Grace or Faith

Just a thought for this week, alot of times for me it's not faith that is the problem it is understanding that his Grace is sufficient. When you look at all of creation faith comes so easy and God is so obvious and present, but it's often times of hardship that understanding that his Grace is enough his power is made perfect in weakness is what we struggle with, that takes faith. Faith that his grace will sustain us, faith that his grace will keep us and pull us through. That to me is where growing seems to be tough.

PRUNING

It's often difficult to hear God speak when we are talking over him with an obnixious focus on our frustrations. I say this only because I walk through this season pretty often and I know it's my own fault. But recently I have been thinking a lot about Moses, funny huh, yes and no! Moses, Moses, Moses, who are you amongst the greatest ruler on the face of the planet, well in the natural, nobody. But the funny thing is God pruned alot of bad branches on thst boy to make him ready in the spiritual for his somebody moment. His somebody moment only happened to make some body famous. God. When God is speaking it's good to remind ourselves that God has no branches to be pruned and when he speaks it's often the shears that will be prunning our areas that need to be fixed. Moses had many frustrations, but once he got the picture and stopped looking at his own situtations and started looking at what God was doing he realized that it was a lot of pruning to get him ready maybe for something big maybe for something small but none the less it was God getting him ready for something that God was doing, that is a much more important thing to fixed on, so let's get rid of those dead branched and make room for more growth.

10 Things I Love about upcoming Winter

(Ten Things I Love about upcoming Winter)

1. Absolutely Love Hunting, Deer, Duck, Squirrel, Rabbit, hogs, coyote, you name it if it has a season I love to hunt. It is definitely a passion of mine I love putting my camo paint on and ghillie suit, stalking whatever prey it is and feeling the rush of making the kill. It's awesome.

2. A Warm fire. Absolutely nothing better than cuddling with my beautiful wife on the couch next to a warm wood fire.

3. Hot Chocolate, I don't know what it is about it but I Love hot Chocolate. On a cold cold day there is nothing better to get you warm. And it's even better with marsh mellows.

4. Christmas Movie Classic's. I love staying up late watching old Christmas Movie Classic's with the family, it alot of fun.

5. Hot Chocolate, Warm Fire, and Classic Christmas Movies all combined. Now that is a great Winter day.

6. Holiday Food, this has to be the greatest when all the family is together and we are all sitting around the table scarfing some food.

7. Driving around looking at all the Christmas lights, it's amazing what some people do to dress there house up in lights.

8. Christmas Music in the house, really good for a fun enviroment.

9. Christmas Eve.

10. Christmas Morning with my wife, I Love seeing how excited she gets on Christmas day, it's awesome.

Hunting Season is almost Here

I thought this was pretty funny considering Hunting season is almost here. Enjoy!

Weekend with the Boys

This past weekend was an awesome trip, I got to take my little brother one of the students from student ministries Caleb C, and my boy Jordan to the camp in Mississippi. We took a ton of Guns and plenty of Mre's (Meal ready to Eat). It was a really good time just hanging out and letting the boys be boys. There is something special about being in the woods sharing that warrior spirit, plus shooting watermelons is a plus, for a bonus there is a special video at the end you don't want to miss it.

My Top 6 Places I want to Go

These are in No Particular Order but I did save my Favorite for last. I'm always in a traveling mood and I would drop everything at any moment to get in a plane just to go some place new but these are some places that I have always wanted to go. They are kinda my top picks.

1. Israel, I would love to go to the Holy Land and just be in the areas were the Jesus walked the Earth, I think it would be an amazing experience. And a really cool spiritual experience as well.

2. New Zealand, I would love to rid a horse and camp out through the valleys where Lord of the Rings was Shot what an awesome experience that would be.

3. Thailand, this one is awesome because of the unique scenery I have always been fascinated with Thailand, it would be a great adventure and amazing Missions opportunity.

4. Montana, I would love to Camp and outback like the old cowboys in the old days Montana is the wild cowboy dream for me, Horses and Stars, it would be an awesome experience.

5. Alaska, I cant say enough about this place, the last frontier, I would love to do a big game Hunt here and survive off of the land, fish wild salmon and hike for days this is truly God's beauty.

6. Africa, My heart resides here, the people the land, everything about it, especially the children, Africa it gets in your Blood.

Calling the less Equipped (Justice For Orphans)

I have thought alot about these last few weeks and what God has in store for the Orphans in Swaziland and Mozambique Africa (Childrenscup.org).God who will step up and provide, who are you going to call to meet this need. There are care points with Children depending on us for food and clothing, education, and love, and now they are shutting down, this cant happen, how will they make it, we must do something. I wont lie to you I used to be the guy that when I would see commercials on TV of the children in Uganda and Sudan I would turn the channel as soon as possible because I was scared, and honestly did not think a dime of my money would do a bit of difference for these children. I did not turn the TV because it freaked me out or made me mad at people asking for money, I turned the Channel because I felt guilty for not having alot to give, or thought that what I could give wasn't going to be enough to help these Children for any more than a day so why give them false hope. I have to say that after going to Africa twice now my heart has been so captivated with these precious children, and I have learned that any little bit that you give makes a huge difference. Weather money or Prayer, clothing or food, it all makes a difference. God who are you going to call. The answer he has given me has been the less Equipped. When we are weak he is strong, when we have little God takes that and does much. I have noticed that God has been gripping this young generation to make a difference for his kingdom, he has been calling teenagers without jobs or income, he has been calling college students that are willing to risk what little they do have to make a difference, he has been calling those without great influence to step and be bold, he has been calling those with a passion to start a fire in the hearts of men for something greater than themselves. He is calling those that are willing at all cost to see others reached regardless of what comfort they lose and pain it causes themselves as long as they can share the Love of Jesus to others. God has birthed an amazing ministry called children's cup that takes care of so many Orphans in Africa with many essential needs, food, clothing, education, etc. But we all know that in these difficult economic times resources are limited and fear is running lose in the world, due to alot of these circumstances many of these carepoints are having to shut down because of lack of funding. My prayer for you and me is that we ask God to show us what little things he wants us to give so that he can make alot. God specializes in working with the little things and turning them into big blessings. The little boy only had a few loaves of bread and some fish but God made basket fulls. I am in the process now of putting together an event where I will do a 24hr bike ride to raise money for the children, called Ironman for Orphans, anyone will be able to come out and ride or walk or run for however long they want to show and help raise support. I just want to take what God has placed in my hands and do the best I can with it, even if it's not that much, because it's the less equipped that God equip's the most, and those with a willing heart. If you have any desire to get involved please contact me on facebook or go to the Childrens cup website to see how you can give. www.childrenscup.org . But most importantly pray that provision will come for the children and that people will get involved in what is going on. Thank you all for reading and praying for the Children it is greatly appreciated and felt. IN HIS GRIP