ONE RED PILOT

I’m sitting at Starbucks in Birkdale Village catching up on blogs, growing my addiction to Viva la Vida, and trying to shake the Church hangover with a Double Shot on Ice. As I sit here it’s hitting me so hard how much these people need a real hardcore Jesus shot. The mom who continues to speak to her son through gritted teeth is showing her disgust with life and needs to know Jesus is her man and her sons daddy. The girl who walked in showing way to much of herself at 9:30 in the morning needs to hear how beautiful Jesus thinks she is and that she doesn’t need to dress like that to gain the attention of guys who will continue to destroy her self-worth. The 25 year old guy who is wearing a suit and tie hoping to land his next sales pitch so he’ll look “successful” to his old man, but inside all he wants to do is rip off that tie, jump back in his 4runner, and disappear into the woods to go hiking needs Jesus to tell him that life is way more important than success in the eyes of man.

So how does Jesus get to these people to tell them? Me and You…

2 Timothy 1:7-8, “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline. So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord…”

Do I need to jump up on my table and start preaching the Gospel…no, but i would if God wanted me to! I’m Jesus’ hands and feet. It’s my responsibility to be ready at all times to tell people about Him…

Jesus make me as ready as a soldier to war and fight for the expansion of Your Kingdom. If You’re going to work a miracle in the lives of any of these people…work it through me!!

I pray this same prayer for you…

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In Carrie and I’s 5 years we’ve never owned a house. It’s been a dream of ours to eventually have a house we call “home”. For a while in the past year we wondered if that would ever be a dream that came true…well the dream has begun. Just a few weeks ago we put some money down to start building our first home!! The other night we went over to what we now call our “dirt” and had dinner. As we pulled up this is what we saw:

I can’t tell you how excited the Davis Family is about our “dirt”. I’m so grateful to God for hearing the cries of a wife asking for a “nest” to call her own and for hearing the begging of a husband to be the provider he has always dreamt of being.

Thank you God for being true to the name “Jehovah Jireh”. May we continue to give thanks everyday while this house is built and everyday we spend inside of it!

Wade joye is the Worship Pastor at Elevation Church here in Charlotte…his twin baby girls were just born 3 months premature and are facing a few complications….read more HERE

If you have a blog platform I ask you to post this prayer request and stand in the gap for Wade and his family.

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“I am very happy with the simple role of blowing the boredom out of people’s brains with long-forgotten, old-fashioned, faithful blasts of biblical truth.”

Read this on John Piper’s blog today…dang

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Matthew 7:21-23

21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

I’ve gone back and forth with his verse for a long time. On a first time read it freaks you out a little huh? Even after many reads it still freaked me out. Well not long ago I was reading through Matthew and I came across this verse. As I read it…it clicked. It’s not about living a life of ministry in fear, wondering if you were going to get tossed out at the end. It’s about KNOWING and LIVING out the will of God in your life. You see, everything Jesus references in this passage is all works, “prophesy”, “drive out”, “perform”. What I believe Jesus is saying is that it’s not about DOING a bunch a things and hoping they are the right things. It’s about KNOWING one thing (God’s will) and going 100% for that. In my own life I apply it like this.

“That’s great Pastor. You went out and sang songs for people, said some nice words to make folks feel good about themselves, you even helped them along in their walk, BUT that’s not God’s will for your life. You decided on your own how your going to live out your life and since you chose not to know The Father and the abundabce He has for you in your life of ministry, I choose not to know you, AWAY FROM ME!!”

This is a very timely light bulb for me. I don’t know about you, but I’m choosing to ask God what He wants me to do, not play it out how I want it to look.

favor to you,

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If you are in my immediate circle you might already know this news I’m about to share. For those of you who are not, I wanted to fill you in…

The past 6 years of my life I’ve been on staff at Seacoast Church. In those six years I have:

-had great successes

-had really great failures

-been molded by great leaders

-met my wife

-met my best friends

-shared stages with, what I consider, some of the best

-found my calling

This list could go on for many blogs but I’ll keep it to this one. God is moving my family and I out of Charleston and Seacoast and we are joining up with Naeem Fazal at Mosaic Church in Charlotte, NC. I’ll be taking the Worship Pastor position there and I am SO excited about what God is going to do through that body of believers. To any of my Seacoast family…we love you. We’ll miss you more than you’ll ever know.

My last service with Seacoast will be First Wednesday on June 4th. Make sure you are there, I’d love to worship with you all one last time.

Please keep up with all the updates at ORP (one red pilot) of our move and transition to Charlotte.

favor to you,

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I just finished leading worship for a conference the Young Adult ministry of Seacoast put on called Fuel. It was about 50-60 young kids who desperately want to see God move not only in their personal lives, but in the city of Charleston. It was an excellent weekend of worshipping Jesus and building community. 2 moments that stick out to me the most.

1.) On saturday night watching them write their “secrets” on paper, bring them forward, and put them in a box. Then we sang the song “Search Me, Know Me” and looking out and seeing them seriously do some business with God.

2.) This morning (sunday) John Bolin charged them to not just be a little ministry over in the corner of Seacoast but to take their passion and back and LEAD the church.

Overall a great weekend and to add to it, this was the view from my cabin…

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I’m sitting here planning the set list for a service I’ve been leading for the past 6 yrs of my life. I’m not a very sentimental person but I’m really having a moment here. Why? Tomorrow night is the last time this service will be done. 6 years worth of Tuesday’s devoted to leading people to the Lord will become “remember when’s?” after tomorrow night. Thinking back over the past 6 yrs one thing stands out to me the most…the beginning.

I was a new worship leader and I had no clue what I was doing. Because of my green-ness I was so reliant on the Lord to get me through the service. Before rehearsals I would take prayer walks for an hour to “get ready” for the night. I would pray my guts out because I knew that if I didn’t…I couldn’t be all that God had me to be for that night. I’d love to tell you that this is still a practice of mine, but it’s not and that’s not cool.

Far to often I rely on my own strength, ability, and skill to get through my Sunday mornings. I wake up Sunday and throw down some prayers in-between sips of coffee on the ride to church…that’s weak. I’m going to get back to that place of desperate need of God to lead people to Him. Not half hearted shout outs asking Him to bless our efforts. I have to get back there, if I don’t, things could get really bad.

Thank you Jesus for this gut check,

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Actually 3, caused me to turn around and snap this above picture. I drive by this church multiple times a day and it never catches my eye, tonight it did. I’m in a place right now that this phrase drilled me to the core…I needed it…God is Good…All the Time…

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I read some really thought provoking blogs this morning and I wanted to share them with you all…

Swerve

Perry Noble

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