CRAP!

Good morning or evening wherever you are! Today was a difficult day for me. I seemed to be in a funk all day! However I still did what God told me to do, to go spread the good news about Jesus Christ! You see its days like today when Jesus moves like never before! It had to be all him because I felt like crap!! Hey I’m just being real with you! They are days when I wake up and I don’t even want to get out of bed! You have probably had days like that yourself. I remember one morning in particular I was getting ready to do Outreach and I felt like crap! So I told myself I’m not going to go and the Holy Spirit convicted me almost as soon as that thought entered my mind. It spoke and said “What if I (JESUS) had of said, you know I don’t feel like going to the cross today I will just wait!” WOW I felt like 2 inches tall after that one! So I went and WOW, we reached over 300 people that day! It wasn’t me, because like I said I didn’t feel like doing it! It was all Jesus! He has gotten me through so many tough times and days of my life! Right now I just want to tell him THANK YOU! THANK YOU JESUS FOR CHOOSING ME. I DIDN”T DESERVE IT! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Headed to G-VEGAS!!! IM PUMPED!

Headed to Greenville to do street ministry! Please pray for me this morning! We will be going inside of harms way to one of the most dangerous locations in the upstate of South Carolina! God will protect us and im believing lives will be forever changed today! Your prayers will definetly help! I would like to say good job to Tommy and Brandon who started up the Iva, SC ministry it’s going great and exploding at the seams! Anderson is next and we are getting close to expanding to other cities as well! Jesus is Awseome I will give an update tonight of how today went!! With Love Jason!!

Moving=Hard WORK!

Hi everyone today has been fantastic! We sold our house so now the packing and planning has began! Wow is all i can say, its work! There is always something to do when it comes to moving. I wish i could say its not stressful but that just not realistic! Its very stressful and time consuming! We are a family of four so there is alot of stuff! Me and my wife are not pack rats we give stuff away all the time and we still have lots to pack! As I pack I can’t help but notice how blessed I am! Here in this nation we have so much to be thankful for. That’s one thing helping me with my stress level is being thankful for what I do have! Well getting ready for Datenight with my wife so have a great rest of your day! One LOVE, One GOD, One WAY! JESUS CHRIST!!! I love you guys and gals Jason!!!

Financial Freedom!

It’s been so amazing to see God move in my life as well as my families lives lately! I will not be blogging as much over the next month. I will be moving, we have sold our house and we are making a lot of huge financial decisions! Me and my beautiful wife have been working on and sacrificing to get completely out of debt over the past 18 months! As God moves we are getting closer to financial freedom! I’m so excited and pumped up I can hardly be still! Debt freedom is something you rarely see in America. You know what I mean! Everybody gets credit cards, house payments, car payments and most families can’t afford what they buy! With a very unstable economy these things can take a toll on everyone’s lives! I speak from experience, when I met my wife 8 years ago I had $26,000 dollars in loans and credit cards and that’s without a car or house loan! I was young and stupid! Now it’s almost gone and I owe it all to God, he worked through my finances in a mighty way! When you put God first in your finances it works!!!! Now that we are on the subject of debt, there is one thing I want you to know! When it came to paying for our sins, Jesus Christ paid it all on the cross. He covered the past, present and future sins of the world! All we have to do is accept his payment and believe in him! That’s what I call true debt freedom! I love all of you out there and remember GOD IS LOVE!!! I’m out to pack up some stuff! Jason. oh! Go to Joe Sangal .com for financial advice! He is on it!!!!!

Church spliting hurts! 9-18-08

I talked to a great friend of mine this week and he was so frustrated and confused! His home church split right down the middle this past Sunday! He had been telling me about all the problems they had been having. I have to say I was not at all surprised! Now for the part that ticks me off, he said several weeks ago the directors of the church sat the Pastor down and told him the church was growing to fast. They also told him he needed to slow things down a little! I have to admit this makes my ears turn red! I think growth is great don’t you! He went on to tell me that when they hired this pastor things were bad. No one was there because this church had split 2 times prior. They told this pastor what ever his vision for God they would follow it and could not wait to see it grow! Really, we see that definitely is not the case now. I told him it sounds like to me it was time for new directors, the ones they have sound like to me their full of self-righteousness! You see these types of things have and are happening in churches all across our nation. Leaders get the big head and suddenly forget that Jesus Christ chose them not vice versa! This is destroying lives and hurting people! Some people turn away from God because of these very things! I’ve seen this happen before, a pastor starts a church then the very staff he hires oversteps him! They get so involved in what they want instead of the vision God has set before them! Some churches across our nation are in a state of ruin! I was in a neighborhood the other day and passed 5 churches that were run down and falling in. The thought came to my mind where did the vision go; a vision for Jesus Christ, reaching the lost, building homes, feeding the needy! These are just a few things I personally believe Jesus Christ has called the body of Christ to do! You see people inside churches all across this nation try to tell people how to dress, how to act, what to say, when to say it! I don’t know about you but if I were an unbeliever I wouldn’t want to be in that environment! It happens it’s all true you know it is! I’m tired of this kind of behavior coming from my family The Body of Christ! You see Pastors have began teaching racism from the pulpit and “oh my gosh” have mercy on them lord! If you are racist you need to stop it now Jesus was clearly not racist! I’m on a roll so prepare yourselves I hold nothing back and I don’t care if you like it or not!!!!! The church was started by Jesus Christ; it is designed for the lost, that’s why it exists! To except everyone no matter how they act, what color they are, what their social status is, what they drive, where they live, and even how they smell! Jesus Christ reached out to all and IT IS TIME THE CHURCH IN AMERICA WAKE UP! You see our righteousness is like that of a filthy rag in the eyes of God! Translation a filthy rag when this was recorded in scripture meant a women’s menstrual cloth! Yeah I said it! It’s true, look it up yourself! On our best day we are not even worthy of being saved but still Jesus Christ saves us! Thank You Jesus I pray right now that the Church in this nation will wake up and reach out! Help us Father! I Love You Jason

He is all powerful and sufficient!

First let me say ministry went great yesterday and people excepted Jesus as there Savior. Thats what it's all about! Now for my post!I am going to be getting very personal with you this morning. I fail sometimes to do the very thing I’m going to be writing about this morning! If we were all honest many of us fail to do so. You see we limit God sometimes! Jesus is bigger than anything, any problem we face, any unexpected bill we get in the mail, any sickness we may encounter or doctor report we may receive that didn’t go exactly like we wanted it to! So why do we “myself included” limit God in our lives! In all the gospels we see a very familiar story about a little boy with 5 loaves and 2 fish! You see this boy had little to offer but when put in Jesus hands he made it a lot! We could look at this story in a lot of ways but one that sticks out to me is how little faith the disciples had! They had been with Jesus and seen him heal the blind, lame and sick but when they seen all these people following behind sit on the mountainside in Galilee, they questioned themselves how will we feed all of them. They looked at a problem instead of a solution! Jesus Christ was sitting right beside them probably resting because he had been teaching all day! Scripture says in John 6:9 “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?” The disciples questioned themselves! This is such a problem in our everyday journey through life. We serve a humongous God and he is all powerful and supreme! So why do we limit him! You see we as believers do the same thing the disciples done. We look at how big our problems are instead of how big God is! We all have done this at one time or another! If you say you have not you probably have a problem with lying! I’m convinced if the disciples had been concerned with feeding there spiritual hunger this problem would not have seemed so big! You see Jesus wanted his followers to seek him for himself, and not for what he could do for them. You see we serve an in control God in an out of control world! We all need to believe that through the lowest of lows we serve the highest of highs! In John 16:33 Jesus said in this life we will have trouble, notice he said we will, not we might! So when a problem comes your way look up and smile for Jesus is with you do not fear! Joshua 1:9 Have a Jesus Christ filled day! With Love Jason

Digging for dirt or gold?

I would like to start out today’s post with a question I think we all need to answer. Are you going for dirt or gold? Please! Let me explain. Encouragement is a great thing; we all like it and want more of it. In a very negative world encouragement is hard to locate. It seems like everyone’s out to get dirt on somebody. We see it in Hollywood everyday, it also happens in the workplace and yes even churches all across this country. The fact of the matter is some people would like to see you screw up more than see you succeed! I know it’s sad but these types of people are not happy and they screw up so much they like to see you screw up just to make them feel better! Thank God not all people are like this! There are still people out their willing to look past the dirt to what’s behind it GOLD! You see gold miners often have to drill through tons of dirt to get to 1 ounce of gold. They are determined to find something great! Lets face it we are all not good people, but we all have positive attributes about us! So realize this, we all have gold behind our dirt but often people would rather see your screw ups than your success! Jesus Christ makes no mistakes and when he created you he created something beautiful and he has an incredible plan for your life. YOU HAVE A PURPOSE! So try today to look at the positives in each other; people you work with, family, friends. Look past the dirt “We All Have It” and look for the gold. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 says “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up….” We must encourage not discourage! Let me hit you with a rhyme for one second “You see Jesus is the up not the down. Not the bottom, he’s the top. He’s the left, he’s the right. He’s the go, he’s the stop. He’s the light of the world that never burns out; he’s the author of the book so he knows how it turns out!!!” This rhyme or rap as some would call it is so true. Jesus is the up so look up today. Encourage one another and smile with love in your heart at someone today! Your smile may be the only one they see all day! Well I’m off to G-ville or as my pastor would say G-vegas. I’m pumped lives will be forever changed today through Jesus Christ! With love to ALL! Jason