Dear friends and family today was a great day. me and my Grandpa went to Wal Mart and I didnt bring my shoes so I could not go inside of the Wal Mart, but God was working something there and I started talking to this guy that was from Second Chance Program trying to raise money to get people back on there feet to have a second chance. I started talking with him and his name is Will and we started talking and he was telling me about the program and what it was all about and so I asked him if I could pray for him. He said sure and I started praying and while I was praying the name of his program came into my mind second chance ministries, and it reminded me how God has given us the greatest second chance in the world His Son Jesus. How when Jesus died on the cross we were given a second chance for our sins and a second chance to live with Him forever in Heaven all we got to do is accept Him into our lifes. After the Wal Mart I went and did a lttle work out with Pastor Bill and we played some basketball and I stayed and watch the playoff game Spurs and OKC. Judy brought some pizza home and we just had a great time. I love playing with his grandsons we were wrestling and just having a good ol time. I ask that you keep my parents and brother in prayer for they are coming down to where I am for a wedding on Saturday. Just that they will have a safe trip and that the traffic wont be that bad and that it wont be stressful. The wedding is on Saturday our friend Alayna is getting married. I love weddings they always remind me how when we came into a relationship with Christ we married into His family and that marriage can never be broken Amen. So overall I would like to say keep my mom and dad and bro for there trip as they come down and also for Will whom I met at Wal Mart that he will be safe and that God will be number one up in his life God Bless you
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Dear Friends and Family yesterday I was able to go and help this ladyand the pastor and his wife Judy clean and wash this motor home that we are going to use to help raise money for Africa. We went over there and washed the outside inside and just cleaned it out. It was a pretty good time bonding with the Pastor. Afterwards me and him went and got a sandwhich and shared it together then went to the church for the Bible study. As we got to the church one of the guys there said, "Hey pastor I see that you got your disciple with you there." I felt and so did he really good that someone said that about me, see I too it as I am learning about Christ as much as I can through Pastor Bill, and maybe one day I will lead a church of my own, if it is God's will Amen. Maybe one day ill have someone that somebody will call my little diciple if God is willing. You see I think that is what life is about, and I belive what that man said was a word from God. You see I would love to be a pastor of a church one day telling people about Jesus cause that is what this life is all about Amen. Spreading the good news whereever we may be, it could be in Africa like where were going in August or it can be right in our own very backyard. See you dont have to go to other countries to be a missionary for Jesus you can do it right where you live, in LA, Chicago, NY, Washington, wherever the Lord has placed you you can be a missionary there Amen. I always and I dont know if I have told you guys this before but I always say God has placed you where you are for a special reason for a divine appointment in that time of your life wherever you may be. If you can keep that mind set of when your talking to somebody were not looking for whats next whats around the corner, but just give our full attention to the person in front of us how many more people could we touch and how many more seeds will get planted in other peoples hearts. You see all we got to do is touch that one life and help lead them to Christ, then pray that they will go and tell someone that they know about Jesus and lead them to Christ and then that person goes andtells someone they know and leads them to Christ and so on and so on. Eventually that one person that you gave your full attention to they will tell someon then that one turns into 100 the that 100 turns into 200. It just keeps going and going, cause you never know who that one person can have a impact on he can have a bunch of people that look up to him and he can lead them all to Chirst and just to think it all started cause you gave him your full attention. You see that is the greatest Helping Hand we can give somebody to tell them about Christ, its not about helping them wash a car or helping them carry out there food to there car, sure those things are great, but the greatest help we can give to someone is leading them to Chrst. Now that they have Christ in there life they get to live in heaven for eternity and trust me they will appreciate that so much more then the time you helped them wash there car. You can look at it this way you didnt help them wash their car but you helped them wash their soul Amen
Desar Friends and Family today my next door neight took me and my grandma out for lunch it was very sweet of her to do. Her name is Blondell and whenver I hang out with her I always have a great time. Today is also my friend Matt's birthday he turned 21 and I am going to go over to his house on friday to celebrate with him. He is a very good friend I have known him all of my life and I think we will have a life long friendship. Our neighbor took us out to Sizzler and it was really good food that they had. We got the all you can eat salad bar and taht was really good I l ove salad lol. When I got home I started doing the P90X workout and it is really fun I have been able to see the changes. My friend Martin from Africa messaged me earlier today and he said that at his church they have been able to get some chairs for there church so the people have somewhere to sit now. I praise God for that information it seems like he is doing some great things. My Pastor Bill also called me today and I guess on Sunday we are going to go help move this motorhome for this lady I guess its going to be donated to the church which is a blessing. I want to ask prayer for thsi lady Dorthy who cleans my Grandmas house the reason why I ask is because her nephew got shot and kiled the other day. It has been happening a lot around here lately for the past four days someone has gotten shot and killed here. I just ask for prayer for the families who have lost someone by that and I also ask for prayer for the people that are thinking of going out there and planning to kill someone that there hearts will be softened and that they will have a conviction in there heart not to do it. I guess all the other day of the person that had been shot and killed the same people went to the funeral and killed some of the other members of the family, also in Fontana some girl was walking to a friends house to celebrate her 16th birthday and someone came up and shot her as well. It is just sad to me to see and here this in the newspaper everyday. We need a revival here in America my church family yea a lot of things are happening overseas but the same type of stuff is happening in our own country. God can do all things He can change hearts so let us pray that He will change the hearts of people here in America our country was founded upon God and lets make it stay that way Amen.
Dear Family and Friends yesterday I went and got my shots for my upcoming Africa trip that I needed and I also got my Malaria pills that I need for when im on the trip as well. I belive and I know that God will keep me from getting Malaria. thet shots that I got were my Hep A shots. I have to get one before the trip and then I have to get another one after I get back from the trip as well. The lady that gave me the shots was really nice and I started messing with her after she gave me the shot I was like OW and she looked and me then laughed because she had already pulled the needle out before I said that. I just like getting people to smile and have a good time in life cause that is what life is all about. Today as me and my grandma went to the post office there was this older lady walking to the door to get in and I held it open for her and was like I got to get the door for a beautiful young lady. She laughed and she was like I dont know about the beautiful and young part and I was like your are beautiful, I think that made her day. That is what I feel life is all about making people smile and laugh in this life. Me and my grandma also had a good time as we sent out the mail and also went and got something to eat we were talkng and getting each other to laugh and we were having a good ol time. My grandpa today got a new vaccuum cleaner and he is all thrilled about it and thiks its the greatest thing ever. Hes vaccumming all over the house and telling us just how amazing it is and hes all excited. The kid Lloyd who I was telling you guys about who my grandparents watch and whom I prayed for the other day, my grandparents found him another place to life in RIverside Ca, it is just getting hard for them to take care of him nowadays. I just ask that you keep him in your prayers that he will be safe and happy wherever he goes, If you knew Lloyd and if you do know Lloyd you know that he is an amazing guy and always happy go lucky guy no matter the situation really. Overall though it will be easier for my grandparents to deal with they wont have to take care of him all the time cause it is pretty hard, but dear friends and family I just ask that you keep him in your prayers I know that he will be alright.
Dear Friends and Family today my uncle is suppose to come over and help me cut up this tree that has fallen in the backyard of my grandparents house. I got to thinking how a tree kind of represents our conncetion with Jesus. It the Bilble its says that Jesus is the tree and we are his branches. Since we are the branches we are suppose to go out there and touch other peoples lives by telling them the good news of Jesus. Trees here on earth do not last forever as example the tree that has falen in my Grandparents back yard. I thank God though that His tree does last forever Amen and since we are His branches we shall last forever as well. Also heres another example of the tree, fruit trees and apple trees, the friut doesnt last forever you have to pick it at the right time if you want it to taste good, but see since we are part of God's living tree and we are His branches the fruit we bear shall always be ripe. There are times though where we can bear bad fruit like when were not living according to God's will, and if we stray to far we can become like that fallen tree in my grandparents back yard. My question is for you what kind of tree are you, are you a tree that is ripe and is bearing good fruit, are you a tree that is withered and its friut is rotten, or are you a tree that is dead and has fallen. I encouarge you to look deep into your heart and ask yourself that question. What I see is great about being one of God's trees where were either the one that has fallen and is no longer, or where were the one that is withering away and bearing bad fruit or where were the one that is ripe and bearing good fruit. No matter which tree we are today God can transform us into that tree that is bearing good fruit and is standing strong and healthy. All we got to do is dive into His Word and He will strenghten us strenghten our tree and make it to where we are bearing good fruit for the world to enjoy. Amen So I encourage you today to seek the Lord and to see out His will in your life and become a tree for all the world to see. A tree where people come to from all over the world to pick your fruit and then they get filled with the Holy Spirit and God's Word. I want to leave you with this, be a strong tree for the Lord today, bear good fruit and then watch and see the amazing things that God is going to do in your life for all etenity.
Dear Family and Friends in Christ today after church we had a BBQ out at the park. We had hamburger and hot dogs and drinks. It was really nice, we also had a bucnh of games of volleyball going on got a couple of games of baseball and even threw in a game of football. It was an amazing time spending it with the church family it brought us closer together not just as friends but as family in Christ. I love this guy alex he is realy amazing he was talking to me about the trip to Africa and how it is going to be an amazing experience and how it will change my life. I belive that it will also very much so and I am so excited for it. I got to hang with the kids and enjoyed playing with them. One of the best parts of it was the food I mean not only was it food but it was free as well lol thats what made it so good lol. Church was really good as well we had a bilingual service so where the pastor would say something in English then one of the guys would translate it to Spanish. It was very powerful a few people came up and gave thre life to the Lord it was awesome. Last night Lloyd Dickison this kid that my grandparents have adopted and have had for awhile ever since he was two days old. He was going really crazy last night screaming and yelling and he cannot talk so you dont really know whats wrong with him, but I started feeling the Holy Spirit moving inside of me and it urged me to go and pray for him that the enemy would stay far from him. I felt Jesus just working through me and Lloyd started calming down and wasnt loud anymore so I know it was the Lord. I also went and opend the Bible and started praying scripture over him and it seemed like he got even calmer. The Lord can do amazing things He can calm somebody just through His Word by using us. Our God can do all things and we can do all things through HIm Amen. So whatever your going through no matter the situation you can get through it with the help of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Amen. So I encourage you to praise the Lord everyday and always no matter what and watch the amazing things that He will do through you Amen
Dear Family in Christ last night I had a great time I went and picked up a friend from the job I use to have when I first came down here and we went and watched this Christian rapper named sharp skills he was pretty good I enjyed him. Got to talk with him for a little bit and I want to try to get to know him. He lives over in Long Beach and I am going to hit him up on facebook and try to hang out with him one of these days. That the kid I took with me his name is Mike and I am trying to lead him to the Lord will see what God does. I got to also meet his wife who is seven months pregnant. I just pray that the Lord will bless him and his family cause he is doing work for the Lord by writting music about Him. Ther was some other bands there as well one of the guys who I do the prayer meeting with his band was there and one of the guys who goes to my church his band was there as well. I want to ask you guys if you can keep my brother in prayer he was in a car accident the other day and he said he has some bumps and brusies, but just pray for him that God will just touch his life in a amazing way in a super natural way. Last night also when I got home my grandparents watch two kids that are mentally challenged. One of the kids his name is Lloyd Dickinson and he was screamin and yellin a lot last night and as I was trying to sleep I felt the Spirit of the Lord just start to take over me and I could feel Him flowin through me so I went over and I just started praying for him and I just felt like the enemy was just attacking him and as I started praying more he started calming down. I know the Lord was doing a good work and I thank God for being there in my midst last night. At the concert man I had a great time jumpin up and down runnin aroud just have a good time with the people and the Lord, but once again please keep my brother in your prayers and just pray that the Lord will work in his heart and that he will just become on fire for the Lord amen. Thank you brothers and sisters in Christ I love you all and God Bless
Dear friends and family in Christ this morning we had the meeting with the pastors again and it was really good got into the word, and it was amazing how God works. Just to take the time and listen to what God has to say and watch what He does. After the Bibile Study was over I was talking with this guy whose a youth pastor the one that gave me the Bible and said it was his surfing bible. He looked down and saw my shoes and saw that they had holes in the bottom of em and how I had cardboard inside to keep my feet from touching the ground. He looked at me and said here you go take mine and kicked his shoes off right there and had me put em on. After we headed to this place to have lunch and the whole time there I was crying cause of what he did. When he first tried to offer them I refused cause I didnt want to take his shoes but he told me that when someone offers a gift you got to be acceptive to it, and by being acceptive to it you can in turn grow from it and in the future be able to bless others. Which is so true ive realized that it is just as rewarding to see someone happy with a gift you gave them as it is to receive a gift yourself. So we all went out to lunch and I bought him his food as a return favor you can say, but boy do I feel blessed with the shoes he gave me they are very comfortable. Tonight I am going to go to a free concert at the same church the guys name is sharp skills whose going to be there he is a christian rapper, I am looking forward to seeing how good he is and maybe getting one of his cd's. I also am going to hang out with a friend from my old job and see if he would like to go with me to the concert it will be fun. Maybe ill have an oppurtunity to bring him to the Lord wouldnt that be sweet. I hope you all are having a good day and may God bless you.
Dear Friends and Family last night we had a Bible Study at the church, but it wasnt like your normal bible study. We each went up and shared a couple verses that meant somthing to us and we each gave a little testimony on how we came to know Chirst. I will share with you what bible verses I shared there and I will also share with you my testimony as well. So I went up and these are the Bible Verses I shared. One was Daniel 7:13-14 I was watcing in the night visions and behold, One like the Son of Man. Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Acient of Days, and the brought Him near before Him. 14 Then to Him was given dominon and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominon is an everlasting dominon, Which shall not pass away, and His Kingdom is one that shall never be destroyed. The other verse that I shared was Galations 2:20 this verse is one of my moms favorites and this is what it says. I have been crucified with Chirst; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lves in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Isnt it amazing to know that God loves us so much that He gave His one and only son to die for us so that we may live. The Bible study was really good, and this is the testimony that I gave. I grew up in a Christian home and I really loved the Lord I would read bible after bible after bible. I grew up in San Bernardino going to Christian schools playing baseball and doing really good. Then my parents decided to move and that really devastated me, and I began to fall away from the Lord. In highschool I started hanging with the wrong crowed going to parties and in 12th grade started to sell drugs with this other kid. I also was breaking into cars and taking peoples belongings. My life was going down hill and I didnt realize it. After highschool I moved back down to San Bernardino and I was still doing to partying life style. I was drinking like every weekend and even during the week. Started doing drugs mostly marijuana and I tried Ectasy one time. I was on the baseball team at Valley college in San Bernardino and ended up getting let go from there. I was just devastated, after awhile of doing the drugs and driking I became friends with this girl and she introduced me to some of her friends and we all began hanging out. One night we all went to Wal Mart and we ended up getting caught for shoplifting and spent the night in jail and got a big fine, and after that I was still doing the drinking. Then one day I went down to the ball field in Highland Ca by where my grandparents live and was throwing the ball into the fence. Then something hit me and I got down on my knees in the middle of the field and I said, "God if your real show yourself to me and let me know that you are." I cannot explain it to you guys but it was an amazing feeling that I got. This wind blew right away and gave me the chills and then the clouds parted and the sun shown down on me and gave me this warmth that was so amazing that if filled me from the inside out. My mom called me a few weeks later and told me that I shoud go back up to her house and go to school up there. So I went and tried school but it didnt quite work out for me. So I called my moms friend Lisa and I asked her if she knew of any mission trips that was happening and she mentioned this one to Africa coming up August 23rd. So I got a hold of Judy Henderson and she told me more about it and now I get the amazing opportunity to go, and this is something that I want to do for the rest of my life. God is good all the time and all the time God is good, He will chase us down when we are not following Him and eventually we will end up doing what He has called us to do anyways. It is always better to just follow God right off the bat instead of learning the hard way, but I was stubborn and leared the hard way. Well that is my testimony of how God chased me down to use me for His glory and I am so thankful that He did.
Dear Friends and Family in Christ, yesterday one of my dear friends basically family to me moved out to Chicago. He caught a plane last night and headed out. Please keep him in your prayers that he will be safe out there and be able to find work and just be able to start over brand new. Pray that His life would be full of abudance and that God will take care of him as he is there. Also pray that my dear friend will come to know the Lord as well. We have known each other since birth and he has had a pretty rough life, but I feel that if he turns to God it will get better for him. I hung out with him yesterday after me and my Pastor Bill had a workout. That was pretty fun yesterday morning, I like hanging out with Pastor Bill because I know we will encouarage each other in the Lord and that it will keep my mind focused on what is important and that is Christ. At the gym I met this big ol guy very strong. I started talking with him and found out that he belived in the Lord as well. It was funny cause he thought that me and Bill were father and son. We told him that in Christ we were family. That is how it is dear brothers and sisters, in Christ we are family we are children of God. It is just amazing to me to think that the God of the universe that knows all and created everything wants to have a relationship with you and I. I dont know about you but that makes me feel very loved and also small. I mean compared to the universe we are really small in comparison, but with that being said when we have Christ in our lives we can be bigger then ever. I also want to tell you that we need to let people see God in our everyday lives, when we are out there in public by the way that we act and the things that we do people need to notice something different about us, they need to see Christ in our lives. Would'nt it be amazing if while you are out there in public somebody random just comes up to you and says, "I have been watching you and I have noticed someting different about you, what do you have that makes you so different." Would'nt it be awesome to be able to say that it is because of Jesus He has made me how I am today. How many lives would be changed, how many lives would be saved? Amen God is good and He can do all things so I want to encourage you that after you read this for the rest of the day and even better the rest of your life. Live as though Jesus is right there with you cause He is, and live a life that gets people wondering and getting them to ask questions, and live a life worth pleasing Christ. You will see what a difference it will make and maybe someone will ask you what is different about you and you can tell them man I have Christ Jesus living inside of me and He wants a relationship with you as well. Amen God Bless you guys today.
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AuthorMy name is Zachary Williams and I want to do the Lord's will and I want His will to be my heart's desire. I am from San Bernardino Ca, and I have felt that the Lord is calling me to go and tell people about him throughout the world my first mission trip is to Mexico, then Africa, and I pray more will come in the future. If some more come I will blog about them as time goes on. I pray that everyone of you who has visited my site will be blessed by the Lord and may He be your #1 focus in life. God Bless each and everyone of you. If you do happen to send support financially please send donations to AGAPE Church 950 Laureate Lane San Luis Obispo Ca 93405 Please state that it is for Zach Williams MissionsThank you so much for supporting the work of the Lord and God Bless. Archives
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