The Chronicles of Josue

2009-06-12T21:51:00.003-04:00

You are never going to have things go the way you want them. You have no control, this is no test, its a one shot deal. So if you think that by saying "Oh, I will get it next time" that you are buying yourself more time, you are not. You are just trying to justify your inability to try harder, your unwillingness to do your best, your pure unadulterated laziness.

You have to do your best ALL the time, because you might NOT get that next time. You need to understand that you CAN do it the first time because you are NOT alone. Once you get that in your weak mind, you wont be weak anymore. You become strengthened.

and I'm back....

2009-06-08T02:23:00.001-04:00

Well I wasnt really gone... just... sleeping..

As I worked I came up with another concept for a lil "flex your muscles" short. (AKA flex short)

Pics of (horrible) story board (calder: DIRECTORS BOARD) in the mornin ;)

Discipline

2009-06-05T00:31:00.004-04:00

For graduation, my mother gave me this neat little book....

It is meant to be used, side by side with the bible. On one of the pages on Discipline, it gave me the verse 1 Corinthians 9:24-26

²⁴ Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. ²⁵ And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. ²⁶ Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. ²⁷ But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.

I myself should become disqualified..... dang......

I love how it says "bring it into subjection".

Think about that.

Difficult

2009-06-01T11:23:00.003-04:00

Although it is difficult, I will do it.

A new chapter.

2009-05-30T20:00:00.002-04:00

....... about 3 hours ago, I officially graduated.

Hold your applause, Im not done yet. This day marks the start of... well... a new chapter. Corny, I know, but its true. Something is different from 3 hours ago. I dont know exactly what it is, but its something significant. Now that I think about it, I have an idea on what changed.

I was always anxious about ending high school, and starting "Life". Well, it kind of just sneaked up on me. Not that I am not prepared.... I just got the wind knocked out of me. I took 30 min by my self just to verify that I was good to go on.

Imagine me walking down the streets with my hands in my pockets......smiling.

Thats me right now.

Major Fail

2009-05-13T22:22:00.002-04:00

So..... that last post was extreme full of fail.... but, what can I do?

I still havent found my card reader.... so no photos or video for now.

Ima go take a shower and get ready for tomorrow.

;)

Grad Bash high lights.

2009-05-03T14:57:00.000-04:00

Pics and explinations will be up in a few minutes

-Josue

Search and Rescue

2009-04-30T23:08:00.000-04:00

Life has thrown me a rediculous curve ball the other day, but Thanks to God, I caught it..... and I caught it good. And again, All the praise to Him.

I am not going to go into details, but you can imagine, anyways I have learned that sometimes you must let the storm do its damage in order to build a stronger wall.

"what doesnt kill ya makes ya stronger"

straight up.

How awesome would it be if that was in the Bible?

"Please open to the book of Tommy, "and he said, What dont kill ya makes ya stronga!", Amen."

yea... so right now I am trying to pull an all nighter, but to keep my sanity, I am writing this blog and listening to Pandora..... if you havent checked it out, here

Pandora.com

So yea, I need to go back to work.

Quick mention of Colin's latest blog posts, Its awesome to know that you are friends with someone that is trying to live the Christian life at the same time as you.

All I see is Colin and me growing closer as the days go by.

Is this the typical question?

2009-04-25T20:56:00.002-04:00

"When does the physical meet with the spritual? Is this the typical question?" -Mae

Right now I have So much crap in my head, I don't know what's up or down. I know that I am doing SOMETHING wrong. I just don't known what it is.

Correction, I do know what it is, I just don't know why I am doing it.

I seem to have a problem when it comes to keeping focus on God. I tend to push Him out of the picture once everything is ok, heck sometimes I shove Him out when things are bad. I just don't understand why.

I have seen Him, heard Him, felt Him. Why am I sliding from Him? I am weak. That's the answer. Have you ever felt like crying, but you thought that it would be hypocrasy?

I thought that doing what He wants you to was difficult. That's what I can't even get to right now.

Prayer, reading, prayer and baby steps. I know that procedure. But go back and read why I'm not doing it.

But you know what sucks more? I am able to replace God with "going to church". I have found myself ignoring Him with working at church. Be it playing the guitar or editing video.

I am sick of complaining about it. I want to fix it, I want Him to fix it.

Ha, usually blogs are about the happy times in life. For those new readers that kinda see this as a cry for help, me and a few friends share our lives with each other like this.

Sorry for the long read.

Starving

2009-04-20T22:43:00.002-04:00

In both Physical, and spiritual.

Physically, I havent eaten.... and im hungry....

spritually, I have been neglecting our Father... and I am now eating.

in other news.... I got a Twitter account... so .... im a Twatter?

lol thats vulger, according to Wikipedia.... anyways..... im out...... Bed time... more details tomorrow.

Rethinking

2009-04-17T22:58:00.002-04:00

So in tradition of breaking my own goals, I am posting this BEFORE my devotional, but hey.... ima get it done :)

All day I have been inventorying my/our DVD collection for my Dad, and so far... I got 100 DVD's on the system (AKA a google docs Spreadsheet).

I woke up today (late) and began to rethink this whole Micro-blogging thing. I know that I told Amp that I was psyched for it and that it wasn't narcissism..... but thinking about it... if you really dont have anyone that really gives a crap what you do..... its a waste of time. (The Fantastic) Ian showed me a youtube video on what Twitter really is, and this is coming from Heredes.com .

So after I saw that awesome piece of animation... I started rethinking (thus the title of this blog). I have concluded that Twitter (at this point in time) is useless for me, and I am good with Facebook acting as a little micro-blogger in a networking site. Unless I get crazy famous and go to Hollywood and win an Oscar by next week... I wont be getting an account soon.

plus... I dont want to make the fail whale angry.

House cleaning / looking back

2009-04-15T22:11:00.002-04:00

I remember that the original purpose for this blog was a devotional/chill place for Andres, Isaac, and myself.... well I gradually became my life blog... sorry guys. Anyways, I have decided that I will blog Nightly... or at least try to.

Right after I finish my devotional by myself, I will end my day with a blog post.... it seems like a good way to round things up. This all ties in with the reporter Andrew Ba Tran of the Sun Sentinal and Watch this now. He interviewed me and a couple of my friends about the future of connectivity with networking. After talking about it, I got excited about being connected to people.

The only Con right now is the fact that I dont have a "Net" capable phone...... Everyone and their moms have an iPhone or G1 at FRC. But for now, blogging will do, so will Facebook. It goes with out saying that I will be getting a Twitter account as soon as I have the connectivity (Join the bandwagon).

In other news, I called Miami-Dade college, and almost got lost in translation. I forgot how Hispanic Miami is :P. Everytime I said, "Hi, I am a prospective student, and I have a question about your film program. :) " I was faced with a "huh?" or "que?". lol good times.

I will keep you guys updated on everything

Untill next time, read Proverbs 2. -- Wisdom

-Josue

2009-04-15T09:59:00.002-04:00

This was my expression after this week.

I have experienced my first Easter rush at FRC. It was amazing, awesome, exciting.... I dont know what words can explain it. IT WAS GOOD.

Little by little I am growing into my new life...... Its a lil bit scary... but Im enjoying every minute of it. Maybe you know already, but I am rethinking my college choices, still need alot of meditation and prayer left... but im getting there.

you always hear about the calm before the storm.... I need to reinforce my walls..

ANYWAYS, lets start making some sense here :\.... eh, I never make any sense.... so untill later...

[will edit later]

seemed to have forgotten.

2009-03-28T23:48:00.003-04:00

Well it seems that I have forgotten about my lovely readers here in blogspot.

This week has been a very exciting one.

Lots of you may know already, but I got accepted into Full Sail. (I can already hear you, "of course you did, everyone does.... but can you afford it?") Yes.... that IS the question. I have my faith in God that He will pull me through. I cant explain it....... but I KNOW that I am going to be there..... I just dont know HOW right now :)

In other important news, I totally Passed American Gov..... -sigh- that was a relief. and other than that, I am still getting comfortable in church. though..... completing this might take some time. I am learning alot about myself, and im loving it. Almost seems like a Teen Movie. But thats the way life is.

-sigh-......

g'nite guys.... I'll see ya later.

Meditating

2009-03-17T22:42:00.001-04:00

I find meditation to be...... Amazing. I love just tuning out the rest of the world and just....... stand there.

It's like taking a breather. Like hitting the pause button. Like being susppended in air.

Usually when I speak about meditation it involves God. But this time I just stood there.

LOL now that I think about it, I can't not think about God. So In a way, I was meditating with the big guy. I still am........

When your brain overloads, you just need somewhere to dump the excess..... Thin air is the best place. Well aside from just talking to someone.

I think that if I do this everyday, I will be able to handle all that life throws at me much easier. That and praying.

So now I lay in my futton with an Ice pack on my knee just.... Chilling ( no pun intended ).

Oh and for Colin's sake

-Josue

Stay In Check

2009-03-16T17:52:00.003-04:00

On Sunday Josue and I were talking about our problems with keeping our self in check with god and we found out that were being lazy. Lazy when it comes to staying in contact with God.

For instant we know we got to read the bible everyday at least 1 chapter a night. But we let others things stop us from reading it, time pass by and you realize that you haven't been reading for about 4 month and there something wrong with you, and you tell yourself to read but you say "I'll read it later or tomorrow" and you do the exact same thing the next day.

What going on? No!! I'm still in control I'll read tonight. But nothing happens.

So Josue and I came to a conclusion which is we as humans like to be in control but we should surrender our lives to God but we don't, and stop saying your in control because your not, don't let it reach a breaking point in your life.

So in order to fix this problem we have to take baby steps
1) Prayer
2)Bible
3)Get Involve

If you can't pray on a daily basic then start there. Pray until you got that down where it's to a point you pray everyday then you can move on to reading the bible everyday and last you like getting involve.

That my friend is the basic principles for a christian if you have that down then your relationship with christ will grow and change the world you live in.

Sounds easy but it's not you try and tell me how it goes.

Does age matter?

2009-03-15T18:06:00.001-04:00

So today I visited "La Primera" and I had an awesome conversation with Isaac. We talked about everything, but the one topic we both seemed to have on our minds was the age barrier when it came to being attracted to girls.

Now, me and Isaac are very compatible, and we both noticed that we tend to go for the older women ( notice how I say women, we are 18 after all )

Anyways, I established that I tend to look to the 19 - 22 age group. Isaac looks at 18 - 20.

In my case, I was fine with my age range, that is untill my good friend Elizo told me that me dating a 22 year old would be a little wierd mainly because it would be like I was dating her.....

That is kinda creepy.

So what do you guys think?

I will post my new age range after I see zone answers.

-Josue

Im back

2009-03-02T10:03:00.001-05:00

// Here is an insight in my mind the past weekend.

-sigh- so I am in a huge need for an update, so I guess today is the best time to do so.

I am heading out to puerto rico for a wedding, and yet again I confirm that I hate traveling with my imediate family.

Right then, right now I an in my car, typing this on my iPod ( LOL @ how it capatilizes iPod ) and we are on the way to the port of air.

You guys want to know what's on my mind? I'm thinking about why I am not reading the bible as much as I should, and how I could fix that. I got an app that's a devotional and a bible at the same time, let's see If I use it.

Side note: it's hilarious to see some one not put to practice what they learn.......but sad at the same time.

Surrender ..... Would it get me away from all this ? Have I surrendered?

Brb

I fear my batts are gonna run out..... Bbl

I know that I am not in the right place with God, I really don't know what to do any more.......

So the wedding was cool, it had an open bar and we had family there so, I enjoyed it.

Now we are going to eat breakfast before leaving back to miami.

I lost data..... I got to calm down

Dare you to move...... The song has a point, it's on me. But it's so hard. "I dare you to move like today never happened"

Jesus gave us a clean slate, should we start each day over anew?

I know I have messed up, and I long to make up for it.....I guess I am going to try.

To end, I love these trips, I always learn something about myself. Well, not learn but grow..... In a way.

//End

just woke up...

2009-02-15T18:30:00.003-05:00

dont you ever wish you could just stay asleep all the time........

when you sleep, you dont fret over anything.... nothing is important... theres just darkness. Its not an overwhelming darkness... just..... like a screen, and on this screen your dreams play out. if your not dreaming.... you are just resting.......

nobody hates resting.........

I wish I could just sleep

WHAT THE H#$%^&

2009-02-14T20:51:00.001-05:00

http://thevibe.socialvibe.com/index.php/2009/02/13/13-year-old-uk-boy-becomes-a-father-huh/

WHAT IS THIS?!?!?

A 12 year old kid having sex, and even worse BEING A DAD!?!??!

THAT SHOULDNT EVEN BE POSSIBLE!

im speachless.........

discuss this.....

on a note.... idk how accurate this is..... I am going to be investigating

-Josue

First wave...

2009-02-10T21:10:00.004-05:00

After a while of being connected with God, One gets a kind of alarm in thier head when something is going down... well mine is ringing loud and clear. The economy is bad, my family is suffering, and well.... I am still not reaching my goal with Christ. -sigh- sometimes I hate being human.

College was daunting.... now its just straight rediculous.... 72k? man.... thats alot of money, I laugh because the only way I will get through this is by trusting in God...... which conicidently I am struggling with :\ . Funny how He works huh?

Man, I wonder how Amp got through this... -scoff- with good grades, thats for sure. But a lazy bastard like my self, well..... thats another story all in itself. I have got to become more organized and God help me...... please.. help.

I never thought that my life would get to where it is now.....but i am sure as freak glad it is.

James 1:

2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

Amen.........amen.....

Updates now on Facebook!

2009-02-02T16:53:00.002-05:00

Hey guys, Josue here.

I have now routed the updates from this blog and my film blog to show updates

in Facebook. Now all those that are connected to me will be able to see and comment

on our devotionals and random posts.

Now for the update. I am getting some new software to edit the video of our trip

to DC, and that will be up shortly. We have our pics up, and I will link that along with our

video. It HAS been a while, and lets just say that we have been busy.

I have a feeling that God has been moving in ALL of our lives (I have noticed that we are connected like that).

well keep you updated

-Josue

New Year's Resolution

2009-01-25T13:39:00.000-05:00

So it's a lil late to think of new years resolutions but I came up with a few that really valid to me. Every year brings new blessings, trials, obstacles, triumphs etc etc, but I realized over the last few years that I have kinda lost touch with whom I was. I was more quiet, more reserved, more soft spoken, and over time I've let drama, other people, trials etc, push me into being more loud quicker to anger and rude. Lol, I remember criticizing a friend cuz she was so quiet and introverted but I get her now in a way.

I miss being like that now, it's so simple to live in a bubble, but I do think it's also foolish to do so. The problem is us (people), we have a hard time finding a balance and accepting that we have flaws, but I usually never have a hard time accepting flaws, cuz my parents taught me from a very young age that self acceptance and awareness brings about maturity. My flaw has always been to give too much to people whom have never really tried to give back. I think in a cynical sort of way my life has always been a cycle of heartbreaks and failure of meeting expectaions. BUT i will never loose neither faith nor trust in humanity. I have learned the hard way what it feels like for someone to say "I dont trust you anymore" and I dont think I ever want someone to hear that from me. It's a feeling of loss, but then you realize that if ppl say those things to you, you never really mattered to them in the first place.

This is where I vow to be more like my old self (if u want to call it that), I have to relearn how to focus myself like before, how to love others but not let them bring their baggage onto you, how to know when someone trully cares or just needs a quick fix, and finally how to learn to be the old calm measured and reserved DRE of 5 years ago, the one who was more humble, less of himself, and more easy going.

Funny story

2009-01-14T18:30:00.001-05:00

Right then guys,

I hope you saw the update video, and I assure you.... the good vid is going up.
I have just been... busy with finals and what not.

so check this out, I come from school early today and I knock out on the bed.

I wake up like 3 hours later, and I think im late for school. I look at the clock....
and Im late for school.

I rush over to my mom's room, and im like what time is it!!!!

and my dad's like 6:30........

and I look at my dad... and I look outside... and im like.... Oh, THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!

I have a veryy important Final tomorrow and I cant miss it.... amongst other things.

ok bros....im going back to sleep

Update

2009-01-12T21:08:00.001-05:00

House Vist

2008-12-28T14:16:00.002-05:00

Man friday was one crazy day can you belive it. I know a person with no sense of direction you know who i talking about it's jouse. He got lost from mirmar all the way to some where in east hialeah wow good job jouse. Andy just told him to head to church which was a few blocks away and he ended in hialeah wow but not to worry with my graet looks and sense of direction i talk to im on the phone and re-route him on the right way to head back to church and yes jouse there is a huge difference between streets and aves. So i didn't have a ride after the mix and bobo Aka(jouse) give dave and I here a ride back home. So once we got there we invited him, he met my parents and saw my room and boy did we have some laugh. Just ask him ur self. Like the block of wood yes thats right a block of wood, a sock hanging from the croner of my room and how messy it was but not to worry we got that clean up. He was also amazed with the things dave and i build like dave build a checker board made of wood and I here build a tool box of sheet metals. Well at the end of it all bobo doesn't know how to ride a long board like come on it's like 5"11 or 6 feet come on thats big and he fell and rolled all over the street as if he never rode on before wow very kool bobo. But beside that it was fun and he got to see my room. Well thats all for now

Later
P.s. You happy now bobo .

Surely We Can Change

2008-12-26T11:25:00.002-05:00

U know "Fuzzball" (AKA Josue) has a point .... Ironically, well not ironically if u believe in fate. But on tuesday I bought the new David Crowder CD/DVD concert album (totally worth ur money BTW). On the DVD david towards the end of the concert mentions and conveys a theme. That theme being that if we only LIVED what we sang sometimes, the world would be a better place. He goes on to mention that our testimony is such a powerful tool that if we trully express what we believe in we can move the lives of others'. He closes by saying that the following song should be our prayer and wishes everyone to go home safely etc etc God Bless!

SURELY WE CAN CHANGE

And the problem is this
We were bought with a kiss
But the cheek still turned
Even when it wasn't hit

And I don't know
What to do with a love like that
And I don't know
How to be a love like that

When all the love in the world
Is right here among us
And hatred too
And so we must choose
What our hands will do

Where there is pain
Let there be grace
Where there is suffering
Bring serenity
For those afraid
Help them be brave
Where there is misery
Bring expectancy
And surely we can change
Surely we can change
Something

And the problem it seems
Is with you and me
Not the Love who came
To repair everything

Where there is pain
Let us bring grace
Where there is suffering
Bring serenity
For those afraid
Let us be brave
Where there is misery
Let us bring them relief
And surely we can change
Surely we can change
Oh surely we can change
Something

Oh, the world's about to change
The whole world's about to change

SO in short I totally agree with Josue. Sometimes we sing music and do so many things for God out of a ritualistic habit that we totally loose the true point of what we are doing. The key lies in recognizing when you begin to fall into the ritualistic and not the spiritual. ;)

Christmas

2008-12-25T08:33:00.003-05:00

So its Christmas morning, wake up to find presents under the tree, spend time with the family, and spend the next 2 hours playing around with your new gadgets.

But, isnt there supposed to be something more? Yea, its the "celebration" of the birth of Christ, but we all know that isnt whats being celebrated here... Its times like these that can make us notice things.

Im not posting a "Celebrate Jesus/ Jesus is the reason for the season" article, but just something that came to mind last night on my way home from a party (which will have its own blog after this one.)

I was listening to the I <3 Revolution CD by Hillsong, and as usuall Im jamming to the songs. The CD starts off with The Time Has Come. You all know that is MY song :), but this time it was different. For some reason I heard the lyrics.. and I couldnt sing them, and I asked my self why? The answer, as usual, hurt, and it was becuase I felt that I shouldnt just sing the words if I didnt LIVE the words.

So how bout we do this for a devotional this week?
Dissect the lyrics

The Time Has Come:

Found love beyond all reason
You gave Your life Your all for me
And called me Yours forever
Caught in the mercy fallout
I found hope found life
Found all I need
You're all I need

The time has come
To stand for all we believe in
So I for one am gonna
Give my praise to You

Today today it's all or nothing
All they way
The praise goes out to You
Yeah all the praise goes out to You
Today today I live for one thing
To give You praise
In everything I do
Yeah all the praise goes out to You

All we are is Yours
And all we're living for
Is all You are

The Rollercoaster

2008-12-24T10:41:00.001-05:00

So aside from trying out the vlog, I have lots to report

This Christmas season has been... interesting. I had planned to work all break long, but so far these last weekend has been...non-productive

Not that I have not enjoyed it, but I plan not to waste any more time playing PS2 (which has been extremely fun)

As many of you guys know (all three of you) I have turned 18 years of age. And my thanks goes out to those that helped make it awesome, in the video

My day

2008-12-20T23:45:00.003-05:00

Well today was the big 3 v 3 basketball tourny, and I was at the church recording (with my new acquaintance James Carroway). Man, talk about a long day, I had plans to go out with a certain someone, and a friend, but that was canceled.... damn girls...

Talking bout girls, you guys remember that one girl.... yea.. that one, well I was looking back in some miniDV tapes I had and guess what I should find in the second tape?

Her face....
its amazing how the feelings come rushing back, let me tell you, that was no ordinary girl (super girl -snicker-)

anyways, lets not ruin a perfectly good blog post with girls, after a hard day's night I spent the rest blowing off heads in Gears of War 2...

God bless the programmers of that game :D

so tomorrow is the big day, Im pissed that Amp wont be able to be there earlier, but what can ya do right? other than that.... it has been an interesting day so far. IDK if we are going out of town anymore, and having a car now, I can feel my parents leash on my getting tighter.

hope you guys enjoy the rest of your week.... I know I will :)

We Never Change

2008-12-18T13:10:00.003-05:00

I was goin to write about a specific experience (feeding the homeless) but then I realized that our whole lives are one big experience... so I was in the mood to write about something different :/

People never change... there comes a point in one's life where it's too late to teach you new tricks. Some though have the ability to learn and renew themselves irregardless of age. Sometimes it's God, sometimes it's a near death encounter, sometimes it's a simple change of scenery that can cause a person to rethink who they are and what they believe in. But humans are creatures of habit and breaking old habits requires will power, and in my opinion, help from The Almighty.

Lately some of the people I care about most have not been trying very hard to break ol' habits. Instead it seems like they embrace them and feel happy in their own lil bubbles. My reply to their actions has been prayer and a certain degree of separation from those people. But in there lies my dilema. When you trully love a friend(s) you technically shouldn't cast them to the wayside, but the truth is the habits of this person(s) aren't very beneficial to their spiritual lives nor to anyone else around them. The good book says be wary of gossip and other harmful actions with our tongues but what can a man do except for prayer? I have already tried tellin the person(s) to be careful of their actions, but they persist in doing what they want.

I feel as if people really never do change in the end... they choose to believe in things but never really commit to making themselves better humans. Therefore I now feel as if I am in MY OWN lil bubble... but GOD always has a purpose for these things. I just hope my friends can realize thier own purposes.

:)

What are some of the reasons people are so stubborn????

Ran: Talking

2008-12-16T22:48:00.002-05:00

So Im talking to Isaac right now, while I am writing this blog post, and I have gotten him on board to help us out with some devotionals and a lot of good times here in blog city.

so how bout everyone says hi?

So this Sunday is my b-day (woot) and we are planning this awesome lan/360 party at Alex and Delvin's house. GoW 2 all the way.

other than that, I am dieing for the winter break to start, and school to finish (allthough Dinlocker is killing me :\ )

OH BTW: Frisbee is a man's sport. we have been playing it at school for the past 2 days.... and its awesome

-Josue

Dev: Isaiah 42:16 - Focus

2008-12-15T23:16:00.002-05:00

For some one that has a hard time focusing (on things that are not beneficial for him at the moment), I find my self in very .... -sigh-... whats the word...demotivating situations. For example, promising to God, and to myself, that I will try harder to do what He tells me.

Take a wild guess, as to if I stay true to my word or not.

This has got to be the 20th time that I have been through this cycle of thoughts, in one way it is very pitiful, but what can I say.... I'm flawed. On the other hand, we cant just leave it at that. If ANYONE is going through something like this, we need to man (or woman) up to the task.

Yes, I know its hard (you shove a xbox 360 control (or ANY other control) with a game attached, and I will be on there for hours...... no matter WHAT has to be done.), but we have to be stronger. In my case, I hear God telling me "you should ignore that and continue working", but me being the idiot that I am, I go for the immediate pleasure (which, by the way, turns to bite me in the *** later). Me being imperfect, I fall into the temptation, no matter how HARD I dont want to.

That is because I am doing it on my own. Check out the verse

Isaiah 42 :16

I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;
I will lead them in paths they have not known.
I will make darkness light before them,
and crooked placed straight.
These things I will do for them, and not forsake them

Dang, God is promising us that he wont leave us hanging there. Imagine, not having to face the temptation alone, but having The Almighty along side you giving you the strength to overcome the bastard, that is the tempatation.

Of course it wont be like this
"Ok God, lets do this......." -done-

no, we have to have faith in God, because if not, He wont be able to "I will lead them in paths they have not known."

Without faith, God CANNOT work in us, we need to believe in Him 100%.

Ran: Whoa

2008-12-10T23:22:00.002-05:00

So I just finished watching The Chronic (WHAT)les of Narnia : Prince Caspian, and let me tell you.....
wow

I have been feeling the urge to get back into videos, but after watching that movie, man I am going crazy. I feel like I can take on any movie idea RIGHT NOW...... well.... actually, maybe tomorrow :)

I think that 2009 is going to be an awesome year, that is.... if I get all my crap together.... Man, is getting ready for college hard or what? I think I will enjoy GOING to college more than applying to them.

Anyways, on a side note, I got a haircut and I played at Pembroke Road Church tonight. It was awesome, the crowd was a little..... lackluster, but none the less, it was good.

Something I noticed is that I need to learn how to spend time with God, EVEN IF I am working FOR God. Its really difficult getting into the night, when you got computers crashing left and right and you are running around trying to get it fixed.... its funny... because I just noticed, its ordered chaos.

anyways, Christmas is coming up, and expect pics....... lots of pics. This is of course after the break, because I am going to be too busy.... PARTYING!!!!!

lol, Texas should be a blast, and I know DC is going to rock.

well Im out for the night. God bless guys,
Oh, and dont forget to comment AND (for you that CAN) post here too k?

laters
-Josue

Dev: Psalm 113 : 7-9

2008-12-09T00:57:00.000-05:00

(feel free to read the entire chapter)

Our status now, as a country and as young adults, is not the best of
positions; but by the glory of God, we have some how been going
strong.

Psalm 113: 7-9

"He raises the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the ash heap,
That he may seat him with princes- with the prince of His people.
He grants the barren woman a home, like a joyful mother of children
Praise the Lord"

Right now we could be praising God for something that we take for granted every day, the fact that we are still being supplied for.

Give thanks to God, and please, don't be afraid to leave a comment and talk about this.

-Josue

** Blog Detour

2008-12-07T23:40:00.001-05:00

Ok so from here on, we are taking a different approach to this blog thing,
Andres has joined forces with me and this will become a place to do some
devotionals

This should be interesting, but of course, we will have our random posts also
so to distinguish Dev(otional) posts from Random posts we will start with

Dev: _______

lets see how this goes :)

-Josue

haha..... about that

2008-12-06T22:32:00.000-05:00

Right then, So I was gone for a while.

here's what happened:

We have a LAN party (which I didn't mention on the blog) at Alex and Delvin's house.
its all good and games until some issues arise between 2 others (a couple of us dont notice,
because Gears of War 2 is WAY more important). Skip to the end of the weekend, I MISSPLACE
my Charger for my laptop.

It was torture, a week without my......well my baby :)

any ways I am back and man, do I have a story to share.

Conflicts of Doctrine, Choices of churches, Relationships, I'm telling you, I can make a movie out of this.

I will share that story...... later.

Right now its 8:17 AM and I have been working ALL night to get a video done
for church. (I know, its a regular thing for me)

so I will leave you with that, and I will share more next time, and I will make sure that
next time isnt 2 weeks away

-Josue

Following Christ, alone.

2008-11-25T23:12:00.000-05:00

Hey there,

This is going to be a blog about my life as a Christian, think of it as a way for me to
track the progress I have been making.

Yes, I know, how pitiful am I that I need a blog to track myself..... but hey, what can you
do right?

So today I have made the choice to accept the fact that I can not live this life alone,
that is, without any other Christian to share it with.

I think that is why God gave us the church (not the building), to be able to talk to someone
and to share the love He gives us.

I would LOVE to give some Biblical Reference (here on known as BR), but its late.... and I am dead tired.

so, note to anyone reading this, and to my self

//Dont be afraid to share with others, they just might be going through the same thing.

laters,

-Josue