My heart breaks for the things of God day and night! Since the moment I faced everything that is perfect, holy, righteous, and loving, I have been broken for His plans and purposes! I stand before you completely imperfect, yet perfected in who He says I am. This weekend, during the conference at our church, one of our pastor's said, "the goal is not to stop making mistakes, the goal is to live in the glory of God!!!" In an instant I thought, I can do that!!!~That was one of the most liberating things I had heard, my whole life.
Here is what is burning in my heart today! When we wake up, do we think of Jesus? Do we wake up with a song in our heart? Do we love others higher than ourselves? Do we place a higher value on relationships than personal pleasure? Are we pleasure seekers and not God seekers?
Matthew 20:16 Many are called, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN! FEW!? When I walk into church, and I realize that the worship leader many times has to encourage us to WORSHIP, it rips my heart in two! I was a worship leader for years, I know what it is like to look in the eyes of people who say they love Jesus, but have no interest in spending time with Him! Understand I said, many times, you may be the exception! :-)
If we were looking to adopt a child, and invited 100 orphan's over to our house to see who we would want to adopt, and 99 of them did not want to talk to us, and kept waiting to leave, which one would we CHOOSE? WE called them all over, but because they disqualified themselves the choice became easy!
I don't want Jesus to have to convince me He is worth my time, energy, and entire life! When I wake up I want Him to be the first thing in my heart, all day long, and the last thing I think of before I go to bed! How awesome to see worship leaders walk in to lead congregations who long to worship in spirit and in truth! Meaning, they simply do what they are suppose to do. They lead people who are ready to join in with the same intensity, if not more, than the one who has to concentrate on holding a song and crowd together by the spirit of God! The congregation has the easy part, they should be able to out worship the team hands down!
When the preaching begins, people's hearts should be so pliable that the level of preaching should go through the roof! Imagine what Pastors and Worship leaders could do with a church on FIRE! I don't believe it is the responsibility of church leaders to convince us to follow Jesus each week! I strongly believe they are here to help guide the way we follow! I believe, that this is the heartbeat of God! He is a jealous God that longs for us to long after Him! Exodus 34:14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God!
What are (other gods)? Anything that we place as more important than Jesus! What do we spend our money on? What do we spend our time doing? What do we think about? The answers to these questions will tell us, who our god is! The one that we serve!
What is the solution?? How can we, you and I, change this? We need to make Jesus more important than ANYTHING! We need to ALWAYS choose Him! We need to devour His words more than any other word! We need to pray that He will change us and purify our hearts. We need to long for what He longs for, in us! We need to be filled with His spirit! We can not do anything of any value in our own spirit. It must be His spirit infilling us and propelling us forward!
Jesus, forgive us for serving anything whole heartily except you! Fill us with your spirit, fill us to the top and overflowing! Fill us with your fire to serve and live a holy life, separated for you! Equip us Lord, change us, make us, mold us and convict us with your spirit in the areas that we need help in! We just want to be like you, it is possible through you! Let your love for who you are, rise up in us now! Thank you Lord! Let it be done, in your name Jesus, amen!
<JESUS, LET US BE THE CHOSEN GENERATION>!
But ye a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: 1 Peter 2:9.
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"I don't believe it is the responsibility of church leaders to convince us to follow Jesus each week! I strongly believe they are here to help guide the way we follow!" Well said!
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