It’s A New Season
So as you already know, we're in a new year. 2010. The first thing that comes to my mind thinking about this new season is, what is this year going to bring? Is it going to be the same as 2009? Is it going to open some doors that I've been dreaming about? Or am I going to have to wait longer to see those doors open. I was thinking all these things and more. I was also thinking about the move of God that our church has been prophesied to about. Our youth group, what does this new year have in store for them? Well my inspiration came when I stumbled across some lyrics to a song on a friends Facebook page. They said this.
It's a new season, it's a new day.
A fresh anointing is flowing my way.
It's a season of power and prosperity.
It's a new season coming to me.
The Power of Unity
The truth that there is power in unity is irrefutable. You can look through history, any great movement that’s ever taken place has been by a group of people who all wanted the same thing and come together in unity to accomplish it. More than ever before it is crucial that our churches become unified in the single goal to win souls. We’re living in a day where there is numerous denominations and religions. There’s more separation in the Christian church then there ever has been. You can find churches splitting from their organization on a continuous basis because of a small disagreement that isn’t even a salvation issue. More and more children are growing up in single parent homes or in home with step parents. This is not what God wanted for his children.
New Blog
So I've been meaning to do this for quite some time now. I've moved my blog to another site, and I've switched to Wordpress.org . I must admit that I am extremely pleased with how this is set up and the simplicity of editing post. I hope that all of you will continue to read my blog even though I have moved it to a new site and changed it's name.
With new improvements comes the inevitable desire and pleasure of more updates. The choices spoken up in the previous post have been made and life is moving forward in the calling of God. It's truly amazing how much God will work in our lives if we will just allow him to do so. Just because choices are made once does not mean that we must not continue steadfast in prayer and fasting though. I pray that God will use me to touch lives through these simple writings. The desire to be a willing vessle will not go unnoticed by God. But I was thinking about something today that really hit me hard in the heart. God's word tells us 'despise not the day of small things.' That should be in the heart of all young ministers, including myself. This may be a small thing, but I pray God will use it to touch lives. God bless you all, yours in Christ, James Mitchell.
Choices
Sometimes we find ourselves at a crossroad in our lives that we've
came to before. The tricky part of this situation is do you take the
road you traveled before or do you take a new path?
You see, I am at that crossroads and I desperatly need to make a decision. But I don't want to step out of the will of God. So if you guys could help pray an mention to God to help me make this decision then I would greatly appretiate it!
Blessed Be Your Name
So I'm doing laundry tonight and I decided to sit down and I had music playing for the past few hours on the computer before I sat down, so I sat down and put my headphones on and the song I hear is "Blessed Be Your Name." I suddenly felt the urge to write, what is in a name anyway? What's so big about the name? What's so special? How come we stress the name so much?
In Enemy Territory
I recently preached a message that would change me. Funny I know,I preached it and it changed me. But I recently preached a message titled 'In Enemy Territory'. I just wanted to share with everyone a little bit of this message that God laid on my heart and really moved on me about. I feel this message is most definitely for anyone in Pentecost. Not because I preached it, but because it was from GOD for his people.
Once upon a time there was a young man named David. David was a keeper of sheep. A little Shepherd boy, and he took his job seriously, Just so happens that one day Samuel the prophet was led by God to go down and anoint a new King of Israel. That ended up being David. The story moves on through a lot of Davids life and what he faced.
Discouragement, Confusion, and a Touch of Loneliness
This is just a blog. I've not tried to really write a real blog and I've more focused my direction of writing to articles about Christian living. I thought I might just vent for a second in a blog. I'm James Mitchell, I'm 22 years old about to be 23. I honestly spiritually seem to have a lot of things going for me in my life. I was just informed last week I'm gonna be trained into becoming our first Praise and Worship leader, something I've always wanted to be able to do. My pastor recently asked me to start a nursing home ministry, he put me in charge of starting a drama team and doing all plays and such for our church. I've been a part of jail ministry before, I'm head over all our media ministry. I was just ordained a few weeks ago. God is really moving spiritually for me and I thank him and Praise him for all those things and what he's doing and I'll do my best to serve in any capacity that I can.
But even with all those things going on, It doesn't exclude me or any of us from the feelings of discouragement, confusion, or loneliness. I'm gonna be the first to admit, My home life isn't great, God is truly moving in my family, but for the most part most of them refuse to let God be a part of their lives. I struggle with that continuously and desire to see them come into the truth.
God Center Your Desires
Psalm 37:4 (KJV) Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
I was sitting in church tonight listening to my pastor preach on altar work. And I've always been the type of person sadly that thinks I'm not good at altar work. I love to work in the altars but was just afraid of it. So listening to my pastor preach on this, I was just kind of reminded of my desires. I may be scared of it, but my desire is to become an amazing altar worker, to be an anointed preacher, and to be a soul winner. I've had other desires along the way, desires of this nature and that. And I still have some of them. But this all comes down to altar work. That was a desire but not my main desire.
Surviving
I have really been thinking a lot lately about our young people in our churches recently and how there are so many of them going into "survival mode." Trying to just hang in there and make it through. This in itself is very disturbing.
Now I really haven't studied this out so I don't have any scriptures to write but I just have my feelings. So I'm truly sorry if you are expecting a lot of bible to back up this post.
I've seen these teens in "survival Mode" for far to long. Something funny about this type of mentality is when they go into this stage they quit witnessing, they quit sharing their testimony, they quite their "soul winning mode"
POLL
I have been in a bit of a tight spot trying to figure out if I should continue writing on my parable series that I started. I actually finished 2 writings but I never posted the second. So I'm gonna add a poll on here and I am asking my readers to voice their opinion. I might find out how many readers I really have by this poll too.
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