Sometimes God Doesn't Show You the Blueprint, Just the Next Step

First and foremost, I have to give a shout out to my homegirl Mirjam, for making this AMAZING blogger for me. I hit her up on skype and said "man, as much as I want to blog, I'm too slow and lazy to create an account." Two hours later, Mirjam had everything all set up for me, so thank you Mirjam.

As you all may know, I'm going to be heading out to the Land Down Under aka Australia, to study Pastoral Leadership at Hillsong College. So I figured I would start this blog so I can keep everybody back home up-to-date. 

I'm heading out Down Under on January 12th, and I don't think I could be more pumped! Everybody asks me the same question, Daniel what lead you to Hillsong College? Well, here's the story :

Growing up, all I knew was church. My grandfather and my aunt are pastors, and all my memories as a kid are in church. I couldn't picture myself being anything else other than a pastor when I grew up. But when I hit my teens, I realized the world had a lot to offer. I'm abashed to say that I spent most of my teenage hears chasing what the world calls "success". I searched for "success" in many different places, yet, at the end of the day, nothing could fill the emptiness in my heart. 

One Wednesday night, July 7,2010 to be exact, my pastor was preaching on dead dreams. As she preached, the Holy Spirit started reminding me of the dreams I used to have when I was kid about being a pastor, and started speaking in my heart to withdraw from college and go to a bible school As He spoke that into my heart, I was quick to make excuses. I wanted to have a career, I wanted to be able to fall back on something, have a plan B, in case ministry didn't work out, I didn't have enough $$$ to go to a bible school, and a whole bunch of other excuses. Right when I was finished giving God my excuses, when I was already started to feel comfortable once again, my pastor stopped preaching, looked at me from the pulpit and said "Daniel, God is telling me to tell you that He was the one who promised, and He is the one who is going to make it come true." Those were life-changing words from God spoken into my life. And that is when I decided to go to Hillsong International Leadership College.

Now, a little over 5 months later, I'm running around like crazy, trying to save every penny, getting my stuff ready for Sydney in a month. So if you took your time to stop and read this, please, take a few extra minutes and pray for me, because trust me, I'm going to need it. I have never taken such a leap of faith and I have never trusted God so much.

So guys, I'll be counting on your prayers, and I'll try my best to keep everybody back home up-to-date with what is going in OZ.......

P.S. 

The title of every blog will be a quote that has to do with how my mood is at the moment =]