Thought of the DAY.

Some way some how, we all mess up. Every day is a war between us and our self to do right by God. We seek perfection in an imperfect world. But we seek perfection through a perfect Christ. But we still mess up, some way, some how. Sometimes its with thoughts, actions, or words but we sin against God. We are no longer the same person we were before Christ, so we hate when we mess up. I know that when I mess up I hate it with a passion. So when we mess up in our walk how should we take it. The devil wants us to stay down for the count and not get up, he wants us to feel so bad that we wont even look at God for forgiveness. But we have to get over that feeling and go to God and ask him for help. We need to do this because it will be the only way for us to continue walking with God. Feelings of guilt are good because they keep us on our toes. But they are not good when they keep us flat on the ground. Remember when God forgives you its is no longer an issue to Him. So we have to get over it and try to move on. If we fall again later, then repeat. We will always over come our vices because God is with us but we must be hungry for it, we must want it. We must seek perfection in his holy word, prayer, worship in order to grow and be fruitful. The only way for us to get near perfection in his path is by wanting it and striving towards it. We are perfect only through the blood of Christ so through him we will have the strength to fight to live as holy as possible. We will always mess up, thank God salvation is a gift from Him to us and we can do nothing to earn it. But our hearts have to be pleasing to God, always wanting to do right by Him.

God bless!

Sunday 8-17-08

So I always brag about how great the student services are at sawgrass every sunday. This last sunday was not up to what I like to call sawgarss standard. The projector did not want to work right no matter what I did, the dvd player for the TV at the entrance broke out of the blue, and the adapter for the lights controller was lost so we could only set them on and not be able to play with them and the colors.

But we were determine to serve God and the students to the best we could. The worship lead by Shannon was great and the message that God had for the students through me was on the money or so I was told and decor was coverd by Craiger and my cuzin Alex. In fact today a student messaged me telling me "church was cool sunday" , thanks for that Jessica I needed to hear that. Great job fighting through the mess of things that went wrong this sunday team.

Next Sunday things will run smoothly..

God bless you guys!

Getting Naked

So the one situation has turned into two now. This series at FRC has been about getting naked and I am going to get naked about my feelings right now, I will not go into details about the two things bothering me at the moment one of which came to the surface today. What do I feel being in the midst of these two situations? Well it is a mix of feelings it is hard to pin point as many times it feel’s surreal. But if I had to say words I guess it would be things like, hurt, frustrated, loss of control, and un happy. Is God in control of all this? YES He is. Have I talked to God about these two things? Yes, but like I said one came out in the open today the other has been answered and answered again to me and I just have to be still in Him. The new one well I guess it will be like a box of chocolates we will see what we get. If you look at the blog bellow you will see were God has answered yet one more time my first problem. But now we have a new one and its big to me, I am not sure if it’s as big or bigger than the first but its big nothing life threatening but it’s something I care about with all my heart.

Its funny how some people have told me things about my first problem, those more mature in Christ have understood why I am doing what I am doing concerning that because of answered prayers from God concerning that problem. I will listen to him and His Voice of truth.


Some of you might be wondering what is troubling Jesse so much but the truth is you don’t need to know the core of the problem you just need to know the feelings because being naked is about the feelings not the problems that cause them. I am happy and the way I look at all this is that I must be doing something right in my life because the devil keeps trying to bring me down but I am welded to the Rock. Some of you know both problems others just know one or the other. If you are from FRC Sawgrass pray for your Student Pastor Jesse so that the Lord keep him strong.

Thank you & God bless,
Me

Faith

its 11:20pm 8-2-08 Saturday. About one hour ago I was praying and asking God for a word of encouragement for a little situation I am dealing with some of you know it. I asked God to give me the word he wanted me to have. So after I was done praying I grabbed my bible and blindly opened it up to 2Chronicles 32:7-8 7 “Be strong and courageous! Don’t be afraid or discouraged because of the king of Assyria or his mighty army, for there is a power far greater on our side! 8 He may have a great army, but they are merely men. We have the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles for us!” Hezekiah’s words greatly encouraged the people.

then shortly after i signed on to my myspace account and someone because of an old word of the day i had done a day or two ago messaged me saying the following

"WHEN we speak of faith we think of one’s belief in God. The apostle Paul, in describing faith to Hebrew Christians, said: “Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld.” (Heb. 11:1) An assured expectation has something backing it up. It conveys the idea that this expectation is guaranteed, that there will be a future possession. Some suggest that faith is like a title deed of things hoped for. Faith can also involve fidelity to one’s promises or allegiance to duty. One who has faith in Almighty God and in his Son, Christ Jesus, would want to show loyalty, acting in full harmony with God's ways and advocating them to others. Ps. 145:10, 11.
ENjoy"

My God is an awesome God huh guys??

My response to Him is ok Lord I will sit silently and still until your promise is given to me and only take the steps you tell me to take...

Thank you Lord

Crazy Week

I have not blogged at all this week because it has been crazy. We have extreme week this week at sawgrass and i have been their every day along with my great rec crew. Also this week i went diving for lobster and spear fishing. So i have had very little time between all this and work to blog. But soon i will post some pictures of everything. Today is the last day of extreme week and to tell u the truth i think i am going to miss it.

God bless,
Jesse

Why are only WE frowned upon???

Why is it that homosexual activist can start protest and advertise the rights they want to have. They can say anything that is on their mind and share their opinions openly. But the moment a Christian shares what he or she wants to say people look down on them. Why is it that we as Christians are looked down upon if we protest to defend rights we already have. Why is it that we as Christians are looked down upon if we practice our freedom of religion, a right granted to us by the constitution of the United States of America out in public. Why do people want to shut us down and have us worship only in our churches pray only in our homes. Why can’t a child pray in school and give thanks for the food he is about to eat during lunch time? Why is it that ONLY the things we do can offend others and we have to limit our actions. Don’t they think that the actions that others take in PUBLIC offend God why aren’t others frowned upon and told to take their actions to their homes? Why do other groups have more say in society than us Christians?

Why is it that a country that was formed with a Christian back bone is going down financially little by little. Hasn’t anyone noticed, as they have slowly taken God out of the country, other parts of our successes as a nation have diminished. This county stood strong next to Israel and still defends them today and this is one reason that God smiles on this country. But as they slowly strip us of our rights we can see how slowly the country starts to lose its power.

When is it going to stop? When are we as Christians going to speak up about how they try to shut us up and take the rights we already have? When are we going to wake up and realize that we need to speak up and let the truth be told. We have a universal recognized human right to practice our belief. All the while other groups who have no universal rights keep getting more and more rights in the USA. Think about it, make sure to pray about it. Because it’s a sad truth, that when we speak the word of God we are told it has no place on our streets. But when someone holds up a sign against God it is perfectly fine.

What do you think?

Today In Sawgrass Student Ministry

Guys this weekend was GREAT!!!

Everyone did awesome some of our students brought friends so a special shout out to our guest's today Branden and Brett it was a trip to have you guys join us today!!!

All the volunteers did a great job thanks for all your help!

Scott was there in his cast and leading his guys small group

Jimbo was awesome with the lights and sounds.

Lauren with her awesome taste in decor.

Jonal and Alex thanks for all your help with all things that needed to get done!!!

it was a great weekend and i am so happy because it’s only a taste of what’s to come!!!

God bless!!!!

oh yeah and the BAT MAN MOVIE IS OFF THE CHAIN!!!