Isaiah 26:8

So i finally am going to post what i've been wanting to talk about since last Sunday. Last Saturday night, I came up to auburn and had some amazing time just sitting around with people I love, talking about the Lord and what He is up to in each of our lives.

I was reading up on some of the postings in other’s blog ( a pass time I have found I quite enjoy). Katie B had written this, and I wanted to let it just introduce all that I am fixing to write—“The heartbeats are the same because the Father is the same Father who wills and works in each believer for His purposes great (for His glory!) and small.” How true is that?!?! Now, for what has been on my heart:

The week before last the Lord was just teaching me (yet again) 2 Cor. 12 “His power is made perfect in my weakness” My weakness—well there are so many to choose from, but right now I was specifically thinking about my head. Lord, how in the world can you use my head to reveal YOUR power and glory? That was the question in my head. So when I came to auburn, I went and talked to Stephanie for a good while. I was telling her everything on my heart, and she was like dude—we totally talked about all that at encounter this past Thursday. So we continued our conversation as the Lord just laid out His AMAZING truth.

Then I went on to see a whole bunch of you hanging out, and after that, Lauren and Robin and I went back to my apartment and sat at my kitchen table talking about, yes you guessed it, Jesus and all his greatness :). The Lord was moving, and all three of us had to step back for a sec- literally all of our heads were just spinning because of everything He was doing in that moment. So this amazing fellowship continued for about four hours. Then I went to bed and woke up around 5:30 a.m. My mind was still processing everything we had discussed, so I pulled out the journal and just started writing; here is what came out—

God you are so big. Why do we put You in a box?? Why am I so scared of what all you can do when I begin to take that box away. Why are so many of us scared of the Almighty power of the Lord?? You have brought us LIFE, so that we can have life to the FULL!! (John 10:10). Bethany Dillon wrote a song called “Revaloutionaries”—the lyrics are as follows:

Many have traveled this road before

I see their tracks in the dirt

But maybe I don’t agree

With where they are leading

And who am I, just a youth

But why has that become the excuse

A monotone voice

In my head saying

Dreaming all the time

It’s so foolish

Your flood of empty words

Will drown you in ruin

So we listen

Should we listen.

They shake their heads

As they drive away in the bandwagon

Didn’t feel like hitching a ride

Oh, but I’ll be fine

Some nights it’s hard to be alone

I want some kind of kinship

But the finish line

It drives me on

When they say.

Dreaming all the time

It’s so foolish

Your flood of empty words

Will drown you in ruin

So we listen

Should we listen

Come with me

They’ll call us revolutionaries

Come with me

They’ll call us revolutionaries

Revolutionaries, Revolutionaries

Dreaming all the time

It’s not foolish

Your flood of life giving words

They will refresh, they will refresh

Dreaming all the time

It’s not foolish

Your flood of life giving words

They will refresh

Should we listen

Revolutionaries.

Wow- I think that song does a great job of describing OUR generation. He is SO big—so much bigger than Auburn or Montgomery or Chelsea, Michigan. His GLORY is being spread throughout ALL the earth. “For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be over all the earth” (Ps. 57:10-11) So many times the Lord is moving in all of you, and even me being a bit removed from all of you, our hearts always line up, learning the same exact things. We are called to walk in the Spirit, but that road calls for surrender daily, hourly, minutely even. God is moving, all over the earth, but I can tangibly see it here in Auburn. He is calling out to our hearts and we are responding!! And that is amazing.
Be still and KNOW; Lord I want to go at everything, both arms swinging, but its so important to step back and simply let YOUR plan, YOUR sovereignty, YOUR love, YOUR GRACE!! Simply rest in Your promises and find Your PEACE. What an amazing place—our hearts are at home! So for the next few hours I am going to rest in Him and KNOW with all my heart that He has me in the palm of His hand.

So that is where the Lord had me last Sunday morning—then Andy talked about letting the Lord be the Good Shepherd that morning in church, how important it is to surrender and let Him do what we cannot. And yet again on Thursday at Encounter- Be still and know—and only then can we ask ‘what do You want to do in and through me, so the world will know you and give the glory to You alone.’ Then the prayer offered over us by the couple from Venezuela- “May God be released in a generation who can do ANYTHING. We already have all the potential that we need in us so that Christ can move through us.”

Let me restate KtB’s thought again—“The heartbeats are the same because the Father is the same Father who wills and works in each believer for His purposes great (for His glory!) and small.” Pretty cool huh?? Sorry that this post was really long; I hope the Lord spoke to you somehow, someway through this whole thing, especially since you read all the way to here :)

God is on the move; He is calling out to the hearts of our generation. He wants to do MAJOR things IN and THROUGH us. Christ is on mission through us. "The creation awaits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed." The Lord needs hearts that can manifest His glory His way.

“Your NAME and RENOWN are the desires of our hearts”