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i pretty much took a month break from this gosh darn diggity thang.
last week i went to cornerstone from tuesday through saturday. it was the most fulfilling experience i've had in a long time. i didn't want to go there for the music--i wanted to go to spend time with yahweh, to spend time fellowshipping with other people, and to just feel refreshed and uplifted. i expected some of that to happen, but it was so much more powerful than i thought it was going to be. i was amazed.
there has been a recurring theme of unity within the body of messiah this past year. unity in prayer, in worship, in leadership, and in anything and everything else. without unity, the body isn't able to function as it should. there was so much unity at that place. when thousands of people come together with a common purpose, it's simply outstanding to see and feel the strength and functionality within that body of people. i feel so blessed--so, so, so blessed--to be a part of that unity. to stand in agreement with my fellow brothers and sisters in christ.
i cried so much that week. not out of sorrow or sadness or bitterness, as it often has been lately, but out of gratefulness, out of repentance, out of awe, out of joy--all of those things by seeing people come together to be healed, cleansed and brought to a state of renewed purity, to worship our lord and savior, to be filled, and to have our hearts overflow with love and compassion and hope and faith and joy.
i feel so full of the ruach hakodesh, and i'm realizing just in this very moment that the feelings of discontentment and heartache i've had in the past few days are simply vessels of distraction to draw me away from the beauty of what i've experienced in my walk with yahweh. i stand against that, and rebuke any more thoughts of those trivial things. what i have gained in yeshua is so much greater than any of that ever could be. i feel like i've been brought back to that initial place of salvation--when i really started living my life for christ; when i became really sold out and handed my heart over to him to be refined and molded into something better. when his spirit poured down through every inch of my being and filled all of those cracks and voids in my life with faith, hope, and love.
halleluyah to the lamb!
last week i went to cornerstone from tuesday through saturday. it was the most fulfilling experience i've had in a long time. i didn't want to go there for the music--i wanted to go to spend time with yahweh, to spend time fellowshipping with other people, and to just feel refreshed and uplifted. i expected some of that to happen, but it was so much more powerful than i thought it was going to be. i was amazed.
there has been a recurring theme of unity within the body of messiah this past year. unity in prayer, in worship, in leadership, and in anything and everything else. without unity, the body isn't able to function as it should. there was so much unity at that place. when thousands of people come together with a common purpose, it's simply outstanding to see and feel the strength and functionality within that body of people. i feel so blessed--so, so, so blessed--to be a part of that unity. to stand in agreement with my fellow brothers and sisters in christ.
i cried so much that week. not out of sorrow or sadness or bitterness, as it often has been lately, but out of gratefulness, out of repentance, out of awe, out of joy--all of those things by seeing people come together to be healed, cleansed and brought to a state of renewed purity, to worship our lord and savior, to be filled, and to have our hearts overflow with love and compassion and hope and faith and joy.
i feel so full of the ruach hakodesh, and i'm realizing just in this very moment that the feelings of discontentment and heartache i've had in the past few days are simply vessels of distraction to draw me away from the beauty of what i've experienced in my walk with yahweh. i stand against that, and rebuke any more thoughts of those trivial things. what i have gained in yeshua is so much greater than any of that ever could be. i feel like i've been brought back to that initial place of salvation--when i really started living my life for christ; when i became really sold out and handed my heart over to him to be refined and molded into something better. when his spirit poured down through every inch of my being and filled all of those cracks and voids in my life with faith, hope, and love.
halleluyah to the lamb!