Don't Just let it pass by...

It is so easy to just do life. Life goes by so fast and I don't want miss any opportunity that God is putting in front of me. I don't want to get to the end of this life and look back and see all the blessing that God had for me and i just passed them up because I was worried about something stupid. So many times i get so consumed about things that should not even matter and then I let life pass me by without taking advantage of every moment. We are not guaranteed the next 5 minutes, so I do not want to have my last thoughts be of doubt and fear of whats next. I want to look at all the possibilities of opportunities that God has put right in front of me. Even if i may screw things up, it does not matter because it is not about me! I'm going to do everything I possibly can to take every opportunity that God places before me to honor him and bring glory to His name. I'm going to take advantage of this life on earth, so when I get up to heaven I will not be surprised to see an opportunity or a blessing that I did not take! He wants us to have life to the fullest! Are you going to take everything that He has for you or just enough to get through life on earth?

Terren the Chicken Man

Alright this is my friend in Atlanta doing the Chicken man! He is hilarious! Check out the couple that walks out of the restaraunt when he goes after them.

Guiding and Directing me...

So God is guiding me in a new direction and its really hard to grasp what i feel He is calling me to do. Never would i ever imagine myself in the position of a leader. But He is raising me up to be a leader of some sort and its really scary, but i have decided that I would go wherever He wanted and do whatever He wanted.

A little over 6 years ago is when i first got called to missions and I made a decision back then that I follow Him wherever He takes me. I also decided that i would go on short term mission trips every year until God called me to the next step of my journey. Because i didn't know exactly what He wanted me to do for missions, all I knew is that He gave me a heart to serve others in need and are hurting, so that is what I was going to do. I did that up until about a year ago, when God started tugging on my heart. He was ready for me to take my next step in the path He had made for me. So I knew it was getting closer to time of what God had called me to do, but I did not feel prepared enough. I decided to research programs that get you ready for ministry work and the mission field. Long story short I decided to come here and there was alot that happened in that decision, but that is not the reason I am writing this blog.

Coming here, I had in my mind that I would do the 2 years and then I would go out on the mission field over seas. Well "For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord" and they were not my plans! My plans was to be a missionary overseas and that still may come, but for right now God is drawing me in new direction and that is to a missionary in my home town... (Atlanta, Ga.) I feel He is calling me to open a dream center there. I don't know when, but He is revealing bits in pieces to me at a time and it is looking like it is falling into place just how He planned it. Let me tell you it is really scary, because I do not feel capable at all of doing this and I know that is the whole point because if i was capable of it then I wouldn't need God. Its pretty cool because what I feel for overseas missions I am starting to feel for local missions and I never thought I feel as passionate as would overseas. But really where my passion is, is in outreach and you do outreach anywhere. I love showing God's love to people and catching them off guard. I just love to see people get blessed and to experience God's love especially for the first time! Man, i could go on for hours talking about this....you can ask my roommate Mary Beth. But I just wanted to share with everyone a little bit of what was on my heart. So I just ask that you keep me in your prayers that I don't back down no matter how unworthy I feel or how many times I feel like I can't do it, that I just continue to yield to the Holy Spirit and let Him guide me.