Trust Fall Nahum 1:7

"Trust is all we have tonight, but trust will be forever."- Future of Forestry

Do we really trust that the Lord is good?

If we trusted the Lord was good then we wouldn't need to worry about laws, social norms, rules, rituals, and regulations. We wouldn't need to worry period. We should live in the freedom that God has called us to freedom, not enslaving ourselves with our doubts or false realities. Reality is we were made for intimacy not religion. We are to know God not just about Him. A friend of mine named Sean Mooney talked about Eve wanted to be like God, which is not a bad thing, but she wanted the things of God instead of God Himself. When Moses tried to take the people up to the mountain to be with God, they would rather have the laws instead of coming in contact with Him. Do we believe God is good and he cares for us? We weren't made to sit in church, but be his bride and live with Him, not just hear about Him. Let us rest in God himself and trust that he loves and let go of all the bad things and good things. Let us not be swayed by our circumstances, emotions, good days, or bad days, only by the presence of God. Let's move with Him.

What Chains? Galatians 5:13-14

I was preparing for house church and I heard from the Lord the day of my talk. I was giving a sermon on freedom in Galatians 5. I was talking about how we chain ourselves up because we want to take control, we don't know if God is good enough to handle our situation, we think we understand our circumstance better than God, and so chain up everything we want to control which isn't freedom. So as I thought of this example, I was thinking that we set ourselves apart from freedom and if we want to be free we have to give those chains over to God. So as I prepared for this talk I went through this in my head and said, " God, hears my chains." and God said, " What chains? Have you forgot about my Son and what He did for you? Those chains don't exist anymore, my Son died for all of that, the chains you are talking about in your head, you create them to make yourself feel better. You are free go live in victory." The Lord is a Victorious Warrior.

Excerpt #1 from No Man is an Island

The words of Christ are clear: " Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." This is not merely a helpful suggestion, it is the fundamental law of human existence. It forms part of the first and greatest commandment, and flows from the obligation to love God with all our heart and soul and strength. This double commandment, giving us two apects of the same love, obliges us to another asceticism, which is not the answer of Eros, but Agape."- Thomas Merton

The Heart Behind the Worship- Isaiah 66:1-2; 1 Timothy 6:15-16

It's not about you or me. Usually when we worship, praise, or idolize something it is because we get something out of it for ourselves. When we enter worship (which we should be doing every waking moment) we should be giving Him glory because that's where it belongs. Sometimes I worship because I have to make myself feel better. As you have heard from some of my friends before God is not a pill, a rabbit's foot, or something we put in our back pocket and we just get Him out when we want. We shouldn't be asking Him to do stuff for us so we feel better. We should be waking ourselves up to His presence because He is already all around us. Rescue is already here. It is good to ask for his help to keep glorifying His name because the Holy Spirit is the Comforter, but let's not abuse His love for our own satisfaction. He doesn't force anything on us so why do we force things upon Him. I hope that as a church we don't go to God just to feel better or get filled up. If you believe in Christ, you are already full of the Holy Spirit, just wake up to it. God isn't a gas station. I pray we open ourselves up and surrender. Our attitude should be one of humility, contrite in Spirit, and trembling at His Word. So when we sing praises and live out life let's come humbly and think about what we say and what we mean about the things that come from our lips. It all depends on our heart behind the worship. "Father, will you come..." We don't sing that so he can just heal our troubles, but also that we can just rest in Him. Let's not leave Him like a gas station, let's treat Him as a resting place that we never want to leave. We sing these words so we can worship God in all of His Glory declaring we want to stay in God's presence- Let's meditate and be alive to IT. I know some of us may understand this whole concept, but let's not just understand it. Let us live it out through our heart.

"Let's meditate on God, and who He is, not your problems and how He might fix them, but just meditating on Him alone...solves all problems. It is really that simple."- Francis Chan

Yedah- John 17:3; Revelation 4:5-11

The unknown that come from the depths of God is a scary place to be, but it's what we were meant for, The Adventure. God wouldn't have said "know me" if He didn't think we could do it. The only thing with that is, "it takes an eternity to know God". Thank God we are built with that, with eternity written on our hearts. It's not an adventure until you try to discover something that hasn't been. It's worth the fight.

Wake up O sleeper, Notice the Beauty, Live the Adventure. Even though we are unworthy, there is a man who is worthy who lives. He wants us. He took all the pain and shame for us. "All ye who are heavy burdened and heavy ladened, come the Lord will give you rest." So receive the love and love. "Your love is sweeter than honey..." It's worth the sacrifice, if anyone wants to call it a sacrifice. It's not a sacrifice, like I said earlier, we were created with eternity written on our hearts. What a beautiful thing that we are satisfied fully by something eternal not materialistic, The Word is fulfilled, and The Lord gets the glory. It seems to good to be true. That's probably because it is Truth.

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The Depths-Matthew 14:22-36

The availability of the depths are there, we are just not willing to go for it. I pray that we don't watch others who are hungry for the Lord run on the water while we chain ourselves to the boat of self-loathing and our own fears. I pray we don't become like the majority of America. I pray we are not just another face in the crowd. God has a plan for anyone. God uses the weak. Jesus may seem far away sometimes when we go into the depths of the knowledge of God, but it's because He wants you to go further and further out to Him. He is still waiting for you there. There are no waves, just water to walk on to go to your Father. Love waits for you!

Paradise- Phillipians 2:1-11

A paradise, a land of exploration,

a promised land, a mount of blessings, freedom...

We see it now as an everyday thing, mundane, and dull.

Because our actions, our voices, and we ourselves have destroyed it, yet it still stands, it remains strong.
Let us awake ourselves and come alive to the Creator and the Creation instead of flying by on our plane of self-righteousness.

It's Beauty is in ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.

"All life flows from God" I hope you see it and I hope I do too.