Big Event Prep

So every year since 2007, I have been going to this retreat type event called Big Event. Now this is no "ordinary" retreat. In my eyes it is but they don't like to call it that. There is a very diverse group of college students eager to hear from God in Port Jervis, NY from many different schools in NY and NJ. Although there are many schools represented, there are 2 things all of the students have in common. A burning fire for God and an affiliation with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.

Every year I go prepared to be empowered, encouraged, and refueled. I come back home a radical for Christ and after a while it dies down. This time I doubt my fire will die down, I doubt I go back to the way I was. I really want change in my life and this is my time of transformation.

I'm going to challenge myself, right now, to stay in God's will, read His word, Speak to Him all the time, and put my all into this relationship just as I had with my previous relationships, only this is true love and a relationship that will NEVER fade.

Be back in a couple days to update on what happened at Big Event 2009. Stay tuned...God Bless

You Can Make It

So I just got this cd a couple days ago and I finally got a chance to listen to it. It's called You Can Make It by Alvin Darling & Celebration. My big bro put me up on them and I like it. (The man sitting on the bottom left in the pic is my bro!)

One thing really stuck out to me that I'm really big on. Alvin said "I love this song" and someone shouted "Sing Reverend". He said "How about Alvin?" Anyone who know me KNOWS I'm not a big fan of titles. Just because you have a title doesn't make you anymore higher than anyone in God's eyes. You can be the most corrupt person with a title, but those few words really meant a lot to me. I love when people aren't hung up on titles.

I like this cd overall...you should really go out and get this cd.

And You Are???

I just want to say that we all have our issues and flaws. I have a million and one that I really need to work on. Some I know of some I don't but we can't go around judging people because they're not like us. WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE ANYONE??? The Bible says "He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone." - John 8:7 Instead of judging people, why not help them?

I see this all the time where someone would come to church for the first time and they're not dressed "appropriately" for Sunday service. Instead of giving them the side eye, why not ask to speak to them in private and talk to them. NOT DOWN TO THEM!!! Talk TO them. If you do decide to TALK TO THEM, make sure you don't look JUST LIKE THEM. You have to be an example to them.

What really gets me is how people will say "You know who I saw in the liquor store yesterday?" How did you see someone in there if you weren't in there yourself? Matthew 7:3-5 says:

"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." - KJV

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." - NIV

How can you criticize someone for being somewhere when you were there to see them in the first place??? I really don't understand that. You see someone smoking and you're the first to say, "your a Christian, you shouldn't defile your temple," mind you, you smell like you just smoked 3 pounds of weed. STOP.

Like I said before, I'm not the most perfect person in the world. When I try to help someone out, I make sure I put MYSELF out there and let them know I may have done that before but NOW I don't and I don't want you to make the same dumb choices I made. I always get called a hypocrite, and I know I am one, BUT I'm changing for the better and while I'm at it I'm trying to help someone else.

I encourage everyone to do the same. But PLEASE be careful of how you come off to people. You WILL be called a hypocrite, DO NOT spaz, DO NOT give up, just say I know what I did and I'm not proud of it, hence I'm trying to change for the better and I want to help you so you don't end up in my predicament. Tell them that enough and trust they will start to hear you.

One more thing, JUST SAYING IT IS NOT ENOUGH!!! You have to PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH!!! I don't like to use that saying too much but it's true. If you don't you LIVE what you talk about, you are IN FACT a hypocrite.

I hope someone will understand what I'm saying and try to put it into practice. God Bless.

Sista T...Renewed

This should have been the first blog on this page, but I didn't think of it until after I wrote "No More Games".

Renew defined is to restore to a former state; make new or as if new again. This song Restored has been on repeat for some time now. I'm doing a big transformation in my life right now and this song is helping me, encouraging me, even motivating me.

He said "It's done"and when I think of the words "it's done", I'm thinking all of my past is done, now God lined up my future, that's already done. All I have to do is walk in it. J. Moss said his struggle is over but mine has just begun. Satan is about to throw everything he can at me, he already started. Will I let it knock me down? NO, will I come out victorious? OF COURSE, why? Because I have God on my side and he has something great planned for my life.

Which brings me to my next song, it's by GI called "I Promise". This song says:

"I promise, to love and to honor You,

I promise, to never hurt or mistreat you,

I promise to always put You first,

In everything I do, from my heart is true,

I promise, I'll never let no one take Your place,

And I promise, I'll never change, I'll stay the same,

Through and through, I'm done being a fool,

Now it's all about You, I PROMISE"

This is my promise to God...I can't really say never because I may unintentionally do something wrong. But I do promise that my life belongs to Him, no person/object is before Him, and I mean that.

No More Games

So I'm done playing games. My calling is becoming more clear and I need to start walking in it. Ever since my last relationship ended, I realized why my relationships failed. I was disobedient and God was calling me in high school but I ignored Him and ran from Him. It's about time I stop running.

I was talkin to my homie the other day and we're both excited about this retreat we're going to this weekend. So while everyone will be partying on Holloween, we'll be praying and worshipping God with a few hundred college students who are on fire just as we are. I was also talking to my best friend Paulette, she is excited and she's ready to start over also. We all have a calling on our lives and with the prayers that we say for each other and the encouraging words we give help out a lot. I'm glad I have 2 people who are on the same page with me.

Acts 19:15-16 says: And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Satan knows who his threats are, he knew Jesus and Paul and I want him to know me too. Not in a bad way, well bad for him, a MAJOR threat to him. My mom preched a sermon yesterday entitled "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" I KNOW who I am now, before I knew I had to do something, but what? I know now and my calling is becoming clearer. I know now what I have to do, I know why things happened the way they did, my eyes were opened. My heart is open now also, to God only. No more relationships for me until I KNOW it's what God wants for me. All the things I know I shouldn't have been doing is over. That's my past and it's there for a reason. I'm looking forward and up...I see my goal, time to reach it. NO MORE GAMES!!!

GI(God's Image) Stellars

This year GI was placed in the first round ballot for 2 Stellars. I need everyone to help out and vote today or tomorrow and get them in that final ballot. Instructions are on the flier below. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO