Jacob Henley a.k.a JacobwithaJ's Blog

Furturistix shoot featured on cool designer’s blog…

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Check out some of the pics from the Futuristix Shoot I did with good friend, photographer, Jeremy Green, (Spektical) featured here. This is the first I have seen of designer and artistic person, Promise Tangeman. I’m phsyched on her work and think she looks like a pretty cool chick. Check out the article: HERE , as well as some of her other work.

Tags: design, green, jacobwithaj, jeremy, photos, promise, spektical, tangeman

Read more | Comments (1) | June 24th, 2009

My new favorite artist…

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I just discovered my new favorite artist. I thought that I was detailed with acrylics. This guys is sick! His name is Adam Haynes and I have fallen in love with his work tonight. He uses acrylics and indian ink and paints on wood panels! What the heck?! His work is so precise and seperated it looks like it was created in Illustrator. Here’s a few of my favorites from his website. Check out more here: Adam Haynes

Tags: acrylic, adam, art, favorite, haynes, henley, indian, ink, jacob, jacobwithaj

Read more | Comments (2) | June 12th, 2009

Life update…

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It is so hard to keep this thing updated. So much has happened since my last life update I have no idea where to start. This season of my life is filled with a wild adventure inside my heart, a new fire and understanding for The Word and my walk with the Lord, a new fascination with the Holy Spirit, a desperation for EVERYTHING that the Lord has for me. He is teaching me so much. A bridge from the Hillsong song, Hosana, is the most concise summation of my cry to the Lord, “Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like You have loved me”. Wow! The implications and power in this request! I want ALL You have Father! No matter what the cost.

This is most likely the riskiest and most uncertain season of my life, but pursuing Him is paying off. He is answering the door. My job is to continue humbly and fervently knocking. I feel like change is all around me. I feel like I am living “in between”. Only time will tell what this feeling means.

Below is a series of pics from my little secret spot at Percy Priest Lake, my sanctuary. For some reason this has become my meeting place with Jesus. He consistently shows up. I’m so thankful for it. I will never forget it. I see the Lord and feel His presence in nature’s beauty in general. But there is something different about this place.

I need to go home soon. Back to the farm. I need to get back to my roots. Momma, if you’re reading this. I miss you and love you!

Tags: jacobwithaj, lake, life, nashville, percy priest, update

Read more | Comments (1) | June 9th, 2009

A message to President Obama from John Piper…

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WOW! Passionate doesn’t due this justice. Listen to John Piper’s heart pouring out here regarding the injustice of abortion. This message convicts me and reminds me that our prayers go far beyond our backyard. What kind of world change are you praying for? This video makes me sad for the loss of life, but encouraged and reminded of the power and sovereignty of the King above all Kings. Will you pray for our President today?

Tags: abortion, injustice, john, obama, piper, president, row, v, wade

Read more | Comments (0) | June 2nd, 2009

AMAZING girl beat-boxer!

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Are you kidding me?!!! Check out this beat-boxing world champion! And she’s a girl…no offense ladies, but WOW! Enjoy

Tags: beat boxer, beat-box, best, champion, girl, world

Read more | Comments (0) | May 22nd, 2009

How long until Marijuana is legal?

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“Economic Experts” compare the laws against marijuana to the alcohol prohibition era before the Great Depression. The leading factor to the ban on alcohol being lifted was the Great Depression. Is our country moving towards legalizing marijuana to off-set a potential “depression”? This is scary stuff. There are a lot of good points on both sides.

What I know from extensive personal experience, marijuana is a gateway drug. I don’t believe smoking weed will increase violence, but I do believe that more lives will be destroyed because of it. It is absolutely a gateway drug and also a dangerous substance when it comes to filling a Christ shaped void in a lost person’s soul.

Check out this interesting news story below:

Tags: drug, gateway, legalizing, marijuana, news, pot, story, weed

Read more | Comments (2) | May 14th, 2009

“The Initiation”

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So I’ve been working on a painting over the past 2-3 months that I finally finished a few minutes ago. Quite a feat considering my last painting took me around…ummm…roughly 2 years to complete. Either I am getting rapidly prolific or learning to take smaller bites. The title of the painting is “The Initiation”.

There is a ton of symbolism and this painting came together during the richest, toughest, most revolutionary season I have ever experienced. Easter, May 2006 I was baptized in the Atlantic on Miami Beach. Just a little over 3 years since my soul waS ransomed! Growing fast = Growing pains. I guess I wouldn’t have it any other way. All or nothing to a fault.

I digress….

Here’s a picture:

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Read more | Comments (1) | May 10th, 2009

Hungry…Outside the Door…

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I am hungry for the Lord. For His voice. For His presence. So many things are going on in my life and in my heart, that I am avoiding catching up with anyone that’s not already in the loop, because there is just too much going on to fit into a nutshell. Honestly I am tired of talking about it. What I can say sounds so cliche’ … “The Lord is working”, “I trust Him”, “I know he has a perfect, good plan for me”. All of these things are true, but for some reason that’s the only way I can sum up what’s going on.

I am trying to balance desire with being content, with resting in today. Desire without it consuming me. No matter what the desires of our heart are, and how pure and righteous they are, I’m coming to a realization about them. The desire, that groaning that comes from somewhere deep inside, will not be quenched or fulfilled or satisfied in this life. It can’t. Why?…Because this is not how it was meant to be! This is a dirty clunker that will never satisfy. I know this might sound dismal, but the truth behind it should give us perspective on this life, and the incomprehensible gloriousness that is in store! If we’re looking for the answer around the corner, or in the next quarter, we are driving blindfolded into a brick wall.

A Mark Driscoll sermon the other day convicted me and challenged me when he said something like this, “God uses our suffering to reveal idols in our lives”. WOW and OUCH! Personally I feel like I pick up two idols as soon as He kills one. Almost on a daily basis. Remember that an idol is not just a figurine you put on your dresser and bow to when you want something. An idol is anything that we run to or put our hope in instead of the Lord. TV, magazines, video games, relationships (romantic or not), shopping, food, etc. Dang that hurts! Where is the line between thoroughly enjoying something and worshiping it? This is a heart question. What do you trust in? What do you hope in?

A terrifying thought a few months ago started a journey that has allowed the Lord to revolutionize my heart. The thought was “I don’t want to make it to heaven, Have the Lord hug me and say come on in, and then pull me in close to his heavenly view finder to whisper “Take a look…this is what I had for you, this is what you missed. All because of fear, mediocrity, and complacency”. This scene make me nauseous still.

I have no doubt that the Lord tracked me down, waited patiently for years and years, and gently drew me in. In the past year, I have also begun to discover and contemplate the idea that The Lord has so much more for us. So much more than most ever receive: gifts, and revelations, and wisdom, and knowledge, and anointing, and healing, and plans, and visions, and miracles, and adventure beyond our imagination. But the key here is that I don’t think a big portion of this store house of blessings and grace is just poured onto us without any work, as we sit on our sofas watching an episode of “Seinfeld” for the 313th time. It think that we have to go after them, GO AFTER HIM! Pursue Him like He pursued us. Bang down His door for your hearts desires. Fast, get on your face, and ask until He answers. Not impatiently, but in eager anticipation of His perfect timing.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knock, the door will be opened”.

Though someone in a pin-stripped suit might disagree, I don’t believe this verse is talking about a new Ferrari or that big promotion. I think that it is talking about those promises that are concrete and a part of The Lord’s will for His children: healing, wisdom, power, strengthening of gifts, direction, fruit, etc…ultimately MORE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP with HIM or MORE of HIM!

I pray this encourages someone to dig in harder, to go after Him, to give Him more of your day. That’s what I’m trying to do. I have banged on that door pretty hard over the past 2-3 months and boy has He answered. And I feel like we’re just cracking the surface. I want more. It takes time to knock, time to listen, and discipline to pursue. Oh how I want more. Nothing compare to His voice and His presence! But how easily do I and we all forget…

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Read more | Comments (0) | May 8th, 2009

My webisode debut…

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So my crazy friends Erin & MeLissa have an awesome online show that airs EVERY TUES night. The are both crack heads…if you’ve ever seen the show “Intervention”, it’s kind of like a mixture between that and “Scrubs”. You’ll just have to see for yourself: ERIN&MELISSA.com

Here is my debut on the show. Erin ann MeLissa are in a fight right now and looking for co-hosts to replace each other. I think my big screen persona just became apparent. I always wondered why people said I made intense faces…now I know. Enjoy:

MeLissa & Friends Show: The Great Co-host Search, pt.3 from Erin & MeLissa Show on Vimeo.

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Read more | Comments (0) | May 7th, 2009

My new lady…

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Meet Her…Her name is Antoinette (Toni for short) and I am in love. She’s a 78′ Honda Hawk 400. I’ve rode one day so far and it was amazing! I don’t know if I can ever go back to the scooter Say Hi!