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Flexible

I was just thinking,
Mary was a girl, only 14 or so. She probably had plans of her own, and dreams!
she probably had a life planned out, but then the holy spirit conceived in her the messiah!
I get upset when my plans change, but she was willing to say "behold your maidservant"
what humility and what flexibility in lifes changes!
I wanna be flexible like that.
Something to ponder
Have a blessed Christmas!
Josiah

The Bridgroom is coming!

The Bridegroom is coming!
There is such an urgency in those words, but yet such a peace! we are called to be sober(1st Peter 4:7)
we are told to not be too busy we miss the lords return(Matthew 24) but yet we are told to watch!
I feel as though there is a lack of urgency in missions today, what will it take for the word to go forth?
The church is starting to slack, the coming of the Lord is at hand and we are getting comfortable? hundreds are going to Hell! and were sitting on the sidelines!
This past friday night, a girl came forward in youth group and accepted Jesus as her savior! praise the lord for this salvation! But the reason she gave for coming to the Lord was the fact that the church had simply loved her!
This showed me the importance of loving the lost, lets not try to attack them with the gospel, lets try to love them. Love as Christ loved us!
A simple showing of Love this christmas season, good grief! all year round!
Jesus is coming and the love of many will grow cold. I don't wanna let my love grow cold.

Ropes being cut

Hello All,
I know it's time for another update and blog post. Well, most of you know I've been working with youth and children ministry ever since I've gotten back from Honduras (Going on almost a year now). In my heart, there is still a desire for missions, I am taking one day at a time. Seeking the Lord as I finish high school, looking for divine appointments in the everyday world, from the man at Hyvee to the bell ringer on the street. My mission field is here, my mission is here.
The Lord is slowly making clear my calling: Sower
What is a sower? a sower is someone who plants a seed, who puts the seed which the bible says is the word of God into hearts of men. That my friend is what the lord is calling me to do. I don't how to do it, I don't even need to know till that day.
I feel the ropes are being cut, all that is not of Christ or was for a season is being let loose and my one calling is being made sure. One day at a time. Hour by Hour, the harvest is plentiful! Lord, Open our eyes to the lost!
My calling, my goal is to love people. Two things i have learned in ministry: Love God, and Love people. Love covers a multitude of all sins, Love never fails, Love does not covet and Love is not jealous.
The best thing and the thing that is lacking in the church,thew world, and missions is Love. so many people, so many tribes, so many souls have been plastered and attacked with the gospel and it was not done in love. So many people whose hearts are hard towards the church because they were not loved.
What will it take? what will it take for the church to wake up? start with the man on the street, do we love him even? How can we love our brothers, but not the homeless? how can we love the rich but not the poor? How can we love the morally right, but not the sinner?
My calling is to sow the word, that is it.

Send Me By Lecrae

Lyrics to Send Me :
Send me I'll go,
send me I'll go,
send me I'll go,
lemme go lemme go!
(repeat x4)

i seen it with my own two,
there's no way i can show you
a perfectly poverty stricken people with no view.
And i bet you can't believe this,
they never heard of jesus.
Heard young butler, lil wayne, and young jeezy.

No one's signing up to go on missions this summa.
Rather sit at home and watch exibit pimp in a humma
while a nine year old is shot down.
No one's screaming 'stop now!'
no bridge illustrations for criminals who on lock down.

People deep in africa
looking for an answer bra'.
In china man,
they're dieing man,
until they know who died for sins.
So look what grace did.
Not for us to stay here
inside our comfort zones
at home in mama's basement.

Get out on the grind y'all.
Ain't no better time doll.
I know y'all read the great commission.
Let me just remind y'all:
make disciples of the nations.
Teach'm to obey the lord.
Have to lead someone to christ before i face the lord.

Send me I'll go,
send me I'll go,
send me I'll go,
lemme go lemme go!
(repeat x4)

hey! After, 1,000 years in the west and the churches
get'n bigger daily without understand'n worship. (say what?)
Some regenerate but a lot ain't saved.
You walk outside and be surprised cuz the block ain't changed.
And the numbers they be get'n me.
Something just ain't hit'n them.
America ain't christian they practice'n the ritual.
That's why we should be mission though.
Hey, what you think i'm spit'n for?
The united states is die'n
and in the east is looking pitiful.

Some places if they catch you
they'll arrest you.
They'll serve you,
but they still need the word too.
The gospel should be heard too.
We claim we ain't ashamed,
but we ain't hit the block up.
Were in our christian bubble,
while our brotha's get'n locked up.
Lord i wanna stock up,
pack a bag and walk up
in a country where my faith may get me shot up
anywhere i go, whether my city or far abroad,
i just wanna show' christ the risen holy god.

Send me I'll go,
send me I'll go,
send me I'll go,
lemme go lemme go!
(repeat x4)

i know they're die'n in the streets over in the middle east.
Some kids sink in piece
others hold'n up a piece.
If the violence doesn't cease,
then at least the deceased
might know jesus as their savior as their bodies hit the streets.
And i know this is a graphic view.
And i pray that it's attack'n you.
Track'n you to act and do
what you see in the back illusion.
Mathew twenty-four and fourteen.
We should read it twice
before we think that life is just a battle
see we free in christ!
Look dawg! Life is more than church work and football!
What if you were dead and seen that christians overlooked y'all!
This is why we leave the couch
and leave the comforts of our house
to show a die'n world a god they'll probably never read about.

The great commission says make disciples of all nations.
Have we even made them in our own nation?
Come on christians!
Missions exist because worship doesn't.
People don't worship the god who made them.
We're ambassadors.
Let's go!

Send me I'll go,
send me I'll go,
send me I'll go,
lemme go lemme go!
(repeat x4)