for when you really need it
Tonight at our usual FCF service, which to anyone outside of the IHOP community would recognize as “church”, we had a different thing happen. Usually there is 45 minutes of worship followed by a speaker. Tonight, about 30 minutes into worship, Mike stopped the band and drew our attention to a little old lady in [...]
“What are you saying? What are you trying to say to me?” “You don’t have to fight to press into me, or fight to understand what I’m saying, just lay back and let it come to you.” “Okay.” I lay back. “I love you” Emotion rises in my throat. “I love you too.” And I [...]
“O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the cliff Let me see your face, Let me hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.” Song of Solomon 2:14 When I arrived up at the House of Prayer yesterday, I stopped to partake of [...]
“It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the [...]
Heaven is my throne And earth is my footstool Where is the house you will build for me? Whom of you will hear the cry of my heart Where will my resting place be? Here oh Lord Have I prepared for you a home Long have I desired for you to dwell Here oh Lord [...]
I’ve come to the end of this season of my life. If I were to summarize it for easy consumption, it was truly about preperation and protection of my future. Its been a long haul of a few good times, some hardship, a lot of internal struggle and wrestling, a healthy dose of woundedness and [...]
So, I don’t really have much to report. I know I should have since its been a month and a half since my last post. In actuality, I do have plenty to speak on, but I don’t want to. Its stuff I don’t want to share, especially since its all just what I think I’ve [...]
I’m really stirred up today in my spirit. I’m on the verge of a miracle. I don’t even know about that which I speak. I’m confused and bubbling and excited and just torn up with anticipation. I just feel like I’m about to have an encounter with God. God is so big, it seems to [...]
If you’ve reached this page via my old xanga blog then you already have some inkling of what’s on my mind this evening. If you didn’t come through that page, you can catch up with everyone else by clicking the link below and reading the post titled, “A Home for the Nations”. http://www.xanga.com/iwillpreparetheway Today we [...]
1Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. The Lord gave me this verse early on at Mazzio’s back in 2002 when he so abruptly broke into my life in power. I’ve stuck by it ever since, knowing in my heart that I’d never be able to build the house [...]
February 16, 2009
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