Could I ever get by

Well for the past long amount of time I've been dealing with something personal inside of me. Someone to e exact. Trying to get over an old relationship. I though I had gotten over it because I had a girlfriend and had honestly put that person out of my life, but when that girl and I broke up that person resurfaced and I'd realized I had not faced the problem. I have prayed and prayed that I would be able to have the strength to see this person all the time and just be okay. Ive prayed that God would just make it okay, but nothing has happened. I've come to this conclusion, because this has been heavy on my heart. The only way to get away is to literally get away. Not sit around and pray that God would make things better, but to listen to God when He tells me to put legit physical distance in between me and this person. This means I will have to leave stay away from a lot of things which sucks, but if I stay involved in all these things I think are good ill never move past this and I wont have an empire. It's time to branch out as scary as that may be.

IF ONLY I COULD!

It's how we live often times
when we forget about where our lives our found,
and it's just who we are apart from where are lives are found.
When we either forget about our hope and joy in Christ,
or arent living for Him we spend our lives trying to fill in the blank

Searching for the answer to a serious problem

Good question

it's simple

Satisfaction

We seek to be satisfied

to be at peace with the world

But we can't have true satisfaction outside of Christ

only Christ can fill the void or the BLANK in our hearts

that we so often try to fill.

We attempt to fill in the blank with things that fade away

the things of this world

we try relationships

we try material things: cars, houses, or money

We try status

but all of this just seems to fail!

We never find the true answer

We just aren't able to give ourselves the desire of our hearts

and so the ____________ Stays _____________

!!!BUT THERE'S HOPE!!!

The honesty of the situation is that our hearts come

with that blank unfulfilled

and there is an answer

there is an eternal answer to that blank

one that cannot be erased

one that will not fade away

in fact the answer if we let it

simply fills that void in itself

The answer is Jesus

Jesus is the healer of the broken

and lets face it our hearts are very broken apart from Him

He doesn't just bring a temporary reason to smile and be happy

but instead He brings an eternal Joy regardless if it's smiling time

or crying time. No matter where we are Christ gives us a joy

and a peace. It's different than just a fun time or being happy for a little bit

the world aimlessly searches for a good time

yet afterwards have no peace

But Christ brings peace in times that are just downright horrible

times of loss and intense pain

times of debt

times when most people would look at us and think

"there's no way they could have peace."

Christ brings peace, and not only peace, but JOY!

Fill in the blank

with Jesus

Seek Him out at all times

Durying sunny and rainy days

day and night

in the valley or up the mountain

On top of the mountain and the tumble back down

Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of Your heart

Commit your ways to the Lord!

Trust in Him and He will do this

Psalm 37:4-5

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked

or stand in the way that sinners take

or sit in the company of mockers

BUT WHOSE DELIGHT IS IN THE LAW OF THE LORD,

AND WHO MEDITATES ON HIS WORD DAY AND NIGHT

Psalm 1:1-2

fill in that _____________

With the eternal King :)

Be satisfied

don't just look for a few temporary good times

My Empire

okay so I know some may be confused thinking
"What the heck is Vincent talking about, when he says he's building an empire."
What I mean is I'm simply on a journey with God to build my life around Him
to do all that He has for me.
To advance the Kingdom for Him with my life.
My life being the empire so technically it's not my empire
it's an empire built for the glory of God

I'm a King who has a King

Get it?

So yes I want to surround myself with wise people
and warrios
people who challenge me to think about my decisions
people to counsel me to make decisions
and people who go to battle with me

I'm building a wall around the empire with a gate
to let the good in and the bad out
this gate will be called boundries

All in all
What I am doing
not what I am going to do
What I am doing is by the grace of God
building my life, my ministry, around Christ
an empire that loves Him and chases after His heart

a strange crazy empire

Not enough time?

Well as I've been in Gods word late He has been revealing much to me. . . Well of course that's what He does when we seek Him lol.

Anyways continuing on

Often times I or my friends have made a statement or more like an excuse, when asked if we had been in Gods word. Often times the excuse sounds like this "I didn't have time."

Today I began to think to myself "who is really that busy?"
I mean I know I'm not really that busy, how could I believe such a lie. To believe that I could be so busy that I don't have even a few minutes of the day to spend in the word of my God whom I love.

An even crazier thought came later...

If we really think we are so busy, then we have all the more reason to be in the word. God's word is water for our souls. It's the bread of life. How can we expect to function correctly in all of our busyness if we aren't healthy?

Not enough time?

Yesterday I went most of my day without physical food and then had to work from 6-12

By the time I had
Gotten on the clock I had forgotten to eat

Not that I didn't have time
I had simply neglected to do so
I neglected the health of my body
While on the clock I couldn't perform
Correctly

Luckily I had friends bring me some food and after eating I was able to do my job correctly.

This taught me something

There's no way that I'm going to live correctly if I don't feast on God's word. I'll just die of starvation.

So will anybody.

Let's not
Live dead

Moved to be greater

It happened. I fell into a rough patch again. Into a place where for some reason I had forgotten who I was. I'm happy to say that I've been reminded of who I am in Christ and the fact that He's making me so much more as I continue to follow Him.

During life group I expressed a truth about me that few people know about. The truth is that I know God has called me to be a leader, but so often I feel like I'm not living up to that in parts of my life. There are parts I do and parts I don't, and yes I know I'm not perfect, but God hasn't called me to anything that He hasn't equipped me to do.

One of my biggest concerns about me is that when I sit down with friends to eat I feel God move me to pray and up until yesterday I had mostly shrugged him off and said "nah it will be okay God."

. . . .
. . . .

No mas!

Yesterday God moved me to be greater. He moved me to do something such as bless the food which to many may seem small, but how can I ever walk if I don't crawl?

I know I've got a long way to go, and honestly I'm okay with that. God is going to grow me throughout my life here on earth and I want to see what He has in store for me.

It's going to take courage and the balls to look weird in front of the world., but greatness doesn't hide behind the crowd. Greatness answers the call to greatness.