God First!

JOHN 3:30
He must increase, but I must decrease.

I have been going through my old bible from middle and some of high school and I went to my little marker, and I opened my bible and came to this verse. I remember the day I heard this verse and when I heard it, I remember where I was setting and all, odd I know haha. Katie C. was the one who said it, It was at Focus, a camp that one of my old youth ministers had. She was closing our 20/20(small group) up and said this is a verse that really stands out to her. (I am not sure if she said it like that but I know she said it somewhat like that)

One thing I would have to say is since that day I have loved this verse every time I look at it. It is something that I try to live my life by. It is a short and sweet to the point verse! He must increase, God must be number one. No matter what I must put God first and I know that by doing that I will not have to worry. but I must decrease, I have to stop putting myself first and worry about God and what God wants me to become and where He wants to place me so that I will be able to show His glory!

Gift to God

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God."

This was my friends Ryans status on facebook, and it took me sometime to take this in. I guess cause what I did was asked myself what is it that becoming, and is what I am becoming a gift to God?

What we are is God's gift to us.....
Who I am is a great gift, cause who I am is who God created, and when He created me I was created in His image! So what we are as humans is very simple to understand. we are Gifts.
....What we become is out gift to God.
I guess it is not much about what I am, cause it is clear that I am a gift from God, but am I worth it, NOPE! Whatever it is that I become in life, I just want to make sure that I a gift to God.

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me"

Stand Firm

I have been praying for some time now for God to shake the incoming students world! To shake their world and make them leaders, make them want to stand up and be able to do whatever they put their mind to. To shake their world were they know that they are at college for their education! To shake there world and make them know college is what they make it! To shake it where they will stand firm....

Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:58 (NIV)

What is the meaning?

Ok so i need some help. I have been looking at this video over and over trying to find out, what the meaning is. I am lost and dont understand it so I was hoping someone would help me out here. Also if you happen to know the song that would be nice to know also. Leave a comment on here, Email me, Brandon4usc@gmail.com. Write me a msg on facebook in my inbox, or IM me, Brandon T Hunter. SOMETHING!

UNCONDITIONAL!

COLLEGE! What is college? Higher Education? Fun? The start of your life? Were you meet your bestfriends? Easy sometime? HARD sometimes? Ya know what college is alot of thing, but one thing college has brought to me is Christ! College has brought alot to me, I mean come one i am going to Student Body President next year. SCARED OUT OF MY MIND! But for some reason I am find with it, cause I am able to take it as something God is making uncomfortable.

College is different, I guess I can say that I have seen alot of things in college that I have never seen before. I am the one taking care of myself!(well not really but you get it) I am the one telling my self when to go to sleep, or when i should do my homework. But I have also seen the down side of college. I have seen people at low points, scared out of there skin, because of something they have done. I have seen people cry out to God because they did something dumb. I have seen people cause so much pain to there family because of something they did. But out of all the things I have seen I know that when people cry out to God because they have did something wrong, i know for a FACT that God is right there listen. Even though I am one who thinks that it is wrong to call on God when you need it only! I think you should praise God no matter what! Not when you are in deep.

I was talking to a guy that I go to school with tonight on facebook and he told me something that made me think! He said that he saw the movie Fireproof, I have not seen it yet, but he said that he didn't know the meaning of love until he saw this movie. Then he said that "love is unconditional and u never stop loving someone even if they spit in ur face. cuz jesus never stopped loving us when we spit in our face and He doesnt give up on us when times get rough" I agree with him 100% love is very unconditional! Jesus loves us UNCONDITIONAL! Webster says that Unconditional means not conditional or limited. Jesus love for us is not limited it is out of this world!

Out of what my friend said to me the end just really got my eye! "love is unconditional and u never stop loving someone even if they spit in ur face. cuz jesus never stopped loving us when we spit in our face and He doesnt give up on us when times get rough" And that is so true God will not give up on us when we are in our rought time, better yet He will not stop loving us!

Notecard!

My old youth paster has us draw these pictures on notecards alot, and i have been thinking about it lately and it still just makes my mind go crazy on how many times i have put this on a notecard! The funny thing is that a simple notcard like this led my to Christ. Just thinking about how God sent His son to die on the cross for my sins!

But this notecard can mean this too, "You know why some of us have never seen God part a river? Because our feet are still firmly planted on dry ground. We're waiting on God while God is waiting on us!" On this notecard you see "ME" well the only way for "ME" to get to God is to make the first step, that being accept Jesus. see God is there and will always be there it is just that Gos is waiting on us to make that move. God will always be there for us when we are in bad places of life, and the lowest but God is there, We just have to make sure we find our way back to Him. It is not about testing God and see if here is here for us. it is more about going back to God and not going away from Him.

God will use anything to get through to us. And i dont have to write anything to get that point across, but i am going to post this video, that will get this point across! This guy is Carlos Robson is a slam poet, i saw him in Atl. at APCA and he is good, but here is one of his poems!

ACCEPT PEOPLE!

(I didn't read over this, i didn't care to)
I am going to have to set this up for ya, I saw this on a photo that took place at a gay pride parade, and there were people standing on the sidewalks and they had there signs up saying stuff, and i am not saying they were being mean or anything, cause they could have been meaning anything they were Christians. Well there was a comment under this photo that said....

"Real Christians are accepting of all Gods creatures and understand that God alone has the power to Judge, yet somehow these idiots gather and cast their stones to no end. I can not wait until the end when they are confronted by their own sins of hate. "



This comment made me go WOW! that is just about all i can say cause this person was so true! I hate to say it but they were, and it is something that i have talk to my friends with from time to time. One of my friends ask me what i thought about gay people and i just said what is there for me to think? This friend knows were my walk with God is but i was still asked that question. My answer was I think no different I was raised to think of no one different. The funny part is that some of my friend that are Christians were ask the same thing and I can say that the way that they answered was not a Godly way at all. The thing that i think about is what are they thinking, they go to church they praise the same God i do but they answered the same question i was ask in a way of hate. When i saw this comment I was like WOW!



Real Christians are accepting of all Gods creatures....
As Christians we should be able to accept everyone no matter WHAT! There is no way for a christian to get around that, God created man in his own image.. THAT SAYS IT ALL! We are to accept Gods creations!



and understand that God alone has the power to Judge,...

Who are we to Judge anyone, no matter the lifestyle they pick to use, we are to be loving no matter what, we are to be getting people in God Kingdom, no JUDGE THEM! We are all human and we will all judge, but we are to try our best not to!

yet somehow these idiots gather and cast their stones to no end....
OK that person called them idiots, but that is beside the point here. When we judge it is just like casting stones, So when we judge people on there lifestyle that pick to live, we are casting stones upon them, and think about that pain each different size stone that is being hit upon these people. It is painful that is how you make people feel when we tell them that they are going to go to hell, and that is all, We can not just tell them they are going to hell that is not what God tells us to do. God tells us to better His Kingdom. I think we should go about this in a peaceful way!



I can not wait until the end when they are confronted by their own sins of hate...
This person ended with this! And i hate to say this but this is so true! all that hate that we as people put out will on day be ONE DAY PUT BACK IN OUR FACE!



This has show me one thing, that i should have a better understand of people no matter what!