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I have been wanting to write this blog for a while. Recently I have started a bible study, in this study we are walking through the Gospel of Matthew one chapter at a time. As we were I was studying the first few chapter I notice Joseph. He was like the under lying constant. He never walked into center stage, yet without him the story would be different.

Joseph in the first two chapters is the person that God is speaking to on how to move and what to do. At this point in the life of Christ I feel it is safe to assume that Jesus wasn’t making the decisions. So the one that was impacting and fulfilling scripture was Joseph through the leading of God, that he CHOSE to follow.

If you get a few minutes go read the first few chapters of Matthew and really look to see Joseph following God.

You never no how much you are addicted to something until you don’t have it. Last week my macbook pro decided that it wanted to die. It all started with some “screen seizers”, with a few days to seized its last… So I took it into my store and they fixed her right up for me, it only took 5 days. But it was a long five days. It was like not having an arm, and not being able to write was CRAZY…

But it did help me to see how much I am in some ways addicted to it. I am not says that computers are the devil, but they can shape our lives much more that we think.

This morning I was woken up by a very solid and loud knocking at the door, at 8am. It is not that it was so early, even though I was the only one home who was awake, or that I don’t like people knocking on the door, but it was that I had no idea that someone should be knocking. Think about it most of the time you know when people are going to be coming over and then you for the most part know who will be knocking at the door. But there are still a few times that you will have no idea who is knocking, that was me this morning.

So I got out of bed and put on a pair of jeans then walk down stairs to open the door. When I opened the door there was a man who just starts laughing… ” I am here to turn on the gas (it is cold in NC, well at least for us Florida boys) you have an appointment from 8to12…” I had know idea that “I” had scheduled an appointment, because I didn’t but that didn’t change the fact that he was here for a REASON…

There will be many time when “opportunity knocks”, we don’t schedule these appointments. But it is in those moments that you will determine what will happen.

So learn from me, be ready at all times, even if that means you answer the door in a pair of jeans and it is 50 degrees outside, don’t let your own or someone else’s destiny be placed aside cause you were sleeping.

This past weekend my parents come to visit came up from Florida to visit. It was an amazing weekend that I will not soon forget. It was one that was busy and packet with may thing to do, yet not everything was accomplished, I didn’t get to show them much of “uptown” but I did get to show them all of the place that I attend regularly i.e. the penguin, common market, noda, tasty yo, amilie’s and smelly cat. It was amazing to break bread with them at the same places I do with other and the places that I have sheared my faith. I love them so much they mean the world to me. I also go to worship with them at an event called Unite Charlotte that Center City was involved in, it was amazing to stand next to the people that have had a huge hand in shaping me into the man of God that I am still growing into. To see my mother’s passion and my father’s serenity as we were worshiping.

Another moment that meant the world was when we went to the grocery store and they said, “We got this…” This was one of the many moments that I have noticed my life has changed, when I am looking for the cheapest things and counting as I am putting thing is the cart and then my dad say, “don’t worry I got it covered.” I am so grateful not just for the groceries, even thought I am VERY grateful, but for this their living example of the Heart of Christ and the example of a true Abba(hebrew for daddy).

I am blessed beyond any imagination.

Thank You Mom and Dad.

Thank you God.

So this past month I have been reading a Proverb a day. It came about in a very nice way. I have always try and or thought that I could do this but have never finished it. So I was talking with Hunter about somethings that we could talk about in  my new Bible study, and this was one of his ideas, I knew that this was not the direction that I wanted to take for the Bible study, but I knew this is something that I wanted to do personally. The following Sunday we went to Warehouse242 and they were promoting their next series and guess what is was on… Proverbs. So we all talk and committed to each other that we would read through them as a house.

Today was the 12th day so I was ready chapter twelve and I was hit in the face a few times. It started with verse one… “whoever loves discipline loves , but he who hates reproof is stupid.” After I finished this i just laugh, for  the truth that was in this simple statement. You see I am young(23) and at times discipline is not the easiest thing in the world when you are 23, planting a church, developing a life, pastoring, and working a job to pay the bills… So this is something that I am striving to develop in my life no matter what the cost is…One of the areas that I am striving to develop discipline is this, blogging, and well you can tell that I am still working hard at doing everyday, so please pray for me so that I will be able to develop more and more each and every day…

How bout you? What are the areas that you need to develop a little more discipline?

In life there are things that are hard, there are things that make you grow, things that hurt.

I am getting stronger each and every moment even in the moments where I feel like I can’t take it. Those are the moment that will make me the stronger.

I am praying that in those moments I will push harder and hold faster to the hope I have in Jesus, and the promise He has on my life.

I  am praying for you… because of the promise He has on your life.

This past week I had to shoot a video for an event in Charlotte this week. I wrote the script after some direction from the event leader. After I got the ok on the script I knew that we had t shoot it as soon as we could due time restrains. So I knew that there was a little pressure to get it done. So we started to shoot last thursday, my birthday, and honestly I was worried about how everything was I was not sure if I was getting the right shots. There was one shot that I knew I wanted but went we went to the location there was sketchy business going down, so we left and I felt as though everything was ruined. Needless to say the next day we woke up after we had found a better shot and shot the video there, with extra help that we didn’t have the night before…

So many times life is like this… We go a head and make plans, we lay out a step-by-step order of the things that we need and/or want to see happen and the times that the are “meant” to happen. Then something happens and we don’t have the understanding and insight that  we need because all we see is the issue in front of us. Yet all we have to do is clear our center and remember that God is in control and that there is no need to fear or worry about what will happen, He will make a way and will connect all things.

Romans 8.28 ” we know that for those that love God all things work together for good.”

So walk in love for Him and He will connect your steps.

WOW. Yesterday was my Twenty-Third birthday. Honestly I don’t know if i was looking forward to it… I am out of school and now I am working, LOVE it. But what is special about the 23rd birthday. Last year I had 2 surprise parties, hard to top. But as the day went on it was like a roller coaster, up’s and down’s.

There was one thing that made me smile all day and it was the constant pinging of my phone letting my know, I have emails. Some times I don’t like it , but not yesterday. It was a make me smile noise. It was letting me know that people were posting comments on my facebook, it made me feel AMaZingly SpeCial.

So I  just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone that said, posted, or though about my birthday. you are the ones that made my day, made me smile, and you are the ones I want to live my life for.

THANK YOU!