Remembering Where You Came From

Hebrews 10: 32
Remember those early days after you had recieved the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering.
 

Calendar Fundraiser

I truly believe 2013 wil be the most exciting and challenging year of my life!  I have sensed the call of God to serve a 12 month internship at the "Honor Academy" in Garden Valley, Texas (www.honoracademy.com) .  During this internship, I will be serving with the largest youth minstry in the country, Teen Mania Ministries.  Through my internship, I will have the opportunity to make and impact on my generation as well as strengthen my relationship with the Lord.
The cost for thie life-changing internship will be almost $9,000.  I have been working very hard to save and raise the funds necessary.  I am currently working two jobs to save money for my internship but I will need the help of supporters in order to make all of this happen.  Would you consider supporting me as I commit a year of my life to impact my generation?
I am raising support using a concept called "the calendar fundraiser."  This idea is simple yet has the capability of helping me raise much needed funds.  There are a maximum of 31 days in  a month.  I am praying for 31 people who will commit to take one of these 31 days a month for nine months.  The person who takes Day 1 would commit to supporting me wiht $1 per month.  Whoever took day 5 would support me at the level of $5 per month for nine months, beginning in January of 2013.  You don't have to give a rediculous amount of money to take part in this fundraiser!  The largest amount given per month will be $31 and the smallest amount would be $1.
If you would like to partner with me as I passionately pursue the Lord please let me know by contacting me at my email: cassort55@gmail.com.  Thank you so much for your consideration!

Jotta A Agnus Dei ♫ Hallelujah ♪ ♫

This is amazing! I could not believe it when I saw/heard it. This young boy is eleven years old and he is standing in front of cameras on Brazilians Got Talent to worship his Lord and Savior. I wish I would have had that kind of boldness when I was his age.

Praying for the Lost

I work at a restaurant that is across the street from a courthouse. Almost every day that I work, I see prisoners going in and out of that building. Today, for some reason it really captured my attention. I asked a co-worker that I was with, "does it ever creep you out to see all the prisoners over there?" She responded, "no I just laugh at them becuase their losers.Suddenly I was filled with compassion for these prisoners. The world sees them as "losers" but God sees them as lost sheep. I decided that everytime I saw prisoners walking in or out of the courthouse, I was going to pray for them. I need your prayer support in this. If this story just happens to cross your mind during the day, pray for these lost people. Pray that they would repent of the wrong that they have done, and also pray that they would see that Jesus washed away their sins and by repenting they can start fresh in the eyes of the Lord. You could even pray for revival to happen in the prisons, nothing is too much for our God!

What Does it Take to Be Relentless?

As I posted before, my church is doing a study from the book Relentless written by John Bevere.  I have been learning so much from this study and I truly feel like my mind in being renewed to understand what the Grace of God truly is.  By the time this study is over I believe that I will have learned how to live my life with a RELENTLESS spirit.
Today, I was shown what a relentless attitude is truly like.  I have been having problems with the car that I bough recently.  The day I bought it, it had to be towed back to the dealer.  I picked the car up yesterday thinking that it was "fixed."  I drove it to my sisters house and when I went attempted to leave at 12:00 a.m. it wouldn't start!  What!?!?!  I couldn't believe what was happening.  That was the second time now that I had gotten the car and it broke down the same day.  My sister let me stay the night and the next morning I woke up all grumbly and down.  She tried her best to make me smile or laugh, or even just talk, but I refused to be the good company she wanted. 
Now my sister, she is one of the most determined people I know.  She has always gone so far out of her way to help me with projects or problems.  She sat down with grumpy ol me and began to rattle off different things that we could do.  She offered to give me rides places, offered to let me borrow her car, she started listing off people that we could possibly call to come look at the car, she listed ways to sell it if I didn't want to keep it anymore.  That girl went nuts with ideas!  Finally she came with the simple idea of, lets try to jump start it.  I told her no.  My dad was going to be coming by soon to look at the car so I just wanted to wait until he go there to do anything.  She insisted and without asking me got her boyfriends jumper cables and headed outside.  Her boyfriend was willing to help us out and we eventually got the car started.  Why?  Because my sister had a relentless attitude that we were going to get the problem solved.
What's the lesson here and how does it concern me and you?  In this situation, my attitude was to give up and wait for someone else to fix the problem (that someone else being my dad).  However, my sisters attitude was "there's a problem, and I am going to do everything in my power to fix it."  As I am learning in the book Relentless, grace is God's empowerment. My grace is all you need, for my power is greatest when you are weak (2 Corinthians 12:9 TEV).  We have the empowerment of God in us. If we all were to look at situations the way my sister did today and have the attitude of I will do everything in my power (God's empowerment by grace) to fix this then what can't we do?   

Bibles for Zambia!!

While I was in Zambia, I had the privelage of ministering to a group of 22 teenagers.  It was such a wonderful experience to be able to pour out Gods love to those kids.  At the end of the week, I asked the kids how many of them had a Bible at home.  Only two of the raised their hands.  Before I left them that day, I promised them that I would send each of them a Bible.  I took this project on not know how I would make it happen.  I don't have the money to buy them nice Bibles, though I would like to.  I am inviting you to partner with me on this project.  I looked around and found four old Bibles that I had which I will be donating to these kids.  If you have an unused Bible at your house, please consider donating it to the kids in Zambia.  If you are interseted in helping me in this, please shoot me an email.  Thank you for your help and support!

I Won't Relent!

Today has probably been one of the most emotional days of my life. This morning I woke up and declared in the name of Jesus that I was going to overcome anything the enemy threw at me today. I started off my day at a car dealer. I just sold my truck and was looking for a low priced car with good gas mileage to replace it. After looking through the dealer for a while, I began to get a little discouraged because we wern't finding anything decent in my price range. As we were getting ready to call it quits and leave, a red KIA Rio caught my eye. We inquired about the details of the car and found out that it was something I could afford, it would get about 35 miles per gallon, and it had low mileage. I started to thank God for sending something that seemed to perfect. My dad and I took it for a test drive and we both agreed that it would be a good car for me. I left the dealer with a new/used car and was so excited and happy about the deal we had just made.
Not even five hours later, I got in the car to drive it a few blocks away to the store, and the transmission went out!! WHAT!! I had just bought the car that day and it messes up on me. I called my dad with heat in my voice and exclaimed what was happenning with the car. I went to my church (where I had been all day since getting the car) and stomped past people to drop something off and rudely barked that I would be back I had to take the stupid car back to the dealer. I cried to my mentor about how every time things start to look good for me, something happens to make things worse. The attitude I had towards the people that I love was horrible. I got back in the car only to make it one block over before I couldn't move. We ended up having to tow the car to the dealer and they won't even look at it until Monday. I have no idea what will happen I don't know if they will give me my money back or try to fix it.
So, what is my point in all of this? While I cried and became frustrated, my mentor (Tara Cherry) began to tell me that I had nothing to fear because God was going to take care of me. The enemy is using everything that he can to try and bring me down, but as long as I remain Relentless and seek God with all of my heart and soul, I WILL prosper. I want to tell you that there is nothing that God cannot handle. Things may look terrible for you right now. This is just one day out of the insane week that I have had and lets be honest, from today it looks pretty bad. But at the end of the day I have joy in my heart because I am still going after God with everything that I have. I know my breakthrough is coming. I trust and beleive that God wants to bless my life, and He wants to bless yours too! Keep a relentless spirit for the Lord and He will bring you out of that place that you are in.
I say this out of faith right now. Keep an eye on this page. God is going to provide for me and you better believe that I will be putting it on here as a praise report!