Keep It Fresh!

Well after an amazing weekend at IHOP in Kansas City I’ve definitely found some old things revealed in my heart again. Probably the most important of that being that your personal relationship with Christ should be the number one priority in your life. Everything else will come out of this one central truth. For so long I had all this backwards, and it’s very easy to do this. I realized that in my personal life I had put way to much focus on the work of Christ and not the person of Christ. I found myself getting lost in all that I was “doing” for Christ, and somewhere in the middle of all that I lost what should’ve been my driving factor. It’s time to go back to my first love.

While driving up here the other day I remember telling God specifically that I cared nothing about doing anything else in ministry without feeling Him in the midst of it and that I wanted to find that place of pure worship once again. I remember years ago when I first experience the fullness of God I would be lost in worship and His presence for hours without realizing it. This weekend I found that place again, the overwhelming place of the presence of God where all things are possible and nothing can hold you back. I thought it was long gone or that I was flakey when I found it before…I was so wrong, haha. It one moment the fullness of joy and everything I had been missing came rushing back into my life, I don’t know how to begin to put into words. That being said the number one thing to keep in mind is that experiences are great, but eventually the feeling wears off. You have to take that experience and put it into everyday action to create something real and lasting. Sunday to Sunday will not cut it anymore, keep the fire alive and the relationship real and watch God work.

Just remember between every promise and every manifestation there is a place called the fight of faith where you have to stand and keep believing even after the emotion of the thrill of the promise has left you!

Lessons on the Road

Just walked in the door from a 4-5 mile run at 3:30 in the morning and I've come to the conclusion that some people never change, let me rephrase that, most people never change. It's a part of their nature. For some people it's their personality and that will change very little through life, and for another group of people it's maturity. If you aren't changing maturity wise then there's probably and issue, and you will keep having reoccurring cycles in your life. I speak this as much for myself as anyone else. Just what's on my mind after a defrag run. Now time for a shower and bed.

Friends...who are they?

I’ve been rather quite the past few weeks, having many things on my heart that I felt were all good enough to put into words but just didn’t take the time to. I guess it was more some personal processing than anything else. Tonight however there’s just something kind of reoccurring going through this old heart. That is true friendships. Before I think about tackling this let me just say that I try to be decent to everyone. That being said, do you have any true friends?

This was something I recently asked myself, because I realized that some of the people who said they were there for me or wanted to be in my life were just giving me lip service. Does that make them bad people? No way, of course not, it simply means that I wouldn’t consider them a friend but more of an acquaintance. We all have many acquaintances, but few friends. I’m beginning to find the people once again who are with me and for me all the time, not just when everything is going great or when it all falls apart. Lets put it out there people are fickle, there’s no need to question that. Don’t let that stop you from opening up, just be careful to the point that you open up to them. The best lesson I’ve learned in relationships is that everyone and I mean EVERYONE has motives. Some are good, some are bad, some are selfish, some are pure, but everyone has them. Discern motives quick, and evaluate the level of relationship that person can be. You probably don’t want to be taking life advice from someone who has no interest in your future and is just after a friendship with you because of what it means for them. Be your own person, not someone else’s puppet.

Having said this, I have no idea the point I’m trying to make. Sure, have healthy relationships in your life and exercise wisdom in all relationships. More than that I think I’m trying to say I’ve lost some amazing friends, even best friends, over stupid stuff. Over stuff that didn’t matter then and really doesn’t matter now. How long will I let pride keep me from having those friends back in my life? I think that’s a question we all need to ask ourselves from time to time. Maybe it’s time for a life check or reevaluation.