Every Day is An Adventure

Be Here. Now.

Do you ever feel like you have your hand in a dozen buckets? Like your multitasking and planning and regretting all collide into chaos? 

The Future lies to us that we need to worry and control its outcome.

The Past lies to us that our mistakes define us.

The Present?

The Enemy lies to us that living in the Present has no value.

His GREATEST fear is that we ABIDE is the presence of GOD in the Present moment. 

That we use the Present to make the person across the table feel like a million dollars. 

That we use the Present to see the beauty in people and use that moment… to speak life.

SLOW DOWN… Let me repeat that.. SLOW DOWN. 

Be Here Now. There is POWER in cherishing the moment and the people you are with. 

Be Here Now.

(ABIDE / ARISE / AFFECT)

(PS. If you struggle with being present like I do, check out this song by Will Reagan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcle5P0lEtA )

BUILD YOUR KINGDOM HERE - (REND COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENT)

We seek Your kingdom first

We hunger and we thirst

Refuse to waste our lives

For You’re our joy and prize

To see the captive hearts released

The hurt, the sick, the poor at peace

We lay down our lives for heaven’s cause

We are Your church

We pray revive

This earth

Today

You won’t remember today if your thinking about tomorrow.

Scripture That

Gotta love it when scripture jumps off of the pages and matches the state of your heart. PSALM 38

Separation of Head and Heart

This is the separation of head and heart.

I can think it but not believe it. I can know it but not feel it. 

What connects my heart and head? 

This separation is caused by a lack of desperation. 

If we think that we have no need than why would we surrender our dreams?

It’s only logical right? If we know what is best than whats the point of giving up our freedom?

I have fine tuned my ability to control the environment around me. 

Yet, there seems to be a disconnect somewhere. 

There is no fulfillment. No joy. My dreams seem empty.

This brings me habitually back to a place of brokenness. 

The old me is dead but its memories tug at me.

Worthless. Inadequate. Weak. Invisible. 

These names are not mine. 

In desperation I cry out for a new name. 

My Father speaks:

“Come away with me, Come away with me

It’s never too late, it’s not too late
It’s not too late for you

I have a plan for you
I have a plan for you
It’s gonna be wild
It’s gonna be great
It’s gonna be full of me.

Open up your heart and let me in.” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZoOfGiqZ7Y)

I am Son. I am Chosen. I am Beloved. 

The more I know who I am the more I realize how closely intertwined my heart is with his. 

My fathers dreams become mine. 

This is the connection of head and heart. 

A Day

Each day is its own. Other days do not deserve its attention. It takes on its own shape and form. It brings adventure, risk, fear, and every other emotion known to man. But above all of these other things, this day has a purpose. A meanings so deep and real that we have difficulty grasping it. So therefore we forget about it and drudge on believing that every day is the same. Every. Day. Is. The. Same. We get so sick of this lukewarm living that we cry out to God to bring some form of joy into our days. Our repititous, drudge filled days. This cry is met with a very raw and real truth. Joy is right in front of us. HE is moving and shaking this world everywhere around us. The challenge has been issued from His words. I want to live tomorrow for everything that it is worth. I have a quote that has been on my cork board for a while now but I havn’t looked at it in a while. Until tonight,

“This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good. What id do today is important because I’m exchanging a day of my life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be for gain, not loss; good, not evil; success, not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I paid for it. May I have sufficient wisdom and courage that this shall be my record for today.”