"But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said:
‘Wake up, O sleeper,
rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.’"

Ephesians 5:13-14

"If I have a hope, it’s that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story, and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you."

Donald Miller

"Lord we are asking for a generation to arise, that will not fall, that will not fall, that they would not give themselves to drugs, they would not give themselves to sex, they would not give themselves to others. Lord, that they would give themselves to You. Lord, we are asking that you would release the apostolical generation, that they would go out into the nations and they call forth those to love You and to serve You all the days of their lives, and know that wherever they go that they take the gospel and the love of Jesus, that in all things they would love You, they love You unrelenting, not holding back, nothing but that they would love you Jesus."

Sleeping Giant

"My hope is in you God
I am steadfast, I will not be moved,
I am anchored, never shaken,
All of my hope is in You."

Power of the Cross

1. The Holy Spirit. The eternal inheritance. The bridge between God, Son and man, a guiding light that was introduced by the sacrifice on the Cross.

2. The Trinity, faith in God is transformed, we cannot just accept Him as the God of Abraham or the God of Moses, He is now Three in One. The perfect culmination. Father God, the Son of Man and the Living Waters.

3. Grace. The slaughtering of the lamb, forgive your enemies, because when Jesus died he gave us grace, not just grace from our sin but in every single situation that occurred and that will occur, so there will never ever be another situation when we say you are distant from God because He created Grace.

4. Love. Jesus Christ is true love. God is LOVE. All creation is LOVE. With the inception of the Holy Spirit we have to understand that we are the pioneers of the Cross and we have to carry that same Cross that Jesus carried everyday of our lives. We have to see people and situations the way Jesus saw them. What does it mean to have eyes like Christ? We have to know that love always prevails because all it took was LOVE to shut the gates of hell and burst open the kingdom of God.

5. Truth. Truth in the scriptures, we shall doubt no more because Jesus referenced his prophecy. On that Cross, he spoke from the words of prophets that came ages before him. We can’t let anything get us down or let our environments change our beliefs because we have truth in the Bible and in Jesus Christ. In this, we have to be true to ourselves and who God created us to be. Believing in God is more than just shouting to the Heavens, it’s accepting who you are and knowing that you are a work of God. And every flaw, every sight of despair has been erased because with Jesus we are faultless and blameless before God.

“There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.”  - Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years