Throwing the Jonah's Off Your Boat

Everyone knows the story about Jonah where he disobeyed God and did things his own way. He was on a boat with some other men and there was a crazy tempest coming their way guaranteed to kill them all. Jonah knew this was all because of him and his disobedience to God that it will get not only him killed but the others on the boat as well. Those men on that boat did nothing to help temp this storm, it was all Jonah's fault and because of him they would all suffer. Is there a Jonah in your boat? Is there somebody in your life holding you back from what you need to be doing? Somebody who seems like a bad influence on your choices and obedience towards God? Somebody that needs to be thrown off your boat? It's time to throw some Jonah's off your boat!

Jonah's will always try to make you feel bad in the process just like the real Jonah. Why didn't Jonah just jump off the boat instead of asking his mates to throw him off? They always want you to feel bad about letting them go, like you're about to make a horrible decision but you have to trust what the Lord tells you to do. Pray about these Jonah's. Pray that God's will be done with them when you have let go of them, it is not your job to please everybody in your life. It is theirs and your job to try to bless God as often as possible! Do not worry about them, just like God had the whale ready to swallow Jonah and take him back to land exactly where he needed to go anyway, God will take care of your Jonah. If you have some Jonah's in your boat, get rid of them! You have been thinking of those certain people while you were reading this blog so go ahead and move on from them. Let it be and give more of your time to a Creator who rightfully deserves it!

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Why is life so confusing sometimes?

This question is brought up approximately 9.7 millions times a day according to the statistics I made up for this post. Why do we ask this question so much? Is there something you don't understand about life? Of course! There is so much that happens in our day to day lives that we don't understand yet we go through it and quietly ponder off the question "why?". Life is so confusing because life is based off God's plans, not yours. We think whatever we plan to happen should happen and that be that. What if everything you wanted to happen actually did happen? Do you think your life would be better or worse? My answer is definitely worse. We always have questions like "God why did you put this girl in life if you won't let me date her?" or "God why did I have to get into so much trouble now, couldn't you have gotten me out of it?"

Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV) There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven

God's plans will domino effect perfectly into what needs to be done in your life so that your life can glorify Him, the King. A lot of the time we are caught even praying for things we think God should do for us instead of praying for God's will to be done in us. Life is not confusing to the Creator of the universe. It is only confusing for us because God is always right while we make mistakes every day. We can't comprehend how each individual event will effect our everyday lives but God can. So next time before deciding that life is confusing, pray that God's will is being done and I really believe you'll have a better sense of how incredibly perfect God works.

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Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die

"Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die" - David Crowder

David hit it right on the dot with that sentence. How many times have we found ourselves thinking about going to Heaven but then pondering how much else more we want to do here for our stay on Earth? I know I think about it all the time! Honestly, I want to get married, have kids, play music, enjoy the married life, see what job I'll have, pull all nighters with my brothers, take intimate road trips with the band. There is so much I want to do yet so little time. I believe that Jesus Christ is coming soon, very very soon. By soon, I don't mean a couple hundred more years, I mean now! If anyone hasn't noticed, our world is so vigorously hindered. This world is tearing apart and before it demolishes completely, every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord(Phillipians 2:10). I believe Jesus will return while we are still alive. Sometimes, I get a bit sad with God and think "but God can I please get a family first? maybe even go on tour? That would be really cool!" but in the end I just realize that ETERNAL PARADISE with the reigning Creator of the universe surpasses all my worldly wants and needs.

Stay with Jesus, love Him, worship Him, read His word, talk to His people and come judgement day, you will not tremble, you will stand next to your Savior and say "He paid the price for my sins and today I'm going home". I can't wait to go home guys, I really can't! If anyone who reads this feels lost, lonely or just like they want a more personal relationship with Christ and doesn't mind talking about it, please call, text, face book, email, twitter, blog, morse code, pigeon letter, pony express me in anyway! I would love to try and encourage!

"I can do everything through Him who gives me strength" - Phillipians 4:13

Hickory pt. II

As many of you know, this weekend was a missions conference for the RBYA in Hickory. This missions conference was very different than what I was expecting. I have been to Hickory many times but never for missions. There were people from New York, Canada, Chicago, Atlanta etc. From what I experienced and saw, the point of the conference was a fail. We did not spend much time doing missions, which you would figure would be the point of a mission conference. We spent maybe 2 or 3 hours on missions. The presentations for the other ministry of missions made it seem like they were more so selling the ministry than actually trying to do the mission of it, the issue of money being brought up numerous amount of times made it seem like this. Before you judge this blog as a condemning and mean blog let me get to the upside. There was great fellowship! Since they for some reason gave us so much free time, I got a lot of time to hang out and talk to people. Learn more about them, their point of views, what is going on in their life. It was really a great time for fellowship. The song choices were very very good, this made me exquisitely happy! The hardest thing to do was to leave, there are some people that I miss very much already and it really saddens me to not be able to spend this kind of fellowship with them more. Overall, I think RBYA Missions Conference 2010 didn't do it's job but luckily the people did! Thank God for His children.

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