My testimony part 1.

Last year was one of the hardest years in my life. I was tested at every level that I could imagine from my faith, from my family, and from my friends. As I look back at last year I see myself as being highly unbalanced in what I did each day. I was searching for God like no other, constantly reading books, watching videos online, and studying for hours on end. While working out of town I wouldn't get much sleep but continues my relentless quest to be holy. I had a drive to get wisdom about the Lord did whatever I could receive more knowledge. Again I neglected my family, first chasing the dollar at work and secondly consuming myself with learning about the Lord. With the lack of sleep, overworking, and doing waay to much on my days off I began to slowly but surely loose my mind.

As I continued to study I began to study less about the Lord and soon began to research about the fallen angels, demons, and also the Illuminati. I though I was doing the right thing but I was giving the enemy too much credit and loosing focus on Jesus Christ.  I continued on my path and I soon began to see things in a different light, the supernatural world was becoming more of a reality in my life. I soon was in an all out spiritual war. I was able to sense evil in people as well as the good. My eyes were open and my spiritual senses were heightened. This is when my troubles began.

 Everyday I was living out this spiritual battle and was also getting further away from God. I was becoming lost it felt like I was going to war with no ammo. I prayed to god everyday but didn't trust in him to fight the battle for me. I still read scripture but did not apply anything I read in my life. I thought I could do everything on my own. My mental state was also getting weaker, with the lack of sleep and being constantly on the move I was getting overwhelmed. I was losing the spiritual war and was trying to study the enemy but slowly was becoming what I despised. I was also having terrible nightmares which added to my lack of sleep. I was going downhill fast and this was just the beginning of my hard aches of 2013.  

The Holy Spirit fights for us.

We are constantly being distracted at all angles. God has promised us his blessings but we are unable to get to them due to the distractions that occur in our everyday lives. It is not a coincedence that these smart phones and tablets are coming our faster than you can blink. There is a reson why these social media and internet meeting places are so addictive. The enemy attacking us and wants us to stay lost and caught up with the pleasures of the world.  We are being attacked in heavenly places and need power of The Holy Spirit to be able to fight back.

So many people have to see things before they believe them, when Jesus was alive he showed the people miricles that have never been seen before and they still killed him. Now a days we have nothing like that when Chist walked on earth so many of us have to live on blind faith. What we see in our everyday lives and on tv is keeping us distracted and further away from the Lord. I have been learning to put my complete trust in him and believe what he said in his word is the truth.

We have to realize that there is a physical realm and a spiritual realm. There is a constant battle that is going on in the spiritual realm for our souls. The enemy wants us to believe that they do not exist and the more we keep that mindset the easier it is for the enemy to keep us away from God. We do our battling with the Holy Spirit which fights for us in the heavenly places. The Holy Spirit is a gift that Jesus promised all that believe him and are baptised. In today's society we need an outpouring of the Holy Spirit to bring the lost to Christ and also to fight the battle for us that many do not know is going on.
God Bless!!

Rise of Social Media and Technology.

Our generation is making history with our technology and social media. We have these smart phones that are like little computers that are fully equipped to handle any sort of business and back in biblical times they had what we would call primitive. Messages were carried by horseback, pigeons, and messengers and now we can send a messages all the way to Australia in seconds. With all of our technology there also comes with much more responsibilities and that is where the problem begins.

When I was younger I don't remember when I got my first phone and when I look around on the streets I see little 10 year old kids that have a better phone than me. Boy times have changed but I think to myself are they for the better? My kids are hooked too, they cant stay off of their phones till I tell them to disconnect. I am seeing a problem with the direction that society is moving in, when I go to restaurants and public events and see everyone enjoying their phone and not each other you know something aint right. These kids are loosing the art of communication and have spend most of their time building virtual relationships and not real ones. Does anyone else see this or is it just me? What is the world coming to? I am not feeling this new connectivity movement.

I want to get deep into how I feel but I want to hear what others feel about this subject first. Leave a message on my blog or Facebook page on what you feel. Thank You and God Bless!!

More money more problems!

I remember that song more money more problems and never really understood the message in that phrase. The more money I made the more things I could buy and soon began to use money and the material things it brought to try to find happiness. My job as a conductor gave me the opportunity to make as much money as I wanted I just had to go and get it. I could work locally and make decent money or hit the road and ball out of control. Being a money motivated person at the time I decided to make as money as I could to try to find what I thought would make me happy.

Over the years I became more concerned with status, money, and success. I set goals for myself to gain material wealth and neglected what was going on at home with my family. I began to live to work and not work to live. My wife, kids, and friends got put on a back burner to my drive to be the best. During this time I still prayed to the lord everyday, attended church whenever I wasn't working, and also studied scriptures and other religious texts. Since my life was successful I felt that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing so I continued on my same path of greed and neglect. I already knew that money was the root of all evil but still loved making more. I was able to provide a good life for my wife and kids so that made me feel good about myself so I continued on. I thought I was on the right path but something was wrong. God had been trying to communicate with me but his message wasn't getting through. I had become a slave to money and let it dictate how I was living my life and the choices that were made in my families lives too. God had been trying to speak to me for a while but I didn't hear him. I feel that I was bound to money and that crossed the lines of communication between God and me. With continuing to study the word I though I was getting closer to god but actually I was getting further away.

God never gives up on his children and as I was stuck sitting at a hotel room  in Pasco after work, I began reading the new testament. As I read a scripture seemed to be talking directly to me, I read in the book of Mathew  chapter 6 verse 24 stood out which said that no one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” This time I heard loud and clear what the holy spirit was trying to tell me and now I began to hear what God had  been trying to communicate to me for all these years. Today God is breaking the bondage that  money had over my life. Listening to my Father in heaven and serving on him is what I plan on doing to achieve true happiness.

Depending on the Lord.

As I continue my walk with the Lord I am learning to be more completely dependent on him. As a husband and a father of three children my family is dependent on me for financial stability and I take pride in able to provide for my family. I don't want anyone in my household going without, I am to provide for my family as the Lord has provided for me. Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find. I treat the scripture as TRUTH and we are sometimes get  in the way of our own blessings that God promised.

I look back at my life and came to realize that God as provided everything that I asked for and then some. I asked for a wife and a family and I now have that, I asked for a great job and I now have that, and I also asked for a home for my family and he has also provided me with that.  On top of all those things he has also given me and my family good health along with a good head on our shoulders. As I look back and see all he has done for me I see over the years I have taken things God has provided for me for granted. I was thinking that I can do everything on my own and not being thankful for what I do have. I turned on the TV and seen what happened in the Philippines, people have no food, water, or shelter and don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. These people have nothing and not only in the Philippines, also in the third world counties people are thankful for everything have because they have nothing. God has blessed me and my family, I have to use the blessings that God has given me to bless others in need.

God has put me through trials and tribulations as he does us all, but each time he does it makes me stronger and brings me closer to him. I am beginning to understand more about that childlike faith when we come to him. Just as we provide for our children, we must come to God as his children because he promised that he will always provide.

God Bless!!!

The Lords Work.

In 2014 I plan on committing myself to doing the Lords work. For years I have been trying to find my calling and asking God to lead me to what he wants of me. I have been praying for this for years and God has let me know what he wants of me.

I am very talented working with computers and can navigate extremely well on the internet. The holy spirit began to speak to me and said he gave me these talents for a reason and I could use the internet as a tool to do the Lords work. I recently just shut down all of my social media outlets because I fell that it was a distraction and was causing people to disconnect with real relationships. I noticed people tended to their virtual lives more than their real lives, children were hooked as well as adults and I didn't want to be a part of this world of connectivety. God began to speak to me and began to tell me that he created this world and all that is in it. I can use the internet to reach places and people I could never reach before to spead the good word about Jesus Christ. God told me to use the internet as a tool and not to abuse this gift. I must speak from the heart and just keep it real with this blog. If you do not know Jesus I want to talk to others about him and also lead them to him so they may be saved. I am not a preacher, pastor, or philosopher, I am just a simple man who has hopes and dreams for a bright future with Christ. If someone I know is not saved I want to talk to them and pray with them so they can also find Jesus Christ and be saved.

This year I am committed and with the strength of the Holy Spirit I will achieve the goals that I have in 2014. God is already working with me with this writing, I never wrote like this since I was in high school and now I am writing a couple of blog post and articles a week. I am learing to listen to God and let him guide my path while continuing to study the word for additional guidance. This year is the year of fullfillment and I can't wait to see the direction God takes me.

God Bless!!

Years of Insanity.

As the new year begins I look back and see the constant pattern that has been going on in my life. Every year there are things that need to be changed every year and I have decided that that must change. As I continue to walk with the Lord I must lean on him for strength and stop trying to do things on my own. Year after year I have tried to do things on my own and nothing has changed. Each year I come up with a new years resolution that works for a couple of months and then I get back to my normal habit. I have to put my complete trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and lean on him for my strength and not myself or others. The years of insanity must come to an end, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. At first I didn't realize what I was doing,  as the years passed by I would continue to make new years resolutions not getting any results. Then the Holy Spirit showed me that I was just battling the flesh and I must trust in him wholeheartedly to live life and to live it abundantly.  Let go and let God is what I plan on doing to end the many years of insanity.

God Bless!!