Good Times

I am amazed at the amount of information we take in every day.  Today, I should be on information overload, but instead seem to be like a sponge.  Waiting on the edge of my seat for the next tidbit or nugget from God.  One person described it as "crumbs from God."  Call it what you will.  All I know is that it is very exciting. 
Not too long ago I realized that "I have sung other people's songs all my life.  It's time I sing my own song!  And sing it I will!"
More recently I found out that people's praise is fickle.  One person may think your scribbles are like Michaelangelo's Cistine Chapel.  The next person may look and say they are "bad art".   God's opinion is what matters to me.  I know that He gave me every good gift and all the praise goes back to Him for anything good I may do. 

I find it interesting that God has told be that there are people who I need not be concerned about.  I find people "worship" boring.  Today in the supermarket was a magazine with three girls on the cover.  Turns out they are Kardashians.  Really?  I couldn't pick one of them out of a crowd of 5.  Even they will have to bow their knee someday to the King of kings and the Lord of lords.  I have more of a problem really with people worshipping the "clergy".   And as soon as some read that sentence they will begin spewing defensive talk.  I start cringing when I'm in a church and people start going on and on about how blessed we are to have Paster So-and-so for our pastor and etc etc ad nauseum.   First off, I don't want to get hit by a stray bolt of lightning (half kidding).  But mostly, anytime people are put before God, or exalted, trouble can't be too far behind.
Just for the record, I do believe in giving honor where honor is due.  But honor can be contained in a few sentences or a paragraph.  Gushing and a dozen sentences about how wondrous a human being is is more than honor.  It is exaltation.  That is not a good place, in my opinion.

Changing pace a bit, once I heard a rut  defined as a "coffin with the ends broken out".  I gotto tell you I am tired of ruts.  It's time to break out, fill in the ruts and go on with God.  I am believing that it's time to start believing God's word means what it says and watch God move in our communities, churches, states, nations, world and universe.  Guess that is a good place to start eh?

The Love of God

Surely by now everyone knows that God loves them, right?  Apparently not.  Last night I was listening to a podcast by Larry Randolph.  He was talking about the cripple at the Gate Beautiful.  The cripple who Peter & John met as they were going up to the temple to pray.  This man had been at the temple every day since he was a child.  He was taken there to beg for bread.  He had been there when Jesus was brought to the temple and Anna and Simeon had prayed over the infant Jesus.  The cripple had been there when Jesus taught in the temple court.  Larry Randolph put this in a way that cut through my callousness.  He said this cripple had experienced all that the church had to offer.  This cripple had heard the Levites chanting the word of God.   Despite all he had heard and seen he had not had an encounter with God.  
I think that this is indicative of the society we live in.  We live in an age when there is more unchurched than ever before.  However, how many people have been innoculated against the gospel, the very thing that can change their lives.  They have experienced all kinds of Christians.  They've seen the televangelists on the tv.  But they have NEVER experienced God's love.   How can this be?  How can I call myself a Christian and be more concerned with the World Series or the Olympics than showing the love of God to another?  How could I be so selfish?
I believe there are two reasons and neither of them are good ones.  First of all, to do something, to interact with people costs me something.  Yes, it will cost me everything.  They may reject me.  Better that they reject me than God rejects me.  I call myself a child of God, but I have largely been uncaring towards humanity.  I have been uncaring toward God's creation.
The other reason is because I have not allowed God to fully heal me.  I am allowing and praying for that now.  If we have hidden hurts, hidden wounds, our love arteries are stopped up so to speak.   I believe that if the church will allow God to put His finger on our hurt and let Him heal those wounds, that it will change everything.  We will be able to receive God's love, and be able to show the love of God.
This will change the atmosphere, the world, and everything.  God gives us His love so we can spill over on other people. 
One other thing I want to say.  I want to recommend those who need healing to watch this video.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoC1ec-lYps  It is Jesus Culture -- How He Loves Us.  You may want to watch it over and over.  Yes, it's that good.

updating blogs today

Today I am not bursting with energy, but am bursting with creativity and ideas.  For a long time I have believed that God puts creativity in each of us.  It comes out in different ways.
But lately (last couple weeks) I have been reading some awesome books.  Some that I've read lately:
The Coming Shift by Larry Randolph
The Prophetic Ministry by Rick Joyner
The Apostolic Ministry by Rick Joyner
Just started There Were Two Trees in the Garden by Rick Joyner
Am reading a book about worship by Chuck Pierce

At some point in the near future I will write about what I did/am doing in August 2012.