Ive never felt more normal….watch.
Differnt Parts, Same Message
Sometimes you have to see things as they are. So my mom (unexpectedly) waking me up early to accompany her to the airport to see her sister off was actually an opportunity to write this ideas out that I’ve been thinking about. Also it’s nice to spend a couple more minutes with my aunt from Africa that I met for the first time last week. She is so precious. I don’t know when/if I’ll ever see her again. I love her so much.
Whenever I visit home there’s always the request by my mother and my brother to visit to their churches. My mom gets to show her small church family the “son that lives in Arizona” and I get to see my brother worship from the drums on the stage of the 4th fastest growing church in the world (his church (peopleschurch.tv) has set the precedent for the church of the future-“the multi-cultural” church, but that’s another story). They both are happy that I attend, and me as a Jesus junkie am happy to oblige them.
The two churches couldn’t be any more different. My moms church meets in a strip mall storefront. The congregation is small, but growing (they have recently added a 2nd service) and they worship to music recorded on CD’s. My brother’s church has recently opened their first satellite location. Within 6 weeks of it opening, they have moved to 3 services. They have a massive arsenal of professional musicians which they rotate and stagger between the two locations. So you get it…very different churches.
I went to my mothers church first. There was an African minister there named bishop Duku. He spoke about the double portion Elisha received from Elijah. He prayed for me prophesied over me things about me & my destiny that he couldn’t have known. It was very encouraging. The satellite speaker at my brothers church spoke about rebellion and it’s consequences. One of consequences he mentioned was “missing out on God given opportunities”
I was driving home when God spoke to me about how the two messages were related. “I want to do all of those things that I’ve planned for you and much more, but the rebellion you are in will cause you to see that destiny fulfilled in a lesser capacity or worse, not even at all.” I saw then that though I was following God for the most part, there were areas where I decided I knew better than God, and so I was doing those things/living those parts of my life my own way. I was living my life 99% in the will of God, but He was telling me the 1% was more than enough to compromise my destiny and future. That’s the thing about rebellion-that’s why it’s so dangerous. It might be localized to one area, but it spreads. It might be that 1% but it grows, like a cancer. Eating away at you, until you are a slave to your vices and a shell of who you used be. Once God showed me this, it made me think of all the people before me who had decided that they knew better than God and as a result did things their own way. Many of which it was just one area, just one decision, but the repercussions were catastrophic. Not just people mentioned in scripture, but examples in my own life, as well as examples from my past. The remarkable thing about it all was how two different messages were actually just different parts of the same message.
Mary: “…and he’s so smart. Just to listening to him talk, I learned a new word.”
Me:”what was the word”
Mary:”blowhard”
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| — | Conversations with my little sister |
I run towards , jump, & dive into the impossible, because I am captured in love’s embrace. This is the best feeling
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Best. Monday. Ever
The following are why this was the best Monday ever.
1. My friend got offered the job we have been praying for for months!!
2. Found out feist has a new album coming out in the fall
3. Work went by fast
4. Got alot of work done today
5. Went skating today
6. The guy at ace helped me get hardware for my board and helped me put it on (that never happens)
7. Stopped in at subway and saw and old friend and got FREE cookies
8. Got a 100 dollar oscillating tower fan (w/remote!) for 35 bux
9. Got a very very awesome video game (worth 85 bux) for 35 bux
10. Got some chic fil a
11. Finished writing/recording a rough mix for this song I’m currently working on.
12. Got alot done today.
13. #1 reminded me that what God does for one of us, He will do for all of us.
#besttmondayever
#gonnabagr8week
