I write all that is below because I feel I should share a glimpse, and that is all it is, of what I have come home from. I share it with you not to make you jealous, but to create within you a longing for the things of God. We are too content. Thats what was revealed to me this morning at church, I called people to hunger, thirst, longing, to want to chase after Him, to see His words bear fruit. Read what God has said He will do, read what Jesus said about Himself and his kingdom and our authority, read it and then declare it. We are living with the bar set too low, we are far too satisfied and content with where we are and the tiny things we are asking for. How big is your God? I ask again, how big is your God? Sit under His waterfall, ask for Him to fill you so that you might be brimming, that you might be poured out to everyone you come into contact with. Stop being comfortable and satisfied. Divine discontent. I dare you to pray for it ;)

Saturday, July 10, 2010

The Joy of the Lord is our strength

Abraham and Sarah laughed
Isaac means laughter

It was for the JOY set before Him Jesus was able to do the impossible

The disciples at pentecost were filled with the Holy spirit AND JOY

How did I never notice that before? I don't mean the joy is our strength bit, I mean the pentecost. The fact that even though it is part of the Holy Spirit, Joy is the one highlighted extra, crucial, CENTRAL to pentecost, to the foundations of the first church. CELEBRATION, JOY!!! Man o man o man o man o man

not to mention when Kevin Dedmon before dropping that gloriousness talks about how we are holy as we start singing holy holy and THEN points out that orderliness has nothing to do with aesthetics and perpendicular 90 degree angles, the earth is chaotic looking yet perfectly in order, so's the universe! BUT that a father with children who are laughing knows that laughter is a sign of things BEING IN ORDER, being right, in alignment, all is well.

We need to get used to laughter in the church again, in just a HUGE way!!!

Sound simple? maybe I'm just slow.

But today's blown me away.

posted by Claire at 9:48 PM

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