Why do this at all?

Over the last few months I have been thinking about whether or not to start a blog at all. I know a lot of my family and friends love calling me and talking or just reading my posts on Facebook, so I thought maybe some others could benefit from my ideas and the thing going through my head if I wrote them down. 

But at the same time, I am a new christian, I have been a christian for only 2 years and 10 days now. And I feel like some people may think that I am not ready to be writing about christian Topics. 

But as I thought and prayed about it God keeps putting on my heart that I am in a unique situation and I have a chance to encourage my Family and friends using the things that happen in my life and the experiences I have. 

God has kept reminding me that Paul became a believer and then was out preaching the gospel IMMEDIATELY. He didn't spend years learning and sitting in the back, no the bible says that "immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying "he is the son of God"" (Acts 9:7)

We are told so many times in the bible how important it is to build each other up and love each other. The whole chapter of 1 Corinthians 14 is about using the gifts the Holy spirit gives us. I intend to use this blog to try and use what the holy spirit has given me. 

So throughout all of my posts and ramblings I intend to try and stick to a few simple themes:

First is the scriptures. The Scriptures are the inerrant word of God and is the absolute most important thing to base this off of. We know that "16 dAll Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that ethe man of God1 may be complete, fequipped gfor every good work." (2 Timothy 3:16-17) So I believe that EVERYTHING I write on here has to be based in the Scriptures. Please don't believe anything I write unless it agrees with scripture.. This leads me to my second thing..

Constant study of the Bible. We as humans are so easily deceived. You see it all over the world. People buy into all sorts of ponzi schemes and crazy ideas. and it all comes back to the fact that people will listen to anything you tell them, because they are not grounded in the scriptures, they don't have that constant, unchanging perfect truth to base their lives off of. The word of God is truth. it is absolute unchangeable truth that is perfect. Yet A lot of Christians never pick up their bibles and read it for themselves, instead they just listen to what others tell them, this is why so many Christians are lead astray by the likes of people like Joel Osteen, Rob Bell, and Joe Smith. I could talk for hours about this, because it is such an important issue. But I will save that for a later date. Just remember that the next time you turn on the TV or go to Facebook, you could spend that time in your bible Sharpening your "Sword of the Spirit" (read Ephesians 6:10-18)

Prayer/Fasting/Offering: I feel like these 3 go hand in hand. All three are neglected.. In America it seems like we only give God "what we have extra" and I don't mean only money.. we pray "if we have time" we fast only when we are told to or are doing it for some cause, and we only give whatever money we have "left over" But this is in absolute contrast to What Jesus Teaches. When he told us to "sell our possessions and give to the poor" (Luke 12:33) he did so because he wants us to have our focus on him and not our money. When he talks about giving it is always off of the top, it is the first fruits of your crop, not the left overs. And this isn't just with money, it includes your time.. If you devote the first of your time to the lord it will keep your focus on him and not on the things of this world.

Evangelism: Evangelism is where my heart is. I was saved because of the Evangelistic work of a few diligent laborers. Jesus commands each and everyone of us to evangelize. we are ALL his witnesses. We are ALL told to share the faith and we are all commanded to be ministers of the Gospel.. let me make my point on this one clear right now.. YOU HAVE BEEN COMMISSIONED BY THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE to seek and save the lost. It is just as much your job as it is your pastors. You cant expect the churches to save the lost, if you leave it to the churches, it will never happen. Jesus went in to the world to save the lost. Paul went in to the world to lead the lost to repentance. EVERY single one of us MUST purposely be seeking out conversations and working to fulfill the great commission. I named this Blog Watchmen on the wall because that is what we are. If you read Ezekiel 33 you see that God has commissioned us to go out in to the world and sound the trumpet of warning to the lost. Once again I could talk for hours on this.. But I want you to remember that you are a minister of the Gospel. God has called you to be a fisher of men. Who do you know that isn't saved? what are you doing to lead them to the Cross?? (read Matt. 28:18-20)

All Scriptures I reference On here will be from the ESV, unless I annotate otherwise.