Lamentation marks what is wrong, what is out of order in God's world and what keeps human beings from thriving in all their creative potential.
Acts of lament expose these conditions, name them, open them to grief and anger, and make them visible for remedy.
Kathleen O’Connor
God is to be found not by stepping aside from the flow of daily life into religious moments and environments or by looking away from creation to a spiritual realm beyond but rather by entering attentively the depths of the present moment. There we will find God
John Philip Newell
We were given a new heart at the moment of salvation. The heart of stone was removed and we were given a heart of flesh, a heart we can trust, a heart the Lord changes us and loves us through.
“The heart is deceitful above all” no longer applies this side of the cross.
I asked the Lord to use me for his purpose.
He responded,
“I don’t use people.
I did not create you as a tool.
I want only to be with you and to know you and to be known by you.
Join Us in vulnerability.”
You can get to a place prophetically on your instrument that will change the air in the room. Once you experience this freedom you’ll never go back.
Make the time to max out your potential before the Lord and watch what happens.
There’s a point where what we do crosses into art space.
Voice can be matured and developed with time and incredible effort (and counseling/overall health)
Worship peeps we have to get to a place in our skill set where we’re choosing chord shapes on guitar because we like the voicings, and our inversions on keys because something about the chord stacks opens us up, and on the kit polyrhythms are just not an issue.
Authority, power, vision, gifts, glory, rightousness, PEACE, abundance, healing, wisdom, sainthood, JOY, health, the deep mysteries of God, wholeness, maturity, perfection, LOVE, himself.
Jesus is trying to hand it all off to you. Stop trying to hand it back.
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact imprint of his nature.
Any belief we have about God that we don’t see in the life of Jesus should be questioned.
The areas of our “unlikeliness” should be a constant source of amusement to us. It certainly is to God. He thinks it’s hilarious to continually gain territory against the enemy in… https://t.co/QBJSQFW217
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