Friends

So i have walked in a lot of places in life, and I have learned some friends are friends of a season. But I have recently realized how blessed I am to have the friends I have now. Life has its ups and downs, and it is my friends that get me through the downs, ands its my friends that i get to spend all the ups with, and without my friends who knows where i may be. I just wanted to take this time to honor my closest friends.

Justin, you are always there for me dude, no matter what time day or night you have always been able to make me laugh when I'm upset or just listen when i think no one else will. You make me see life on the brighter side, and no matter what i know you are always going to be there for me.

Pastor Eric, you freakin rock. I consider you more of a friend than a youth Pastor. You always have the best advice and you some how know what it is that I need to hear even if I don't want to hear it.

Pittman, dude, that is so what she said!!!! HA HA dude you are just always there to share where you have been and you somehow manage to apply current situations in my life to something you have been through, and that means a lot to me.

William Baily Cave, dude you rock my face!!! You always take time to talk even though you seem to always be doing something crazy important.

If you are not on this list, don't think i don't love you, because I do. Echo, all of y'all have had an impact on my life, and you all mean so much to me. It is because of you guys i find reason to keep trucking through the crap life throws at me, and Wednesdays and Sundays are usually the best nights of my week just because i get to see all of you.

To anyone who has ever been my friend, weather it was for a long period or just a little while, you will always have a special place in my heart and I will always be here for you.

Peace Hope and Love!!
David

Winter Impact: How can we make an impact?

This weekend I went on the winter impact retreat with Echo, my youth group for those that do not know. We had an amazing time. Friday night was so powerful. I did not really feel re-connected with God, however, until Saturday night.

This is not going to be a long post, but i do have a question. How many times are we going to call ourselves Christians and still live the unchristian life? I saw this video on you tube today, and it reminded me so much of our generation.



People of our generation seem to think that being a "good" Christian is so much hard work, and it is. What they do not understand, is we are not going to be condemned to hell for not reading the Bible and praying every single day. Don't get me wrong, these are important, but just because our day runs long and we end up running out of time does not make you a bad person. Trust me i know what it is like to be busy, I work thirty hours a week and i go to school forty. I do not get to bed until around midnight and I am up at 6. I know how busy life is. My challenge is that you do your best to be as close to God as possible. You don't have to light a bunch of candles at a certain time of day to talk to Him. Just turn off the music on your way to school or work and talk to Him. God loves all of us, no matter what!!!! Remember that.

Anyway I just wanted to share that.

Peace, Hope, and Love!!

David

Ask and You Shall Receive.

So as some (how many of "you are there anyway????) of you know, I have been praying for God to Give me something to go on. And answer a question a challenge. Just something to let me know I am on the right track. Tonight my prayers were answered. I have been having a rough few weeks. I have been struggling a lot with some internal struggles and I have found myself on the back swing away from God.

Tonight I finally finished the book Soul Cravings by Erwin McManus. (Amazing book!!) Anyway, as I was nearing the end of the book there was one paragraph that just leaped off the page at me. If it was not a freaking smack in the face then I don't know what is. I have been waiting for God to just give me a clear message, a message that will help me in conveying His word to others like me, and others who do not know where to begin.

Tonight is the start of my swing back to God. I am human, and I am going to make mistakes. Am I going to use that as an excuse, unfortunately I very well may at some point. Am I happy about that? NO!! What I am saying is that I am going to be the best example I can be to my peers and even my elders.

I know it has been a long time since I last posted and I apologize. I will say that I am going to be doing my best on keeping everyone that reads informed.

I love all you who read this.

Peace Hope and Love!!
David

The Ball is Rolling, and the Revival is Comming

WOW!!! Today has been an amazing day!! Last week at church, i think I may have mentioned this in one of my previous blogs, God spoke to my heart, and He told me that something big was about to happen at Deerfield. I did not know what it meant, so i have been praying all week, and today, He revealed it to me. As I was on my way home for my lunch break, I was thinking about it and just listening to see if God had anything to say, and boy did He ever. All the thoughts and ideas of a revival at Deerfield were just pouring into me. I had no idea where to start, I mean there was just so much pouring into me. Suddenly, someone popped into my mind. I am not going to mention any names, but I hardly know this guy. He came to deerfield this year, and I talk to him but never in any depth or detail. Suddenly God just told me to talk to Him about starting this revival. So after school today I sent him a message and just told him what was going on. I have not heard anything back yet, but I am so excited.

God has called me to do this, and I am going to do it, even if I have to jump in all alone, I know God will provide me with the strength to face anything that may try to throw me off course.

So here we go, I am ready and I cannot wait to see what is going to happen. If I can help one person, just one, I will be happy.

Peace, Hope, and Love!!
David

Re-established

Tonight was awesome. The past week I have been really slipping up in my relationship with God. I have had so much on my plate, school, work, and my eagle scout project. The eagle project was a huge thing, but i am done with that. Anyway, what I am getting at is that I let me daily life activities get in the way of my relationship the Lord. I have made some not so smart decisions this week. I have moved on though.

Tonight at church, Pastor Eric was saying how God was telling him that there were students who have been letting their past interfere with their relationship with God. Let me tell you that hit the nail on the head for me. I have made some very bad decisions, and I dont want to say I do regret them because they have made me the person I am today, but they have been coming back to haunt me. That is definatly a problem, because I am limiting God to the past, and I limit Him to not being able to help me. This is such a problem for me, I know that God is capable of amazing things, I have just been letting my past mess with my head. I guess what I am trying to say, is dont do what i have been doing. I made a decision tonight to no longer live in the past, breath in, breath out, and move on. I can tell you from experience, the past is not going to change, but you can!!!! Don't let your decisions decide who you are going to be. You have to trust in God to come into yur life and rid you of those pains, and He will.

I hope this was somewhat helpful to someone, and of not, im sorry i could not speak wiser words.

Peace, Hope, and Love!!!
David

He is everywhere, Don't miss it!!

Tonight was an eye opener for me. At church tonight we watched one of Rob Bell's lectures; Everything Spiritual. I have never been so blown away by a lecture before. He explained how everything is interrelated and how life could not thrive on earth without the preciseness of everything we need. The entire video lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes, and the whole time I was in tune and listening intently. Towards the end of the lecture he went on to explain how we cannot keep ignoring the present, because if we do we may very well miss something amazing.

I personally have been waiting for God to reveal several things to me. I have been looking, and thinking too much, instead of listening to the present i was looking ahead and thinking about what He might say. I cant imagine how many things I missed from God.

I know this blog is not that great, but I just want to encourage anyone who reads this to live for the here and now. I know this seems a lot like my last blog, and that is because it is. All I can really say is listen. Open your heart, your mind, and your soul, and listen to the beauty of God. He has so much to tell us and we miss a lot of it because we are always planning and looking for something, when it is in fact right here. God is not there, or there, or even there, He is in all those places and everywhere else. There is no need to look for God because He is right here all the time. You just have to be listening to what He has to say to you.

Tonight I just pray that God helps me and anyone else that needs Him in their lives. I pray that those seeking Him will open up their souls and listen from the deepest parts of their hearts.

I don't know if this was for anyone but me, I just can't help but feel if I don't share these things, that I may not be doing my part.

Peace Hope and Love!!
David

The Here and Now

Church was amazing tonight. My heart and my eyes have finally been opened up to what God has been trying to tell me. For those of you that went to church tonight, What Baily said tonight really hit home for me. I have been trying so hard to rush through my last year of high school. If I was not trying to rush through to the future, I was stuck in the past, looking at where I used to be, and, like Pastor Eric said, "...Limiting God to what He has already done." Tonight I decided that I am going to enjoy every second of the rest of my life, I no longer worry about tomorrow, or dwell on past decisions. God spoke to me tonight, and He told me something big is about to go own at Deerfield. I feel that He might use me to start it off, He may not, but He told me something huge is going to happen. It is no secret everyone knows thee is a lot of sin that goes on in that school, a lot of it on campus. God is about to do something amazing, and I am so stoked that I am going to be able to help, and witness it. This is it ladies and gentlemen, Forget what you think you know and listen to God, for He is going to speak the wisest and strongest words to you that you have ever heard in your entire life. Strap in and Hang on it is gonna be an amazing journey! Peace Hope and Love!! David