I’ve only been doing comedy for a year now. I’ve been writing music since the age of 12. I don’t know how many silly instrumentals I’ve composed before I started putting lyrics to my music a few years back. Since I started following Christ almost 8 years ago I’ve written somewhere around 40 songs.

My passion & my heart’s desire in life is to minister. There’s nothing else that I want to do with my life than to lead people to Christ and disciple those who are already His.

My hope has always been for those doors to open through songwriting. I’ve knocked on doors for the last 7 years, at least, and very few of those doors have opened.

Then a year ago I decided to give stand-up comedy a try at the urging of my Pastor. Since then doors have opend for me left & right!! God’s moving me into places where songwriting never took me.

I’ve got my church family behind me, supporting me–where they really wasn’t there so much with the music.

I’ve got my natural family behind me, supporting me–where they wasn’t there at all with either music or ministry.

I’ve got people speaking really big things over my life in connection with the stand-up comedy. I’ve had people recognize me out in public as “that stand-up comedian!!” I never imagined my life going in the direction it’s going.

But it’s opening up doors for me to minister, which is my passion. It’s all that I want to do with my life. And personally, it doesn’t matter to me anymore which art form opens those doors, just as long as they open.

In the last year I’ve wrestled with fear. I’ve never been successful at anything in my life, and for the most part I’ve have failure prophesied over me almost my whole, entire life. The idea of being successful has always been scary to me. Success is somewhere where that I don’t really want to go.

But it’s where Jesus wants me to go, and He’s the one who’s leading me there, and I must follow.

I’m learning that true courage is trusting Him and walking forward by faith into what He has for you even though fear prophecies to you over that thing.

I think, Pastor Joseph, that as long as we’re going where we want to go, we have a real reason to be fearful. The Bible says that there is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end leads to destruction.

But if we are following Jesus, then we are going where God wants us to go then we have no reason to fear. We seek first the Kingdom & His righteousness and all these things will be added unto us. There is never a reason to fear “all these things.”

If you are going where God wants you to go then you need not to worry about the 5 fears that you have listed. The only thing you need to worry about is can you keep up with Jesus!!