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I am stoked! (a surfing term that means to get fired up) God is revealing so many things to me about my character. I hate it went I get convicted about how much I need to grow but I also get excited to know that God loves me enough to keep pushing me.

I have always believed that my life would matter for God. I remember praying asking God to use my life when I was 9. I was standing on top of the "jungle gym" on the school playground looking over the whole school. I asked God that day to make my life count for Him. What I didn't know was that prayer had two sides. One side was to give my life away for the cause of Christ and the other was the battle of arrogance and pride.

All my life and ministry I have battled the pull of wanting the praise of men. Over and over I have found that praise to be hollow. God keeps showing me that He is enough. I must live a life of surrender.

I believe that God is calling pastors to become holy men first and foremost. I have blasted that trumpet only to find it ringing in my own ears. I am stoked because the Holy Spirit is moving in the deep places of my life. I am "a man of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the Lord".

God longs to move in the North American church and He will first move in the hearts of the leaders. I must let Him move in me!