Grow Seeds Not Viruses

Have you ever said “That won’t affect me” or “Oh, you are just being too critical about things?” Even so, I have often wondered, just how do the things we feed into our lives really affect our own minds and actions? Can we really just fluff off all these things? The realization of how easily subtle things can affect us has had a deep impact upon my life.

For example, many people love the Harry Potter series and the Lord of the Rings, but both contain witchcraft which can be considered evil. Even the Smurfs, yes the Smurfs, particularly Papa Smurf, used witchcraft. No, I don’t think simple exposure to these things will cause us to start casting spells, but my heart aches when I think how books and movies can desensitize us to the works of the devil.

Even addictions do not happen overnight, it takes time to develop and I think the same is true with different things we allow into our lives. I am not saying we need to avoid all things that can be evil – no, not at all – but we definitely need to keep our filters on and be mindful of our morals all the time, so the devil can’t get a foothold on us.

I am known as a funny person. Yes, I do love to make people laugh, and as they smile, hopefully they will, for a brief period of time, forget about the worries of life. I am trying to be careful, but the story that I am about to share changed my heart on how many things that we think are funny, really aren’t.  Now please listen to the heart of the story, as I believe it will apply to many aspects of our very lives…..

 One time, I was asked to be a chaperone for a cub scout outing. We had about 10 to 15 cub scouts and 3 leaders (including me) camping out in this place. We had been having lots of fun, and we had baked beans for supper that night. (Oh yeah, the music did follow.) After eating, I taught them this game. It was suppose to be very quiet, but it always ended up in lots of laughs.  It is called monk. You sit the kids in a big circle with one kid in the center. The person in the center will pick someone in the ring. Once they are sitting face to face, both will say “monk” which means neither one can speak. The person in the center will try to make the person in the circle laugh or smile without touching or talking. Well, it was a lot of fun, and of course the beans did provided plenty of extra laughs.

This one kid, though, was trying very, very hard to make his opponent laugh. After having no luck, he stood up and did a slap stick routine. It seemed funny at the time, but the Lord later got a hold of me and corrected my attitude about it. You see this kid made a gun with his finger and shot himself and comically dropped to the ground. We laughed up a storm at his actions.

Did you get it!??!  Let me rephrase. The kids thought committing suicide was funny. There it is. See how such a subtle thing can seem funny. How the devil can use something so simple and so subtle to make something seem so unimportant WE LAUGHED at suicide!!!

When I state it directly, it seems horrible, doesn’t it? In fact it is and was. I have told this story many times to instruct others how we need to be careful. I just do not think people really truly have a heart felt understanding of just how careful we need to be when watching or listening to things. In our lives, we have two situations. There is the evil that we commit for which the Holy Spirit immediately convicts us. There is also the evil that we seem to “walk into” and don’t realize it.

The Bible passage where Jesus washed the disciples’ feet shows us how we need to be a servant, but remember Peter had refused. Jesus informed him that you can’t come to me unless he washes your feet. Peter overreacted and asked to be washed from head to toe. I am sure Jesus smiled as he replied “you are already clean,” which means pure, “I just need to wash your feet.” I prayed about this and I feel it can be said this way “Peter, you are pure in my sight already. You just need to take accountability for the things you have done today. (i.e. what you feet is dirty from) No, I am not saying that we are automatically pure, but as Christians, we have already had forgiveness. We only need to keep seeking the forgiveness for our wrong actions. Praise God for his unending forgiveness! How he knows our mistakes and will forgive us!

      Now I would like to take a look at why our feet get dirty. You see, we all can recognize wrong actions or wrong words spoken, but I wonder how often we take into account the things, we didn’t want to see or hear. Take a bad joke at work, an inappropriate program on the TV or even online. In the time of Jesus, we would have dirty feet from the dirt on the ground, and that was life. Now think of all the animals around. I am certain there was lots of manure on the ground, and as much as you would not want to step in it, I am sure you would. That is like not really noticing it till you washed your feet later – just like us taking accountability of all things that happened in the day. Occasionally we need to allow God to show us how certain things have been unknowingly dropped in our spirits and minds.

We all know how the sower will plant seeds in our hearts and our very beings, that when nurtured, they will grow into blessings for us and others. I would like to parallel that to when devil adds a virus to our beings. Just as when a sickness progresses, it causes our bodies harm, so does a “spiritual” virus to our very souls.  The devil knows how to feed this virus, and this is why we need to be aware of all the events that surround us as we go through our day’s activities. I not saying we need to be paranoid, of course not, but to have the understanding that so many things we tend to just “fluff” off may be more damaging than we realize.

I have found that for me, I need to go to God in my prayer times and ask him to show me what was inputted in my being that can cause problems. You see the devil is very crafty, and he knows what will cause us to stumble. But on the other hand, God allows the devil to show us those things. Yes, God uses the devil to finger things in our own lives, in order to show us where we need to grow.  I suggest praying that God reveal what is inside of us. God loves us so very much and will show you what is going on. In that process, he will show you where you lack, and through that exposure, recover you. Finally as you start healing, your fleshly tendencies will drop off

Single Living

Most people who are single but wish to have a spouse have spent a good amount of time wondering about that future spouse. What will that person be like? How Will I know if this is the right one? How will I know if God wants me to marry? How will I know if the mate I have chosen to marry is the one God has chosen to be my soul mate?

I find in the bible, the search for a spouse was not really mentioned.
I have seen nothing in the Bible that provides much guidance when it comes to finding a mate.
Cain, it appears just married some lady. Just exactly where this lady came from is a matter of dispute. Isaac had his mom send a servant to go choose a mate for him. Even Jacob had his troubles so he married more than one wife.
I remember being in a Sunday school class. We were asked to make a list of all the things we would look for in a spouse. I think preparing such a list is a great starting point in helping a person decide what he or she really wants.
I would suggest that when you have finished writing the list that you take a good look at it and study it. Think about each point and how it relates to you. You will likely discover two things about yourself. Firstly, it will reveal to you something about the way you are living right now and how you will live within a marriage setting. Secondly, it will tell you something about your weaknesses.
Every person must stand on what they feel are their deepest convictions.
The Bible tells us that we should not be unequally yoked when it comes to marriage. In other words, the mate we find should also be a believer. I do not know of any believers who would ever suggest that it is okay to marry someone outside of the family of God.
When a believer marries a non-believer difficult times will likely lie ahead. However, as a believer, when it comes to giving advice I feel we tend to overlook at times the fact that we are all different and have different convictions even though our common bond is the Lord. When seeking advice we need to seek God’s wisdom first but it is also important to seek godly counsel from the leaders God has given us.

I remember when I was engaged to a lady that was nowhere near the right match for me. All those around me knew it, my parents knew it, even my heart knew it. I appreciated that my leaders never once told me how foolish I was being even though I was a fool. I never lost the connection I had with them. On the other hand my parents were another story. We had a huge blow out and it has taken a few years to mend the broken relationship. In some ways the relationship with my parents will never be the same. You see I didn’t choose to date the lady because I wanted to hurt my parents or because my church did not oppose me. I chose to marry her because I was very lonely and very desperate.
What I learned through all of this was that in the end the direction my life may take solely rests with me and it is between me and God, regardless of what others might think or say. The word life is the key word and I know that the decisions I make may affect me for the rest of my life. I made an emotional decision that resulted in consequences. By doing so I lost out. Regardless, my friends backed me up and supported me. They told me what they believed would be best for me. So did my parents. The difference is my friends left the door open for me to come back when I realized my mistake, but my parents chose not to. The bridge, the connection we had was allowed to be destroyed. The connection with my parents has now become a bridge made of rope and one that neither side likes to travel across.
It is important to always stand with those you care about. Whether their decisions are wrong or right, you stand with them and continue to be there for them. It is more important to be there for them and to stand along side of them than to impose your personal views on them even when you know you may be in the right and the person is being a fool. I will never forget how my friends loved me and stood with me even though they believed I might be making a very unwise decision. More importantly I came to realize that relationships and love should never be used as a bartering tool to get people to change.
I believe everyone needs to understand the free will that God has given us. In the Garden of Eden (where sin first began) Adam and Eve chose to eat of the forbidden fruit even though God gave them instruction not to. They exercised their free will and made a choice. As in all choices we make there are arguments for either side. I am not saying that decisions are always easy to make but it is important to note that God has given us the ability to choose. This is what having free will means. God created humans for fellowship, but he didn’t want us to just be his friends out of service as if we were robots. He wanted us to choose him freely and of our own accord. He wants us to come to Him as the unique creations we are.
So to me life is full of both good and bad choices. I believe it is our choice to choose the Will of God. I also believe such a choice should not be manipulated by friends or loved ones. So the first thing I would ask any one who is looking for a spouse is, “Do you want to be married?” I believe there is a lot of pressure put on singles in our churches to get married. For me I have dated ladies to try to fulfill some obligation of getting a wife. I believe that every person that is thinking of marriage needs to know beforehand why he or she wants to be married. A lot of times singles feel the “need” to get married because they want to fit in or because they are very lonely.
Never get married out of loneliness. If you are feeling either pressured into getting married or it is because of loneliness then talk to your church leaders. Although I don’t believe people would intentionally push marriage on singles the pressure nevertheless does exist. However, it’s important to try and see things from a happily married couple’s perspective. There are couples who have a wonderful marriage and it is only natural that those are the people that really want to see you married so that you can have the same experience. What is forgotten though is that what is good for one person is not necessarily good for another. Yes, marriage can be wonderful, but so too can being single- and sometimes with far less complications. I am not being funny here. It takes a lot of work to maintain a marriage and for the most part the only difficulty I have about being single is being mocked cause I choose to be this way.
Let’s imagine that you have carefully thought it over and you choose to be married. How do you start searching for that perfect spouse? Let’s start by taking out an ad in the local paper and then going to hang out at all the sleazy bars. Of course make sure you make a fool of yourself by getting to know all the new spousal prospects at your church. If you do any of the above please find a spot on your wall and hit your head till you realize that this isn’t the way to go about it. What I’m saying is that if you have decided to get married then just act normal. The more you do any of the above steps the more likely you will fall into fruitless relationships and end up getting desperate and even lonelier.
If there are rules about searching for a spouse I sure have not been able to find any. We are Christians. We don’t need to be out on a mission (for some it might seem like a mission impossible). We need to just simply live our lives. I will go out on a limb by saying that your spouse will be found in doing the things you are accustom to do. I feel that if one goes out of their way to do things they are not accustom to doing in hopes of linking up with that special person it will probably end in disastrous.
While single, how should we be living our lives? I remember someone telling me “Now is the time in your life that you should be traveling and going places.” The tone to me was that I needed to do all that before I got married. What was interesting is that I wasn’t engaged and did not even have a girlfriend at the time. What was the person trying to tell me? If I enjoy traveling I can still travel when I get married but I would be wise finding a mate who also enjoys traveling.

I do understand that when a person decides to get married and start a family things will change but I truly disagree with the statement, “ settle down and start a family”. Are singles all crazy, rowdy and nuts that we need to “settle down”? Well I know I can be rowdy and nuts sometimes and do enjoy that but I do not feel that I need to “settle down”. Living the life of a Christian single does not mean being wild and crazy. As we go on in life we will have added responsibilities as any married person does. Yes, singles may come and go as they please, but there is no out of control wildness that marriage needs to correct. Marriage is a different kind of life, but I don’t think married life is as settled as some suggest. It must be hard to live at peace with another person and even more so when there are children involved. How can things be settled? Besides, when you get married to the one you truly believe is your God given spouse, some things won’t change.
I guess the things you love to do may get put on the back burner but never think your life will be put on hold cause you are going to settle down and have a family. I will go out on a huge limb and say that although things are different when you are single compared to when you are married the desire to explore the wonders and excitement of life can carry still on.
I have been told that when you find the one you are to be with you will know. I have no idea if that is true or not. I do know that God will direct you. He will honour your choice as long as he was truly a part of it. That means really seeking God’s will and even telling him that this is the person you truly want to be with for the rest of your life. I feel God will honour that and speak words to you. It may not be a yes or no. Don’t get me wrong. I do believe in hearing from God and that he does give yes or no answers. But how do we explain the many marriage troubles that exist? That to me shows that people tend to not truly include God in their decisions throughout the relationship before and after.
You see there is a triangle that exists in all relationships. Imagine a triangle with one point at the top and the other two at the base. The two points at the base represent you and your spouse. (this can be applied to any relationship). If each point had communication with the other then there is like a wall made that won’t allow the devil to separate you with his deceptive ways. Therefore there are 3 communications or connections that need to take place; you and God, spouse and God and you and your spouse. If any of them lose strength then the devil is free to break the connections up. I have asked several people what connection needs to be the strongest. Of course you get a variety of answers based on people’s life experiences. I truly believe that they are of equal importance. That of course is assuming that you cannot give more attention to one than the other. This is also taking into account the fact that there is always one connection you have complete control over and one you have partial control over and one you have no control over. For the latter one you need to have total faith in and keep in prayer. I refer to you spouse’s relationship to God.
I think that prayers will always be the key to any decision we make in our lives. Looking for a spouse is no exception. I feel that God is always there to hear our requests and will honour us at all times. Today, I see two approaches when it comes to hearing from God when dating is concerned. The first is an almost spooky stance on not moving on any relationship without the move of God. I have seen it many times, that when a person is approached for an evening out a common response is, “well I need to pray about it to see if it is God’s will or not”. I know that we do need to pass all things by God first but there is such a thing called balance. I have seen singles back themselves into a corner and actually come across as self-righteous to others. I do feel that if you don’t want to date that person state so. God gave you a mind, heart, and spirit. God speaks words of wisdom to us. I just have seen it taken to such extremes it really takes away from the work God is doing. Sometimes God is going to send people in your life to have a good time and for no other reason. I don’t have a problem with anyone that only wants to date. Just don’t lose sight of fellowship.
If you feel like asking a person out please understand that the first step is friendship. I am so tired of seeing people (myself included) end a friendship because they chose to grow closer in a relationship and the feeling wasn’t reciprocated. Why does the the relationship have to end in bitterness? God can help you overcome that bitterness. If getting married was not meant to be why do so many couples not see this as a blessing and remain as friends? The reason is because one or both choose to stay angry. But that only lets the adversary (satan) have victory. It is not hard to forgive, it only seems hard to forgive. I have never seen a time when a person swallowed his pride, admitted guilt, sought forgiveness and forgave and did not become a better person for having done so. Always, start a friendship for the long haul not a short one. And try to remain friends whatever the outcome.
The second approach I have seen when it comes to dating and how God figures into the decision of whether this is the right person is when the person tries to convince self that God has said this is the right one. This I feel is probably the more dangerous approach as it shows that it is your emotions that are controlling your decisions and not your head. I call it the desperation and loneliness excuse. This is where you are so tired of being alone and just feel that this might simply be the last chance you have for marriage. It took me a long time to see that many of my relationships were like this. I used to say that once I no longer saw the person I was dating as someone I would marry then I knew I should leave. That was a bold face lie because really what I was saying was that I was scared to death of her leaving. I was hoping that God would see it my way. How many times do we try to barter with God and win? I think I am about 1 billion to zero. And yet I still think that I can convince God to change His mind and see things my way.
I feel that many singles have really given up waiting on God to the point where they do not feel He wants to be involved in choosing a spouse. Well he does. He simply does! All we need to do is to let God speak and to prepare ourselves to listen- even when we don’t like what we are going to hear. I beg anyone that is in this position in life to just sit tight and wait on the Lord. He will come through for you. I truly believe time is always on the side of God. I do believe God is black and white and the only time we become confused and desperate is when we question His will. Let go and let God do his a wonderful work in you.

Clog Drains

This morning I had to fix my bathroom sink it was clogged…..

As I saw the problem I immediately got out the plunger and tried it… it had worked in the past… as hard as I tried I only displaced the water all over the counter and didn’t get it any faster down the drain…. Then I decided to get different tools pliers screwdrivers, wrenches and even a bottle of draino this drain was gonna get opened!!! I went for the drain at the bottom of the drain pipe there was a minor blockage there but the water didn’t flow freely.……

Then Jesus spoke and said “I am the adaptor”… you see when my dad and I had replaced this sink we couldn’t just get the sink lined right over the drain pipe.. So we had to put in the adaptor to allow the flow of water to the drain in the city…. God said that Jesus stands in between you and me and you are always connected to me and your prayers and praise get to me but right now I want you to see what is really in between us pull back the adaptor so I can show you.
So I unscrewed the rings and slide the adaptor back I looked up the pipe and it was almost fully clogged, he said this is what I want to do in your life and told me to remove the “junk” . I did it was grosse. But then I could see right through the pipe. That is what God said “I love to do this for you. I want to remove all that stands between us and God
Jesus is always connected to us even with the junk in us, he loves us always no matter what even if that is as far as you get.. But how much does he want to remove that from our lives so we can walk with any barriers.
I looked back at my tools and realized that there are many things God has given us to help our walk but if we don’t use the right method and tools it can become a battle forever.
I realized that all the plunger did was temporarily open the path but it didn’t remove anything. I had to use a different method, and I had yet to find the bigger problem, when I went past the blockage to the drain on the bottom of the drain pipe , I saw something but it wasn’t the real issue.
How often do we do this in our relationships? How often do we get side tracked by looking past the current issues and find a problem but not the one that God is wanting us to deal with? Thankfully I had someone with me that spoke to me, held on to me and showed me just what I needed to do so I could remove the blockage and be on my way.
I want to say that when I went in to fix the clogged drain I was angry. You see I had gone to the bathroom to get ready for church and had noticed the sink wasn’t draining and my wife, whom I’d just spoken with, had neglected to tell me. But it was not her fault.
Yet, I was angry with her, and myself, because I already knew the drain hadn’t been fully working earlier but I had neglected to fix it properly. In the end the junk I had pulled out,which was mainly my wife’s hair, had been a reminder to me of the problems my wife and I have been experiencing in our relationship and that have been “clogging” the path between me and God

Are You Up for the Challenge?

How many times as you walk with God do you miss the mark? You just realize that the situation you have just entered or experience is stretching beyond the knowledge and wisdom you have learned. That is a time, for me ,that have always put me in depression. I want to specify I don’t stay there always God is good. I just want ppl to relate with me because a lot of ppl go thru this. I know some ppl just rise to a new situation like a bull running at a matador, but I know that a lot of ppl tend to curl up in a bowl some literally and some spiritually…

I remember I was doing the sound board for our church’s annual convention…. I had just started learning audio a few months before and was still getting used to how to adapt the eq and other things to balance the sound and of course to avoid the sound man’s greatest enemy FEEDBACK!!!! We had had many extra services and for the most part I was getting through each speaker and singer we had. I was sweating bullets most of the time, but kept doing what I could to make it work.. Then Sunday morning came, we got thru the worship service and up comes this wonderful man from our church and acknowledges the work I had done, he understood what I was going thru and really wanted me to know that it was appreciated and of course the whole place gave me a round of applause. Well, that was nice and wonderful to be appreciated, but I like doing things that put me far away from the line of site i.e. back grounds, so I struggled with it. Then the pastor asked a man to come up and bless us with a song ….. He starts singing away and then it happened… FEEDBACK,,,, oh no … why now?? How embarrassing!!!!! I did what I could … I did notice what was going on and from all I knew about the sound board I couldn’t fix it like I wanted to I got rid of the feedback but lower the volume but that was only a band aide…. The problem was out of my control… I could explain what actually happened but I don’t feel that is the key here…. I was embarrassed big time. I basically hid almost under the sound board as soon as the speaker started… I started to whine to God I didn’t deserve any acknowledgement see how poor I am at running this… why did my trainer have to be away at this time period??/ poor me I am so bad….. Then God spoke it “ARE YOU UP FOR THE CHALLENGE?” I really had a change of heart… yeah it happened but I did find a way around it … and I will tell you as god ministered to my heart in that one short questions I did feel better I wasn’t on cloud nine but I was sure not under the sound board hiding . I remember a pastor that was there for the conference come back and he was really wonderful he didn’t bring it just talked to me I really didn’t need to be built up, but it was just more support. He talked about different things his church was doing and a new device he had found about about to aid in feedback (wow a new toy me gotta check that out!!!)

You see lots of ppl will tell you knowledge only puffs up… yes knowledge alone will only puff up yourself, but it is the first step in having wisdom… I know that reading your bible some days will seem like a trivial time (and at times for trivia contests), but what we input in our selves (and spirit) I fully believe God will be able to work into wisdom. I really believe wisdom is knowledge is put in to use… so many college students I have worked with just feel I got the information I know it all!!! Well you need some experience there guy/gal…. and of course they learn it!!!

I wonder so many times now how often god whispers that in our spirit. I can see Jesus reaching for Peter’s hand as he started to sink “are you up for the challenge?” peter did have enough faith to get out of the boat!!! And to me he did sink but I believe that he did learn from this and listened closer to Jesus more from then on… Peter knew that Jesus had lots to give and I know that deposit was turned into hands on aid at many times in his walk when Jesus and gone to be with the father….

Take David…. Well I know that you are thinking when he went to face Goliath that god was telling him are you up for the challenge… I don’t think so if at all he was telling the soldiers that before David got on the scene….. Because when David came he was like this is what is standing in our way a dirty philistine?? Didn’t god say when we are faithful to him and keep him as our focus?? We don’t have to worry!!!! I keep wondering how David felt after he had Bathsheba’s husband killed in battle to try and cover up his own sin…. Are you for the challenge? David was a man after the heart of god you can sure see that in his psalm and when David would realize his sin he would goto god and say I have sin against you alone… he didn’t do the blame game….. What a standard to live by???

Are you up for the challenge? How in your own life has god used a time to stretch you beyond your own ability or even worse your own comfort zone??? I don’t like getting out of my own comfort zone…. I don’t easily make friends. I really don’t know how to make friends… I know that my past is in the past and it does not shape my future. But for me I didn’t realize how important friends are.. Now let me state this there is a huge difference between friends and acquaintances!!! And an acquaintance will not be allowed in to see the true self… and a friend is one that you will have the most huge blowout with and have such a hurt in side that you cant let it go till you work it back out… now for me I prob can count on my one hand ppl I would consider a friend….. part of that is my social inadequacy, but for the most part I tend t hide behind my humour, believe it or not ol’ jb is quite a mellow person, oh yeah I love to see a person laugh for all intensive purposes that is a cover… I want ppl to laugh with me before that have a chance to laugh at me. And I know that god has used my ability to make ppl laugh to help a person in a difficult situation… you see for me I have struggled with face to face times. That is why I am so thankful for the internet we can talk and share and laugh and have food fights (that someone else gets to clean up) and build a stronger body of Christ..

Why am I saying this? I am not expose myself I am sure there are many that can relate to this … how you are struggling with your own past and not really allowing god to guide your destiny letting him stretch you and challenge you with his hand reaching out when you sink and pulling up !!!God is good!!! I really want ppl to understand that he wants us to move past our present situation and unlike the ppl that will tell a depressed person to just “get happy” god knows how to minister to your very root of that issue or even the chemical imbalance that causes it (yes I believe it is not always a person choice to be depressed, there are situations that can cause depression to be out of your own hands) God can work out any thing that can hold you back. He does send challenges our way to build us stronger more valuable to him and His work but for our own personal grown in life….

I cannot say that for everyone that when you understand that when situation move beyond our control hearing the words are you up for the challenge will pull you out of the pit, but I do feel that you need to understand that god hasn’t left you he isn’t standing back and watching to see if you are going to pass or fail. He is right there!!! He is wanting to you to search out problems and get answers…. Remember god has poured out his wisdom all over the earth and many books and you will find it in magazines or books or internet or any place that can be seen!!!! God has put everyone in to places that you need to learn things and you will always need to learn.. I am talking more than just the bible… I remember a previous sound person telling me you need to study hard on what you using for ministry….. At the time I was doing the technical end of a TV ministry so I would get magazines and read up on things and I did prepare myself found out some new devices, learned about how to improve the quality show with different techniques. What ever ministry we are doing whether it speaking from the pulpit or sweeping the floor ( all are so important to God), what we need to find out different things that will increase our ability to perform this ministry. Don’t be afraid to study!!!!

I think one important key to getting through the challengers that arrive in our walk is those around us!!! So many times we get tunnel vision that truly impedes our progress. I do understand that god wants us to build a stronger body as friends but also as mentors and anyone can mentor the baby Christian to the maturist one around. I know that when you do hit a brick wall that God can take them down with the sound of a trumpet like in jerico.. and that sounds can be a friends voice that will show you something you never thought of or never knew. Wow what great gifts friends can be!!! And just how important it is to talk to them we aren’t left out a lone god can deal with any thing but he has so many servants that do help him out and it is such a blessing to help and to be helped!!!

I just so want ppl to know that the challengers in our life are always the winds of change occurring, and that is a good thing> God moving in any way is wonderful but the devil don’t like our growing he will try to lie to us we always need to stand firm and be prepared and of course grab hold of the word the lord and our friends!!!!! God is awesified.

When the storms blow in your life
And you are arguing with your wife
Does your bills keep a growing
While your heart aint a glowing

When your job goes south
And praise is gone from your mouth
Does it seem there are all around
But you just want to hit the ground

There is a light ahead for us to see
There is a heart that wants us to be
Are you up for the challenge?
Will you grow in his wisdom?

Is your knowledge seem small
Are you building up a wall
Does the words of life seem stale
And you just want to run and fail

There is a light ahead for us to see
There is a heart that wants us to be
Are you up for the challenge?
Let us go and seek his face!!!!

You ready to let your flesh go??
And let the love of god just Grow
The thing that was holding us back
Becomes a victory not a lack!!!

Friends that stand with your forever
Can be so wonderful and so clever
For forward with the family in hand
So we can take the promise land!!!!!

There is a light ahead for us to see
There is a ehart that wants us to be
Are you up for the challenge?
Let’s run to the next challenge!!