I remember when I was in high school I really was inspired by the Hillsong worship team. They looked so passionate during their worship, there was always this glow about them. They always read Scripture and it had so much power and Holy Spirit BAMNESS to it. And so, out of my admiration for them...I recall me trying to copy what they did in the videos when I had opportunities to lead worship at church. I tried formulating what to say and muster up this passion many times...but there were many instances where it just felt really awkward.I also tried to imitate them by raising up my hands, because I felt it made you so much more godlier and everyone else was doing it in the Hillsong video.
Now I know the reason that it felt so awkward imitating them...was that it was something that cannot be imitated. This is because the love that flows out of their hearts during worship is SO real. When people lifted up their hands in worship...it was because Christ is SO Holy and AMAZING...they cannot HELP but to RAISE THEIR HANDS TO WORSHIP!The passages they are speaking about, the zeal they are worshipping with...is not from themeselves...it's truly from the divine conviction, power, and prompting of the Holy Spirit. It something that when one truly encounters the love of God...they cannot contain. It kind of overtakes your body to the point you feel like OMGOSH what was that..was that me? that felt awesomely weird. Well newsflash it really isn't you..it is Christ in you...it is the best feeling EVER!
yay.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Humbled.
Tonight the Advancement chapel was really humbling.
It was a missions team send off night, and the love of God was just so thick in the room.
I realized something tonight, that isn't really new..but it just dawned on me.
I'm just one little minuscule individual in His big picture.
Sometimes it so easy for us to think we are so hardcore in pursuing Jesus, and that we are probably one of the few that "get" it..but in reality that's so dumb.
The Lord has been working and is working in so many people's hearts and has stirred up in them a deep desire for missions and intimacy with Him.
He has His timing with everyone, and He is just teaching one of us individually and corporately about HIM.
Man I have so much to learn...but I'm so stoked to learn it.
I'm just so blessed...man.
You know those countless fb statuses that I post about how great my school is and how great my friends are? Maybe people wonder why. It all comes down to this really...it really isn't the school or the people...but it's the JESUS in both the school and the people that makes it so attractive..so amazing...so beautiful.
May the Lord continue to work on Biola's campus so that there will be complete exaltation of His name in this place...may the religious spirit be broken on this campus...and may true intimacy/relationship with Him be established in this place!
In His name,
Amen.
It was a missions team send off night, and the love of God was just so thick in the room.
I realized something tonight, that isn't really new..but it just dawned on me.
I'm just one little minuscule individual in His big picture.
Sometimes it so easy for us to think we are so hardcore in pursuing Jesus, and that we are probably one of the few that "get" it..but in reality that's so dumb.
The Lord has been working and is working in so many people's hearts and has stirred up in them a deep desire for missions and intimacy with Him.
He has His timing with everyone, and He is just teaching one of us individually and corporately about HIM.
Man I have so much to learn...but I'm so stoked to learn it.
I'm just so blessed...man.
You know those countless fb statuses that I post about how great my school is and how great my friends are? Maybe people wonder why. It all comes down to this really...it really isn't the school or the people...but it's the JESUS in both the school and the people that makes it so attractive..so amazing...so beautiful.
May the Lord continue to work on Biola's campus so that there will be complete exaltation of His name in this place...may the religious spirit be broken on this campus...and may true intimacy/relationship with Him be established in this place!
In His name,
Amen.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
I'd love to read this book!
So my bday is coming up. If someone could buy this book for me..I'd greatly appreciate it. Haha regardless..I really love this quote from the book...
Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola (Thomas Nelson)
"Christians have made the gospel about so many things—things other than Christ. Religious concepts, ideas, doctrines, strategies, methods, techniques, programs, and formulas have all eclipsed the beauty, the glory, and the reality of the Lord Jesus Himself. On the whole, the Christian family today is starved for a real experience of the living Christ. We know a lot about our Lord, but we don't know Him very well. We know a lot about trying to be like Jesus, but very little about living by His indwelling life. "Jesus Manifesto" presents a fresh unveiling of Jesus as not only Savior and Lord, but as so much more. It is a prophetic call to restore the supremacy and sovereignty of Christ in a world—and a church—that has lost sight of Him. Read this book and see your Lord like you've never seen Him before."
Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola (Thomas Nelson)
"Christians have made the gospel about so many things—things other than Christ. Religious concepts, ideas, doctrines, strategies, methods, techniques, programs, and formulas have all eclipsed the beauty, the glory, and the reality of the Lord Jesus Himself. On the whole, the Christian family today is starved for a real experience of the living Christ. We know a lot about our Lord, but we don't know Him very well. We know a lot about trying to be like Jesus, but very little about living by His indwelling life. "Jesus Manifesto" presents a fresh unveiling of Jesus as not only Savior and Lord, but as so much more. It is a prophetic call to restore the supremacy and sovereignty of Christ in a world—and a church—that has lost sight of Him. Read this book and see your Lord like you've never seen Him before."
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Worship in Spirit and Truth, founded in LOVE
In John 4:23-24 it says
3 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
Thus the authority of Scripture and the guidance of the Holy Spirit is exceedingly important. You can't have one without the other. The Holy Scriptures is God's revealed Word to us while the Holy Spirit is the Powerful Living God Himself who is not only constantly convicting us of our sin, but speaking to us and guiding us to act upon certain things in our life. I could write a whole paper about this...and I probably will have to in one of my future classes....but I think Southland's Churches video really sums up what I believe...
Watch before you continue reading!
Great video right? I appreciate it. Thus having stated, a glimpse of my theological view, I think it's still exceedingly important for Christians to be humbled enough to recognize that no matter how "sound" or "complete" or "right" they think their theological views are, we are never going to have perfect theological views, because we are flawed people who know in part....here's a passage that addresses that:
1 Corinthians 13: 9,10,12
"9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears..... 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known."
Having set all this...I think the foundation of everything...should be LOVE..and what exemplifies LOVE? Jesus Christ....if we have claim to have crazy knowledge of Scripture or perhaps on the flip side some crazy radical experience....but we just keep on talking about how much knowledge we have...or what a crazy experience we had...but we forget that knowing/loving JESUS is foundation of all of that...I think we are really missing the point.
That's what Abba has taught me so far, and this little brain has so much more to learn!!! haha...
3 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
Thus the authority of Scripture and the guidance of the Holy Spirit is exceedingly important. You can't have one without the other. The Holy Scriptures is God's revealed Word to us while the Holy Spirit is the Powerful Living God Himself who is not only constantly convicting us of our sin, but speaking to us and guiding us to act upon certain things in our life. I could write a whole paper about this...and I probably will have to in one of my future classes....but I think Southland's Churches video really sums up what I believe...
Watch before you continue reading!
Great video right? I appreciate it. Thus having stated, a glimpse of my theological view, I think it's still exceedingly important for Christians to be humbled enough to recognize that no matter how "sound" or "complete" or "right" they think their theological views are, we are never going to have perfect theological views, because we are flawed people who know in part....here's a passage that addresses that:
1 Corinthians 13: 9,10,12
"9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears..... 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known."
Having set all this...I think the foundation of everything...should be LOVE..and what exemplifies LOVE? Jesus Christ....if we have claim to have crazy knowledge of Scripture or perhaps on the flip side some crazy radical experience....but we just keep on talking about how much knowledge we have...or what a crazy experience we had...but we forget that knowing/loving JESUS is foundation of all of that...I think we are really missing the point.
That's what Abba has taught me so far, and this little brain has so much more to learn!!! haha...
Monday, April 18, 2011
Refinement.
James 1:2-4
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Right now I am physically exhausted, fatigued, and I have a difficult time breathing.
Right now emotionally, I'm all over the place. There's some issues that I don't want to be in the middle of.
Right now spiritually I just want desperately for Abba to fill this whole in my heart.
Right now mentally I just want these dumb thoughts to stop running around in my brain.
Despite these circumstances, I still have so much to be thankful for. In fact, I should be thankful that I'm going through these things because that means I'm being refined and Daddy is doing so much more within in me that I can't even see or comprehend.
There's no one that I would rather live for... I will follow Jesus, and by His grace..He will sustain me until the very end.
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Right now I am physically exhausted, fatigued, and I have a difficult time breathing.
Right now emotionally, I'm all over the place. There's some issues that I don't want to be in the middle of.
Right now spiritually I just want desperately for Abba to fill this whole in my heart.
Right now mentally I just want these dumb thoughts to stop running around in my brain.
Despite these circumstances, I still have so much to be thankful for. In fact, I should be thankful that I'm going through these things because that means I'm being refined and Daddy is doing so much more within in me that I can't even see or comprehend.
There's no one that I would rather live for... I will follow Jesus, and by His grace..He will sustain me until the very end.
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