For the Sake of His House

I pondered for awhile as to whether to post this blog now or wait... I went with now.

Psalm 122:9
"For the sake of the House of the Lord Our God, I will seek Your Prosperity"

Not for our own gain, not for our own pleasure or comfort and not for our own desires...
BUT
To see God's Church, His House, Established.

Instead of Praying prayers like this: God please give me a new car, I'd really like one or give me lots of money so I can be rich.
Which, if I'm honest I've definitely prayed before.
Let's pray prayers more like this: God give me a new car that will be perfect for picking up and dropping off people to and from church, please let it be good with fuel so I won't be constantly worrying about petrol.
(If you can't tell a new car is on my mind at the moment, but this relates to anything; a new house, a new job, a girlfriend or boyfriend etc.)

See, God blessing Us with a car or money isn't the issue, remember he owns the world. The issue is our motivation.
Are we motivated to grow and firmly establish the Kingdom of God in our Local Community?
Is it for the sake of His House?
I'm pretty sure we'd be receiving a whole lot more blessings if our desires not only matched Gods but our motivations were for God also.

I'm trying to set this habit in my life at the moment and I'll be sure to keep you posted with any blessings I receive that advance the Kingdom of God.

Lk

For the Love of life.

Greetings.
A New Weekend approaching calls for a new list of songs AKA Song list.
This week Nikki Shaw and I will be co-leading and these are the songs...

Run- Hillsong (KEY E)
Not Ashamed- Hillsong (KEY G)
Heart of Worship- Mat Redman (KEY D)
One Thing- Hillsong (KEY E)

It's going to be a great weekend, so come prepared to Lift High the name of Jesus and Glorify all that He is.
“…For Great is the Lord, and most Worthy of Praise…”­ Ps48:1

On a new note just wanted to comment more about the great weekend I had in the Riverina District a few weeks ago.

As you can see it was pumping.
The District Youth Alive Band were phenomenal (that's an understatement).
It was so good to see first hand the great things God is doing out there, and it was blatantly obvious it only came because of their Unity. This event was not the hard work of one, but the tiresome efforts of multiple Youth Ministries all around working together for a common cause.
How powerful. God works in Unity. Duh!!!
Joel, the Youth Alive District coordinator, shared a powerful testimony of how more young people from his church’s youth ministry were saved this year than any past years, even though his youth ministry had less to do with the running of the event than they have in years past.
Hope this challenges you to put your own feelings and agendas out of mind and to focus on God and His Saving grace.

For the Love of Life... Unite.

Lk

Iron

I just need to write a blog purely devoted to how good God is.
Simple Hey.
His handy work is written over everything that effects us and all we need to do is open our eyes to it and take a really good, honest look.

I pity the person who is so blind to the reality of God that they would conclude His non-existence, in my opinion He's pretty darn obvious when He wants to be. Just look at the night sky.

I'm just seeing His power at work in my life through relationships at the moment and I love it.
So to all my Friends who thought we were friends for no reason think again, God has big plans and is using our lives to shape and mold each other...
The bible says '... as iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another...' Prov 27:17
Basically, I'm excited to have a chance to look back one day and truly see the enormity and development of some of my friendships that I currently have.
You're all shaping the kind of person I will one day become,
the kind of leader I will become,
the kind of father I will become,
the kind of Husband I will become
and so many other things I can't even imaging I will become... all because of our friendship.

I just hope that I can have as much positive influence on your life as I know you will and have had on mine.

Lk

Mom's Day

Hi.

Well I missed out on Blogging last week because I was up in the Sunny Gold Coast for the National Australian Christian Churches Conference, which was great by the way.
But here I am to give another Song list for another week.

RECAP
Last Sunday night was our last 'official' night service for the next 8weeks as we embark on a cell group structure for Sunday nights. We will be running simultaneously the Alpha and Bible Explained courses which I'm sure will prove to be fantastic.
So back to Last Sunday night... we held a prayer and worship service which was great.
Every one brought some Passion and enthusiasm as we upheld our local Suburbs in prayer and asked God to put us in positions were we can share the gospel and see Him made famous.
Were believing that from this night we will see great fruit in the life of church so keep up the prayers.

Coming up...
So this week is Mothers Day!
What a great day it will be as we honour our mums who have sacrificed so much for us children.
We've got one of our artists at church preparing an amazing art work for the stage and our theme for the day will be 'FOUND'
Rightly so we will be opening the service with the song 'Found' by Hillsong and then the set list is as follows:
Not Ashamed- Hillsong
You are My God- GoodNews
Emmanuel- Hillsong
Sing to the Lord-Hillsong

That's it for another week.
I'll be aiming to post up a devotional in the next few days... so Stay Tuned.

Lk