God's love is unquanitfiable!

God’s love is not quantifiable.

I can’t emphasize enough how much God loves us. As you go through your Friday night and your weekend, truly consider God’s outlook on your actions. He sacrificed His own Son so that we could live and be forgiven of our consequential sins. Let’s not only celebrate the live of Jesus on Easter, Christmas or other holidays, but why not every single day?  Next time, don’t just blow off your sin like it’s nothing, like there’s some sort of justification that makes it’s societal apparatus “okay”, but rather allow God to sanctify Your being and allow Him to help you escape temptation to do wrong…exactly as He did for His son.  God bless you all.  I, along with our Father, love you dearly.

As always, please feel free to share this blog wherever you view this from.  This is not about me, but about reaching the lost from anywhere in the world! God is so good to all of us!

Generousity and where it plays a role in Christian living. This is coming from Jesus, himself.

Generosity and where it plays a role in Christianity: From Jesus himself.

Someone needs to hear this:
Jesus went on to tell a story to the guests around the table.  Noticing how each had tried to elbow into the place of honor, he said, “When someone invites you to dinner, don’t take the place of honor.  Somebody more important than you might have been invited by the host.  Then the host will come out and call you out in front of everyone saying, “You’re in the wrong place.  This place belongs to another man.  Red-faced, you’ll have to make your way to the very back, the only place left.  When you’re invited to dinner, go and sit at the last place.  Then when the host comes he may very well say, ‘Friend, come up to the front.’ That will give the dinner guests something to talk about!  What I’m saying is, if you walk around with your nose in the air, you’re going to end up flat on your face.  But if you’re content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself.”
This next part is the kicker! So intense.
Jesus next turns to the host, “The next time you put on a dinner, don’t just invite your friends and family and rich neighbors, the kind of people who will retrun the favor.  Invite some people who never get invited out, the misfits from the wrong side of the tracks.  You’ll be– and experience — a blessing.  They won’t be able to return the favor, but the favor will be returned — oh, how it will be returned!  At the resurrection of God’s people!”  – Luke 14: 7-14.

– I heard a message last night by a very generous man who came to Western, the message was on acceptance, and how we should accept people as God has accepted us.  I believe this story by Jesus illustrates an opportunity for acceptance and an incredible way to reflect God’s radiant light amongst our peers.  If we start performing favors for others, who cannot repay us, it is there where true pure generosity will take place.  May God get all of the glory!

Feeling stagnant with God?

God will reveal His plan for your life, in His due time! Feeling stagnant? Maybe this is for you.

Good evening all:

Reading through Jeremiah, this is about to get real!

“Before I shaped you in the womb, I know all about you.  Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you:
A prophet to the nations- that’s what I had in mind for you.”  …
But I said, “Hold it, Master God!  Look at me.  I don’t know anything. I’m only a boy!”
God told me, “Don’t say, ‘I’m only a boy.’ I’ll tell you where to go and you’ll go there.  I’ll tell you what to say and you’ll say it.  don’t be afraid of a soul.  I’ll be right there, looking after you.”   -Jeremiah 1:5-8

 

 

I’m not quite sure about you, but when I read that….I am in awe, I am in awe of the fact Jeremiah and God had that ‘moment’ where the vivid vision was pure and authentic!  So often you and I think that God is supposed to just magically show us our future and miraculously everything goes perfect.  It is as if we expect God to literally open our eyes and suddenly we can fulfill His will and everything is good. Perhaps, but it doesn’t quite work like that!

I have no clue where you are in your life, I know that there are people that view this blog in places like Uganda, Paraguay, Tanzania, Russia, etc.  so I cannot honestly speak to where you are:  But here is where I am,  God is practically revealing things in my life over short spans of times.  I am an extremely impatient person as I like to get things done in the most effective, yet most correct way possible.  I am a “time” management critique if you will, I attempt to maximize my time in all that I do.  With that being said though, when dealing with God I get this…urge to be impatient and wonder why God hasn’t given me some vivid detailed description of what my life holds.  So God always has to hit me upside the head and tell me over and over and over again that….it is not MY WILL, but HIS WILL and that it’s HIS way and no other.  When I am ready, He will reveal this to me.

Here’s the beautiful thing, lately God has slowly been revealing things to me and things that I could have never imagined.  God is opening doors that I could have never imagined been opened.  But God continuing to bless me isn’t the point I’m writing to you today, the point that I’m writing to you today is: God will tell reveal His Will in His due time.

Let me get a question in here:  How often do you find yourself making decisions that will infinitely impact your life?

 

 

 

- Consequently, each and every day we make decisions that literally alter our lives; whether it’s a good or bad infinite decision that is sort of up to us.  But it is very easy, because we have so much power, to do things without really considering the consequences.  Perhaps it’s something such as taking a drink of alcohol or maybe it’s even just binge eating.  These decisions will forever impact the detriment of your life.  Believe it or not, if turned habitual, they will impact generations forever that come after your life via your family.  God has given us enough rope to hang our selves with, so to speak, but the reality is that God is always at the end of the rope, God is always tugging back on us letting us know that our shortcomings are wrong.  This is called our conscious.  This innate instinctive fresh perspective that tells us from when we are children whether something is right or wrong.  It’s an amazing thing God programmed into our brain, isn’t it?  Or are you reading this and of the impression that there isn’t a God?  If so, why?  If so, how?  If so, explain how that a study was done that 95% of 12 month old children understand the concept of right and wrong by performing a play with stuffed animals and the children always chose the good guy to play with?  Explain how there’s this sense of what is acceptable by the majority of society and how it’s so defined that societies for generations used to actually live by those defaults!   You see, typically we make decisions knowingly or unknowingly based on this conscious that God has programmed into us…this is why cultures around the world typically have the same value system.  Here’s another nugget – have you ever noticed that worldwide we have the EXACT same facial expressions?  Have you ever noticed that every person when they’re sad…cries.  Every person when they’re happy…they smile?  When something tastes sour they scrunch their face?  These are literally things that are universal and that were built into our very being, I am sure God has something to do with that.  We’re able to communicate so fundamentally with every human based on our facial expressions, absolutely amazing.  I am not one to believe in coincidence, or one to believe that these multiple similarities could be that of a coincidence.

 

 

 

Here’s where I’m getting at!  God creates us ALL in His own image, God gives us power to do as we choose on this planet.  We have the freedom and liberty to do so.  But I bet that 99.9% your conscious tells you one thing and you do the other without even taking into consideration the consequences.  Have you ever thought that…well maybe God was speaking to you?  Let me rephrase that…would Satan ever tell you the morally correct thing to do?  It’s just a thought, well a rhetorical fact if you will.  Next time, instead of being disobedient, give it a shot and see God out.  After all, He is kind of control of everything, yeh?

 

 

 

 

In our obedience God lends opportunity, God lends support, and with true faith in Him God will forever love and be faithful to us to a fault.  God will always leave us speechless, although we cannot ever pay Him back for the sacrifice that He made for us, yah the one where He sent His only Son to the cross in order for us to have a relationship with Him.  The magnitude of that is surreal, it is…ridiculous, illogical, and unbelievable.  But God had a choice between His Son or His creation and remarkably He chose to save us forever.  So that our debt would forever be paid.  Now if that isn’t good news, I am unsure as to what is!

After showing such obedience and faith, God will begin preparing you for where He wants you to be.  It will be a process, it will be slow moving, but God’s Will is of the upmost importance…not our pride.  As you continue to follow the steps that God has laid out for us in His amazing Book, The Bible, He will slowly reveal in time what exactly He wants out of you.  But here’s what the difficult part happens and this is the part that I currently reside in.

Our view of persistence is God’s view of patience:  Let me clarify that for you one more time, the persistence (perpetual movement towards progress) is God’s view of patience (slow mowing faith).  You see we use patience as an excuse, ‘I’m just waiting on God to tell me what to do’.  Have you ever thought that in order to achieve faith that you must blindly walk right into what you are supposed to do?  Almost as if God moves you…for you, so that you do not have to?  Yeah, God is pretty crafty like that:  It’s the state that I am currently in, God is revealing very slowly what I am supposed to do in my life for Him, but blessed be known God ultimately will make that decision for me.  I will follow His commands.  I understand that more than likely I’m not going to have a moment like Jeremiah and God had, but I am sure that God will lead me and be my shepherd!   God will give me the strength, wisdom, experience, and the for thought of what it takes to do whatever He asks of me.

So my entire point of writing this peace was to give a logical progression of what it’s like to experience something like I am currently experiencing, rather than something as obvious as Jeremiah, because it is so easy to become discouraged when God doesn’t just flat out tell you all the details…it’s like He just leaves you hanging.  However, that’s just your pride and perception!  God is always using you in ways that you could never imagine.  Do not be discouraged God is always with you, friend.

 In His time, He will reveal to us: Do not lose sight of our one mission on this planet! -BRING GLORY TO THE ONE WHO CREATED US.

I continued to reiterate the same point over and over again, but only because it was intentional.  It is so vital that we not be discouraged and that we understand God has a plan for our life.  God is so good, to those who faithfully love Him.

Thanks for the constant support, God bless you all and I love you!

Dissecting Psalm 3, if you struggle dissecting the Bible...please use this as a credible guide! Context is everything!

Dissecting Psalm 3, assistance on understanding passages. Struggle comprehending the Bible? This is for you!

Good morning to all:

Yesterday I met with a very good friend of mine, someone who recently (a little over a month) made the decision to believe in Christ as his Savior.  Together we meet quite often to run through things and I attempt to answer any questions.  Yesterday, like many of you, his question was about dissecting a Psalm.  His response was, “Books like Matthew or Genesis, it just makes sense, but Psalm is just different and harder to understand.”


I appreciated the genuine feedback, so here’s how you dissect a Psalm.

1. Context, context, and more context is absolutely essential.
2. Understanding the writer, what was David like?  Why was he writing a Psalm?
3. Reading first from a broad perspective, then logically breaking down David’s words.
4. Prayer and mediation are everything.

This Psalm is from David, when he ran for his life and escaped from his son, Absalom.
Psalm 3:
God! Look! Enemies past counting!
Enemies are sprouting like mushrooms,
Mobs of them all around me, roaring their mockery:
“Hah! No help for him from God!”

But you, God, shield me on all sides;
You ground my feet, you lift my head high;
With all my might I shout up to God,
His answers thunder from the holy mountain.

I stretch myself out. I sleep.
Then I’m up again – rested, tall and steady,
Fearless before the enemy mobs
Coming at me from all sides.

Up, God! My God, help me!
Slap their faces,
First their cheek, then the other,
Your first hard to their teeth!

Real help comes from God.
Your blessing clothes your people!
(MSG)


At first glance, this Psalm seems pretty intense and you probably have zero idea as to what it actually means or represents, but let me guide you in the logical progression that takes place here.  Read through it a few times and really grasp conceptually what David is saying here.  Granted, I will explain below, but see if you cannot come up with the explanation on your own, it will hone your skills and help you be able to delve into the Gospel more frequently!


David in the first stanza is saying, look God I’m isolated…I’m all alone…everyone around me are enemies.  The mushrooms illustration is a good one, you know as well as I do…once of those bad boys begins to grow, pretty soon they are EVERYWHERE.  They are all around you and in increasingly high numbers. He’s saying there are mobs around me, they’re all enemies of you, Father!   Similar to the Christian lifestyle these days in American, few and far between surrounded by enemies who will not buy into the amazing grace God has to offer.

The second stanza, David is like look no worries because no matter how isolated I am…you’ve got my back on all sides from all angles.  You will always be there for me, my feet are grounded and my head is lifted high.  It is like our feet are concrete in our foundation of our faith and because of our audacious faith and not being the same as the mushrooms spreading everywhere, we can lift our head high as we are trying to get out the Gospel! And no matter how alone I feel, forever you’ll be there for me and I can always shout up and pray to you.

The third stanza, at the end of the day David understands that once he goes to get rest, he can be as comfortable as he wants because God will give him the proper nourishment that is essential for his daily living.  He understands that with God on his side, he will wake up ready and fearless because God will shield him on every side.  What a testament of audacious faith, my friends!

The fourth stanza is where this gets tricky, because if you just read the stanza you will not understand what the heck the purpose of it is:  When David says, “My God, help me!  Slap their faces, First this cheek, then the other, and Your fist hard to their teeth!”  But David isn’t actually suggesting that God go punch all of them in the face or slap them in the cheek, and if you see it that way, you really need to work on conceptualizing passages.  The Message Bible is a great translation, but if you do not fathom and comprehend the intricacies, I wouldn’t exactly suggest you reading it.  So here’s what David means, David is like My God, help me! Help me give them the reality check so they can see YOUR face father.  He wants God to wake up them out of their spiritual coma and see the light in which is God.  So David isn’t exactly suggesting God get in a fight with all of them, but actually that save them from their blind worldly living and show them the reality check they need!

The last little bit is pretty much common sense, but David is saying that authentic help only comes from God and that the blessings are what clothe us.  We wear our blessings on our sleeve and it’s what molds and brands us to be His.  It’s why we are so audacious towards Him for those of us who have that serious fire for our Father.

Jesus disproves Satan and religious scholars!

Jesus disproving religious scholars, who stated Satan was fighting against Satan:

Blessings to all:

Mark 3:20-30 :

Jesus came home and, as usual, a crowd gathered — so many making demands on him that there wasn’t even time to eat.  His friends heard what was going on and went to rescue him, by force if necessary.  They suspected he was getting carried away with himself.  The religion scholars from Jerusalem came down spreading rumors that he was working black magic, using devil tricks to impress them with spiritual power.  Jesus confronted their slander with a story: “Does it make sense to send a devil to catch a devil, to use Satan to get rid of Satan?  A constantly squabbling family disintegrates.  If Satan were fighting Satan, there soon would be no Satan left.  Do you think it’s possible in broad daylight to enter the house of an awake, able-bodied man, and walk of with his possessions unless you tie him up first?  Time him up, though, and you can clean him out.  “Listen to this carefully.  I’m warning you.  There’s nothing done or said that can’t be forgiven.  But if you persist in your slanders against God’s Holy Spirit, you are repudiating the very One who forgives, sawing off the branch on which you’re sitting, severing by your own perversity all connection with the One who forgives.”  He gave this warning because they were accusing him of being in league with Evil.

• Forever people will slander Jesus

How do we handle slander against God?

1. Quantifiably conceptualize their point
2. Assist in illustrating the importance of not having such strong tunnel vision
3. Emphasize the importance to recognizing premise
4. Contextualize any points they may believe they have – or have
5. Pray
6. Seek answers from our creator, as we cannot do this alone
7. Show them what God has given to you and do so respectfully
8. Lastly, understand that you are not them and you cannot control their being/thinking

Essentially this all boils down to the exact situation and exactly how Jesus would handle the given situation, but here in this passage in Mark is exactly how Jesus would and did handle the given situation.  Ultimately, we can only do so much in this life, but with the assistance of God and them accepting God, everything within the relationship between the two is insurmountable.  The reason that Jesus went with the logical, more cerebral, argument here is because at this time (even today) the people of the world were ”thinkers”, it was a time of great philosophers.  All philosophers had gatherers among them, Jesus was no different ‘hence the crowd’.  But in all instances, Jesus uses such great progressions to prove his point.  Another prime example to prove the logical nature of the beings (humans) would be earlier in Mark three when he heals the crippled hand on the Sabbath, which turned the people of the world against him…solely because religion said Sabbath was off-limits for work.  Quite ironic, eh?



The entirety of this lesson is just to let you know that there are a lot of people who cannot quantifiably illustration or understand God’s love.  But slander against Jesus or God, or His Spirit is one more thing thrown to fire, so here is how you handle those types situations.  Seemingly I see these type of situations come up in our daily lives and this is what has had the most success.  I ask that you not shove Jesus down their throat in attempt to like disprove everything they say, but rather gracefully speak factual knowledge.  I hope this has helped someone today!

God bless!  Feel free to like, comment, share, etc!

The book of the Bible you've probably never heard preached, ran accross, or even heard of! Philemon!

The book of the Bible you’ve never read, heard preached, or probably ever crossed.

 

The book of Philemon is merely…a letter of reference or recommendation to give a credible account of Onesimus’ progression as a brother in Christ.  Onesimus, a slave of Philemon, had become a believer of Christ because of Philemon.  Typically the head of the household was a role model for the rest of the household in their faith!  Thus, it may have just been name sake, but Onesimus seeks Paul so deeply that Onesimus actually runs away from Philemon and his household. Onesimus runs and grows his faith so deeply in God (Philemon 1:14-16) that Paul says explicitly how he fathered a child and now Onesimus is ready to be more than just an inquisitive person, but a true Christian brother.  Paul is writing to Philemon to explain this slave is of much more value than physical labor.

There is the context of the message, but this message was so private, as all letters of recommendation are, yet it was so public for the rest of humanity to see.  Why?  What sense does it make that Paul writes a letter of recommendation for a slave, something so private that no other man could see, but when God did the final draft of the Bible:  this letter makes it in the final cut?  Well in order to see why God puts the book in there, let’s take the perspective from Onesimus, previously mentioned as the slave.  In order for Onesimus to grow in his own faith, it was necessary for him to break out or to run away from his slave master and seek something much greater that can help him in any situation imaginable.  You see, Onesimus runs away to Paul, seeking Paul for help in growing to Christ.  Paul fathers Onesimus for a time period and then Onesimus heads back to Philemon.



However, here’s something to really catch your attention, because I believe the book has two purposes, two perspectives, and two different thought processes depending on your current situation. Let us now take the perspective of Paul, whom is imprisoned at the time.  Paul takes this guy, with Timothy by his side, and takes the time to teach his good friend’s slave.  Remember Paul is in jail at the moment, Paul is in his most vulnerable state, times where you and I would be angry at God. Here’s where it gets crazy though!  Paul not only helps this random guy by helping him get straight with God, but (v.15-20) “Maybe it’s all for the best that you lost him for a while.  you’re getting him back now for good – and no mere slave this time, but a true Christian brother!  That’s what he was to me – he’ll be even more than that to you.  So if you still consider me a comrade-in-arms, welcome him back as you would me.  If he damaged anything or owes you anything, chalk it up on my account.  This is my personal signature – Paul – and I stand behind it.  (I don’t need to remind you, do I, that you owe your very life to me?) Do me this big favor, friend.  You’ll be doing it for Christ, but it will also do my heart good.”


- Paul is writing that it’s not so bad that you lost your slave, because now you’re not just getting back a slave but a Christian brother!  But Paul backs up Onesimus by saying that not only is he a changed man, but that if (and I assume he did) Onesimus owes Philemon anything that Paul will clean the entire slate of anything that he owes.  Paul will pay any debt that Onesimus has endured or accumulated over the years.  Wow.  Can you imagine that?  Picture how much a slave owes his slave owner, making merely nothing?  Yet Paul says to put it on his tab, as if this is Onesimus getting a second life.  But (v.21-22) speaks of Paul and his confidence of Philemon, saying, “I know you well enough (Philemon) to know you will (forgive his debt).  You’ll probably go far beyond what I’ve written.  And by the way, get a room ready for me.  Because of your prayers, I fully expect to be your guest again!

 

Let’s wrap this up by putting this in our terms, with great contextual knowledge.  Paul took this guy who was a slave under his wings and cleared everything that had every happened to this guy.  How similar does this to sound to what Jesus has done for each and every one of us?  Jesus will break us our of any bondage, issue, or anything that we encounter if we seek Him, Jesus.  Not only will Jesus get us out of bondage, but He will literally wipe our slate clean as snow, just as Paul does for Onesimus.  You see, the reason this message was private is because Paul wanted to be directly personal with a good friend and brag one-on-one to Philemon about Onesimus.  But the reason God felt that this private message was so important and significant for the rest of public humanity to view is because of the way Paul handled Onesimus.  How Paul acted exactly as Jesus would have, as we all should have.  If Paul was doing this on his spare time, in private, imagine the works of this guy in the public?  This not only teaches us what Jesus does for us, but illustrates how we should take people under our wings and bless them unconditionally in any way that we can.  The message is so big here, so significant, but so short and sweet as well.  You could literally read this letter in one minute, but the importance, the context, and the significance is so great that we needed to read this book in order to see what Jesus can do for us.  It shows all three phases of the relationship, first we must seek Him, second we must assist others, and third we must follow the same ways of Jesus as we are missioned to do so.  Our sole purpose on Earth is to seek Jesus and to be fishers of men and bring as many people as we can to this amazing one that we call God!  Thus we must reflect His astounding radiance to the rest of humanity, but also in private as well.

How experience can be your greatest asset in the flesh, but weakness in a spiritual sense!

How experience is our greatest asset in the flesh, but a weakness in our spiritual life!

Good morning and God bless all of you.  I hope that this message comes to all of you in a well state of mind.  Today, I will give a little fruit for your brain on how experience can be your biggest strength and weakness as a Christian believer.

Experience can be defined as the following: practical contact with and observation of facts or events or encounter or undergo (an event or occurrence).  Thus, experience can only be gained by the hands on work of something, it cannot be absorbed by viewing; rather simply actually participating in a process to achieve a common goal.  Experience is something that we all long for, it will help us get that new job, help us learn to NOT do things in the future, or even experience can assist us on whether or not we should take either the back roads or the highway.  Often times we find ourselves thirsting for experience, so we try to put ourselves in the best possible situation to ensure that the time we have the leadership role, we will not be unprepared. But rather have the answers necessary in order to output a successful situation (e.g product, event, service, etc).

Experience in the world today is as prevalent as ever due to the fact it is:

• Useful
• Usable
• Findable
• Credible
• Valuable
• Desirable
• Accessible

The traits speak for themselves and assist us in becoming a better and more equipped person.  Matter of fact, experience is so well-thought of that my University consistently harps on the magnitude of having tons of experience.  The idea sounds great though, you look at two resumes (same age), one candidate has 21 years of experience in this field and meanwhile the other has never worked in this field in his life.  It is obvious you are probably going to throw away the one resume and hire your dream candidate who has a lot of experience in your given field.  So sure, in this life, experience can take you down routes that nothing else can get you there.  But the real issue comes when we pour our experience driven work mindsets to Church and to the body of Christ.  At this point we becoming so dependent upon our experience that we quit looking for answers from God and trust ourselves instead.  Our own experience and our own self becomes an idol to not only us, but the given person whom is relying upon their experience.  Often times this trait leads us to fail in regards to collaboration with the Father.  We stop asking for directions, alike in the flesh, except instead of taking a wrong turn being on a line; our entire eternity may be.

Perhaps, you are reading this and you are that guy with 20+ years of management experience and ultimately you rely upon your own knowledge in every situation and that works great, kudos to you.  But very few and far between are capable of doing so, actually all (most of all) people will need God to truly comprehend the given task at hand.  Here is why we we often times forget about God and go with our past, it is a mere process of evolution throughout society.

1. We weren’t prosperous
2. God blesses us
3. We become prosperous
4. We lose humility
5. We focus on our own gifts (that God gave us)
6. Yet lose focus on our Master
7. We forget to thank the One who made us prosperous.
8. We place ourselves on a pedestal above God.

We all begin at this place in our lives where we are not successful and break down to God and God gives us assistance, an opportunity to excel in life.  Suddenly we become successful and things are going better than we could have ever imagined, but we begin to take it for granted and lose humility.  We lose sight on exactly where we were in the beginning of the process, when we were actually reliant upon God.  Then instead of focusing on the tools God has given us (i.e. Bible & Holy Spirit), we focus on flesh like things such as experience to get us through our difficult times.  This can become increasingly dangerous because not only are we not focusing God, but we fail to notice that it was God who blessed us with the very gifts and situation that we are becoming reliant upon.  Lastly, we forget to thank God for all that He does and the many blessings that He has given us.  We even begin questioning if God could even be of assistance in certain situations.  If we’re constantly tooting our own horn for too long, we will have this notion that our experience can drive us through any situation and God isn’t really of any assistance.  We put God on the back-burner sort of like the last pick in a pick-up game of basketball.  You pick the guy because you have to, but you don’t trust him enough to give him the ball and let him make a play.  Often times, when relying on fleshly things such as experience, we have this tendency to put God below ourselves and only go to Him if we…………………………..absolutely have to.  This approach is not a very sustainable one, it’s an approach that’s destined for failure.  We must begin on focusing on God, even if we believe we have the answer, ask God.  Let God speak to you, because remember He is perfect.  God knows all things.  We must begin focusing on the Holy Spirit rather than the traits we think we have mastered in this world.  This issue of relying upon ourselves is found all too often in the world today, in a society of self-exalting social media, and self-gratification.  The reality is if God wants you to be exalted, He will exalt you.  Trust that the Father will do the necessary things that are in His very Will that has gotten us to where we are.

Perhaps you’re having trouble with being too reliant upon your own character traits, I simply suggest you get back into the Word and let God give you the guidance that is necessary for the success of yourself.  Again, God will exalt you if you need to be exalted.  Do not be afraid to ask for directions, remember you’re not asking an Exxon clerk, you’re asking a perfect God who knows all things.
1 Thessalonians 5: ¹⁶ Rejoice always, ¹⁷ pray continually, ¹⁸ give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (NIV)
On this planet we have two basic missions.  1) Follow the Will of God.  2) Witness and bring as many people to Jesus as possible.  Paul explicitly writes here that Rejoicing always, praying continually, and always giving thanks to God is apart of the Will of God.  It is not just a suggestion, but rather a command we must follow in order to fulfill God’s Will.  So stop relying on yourself and let God do the works of an all-mighty omnipresent Lord and Savior.
To end this blog, I want to speak of a little irony that is found by desiring something like experience in our flesh.  The same traits such as:

• Useful
• Usable
• Findable
• Credible
• Valuable
• Desirable
• Accessible

Can be said for what God can be used for in our own life.  God is always the following:

• Useful
• Usable
• Findable
• Credible
• Valuable
• Desirable
• Accessible

See?  Maybe Experience isn’t what we should be focusing on, but something/someone much larger who can bless us with opportunity and far surpass something as simple as experience.  Our God knows what’s best for us.  God bless you and have a wonderful day!