
Hello, and welcome to my journal! I hope you will find my journal entries encouraging, and fun to read. Got questions? Just write them on my tag, or you can comment my journal entries, or you can even e-mail me at yankeeboy1213@aol.com, thank you! Have you seen my website? Go to, www.liveforjesus.bravehost.com, enjoy your stay!
...Just like God's truth is black and white, so is your journal! Nice message!!!(and the grey areas represent the 'uncertainties' in our life, that we need to ask God help with
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Bye!
So how in the world are ya! Hope your having a Great Summer!
God Bless!
Hi! Cute Entry! this must be the "battle of the Buldge!" ~ lol!
You have a very nice journal...I'll be back to visit!
Bye!
hope ya had fun bro'.
Our God is an awesome God, he reigns! From Heaven above with wisdom, power and love, our God is an awesome God.
Amen! Our God is awesome. The God I serve is the first and the last, He is a way-maker where there is no way, He is Yeshua, He is Jehovah Nissi (Lord you reign in Victory), He is the GREAT I AM
GOD IS...
I AM....the great physician
I AM....the way maker
I AM....the Friend to the friendless, The Father to the fatherless
I AM....HE
I Am....Before Abraham was, I AM!
I AM....Freedom to the captives
I AM....Grace for the backslidden
I AM...The bread of life!
God is awesome, and he has been blessing me abundantly. Any where from preaching, to showing me new things everyday. Lately he has been talking to me a lot, and it's been a blessing everytime! Lately, i have been getting opportunities to witness to so many people, and it's been a blessing.
I am preaching tomorrow, (Sunday, March 11th) and I pray that God will allow me to be effective, as he wants me to be. I pray that God will open up the ears of the youth group, and open up their heart to recieve not what I have to say, but what God has to say. I Pray against satan, that he may have no part, he is loosed, and is not welcome here, he is rendered powerless, and he is under my foot! I pray the Body of Christ stands fortified on the Word of God.
SERMON TOPIC: Backsliding---Having a Hot, Luke-Warm, or cold relationship with God.
Praise the lord!
In less than 1 week (Saturday, March 17th) I have signed up to preach for the Fine Arts Festival. 5 minute limit, but God can still speak through 5 minutes. Amen!
SERMON TOPIC: How to save a life---Witnessing.
I look forward to seeing what God has planned for me in the future, and how i can serve him to benefit the kingdom of God.
All for souls!
In the Great I AM,
Mike
Hey Everyone! How are you doing? I am sorry i haven't journaled in a while, wow, in fact i havent journaled in the longest time! I have been busy with church, preaching, and prepping for college!
I just wanted to inform everybody of new changes to LFJ (Live For Jesus), and what the staff of the website are planning for LFJ in the future:
NOTE: PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH THE CHANGES, AS THE PROCCESS MAY BE SLOW, AND THE WEBSITE MIGHT TAKE A LITTLE LONGER TO LOAD, WHEN WE ARE UPDATING THE SITE. THANK YOU!
1) We have made the front page different, as you might of noticed!
--We have added a music player, pick your favorite songs out of the bunch of songs...IF you do not see it there, please send all song requests to mpsnedag@yahoo.com. However, these songs must be Christian, and will be reviewed. Thank you!
2) As the webmaster gets closer to college, it may become more difficult to update this. Thank you for your understanding!
3) We plan on making a section for Pastors! Where they can encourage and be encouraged!
--We have to look at logistics, but we may also include sermon outlines for pastors as well.
4) We want to reach a goal of 10,000 people before 2008. Make sure you tell your friends about this website. LFJ wants to know that there are a lot of people coming to this site, and a lot of people getting saved. please allow this to happen. Tell as many people as you can about this website!
-For a list of LFJ's complete goals, please go to www.liveforjesus.bravehost.com/goals2007
Thank you!
In the Great I AM,
Michael
Hello everyone!
Sorry to keep everyone waiting for my next journal entry! Man, I've been so busy!
Well, my life is going better then ever! I've already preached two times, and I'm preaching a lot more in the future. I've been practicing my sermons a lot. I'm psyched for Febraury to come! I'm flying over to mississippi with a friend to help with the relief efforts after the hurricane. That's going to be awesome, just to go to mississippi and help people clean up and everything. It will be an experience, that's for sure! Also, I'm signing up for a christian fine arts festival. I'm entering into 3 categories: Short sermon, Solo piano and a human video (with a friend). So, as you can see...I've been busy practicing for all that. Also, Janurary 5th (Thursday) I'm going to be teaching about the bible in my high school english class. I'm a little nervous, but God's helping me. I'm speaking in front of about 15 to 25 students.
Have an awesome and merry christmas!
In the matchless name of Jesus, mike
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See all those people in the crowd, and the girl above with the "life" taped to her mouth? They are fighting against abortion. They are embracing their calling to change.
Just in case you never got to see the poem I made up, its about this generation. Here it is:
The generation
America, the land of heroes. America, the land who’s people shed their blood for the flag and their people.
America, could you not take one moment to pay allegience to the one who shed his blood for you? If you could only see what he did, if you could only realize his pain, if you could only know what he did for you!
America, the land of the free, where have you wandered? Where have you wandered that we have come so far out of God’s sight? Where have you wandered that the morals we once held sacred now gets trampled on the ground? Where have you gone, America, that we should murder our own children and pollute our eyes with lustful images? Where has America gone that God cannot restore?
What kind of nation are we, when we would kill our unborn babies? What kind of nation are we that would declare there is no God? Who do we think we are testing God almighty?
Get ready, nation of sin, the generation is coming that will restore favor upon us. The generation is rising that will rebuild what past generations have torn down. The generation is coming that will reap what they have sown. The generation, that will stand up for Christ, is coming for you, America! The generation is knocking at your door, waiting for a soul harvest. This generation will rise up, and will make a difference. Get ready for the generation that will bring Satan to his knees, and declare he has no authority over us. This generation will restore what other generations have torn down. The generation is coming that will restore order back to America!
Get ready, Satan…Your time up, and ours is just beginning! We will undue what satan has done. We will utilize our best weapon: Prayer. Satan will not slip through our hands as he did past generations. Get read, Satan! The generation is coming that will put an end to all your dirty works. WE ARE THE GENERATION THAT WILL BRING REVIVAL TO AMERICA!
Dear family in christ,
Man! Time goes by so fast. I haven't done a journal entry in over a month. Sorry to keep my fans at the edge of their seat, waiting to see what im gonna write next. I am back, and with exciting news for you all.
The first thing I want to tell you all about is the Bible study. If had mentioned I started a bible study in my journal entry entitled "Reaching my campus", so if you want to know more about starting the bible study, just read the entry. My first bible study was on Tuesday, October 18th. The first meeting went very well. 7 people from my school came, a better turn out then I would have thought. It amazes me how much time we spend worrying about if anybody is gonna show up to a bible study, when God proves himself time after time again. I mean, we worry about something as small as that, when God has to worry about something so big as his own creation going to hell. That was what came into my mind after the first meeting. Basicly, the first meeting was fellowship. We got to know each other more, and stuff like that.
The second meeting, (The meeting is every tuesday) we talked about worry/fear and how it keeps us from being inside the will of God, and how satan can use that against God. This meeting went well. 6 people showed up. We still had a good time talking, praying, and all that good stuff
The third meeting, 6 showed up again. We basicly just decorated some signs for the bible study and put them up all around the school. I am hoping it will draw peoples attention.
Please pray that this bible study will be successful and bring many to our precious Jesus. Let's pray together that this will get christians from talking the talk to walking the walk! Lets thank Jesus! Believe in those things that be not as though they were!
In the matchless name of Jesus,
Mike
Dear friends,
Sermon: Change Your World
Verse: “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill that cannot be hidden.” Matt 5:14
On Wednesday, September 28, My youth Pastor, Joe, let me preach my first sermon. I was exciting, yet nerving. I definently realized what the bible verse, “The flesh is weak, but the spirit is willing” means. Sometimes, in the flesh, you just want to give up. The spirit, on the other, wants to keep going, it wants to persist. Where the flesh may crumble, the spirit stands. Anyways, toward the beginning of the sermon, I was pretty nervous. Once I got the flow of things, I started getting more comfortable. My youth pastor, awesome person! I have been asking him to preach for at least a year now. We finally talked on the phone, and he said I could start preaching to the 7th and 8th graders. After a year of waiting, I think I finally understand that my pastor just wanted to see how serious I was about preaching. Pastor Joe said that a good first-sermon is about 20 minutes. By accident, I went over by 5-10 minutes and ended up preaching for around 25 to 30 minutes, and I spoke to between 20-40 teens. I’ve gotten so much support from my family, friends, and my church, and Pastor Joe, and I’d just like to thank them very much. I have to admit, when I was asking my youth pastor, I was getting a bit discouraged. My family, friends, and people from church told me to keep being persistent and show him that you want to preach. I want to thank them. I want to also thank my youth pastor for giving me the opportunity to do this. My parents, my youth pastor, a few teens, and even the Southern new England district youth director of the Assemblies of God, Pastor Tim, who drove at least 50 minutes to see “what God has done” in my life, said that I did a good job.
A few quotes for inspiration:
“You can never change the world, when your living just like it”
“When satan reminds you of your past, just remind him of him of his future” “Your enemies might be big, but God is extra-large and in charge” “If God brings you to it, he will bring you through it” A few things I need to work on: More emphasis, make eye contact, add more excitement to my sermons. Im very excited to see what is going to happen now. I pray that I will get a lot more opportunities to preach, and to speak in front of people. If you don’t practice that, you’ll eventually end up loosing it, or getting more nervous
Dear friends,
Last wednesday, September 21st, as you may have known was See You At The Pole. For those of you who do not know, this is a student-initiated, student-promoted, and student-led event. It is when you go to the flag pole at your school and pray for the nation, pray for friends, family, your school, and anything else you want to pray for! As some of you may know, I organized and promoted the event at my school. 12 people, who went against the flow of the school, came to the flag pole at my school, which i am very proud of. Even two grown-ups who sponcered the event came. One was a teacher, and the other was a parent, i think. We all held hands in a big circle. I started the prayer off, and we went around the circle like 3 times, going in order: Praying for our school, praying for leaders, praying that God would bring revival to America, and even praying for hurricane Katrina victims. We prayed for about 15-20 minutes. The turn out was sooo much better then i thought it would be. I thought it would only be me, or atleast one other person who said they were gonna do this with me. One by one, more and more people joined in praying. After See You At The Pole (SYATP) was done, people were asking me what we were doing outside. So i told them we were praying. Its so nice to see devoted Christians in my school! and people who are interested in what we were doing.
Also, within the next few weeks is a critical time for a friend and I! We are gonna start a bible study. Pray that the school will accept it, and they will favor it, and that there will be no problems getting it started. I have a new website that is associated with the bible study. www.tcbs.bravehost.com, while there is nothing on it right now, i will be sure to put stuff on it later.
I cannot wait for wednesday september, 28th....My youth Pastor, Pastor Joe is gonna let me preach a sermon then. I have been waiting for this for so long, and now i ginally get to preach a sermon. Ya!
In the matchless name of Jesus, Mike!
Dear friends,
It feels like years sense the last time that I did a journal entry! Well, I'm back, bigger and badder (For Christ, that is) then ever. First, i want to start my entry with new features I have added and will be adding.
1. If you've been to my front page, you will notice that there are 2 new webpages. "The prayer page" and "en espanol" The prayer page is designed to keep people praying for one another, and also for any prayer reguests that you may have! The "en espanol" page is for those who read in spanish, i have designed the page to help people who speak spanish.
2. Sometime, in the near future, I will be creating a bible study WEBSITE. This website will be designed for people who LEAD bible studies in their school, it will be used to keep notes, and outlines, and all the above. If you have any questions, please contact me!
3. In Feburary, My church will be going on a missions trip to Peru. This trip will cost $1,200 total. Please pray that I can raise up the money to go. I really want to go, and make an impact in Peru. Please, above all else...PRAY PRAY PRAY! If you have any questions about this, or would consider donating so that I would be able to go, e-mail me at yankeeboy1213@aol.com, thank you!
Note: If you conisder donating, it is not going to me, but to those who are lost, and to impact the souls of peru, and to advance the kingdom of Christ! In a world of darkness, the light needs to be spread!