12/31/2014 0 Comments His Glory is Heaven on Earth"To be seated in heavenly Places, Just like Heaven, Just like Heaven on Earth! To be walking in His favor and grace is Just like Heaven, Just like Heaven on Earth! Something’s moving, Something changing, See His glory feels like Heaven on Earth." When I heard these lyrics from Micah Stampley's amazing worship song "Heaven On Earth". It surely made my soul leap. Why? Because I have felt something transition in my spirit over the past few weeks. I have felt an excitement that I haven't felt in quite sometime, and I know that it's the anticipation of what is to come with the transition of the seasons and times. We have entered a year that will carry a double portion of true grace that will carry with it the Lord’s strength and power. It will be the year He will accomplish things that we are not able to do in our own strength. Last year was we declared was our year of "Open Doors, and in this year our Lord enters into the door and extends His great light and revelation. He will make good on His promises concerning many matters that began last year. We will be seated in Heavenly Places. We will walk in unprecedented favor and grace. Just like Heaven on Earth. The Lord will also seal, solidify and secure what He began. It is especially true to those who have been diligent and faithful towards Him. We are entering a Divine Year where we will see blessings released and placed upon His people based on the heart that has sought first His kingdom. To seek God's Kingdom coming to earth is to declare our great need for God's presence, provision, love and redemption. We have been given a mandate of the highest importance from our King of Kings. We are to carry the kingdom of God with us everywhere we go and release this kingdom through everything we do. We are called by Jesus to bring heaven to earth. Everything that is happening in heaven should be happening on earth. How much of heaven will God manifest on earth? We don’t know the answer to this, but I believe that it is more than we expect. It is so much more than we pray for or expect. But I know that it will be as our Worship Wednesday song says so profoundly: "There will be lightning and thunder, Miracles and wonder, Sound of many waters, Heaven on Earth!" So as Hebrew 12:28&29 says, “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our ‘God is a consuming fire.” Enter into Worship
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12/12/2014 1 Comment Take It…It's YoursI read this quote and it summed up my heart at this particular juncture in my life: Christ says, "Give me All. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good...Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked--the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.” ~ C. S. Lewis ![]() My prayer each and every day is "Father you increase, while Yolanda decreases." (John 3:30) John the Baptist had a pure and real servants heart. He was not out to be about his business, but he was about his Father business, obeying God’s will for his life. John knew the only reason he even had a life or a ministry is because God gave it to him. His adult life was characterized by blind devotion and utter surrender to Jesus Christ and His kingdom Now, let me set the record straight, it has taken me 40 years to get to this place in my life. I have coined my time running from this "sold out" status as my "wilderness experience". In this wilderness I wanted to do what pleased Yolanda. I wanted a degree to achieve a career that pleased Yolanda. I wanted to live the life with the man I carefully chose. I wanted to achieve goals I had mapped out in a five, ten and twenty year increments. However, my Father who created, called and ordained me had carefully crafted a life that would serve His greater purpose thusly nothing I did worked. I would land the big job in the Fortune 500 company and in a few years I was back to square one. I would enroll into school to complete the degree that I wanted and desired so desperately, but each time, my plan failed. I would seek information to create the family I desired and something would happen to halt the process. I was devastated, unhappy, and frustrated about life. It wasn't until I died that I finally lived. How is that possible? When I rededicated myself, my will, my heart, my skill sets, my breath back to the One who gave it to me did I begin to live with a new vigor, fulfilled with purpose and passion. People often hear me teach this, but it is a divine truth that I desire the world to know, the greatest gift you can give the God who has everything — is your life. When you give your life, which is the most precious thing that you can give our Father, you will see His faithfulness abounding in your life. When I removed the focus from "I" and placed it on "Him" did I begin to feel the "fullness" that the Word says existed on this side of Heaven. Are you ambitious about decreasing? Acknowledge that everything you have comes from God. Then humbly and emphatically acknowledge that you are not the Christ of your life. Understand that your role is to become less and less, and for Christ to become more and more. I’ve realized that my decreasing might cost me some comfort and relationships. But I’ve learned to say, take it all. My life, it's all I have and it belongs to you. Rededicate your life to Him today so that you can live the life He has ordained especially for you. Enter Into Worship |
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“I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God which is your spiritual service of worship." Worship is first of all an experience. It may express itself through certain forms, but it is not primarily a form. It is an experience. It is a consciousness of the presence of God and a response to that consciousness. Worship expresses itself as an outreach of the deepest emotions of the soul in adoration, reverence, homage, exaltation, and praise to the Almighty. We hope that our Worship Wednesday creates a deeper more meaningful worship experience for you. Visit our other inspirational blog
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