Girls -_-

So today I am writing this for all the girls out there. This has nothing to do with anyone I know, but it's something I have been thinking about for awhile and I feel like writing about it. Biggest pet peeve in the entire world is when my female friends bash themselves and tear themselves down! URGGHHHHH!!! Triple exclamation point that makes me mad! Our society tears girls down so much at every single opportunity! and it's all blatant bull crap!  First up get this straight God loves you more then anything, more then your parents, friends, or any guy! He declares you are a masterpiece!!! LOOK IT UP! Ephesians 2:10 God does not make junk! he does not make mistakes. According to the word we all deserve death because of sin. God through his grace has forgiven us and brought us to him. He no longer looks at our mistakes he sees us as we are with all our mistakes and shortcomings and he loves us, both guys and girls. Here's where this could get awkward this is the hard part for me because I'm always afraid that it will be taken the wrong way so I almost never say this. Girls you are beautiful! there I said it. If you are a Christan that is following God we can tell. Don't ask how I can't explain it, but guys can tell. After knowing a girl like that no other girls ever measure up again ever. I know I'm not the only guy that feels like this. You deserve to be treated like a princess because guess what YOU ARE!!!!!!! God declares us royalty! we share an inheritance with Jesus so through him we are princes and princess's! For those girls that follow the path of modesty in their dress. Thank you! from the bottom of my heart know that we notice and appreciate it (christian guys anyway). Lastly be careful with guys we are a very dangerous species. Some of us will say anything to get you to open up your hearts and you will only end up hurt because of it. Wait on God's timing please wait on his timing so you don't have to go through the hurt I see all the time. I hope this encourages some of you and know this is coming from a brother in Christ I care about all of you and I don't want to see any of you hurt. It all comes down to God's love and how much you really believe he loves you. Seek after him with everything you are, the right guy will come along eventually. Don't lose heart! A christian girl is definitely noticed!

Christmas time!

Ok so I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas! for all the people praying for dad he is doing GREAT! I received some books I had been wanting for a very long time (if you don't know I love reading) so that was awesome. I got my brother a game he wanted and ever since then he has been addicted to it. I also tried to get a little tradition started, but I failed. I thought that it would be cool if we watched the nativity story as a family, but k-mart, walmart and sam goody didn't have it. I looked literally everywhere! so that was a bummer, but I definitely going to order it online so we have it next year. OH! I also got this really sweet ice cream maker (I also love to cook, weird hobby for a guy right? Lot's of people say that, but hey it has it's benefits) and I can't wait to try it out!  So do any of you have weird or awesome or fun Christmas traditions? If so let me know! I would love to hear about them

Fighters For Life

As I'm waiting for dad to wake up from his surgery (everything went well by the way so thanks for the prayers everyone) I decided to write this post. A lot of my stuff lately has been about the Bible and that's defiantly not a bad thing, but sometime soon I'll just do a silly one about my life. So about 2 weeks ago I'm sitting in church and God throws this question at me. Why do men fight? Honestly I had no answer at that moment, but God didn't leave me hanging, he showed me the answer. It's lengthy, but here goes. men fight because it's our job to do so. We are at WAR! If we are not fighting then we run the risk of becoming lazy, and if that happens we risk being wiped out. For us to become lazy means we lower our guard and put our weapons down. there is a devil prowling around like a lion and when he senses our weakness he will move in for the kill. We need to always be ready, our weapons are not the worlds weapons! our weapons are spiritual and have the power to demolish strongholds and drive the lion away. We have heavens armory at our disposal. When we are connected to God we can kick some serious butt.  Which leads me to the next point we fight amongst ourselves to test our selves, to encourage our brothers, and to hold each other accountable. As iron sharpens iron so one man sharpens another. We test ourselves, when we lose it encourages us to become stronger, when we have the same goals we encourage each other to greater heights. to surpass our limits to tear down the strongholds in our lives. When Christian men are connected to God and we give our all to him, the world had better look out. We hold each other accountable because a wound received from a Friend is better then kisses from an enemy, sometimes we need to call each other on tough stuff, but its worth risking the friendship to save the relationships. We also fight to show dominance, that's why the strongest rules, that's why Jesus is our ruler, none is stronger he defeated death and all the demons of hell, we serve our king because he saved us from the pit of death and called us to be a part of his family we owe him our lives! that debt can never be repayed by something we can do all we can do is stand in  awe of our God who saves and give him everything we are. My personal favorite reason for fighting is this. We follow the example of our king, and we fight for the people we love, we fight to protect everything we hold dear. There are a lot of people I care about and I would do anything for them, I would take on anything for them. This war will not be over until the king returns, when he returns once and for all it will be over, but until then we need to be ever  vigilant, we don't know when the next attack will come and we need to have each others backs and be ready. We also need to be careful of pride, one of the greatest hero's of the Bible Gideon fell to pride, he caused Israel to sin by creating an idol at the moment of his victory because of pride. We need to watch out for chink in our armor and repair them. Lust, pride, and anger are 3 of the biggest struggles a guy can face. But God has overcome the world and everything in it. Nothing Can take us down when our focus is on him, so raise your swords high and get ready.

Job's Strength

Good morning everyone! I finally have some time to write and check e-mail and all that jazz. Only problem is I'm doing it form the OR waiting room, my dad is shortly going to be in there for surgery on his gall bladder. Before I get to that though lets rewind a bit. It's Wednesday I'm getting ready to go to our youth groups white elephant/ ugly Christmas sweater party. Awhile later Holly shows up, and proceeds to give me the coolest Christmas gift I have ever received. A Justin beiber singing toothbrush!!!!!! Now normally I would probably run away in disgust, but because it was Holly I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and I have been using it a lot (thanks for promoting good dental health Holly!) I gave her this thing from a movie we both like (I thought she would hate it, but she said she liked it so woohoo!) Anyhow after the party I was on my home when I heard the news that my dad was in the ER and he needed surgery. WHAT! are you kidding me! no way! you can't be talking about my dad! He's invincible nothing can happen to him. Once I actually got a hold of someone that could tell me the whole story I learned that he was having stomach pains, and it had something to do with his gall bladder, nothing serious, very simple procedure. I talked to him when we got home and he was fine not worried at all. The problem was thought hat I still felt like something was wrong, I couldn't shake the feeling so I started reading the Bible and I started praying. I read comforting things like the 23rd Psalm, but I still felt anxious, that's when God got my attention. He showed me that what I was fearing was the fact that if something happened to my dad, I would have nothing left. my mom is not in the picture and without him there is no one older then me to look to for help or guidance. Then I started thinking about what would happen to my faith if something happened to my dad. As soon as I was thinking about that Job came to mind. He lost everything he had in the space of a few seconds. His wealth his servants and his family. His own wife told him to curse God and die (Nice support isn't it) What did Job do? He cried out and tore his robe in despair! He fell on the ground and said naked I come from the womb and naked I shall return ( I came with nothing and with nothing I shall leave). God gives and God takes away, Praise be to God! Job fell down in worship before his king. When I read that I knew that no matter what happened I would be ok, I would be ok if not only did I lose my dad, but my little brother. the two people I love the most. I would be grieved and saddened beyond belief, but I would still praise my God. Job in the end gets back double what he lost because he was faithful. I want that to be true in my life.

Update

Hello everyone! For some reason our internet got shut off for a little while so I wont be able to post anything new for awhile. I have big plans though, the other day in church I was hit with a question. Why do men fight? and God has shown me the answer, hopefully soon I will write about my findings! have an amazing christmas everyone! This is going to be some great stuff. And if you all get the chance check out the secret life of an american coffee addict. There is an awesome and very truthful post about stupid facebook statuses and chain letters

Mighty Men

Ok So I don't know how many people read this, if any, but today is a post dedicated to men. This week has been hard, I have not been reading and spending time in the Word like I should be. My life is going to go down hill soon if I don't get my stuff in order. My thought life is already a mess, but yesterday I was listening to one of my favorite speakers, and what he said hit me right between the spiritual eyes. What does it mean to be a man? Well the answer to that is in the Bible of course! Jesus was the man among men, there is none greater nor will there be someone greater. Jesus is the ideal, but there are others in the Bible whom we can look to. I'm a guy and on top of that I'm a guy that loves his epic fantasy books, bring on the swords, elves, and dragons! Because of that I know a lot about battles in medieval times and stuff like that. Now David (old testament King David) was a seriously strong dude, the guy killed a giant when he was a teenager! However he had an elite guard called the mighty men, these guys were insane! the most powerful are guys that can claim to have killed over 300 men in a single battle by themselves. 300 MEN BY THEMSELVES IN ONE BATTLE!!!! These men had no concept of fear, they knew that they served a king, and they did whatever was required of them. To many guys today are little more then boys, men do not stare at every girl that walks by, men do not use and abuse others, men do not bottle up everything on the inside and become little more then rocks, men are not meant to be consumed by lust! As men it is our job to pick up the slack of those that come before us and serve our king with a fearless zeal. To help our sisters, respect, honor, and love them ( in a sisterly way). It is our job to stand in for the weak to take the blows they can't. When all the fiery arrows of the devil are coming at you, you face them head on life up the shield of faith and follow our king who goes before us into battle. Every guy needs a battle to fight, when we do nothing we become lazy and easily susceptible to attack. We give up and give in, we need to make Jesus the center of our lives so that does not happen, we need Jesus because he guards our hearts, and minds, he helps us control our thoughts, and he makes us who we are meant to be. As I'm writing this its an encouragement, reading what I know to be truth gets me fired up! I want to dive into the word, I feel painfully every mistake I have made this past week. A few especially come to my mind, and all I can think of is why on earth would I have been such a moron. I also know that God forgives, and that I will have another opprtunity to do things differently. So I'm very excited. I hope this finds you all well, if I know you I'm praying for you. This is much more scattered about then I originally planned, but maybe some other time I will actually put some together about being a mighty man, for now these are my thoughts, for more information check out Jason ma's 5 pillars of manhood (GRRRRR IT WONT LET ME LOAD THE WEBSITE!!!!!) that's dumb!

A Whole New World

Ok I'll admit it. I have a thing for Disney movies, I grew up with them, I love them! The movie Aladdin happens to be one of my all time favorites

Lately I have been feeling like Aladdin... minus the princess. (deep breath) In the movie Aladdin is poor thief who finds a magic lamp, finds the genie inside who grants him three wishes. He uses these to make himself a prince and eventually win the heart of the princess, after beating the bad guy, and using his street smarts to outsmart him. (exhale)

My case is a little different, you see I was born a lowly sinner, I found God who forgave my sins and saved me from death. for a long time I found it hard to connect with God, but lately I've been making my life revolve around him, and its been such a huge change. The more I trust him the more he shows me. I've been reading the bible because I want to learn more about him, not because its a chore. Slowly I see his plan for me unfolding, and that no matter what happens his will, will be done. Another huge thing that's helping me grow spiritually has been being able to meet other like minded people that are about my age, I have not had this opportunity in over four years, and i was starting to forget that there are other people out there who believe the same things as i do. I've only met most of them once or twice, but being around them has really helped me steel my resolve and make me want to push harder to be someone that God can use. Truthfully its like I'm seeing a whole new world. (which by the way is an awesome song)