Being called to be in communion with one another, we are called to encourage one another.  The Lord revealed to me that encouragement isn’t just telling someone they’re good at something.  While needed, it can give people comfort and a feeling of accomplishment that is a good thing, until you aren’t striving for more.  

Real encouragement is seeing the best in someone, and seeing what their potential is.  When you give people their potential and what you see in them as a living, breathing son/daughter of the father, you let them keep pushing on themselves for greatness.  My good friend Frankie has done this in me, and because he has given me something to strive for that is better than mediocrity, i have seen myself grow in leaps and bounds over the past few months.  This has been the most encouraging thing that i have experienced.

So thank you those of you that have pushed on me.  I am doing my best to replicate that same encouragement to others.

Love, David

Beast!!!

Last night, as i was about to play praise and worship at Cornerstone Summit Church I felt out of it.  Nothing was getting to me but i just couldn’t think straight and I was out of it. The Lord told me to just praise Him, no razzle dazzle or enticing words, just come to Him in praise.  I’ve been in/come out of enough situations to know that God is a good god.  He comforts me, hides me, strengthens me, breaks and fixes me consistently. 

I can’t get through this life without Christ, I just can’t.  I have tried so many different ways and it never even came close to happening.  The Lord is good and His Mercy endures forever, thats not until tomorrow or next week when we mess up again, or we forget that God is for us …. FOREVER!! That means we can keep running the race, while constantly laying down our sin to pursue the prosperity that God has for us.

Just Praise Him and see where it takes you.

Sometimes I feel like disss!

So ive been listening to U2 a lot and they really are one of the best bands of all time … I love you guys! Happy Thanksgiving!

Matt Moose had a tweet today that was a quote from Billy Joel about how when we hate, Satan wins.  It made me think about every time I say I hate something, and how Critical I can be about things.  God Created our universe and everything in it, then he saved it and us.  To know that I am a Champion is an amazing feeling and should never be looked down on or looked over, but to be a champion I must live/play like a champion.  And the more I think about it, being critical isn’t the way to do it.  This isn’t my only problem i have to work on, believe me, but it is something that I feel the body of Christ looks over and it is a spirit that can bring hate upon people, which is a very bad outcome to a miniscule statement that one could’ve kept to themselves.

stay beautiful,

David Hodge

I just got John Mayer’s new studio LP yesterday and have been listening ever since.  I realized today that The Lord loves me with moere than I know… I need to focus on what God’s doing in boone because if I let the time pass ill be dissapointed at what I gave to God in college.Thankfully Jesus has given me Grace and I don’t have to inherit the consequences, but getting a glimpse of how much the Lord loves me makes me want to give Him the Glory anyways.  John Mayer adds to this confession because i got more excited about this leak than I’ve been about God in the past few days, which means somethings wrong.  But God’s given me Grace these past few days … try and meet someone and get to know them today, I met a guy named Ben in my raquetball class from Avery county, it rocks!

I look so beast in this pic! and im testing out the tumblr-twitter connection. haha

its really weird how i can be so up and down, and right and left all within the same time period.  I guess its only proof that i have the Holy Ghost and my own Flesh, fighting back and forth.