let the RUTINE of the familiar push you into the unknown…VISION!!!

Today i was walking through the halls of the school and church i grew up in … and i began to relive many moments I had had in those halls. It amazed me how much God had done in my life through this church and school. In the same moment i was reminiscing i began to dream about my future and where i would be walking the rest of my life. I began to envision my self in other places walking in Gods will…I cant explain it but it was an amazing feeling to be walking the halls i had walked for so many years and finally be able to see beyond them. Into a vision of where God is taking me! and not only see beyond them but take the steps to move beyond them in everything i do… im tired of having visions that just stay visions i want to make them a reality! and today while thinking of the past i moved into the future!!!

” don’t let DREAMS just be DREAMS” “make them a reality”

kelly jo

scattered thouhgts….

i have many things i would love to write about but life its so busy i shouldnt even be on right now i need to get ready for concert of prayer im speaking for 5min on the peace God… and i have a mandatory 2nd year  application that is due on friday but its going to take a while because they ask some really deep questions like to name a one where would you like to be in 5 years? which is amazing but to write it out is going to be fun…. any ways God is taking me to a place of deep surrender its humbling and intense and a bit emotional but i want to surrender everything.. which means complete sacrifice… and to end this very scattered message it is storming out side and i love it…..

something we often forget….

i spoke this past sunday in 180 (middle school) and when i was thinking about what God wanted me to share he spoke something to me….

i spoke about how so many times through out the day we compare ourselves to other people and that one thought can destroy us for the rest of the day…. we start thinking im not smart enough, pretty-handsome enough,talented enough….the list could go on forever… fill in your own insecurities … and these insecurities begin to cause us to change the way we act,dress,talk… just to be accepted or feel better about ourselves… but even in the mist of changing all these things we still never feel complete or better about ourselves its just a race with no finish line… its like we fall asleep to who we really are to what GOD created us to be…. and after a while we can’t even figure out who we are under it all…

we all live with insecurities…. all of this brought me to the story of moses (exodus 4:10) when he ask GOD to send someone else because he has never been good with words and will never be, i get tongue tied… and GOD replied (this is my fav. part) who created your mouth who says if people can see or not, can hear or not…. is it not I the Lord…

in the mist of everything just like moses we for get who created us and who has all the power….
also to prove this you should read psalms 139:13:18 it say GOD knit us together… we are all fearfully and wonderfully made….he saw our unformed bodies… he know everyday ordained for us…. when we awake everyday he is still with us…

GOD created each of us different for a reason so why do we compare ourselves we are not suppose to be the same so it is impossible and will only bring disappointment…

…So during this season of Thanksgiving don’t forget to thank GOD for who you are who he created you to be…

GOD has been teaching me to be secure in who he has created me to be so i thank GOD for who I am

burn the ships

ok this week in masters the theme is DIE TO SELF sound harsh ya well it kind of is but its really good to and i think everyone goes through a time when you have to get past your self if you don’t how can God ever take control or how do you ever expect to truly  get closer to God is you are still depending on other things instead of God…

so there is this story in history of cortez he took his men on a voyage to an island to find treasure…. once they were all off the boat he burnt all the ships so no one would give up looking or desert him if they got tired….

so many times in our lives we give things to God or leave things from our past to follow God we get off our boat to follow God and we follow him for a while but when something doesn’t go our way or there is a bump in the road,or God asks you to give something you dont want to… we run backto our boat where we feel safe or comfortable and it most likely really isn’t anywhere near comfortable but we were so used to living that we have become used to sitting in the thorns of our past…

so i challenge you just i was challenged burn all the ships in your life weather it be bad relationships, habits, doubt, hurt, unforgiveness , the list could go on forever you know what it is in your life so burn your ship and move forward into what God has for you… stop retreating…

whos in control

so today we had an awesome prayer time katie G (3rd year) played the piano and jess (staff) sang worship songs while we prayed and there was an open mic for any one who wanted to get up and share something God had done in there life or anything eles they wanted to share… so i was just sitting and talkin to the big man up stairs when he kind of tugged on my heart to go say one of the things i want out of this year and not to just say it but declare it like it had already happened and then challenge others to take hold of what they want for there own lives…

so it took me a while to get the courage to go up there but i finally did… and i declared that even when i have tons of thoughts in my mind worry doubt fear anger God reveled to me that it is souly my choice to let them over take me that he has given me the power and wisdom to look past all the false thoughts and the strength to hold on to the great thoughts in my mind. and that even when i want to revert back into some of my old thinking i will stand firm, even if it was more comfortable in my old thoughts i will step out with Gods strength…

so who is control of your mind are you letting the devil control some of your thought or have you taken them captive… by Gods power. Im not saying it will be easy but i am saying God is with you. Isaiah 41:10 ( no im not going to write it get your bible and read it memorize it) i love ya…

tonight at 180 youth (on wednesday JV and V are together ) pastor jeff C. preached about the mind which was awesome he said when God calls you to do anything small or big our mind starts saying WHAT IF this,that, anything your mind can come up with anything to place doubt in our minds… but stop thinking what if and think WHAT IS your strength, creator source of hope… so the next time you start to think what is remember in stead WHAT IS.

well im tired so i will talk to yall later love and miss you guys but know God is doing great things in me and keep me in your prayers because i deal with what if everyday thanx….