by emma | Jun 24, 2005 | Faith
Last night a guy from Calvery Chapel spoke at the Wash Basin, and it was a great night. Think the thing I took from it most was simply to appreciate the word ‘so’ – a word that implies the following word cannot posibly describe what it wants to convey. For example ‘so great’ meaning its greater than the word great can describe.
Last night we also launched a new team, called the Love Foundation. It will endevour simply to say ‘we love you’ to some of the very special people in our lives. To launch last night, they presented Tony with a wee dog. It was beautiful to watch these guys with tears in their eyes as they just showed him how much we appreciate him. I have to admit, there were tears close to my eyes too. The transformation in Tony’s life has been incredible.
It got me thinking about ‘broken’ people again. The WB has afforded me the opportunity to meet so many people from walks of life I never imagined… drug addicts, alcoholics, etc. It seems to be these guys that have the greatest capacity to love. Maybe it is like the guy said last night, maybe it is because their deliverance has been great. It’s playing on my mind heavy at the minute, I re-read Red Moon Rising again (very strategic book for school CU!) and have a quote running through my head…
“But maybe the call the pray is a call to bleed as well as to recieve blessing.”
What if God is calling us as a generation, to feel the pain all around us. This truly is a generation that seems to be hurting more profoundly than any other- just look at the suicide rates, among young people especially. And we know that prayer changes everything. So what if, as God calls us back to prayer, He’s really calling us to hurt? To feel the pain around us. To weep for the broken people. To meet them in their pains, rather than ‘pray from a distance’.
Where do we go from here?
by emma | May 23, 2005 | Faith
Do you want to accept a challenge that will be the integrating dynamic of your whole life? One that will engage your loftiest thoughts, your most dedicated exertions, your deepest emotions, all your abilities and resources, to the last step you take and the last breath you breathe? Do you want to be His, entirely His, at all costs His, and forever His so that secondary things remain so and first things are always first?
[Os Guinness]
YES!!!
I want to live for a cause that so captivates me that my every breath goes to fulfilling it, till the very day I stand before my King. I want to be consumed by Him. Completley, 100% sold out for His glory. Forever and ever.
by emma | May 19, 2005 | Faith
“Every revolution demands revolutionaries, high-spirited people who dream of a day when things will be different, better. But revolutionaries do more than dream. They give their best to the cause. They relentlessly serve the collective effort.
All that is needed is a ragtag group of spirited revolutionaries who believe it can happen and are willing to take the first step.”
[Bill Hybels]
Thats the question. Will you take the first step? Whatever your dream, whatever your cause- will you take the first step?
I desire to see Jesus Christ enthroned in Ballymena Academy, to be a part of the generation that seeks His face. Will I take the first step?
by emma | May 15, 2005 | Exodus, Faith
Camping at Rod’s was great, we had such an awesome time. Sat up half the night (some of the guys ended up just falling asleep around the camp fire), spent some time just worshipping, praising God in the bottom of the field, in the still of the night. There were so many stars in the sky, it was beautiful! Seriously, i’ve never noticed it so much before.
As we sat around the fire, I was reminded of the day the Holy Spirit came, and descended like tongues of flames. On a Friday night I would normally be at Pulse after our team meeting, but i missed it to go camping with these guys- it was the last night. As i’ve since found out, God did a big thing at Pulse on Friday. Many people recommitted themselves to Christ, or made that desicion for the first time. As I look back, I cant help but think, but wonder- dream, even- that this is the start of a new revival. I spent a long time while camping just staring at the moon, and reminding myself of the prophecy of Joel:
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit. And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah cometh. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of Jehovah shall be delivered; for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape, as Jehovah hath said, and among the remnant those whom Jehovah doth call.
[Joel 2: 28-32]
Thats the vision the started the 24/7 Prayer movement rolling – a red moon rising, a generation learning to pray as never before. Is this the begining?
The big thing our Exodus team has been captivated by is the vision of ‘Generation 24’:
Who may ascend the hill of the Lord?
Who may stand in his holy place?
He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who does not lift up his soul to another or swear by what is false.
He will receive blessing from the Lord
And vindication from God his Saviour.
Such is the generation of those who seek him,
Who seek your face O God of Jacob.
[Psalm 24:3-6]
Thats our passion, our dream. To be a generation who seek His face.
Is this the beginning?
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