Don't get mad at God because i'm judgmental.

...for real please don't.

I've seen it a lot of Facebook/twitter posts saying "I'm done with God" or something along that nature (usually it's not worded so nicely). It really breaks my heart to see it...not only does it offend me, really, but the biggest thing is that i feel like people have turned their back on God because I did something stupid or because i was "judgmental" or something.

Honestly, if you have a problem with me or anyone else at fgt then go to a different church or something but don't get mad at God....

...there was obviously a reason why you came to Him in the first place....just try to remember what that reason was...

If i'm not the reason you gave your heart to Christ...than why i'm i the reason you took it back.

If i've done something that made you mad or feel unloved or something, than i'm sorry... Jesus said to "love your neighbor as yourself" and if i'm not doing that...than i'm not doing what Jesus said and that's my fault and not his.

anyways...that's my opinion....comment below...i work early tomorrow :(

g'night

I'm done...

so I've decided to stop being stubborn...and this is step one out of like 29374923874298379243 it will take me to get to a point where I'm not stubborn anymore...but this is it...


so like almost forever ago (i'm not sure how long it's been) i felt like God was calling me to ministry...and i always assumed it was music, but i've realized that it's not.

I feel the calling to be a youth pastor...and honestly i've kinda been stubborn...and for many different "reasons" too...

1. i'm scared...and this branches into like 3597 0437 different categories, but the number one thing i'm afraid of is that my parents won't support me in it because...let's face it...the job market for youth pastors isn't all that great, and then obviously i'm afraid that i might somehow misguide or mislead people, not intentionally of course but idk...

2. i'm doubtful...i mean...can God really use ME to be a youth pastor...i'm not the most articulate person on the planet, and on top of that, every other word i say is either 'like' or 'um', and i'm not uber-duber tall and handsome like most of the youth pastors you see out there

3. i'm ignorant...the best word i could think of was ignorant...i just don't know what to do or even how to become a 'youth pastor' like to i go to school and say "ok i'm Pastor JD now, time to find a job as a youth pastor", i know you have to be ordained but i don't necessarily know how to do that


So i guess that's my 3 excuses/reasons for being stubborn and i know 3 easy verses to help me ....i just need to have them in my heart and not just my head.

1. Joshua 1:9
"Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. "

2. Philipians 4:13
"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."

3. Proverbs 3:5
"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding"


sometimes the answers are in my head...but i guess i don't really believe them until they are put to the test..

What do I know?

'Que sais-je?' or 'What do I know'

That's how the French writer Michel de Montaigne would start his works. I learned this the other day in my English class, and I found it inspiring.

so I guess that's the direction i want to take this blogging hobby...i'm gunna blog about what i know...

so JD what do you know...

well (and this is shocking) but i actually know alot...too much to put in just one blog...so i'm gunna start with obviously the most important thing...

and that's not neccisarily 'what i know' but it's more 'who i know'

my testimony talks about my salvation, and that is awesome...but i want to make a post about Jesus...

so i'm gunna start with the basics

I know Jesus took my place on the cross and died for my sins, rose again 3 days later, freed me from sin, and one day He's gunna come back and show the devil who's boss..

well how do i know this...by faith, or by fact?...

actuallly it's faith and personal expierence...

you see, if i'm going to tell my testimony from my standpoint i start with Battlecry '06 but...if i start from Jesus' standpoint then i start alot earlier...

when i was in 6th grade my school closed down...so my parents were going to enroll me in Light and Life Christian Academy...but they were full...so instead they were going to enroll me in Stout Public School...and as my mom was filling out the paperwork for Stout, the principal of Light and Life called and said that even though the 7th grade class was full, they would still take me....

So that's where i met a freind who invited me to FGT... and i went because i was talking with a couple of the people there and they actually treated me like a human being (sad but true) and i wasn't really involved untill they asked me to play guitar for the youth...and i was like...umm...i'm not that good...but there was somthing that was telling me to do it...so i did...

i told someone at school that i was playing for a church the convo went somthing like this
me:"i play guitar for my church"
other kid: "do even know how to play guitar"
me:"yeah i have a book of like 300 chords or something"
other kid: "dude, you need like a beginner book, your not even good"
(btw...i still play today)

he was right...i knew one chord...(it was em7...but the book had it wrong anyway) but the good thing is that it kept me in the church

i know what you're thinking "JD you were playing guitar on stage and you weren't even saved" honestly...yeah i wasn't serious about God at all untill battlecry

and i remember the only reason i went to battlecry is because a girl was going and i had a crush on her back in the day lol...

and there i met with a real God and now my life is changed....

and so this story reveals one of my favorite things about God....that is He always makes a way for people...i know i didn't see it before but now i see that this whole time everything was set up by God...which is inspiring

even if you don't believe in God...just imagine...the one who spoke the entire earth into exsitence, the one who created every individual person....called me BY MY NAME...

Yahweh....The Great I AM, said..."I WANT JOSHUA DAVID WAYT TO BE MY SON AND I WANT TO TELL HIM I LOVE HIM!"...and He made a way...

Luke 5 has a story of a leper that comes to Jesus and says "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean" and Jesus said to him "I AM willing"... That is grace...undeserved favor....

so let me tell you what i know...i know Love, i know Grace, i know Forgiveness, i know Freedom,
i know God...

and i'm horrible at telling people about Jesus...for various reasons...i don't want to offend someone, i don't want people to think i'm weird, or watever other reason my flesh decideds to come up with...just pray that i have the strength to stand

So i'm hyped up on Monster and I am nowhere near tired

Blog Time...especially now that i don't have to post this on twitter/tumblr/facebook now... just gotta tell the Myspacerz

anywho so yeah i dunno how long this one's gunna be...but i was just thinking today before work and i was thinking about grace

and i was thinking about how much I ignore grace... i mean really i do

as Christians (and we all do it... my self included to the umpteenth degree) we tend to think we are better than those who are unsaved because we are going to heaven...and in reality we aren't...

it was grace that saved me from where i was...honestly, before Christ, i was going to hell in a hand basket...i mean really i was no better than the worst of sinners...

so what gives me the right to point out the flaws in others...aren't they given the same grace that i was given...there is not one person on this earth who is beyond the grace and love of Christ..

i think i need to focus alittle bit more on showing and telling instead of pointing and judging...

Romans 2:1-4 "1You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, BECAUSE YOU WHO PASS JUDGMENT DO THE SAME THINGS. 2Now we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment? 4Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, NOT REALIZING THAT GOD'S KINDNESS LEADS YOU TOWARD REPENTANCE? "

these verses make me tear me up...really they do...almost literally...basically it says "judging people is stupid"

we like to point out the flaws in other people and when people do the same to us we say "oh well that's different because (insert self-justification here)" and i really love the sarcasm in verse 4... "do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience"... honestly we should be happy to know that God has the ability, the love, the compassion, the power, the mercy, the grace, to love the most undeserving sinner...

and not only that....but to go as far as to call us His son (or daughter)....wow...

and it is God's kindness that leads us towards repentance...soo true

the truth is...i don't deserve life...and i most defiantly don't deserve life more abundantly...but that's God's love for you...

I guess I'll end with a quote i thought about while listening to music and thinking...

"The world takes everything for granted, we take everything for grace."







oh and btw...when i was typing this...i had a whole different idea about were this was going...and i was actually looking for a different group of verses in Romans...but then Romans 2 caught my eye....


there goes God... showing me that my plans are nothing compared to His...lol

lets see if this gets posted on tumblr

yeah so i have a tumblr now jdwayt.tumblr.com

anywho so this is what i've been thinking about

before/during work i was thinking about my life and all of it's flaws (well not all because there are to many to think of in just one day) and i was praying somthing along the lines of

"God just take me to a different state or a different church or a different job or a different school or a different whatever so i can get away from all the temtations i have"....for some reason i feel that if i have a 'fresh start' i will magically become a stronger, better, super-christian.

and God brought to my mind James 4:7 "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

and i realized somthing...i'm not the one who's supposed to do the running....the devil is...

it says "resist the devil and HE will flee from YOU"... i know that God will help me get through my struggles...not just air-lift me out of them... because after all what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger...and that is true...

well anyways that's about it....just thought i would share it with you

Oh you bring...

it's a song by hillsong united...and it's really good...

and i guess as i'm listenting to it now i'm thinking about all the stuff God does for us...


like there are so many people that God is changing and it is amazing...like it's sooooo coool to see people my age and younger stand up for Christ...and just hearing the testimonies from those people is amazing...

ok so now for the thing that's been on my heart lately...


it's the issue of swearing...i don't know why it's been placed on my heart...but it has been...so i'm gunna talk about it...


ok so i was thinking about the issue of swearing cause i read somthing and it got my mind running and then there are always people at work who swear and then apologize for it...

and that get's me stuck sometimes...cause i don't know whether to say "i forgive you" and make them feel like i'm judging them and i don't want to say "it's ok" cause i don't want them to feel like it really is ok....

but Sunday night Matt read from Ephesians

and i read Ephesians 4:29
"Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs that it may benefit those who listen."


basically this is the closest verse to "do not swear" in the Bible...but we can't just look at it as "don't cuss" cause it says more than that, it says "Do not let ANY UNWHOLESOME TALK COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTHS"....and that got me thinking...

who am i to say what words are "good" and what words are "bad"...for example...

i don't swear...or at least by normal people's standards...but there are words i don't say infront of small children or people i respect highly

words like "douche" or "fag" or "hoe" etc...so i guess in a way i'm no better than the people who say "bad four-letter words"....so i can't really call someone out on that

i mean i would look like an idiot if i said "don't say bad words, douche"...

so i guess i have alot to work on...even in areas that it doesn't seem like i'm struggling but that's the cool thing about God, He's making me more like Him and less like the carnal man that i am

Fireworks on the 4th of July makin up the plans, up the plans that you made.

don't nobody care if there's no girl by your side, they're starin at the painted sky.



(the wedding lyrics)

so true...except it wasnt' the 4th of july today...but the point is


i had a great day today and yesterday...and i have had actually just a great time in general the past couple months





you see...about 3 months ago my dad got laid off from work...and they told him that he might not get his job back...and if that is the case...then i'll be moving somewhere far, far away...(possibly Texas or North Carolina)...and that was kinda sad...but i didn't really tell alot of ppl...and i'm glad i didn't...

it's really cool to hang out with people and know that they actually wanna hang out with you because of who you are...and it's amazing to know that if i do leave...then people will actually miss me lol...


but in all seriousness...i know i'll miss them too...and that's why i love days like today where i can hang out with my friends all day...


so yeah...i guess we find out Wednesday if i'm officially moving or not...


it's in God's hands too....that's what's cool about it...i know that whatever happens...

all things work together for the good of those who serve Him....(i don't know if i quoted that right)


but yeah...today was sweet...thanks guys