Today's church was really awesome. It was just two songs. Like A Fire, the song I listened to just before leaving my room, and Hope of All Hearts (the "new" song) haha! I love being so spoilt for going to Planetshakers Conference :P
It was good. Ps Chris shared a word about how God remains faithful. From 2 Timothy 2
11Here is a trustworthy saying:
If we died with him,
we will also live with him;
12if we endure,
we will also reign with him.
If we disown him,
he will also disown us;
13if we are faithless,
he will remain faithful,
for he cannot disown himself.
Yup, and he talked about how in life, many things can be unfaithful to us, or we can be unfaithful to many things. And even then, God will remain faithful to us. And it goes against the flow of that passage. If we disown Him, He will also disown us, but even when we're faithless, He will remain faithful. I'm not too sure why it says "He cannot disown Himself", and I have two interpretations, wonder which is right.
1) We are inseparably joined with Him when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour. I am His and He is mine.
2) He is Faithful period.
And as he was sharing this, I was suddenly reminded of my talk with Jojo in the afternoon, and I hope the message to her made sense.
Then the message by Rudy (at least that's how I think it's spelt), was just awesome. Not in the powerful delivery kind of awesome, though he was a good communicator, but in the simplicity that things clicked in my head.
Why do I do the things I do? Simple.
1) because I want to be close to God
2) because I want to be the best at what I do
I pray, and praise to be close to God. I make a decision every morning to praise God, to make Him the center and anchor of my day.
I read the word, because I want to be a man of revelation. And the only way is if I study the Word!
Somehow when he preached those few lines, it really struck and stuck. It's really that simple. Yup, I know I've been thinking about these issues for a long time, and I believe a breakthrough has just happened, and I'm claiming it, all in the simple name of Jesus and His words through Rudy.
And then there was a revelation of a servanthood sermon. The Genesis 24 account of the part where Abraham charges his chief servant, whom I think is Eliazar (dunno how to spell), to get a wife for his son Isaac. And the part that clicked was why did he do it? Just a few chapters ago, Abraham pleaded with God to have a son so that his belongings will not go to his servant. So I think he was in line to get everything, yet he served his master faithfully and found a wife for Isaac. And he did such a good job that sermons are preached out of his behaviour!
So yup, something to dig over the next few days!
Yay for Edge Live!
And yup, somehow the talk with Jojo has got me thinking, but in a good but yet perplexing way. Life is going on!