Be My Escape

How's every body doing? I hope all is well with everyone!

So lately I've been doing a lot more exercising consisting of running, jogging, stretches, workouts and what not. But lately, I've been doing a lot more of running and jogging, and if anybody knows me well enough, it takes a lot to motivate me to run just to be in shape. For me, my thoughts on it, is it's tiring, boring, it hurts, sucks, and takes over time that I could be sleeping, ya know. I've been feeling more of a motivation just to get outside and just go. I haven't realized why until just Friday night.

We had a Community Group leadership meeting at The Refuge and Pastor Robert asked us, if you could be in or create any kind of community group, what would it be and why? I was thinking in my head that I have no idea what I would want to do. I mean I love youth ministry with a passion and I love being just to talk and sit and do whatever, but something else kept coming to my mind. See, I started thinking about why now, am I getting that type of motivation of exercising. I kept remembering everything I went outside just to jog, I never had any kind of phone on me or iPod or anything like that. What I was doing was not just running after God but running with God. Some people might say, yeah okay, you were running, big deal, but for me that's a huge deal. Considering I am the guy who is surrounded by nothing but technology. I work at freaking Best Buy, remember. To me it feels absolutely amazing to be just out there, not being bothered with things around me, but staying on a path that will lead me to a refuge. And God's guiding me, what  could ever go wrong, ya know???

But anyways that's my new found escape!!!! I encourage you all to find yours and utilize it as often as you can.

2 Samuel 22:3~My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge; My savior, You save me from violence~

Life Once Known

Wow here i am. I keep seeing the progression in every moment I experience each day. It's weird you know, it's scary to think there is only two movements, forwards and backwards. Thats pretty much all we have. But there is one worse than both of these l, a life of being stagnant. Not having perpetual motion. God says that He would rather us be hot or cold, but never Luke warm.   If were to be of that, He would spit us out because of the disgust. I mean we have all experienced  that feeling. 90% of the time we know if we drink something, its gonna be hot or cold but we've all experienced that feeling where we picked up that drink, put it to our mouth, took a sip and either spit it out or gagged. Horrible surprise you know!!! Thats how God feels I believe When we come to Him and proclaim the glory with unclean, unrepented hearts and we leave going right back to what we feel is comfortable (to be in the world). There goes God picking up that enticing cup of juice and puts it to His mouth and spits it out because it's not the taste He was wanting.

I've been readin this book called A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. What I've been reading so far is that a lot of us are living ordinary lives, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that, what I'm saying is that do you think God has designed you to be ordinary? Now think about it, God Almighty, the most important being that has ever existed, created YOU. He didn't create you just to mosey around the world and "live" life. He made you to be special. That's why He created you only in His sight and no one else's. Kinda like we are His little secret plan to something. He sets us off into the world to do something GREAT. He waits for that moment where He sets us up and even tells us "this is the moment" ... And we just stand there dumbfounded or caught picking our noses or even recognizing the moment and running away from it. God sets us up so perfectly at something we are guaranteed to win and we avoid it just like as though there is a brick wall right in front of us and God calls us to strike through it with His force and we put our heads down like that nervous little boy in his first day of class and walk around the obstacle. I mean really come on now, I know all of us have been through this some point in our lives. If God Himself tells us to do something, why aren't we jumping to the occasion and taking over what He has promised victory in. I know I'm totally guilty of this on more than a handful of times.  This is what I'm learning, we need to be more keen and obedient to what He has to tell us. Writing this, I'm thinking "wow I've been a coward" and I know my God has not created me to be a coward at all. He called me to be a warrior on all occasions. So back to what I was saying about the book. The man in the book, Donald, is having a movie written about his life. And the people helping him create it, keep changing everything about it because it's not what people would want to see in a movie. He starts realizing that his life just wasn't that exciting. I feel the same way a lot. And I know God has called me on multiple occasions to stir up my life, it needs a rise of excitement, the plot needs to be kicked up a notch. I can't recall one point in the Bible where Jesus is plain boring... It just didn't happen. Everything he's done, every word he said kept me reading and reading. I've been intrigued more and more to more in depth with what he is telling me and guiding me to do....


To be continued...

~My Heavenly Father~

Elohim God Adonai Lord Jehovah Yahweh Jehovah Maccaddeshem Lord thy sanctifier Johovah Rohi Lord my Shepherd Jehovah Shammah  Lord who is present Jehovah Rapha Lord our healer Jehovah-Tsidkenu Lord our righteousness Jehovah Jireh Lord will provide Jehovah Nissi Lord our banner Jehovah Shalom Lord of peace Jehovah Sabbaoth Lord of Hosts Jehovah Gmolah  God of Recompense El-Elyon most high God El-Roi strong one who sees El Shaddai god of the mountains  El-Olam everlasting God

This is my Heavenly Father. He contains the power of everything. His doings are endless. Not bound by the ways of the world. As we see the world within its entity, He bares witness to it from the inside, outside, above it, below it, around it, and within it. It is His, nothing escapes His eye. When we hold our treasures of the world, His treasure is the world and all that is within it. We are His, our belongings, never were ours to begin with. We find freedom in Him. As the world fades away, He remains because He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. When the world fades, He will continue. Eternal life is obtained through Him. For our souls to endure past this physical being, we must return our souls to Him through salvation. 

"Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades, Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame, And the cry of my heart is to bring You praise, From the inside out, O my soul cries out"