GREENE STREET LETTERS: You Were Born To Worship......Your Life Is Worship.

Friday, September 13, 2013

You Were Born To Worship......Your Life Is Worship.

One of the things that drew my heart to the Vineyard, was their love for worship. Not just in songs but in their relationships, in their daily lives...they wanted to be pleasing to God. Isn't that what true worship really is? Me being pleasing to God....my words reflecting God's greatness to a world that doesn't know Him? My life being lived out daily in a fallen world, yet I am not bound by the dictates and behaviors of this world, but operated on in a Kingdom dynamic that reveals the love of God every day.

Worship isn't about the people on stage who play and sing.
Worship isn't about any one person's name being on a CD or I-tune...
Worship is about a heart that is moved to simply declare love to God.
Love to God for who He is, not what He has done or will do.
I am grateful for my salvation...
I am grateful for His grace in my life...
I am grateful that He loves me....
But I am grateful to God first and foremost.

It has been my honor and privilege to have been placed with some incredible musicians and singers how have taught me how to worship.
How to hear God and follow His Holy Spirit during a song.
That at the appropriate time, the Spirit takes us off the page...away from the chords and notes and leads us to that wonderful place where songs are created. The heart! I truly believe that if you are chasing this God,then there are songs within you that have yet to sung or put to paper. I believe that every believer has those songs regardless of talent or ability. You have breath....you have a song. You may not think it to be a song, but it's there waiting to erupt and come forth in fresh praise to God.

Start singing....
Start singing your prayers.....
Sing to God in the shower. Just let the words come forth. They don't have to rhyme. Just let it out and you will be surprised at what happens.
Let yourself resonate with the goodness of God as you proclaim His greatness.
You were born to worship....
Don't let anyone or anything steal that from you....

God on you...
mb

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Looking At The World Through Cracked Lens

As ol' Paul wrote in his Corinthian letters.."We see in part and we know in part." Now what piece of this bit of wisdom do we not get? I wish to not run around acting and trying to be some sort of Biblical G00-Ru (I meant to spell it wrong). Or a sage of sages.

I simply want to be able to communicate some of what God has given to me. Why? Do I think what I get is better than what you may have received from Him? Nope. But I do think encouragement comes when we share our daily story of struggle and victory in an effort to encourage each other.

Thanks for letting me share.

Time to soldier on..

mbb

Our Statement of Faith

We believe that God is the eternal king. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory. we believe that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born into sin, subject to God's judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness. We believe that Jesus, God's Son, was sent to this world, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, fully God and fully man in one person. He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ushering in God's kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Jesus' atoning death on the cross took God's judgment for sin which we deserved as law-breakers. Jesus' resurrection and ascent back to heaven opened the door for those who received salvation to begin a relationship with God.

Little Nets Into Deep Waters

Fishing nets were designed for one purpose only. To catch fish. Nets are no good if they stay on the boat. Nets serve no purpose if they are never used. I think maybe God sees us this way. We are all created for a purpose (by the way, the creator gets to define what our purpose is). Any other use besides the one we were created for does us no good. But when the creator places His hands upon us, casting us out into those scary, dark places with deep waters, it is then we can see the reality of our purpose. He knew there would be a catch waiting for us. I think I will be the net God has called me to be.

The Twelve Steps

As a community of people in recovery, we affirm that our higher power is Jesus Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Just as God told the children of Israel He was going to give them a promised land, He has revealed to us that He desires to give us a "Promised Life." When Israel got to the promised land, God instructed them to go and in a possess it, fight for it and claim it. In recovery, the 12 Steps are the directions given to us on how to fight, possess and claim this promised life.

Friday, September 13, 2013

You Were Born To Worship......Your Life Is Worship.

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THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD