Obedience!!!

I have been gone the past few weeks working on a project God has given me a vision for. I apologize for neglecting my blog. I needed the time to concentrate on my new project without distraction. And that’s exactly what I got. Thursday morning a truck came through my street and knocked down the line from my house to the poll across the street, and totally wiped out my Comcast phone and high speed.
In addition to that a magazine I took the position of Online content Editor is getting me a new cell phone so I let my Metro PCS cell that only works in Atlanta run out. So now I have no cell phone, no home phone and no internet access. Usually this would drive me crazy but I took the time to be as productive as possible. I cleaned the house and went through the Bible and biblical reference books to get ideas for this project, I also started watching the Word network all day Saturday and saw a lot of youth oriented inspirational programming which was very helpful as well. I had no alternative but spend as much time writing researching and praying, that was necessary which I have to admit I might not have done as much of had my phones and internet access been available.
You never realize how important these things are to you until they are removed from your life.
I believe this is my calling, expressing myself through my writing and sharing my testimony with the world. I have been running from it for awhile but the past week God has giving me confirmation through my cousin, a few recent sermons and an associate minister at my church who told me God wants me to stop fighting and be obedient to what He wants me to do.
I share without I am through running, and no I give into my calling.
I ask you, is there something God is calling you to do that you are not listening. He won’t let you rest until you are obedient. Our gifts and talents aren’t for us but for God’s will to be done. To reach His people and do His work!

Have a Blessed day!

He Is Greater Than The Storm!!!

And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified and said, It is a ghost! And they screamed out with fright. But instantly He spoke to them, saying, Take courage! I AM! Stop being afraid!

THE DISCIPLES STRUGGLED for hours in the dark but could not beat the storm that threatened to take their boat down. How true that is to your own life experience. You struggle so hard with your work and problems that you lose your joy and peace. Yet if you look up through the waves of problems you find Christ walking straight over them to save you. The storm will pass if you take Him into your boat. Your peace will not give way if it is centered in Him. Indeed peace is not peace unless it remains in the midst of the storm. God promises to "fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith]" (Romans 15:13). The night may be dark and the waves real but Christ is greater than the storm.

As a writer or an artist its amazing how Gods gives us what we need to inspire us. We get our inspiration to create from a TV show, a movie, a book or commercial, a conversation with a friend or even an email from your cousin. This morning when I woke up, turned on my computer, the above was in an email from my cousin David with the subject, “To My Brothers, Keep Your Head Up!”
It was so appropriate because it accurately described my current situation. Like the disciples my family is currently going through a storm that threatens to take our boat down. And like the story from time to time we see the waves and start to panic and cant see Christ walking straight over them to save us. Like the disciples we too struggled to beat the dark.
But also like the disciples while we do have faith, its hard not to give in to what you see, when its coming your way. But for anyone of you that can relate and are going through the same thing, we must always remember that Christ is greater than our storm. He has always come through in the past. We struggle, we panic and then Christ comes through.
Now we must get to the point when we struggle, and we will continue to have trials and tribulations as long as we live, but when they come, we must not panic and remember Christ has always come through before. You are either, in a storm, just coming out of a storm or heading straight into your next storm. And as he has in the past, if you give in to the Lord, He will come through for you like He always has in the past.
My pastor always says God is going to ruin His perfect record on you. So next time, and believe me today’s testimony is preaching to myself as much as anyone out there, the next time you see the yourself in the storm, remember Christ is and always will be greater than the storm.

LOVE

Good Morning all, Just sharing one of my favorite verses with you all today

have a blessed day

-AJ W

Love is long-suffering and kind.

Love is not jealous, it does not brag,

does not get puffed up, does not behave indecently,

does not look for its own interests,

does not become provoked.

It does not keep account of the injury.

It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails.

1Cor. 13:4-8a