So….. Its Monday time to get back to the grind of things morning meetings, checking your email, deadlines. There is just so much going on getting the kids to school, practice, rehearsal and don’t forget spin class. It’s so easy to get caught up in the water cooler talk. Don’t forget to make sure your DVR is set for the week you don’t want to miss Dancing with Stars or American Idol. You also have a wedding to attend this weekend so you’re going to need to go shopping for a new outfit. So much to do so little time, how do we fit it all in. it’s a good thing we have outlook, blackberries, Iphones to help keep us lined out. Now we are just counting down each day till the weekend when we can breathe again. STOP ….. hold up wait a minute where is God in all this. You have everything scheduled in but what about time for God is he on the shelf to next Sunday. DON’T GET IT TWISTED Matthew 6:33 tells us that’s not the way it is supposed to be. Put God first in your life I know it’s easy to get caught up in things. God is the most important thing in your life so make time for him you schedule everything else where does God fit in. Matthew 6:25-34

New Lecrae Video-Don’t waste your life!

This is an amazing video with a great message!

Wow you know that feeling you get the day before a big event or holiday. Your all excited you can’t wait, I remember as child and sometimes still as an adult I can’t even sleep. Your blood is pumping your already to go and then it happens. The day you have been waiting for is finally here and it’s everything you thought it would be and more. Yet now it’s the morning after and you have lost that excitement in some cases you almost forgotten about it. Yeah sure you might talk about it at the water cooler or in class the next day, but it’s not the same as the day of. See yesterday was Easter the day we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That is something we should rejoice in and celebrate everyday of our lives.
Psalm 145
1 I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. 2 Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. 3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
4 One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. 5 On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. 6 They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and I will declare your greatness. 7 They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
8 The Lord is gracious and merciful; slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. 9 The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.
10 All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord, and all your saints shall bless you! 11 They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and tell of your power, 12 to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom. 13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. [The Lord is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works.] 14 The Lord upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down. 15 The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. 16 You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing. 17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. 18 The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. 19 He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them. 20 The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
21 My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord, and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.

From time to time I will post a video of some of my favorite artist. This week it is Real Vision by Trip Lee feat Tedashii. I hope you enjoy.

I could not say it any better than this so I am not even going to try.
1 CORINTHIANS 13
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child; I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

It’s interesting how we fell we need things. Like there is no way we can live without them. I find in my life there seem to be these things like peppermints (you know the ones with the real mint oil). I know your thinking that’s a joke but it’s not ask anyone my wife the people I work with my friends they’ll tell you I have a problem. It’s so bad I call them crackmints, so last week I took a break. I fasted from crackmints. I have to say at first it was harder than I thought it would be. Yet at the end of the week I didn’t even notice. Now you may say what’s the big deal there just mints. See some times what starts out small ends up controlling our lives. It could be coffee, TV, work, Blackberry, Iphone, exercise, serving, or even Twitter. See some times we don’t notice how things in our life become our god. No that may not what we intended but somehow it just ends up that way. So take a look at what you may need to give up for a week or so that has become your god.

Ok so last night a student came up to me and told me how she was witnessing to a guy in Wal-Mart. Some of you say what’s the big deal people witness all the time…. Right. See if you knew where this student was a month ago that is the last thing she would be doing. Yet over the past 30 days God has been doing a work in her and she wants to share that with the world. See if God has changed you and done a work in you, don’t you want to scream it to the world. There is nothing you could ever experience greater than Jesus rocking your world and changing your life making you brand new. All the time people go to a good restaurant and they share it or they see a good movie and they tell everyone. So if God has changed you life shout it to the world.
Isaiah 12
Songs of Praise
1 In that day you will say:“I will praise you, O Lord.
Although you were angry with me,
your anger has turned away
and you have comforted me.
2 Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid.
The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song;
he has become my salvation.”
3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
4 In that day you will say: “Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name;
make known among the nations what he has done,
and proclaim that his name is exalted. 5 Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world.6 Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.”

April fools what an interesting day. I’m not even sure how it got started so I had to Google it. There are a few origins for it so I am not going to list them all here. I have never really played an April fool’s joke on anyone or had one played on me but I’ve seen some good ones, I think Google pulls off a great one every year. This year I even thought about putting a for rent sign in my boss front yard. Then post the pick up on twitter like it was the real deal. Might have been funny might not will never know. Yet the Greatest Trick ever played is any lie you let the Satan tell you and steal from you what God has planned. John 8:39-47 tells us this. I hope you have a good April Fools enjoy let me know you favorite joke you heard of and don’t let Satan steal anything from you. Enjoy the video below not sure what it has to do with April fools but I like it.

Have you ever seen a news special about pack rats or compulsive hoarders? The pictures and videos they show of that stuff is insane. The amounts of stuff (junk) some people will keep for know reason other than they just can’t let it go. There are stories of people who have died in there homes but have so much stuff it takes days to find them. I once saw a story about a man who had a maze of garbage in his house. To me that just sounds Crazy. The other day (not wanting to turn into a pack rat) I was going thru the stuff in my garage that I still had not unpacked from 6 months ago. I only pulled out a couple of boxes that I needed like pictures. After going thru it all there was a lot I didn’t need. I haven’t even seen it in 6 months or longer. I don’t even remember what most of it is. Do I really need the box my Nintendo Wii came in or every copy of Muscle and Fitness Magazine going back 5 years and there is stuff my wife has from I don’t know where. Just the thought of talking about getting rid of it brings up a little tension between the two of us(I’m all for tossing it, my wife….. not so much).Seems likes there is always tension when it comes to letting things go. Like between you and God he has big plans for you and you just want to hold on to something’s of the past. You’re just not quite ready to let go yet. Luke 9:57-62 Lets us know we can’t do both. We must be willing to leave it all behind. Now ask yourself what you are holding on to.

I get messed with a lot about how healthy I live, how I eat, workout a lot and always drinking water. See I take my health very serious it is important to know what I put in my body that I exercise and take care of body. Yet people don’t care they still pick on me, call me name like fitness nerd or health nut. Now I’m 33 so I am way past letting name calling or gestures bother me. Yet if they’re not picking on me they are telling me that living that extreme is unnecessary you don’t have to take it that serious. It always strikes me as odd when others try to tell you how to live your life. How I live doesn’t hurt anyone as a matter of fact it led to me becoming a personal trainer and help others get fit. Yet that’s kind of what it’s like when you live for Jesus. See he changes you for the better and you just want to share that with others. Yet people call you names tell you it’s not that serious but the truth is it is that serious. So don’t let the suffering of now get you down be encouraged by Romans 8:17-18