I did my work out this morning, but I added some from a new Biggest Loser DVD that I just got from Wal-Mart. It was such a work out. I need to do that at least 4 times a week. I hope that I will get in shape soon.I did not go to the library but I stayed home and watched the rest of Season 5 of Weeds (Netflix). I am a big fan of the show now.I was not going to go to Columbia After Dark. I took the Netflix DVDs to a Post Office Drop Box so that I will get my next DVDs quicker. I saw someone from CAD so I went. I did not stay long because I said that I would be back home to watch a movie. I got "Where the Wild Things Are" from the Red Box. I had the chance to see this movie a couple of years ago (or so). It was not complete and I filled out a survey about what I thought of the movie. I liked the movie. Tomorrow I need to return the Red Box movie. I might go to the library. I will try to do my work out in the morning. Tomorrow night I am going to the ministry near Zesto.I am tired now, so I am going to bed. It is so hot. Is it Summer? Feels like it.Trust in the Lord with all your heart,and do not rely on your own understanding;6 think about Him in all your ways,and He will guide you on the right paths.7 Don’t consider yourself to be wise;fear the Lord and turn away from evil.Prov 3:5-7 (HCSB)
F. Jason Whitaker
I have made a list of the acting and Background (Extra) work that I have done. This is not a complete list: These are the shows that I have worked as an extra (Background) for: Chuck As an Actor:1, 000 Ways to Die (Television - 1 episode)The Mother of Invention (Independent Movie)Beer Commercial (Tooheys - Australian Beer) My plan for today: work out after I post this, go to the library to work on some writing, come home to eat and watch Weeds (2nd and 3rd Discs of season 5 should arrive from Netflix today). I do not know if I will go to Columbia After Dark, but I am not certain that it is happening tonight. Sometimes they go somewhere to eat instead of meeting at Carolina Wings. I think this might be one of those nights. Tomorrow night I am going to InsideUp Ministries, I have been invited to this ministry. It's not until tomorrow night. I will work out in the morning. Maybe I will go to the library again to continue working on the script. Wednesday is open, so I am still thinking about (considering) my options. Thursday night is Ignite. It's suppose to rain Thursday and Friday. Friday night is House Church and maybe Prayer Night with Ignite. Saturday is open and Sunday is still being considered. I hope that I will have some clarity and direction in my life. I also pray for work. I pray for the things on my heart: the things that I am dealing with. Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 4 and into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you. 5 You are being protected by God’s power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials 7 so that the genuineness of your faith —more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire —may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 You love Him, though you have not seen Him. And though not seeing Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 because you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that would come to you searched and carefully investigated. 11 They inquired into what time or what circumstances the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when He testified in advance to the messianic sufferings and the glories that would follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you. These things have now been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Angels desire to look into these things.A Call to Holy Living 13 Therefore, with your minds ready for action, be serious and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance. 15 But as the One who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct; 16 for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.17 And if you address as Father the One who judges impartially based on each one’s work, you are to conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your temporary residence. 18 For you know that you wereredeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish. 20 He was chosen before the foundation of the world but was revealed at the end of the times for you 21 who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.22 By obedience to the truth, having purified yourselves for sincere love of the brothers, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again —not of perishable seed but of imperishable—through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For All flesh is like grass,and all its glory like a flower of the grass.The grass withers, and the flower falls,25 but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word that was preached as the gospel to you.1 Peter 1:3-25 (HCSB) I am going to go to the work on some writing at home. Tonight is Ignite and I am looking forward to it.
Tomorrow night is House Church. Tomorrow I do not know what I am doing before House Church. Saturday is the dance with Columbia After Dark at the Barn. It's fun just to get out and dance. Even if you look silly doing it. Sunday is Easter. I hope to decide where to worship before then. I might go to Trinity Baptist Church but I am open to other places. I am also open to invitations and suggestions for where to worship Sunday. Also, is there anywhere that has worship services Sunday evening? I am not sure how I am going to do the following but my prayer is that it will be revealed to me how this should look: If then there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, 2 fulfill my joy by thinking the same way, having the same love, sharing the same feelings, focusing on one goal. 3 Do nothing out of rivalry or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.4 Everyone should look out not ⌊only⌋ for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.Phil 2:1-4 (HCSB) My brothers, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. 2 For example, a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in. 3 If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor man, “Stand over there,” or, “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,” 4 haven’t you discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? 5 Listen, my dear brothers: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him? 6 Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? 7 Don’t they blaspheme the noble name that was pronounced over you ⌊at your baptism⌋? 8 Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well. 9 But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of ⌊breaking it⌋ all. 11 For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you are a lawbreaker. 12 Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom. 13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. James 2:1-13 (HCSB)
Older men are to be level headed, worthy of respect, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance. 3 In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine. ⌊They are⌋ to teach what is good, 4 so they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so that God’s message will not be slandered.6 In the same way, encourage the young men to be self-controlled 7 in everything. Make yourself an example of good works with integrity and dignity in your teaching.8 Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.Titus 2:2-8 (HCSB)
Why do so many "Christians" jump at the opportunity to judge? Are we any better than anyone? Do we boast in ourselves? Are we that strong, are we that much stronger than our flesh than non-Christians, and do we have so much pride in what we have done? I say that we are all sinners and all that we can boast in is the Love of our Lord. Shall we compare notes? Shall we compare how perfect we are compared to everyone else? Wouldn't we see how our sins are still the filthy rags that they always were? Sin is sin, that is the truth and sin is not good, but those who say that they are without are fools. Christ did not come to this world so that we can hate each other, Christ did not come to condemn but to redeem. To tell anyone God hates them is a shame. I just want to cry over the ignorance of this. We are suppose to be the light in this dark world, we are suppose to be the examples of hope and love: the Hope and Love of Christ Jesus. I sin. The only thing that I know is that Christ came to redeem me from the debt of sin. He came for me and He came for the world. For God so loved the World that he sent His one and only Son. There is hope. We should not just say that we are naive, so let us remain this way. We are suppose to turn and sin no more. If we judge, so shall we be judged. I am so far from being perfect, but it is not about us being perfect. It is about a relationship with our God. For the grace of God has appeared with salvation for all people, 12 instructing us to deny godlessness and worldly lusts and to live in a sensible, righteous, and godly way in the present age, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. 14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for Himself a people for His own possession, eager to do good works.15 Say these things, and encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you. Titus 2:11-15 (HCSB) Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, 2 to slander no one, to avoid fighting, and to be kind, always showing gentleness to all people. 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another. 4 But when the goodness of God and His lovefor mankind appeared,5 He saved us --not by works of righteousness that we had done,but according to His mercy,through the washing of regenerationand renewal by the Holy Spirit.6 He poured out this ⌊Spirit⌋ on us abundantlythrough Jesus Christ our Savior,7 so that having been justified by His grace,we may become heirs with the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:1-7 (HCSB) It makes me sad that people carry signs that proclaim "God Hates Fags". God loves everyone and wants a relationship with us. Sin is sin, one sin is no different from another sin in the eye's of God. Whether or not being gay is a sin is not for me to force upon anyone, but I do believe that ANY sex outside of that between a husband and a wife are sin. I also believe that divorce is a sin. I believe that smoking tobacco is a sin. The focus should not be on SIN but on a relationship with God. God should be the one to convict us of sin. Christ came to save, not to condemn so why do we think we have the right to condemn. Condemnation is the pointing out of something wrong without the hope of a change and Conviction is the pointing out (By the Holy Spirit) of things that need to change and it provides a way to change. Please read all of this before coming to some conclusion. Read the Bible and if I have written anything that goes against the Word of God you should tell me. I pray now for redemption and God's love to be revealed. I am going to keep an open mind about moving back to Los Angeles, but the circumstances would have to be just right for me to do such a bold thing. I would need enough money to cover living and working expenses for at least 6 months if not a year.
Expenses would include: Rent (utilities) some furniture clothing (for working as Background "Extra" Work) Food Travel there (Train or Plane) Headshots Internet Fees for LA Cating Web SIte Acting related expenses and fees Transportation: options: car and all expenses Combination (Metro Link, Taxi, and monthly bus pass) It would be a large amount of money, so the odds of me moving back to Los Angeles are not good. I would not mind moving back. I don't miss everything about living in the city but if that's whee I need to be then it will happen somehow... It has been months since I've done anything to my web sites. I had problems with my computer a couple of times.
Now, I am back and should be updating the sites more often now. I just bought Final Draft the scrip writing program. I plan to write Tv Scripts, Film scripts and plays. I want to, somehow, produce them myself but I know I need help. I sit here thinking about things. Thanksgiving was good but I sit here and I am thinking about my life. I am grateful for what I do have.
What I wish I had is more complicated. It's not really stuff I want. It is to be obedient to God's will and to have a sense that I'm on the right path. I'm not talking about Salvation but the everyday walk with the Lord we so need. I went to a singles dance. The Columbia After Dark Singles Dance. I helped to set up so it was free to get in. We had dinner before the dance: Thanksgiving. It was Saturday night. I had fun and yes I did dance.
I would say that I was the youngest person there but there were some children. I danced and I danced. My legs were tired by the end of the dance. I helped clean up, so I was among the last people to leave. I walked to the dance but I was able to get a ride home. We left there after midnight. Did I mention that I had to get up for Church the next morning. It is not that I hate being single, it's just that I desire not to be single. Paul said that it would be best to remain single but if you do not have to strength to remain single then you should marry so you do not become victim to the temptation of lust. I am not one that can remain single. The weather feels like Thanksgiving. It reminds me of Holiday movies. I'm looking for to celebrating the birth of Christ. I'm thankful for all God has blessed me with. Rejoice! Sing Praises to the King!
Soon is the remembrance of the birth of the King Jesus Christ. Maybe, the 25th of December is not the exact date of His birth but it is not the day that we celebrate that matters but it is the fact that we celebrate the birth of the one that redeemed us. Let us not get caught up in the World's idea of what Christmas is about, but what the Bible tells us. Take time to read about that occasion. Don't forget that the story in the Bible is more than a story, it is the origin of Hope. Also when the Wise men appeared Jesus was not a newborn and they were no longer in the manger but in a house. Celebrate the Birth of Christ and remember why He came to earth: to bring life to the dead. |
