Tonight Has Me Thinking

So tonight has me thinking...pondering.....trying to remember exactly what i just heard so that i can try to put it all together in my head.

There were so many things about tonight that moved me and are bringng me to a place of wanting to really ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to me what he is speaking to my heart.

The prayer meeting before Encounter tonight again was so good. Many tesifying to God's goodnes and many just needing to be prayed for. Big Bruce shared his $11 dollar story- pretty amazing. For the whole story you will have to ask him but the bottom line is that the Lord led him to 1 Kings 11:11. Big Bruce realized that if he was not willing to share Jesus with others, that the Lord would use somebody else.

And then again just like last week the prayer time with the band and speakers was also very rich. Rainere a pastor from Venezuala (He and his wife were at Encounter to share what the Lord was dong in their country) prayed over us and his wife prayed as well. She prayed
"Thank you Lord that all the potential for your glory is already within this generation" Wow what an amazing thought....Christ in you the hope of glory!

Matt again just like last week challenged us to share. I'ts unbelievable to think that there are 940 international students on campus representing 92 countries. I am wondering who is going to take the challenge to share Jesus with these students and to make a global impact by talking to one person. I am wondering how the Lord is going to use my open heart. I found myself hanging on every word that Rainere said desperately trying to hear through his broken english because i knew that the Lord was speaking through him and had much wisdom to impart. "We don't need another (institutional) church we need a body of people who will live out the Kingdom of God and be Jesus to those around them... we need the sons of God to be revealed." Amazing how the Lord had already placed that on our hearts in a sermon Matt spoke on a couple of weeks ago.

As I listen to the Spirit....the presence of God within me.....I sense him saying "I've got a specific calling for your life, a mission and i desire this mission for your life. But if you are not willing then i have someone else who can do it.....but i want it for you. Are you willing? Don't squander the potential that i have for my glory that i have placed within you. I did not place it there to stay, but to be brought out to be manifested for the glory of my name."

Just yesturday i read a quote from David Crowder "Let your calling be centered in your reality not your reality being centered in the voices of others."

I feel as if our calling as a family is rapidly unfolding. We are sensing and feeling that our reality will not allow us to stay in places that do not center us right in the middle of what God is doing in our hearts. Uncomfortable as it may be, i dare not compare it to how uncomfortable and tragic it would be not to be a part of his great movement in our generation. He is King and He is displaying his kingdom all over the place. I desire deeply to be revealed as the daughter of God to a world that is in desperate need of Jesus.

To wait is to become stagnet.......to linger is to become complacent......... To hesitate is to become lukewarm.

I do not know how long my life will be....i have entered into my 2nd quarter of life and already feel as if the days are moving by to fast. I don't just want my days here on earth to whisper the greatness of God, i want them to boldy proclaim and declare His greatness all over the earth.

Matt and i want to leverage our lives for the glory of his name. At the end of our lives we want to be able to say - "Jesus, thank you for accomplishing the mission that you set before us. What an incredible journey it has been!"