Big Day Draws Nearer

So this may or may come as a shock to some of you who only stay in touch by reading my blog, since i haven't updated in quite a long while, but in a matter of two weeks to the day, I will be marrying the love of my life Kelsey Masuda, since my last post back in May, Kelsey and I have gotten engaged and have planned relentlessly for our Big Day on August 18th, 2012. If you would like to hear and see more of our stories check out our wedding website here at http://www.mywedding.com/kelseyandaustin/ Our desire to vow to a lifelong journey of commitment, friendship, love, good and bad times, happiness and hurts, sickness and health comes directly from our individual love for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We desire to become more like Him through the continuous shaping of marriage and the commitment to one another through all seasons of life. He is our one true desire, our one true goal in life and when we come together for a life of worship of Him we hope that He will mold us and shape us even more to look like Him and increase our love for each other everyday as well.

My Testimony - Shortened Version

---Last night I had the opportunity to share my testimony in the Lord with the high school youth group at my home church in St. Joseph, MI, The Chapel. If you would like to listen feel free, click on the link below and enjoy.
---Afterwards the high school leader all went to eat at Cracker-Barrel and what a night, we met, Serena an 18 year old waitress, and got to share the love and power of Christ with her,  I had the opportunity to pray for her and she experienced God's miraculous healing touch and instantly her back was healed of pain.
My Testimony - 30min Audio

Prayer & The Urgency of the Hour

Prayer is the most important thing we can do on the face of the planet, there is no higher calling than to pray

-It is how we tell God how much we love Him
-It is how we listen for God's voice and hear how He feels about us
-It is how we commune with God
-It is how we change the environment around us, with God's help
-It is how we learn to obey God's commands
-It is how hard hearts are changed for God
-It is how our own hearts are changed
-It is how we are forgiven of our pasts and sins
-It is how we ask God to move and work in our daily lives
-It is how we change cities, how we change nations, and how the world will be shaken for Him
-It is how we can make a difference
-It is how lives can be saved

---Our spiritual lives started with one little prayer and now all He asks of us is that we would pray until He returns. Will we be a generation that falls asleep like the disciples (his closest friends) until he returns or will we stay awake for Him praying, watching, waiting, eagerly anticipating His return
---Our time is now, there is an urgency in the air, Will you pray? Will you tarry? for Him? for His children?
---A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument and I have seen what prayer can do