ITS ABOUT TIME!!!!

Sorry i havent updated in a while. Not that you may care too much but i would like to consistently be sharing what is on my heart. Its more of a venting session for me and that is always good. Well…..its about time folks!! It truly is.  Not only is it about time that i submit a post on this site but its about time for a lot of things.  Its about time that around May 9th my beautiful wife will allow our son Malachi to be born. Its about time to get into the nitty gritty of 2009.  Its about time that the weather desides to stay consistent (at least in Chicago) so we can plan our days correctly. 

Its about time to not just get things right with God but to get on about what God has called you to. Lets get past these times where we are always going back to the things we struggle with, where we are asking God over and over and over again to fogive us for the same stinking sin that takes over our mind and desicion-making process and move on and get away from these things that weigh us down. These things not only weigh down our relationships with people and with God but they weigh us down so much that we arent able to stand tall enough to see over these things and to see the things that God has called us to, ultimately.  I have spoken with many students who are just so frustrated about not being able to hear Gods voice for what they are supposed to do in their future and they are wondering why this is so.  Its those same students/people who continue to struggle with the same ol’ same ol’ and dont allow the spirit of God to consume them and purify them from these wicked ways.  Its those type of people who just default and say they are called to Africa or some other 3rd world country but truly dont know what in the world they are trying to do or supposed to do, so they just follow some leader/pastor hoping that that leader/pastor will just pave the way for them. 

Its time to surrender folks.  Its time to get past the things that God wants to help us get past and live our lives as was meant to be and throw it back in the enemys face.  the only weapon we can use against the enemy is ourselves being lit on fire for God. With God NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST US SHALL PROSPER…

He is THE way THE truth and THE life.

Prayer is lonely without Practice

“He must rid his mind of the false notion that prayer alone will bring the blessing.  Normally all transactions between the soul and God are carried on by prayer. It is right and scriptural and according to the testimony of all the saints that any spiritual advance on any front, any deliverance, any purification, any enduement of power, comes by the prayer of faith. Our error is that we try to secure these benefits by prayer alone.“ ~A.W. Tozer

To know God is important.  It is the relationship that we have with God that we hold dear and cherish.  It is in our doctrine where we learn about God and figure him out.  It is in our writing that we express our feelings toward God.  Another thing Christians do is PRAY.  We must pray! We must have faith to know that God will do what he said he would do and that he would remain faithful.  If we want the move of God to be evident, authentic, radical, about healing, about revolution, about true spiritual renewal, and about Gods revival to his people then it cannot be only in our prayers that we seek these things out but it must be in our practice.  Jesus did not only say to God, “Father forgive them” and then God carried out the plan he had. Jesus also had to carry his cross, He was beat for our sin, He was put to death on a cross, He had to obey first.  If we want to see Gods Revival and moving we must obey.  It is not enough to pray our way through situations.  And we wonder why we dont see blessing in our life, why we dont see our ministries grow, why we dont see the things we are praying for really happen.  Prayer is evidence that we have our faith in God.  But to Obey oohhh man it is in our obedience to God that our healing comes, that our visions become realities, and the blessings start to become more evident.  It is unbelievable how far we will go to disobey God and how quickly we will go when we are faced with a difficult circumstance to fall on our knees to pray.  I am not taking the importance out of prayer.  Prayer is where our relationship with God grows.  Its vital to our walk. Prayer is one way we communicate with our Lord, it’s where our Joy becomes evident in our life, it’s where our fire begins to burn, and where God builds us.  But its one thing to communicate your loyalty to a friend and then turn around and dishonor your friends existence by lying about him/her and live as if they never were around.  Its the same thing with God.  Its one thing to pray and then turn around and disregard his commandments.  

“It is almost unbelievable how far we will go to avoid obeying God. We call Jesus “Lord” and beg Him to rejuvenate our souls, but we are careful to do not the things He says. When faced with a sin, a confession or a moral alteration in our life, we find it much easier to pray half a night than to obey God.” ~Tozer

So just remember next time you lay your head to rest.  Just as one would ask themselves, “Have I prayed today?” ask yourself if you have obeyed as well.  My prayer is that everyday I can say that I have obeyed.  We spend so much time getting down on ourselves for not praying 5 hours a day when in that same effort we disobey the Lord.   As Gods people we are called to obey.  For it is in our obedience that brings true revival.  

 

FaiTH~FUL~ness

“When the angels rolled the stone away you better know the roman soldiers were blown away – we gotta stow away nah, jesus christ that died resurrected folded his clothes and stole away – now thats incredible – he showed himself the credible witnesses that witnessed his death but didnt expect him to come out of the grave just as the scripture had said they thought the ladies were sick in the head when they came back reporting what they had seen with their eyes the disciples was skeptical so they sent Peter and John to verify what they told him – Jesus is risen meanwhile the chief priests was proppin the soldiers obviously with a valuable token they told him to keep quiet and just to say that his body was stolen by the disciples at night when the soldiers was sleepin – but the story was leakin they showed himself breathin living and moving made appearances showed them his feet and his nailed scarred hands, re-iterating and told them a secret, he said “I’m the fulfillment of moses’ teachings, cleopesus’ greavings turned into joy cause he was hoping to see his redeemer. even Josephus wrote in his Jesus the historical Christ even explorers alike, this irrefutable evidence its a part of His life – plus its dying and i am not lying tell a friend thats agnostic God has no skeletons in his closet, nope, they cant find his bones, no where to be found not even his teeth, no where in the ground -why? he is home wearing the crown the disciples watched him ascend. 
 

Therefore, we are holy spirit endowed, with the power to be witnesses how many listeners know that when you die you’ll rise and be with the rest of us, we are not cocky we are confident in a God who rescued us plus resurrected a son from out of the seplica, have you accepted these facts and if you haven’t lets chat. after the show email me and ill be happy to rap about these matters concerning our faith Jesus Christ’s resurrection has determined our fate.”  (Da Truth ~Resurrection)

 

I heard this song today and had to sit on it for a second.  It has caused me to think about what faithfulness really is.  I am just in this study of how can we truly be faithful to where God has currently called us.  Its not just about “sticking around” and chillin.  We have faithfulness all wrong.  As a culture in the world and also as people who are in ministry.  To be faithful means to surrender to God. If I surrender to God everything I’m faithful to Him. If I surrender to my wife everything I am unselfish and therefore, faithful to her.  If I give everything to the students that I am reaching out to then I am faithful to them and committed to seeing Christ lifted up in their everyday lives.   My wife and I have just re-committed to one another and to the ministry we are serving under (www.nxtonline.org) that we would be faithful during this season.  Katelynn and I are working jobs and finishing school (me) and are just hanging in there trying to live a fully committed life that is surrendered to this culture/generation. We are called to be faithful to the people we are serving and to the God who’s plan is perfect for us all.  I know His plan is perfect, if His plan for His son turned out the way He wanted it, even though it was a tough situation for God – then His plan for us will prevail and will go into affect.  This generation needs faithful people serving them.

Are you faithful?

Refreshing trip

I am curently on a bus (megabus.com) on the way to Chicago from St. Louis. David Choi and I went to be involved in our friends wedding. It was a great trip of reconnecting with old faces and just sharing our lives and stories of what the past year has been like. And lots of me bragging about my beautiful wife.

God really taught me this week exactly how he needs me in His strategy of reaching people/this generation for Him. He needs me to be faithful and asks of me to not get ancy or nervous or worried about the future or present -but to stay faithful.

This has been a simple blog. I just wanted to begin somewhere I love WORDPRESS.

JUAN.