Come What May!

Come What May!

You want to write a book?
Come what may.

You want to start your own thing?
Come what may

You want to publish your single?
Come what may

You want to build your app?
Come what may.

Whatever good thing you want to do that honors God. Do it.
Come what may.

Love, Or Hate?

Love is stronger than hate. 

Hate is of the devil

Love is of God

Who is greater?

Out To Walk

 Looking for answers?
Take God out for a walk, and He'll teach you. 
Yet no one says where's God my maker?

Fear?

What should he fear who intends no evil?

Should This Group Exist?

Sometime last year I put up a community event creation ad on craigslist. I was thinking of creating a group of folks who love God and would like to get together and discuss how we can help each other towards our goals.

A lady replied and asked me about the group. We went back and forth with emails. We decided on possibly meeting up to talk things over. Below is the email that I sent her to describe the group I want to create. Let me know if this group should live? 

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Thank you, Michele, for getting back.

I can tell you are looking for a way to do something for our Lord Jesus. I welcome you to what's possible.

I am also a branch from the same tree---King James Version of the Great Book.

Why I am starting this group:

We are not of the world, but in the world, and while we are here, we must make our contribution. Jesus once talked about the Kingdom of Heaven as a parable of talents ( Matthew 25: 14-30 KJV).

Each of us is given a unique set of talents to use on the earth, and we must trade it with the world to increase it, and have a lot more to give back to our Lord, the giver of talents and opportunities. I want to help my brothers and sisters make the most of their talents and opportunities for our Father's glory.

We need each other, and it's only in uniting can we make great things happen. That's why I am starting this group.

What we will be focusing on:

Also, to make the most of our talents and the righteous opportunities before us, we must prepare ourselves. If we are to use a knife, we must sharpen it; if we are to use our spirit, we must strengthen it; if we are to serve people, we must understand them. All these take time, practice, and support. This group is simply to develop our skills to for all that we want to do---and I think the ad on craigslist says that. I am approaching this with the understanding that 1+1 =3, or more with God.

Wanna meet?

There are a few other skills we will like to work on, and find ways to get things done---God's way, of course. Even for folks who don't have a car nor money, there's still a way to “do something.” I will like to go over some of these in a meeting with you sometime this week. I am available tomorrow and Friday evening---from 6pm to 8pm. Let me know if these times work for you, or if you would prefer another.

And speaking of meeting, I looked at your address and the bus system, and there's a 1 bus that stops on Metric and Kramer, and will take you to Metric and Sunhillow, where you can catch the 240 bus to Parmer and Tomanet. The 240 bus will stop on the last stop on the route. The Starbucks ( 2505 W Parmer Lane, Austin) will be on your right after you get off the bus. If it helps, after you take the 1 bus, let the bus driver know you will like to catch the 240 bus at Sunhillow and Metric.

Again feel free to decide---and be led of the Holy Spirit. I know He will never lead you astray.

Be well.

Kingston.

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What do you think? Will a group like this be useful to you? 

Nothing But This, I am!

Here

Kingston
My name, is

A man

On the earth
Called to be, and learn

My knowledge, Christ
God, my Father
To me, all power
On earth, for good.

Where I was born
To whom, In what
Is nothing, next to
Treasures of God


Where's God my Maker?
My cry, for answers
Where I start
And His grace
To choose, trust, and love 
The way of my life.

Amen.

To Hope, I Am A Prisoner.

Hope, the soul's life and wings. I live by this, and it's what keeps me going.

I will ever believe. He that believes shall not be ashamed.

At anytime, God can do the miracle. When he's ready I should be ready.

Through faith and patience the father's inherited the promise.

To hope, I am a prisoner.

Read

Read.

Reading is simply taking in knowledge with the sight. Though long thought of as what reading means, reading is far more that reading a book. Reading happens even with our understanding of what we see and experience everyday. We try even to read other people through their actions. We read the face of the sky to tell the weather, we read the organization of a city to figure things we do not necessarily see with our naked eyes.

The end result of any reading is to increase our knowledge, right? So then reading in every form is to better our understanding of things. We take in knowledge to make us better in one way or another. This is not very different from eating, which betters our physical body.

In that sense, reading, then, is a spoon, and a book/whatever we are examining with our eyes is a plate of food. So eat, read. 

It's been said to be the greatest tool you will ever own. Are we using it? I don't think we should ever blame God if we lack knowledge. Our eyes and ears (senses) are spoons and the earth Is a bowl of food, a book: eat, read.

Reading is to add to myself, my stock.

Unique?

Unique--- meaning 'uni,' meaning one; and 'que' what?

Put together, I think it means, 'one what'? What is a question, so it's not a stretch to think one thing to find out. If to find out, then it's not readily known, needing to be sought out. And to find out, is to go out and discover. I think this is what a quest is. One quest, I think it is.

What then is a quest? One mission, one purpose, one problem to solve. Why am I here?  I am one unique individual, without a clone. I have two hands and legs, a heart, leg, and head. What I am here to do? What is my work? A question many have asked in the past, and still do, will continue to do. Many have not figured if out.

But if  I am asking what my work is, what then is work? Work is simply applying my gifts ( which is what I should use to make good use of time, for using my weaknesses is an abuse of time and resources) to solve a particular problem or improve a particular thing. The doctor to solve health problems, the comedian to lift boredom, the banker to keep money safe, the pastor to keep folks morally upright, and so on. All problems that need solving, these are.

Without problems there is no work. Problems, then, are the source of work. All work comes from a problem. Just think about it yourself. 

So the point is this: What are am I here to solve? And we know each of us is unique, meaning....what one work are you here to do? What one question are we here to answer? We are all answers to problems? Each of us is here to do one unique thing. Not necessarily one thing but a few things put together into one unified whole. What is your quest?

Don't Trust Your Memory

Let's take a quick goad today. Let's help each get moving on the things we have in our minds: our ideas, plans, and goals. 

Writing is probably the greatest recorder of things God gave man. Even in his message to us, the Bible, he wrote down what he wanted us to know, and countless years later, it still abides. 

In His writing are his promises, his goals, his thoughts, his desires, and plans. It's all there. Let's follow Him. Let's write.

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Write it down. You got something you want to do? Write it down. What is the topic? It doesn't have to be perfect. Just write it down. Do you want to start a small group ? Write down everything that comes to your mind about it. You can delete the bad stuff later. 

When your mind's hot, ideas flow and come to you. Catch them all. Strike the hammer while the iron is hot, the old saying goes.


Why? Because there will come a time when your motivation wanes, and then you'll not feel as fired up, and ideas don't come to you. This is not the time to try remembering what came to you when you were feeling good. A short pencil is better than a long memory.


So today, pen somethings down. We choose to document our thoughts and findings.

Who am I?

A quick riddle:

I am greater than God and more evil than the devil, and if you eat me you will die?

Who am I?

Let's hear your answers in the comments below.

Why Not Immediately?

So I am in New York right now, after spending sometime with the family for Christmas and New Year's. But today,  I want to make a quick note about last week: sorry I wasn't able to write last Monday. I was just swarmed with a lot of things. But no worries, here I am punching the keys again.

I got yesterday morning, Sunday, ready to head out for a run. I love morning runs. Having checked the weather forecast a few days before, I knew it would be a little warm today, about 30 plus. The temps have been hovering around 17 to 27 degrees the last few days, so it makes it a little unwise to go out for a run in that fridge.

But I did go today, and it was fun. Slippery streets from ice drops overnight sought to get in the way, but I wanted to find a way past it. The run got me warm and fresh, helping me shake of the slug that accumulates when I don't get the chance to go out and run. When I am not able, I do go up and down the staircase in my highrise ( about 38 floors high) when I am not able to go outside to run. It helps, but it's not the same.

But anyway, I got through the run, went home and got ready for church. The church's not too far from where I live---it's about 5 minutes away. So in no time,  I was there, seated and ready to get take in the service.

You know the routine: Praise and worship, offering, and then the sermon, which is why I am writing this post. The sermon got me.

The Pastor, Pastor Jesus Goyco, was the designated preacher, and using the United States Army's soldier's creed, he connected that to our creed as Christians, and why we should keep the Jesus's mission first at all times, just as American soldiers do in keeping the president's mission. He himself has served in the military for about 8 years, and has personal experiences of how vital it is to be mindful of the overall and principal mission, and why it's important to always be ready.

I sat and thought about it all. Having planned to share the Word of God in the subway before heading out to New York, I thought of taking a little initiative to follow through on it. I have not been able to share the Word much on the trains since I have been here. This may be God prompting me to seize the moment. God and I had discussed it a bit in Austin before I left.

So after the service, I picked up a few evangelism tracts and decided to go give them out on the train, while using it as an opportunity to verbally share the word too. Like always,  I prayed under my breath, asking the Holy Spirit to speak through me, and give me the power I need. Right after my prayer, the lines from Josh Wilson's song came to mind:"Pushing back the dark." Here it is, below.

It's funny how the song talks about "Whatever you do, just don't look back. Keep on pushing back the dark. Someone needs the light you have. Don't underestimate the God you follow," and it coming to my mind just after I had prayed.  That was perfect. Someone out there needs the light I have. Okay, let me take it out to them.
 
Not long after that I was on the "D" train, sharing the word. It didn't go as I planned---it was short ( about 2 minutes) and incoherent, but I got the word out. After that I simply went around handing out the tracts to the folks on the train. Some took it, others turned it down. I got off on the next stop, and went to another car on the same train and handed out the remaining ones. I took a few minutes to think it over, whether I should do it again, today. I decided against it, opting to take it slowly. All in all, a good move. Thanks to the Spirit for strength.

I know most of us also get stirred like this from time to time, but few of us take action. I don't always take action. But next time a feeling like that hits, take a small step and do something about it. You never know where it might lead. And don't forget the Holy Spirit is available to help you. Just ask him.

Have you been stirred lately? And what did you do about it? Need a little push?

Let me know in the comments.

Choosing Goals

It's that time of the year to sit down. This year, as always, I will make my goals simple, 3 at most. There a few others, but for our purposes here, these 3 are topmost.

  

1. To improve my understanding of God's word. Why this? It's always been a goal of mine. Remember we are not on the popular side, we are on the Lord's side, choosing Him, which is different from the large majority of the choices out there. Everyday we have to choose, and what that means is that there's no default choice, there are options, but we choose different from the status quo. 

 

God's Word is medicine to me---it heals my mind; it's a defence---it defends my mind from all the deception out there; it's my wisdom---out of it, I get the instruction I need to get things done on the earth. So it's first on my list of goals at all times. Nothing happens without it.

2. Work on this blog and all my personal projects: my goal is to expose about 1000 more people to the power they have to choose, to let folks know they are not without a choice against the constant barrage of the world. That there's a choice which pays off: The Word of God.

3. For the project page, to learn and teach about 10 skills through my projects to about 1000 more people this year. I believe skills are not only good but vital. They are vital because nothing can be done on earth without the right skill, and working on your skills constantly not only makes you a better person but improves your chances of having a better life, which we all want.   

What are yours? Sharing gives us all a chance to help each other. No one succeeds alone. Let's hear it in the comments. Thanks.