Songs for Sunday are...
How Great Thou Art
More than Me
Yahweh
Here I Am
and a tag... What Joy (well learn this week)
God Bless.
Lk
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Yes/No
Mt 5:37 "simply let your yes be yes, and your no, no."
Yep like you I've heard this verse just a few times... and it gets me every time.
I found an interesting commentary on this verse that I would like to share with you... it kind of cut me to the core.
'When we lightly commit ourselves to meet people at particular times and then unnecessarily delay them, as if their time were a commodity less precious then ours, we treat them unjustly and deceitfully.'
ouch.
When I put myself in the place of someone delaying or putting me off, it absolutely gets to me 'how dare they!' But yet I have a completely different set of standards for myself, 'I truly was really busy, nothing I can do about that.'
Sorry. I'm going to try better next time.
Simply let your no be a no and, only say yes if your willing to actually commit to the task.
On a new note...
This coming Sunday's set list will look like this:
AM
Run
Happy Day
Hosanna
The Wonder of Your Love
It's Your Love (Chorus only)
Love to all.
and remember yes and no.
Yep like you I've heard this verse just a few times... and it gets me every time.
I found an interesting commentary on this verse that I would like to share with you... it kind of cut me to the core.
'When we lightly commit ourselves to meet people at particular times and then unnecessarily delay them, as if their time were a commodity less precious then ours, we treat them unjustly and deceitfully.'
ouch.
When I put myself in the place of someone delaying or putting me off, it absolutely gets to me 'how dare they!' But yet I have a completely different set of standards for myself, 'I truly was really busy, nothing I can do about that.'
Sorry. I'm going to try better next time.
Simply let your no be a no and, only say yes if your willing to actually commit to the task.
On a new note...
This coming Sunday's set list will look like this:
AM
Run
Happy Day
Hosanna
The Wonder of Your Love
It's Your Love (Chorus only)
Love to all.
and remember yes and no.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
PRAY FOR
This is the message I preached at youth this week... hope you like.
Jeremiah 29:7 (That's right not vs11!!!)
"Seek the Peace and Prosperity of the City... Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper."
It is also repeated in the New Testament, 1 Thes 5:17, "Pray LOTS" (my paraphrase)... God calls us to Prayer.
Truthfully, I think were good at praying. Be it; 'God I want that puppy, God protected me, God please make me rich, God make this person in front of me drive faster, God get my parents off my back or God I want, I want, I want...'
Now contextually this verse is set right after the Israelites have been carried off into exile in Babylon and God responds to their situation not by asking them to pray redemption, not to pray about the cities demise or even against the Babylonian King. He simply asks them to PRAY FOR.
To Pray for the City.
In true God style, He asks for the thing that is most opposite to our natural reaction.
In our present day situation we probably aren't 'in exile' exactly but we may be at a place in our lives where we are not really happy with our situation or our superiors whether it's our teachers, bosses, parents or any kind of authority.
And I truely believe God would speak to you about that situation and say 'instead of praying against your situation, PRAY FOR.'
I mentioned on friday night, that the sure way to see your prayers answered is to pray the exact prayer God wants you to pray. Then He'll answer.
So maybe the reason why your not seeing this situation go away in your life, is because your praying the wrong prayer.
Try stop praying 'about' or even 'against' and start praying FOR your situation...
I truely believe that as you do you will see answers to your prayers.
And as we know by finishing off the verse...
'if it (your Situation) prospers, you to will prosper.'
Peace.
Lk
Jeremiah 29:7 (That's right not vs11!!!)
"Seek the Peace and Prosperity of the City... Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper."
It is also repeated in the New Testament, 1 Thes 5:17, "Pray LOTS" (my paraphrase)... God calls us to Prayer.
Truthfully, I think were good at praying. Be it; 'God I want that puppy, God protected me, God please make me rich, God make this person in front of me drive faster, God get my parents off my back or God I want, I want, I want...'
Now contextually this verse is set right after the Israelites have been carried off into exile in Babylon and God responds to their situation not by asking them to pray redemption, not to pray about the cities demise or even against the Babylonian King. He simply asks them to PRAY FOR.
To Pray for the City.
In true God style, He asks for the thing that is most opposite to our natural reaction.
In our present day situation we probably aren't 'in exile' exactly but we may be at a place in our lives where we are not really happy with our situation or our superiors whether it's our teachers, bosses, parents or any kind of authority.
And I truely believe God would speak to you about that situation and say 'instead of praying against your situation, PRAY FOR.'
I mentioned on friday night, that the sure way to see your prayers answered is to pray the exact prayer God wants you to pray. Then He'll answer.
So maybe the reason why your not seeing this situation go away in your life, is because your praying the wrong prayer.
Try stop praying 'about' or even 'against' and start praying FOR your situation...
I truely believe that as you do you will see answers to your prayers.
And as we know by finishing off the verse...
'if it (your Situation) prospers, you to will prosper.'
Peace.
Lk
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Catch up...
It's been quite some time since my last blog, boy life has been full!
Coming soon I'll post a blog with some photos from our youth event 'Blend' held on the 28th of August, but for now I just wanted to give updates on the new songs being sung at church.
Last Sunday we brought forward the song 'Yahweh' from the new Hillsong Album 'Faith:Hope:Love' as well as the song 'The Wonder of Your Love' the week before.
They are both still relatively new and you can hear the church still learning them but already 'Yahweh' is proving to be a powerful song that is stirring the faith of our church.
Still to come we have 'It's Your Love' which I know is going to pierce the hearts of our church, with its powerful declaration on Gods love for us!
We had the Privilege of being invited to House of Praise a few weeks ago to take the worship for one of their mid-week seminars, our worship team played fantastic but more importantly God's presence was felt and we had the chance to show off one of our originals! (Look out, we've been invited back for their next seminar!)
'You (God) inhabit the praises of your People,
and you delight in the Glory of Your Son...' The Wonder of Your Love.
Lk
Coming soon I'll post a blog with some photos from our youth event 'Blend' held on the 28th of August, but for now I just wanted to give updates on the new songs being sung at church.
Last Sunday we brought forward the song 'Yahweh' from the new Hillsong Album 'Faith:Hope:Love' as well as the song 'The Wonder of Your Love' the week before.
They are both still relatively new and you can hear the church still learning them but already 'Yahweh' is proving to be a powerful song that is stirring the faith of our church.
Still to come we have 'It's Your Love' which I know is going to pierce the hearts of our church, with its powerful declaration on Gods love for us!
We had the Privilege of being invited to House of Praise a few weeks ago to take the worship for one of their mid-week seminars, our worship team played fantastic but more importantly God's presence was felt and we had the chance to show off one of our originals! (Look out, we've been invited back for their next seminar!)
'You (God) inhabit the praises of your People,
and you delight in the Glory of Your Son...' The Wonder of Your Love.
Lk
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