Family and Parenting!

The one thing I am in AWE about tonight as I sit here behind this computer is how awesome of a family God has blessed me with. I have the most beautiful woman on the planet and 2 precious kids who make me smile every time I lay eyes on them. I have the best Mother in Law in the country and my Father in Law to be is one of the most incredible people I have ever met! My Mom and Sister are very supportive of me and my decisions! My Mom was a single parent raising 2 kids and she had it rough but with the help of an almighty God she made it through the toughest of circumstances! I Love her very much. My Dad wasn’t their and if there is one thing I learned from him it’s what not to be! As I look around I see no Men I see boys. I see egotistical, all about them, their way or no way boys. Where are the Men in the world and to be honest I see a lot of girls and not many Women. Statistics show that Women walking out on their kids and husbands is getting more common. There is a Man I work with that is raising 2 kids and he is AWESOME! His wife walked out over 2 years ago and left him with 2 kids under the age of 3 to raise by his self! So it goes both ways! Quality time is very important to your children! That play station are toy you bought them will fade away but the time you spend with them is PRICELESS! Fathers of daughters please listen to me tell your daughter she is beautiful all the time! If you don’t the some PUNK will! She looks for the qualities in a man that she learned from you, so be the best Father you can be! If you are the Mother of a Son teach him how women want to be treated and show him what a real woman is like so he will look for great qualities in his future wife! Life is Hard but Jesus conquered Life so you could Live! SO START LIVING! That’s all folks Love yah! Jason

Hearing our CRIES!

Whats going on to all my peeps out there! I am going to be blogging about God hearing our cries and defending his people. You know i don't have to tell you life is HELL sometimes! Life is what happens why your making plans! We all have our own issues and problems and I will be the first to admit to you I'm a screwed up individual. However I think God uses screwed up people to reach the lost! If you don't believe me read the Bible! Back to our lives and God hearing our call for help, our cries begging him to get us out of a mess we may or may not have created! As I read scripture I see an AWESOME verse and I have to share it with you. Psalm 10:17-18 "You hear,O lord, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and oppressed, in order that man , who is of the earth, may terrify no more."You see God hears our cries and he will always be here to encourage us as believers! Life makes no sense to us sometimes! We lose people we love, we lose jobs when we least expect it, we have multiple unexpected bills pop up out of nowhere! We have friends and family who we love dearly who just can't seem to grasp the Gospel! Jesus did say "In this life we will have trouble" he meant every word to! I have been through a very rough abusive childhood, I have battled depression for years, I am no different than many of you out there we all have something going on in our life! It's never easy but there is one thing I do know Jesus is REAL and he has helped me through some tough times and situations! I Love Jesus so much! I can promise you one thing Jesus Christ is the TRUTH and if you follow his teachings and apply the things you learn you will always have HOPE! So you may feel like today your far from God and he doesn't hear you NEWSFLASH he does, so seek God today he loves you very much and only wants the best for you but he also wants the best from you! With Love to all!!!!!! Jason

Smile! YOUR BLESSED!

Wow! what a day! Me and my beautiful wife finished up moving today and cleaned the house! We also put up a dog kennel for our mutt Cletus(He is the best dog ever)well almost my mother in laws Jack Russell is AWESOME! If their is one thing that has been on my mind it's how blessed i am! God has blessed me with so much! I truly don't deserve the air I breathe! I fail God everyday and still he loves me unconditionally! If your a Father you can relate, their is nothing that can make you stop loving your kids! Yeah I hear you! DON'T TELL PEOPLE JESUS LOVES THEM NO MATTER WHAT! sorry HE DOES! Jesus come into the world not to condemn it but to save it! He makes no mistakes and we are all created for his purpose! Life is a BEAST sometimes but GOD IS THE AUTHOR, HE IS LIFE! When in doubt look at the sky, look at the stars, look at the mountains or better yet look in the mirror you are beautiful and God made you! So smile and Thank God today! Remember every set back in life is a set up for a comeback! I Love you to all my peeps!

Moving is a BEAST!

Whats up to all my peeps! Just wanted to let everyone know i have been moving the past week and have not had a lot of time to blog! Im about to go to work and put in 24 hours this weekend! One thing i have learned during the moving process is "If you try to pack it all inside and store it you run out of room" This is true with a storage building and also true in ourselves! We hold stuff in and think it will just go away NEWSFLASH it will not go away, it will destroy you if you don't talk about things that bother you! I am lucky to have a Great Wife and an AWESOME Best Friend whom I can tell anything to because they Love me! Only talk about your personal issues to those who LOVE you! Others will use it against you! Another thing as I look around I see crap everywhere "Moving is a BEAST" and i know i can't clean it all up i will need help! Same thing with our lives we create the mess but Jesus Christ will clean us up! So are you creating a mess today or are you needing a good cleaning, turn to Jesus call on his name and he will save you from your mess! Love you Guys and Gals Im off to work!

Radically Passionate!

Luke Chapter 9 1-9 is Awesome check it out!! “When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. He told them: “Take nothing for the journey—no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra tunic. Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that town. If people do not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave their town, as a testimony against them.” So they set out and went from village to village, preaching the gospel and healing people everywhere. So when Jesus told them to go they went, with NOTHING but the truth he gave them and PASSION to reach out! They done the very thing Jesus told them to do and lives were forever changed! Some times Jesus may tell you to go and it might not make sense to you but from my experience with this every time we go he works and moves in a mighty way! We live for his purpose and not our own! We should wake up every morning ready to go to battle! I heard my best friend say something one time and it rocked my world! He said I’m going to not only be a willing vessel that vessel will be a BATTLESHIP! Wow! Folks if you’re a believer in Jesus Christ (John 14:6) you to are in a battle! Your ammo (Jesus) never runs out, Jesus is the author of the book and he knows how it turns out! Wow that rhymed! So in these verses we see sold out believers taking nothing with them and they went out and spoke the gospel to all cities everywhere! I’m sure they were not welcome everywhere they went and they had critics and jealous people on their case all the time! Sound familiar if you’re a Pastor or just a Sold Out Believer you can relate! We must never listen to people we know don’t love us! Love does not ENVY! We must never let criticism control our thoughts! If you do what God tells you to do that’s all that matters! Remember you will not stand before a committee or your critics, YOU WILL STAND AND ANSWER TO GOD ALONE! SO BE RADICAL!!!!!I Love everyone, yes even the critics remember they will one day stand before God as well! I’m out Jason!

What women need!!

I Corinthians 13 4-7 says “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.5 It is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs.6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” That is the true definition of Love! I would like to speak to just the women today! Men you can also learn some things from these verses and hopefully from this posts! Women you are beautiful, you were made by God and everything he makes is beautiful! Women you do not have to settle for a self righteous, egotistical, disrespectful man who just wants to get in your pants! Yes I went there so get over it!! Women REAL MEN are hard to find however they are out their! I know you think I want a man who will just treat me with respect and LISTEN for a change! That is what most woman want but you also need to look for qualities and integrity! He should be patient with you, kind to you, not proud of himself! (More than likely if he is all about him you want be able to change that!) He should never be rude or easily lose his temper with you! (If you notice this kind of behavior run at first sight and never look back!) You should feel protected, trusted, and pursued by him! If he says he’s going to do something and does it that is what I call great integrity! Ok now that most men are pissed at me I will just keep writing! Women do not settle for just any man God has created a special man for you! I want you to know you are BEAUTIFUL! The world will tell you many lies and that you’re ugly may be one of them! Or maybe you feel fat and the world tells you if you look like the AIRBRUSHED FAKE MODELS you see on the cover of magazines and on TV with 20 pounds of make up on and fake lips, breast, etc…. The list could go on and on! Just know you were created by a PERFECT GOD and he makes no mistakes! Be yourself and Love will be closer than you think!!! Remember Men are Jerks! Ok not all but in my opinion most! No APOLOGIES Jason!!!

Throwing Darts!!!!

Romans 1:16 “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.”(NIV) This verse really means a lot to me for one I’m not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! For two I love the Apostle Paul he is Awesome! He reached the whole city of Ephesus without internet, a car, cell phone, and a computer he was the man!!!! Jesus Christ did many great works through Paul! I believe with all my heart he can do the same thing through us as believers and seekers! We must seek God with all of our being, not just a percent of ourselves, all of ourselves! You see we who are in Christ have no condemnation “Romans chapter 8” it rocked my world! So why do we as Christians hold back when it comes to serving God? Here are some of my opinions or should I say things I myself have done! We are scared of what people may say or think about us! I learned a valuable lesson, as long as you let what people say about you control your thoughts you will never be happy! It’s a fact of life someone will always tear you down or should I say talk bad about you! Another thing Serving Jesus Christ is a dangerous thing, you will never be comfortable, because if you ask God for his will over your life remember its his will not ours!! The last point and then I’m going to move some furniture yeah! When you are in ministry you have a bull’s eye on your back! People would rather see you fall than succeed! That’s just another example of how negative of a world we live in! So if you have a bull’s eye on you someone will be throwing darts at you! To bad, they are in darkness, they can’t see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love you guys! Shout out to Chad, Tommy, Brandon, Alden, Pastor P, Josh, Cherie, Kim, Kelly!!!!! Have a blessed day!

Dunked!!!!!

Wow i am fixing to be on my way to work and i just had some random thoughts i felt like sharing! Today at my home church we will be tailgating and having one of the most incredible baptism services of all time! With over 500 people already signed up to get dunked for Jesus it blows my mind! These people are going public for Christ and that JACKS ME UP! I will be moving this week on Friday, that should be fun! Thankfully i have got 2 great friends that are going to help! Life is GREAT, GOD is AWESOME, and im to BLESSED to be STRESSED! I will be praying for our Church Staff today and about the Baptism! Also this Wednsday we will be hitting the streets harder than ever! With a goal to reach over 1,000 people for Christ! Hey IT WILL HAPPEN! I SERVE A HUGE GOD! A couple shout outs Chad I gotcha man! Tommy and Brandon I gotcha to! We will shake up the community of Greenville on Wednsday! CAN’T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh! one more thing Go COCKS Im pulling for you because my Clemson Tigers are not playing this week at least will win! HA HA with love Jason!

The Debate!

Hello! Will someone please talk about the policies and quit trying to prove the other candidate wrong! We as Americans need leadership and leaders don’t downgrade each other constantly! The commercials make me sick! Talk about what you will do as President and not about a vote that happened 5 years ago! THE PAST IS THE PAST! Its clear we as Americans need new policies and new leadership! Our country is so greedy I’m shocked we have not already went into a depression! God chose to bless this country and now we want to turn our back to God! Our nation supports Gay Marriage our leaders are taking prayer out of schools, and standing for Abortion ITS MURDER!!!!! and take in god we trust off of our money, then who will we trust in OURSELVES! We will surely fall then! With no apologies Jason!