Tuesday, July 17, 2007

ALL will FALL and WORSHIP!!!

"Propose your plan, but it will fall. All your talk is mere talk, empty words. Because when all is said and done, the lastword is IMMANUEL--GOD WITH US!!!"
Isaiah 8:10
(Message and NIV combined)
This verse stirred a revelation within me as to how everything will eventually at some point worship the living GOD!
Im a Christian and when I fail, I fall to my knees and cry out to GOD (not always physically but always in my heart)--THIS IS WORSHIP!
Even if we do not conciously worship God the nature of 'fa.ling' brings us down; way below the throne of God. This is called being humbled.
THIS IS WORSHIP!
This is how someone who has never connected with God can still actually worship him.
We fa.l and we recognize that it was impossible to succeed by our own measures, and the truth is only with God can we be truely successful.
THIS IS WORSHIP!
And
even if someone lives to 100 yrs old and still did not bow down to almighty God,
they will fall to their faces when they face the great judge.
They will plead and will cry to him.
THIS IS WORSHIP!
You see
Even plans will fa.l.
Even technology will fa.l.
Even heroes will fa.l.
Everything and everyonebut God
will
FA.L!!
THIS IS all WORSHIP!
GOD and WORSHIP are in everything!
Then what do we do in our everyday live in reference to this revelation!
We need to recognize that no matter what we will fa.l.
Instead of getting down or even subconciously worshipping God!
We need to conciously worship God from the ground to which we fell!
Since God is ALL we can draw from him the strength and the solution to what tripped us.
God is our strength in our weakness!
HEY youre going to WORSHIP Him no matter what
so
you might as well do it
with
INTENTION!
THIS IS SWEET WORSHIP!!
Immanuel--God-with-us!

Saturday, July 7, 2007

WHY WAS JESUS A SERVANT?

"Guess who will live there--the proud owners of the land?
No, the servants will get it--the lovers of His name will live in it"
Psalm 69:36
(message)
I was reading my Bible in Psalms and a passage stirred my thoughts as to why Jesus, the King of Kings and Lord Almighty, was the biggest servant ever.
Jesus was the ultimate servant.
He was a servant because as Psalm 69:43 says, the servants will inherit GOD's Kingdom.
If Jesus was not a servant he would not have been able to inherit the Kindgdom of GOD!
and...
because Jesus was the perfect, ultimate servant he inherited it all; and now he hands it down to all the servants who follow.
Therefore if we want to inherit GOD's Kingdom,
WE MUST SERVE as Jesus did!!!
(I feel that this is only one of the reasons why Jesus modeled servanthood to us. The connection of Jesus being a servant and God wanting us to be servants too, is as deep as the ocean)

SOLD OUT!!!

The other day I heard someone say, in reference to a friend, that "he was looking for something to sell his life into".


It got me thinking (sometimes a bad thing but this time it was good) What am I selling my life into? What am I giving my time, passion, and energy to?


I would like to say God, but I can't. Even though the majority of my life is sold into God, there are aspects that end up requiring my worth.


There are so many things in this world in which we can invest in, but we can only be sold out for 1.


Sold out to me means that there is nothing left to give, because it is already invested somewhere else.


You see, being sold out requires everything, not just the majority. I want to sell my life into God and be sold out for him, and that requires everything.


How awesome would it be to be able to say to the world when it tempts you, that you have nothing to give because God has it all!


And the amazing thing about God is when we give our everything to him, he gives back to us, in which we can invest in other valuable things, such as friends, family, and ambitions.

BUT GOD NEEDS TO BE FIRST.


I claim my life as SOLD OUT for GOD!!!!!!!!!

and I pray you do too.