Shooting for first week of may

A couple more weeks and I'll be on the road. Praise GOD I can't wait.

22.5 miles today

Today the weather was amazing so I decided to take a ride. I rode 22.5 miles and it took me 2 hours and 15 minutes with a couple 10 minute breaks. I was pretty worn out. I need to ride more though so I have decided that next saturday I am going to double my ride and see how long it takes.

The world

I just got done watching a documentary about the top one percent of the wealth in the United States. Praise the Lord. It makes me sick to see how wealthy some people are and then how poor the rest of the world is. It's not like there are rich people and then semi rich people and then poor people. It's either your filthy rich or you're struggling to get by. What happen to love thy neighbor. I will not live my life contributing to the corruptness of the world. I am putting my foot down. I will follow Jesus Christ. I want to live 100% for others. I will never be rich. I will receive my wealth from the Lord. Amen

Update

As the days go by I have been coming up with more ideas and goals for my trip. Most of the trip is going to be day by day and whatever God has in store for me will happen. But I do have a couple things that I will be doing for sure. Number 1, on the way to Connecticut I will be stopping by Niagara Falls. Once I get to Connecticut, I will be staying there for a couple weeks with my best friend Conrad. There I will be getting into the word of life with him. Amen! Then I know I will be traveling down the Appalachian Trail from Conn. down to Georgia. I know I will be hitting up Florida for sure. The next Major goal after that is to make it all the way west to San Francisco. I want to meet Francis Chan and he is starting a church there. He is a Holy Spirit filled christian and I know I can learn a lot from him. That's pretty much all I have planned right now and I know along the way, many other things will be happening. Praise God  

How great the Holy Spirit is

Today was an amazing day at church. I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit more than ever. I was so overtaken by the spirit of God that I could of done anything. Then I came home and realized something horrible. Just as fast as God can fill you with the Holy Spirit, Satan can take it away from you. I was in tears of joy on the way home today. Praise God. The only way I can keep the Holy Spirt in me is to pick up my cross daily and follow Jesus. I need to be reading my bible every second I can. Do you understand that the trinity is the Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit? So that means that we have the same spirit in us that rose Jesus from the dead. Doesn't that make us part of the Trinity? We are Gods mouths. When we get filled with that spirit and tell people the good news about Jesus Christ, we are speaking for our GOD. It doesn't get any better than that. Thats more powerful than anything you can imagine. Our God loves everyone of us. Don't forget it!

Great day

Today I got a new ESV study bible. My brother Tom and Mike got it for me. Praise God. It's exactly what I wanted for my trip. I can't wait. It's so great to see the love from people who are supporting me on this journey. I owe it all to God and his Grace. Amen!

There's no reason why I shouldn't be happy

Whenever I get down, I usually think about how fortunate my life has really been. A lot of us have it a lot better than others. We take so many things for granted. We get upset over the smallest things. It makes me sick to think about the things people stress out about. Don't people realize that there are other things going on in this world that are far worst than the things going on in our lives. There are people suffering in other countries because they don't have enough water. There are people dying because of it. There also also girls getting kidnapped all over the world being sold as sex slaves. There are countries where you can't even follow Jesus without being persecuted. There are people who are born handicapped. There are homeless people all over. There are thugs who go out and randomly shoot people. All these things and more go on everyday. What do we do about it? We sit selfishly worrying about our jobs and how much money were making. What kind of food were gonna eat tonight or what clothes were going to wear. We get stressed out about the weather or the bills we gotta pay. We let these littles things get to us when others would and do die to live as we do. All I'm saying is praise God for how great I really have it. I couldn't ask for anymore than what he has already given me. I am so thankful and feel most of us should be too. Praise the lord.

My belief about seeing Gods works

A lot of people Who don't believe in God say they don't ever see God work in their lives. They say things like " why should I trust God if he hasn't done anything for me" or "I've been praying and asking God for this and I don't have it". A lot of times, it's just bad things that happen and people like to blame God wondering why would God who controls everything, let bad things happen. You see the more and more I seek God, I come to realize why God does certain things. I believe the way God works is not show me miracles and I'll believe, it's I believe so he shows me miracles! I just don't believe God wants to provide miracles to people who don't put their trust in him. Would you give someone $100 who called you a liar and didn't trust you? I highly doubt it? And how much more valuable is a miracle than $100. Very much so. All I'm saying is put your trust in God and lean not on your own understanding. Then you will see the amazing things God will do for you.

God shows me something new everyday

I don't understand why we as humans do some of the things we do. It seems to me that a lot of the time we argue just to argue. Why cant we just get along and debate things without getting angry. I find myself too often getting upset at pointless things and not realizing it till afterwards. I do believe though that the stronger my faith gets, the less I will let myself get angry. God continues to show me these things even though at times I don't honor him. That's because he loves us with an undying love. Imagine the things he will show us when we are living our lives 100% according to his will. That is the day I look forward to. Till then I will thank God for every breath and every heartbeat. Praise God.

A little revelation I had today

I was thinking earlier about people who claim to be christians but are not and being able to judge a person by their fruit. It doesn't mean we should go judging people but Jesus said in Matthew 7:15-16 "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them." NIV. To me, ones fruit is their actions. There are a lot of people in this world who try to take advantage of people. We need to be able to identify these things so that we don't fall into their traps. We also need to bear good fruit ourselves. It came to me that a lot of people like to judge themselves by their wisdom and knowledge and not by their fruit. I say wisdom without actions is just a book. You see because the bible has all and everything in it we need but if it gets put in a closet without actions, what good is it? In the same way, If we do a lot of studying of the word of God but don't put it into action, we are just as useful as a book in the closet. Not at all. We need to both study and learn the word of God and then go out into the world and live our lives according to the word. That way people can look upon us christians and say "Wow, that's the life I want." How can we as Christians bring more people into the kingdom of heaven if our tree bears bad fruit. When you go to the orchard, do you not pick apples off the good trees and steer clear of the rotten ones. In the same way we will be judged. Lets make our fruit desirable so we make wider the path to heaven.  Amen!