If you haven't figured it out yet by reading my previous blogs...I love music!! This past Sunday our worship team sang a new song (they did an awesome job I might add) called "Oceans." Let me encourage you to take some time to listen to it. I hope it is on our website very soon if it's not already. There is such a powerful message in the lyrics and my 2 favorite sentences are:
"Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders."
"Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander."
These are words that I want to echo all the time. I have a tendency to rely upon my own strength way too much, but this is my heart's cry.
God wants us to do exactly what the words of this song says - trust HIM! Go farther than where we are today. How do I know that? Listen to this great passage:
* Ephesians 3:20-21
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen!
May God's Holy Spirit lead us, and we allow His Spirit to lead us to trust Him more and take us to places and to people like never before.
Let's all make this our prayer and desire!!
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Got Faith?
I was just reading through the 11th chapter of Hebrews which is known as the Hall of Faith. I challenge you to read it for yourself. The phrase "by faith" starts each sentence about the individual that the writer is speaking about. I love reading through this chapter every once in a while to remind myself that God did amazing, miraculous things through these ordinary men and women, that have a nature just like ours.
They were obedient to what God had called them to do, even when they didn't have all the details and instructions or anything that often holds us back from going "all in" for God.
What kind of faith do I have? What kind of faith do you have?
I thought about another passage of Scripture that has a subtitle: The Cost of Discipleship found in Luke 9. The conversation went like this: Jesus I will follow You wherever You go...but first I need to go and bury my father. Another person said, I need to go say goodbye to my family first. That sounds like all of us doesn't it? Well, I guess I should speak for myself; I am so good at making excuses. Listen to Jesus' response to these people: "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
The message I believe putting these to two things together is: You can be like those who trusted God even though they couldn't see the future, but who knew the One who did hold the future. Or you can be like these that SAID they wanted to follow Jesus but put conditions on that.
God wants us to TOTALLY trust Him...you in?
They were obedient to what God had called them to do, even when they didn't have all the details and instructions or anything that often holds us back from going "all in" for God.
What kind of faith do I have? What kind of faith do you have?
I thought about another passage of Scripture that has a subtitle: The Cost of Discipleship found in Luke 9. The conversation went like this: Jesus I will follow You wherever You go...but first I need to go and bury my father. Another person said, I need to go say goodbye to my family first. That sounds like all of us doesn't it? Well, I guess I should speak for myself; I am so good at making excuses. Listen to Jesus' response to these people: "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
The message I believe putting these to two things together is: You can be like those who trusted God even though they couldn't see the future, but who knew the One who did hold the future. Or you can be like these that SAID they wanted to follow Jesus but put conditions on that.
God wants us to TOTALLY trust Him...you in?
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