Jordan: August Burns Red, As I Lay Dying, The Almost, Norma Jean, Relient K, Atreyu, Hillsong, Versa Emerge, Haste The Day, HyperStatic Union, Underoath, and Maylene and The Sons of Disaster
Jarek: Mikael Åkerfeldt, Tomas Lindberg, Tommy Rogers, Joshua Porter, D. Randall Blythe, Warrel Dane, Matthew Barlow, Matthew Sanders, Russell Allen
Gerald: Underoath, As I Lay Dying, August Burns Red, Say Anything, Mayday Parade, Blink 182, The Used, A Day To Remember, Chiodos
Christian: August Burns Red, The Devil Wears Prada, Haste The Day, A Day to Remember, UnderOath, The Almost, As I Lay Dying, and Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.”- James 1:2-3
It does not matter what’s the trial you are going through right now it could seem small or extremely big and important to your life. What matters is that you allow God to do what he wants to do with it and that is let your faith grow in him. God wants us to relay on him for everything and when we are in trials it is no different. As a matter of fact that is when he wants us to relay on him the most so that our faith can develop. God has everything in control and knows the outcome of all things. But we sometimes try to figure things out and why they have happened a certain way but all God wants is for us to trust in him and follow it without knowing. He wants us to trust him and he wants our faith to develop perseverance so that when the walls around us are closing in, we keep at it knowing he is in charge and will never give us something that will hurt us.
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding Proverbs 3:5
Have you ever tried to do one of those puzzles that have thousands of pieces? Or tried to do one of those real hard math problems that have tons of formulas? Or maybe tried to make some sense out of something God is doing? There are things we can make sense out of like puzzles and math formulas and then there is God. God did not call us to make sense of everything he does, he did not call us to try and make formulas for what he does. Since our nature is to figure things out before we do them he decided to put a verse in the bible that plainly says do not try to understand this and just jump in and trust me says God. He says I know what you are going through and my arms are around you and I want you to trust me because nothing you can do will make it clear or have sense but once you allow me to glorify myself in this situation you will truly see my spirit and all I have for you. I trust in God and try my best to not lean on my own understanding. Is it easy to do? No, but it sure it fun to ride this life with God as my guide and trusting him blindly. Will you do as he says in his verse? He has his arms around you, now you just have to trust him and not lean on your own understanding in whatever you are going through.
13Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 1:13
Have you ever been to a junk yard? Or a scrap yard? There are things all over the place no matter how organized they try to make it look, it is still a big mess with things all over. How many times does our mind look like a junk yard with thoughts all over the place making us feel stressed and not even being able to sleep at times? We must keep out minds clean. We must also set our hope that we will be saved fully on Christ Jesus. We must set our hopes on everything with Jesus, your hearts desires must be with him at all times and not in our own hands. Sometimes things are looking great and from one day to the next they change. But God does not change he is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow so we must keep our hope fully in him because his word does not change and when he says something he does not change his mind about it. We trust Jesus with our salvation and we also must trust him with all other parts of life and have peace in the middle of our problems. I know it is hard to do and easy to say, believe me I know. But we must not have our minds like a junk yard so that we pass the test. After all God does not break his word, when he tells you something is going to happen not matter how impossible it may seem it will happen.
9 My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. Isaiah 26:9
When a person is in love with someone and they do not get to spend time with them, they miss them and want to see the person. When a child is sent off to school for the very first time he/she miss their parents and the parents miss the child. We at times miss God and want to be in front of him, we need to communicate that feeling to God just like we communicate it to one another. Sometimes we wake up in the middle of the night because we have a lot on our minds, other times because God is waking us up to pray and sometimes believe it or not we wake up because our soul misses God and wants us to draw closer to him somehow. Our God is great no matter what is going on in our life at the present moment and we should be as close to him as we possibly can, I know I wish I was right in front of him right now.
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“Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.”- Psalm 95:1-2
Thanksgiving is coming up next week a time to give thanks for everything. But why wait till next Thursday when you can thank God for everything he is doing right now. A lot has happen lately to all of us and we should take some time to thank God for all the changes, thank God for taking the time to do things in our lives, thank Him who is mighty for all things. So let’s take some time today to thank God and give him praise.
7 Be still in the presence of the LORD, and wait patiently for him to act. Don’t worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes. 8 Stop being angry! Turn from your rage! Do not lose your temper— it only leads to harm.9 For the wicked will be destroyed, but those who trust in the LORD will possess the land. Psalm 37:7-9
Just yesterday someone very close to me told me that I have a lot of patience, even said as an example of my patience that she thinks I beat most people in the bible regarding patience. I don’t think I have that much patience but thanks. The truth is when you are facing something that is hard you will get mad or have patience. God prepares us throughout life for that one moment were you will need to have A LOT of patience. He uses other moments in life to help us grow in patience, he uses the moments we messed up and went against his will to help us grow in patience. So that on that day or season he calls us to stand before a closed door and wait for it to open we will stand and be faithful to him even if it has been the hardest thing we have ever had to do. We will stand there and wait for him to open, and we will make it because of the training he gave us to get us ready for this moment, so don’t lose your temper the wicked will be destroyed and taken away from your path and you will possess the land. Wow I can’t believe I just wrote this, sometimes I think that the word of the day is just from God to me, but I know you can apply this to your life too.
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9 I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, 'You are my servant'; I have chosen you and have not rejected you. Isaiah 41:9
Have you seen those movies or shows were the kids are in PE and they are picking teams to play a game? There is a clip for one show called “nerds”, I used it for a teaching once at Church. All the kids are getting picked for the sports team but the slower ones or not so athletic ones got picked last. But God handpicked YOU yeah that’s right YOU. He picked you and said you are my servant, that is something to be proud of. I have a few Martial Arts fighting trophies on my wall in my room and I am proud of those accomplishments. But the fact that God picked me to be his servant without me earning it makes me prouder than anything else in this world. I didn’t train for it He saw You and he saw me and said I want you on my team lets go. So don’t sit on the side line and watch the race, you are a part of it. Ask God want he wants you to do and jump in and let’s do it. After all he called us from the corners of the Earth and said you are my servant so let’s serve Him!
14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. Psalm 19:14
The other day on the news I saw something really disturbing were a child was killed by a man. I was alone so I did not say anything with my mouth but did think some things that were not good. I asked God to forgive me and take those thoughts away because I knew that it was not right to think them and it did not make Him proud. How many times do we think things in our hearts or even say things without mouth that are not good they might not be serious things but none the less they are not edifying Him. We have to remember that our thoughts and speech are to be that of a Godly person. Sure we will mess up from time to time just like I did when I saw the news that day. But we cannot stay in that state of mind, we must notice what we thought or said as something wrong and ask God to forgive us and help us mature. Let’s start making sure our words and thoughts are pleasing to our God, there are tons of good things we can think about and talk about on a daily bases. The world around us is corrupt enough as it is and you might joke around with some of its stuff but is it really a joke? Let’s not let this world corrupt our hearts and mind after all we are not of this world!
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3 When I am afraid, I will trust in you. 4 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? Psalm 56:3-4
What can mortal man do to you? I remember years ago as a teenager when I used to fight in Karate tournaments. I would get nervous but was never really scared of my opponent didn’t matter how much bigger they were than me. I would stand there and fight them because I wanted my trophy, sure I lost some fights, but hey being ranked 5th in the state was not too bad. I used to think what is the worst they can do to me? Whatever injury I might get would heel. We trained for these tournaments for weeks so that we would be prepared. Who should we fear? When God is in our corner and everything that has happened in the past has happened to train us for today! He is there telling us what to do constantly but we have to be willing to listen and lose the fear. Are you going to be like the psalmist and not be afraid because you trust God and know he will not let you get hurt? Or are you going to let fear keep you from blessings?
