ But Christ, seated at the right hand of the Father, looks down from Heaven and He says, ‘Do you have any idea what your forgiveness cost Me?’ I had flesh torn off my neck, and back, and legs. I had a crown of thorns jammed into my head. I was stabbed in the side, gore gushed from my hands and from my feet, and from my back, just to cover the thing you were so lightly indulging in.” -Nate Pfeil

How does that hit your convictions on grace?

I stand here as an ambassador for Christ proclaiming there is a middle ground. Your middle ground will never be reached until your love for your Savior isn’t temporal, for his stuff, but for his redemption. We cannot, will not, and are not capable of saving ourselves as a fallen race. Grace pours from the Son of God’s hand and feet for our very salvation.

“32 As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross.33 And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull),34 they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.35 And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots.36 Then they sat down and kept watch over him there.37 And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.38 Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left.39 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads40 and saying, You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.41 So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying,42 He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.43 He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, I am the Son of God.44 And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.

45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?47 And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, This man is calling Elijah.48 And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink.49 But the others said, Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit” (Matthew 27:32-50)

Do you see self-righteousness there? What about the so-called redemptive qualities of rituals of the like? I don’t. I see grace, mercy, and love poured out completely for me.

Leaving me to explain that self-discipline has a place in our walks.

“Freedom is not having everything we crave; it’s being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.” (Rob Bell)

“Agape doesn’t love somebody because they’re worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn’t love somebody because they’re beautiful. Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.” (Sex God, p120)

“The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him–and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by.” (Crazy Love, p61)

“We disgust God when we weigh and compare Him against the things of this world. It makes Him sick when we actually decide those things are better for us than God Himself.” (Crazy Love, p97)

“In our culture of ‘seeker sensitivity’ and radical inclusivity, the great temptation is to compromise the cost of discipleship in order to draw a larger crowd…We’re driven by a sincere longing for others to know God’s love and grace and to experience Christian community. And yet we can end up merely cheapening the very thing we want folks to experience. This is the ‘cheap grace’ that spiritual writer and fellow revolutionary Dietrich Bonheoffer called ‘the most deadly enemy of the church.’ And he knew all too well the cost of discipleship; after all, it led to his execution…” (Irresistible Revolution, p104-105)

Spiritual disciplines include more than the Ten Commandments or even the typical ‘read your bible and pray’ idea. It is about devotion. Personal time in the Word of God is essential to a devout relationship with Him.  In Psalm 42:1-2 it says, “1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.”  Rob Turner, a pastor from Apex Community, talked about during Fall Bible Conference about how we as Christians should be deer. We should wake up and thirst for the very words from our Groom, Jesus. “My hope started to be attached to the Bride of Christ rather than the Groom,” said Turner in confession. Our hearts often become attached to our church, our pastor, or even a spiritual friend rather than the Word of God. We need to be fed from the Word in order to live according to the statutes enclosed for us. God’s word guides us (Psalm 119:9-11), God’s word gives to us life (Matthew 4:4), and God’s word grows our walk (Jeremiah 17:7-8.)

I give you no other heed aside that discipline is necessary and grace is needed. We need not to live and allow ourselves to choke on Christian liberty; we need not to live and choke on our self-righteousness.

So this weekend I went to a camp to counsel some young ladies for the Lord’s glory. However, I think God worked more on my heart then He did theirs (or I was so consumed with the change in my life that I didn’t see theirs.)

“Steal my heart, unveil my eyes.

Break the chains, destroy the lies.

For I am weak and you are strong.

You overcame, drag me along.”

My heart has been so consumed by Satan’s lies. Satan has allowed me to fall captive to the seduction of this world and out of love with my Lord and Savior Jesus, I am not saying you can loose your salvation–I am saying that my heart wasn’t committed. I was kicking and screaming against His will for my life because I thought it was pointless. I felt that if I wasn’t the center of attention I would be worth nothing for the cause of Christ. Oh, how I was wrong. I am counted nothing for the cause of Christ when I am counting all things for my own glory.

I challenge all of you not only to do what I have done this weekend, but do it for God’s glory and not your own.

Submit- submit your life to Him. Submit your will to Him. Submit your actions to Him. Submit your ALL to Him. Who better to give everything you have to then the person who have a will and a plan for your life greater than anything you can imagine?

Commit- Don’t just lay it down once, but everyday. Commitment is normally a word we hear at weddings; have you thought about Christ being your loved one? We are His bride and He our Husband. We are married to the almighty creator God. Seek your relationship with Him daily.

Dedicate- Dedication reminds me of the beginning of a book. There always seems to be a dedication page to someone significant to them. I have a book entitled “God’s Glory” and that is the will for my life by Him. Dedicate means to defer the credit to someone greater to your heart then yourself, for me that is Jesus Christ.

Hope you ponder this longer then 30 seconds.

Gripped by HIS umfathomable grace,

-Jess

Taking into consideration the excitement I have to be a part of this team, I will calmly introduce myself. I am Jess. I have been a work in progress for the Lord for just three years now. I came to know the Lord at sixteen years of age in result of an all-nighter. Regardless of how hopeless one may seem for the result of salvation, never fear! Christ’s love is bigger than anything you can fathom!
Being a new member of this team I want to enlighten you of my goals for this ministry. I want to not only inform you of new information but challenge you from what God has to say about that information. I have a passion for God’s word and really desire to share it with others.

I am currently a college sophomore with interest of becoming a middle childhood education teacher. I would love to mold children using information from textbooks but also with my life.

With this comes the end to one post but please expect more!

With my love,

Jess