My meeting with Olu Brown of Impact Church was great! We are planning to have another one next week, so that i might pick his brain even more so.

I got an email today about being on a ministry radio show on 1480 WYZE here in Atlanta.

I cannot wait until my meetings next week, I hope that Josh and I get to sit down on Monday and discuss church planting, Rome, GA and Downtown Atlanta and the new baby…

This weekend is going to be crazy!!!

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I am growing with an antsy crazy anticipation to be able to share the good news I have with you. Today I have moved one step closer to being able to share this news with you, i think i am going to explode!!!!

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I had an incredible lunch meeting today with my new friend, Brian Bloye of West Ridge Church. He is an excellent communicator, my parents enjoyed him yesterday at their 11:30 service and an exceptional leader. I look forward to being able to share with him and the West Ridge family in the future. Thanks Jim!!!
If you are not aware, West Ridge has an amazing Church Planting School that I will most certainly be a part of this year, and I cannot wait!!

I am so humbled that men like Brain, Gary, J.R., Shawn, David, Jason, Dave and so many others take time out of their schedules to lend a hand share their experience and advice with me. I truly feel blessed to be where I am today!!!

I hope to have an amazing announcement coming very soon!!! Please stay tuned as soon as I know I will share it with ALL of you!!!

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I want to personally reach out to all of you who have emailed, or commented here concerning our night of prayer.
All of you who came into agreement with us, who took time to pray with us.
Let me tell you this your presence was truly felt. The annointing was so incredible!

God was truly in the building!!!

I look forward to the ALL of our prayers being answered and sharing the VICTORY with ALL of you!!!!

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No this post is not going to refer to R. Kelly or his trial….

yet i want to share an idea with you. We often look outside and if you live here in GA or any other area recently hit by straightline winds or tornadoes then you like all of us believe in the wind. But why?

You can see it? You cannot smell it, unless of course you live near a waste dump or refinery or a bbq restaurant, but it is invisible to the naked eye, yet we KNOW and are fully persuaded that it exists.

BECAUSE WE CAN SEE IT BLOWING THE TOPS OF TALL TREES, WE CAN FEEL IT ON OUR FACE OR THE BACK OF OUR NECKS, BECAUSE WE CAN FLY KITES IN IT OR EVEN SIMPLY BECAUSE WE WATCH THE LEAVES FALL FROM A TREE AND DESCEND TO THE GROUND LANDING IN UNFAMILIAR TERRITORY YARDS FEET AND MAYBE MILES FROM WHERE IT FIRST FELL. WE BELIEVE!

Would we believe in the wind if none of these things existed. If there was no physical evidence or no sensory evidence that wind whether light or ferocious existed, would we BELIEVE?

Jesus? He lives! He is the Beginning and the End. The Author of our Faith. Our Healer. Redeemer. Lord of Lord and King of Kings. The Way. The Truth. The Light. Life, and Life more abundantly. He IS!

But pastor lloyd, I cannot see him. I cannot pick up my iphone and call him. I cannot go to His house and visit Him. So how do I know He is real. Or that He lives and was not some historical philosopher figure head who died as all men do and thats that?

The same trees who tops blow in the same wind you cannot see, He created them both. The kids who miraculously begins to walk after suffering most of his childhood feeble, broken, and his legs in braces, Jesus did that. The man who was a drunk, an abuser and a low life who woke up one morning and left all those things behind him and has created a new life, Jesus is responsible for that. Life change happens everyday around us. There is peace is a mothers heart as her kids leave to go to school every morning because she KNOWS that her kids are safe, Jesus is responsible for that.

We have the Word of God filled with evidence, physical and sensory, that attest to His existence then. We have CHANGED LIVES , men who never wanted to step foot in a church, but now you cannot keep them out, families reconciled healed and growing together, husbands and wives who love each other more today then ever before and kids who have left drugs and drinking behind them leaving to go do missionary work; that my friend is your evidence that He lives TODAY!

The funny thing is that the saying… “seeing is believing” does not apply here at all.

I challenge you to change your perspective! Change your outlook. The next time you see tall trees dancing in a summer breeze or kids flying kites know that the wind would exist whether you could see these things or not!

JUST AS JESUS LIVES AND IS ON THE THRONE, whether you can see him or not!!!!

Change, renew your mind and understand that…

“BELIEVING IS SEEING!!!!”

CAN YOU FLY?

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Tomorrow at 7pm the peculiarpeople will be meeting for prayer.

Why am I sharing this… well simple if any of you remember and have a moment between the hours of 7-8pm I would totally appreciate it if you would simply join us in agreement during that time. I am not asking you to stop what you are doing, or pull over on the side of the road or anything drastic, but if you remember simply let God know that you too are standing in agreement with a peculiarplace for their prayer needs.

Here is our prayer agenda:

1. Direction for the summer months to keep the momentum going. We plan to have at least two launch team meetings this summer, finish the paper work for our 501C3, and anything else God would have us to do.
2. Location: I will be meeting with the guys who own the property we have selected to meet at in the month of June. So we not only are believing God for favor for the process, but also favor in the negotiations.
3. Meetings: I have several meetings coming up in the next few weeks that are going to be crucial to our future and am hoping to schedule a couple more.
4. Friends. We are praying to share God’s heart for the lost. We want to make friends at work, at a red light, at the grocery store who do not know God.
5. The countless lives in China who have been lost due to the earthquake. Tragedy has struck a country who NEEDS God and for the most part doesn’t know it.
6. Our relationships with one another, our spouses, our children and our families
7. Money Money Money!!!!! We are going to need God’s favor with man to produce the finances needed to launch His church.
8. The families here in GA who have lost their lives and possessions due to the recent storms.
9. A worship leader/pastor who is madly in love with God and people.
10. A friend or two or three for my wife. Wives of church planters either planning to plant, have already planted, or a seasoned veteran.
11. Mentors Mentors Mentors!!!! I want all the help I can get!!!
12. Adam Walker and his family. He is in Israel for 11 days.
13. Jason Salamun and his family. Project Church is going to turn South Dakota on its head!!
14. Joshua Roberts and family. He is planning the TAKEOVER in Rome, GA.
15. Church planters across the country who are taking their cities, communities and the world by storm for the Kingdom of God.
16. My friends at Sean King, Revolution Church, Mountain Lake Church, Impact Church, and West Ridge Church.

17. Lastly, Downtown Atlanta. I will not rest until it belongs God.

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I caught this kind of late today, but I got to hear most of Rick’s message and it was as usual and expected powerful, enlightening, and filled with nuggets. I really love his transparency and most of all his love for the Kingdom of God.

I dont know if you have anything better to do today, I doubt it, but please tune in here at some point today.

I want to thank Los and Tony Morgan for providing this very valuable material from the conference for those of us who could not make it to the conference!!!!!!!!!!! You guys rock!!!

PLEASE IM BEGGING IF YOU ARE ANY WHERE NEAR CLOSE TO A COMPUTER TODAY CHECK OUT THIS CONFERENCE. THE LIST OF SPEAKERS IS OFF THE FREAKIN CHAIN!!!!!!

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I recently bought a book, that I knew I had to have, but had no idea that it would fill me with such hope, focus, and desire to be the Leader God has chosen me to be!

A couple of months ago I found the book, “The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham” on sale at a local christian book store and thought… hmmm maybe I should read that. I picked it up and read over the table of contents and decided that the next time i get some extra money i will get it. Last week I was in Barnes and Nobles and there it was like a neon sign blaring in the dense dark night.

4.98

I couldnt believe it. So I got it!

It is beating up, everyday I read something new I needed or wanted to know. I think of a new blog post after every page.

I had to share that, maybe someone is looking for something to read now or in the near future. Truly an amazing book.

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WOW!

So last night my wife and I were joking around, she looked at me and said, “Baby your arms are starting to look like arms?”

Huh?

I said so what did they look like before, thighs?

You know I was just telling everyone how proud she was of me for sticking to my new lifestyle choices and working out… so i guess that was a compliment… whatever the case we are still laughing about it this morning…

My arms are starting, note they have not reached their full potential, they have just started to look like real arms…

Talk about busting my bubble before I even have a chance to blow it up… I guess i have a lot more work to do.

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