My sister just graduated, I was very proud of her. While I was at her graduation, there was a speaker and I can't remember his name at all, but I remember what he said.
The last 8 months have been so life changing for me and my wife that we have gone through so many different stages of brokenness. This guy started talking about our hearts and the pockets that we don't want to empty, but if we could possess these things God will show up in a spontaneous and mighty way.
1. a dislocated heart
2. a broken sprirt
3. a radical faith
4. a strategic plan
5. a personal commitment
6. a courageous soul
In my personal life I have been going though each of these, they are not always the easiest or the most practical or popular, but I think when we fully surrender our lives and give up our rights, and empty the secret pockets of our hearts that we fill with all kinds of chaos. Once we go through all these different types of brokenness and discovery. I think God wants us to stumble upon one more chapter
7. a miraculous song- which is a song of triumph
So I want to live my life with a pocketless heart and to keep discovering the brokenness so I can sing away at my triumph.
Sing Sing oh my soul
_d
Friday, May 30, 2008
Like a Lion
There's this new chorus we have been working on.
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
then the bridge goes
Let heaven roar
and fire Fall
Come shake the ground
With the sounds of revival
I believe God is looking for a lion generation. A army that is ready to roar in this culture and provoke change. There's alot of revival like meetings springing up all over, and it's great thing to see thousands and thousands of desperate people in need of a touch from God, but I'm not sure this is a revival. The incredible thing about God is that He shows up when desperate hearts summon Him. He is is that faithful, that if we come together and expect signs and wonders, and have undeniable faith that He will produce creative miracles and bring His healing. It has nothing to do with a man or a place or a stage, it has everything to do with us being tenacious after the presence of God. Here's what I believe is a mark of revival.
first reckless hearts after His presence thats where we fall into the beauty of His holiness
then where there is God's Holiness there comes repentance. (I know I need this is my life.)
after that there comes an a expectancy for the miraculous. This is not a pentecostal or charismatic experience that you must shake and scream in some strange language. Although you may, but I think when God shows himself in revival type way, it will be such a movement that it will touch the most normal person and the most eccentric. It will be such a movement that every disbelief will bow down to worship the Lion and there will be a Roar so loud that in our worship miracles will just happen in an instance, that hearts that are searching for truth will find the only answer through the love we display in our lives and that Peace will come when in our worship the darkness will flee from this planet as we sing one song together of the Holiness of God. I love the visual of Aslan. A warrior but still so relate able and authentic and loving but dangerous. A new favorite book of mine that I just finished is called the SHACK. It was so refreshing to read and visualize the different faces of who God is. I think we will all be surprised one day to find out what we thought was God was completely not. So here's my thought's, may we experience a personal revival in our lives that provokes repentance and produces a resurrection power for all the world to see. Like a lion.
_d
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
then the bridge goes
Let heaven roar
and fire Fall
Come shake the ground
With the sounds of revival
I believe God is looking for a lion generation. A army that is ready to roar in this culture and provoke change. There's alot of revival like meetings springing up all over, and it's great thing to see thousands and thousands of desperate people in need of a touch from God, but I'm not sure this is a revival. The incredible thing about God is that He shows up when desperate hearts summon Him. He is is that faithful, that if we come together and expect signs and wonders, and have undeniable faith that He will produce creative miracles and bring His healing. It has nothing to do with a man or a place or a stage, it has everything to do with us being tenacious after the presence of God. Here's what I believe is a mark of revival.
first reckless hearts after His presence thats where we fall into the beauty of His holiness
then where there is God's Holiness there comes repentance. (I know I need this is my life.)
after that there comes an a expectancy for the miraculous. This is not a pentecostal or charismatic experience that you must shake and scream in some strange language. Although you may, but I think when God shows himself in revival type way, it will be such a movement that it will touch the most normal person and the most eccentric. It will be such a movement that every disbelief will bow down to worship the Lion and there will be a Roar so loud that in our worship miracles will just happen in an instance, that hearts that are searching for truth will find the only answer through the love we display in our lives and that Peace will come when in our worship the darkness will flee from this planet as we sing one song together of the Holiness of God. I love the visual of Aslan. A warrior but still so relate able and authentic and loving but dangerous. A new favorite book of mine that I just finished is called the SHACK. It was so refreshing to read and visualize the different faces of who God is. I think we will all be surprised one day to find out what we thought was God was completely not. So here's my thought's, may we experience a personal revival in our lives that provokes repentance and produces a resurrection power for all the world to see. Like a lion.
_d
Worship at Workplay
So here was the mission
Let your love be loud
Let your light shine
May we shake the ground
On May 19th this prophetic word echoed and erupted the streets of bham.
We were so humbled to see so many of ya'll show up to worship and to unite us together with a voice so loud that we believe this is what God is looking for. A generation that will spread hope and birth an awakening. To the hundreds of worshipers that joined together and came to worship untamed. May that same intensity burn so fierce in us that the presence of the living God surround us like a shadow and wherever we go, may that shadow bring freedom, healing and life.
Be Bold and expect the miraculous. May the world see our love for each other and see our compassion for the broken and wounded. That we become a spark for the flame that is waiting to ignite. I am ready for the movement. Roar Away.
_d
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