I am excited, nervous and to be honest my mind is spinning like a top right now!
When I was at Training Camp a couple people on my M-squad said to me, "Blake your like the most popular person of the M-squad! Everyone knows who you are and most people think your awesome!"
At first to be honest I thought WOW this is pretty cool being the popular person because I finally have most people liking me for who I am.
Then my time through meeting everyone, praise and worship, the messages, and the staff were challenging me and so was God. God challenged me with a statement.
Are you here to bring glory to yourself as #1 or am I aka God is #1 in your life Blake?
Some of the struggles I battle with to this day is the whole social media thing with Facebook. I can put up a status for the glory of God and what He is doing in my life but yet someone else can put on up and get double as many likes as I do in less time! Let's just say I am a very competitive person at times! Some thought during squad wars I was a little intense to say the least!
I am like what is this God? Really!!
This post is really great God!! Comon! Don't you like this!! Why aren't the friends I want to like my statuses liking what I say and so on, but tell me in person your awesome Blake!
God said Blake you have to go and proclaim me whatever the case may be! Does how many likes or praises you receive for things really matter or does pleasing Me matter to you the most!!
Since training camp I have been more surrendered to God!!
Now I haven't been perfect don't misunderstand me! I have occasionally still looked at my post and been like God is really changing me and I want to share this with others so they can see they have hope in Jesus without being perfect!
I have also occasionally been like how come I don't have as many likes as this other person for saying similar things yet there's been change in my life for the better!
God said Blake you have to please me only!! That's all it's simple!!
"Then he called the crowd to him with His disciples and said," Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" Mark 8:34-36 NIV
I am giving up 11 months of my life to go spread God's Love to the world and to preach the gospel to reach many lost people to Jesus! This is exciting!!
I am giving up what people think of me to go do what God wants me to do and to honor Him as #1!!
M-squad y'all are awesome but I'm sorry I AM NOT HERE FOR YOU EITHER!!
God called me with a specific purpose and a reason for 11 months in 2013 on The World Race!!
If I am the most popular person on M-squad and I did not honor God with putting Him as #1 in my life according to what He said the qualifications of what a True Follower of Jesus Christ is in the Bible I FAILED!!
I do not want to answer to God for the reason why I did not honor Him first but yet I had a 100% approval with my friends!
God wants us to out into the world and serve Him no matter what our approval rating is in others eyes!
There are some days where someone's approval rating of me will be 99-100% but there is also the bad day where someone will think my preaching is too passionate for their taste or I didn't spend enough time with them and so on! This will lead to a 0-5% approval rating of me in their eyes!
With Honoring God as #1 in everything in your life your approval rating can be 100% in His eyes!!
When I get up to Heaven I don't want to answer to God about this calling answering why I was more concern what others thought of me! I would be unhappy with myself and God would be dissappointed in me!
I want God to say to me:
"Well done Good and Faithful Servant!!"
I am convicted by God for putting this as a mission statement on my World Race blog and my prayer cards!
Blake Meehan: A Faithful Servant of Jesus
God wants me to preach boldly I will do this even if no one thanks me or gives me an Amen during the sermon!!
I will get on my hands and feet to serve others for His glory!
Even if M-squad approval rating of me is 1% for a day, week, month or even the whole 11 months does this really matter if I can say to God I did this for you Jesus!
The answer is NO! Pleasing anyone on earth is never more important than pleasing God!!
I am going surrendered to God's purpose and allow Him to use me for His glory!
In 11 days I am heading up to DC to World Race Launch with my M-squad to Costa Rica for the start in this journey for the next 11 months! 
This is me in Early December at the top of King's Mountain at Crowder's Mountain near Kings Mountain, NC!! Very Happy to reach the top of the mountain!
See my hands streched out and open to the sky! This is how I want to be towards God!
Hands Opened to Him, surrendered and ready to give glory to God!!
