Worshippers out of wonderers...

*Before I start.. My train of thought is a little confusing here.. I'm slightly confused my self, not that that's unusual :0

"God makes worshippers out of wonderers."
                                                              Matt Redman. From the book Indescribable.

This makes total sense to me yet leaves me feeling confused. It's not the words that confused me; they were perfectly clear. What confuses me is myself.

I know that I am a worshipper. I'm addicted to it. I would rather 3 hours of worship to talk and praise God through over a sermon almost any day (not to say I don't like those too :) ) I'm just not sure of how much my need to know gets in the way of my need to wonder. Are wanting to know and wondering the same thing? Possibly; I'm still not sure, but maybe...

I find comfort in knowing that I can't know everything. I know it's a little odd. I think it's supposed to be that fact that we can't know everything that freaks us out. It's okay to not have all the answers because it's unattainable for me anyways. But I have the one with all the answers and that causes my heart to sing. The one person who knows absolutely everything knows me. He can teach me so much about it all! I will always have something new to learn and will always have something to worship Jesus for.

Inheritance, Dreams and Destiny

LORD you assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.

                                Psalm 16:5-6

In our world it's so easy to forget the things that God wants to give us. We forget his promises, count them as lost or say that God's gifts ate things that didn't actually come from him.

 

This verse is mine. I think I've said this before. :) It's mine because it reminds me of the inheritance that God has for me. He has good gifts for me. Gifts like my supportive friends and family. Gifts of the right words to say. God gives us all messages to proclaim. Truths that we discover are really battle cries that we should proclaim into each others lives. This is one of mine.

 

God has not forgotten our dreams; even in our darkest moments. He knows what our hearts desire even before we do.

 

Lately I've been finding myself saying things like "I want to go somewhere old one day." And then my Mom will reply "You're going to Europe that place is old!" or I'll say "I'd like to take a trip on a train one day." And again my Mom will reply. "Aren't you taking a train from Barcelona to Paris?"

My dreams are being fulfilled as I'm realising them! God has also fulfilled desires that I had completely forgotten about.

 

When I was in grade 5 I prayed and asked God that I could see a time when people would shout Jesus just like fans shout the name of their sports teams during games. That was in grade 5. In grade 8 I went to the Chris Tomlin concert where people did just that. I had forgotten completely about this prayer! While I forgot God didn't and he made it happen just for me. :)

 

And these are just the little dreams. God knows the big dreams that I have and he's working on fulfilling them. Dreams don't always get fulfilled instantly. Sometimes they take a while. Caleb waited 45 years to get his land in Israel. (Joshua 14:8-15). 45 years. That is honestly longer than I can imagine waiting for. With that long of a setback I'd wonder if God knew what he was doing. Which brings me to my 3rd point; destiny.

 

At one point I thought destiny was a flawed idea. But this is my take on destiny now. Destiny is not a road map. I can't bring myself to believe that God would plan horrible things to get between us and our dreams. God doesn't want bad stuff to happen to us. Bad stuff happens but it is not God's fault. destiny is not A to B to C and so on. Destiny is a promise. A promise that God will never leave us and that he does keep his promises. Our destiny is the delightful inheritance that God has for us. Destiny is me and God together. No drought, no storm, no circumstance could ever ruin that.

 

So your inheritance, dreams and destiny are there.

 

Will you claim it?

Healing

I just found this on my computer. I wrote it a while ago but it's still something that I need to shout out.

Healing                                                                                       September 14^th 2011

I learnt something about myself today in chapel that I never admitted to myself before. I realized that I have not allowed God to heal me. I’ve let him teach me things about my pain and stuff like that but I’ve never said, “Okay God. I’m broken, come heal me. I give you permission to heal me.” I let myself become broken down and I let myself believe that it was fair for me to be hurt. That does not line up with being a child of God! I forgot my verse.

LORD you assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.

                                Psalm 16:5-6

God has GOOD things in store for me! God’s plans are good and perfect even in the midst of my circumstances.  God I give you my hurt and my pain. I give you free reign to come and heal me. I give you complete control over the dead things in my life. God I give you complete control over the dead things in my life as well.

I want to be on fire for you God. I want to love you so much that I am obsessed with moving where you want me to move. I want my biggest problem to be how I am getting closer to you God. When I’m with you everything makes sense. You give me peace when my soul is distraught. You love me with a love that no one could compete with. Because of your love and grace I can change my world. Your love and grace put an end to the war inside of me so I can go and fight for the world. As your child I can change the world’s pains. You healed me and now you are going to help me (and, well, do most of it) heal my broken world.

THANK YOU GOD FOR YOUR LOVE!!!!!

The Lost Are Found

There are 2 types of the lost becoming found.

The first way is that we are a light that points to God and in that way the lost get found. For me that is explained amazingly through Britt Nicole's The Lost Get Found 

The second is that we wait upon God to work to get the lost back. For me this one is shown through Hillsong's The Lost are Found

To me the first is a mandate. It's my goal. I want to live life pointing to God and saying "Jesus is how you will be found!" To do this we must live radically. John 12:46 becomes what we want to be like. We shine like how Jesus shines and his light in us gets the lost found.

John 12:46
"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness."

The second is something I feel that I have been working at We can't make these people find themselves and we cannot do it for them. We just have to wait on God to bring them back.  Personally this is way harder. We pray for the lost. We fight for them through prayer.

2 Corinthians 10:3-4
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.  The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

We fight for the lost even when the earthly lookout doesn't change. God is ALWAYS moving. He is always restoring that which was broken.

2 Corinthians 12:9
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
GOD IS WORKING! He is working in me, in my brokenness. MY PERFECT GOD MOVES IN MY OBVIOUSLY MESSED UP WORLD! He can save and restore and I will help him in our quest to see the lost get found.