These two songs have blessed me in a special way. Praise God!
Moving Forward - Israel Houghton Live Video Here
How Deeply I Need You - Shekinah Glory Ministries Song Here
Be Blessed.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Blessed Break-Up
I have been so blessed this weekend as I attended the IGNITE 2010 Young Adult Conference at the Brooklyn Tabernacle! The word brought forth by Francis Chan was amazing, the outreach we did in the community, also amazing and finally, the Israel and New Breed Concert such a blessing! I had been talking with a friend of mine for about a month leading up to the conference about how great it was going to be but I had NO idea what God was really going to do, God exceeded my expectations and showed up and showed out! I walked away from this conference with a sense of urgency, feeling that a necessary change in my life has to happen NOW. I'm breaking-up with my sin, I'm letting go and moving forward. (Israel Houghton - Moving Forward)
The Break-up: Francis Chan spoke about the Fear of God, that we don't understand the fear of God, and that the fear is not a reverence but an actual fear of his mighty power. This God we serve once destroyed the entire earth because it wasn't pleasing to Him. We need to understand that God does not take our sin lightly like we do, we rely on grace and mercy (we rightly should) as our solutions to our sin instead of as an emergency reserve. We should be striving to live like Christ, not to do what we want to do and hope that we have breath when we're done doing what we want so we can pray for forgiveness and receive his grace and mercy.
Encouraging and Eye-Opening verses:
Ecclesiastes 12: 13-14 "Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil." Here, the Word says that our whole duty is to keep the commandments, not just when we want to or our part-time assignment, but our whole assignment. Wow! Then the Word says that God will bring every thing into judgment, good or evil. We can't hide from God, he's all knowing and all-powerful.
Luke 15:11-32 tells the Parable of the Prodigal Son. So many of us have read this story several times but when I read this last night, I saw something new. The son squandered his wealth in wild living and then thought, I will go back to my father, his father welcomed him and loved on him. How many of us depend on this parable to justify in a sense, our sin or to say, I'm a twenty-something, I just have to get this out of my system and then I'll go back to God after I'm done? I've said it! Thank God that he gave me another day to live so that I could be here now in this time and repent and pray for the Holy Spirit to help me to break-up with my sin! Praise God for sparing me, he could have taken me, in my sin and ignorance but he spared me...how great is He? We know this parable but we don't consider the Fear of God and who we really serve, how can we be so lax with sin, we don't know when we will be taken off of this earth, when our last day will be and we know that God will judge everything that we have done. We need to have a sense of urgency about following Christ because it is serious, it is literally life or death.
The message this weekend has really been about getting serious with your Christian walk. Who are you to others and who are you to God? (Reputation vs. Character) I am in a new phase in my life and I want to please God, no matter what others may think, no matter what my current friends or family will think, no matter how unpopular it may make me, I want God to be pleased. When I leave this life, I want to meet my Father and my Savior and hear the words "well done." I can't take my reputation on this earth with me, I can't take my family with me, I can't take my belongings with me when I leave, only my spirit will be facing the Lord and I want him to be pleased because I love Him.
I'm so grateful for this weekend, for this message, for the conviction, and for the sense of urgency, the strength and the desire to serve my Lord. I prayed before I wrote this that the Holy Spirit would follow through me, and I think He has, I hope that you are in some way as edified by this post as I was by my experience this weekend.
God Bless!
The Break-up: Francis Chan spoke about the Fear of God, that we don't understand the fear of God, and that the fear is not a reverence but an actual fear of his mighty power. This God we serve once destroyed the entire earth because it wasn't pleasing to Him. We need to understand that God does not take our sin lightly like we do, we rely on grace and mercy (we rightly should) as our solutions to our sin instead of as an emergency reserve. We should be striving to live like Christ, not to do what we want to do and hope that we have breath when we're done doing what we want so we can pray for forgiveness and receive his grace and mercy.
Encouraging and Eye-Opening verses:
Ecclesiastes 12: 13-14 "Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil." Here, the Word says that our whole duty is to keep the commandments, not just when we want to or our part-time assignment, but our whole assignment. Wow! Then the Word says that God will bring every thing into judgment, good or evil. We can't hide from God, he's all knowing and all-powerful.
Luke 15:11-32 tells the Parable of the Prodigal Son. So many of us have read this story several times but when I read this last night, I saw something new. The son squandered his wealth in wild living and then thought, I will go back to my father, his father welcomed him and loved on him. How many of us depend on this parable to justify in a sense, our sin or to say, I'm a twenty-something, I just have to get this out of my system and then I'll go back to God after I'm done? I've said it! Thank God that he gave me another day to live so that I could be here now in this time and repent and pray for the Holy Spirit to help me to break-up with my sin! Praise God for sparing me, he could have taken me, in my sin and ignorance but he spared me...how great is He? We know this parable but we don't consider the Fear of God and who we really serve, how can we be so lax with sin, we don't know when we will be taken off of this earth, when our last day will be and we know that God will judge everything that we have done. We need to have a sense of urgency about following Christ because it is serious, it is literally life or death.
The message this weekend has really been about getting serious with your Christian walk. Who are you to others and who are you to God? (Reputation vs. Character) I am in a new phase in my life and I want to please God, no matter what others may think, no matter what my current friends or family will think, no matter how unpopular it may make me, I want God to be pleased. When I leave this life, I want to meet my Father and my Savior and hear the words "well done." I can't take my reputation on this earth with me, I can't take my family with me, I can't take my belongings with me when I leave, only my spirit will be facing the Lord and I want him to be pleased because I love Him.
I'm so grateful for this weekend, for this message, for the conviction, and for the sense of urgency, the strength and the desire to serve my Lord. I prayed before I wrote this that the Holy Spirit would follow through me, and I think He has, I hope that you are in some way as edified by this post as I was by my experience this weekend.
God Bless!
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