Its TIME!

It seems to me that a LOT of people have been told by God to do things and they have just been sitting on those instructions. So I wanted to write a little something to that. 

First if you know that God has instructed you to do something and you have just been chilling... GET UP OUT OF YOUR STAGNANT STATE AND GET TO WHAT GOD SAID TO DO!! You are only hurting yourself by not doing it. Realize that God is not obligated to hold the spot for you. If you refuse to do what He has asked of you he will move on to the next person. 

We need to be aware of the fact that WE as the B.O.B (Body of Believers) are the hands and feet of Jesus! I know that may seem cliche, but I want you to realize that God, due to his law of free will, can not do anything on this earth with out a willing vessel. We are that vessel. We have to want to be obedient to what God asked of us. Putting our self aside. Remember that is what we signed up for when we told God that we wanted him to be the head of our life and that we were going to serve Him! 

These Excuses WON'T cut it any longer. I am bringing this to your attention so you are now accountable for it. If you are feeling convicted Good! You should! God has so much planned for you, but your stopping the process due to your disobedience!

So lets bust up some of these excuses, a lot of these is what I was telling myself. 

"This can't be for me, I am not equipped"

Oh yes it can!!! and yes it is!! You have to know that if God gave it to you. Then it is yours. Unless you choose to give it away. One phrase that we often hear is "God does not call the equipped he equips the called' If God gave you a task then it is for you and you are more than capable of pulling it together. When David went to fight Goliath he didn't say "I can't do this.. I am not properly equipped with the gear that is needed for a battle". No, David who carried around a sling picked up three stones( Gods equipment #1) and used what he had to take down a giant. Eventually killing the giant with the giants OWN sword (Gods equipment #2) . So don't worry about if you have what it takes to do what God told you to. 

In my own expierence when I started my web videos I didnt think that I was properly equipped but then I realized I don't need a fancy camera. My iPad works just fine, or using my computer camera. I dont need to by the most expensive editing material iMovie works just fine (for those who dont own a mac iMovie is just a means of recording and editing built into the computers)  I kept stopping myself because I didn't think I was going to be able to make super great fantastic videos with what I had. But it's not true! I was more than equipped with what I needed! And as time goes on I know what ever else I need God will provide. So don't worry about what you think you don't have. Your ready! 

"I am not ready for this!"
You ARE ready! I have been listening to some things on God and his timing. The result is that God has a plan for your life that he has laid down certain spots of grace and favor for the tasks that was given to you! Often times God is telling us "do this now!"  We have the tendency to think that God doesn't know what he is talking about because the environment that he is asking us to do it in isn't right or it seems like what ever the task is won't be received by the people but the thing is... God knows EXACTLY what he is doing and why He has you doing something AT THAT TIME. If whatever it is, is rejected know that they are rejecting God NOT you. So you can not take offense to it. Put all your trust in God and move on what he has said to do!

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end" Jer 29:11

"There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ jesus appears." Phil 1:6 MSG

"God has asked me to do something that I haven't spiritually conquered yet"

I am not exactly sure if that wording came out right but I am going to go with it so bare with me. I know when it came to me starting Project_1dentity webisodes that I kept stalling because I wondered how can God ask ME to teach others my age on something that God is still dealing with me on. I don't want to be a hypocrite I want to be able to give them hope that they can conquer what they are going through. The beauty in this is that you don't HAVE to be perfect! God does not expect you to come perfect. God used all kinds of people from prostitutes to  shepherds, from peasants to even a few people to have his tasks completed. It doesn't matter where you are in life God can and will (if you open yourself to him) use you. Most of the people that God gives tasks to and uses are people that he knows that weakness but the funny thing about God is.. the area that you feel your at your weakest is what God uses to help build into a strength! 

Like for me I am a very timid person, very shy and at times very insecure. Isn't it funny that God would call me to start a video ministry?! Something that millions of people will see? Not only that Im the daughter of a pastor meaning at some points I have to actually be in front of the church but you know in all of that I am (notice the tense) still becoming more and more acclimated to being in front of and around people and accepting me for me! 

"I can just get to it later"

ummmm...NO. If God didn't give you a "start on this day" date, then you SHOULD assume that he means IMMEDIATELY...actually don't assume it, KNOW IT! You don't know how long your time on this earth is. Also, like I mentioned before the task that God had laid out for you and the blessings that he wants to give you he can easily give to some one else. One thing that I have been taught is that what God needs to get done in this earth he WILL get it done its just a matter of who is willing to be his open vessel to do things by. If you accepted to be the willing vessel, then be willing to work and be obedient to whatever he has given you at that time!

'People probably won't like the idea"

If God gave it to you then just cast this thought out of your brain. What would be the point of God giving it to you if NO one was going to receive it? No! You step out on faith and you do it. God will reach who he needs to just because of your obedience. It's not even about what other people think. YOU just be obedient to God. He will take care of the rest. 

"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me"  John 12:32 KJV

A few things I have learned. 

  1. Never forsake small beginnings- remember you have to start somewhere! 

          "Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in zerubbabels hand" Zech 4:10

 2. God is always with you. He wont give you something and then just leave you hanging to figure out what to do next. He has a plan. You are part of that plan!

3.HAVE FUN AND GET CREATIVE! Sometimes its not that God has left you once he informed you of what to do. Sometimes he wants you to get creative use the gifts he gave you and you imagination (which is like his) to accomplish the task. Dont get frustrated. Make sure what ever it is keeps you in his will LOL because you definitely wouldn't want to do something that gets you in trouble but don't be afraid to dream big! If he didn't give you point by point  "do not deviate" instructions then do what it takes to get the job done! 

I can't wait to see where God is going to lead me and it inspires so much to know that he has such big plans for my life, even though at times I can't picture things further than my hand can reach God can see way far beyond that!

If this is you in anyway then I just want to encourage you to go ahead and get moving on that task don't hold back. You are more than ready and you are more than equipped there are people waiting on you to get started. I love you but God loves you even more. So on the count of three 

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When God tells you to do something you don't wait. These past two years I have been procrastinating on a video ministry that God instructed me on starting. Because of my own fears and insecurities, I kept putting off.

Finally, I couldn't take the feeling of knowing that I had been putting God off this long. How can I say I love him, and that I serve him but I don't do a task that he has given me.

I would  say that I know the reason some things in my life lately had been complicated was due to my disobedience. I would never know what it affected until I got on the right path. So I spent a whole day doing what I KNOW I needed to do. It was scary knowing that once I started this that I would HAVE to continue it. I can't just let it fall by the wayside. Gladly I know that God has a greater purpose with this ministry and I am very glad that he wanted me to have a piece in this. I am also glad to know that God actually waited on me to do this. He didn't give my task away due to my unwillingness and my apathy towards it. Now I dont know what God has planned for this but wether it succeeds or fails I know that all things work to my good because I love the Lord because I AM called according to his purpose( Ref. Romans 8:28). So I am not worried and I am not stressed about it. 

There is some learning that will have to go into this I know but I am definitely ready to see what is going to happen. Im trusting God completely on this because it is all for his Glory anyway.

So please enjoy the clip and I hope that you will stay tuned in with me! I love you but God loves you more!

~Chelsee W.

A New Mindset For A New Year

So first I want to say an early happy New year's to every one reading this. I know that 2012 has been a rough year for many to different extents. I just want to say some things about the new year that will be upon us in just a few hours. I see how most of you mention on twitter how you plan on turning this year and how 2013 is THAT year when everything is going to be great etc. Well this year I think that it is time to make it THAT year. We all know how New Years resolutions go... we make them and stick to them for about the first week and then after that we go back to the same ole same ole. Not really to interested in doing anything different because we have done it a certain way for so long. How about this year we actually change that, why not put in a little initiative and discipline into this year.

I want to direct this blog towards resolutions we definitely want to have for this up coming year.

1. Positive Speech
To often many of us have such negative things to say about not only others but about our own lives. we constantly talk about our selves in such a negative light and then wonder why our life seems so bad. In Proverbs the bible talks about our speech and how it affects us, everyone has head this scripture at least once in their life.
"death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [ for death or life] Proverbs 18:21 AMP
When it comes to school we constantly joke about how "o I'm just gonna fail that test anyway" even our little phrase "I'm weak" in just that alone we wonder why we give into temptations so easily. You want to stop dealing with something but in you bring up this term often. even though it is not directed towards a temptation you fight your STILL claiming weakness. Now I know some may say "Chelsee its really not that deep." and yet it is THAT deep. and example of how powerful words are, many of you remember in Mark where Jesus curses the fig tree because it was not producing in the time that it should have been. Jesus says to the tree in verse 14 of mark 11 " No one ever again shall eat fruit from you" later on when Jesus and his disciples were leaving jerusalem the disciples noticed that the fig tree has withered away by the roots. although that scripture is commonly used for how faith works it also shows how our words work especially when we believe in our heart what we say.So it still ties in.

2. Single-mindedness
From what I have seen many of us want to stop being so confused and complicated about how we live and how we want to live. So many are sitting on the fence what we want to do this year is to officially make the decision to be on GOD's side. Take this New Years for example so many will go to church and be at church until like 12 and the next stop is not home, the next stop might be a party or a club, to do what? Strut your stuff, risqué dancing. How is it that you pray to God and present yourself as holy and then take Gods temple and defile it? "double mindedness" if you truly honored God and his temple which is your body you would have given up all of that. Now I'm not saying you have to be boring and not go anywhere but I'm just saying understand your surroundings and how that affects you. How being in those situations can compromise the integrity of your relationship with God. Just be aware of that. But I digress. Don't let people talk you into feeling like you serving God is not good enough and that your missing out if your not out there living a worldly life. Remember we are in the world not OF the world. Your not missing out.

let's talk briefly of what the bible says about double mindedness.
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways James 1:8 KJV 9 double minded people have a hard time committing to one thing. they want to be in the church and in the world at the same time. They are are easily influenced by what the world says even though they know in their heart and spirit that what ever it is, is wrong. They are unstable because you never know what they are going to do.

3. Forgiveness
This probably should have been first but thats ok as long as its here. This one is MEGA important. We like holding grudges against people for what ever reason and yet that only affects us. It just burns us up on the inside, While the other person is still living a carefree life. But you know what. God does not take your unforgiving lightly. Jesus says in Matthew 6:14 and 15

"For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you: 15 but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
basically your refusal to forgive another cause God to not forgive you. and realize that if God does not forgive you that means that you are not in Gods will therefore God wont be able to bless you. It causes a domino effect. So forgive, get over your pride and talk to that person. Go and ask that person to accept your forgiveness after you actually forgave them, and if they don't accept its ok you will be good in God's eye and thats what matters.

ok Im trying to speed this up I didn't realize how long this got but its all important.

4.Self-Esteem
(sigh) there is SOOO much that can go with this but I'll try to keep this short.
1. Dont compare yourself, your life, your relationship status,etc. with anyone else doing that causes your self-esteem to drop way down. You dont have to worry about your life God has your life. Everything will be in his time if you let it be. Dont believe me just read what God himself had to say about that in Jeremiah.
"i know what I'm doing. I have it planned out plans to take care of you,not abandon you plans to give you the future your hope for" Jer 29:11 MSG
2. know who you are God's child. " I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well" Psalms 139:14
under all of that if your trying to get in shape then get in shape. find a person to go with you to they gym to eat with you so you chose healthy foods and so forth. Remember your body is the temple of God keep it up and keep it clean.

5. Singleness
I am going to write a blog on this later but just for now know that its not bad that you are single for the moment. Just because all of your friends got engaged or started relationships during this holiday season doesn't mean that you are behind in life God has his own plan for your life. remember the scripture that I used above about his plans for you. Trust him. If you start having ring envy then just go buy you a ring put it on your finger and get over the hype. I decided that my purity ring would have a double meaning because even i had a moment. trust me it helps. Also know that this time for you is to do what you can for God and the kingdom with out being tied to a significant other. You can also grow your relationship with him. Which is the ULTIMATE relationship.

Ok i believe that I have said enough for now LOL there is way more but I think these are good enough. I will probably do another five in the next few days. well I pray that you have a great New Years and I hope that you run with this. This year will be as great as you allow God to let it be, Be obedient to God. If your partying tonight please I beg be safe out there. Drink responsibly and dont drive drunk, and dont let your friends drive drunk call a taxi or AAA to come and help out if you must. if you have to go as far as a police officer then do it. Lets get as many people into 2013 as we can.

<3 Chelsee HAPPY NEW YEAR (2013)