Saturday, May 16, 2009

Oh, how He loves us.

Today, a good friend of my had a terrible accident. He is very badly injured-yet stable, and needs much prayer on his long road to recovery. The other person involved in the accident is a friend-though not a real close one. As sad as it is-she did not make it. I don't know where my readers find God's sovereignty, but one thing is certain and it's best put by John Mark Mcmillan.

He loves us
Oh, how he loves us
Oh, how he loves us
Oh, how he loves

I'm not sure if there is another song that has connected me with the beauty of the heart of the Father. There is much more to it, however this is the Gospel. That we are loved, we are desperately against God in all that we do, but Oh, how He loves us.

A girl has died and is spending eternity somewhere, and she was young. A friend is badly hurt-closer to death than anyone could be without actually dying. 

But one thing is certain: He loves us. Oh, how he loves us.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

My Life Before Today

Being human is a fatal flaw. It never really ever surprises me how often and how hard I fall.  I am an unbelievable idiot.

I am praying that this next chapter of my life will finally be less about me.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Prayer-and Preaching Christ Church

For anyone who attends Preaching Christ Church that reads this at all...I love our church.

Yesterday was the National Day of Prayer-and it rained real bad, I'm not entirely sure what that means if God sends rain on our National Day of Prayer. However, last night our church had a prayer service for whoever wanted to come and pray for our nation and other topics.

We had Brothers Forever come and lead our service with some vocalized style music, which the church loved. We had different people come up in between songs and pray for different topics. 

Tony (a man of God) prayed for our president, that God would guide him, and he would listen and be productive for our nation as the leader. Tony also prayed for our government officials from the Executive to the Judicial we prayed for congressmen and Governors and Senators and local officials.

Pastor Bob and his wife Sharon prayed for the families of American and the husbands and wives of our country and the children, and the teenagers of this nation.

Donna prayed for social issues like Abortion and Homosexuality that the church would not be condemning to these movements but standing firm (in the love of Christ) and be against them. 

Pastor Chad prayed for our economy and the job loss of our nation-we prayed for men and women and the families that have lost their jobs and need help from the church, and we prayed that God would bless them and comfort the hurting people.

I prayed for the Church that she would rise up and be the bride of Christ, I prayed that we would no longer live inside of four walls that we find comfort in but that we would do like my friend steven and go and live out our faith in a big impacting way. For his glory and not for our own. 

Please don't let our prayers for each other and for this nation be only on a National Day of Prayer. May we the church, rise and commit ourselves to one another. Amen and Amen