Seeking and Nuts

It seems that anyone who has done anything great for God has been seeking His face and a little nuts. Everyday is a renewal. Did you seek God yesterday? Were you a little nuts for Him? I prayed this morning that God would show Himself to me today and make me a little nuts. Are you crazy for Jesus?

Waiting

I am waiting in strong anticipation for God to move. God will move. I know it. He will move in power. I am waiting to see what God will do. God I expect you to show up in a powerful way this summer. I pray for the day where we see our congregation busting out of the seems. Bust out father. Forgive us. Bring us to our knees before you. I pray father that we pursue you with everything that we have got. Move in power. I am waiting.

Needs

I have been reading through the book of Deuteronomy and it has been talking a lot about helping out the poor, fatherless, and widows. Basically we need to be helping those that are in need. How are we helping those in need? What are we doing to make sure the needy are being taken care of? In fact in the book of Deuteronomy it talks of taking the tithe and giving it to the Levites (would be pastors in our day) and to the fatherless and widows. Are we doing that today? What would our churches look like if we used our church money this way? What if we didn't pay for our programs out of our church buget and got rid of the benevolent offering? What if we took the program money and used that for those in need? What would our world look like then? I think that we would see the church used how God intended it to be used.

Serving

We are called to be like Jesus. Yesterday I felt a lot like Jesus. At 7am I was up and headed out to run in the Diana Run which is a run to benefit teens so that they can be blessed and bless others. It was a great time to offer my support to such a great cause. After the Diana Run we headed over to the church to make meals for the homeless. We had 11 students and 8 adults there to help out. It was a great experience for students to see how people less fortunate than them live. We also had an awesome opportunity to talk to a guy who had lost his family to a court battle and is fighting to get them back. We saw 6 kids stuck in a room and couldn't leave because their mom was sick. It broke my heart and the heart of the children. We moved to the non-homeless side of the hotel we were giving food out to and found that they weren't as grateful or willing to accept the food. It was interesting to note that the people who were most in need were the most grateful.

It was definitely a day well spent.