Can anyone say amazing?
So I just got back from my 4th Onething experience, I have to say, this one may top them all. I'm sitting here listening to the new Misty Edwards cd, which I have to say is my all time fav. yes folks, this even tops Jeremy Camp...it's so intense, so deep, so unashamedly transparent. It's like when I sing these songs I am opening up the deepest part of my soul to my Creator. He's the only thing I desire, even if everything else in this world crumbles, he will still be standing.
New Years Eve was filled with 10 straight hours of worship (minus one hour of Dwayne Roberts speaking). Bringing in the New Year singing praises to Jesus and declaring His beauty and glory, is there anything more amazing? And then, just because we can't get enough of this Beautiful Man, we spent another 3 1/2 hours worshipping in the lobby of the hotel, until 3:30 in the morning. That was so incredible. It started out with just Yoshi and Andrew playing guitar and maybe about 10 or 15 of us sitting around singing love songs to Jesus. It ended up with probably over 50 people, a girl playing violin, Yoshi moved from keyboard to playing drums on an empty pizza box (haha) and praying together with people we have never met and may never see again. Only something as amazing as the love of Jesus can bring all these people together. I love seeing how he works!
As amazing as all of this was, I have to say that some of the things God spoke to me during the conference were hard to take. I have come to the realization that I have only been decieving myself into thinking that I'm living a passionate, committed, totally devoted life to Jesus. I really haven't. If I just lookat how my time is spent I can see that. He is returning soon, and I need to know him. I say I love him, but do I really know him? I want to be so in love with him that there is no chance of my heart being offended with he comes with judgement and wrath. He is a jealous God because he is a loving God, he is a God of wrath because he is a God of mercy, he is a lion because he is a lamb. Who is there like him?...
And I have to add that they started a new music school at IHOP, called the Forerunner Music Academy,and oh my goodness, I almost died because it just sounds amazing! I want to go so bad! Dan and I were gonna go to the info meeting but the we decided if we went to the info meeting we would probably end up just wanting to quit college and go to FMA..and it's really true...so now my life is less perfectly planned than it was a week ago...I'm trying to see how I can fit FMA into my future...we'll see what God says...
Well, I'm really rambling about nothing, all I can say is that there are many ways in which my life can change and this year I am going to seek God more and know him more because he is the only one that can transform my life.
New Years Eve was filled with 10 straight hours of worship (minus one hour of Dwayne Roberts speaking). Bringing in the New Year singing praises to Jesus and declaring His beauty and glory, is there anything more amazing? And then, just because we can't get enough of this Beautiful Man, we spent another 3 1/2 hours worshipping in the lobby of the hotel, until 3:30 in the morning. That was so incredible. It started out with just Yoshi and Andrew playing guitar and maybe about 10 or 15 of us sitting around singing love songs to Jesus. It ended up with probably over 50 people, a girl playing violin, Yoshi moved from keyboard to playing drums on an empty pizza box (haha) and praying together with people we have never met and may never see again. Only something as amazing as the love of Jesus can bring all these people together. I love seeing how he works!
As amazing as all of this was, I have to say that some of the things God spoke to me during the conference were hard to take. I have come to the realization that I have only been decieving myself into thinking that I'm living a passionate, committed, totally devoted life to Jesus. I really haven't. If I just lookat how my time is spent I can see that. He is returning soon, and I need to know him. I say I love him, but do I really know him? I want to be so in love with him that there is no chance of my heart being offended with he comes with judgement and wrath. He is a jealous God because he is a loving God, he is a God of wrath because he is a God of mercy, he is a lion because he is a lamb. Who is there like him?...
And I have to add that they started a new music school at IHOP, called the Forerunner Music Academy,and oh my goodness, I almost died because it just sounds amazing! I want to go so bad! Dan and I were gonna go to the info meeting but the we decided if we went to the info meeting we would probably end up just wanting to quit college and go to FMA..and it's really true...so now my life is less perfectly planned than it was a week ago...I'm trying to see how I can fit FMA into my future...we'll see what God says...
Well, I'm really rambling about nothing, all I can say is that there are many ways in which my life can change and this year I am going to seek God more and know him more because he is the only one that can transform my life.