without fail

failure
everybody experiences it. some will admit it, while others want. Some use it for motivation. Some use it for self-pity. Regardless, its hard to accept and deal with.

don't put your hopes and dreams on me I'll fail you.
don't put your hopes and dreams on other people, they'll fail you too, even if they don't want to.

don't fill the void in your life with other alternatives, they won't last.
don't depend on Christians to always say/do the RIGHT thing, they won't
don't freak out when you see or here a Christian say something they should't. Remember we are christians...not CHRIST.
don't get angry when a somebody calls you out on the wrong thing you said or did. We must keep each other accountable. Don't believe me, look it up in the Good Book.

I'm talking to myself more than anybody.

Whether we want to or not, we all fail ourselves or each other somewhere down the line, its a fact and inevitable.

Stop getting up tight, stop getting offended.

Put your trust and hope and dreams and life inside of the safest and most durable and trustworthy place..inside the heart of the Father who's love never fails.

No one said it was a piece of cake walk..it takes preservation and commitment. They funny thing is though, when we can't preserver any longer, He gives us the strength. HIS LOVE NEVER FAILS. HIS GRACE NEVER FAILS. There is nothing you can do to make HIM stop LOVING and CHASING after you...ITS IMPOSSIBLE.

so without haste trust in the God who Never Fails us..

What Is It To You

So after the mass response of my first post (sarcasm) I've decided to pull a blog posted by Pastor Steven Furtick out of Elevation Church in Charlotte,NC

This guys is a HUGEEE inspiration to me, if you are a "christian" you need to check this out. Come on read it all, it'll take 3 minutes of your life..and be well worth it.

What is that to you?

June 15th, 2009

After he was restored, Peter started speculating about the future of John. You’ll recall that John was the only apostle who stood by Jesus at the crucifixion (incidentally, he was also the one who actually referred to himself as “the disciple Jesus loved”-bold!). So I suppose Peter and the others were concerned about John getting preferential treatment and advancing past them in position based on performance.

Jesus set them straight with a response that we would do well to internalize:
“If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.”
-John 21:22

When you’re tempted to compare yourself to another servant of Christ, heed the words of Jesus:
What is that to you?

If God sees fit to bless someone else with a greater measure of success than me, what is that to me? I’ve got my own race to run, and my own abilities to account for.

If someone else makes some decisions I disagree with, or if another brother stumbles and falls, what is that to me? God knows, I’ve gotten way off track in my own attempts to follow Christ.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. John 8:7
Let each servant stand or fall to his own master. Romans 14:4
Let he who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 1 Corinthians 10:12

We wouldn’t have time to misjudge the motives of anyone else
if we were fully engaged in following Jesus ourselves.

breaking the ice

This isn't going to be a blog that everybody will want to read. This might be a blog that NOBODY reads. If that's the case that's fine with me. Either way here's the first post of many.

Without trying to sound prideful..I believe my life has a purpose. I look around sometimes..and still wonder if its true. I take a look at the outside circumstances and it makes me scared, it makes me stress. I start to sink a little. Anyone that knows me outside of my plastic mask could probably wonder if I'm really ready for the rest of my life.

But then I get lost a little. I get lost deep inside something that God puts in front of me. Whether it be a song, a scripture, or a situation..right in the middle of everything I see the stone. In Jason Upton's song "Stones" he sings of this.

"In the midst of the presence there's the stone. In the midst of the storm there's the stones. That the world rejected, there's the stone. And It kills the giants, there's the stone."

So I see that whenever I fail, or do something wrong. Or I see that outside events rising up, whenever I start to sink... I realize that there's the stone. The stone, the rock that is Jesus Christ is there for me to climb up on too.. but that same rock, the same stone..is the same stone that slayed the mighty giant..the giant of a problem that is in my life is overtaken by the stone.