Day 5, Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Today was interesting!  As Jess and I were waiting for her manager to arrive at Starbucks this morning (5:30 AM - YIKES!), this guy drove up and asked if we could help him out.  Now that's just weird in the first place.  But he just got back from Iraq in Fallujah and he needed gas money to get back home.  So I went with him to the gas station and filled up his tank.  And got the chance to tell him about Jesus.  And let him know that we wanted to give this to him and that he didn't have to pay us back. 

I'm not telling you these things to brag on me and jess.  But to show you a lesson that we are learning lately...

BE HUNGRY FOR PLACEMENT.    If you're hungry to be in God's will, you'll never miss it.  And in fact, most of the time it will find you.  (It's funny cuz i preached on this last night and it happened today.  God works stuff out like crazy!)  But, be hungry for placement.  My sermon last night from Acts 10:9-and on. 

"How to get a dream from God"
1) Be Hungry for Prayer
2) Be Hungry for Purity
3) Be Hungry for Placement

Hungry for Him,

TJ and Jess

Currently Reading Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham, The By Harold Myra, Mr. Marshall Shelley see related

Day 2 & 3, Monday and Tuesday, January 2 & 3, 2006

These last couple of days have been uneventful.  There has been sleet rain hitting the ground like crazy.  Nobody is really going anywhere. 

Note to self:  we really need to buy an umbrella so that the rain doesn't hamper our project. 

God is changing us to do new things for Him.  While talking to a friend today, I realized that change is a characteristic of God.  He is constantly changing (from our perspective), and shattering our ideas of what He is.  And if we're going to be like Jesus, that characteristic should mark our lives.  That people would think they have 'exactly' what we're like, but we show them every time that God is changing us into something better.  That's the way it was with Jesus and the Pharisees.  The more they thought they had him, the more they realized that they were dead wrong. 

Changing to be like Jesus,

TJ Reid

Day 1 – Sunday January 1, 2006

This is the beginning of our journey!  Today, Jess especially found out that God meant business when he called us to this, in 2006.  As Jess was at the altar at church, she told Jesus that she wanted Him to use her and her skills in Spanish this year.  So, we are walking out of church and there is a man standing there who speaks no English.  Jess is told to go and talk to him.  Come to find out, he has no job, no home, and is looking for food while he lives with someone else. 

So, we got the opportunity to give him some food from our house, and to drive him where he needed to go.  It was so awesome to bless him, and even more awesome to see how quickly God wants to use us when we are available. 

There WILL be more, as we make ourselves available to God. 

Live from New York Ave, this is T.J. Reid. 

Now, back to your regularly scheduled life.  Be Jesus to the people around you! 

Live from New York Ave is a blog to track one of the new year aspirations of Jess and T.J. Reid.  We have had a longing to connect more closely with our city. So, we have decided to give up our driving privileges for the next year and walk the city streets with the many that walk them everyday.  The main street that everyone walks is called, New York Avenue.  So we're coming live from there everyday.This will be our story, our testimonies, our pictures, and our friends that will share the journey with us.  We hope you enjoy reading and joining us in what God is going to do with us this next year. 

Your friends,

TJ & Jess Reid