"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better." (Mother Teresa)
"He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life."
(Titus 3:4b-7)
Peace. Love. Joy.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
"You've got that kind of face that defies gravity...."
Sorry it's been awhile, been super busy with homework and just life in general.
We finished Beni Johnson's book, The Happy Intercessor, and this is one of my favorite quotes from it:
"When I spend time in the secret place, alone with God, I become so wrapped up in His presence that every other desire loses its importance to me. When I allow His presence to consume me I surrender myself so completely to His will that my desires begin to line up with His. I become fully engulfed in His presence, lost in a sea of His beauty, and captivated by His love. In that place is the fullness of joy, the fullness of peace, the fullness of love, and the fullness of aceptance. In that place, I become one with Him."
I am learning more than ever the importance and necessity of intimacy with Him. I find myself yearning more and more to know His heart and exactly what He is speaking. To not strive for relationship with Him, but instead she "be."
I find myself more and more being lured to this place of rest with Him. In that place is certainly the fullness of all Beni speaks of; joy, peace, love, and acceptance. I get so lost in that place with Him, it's hard sometimes to walk out of it...I can't say I don't like that feeling though.
It's a beautiful thing...
not striving.
But, just simply "being".
In the words of the great J Upton":
"If I could see Your face, I think You'd smile at me. You've got that kind of face that defies gravity. You're too much, you're too much for me."
The more I spend time with Him and taste of His goodness, the more I realize He is just too much. :)
Enjoy His presence people. He loves when you spend time with Him. He desires to share the secrets of His heart with you. How insanely amazing is that?!
It blows my mind.
Peace. Love. Joy.
We finished Beni Johnson's book, The Happy Intercessor, and this is one of my favorite quotes from it:
"When I spend time in the secret place, alone with God, I become so wrapped up in His presence that every other desire loses its importance to me. When I allow His presence to consume me I surrender myself so completely to His will that my desires begin to line up with His. I become fully engulfed in His presence, lost in a sea of His beauty, and captivated by His love. In that place is the fullness of joy, the fullness of peace, the fullness of love, and the fullness of aceptance. In that place, I become one with Him."
I am learning more than ever the importance and necessity of intimacy with Him. I find myself yearning more and more to know His heart and exactly what He is speaking. To not strive for relationship with Him, but instead she "be."
I find myself more and more being lured to this place of rest with Him. In that place is certainly the fullness of all Beni speaks of; joy, peace, love, and acceptance. I get so lost in that place with Him, it's hard sometimes to walk out of it...I can't say I don't like that feeling though.
It's a beautiful thing...
not striving.
But, just simply "being".
In the words of the great J Upton":
"If I could see Your face, I think You'd smile at me. You've got that kind of face that defies gravity. You're too much, you're too much for me."
The more I spend time with Him and taste of His goodness, the more I realize He is just too much. :)
Enjoy His presence people. He loves when you spend time with Him. He desires to share the secrets of His heart with you. How insanely amazing is that?!
It blows my mind.
Peace. Love. Joy.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
I was made for sunny days.
Jesus loves me.
Ohhh, yeah He does.
Sooo, update on life here at Bethel:
We get to choose an advanced ministry class and I picked Freedom through studying the book of Galatians. I am really stoked to start it and learn and walk in freedom so I can bring freedom to others! :) The book of Galatians is bangin' by the way...everyone should read it. It's deep. Here is an exerpt:
"Because, you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, Abba Father. So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has also made you an heir." (Galatians 4:6)
We also get to choose Activation, which is like outreach, my top pick was working with women going through drug rehab (because that is basically MY HEART lol) AND I GOT IN! :) I am really excited to come alive in helping other's come alive with dreams and passion through His wonderful love.
We have to pick prayer slots, and me and my roommate chose 2-3 am one day a week! Pretty stoked about that...just getting into His presence. Going on adventures with Him :)
Welp, I think that is all for now.
Peace. Love. Joy.
Ohhh, yeah He does.
Sooo, update on life here at Bethel:
We get to choose an advanced ministry class and I picked Freedom through studying the book of Galatians. I am really stoked to start it and learn and walk in freedom so I can bring freedom to others! :) The book of Galatians is bangin' by the way...everyone should read it. It's deep. Here is an exerpt:
"Because, you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, Abba Father. So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has also made you an heir." (Galatians 4:6)
We also get to choose Activation, which is like outreach, my top pick was working with women going through drug rehab (because that is basically MY HEART lol) AND I GOT IN! :) I am really excited to come alive in helping other's come alive with dreams and passion through His wonderful love.
We have to pick prayer slots, and me and my roommate chose 2-3 am one day a week! Pretty stoked about that...just getting into His presence. Going on adventures with Him :)
Welp, I think that is all for now.
Peace. Love. Joy.
Lalala Fashion :) (as always!)
Oh, Fashion how I love theee.
Yes, yes I do.
So, update on things I am really digging this season...
1) OXFORDS!
2) Oversize Sweaters!
Of course everything I put in my previous post...lace, military trend, jeggings, boyfriend blazer :) It's all grand! I love the fall, such a brilliant time for fashion!
I will blog about my favorites from Fashion Week later on!
Also, this Michael Kors purse...to die for:
Peace. Love. Joy.
Yes, yes I do.
So, update on things I am really digging this season...
1) OXFORDS!
2) Oversize Sweaters!
Of course everything I put in my previous post...lace, military trend, jeggings, boyfriend blazer :) It's all grand! I love the fall, such a brilliant time for fashion!
I will blog about my favorites from Fashion Week later on!
Also, this Michael Kors purse...to die for:
Peace. Love. Joy.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Your love is a symphony all around me.
Hmm...where to begin? So much has been happening. Good stuff at that.
So many good teachings in the past week....let me see if I can summarize it ha!
Bill Johnson really hammered in us the fact that we should live a life full of joy and never have another day of discouragement. It's kind of a new thought to me, living out of a place of joy so that no matter what happens in life I choose to press into the Holy Spirit instead of get wrapped up in the "natural". What a revelation.
He also talked about not allowing emotions and intellect to control us...becuase, "Christian's do things because they're right not because we feel like doing it." Kinda, a brilliant statement Our relationship with our Abba isn't from rules and what we should do, but it's an overflow of our love for Him that we follow Him and choose to become like Him.
Another man, Pastor Mark talked to us about seeing our Father as just that our Father. He said one thing that really stuck out to me, "It's NOT normal not to be able to feel His rpesence because He is tangible."
Kris Vallotton talked a lot about becoming a prince and not living from a mentality of a pauper. It was soooo good. He was saying that whatever we imagine and see ourselves as, we become. It was all about identity and living our lives from a place of knowing our Daddy is King and we are royalty and should live life from a place of royalty. It's really something that is so profound, that I believe if Christians walked from that place it would totally revolutionize our lives and the impact we can have.
Beni Johnson, Bill Johnson's wife, talked to us as well. She talked about intercession and praying from a place of knowing what Jesus was praying and then praying that. It was so grand!
There is so much more but it's just too much to write in one setting ha!
Here are some awesome quotes though:
"The Holy Spirit wants to show us how to feel and what to feel." (BJ)
"Your greatest successes were won before the circumstances happened." (BJ)
"How you prepare yourself will determine if you will have a solution when a problem arises." (BJ)
"If you want joy, rejoice. You are only phony if you live off of your emotions." (BJ)
"He doesn't want to bless me betond my capacity to handle- He wants to bless me beyond my imagination." (BJ)
"You are not the product of your environment, you are the product of how you respond to your environment." (Kris V)
"Unforgiveness teathers you to the past." (Kris V)
"Religion is trying to get through performance what you already have through creation." (Kris V)
"We teach people how to treat us by the way we treat ourselves." (Kris V)
"You were born to terrorize the works of the terrorist." (Kris V)
"You can sin, it's just not your nature to sin." (Kris V)
..................................................................................
The other day in worship as I was just allowing Abba to love on me I had this vision, I was in a palace and I was a little girl and all of a sudden Jesus walked over to me, held my hand and we began to walk. As we were walking pain in my life began to just dissappear. I felt the Holy Spirit say, "Brianna, go back to when you were a little girl and start over without the hurt." It was so lovely.
The very next day during a service, one of the leaders got up and began saying that in the Spirit he saw that Jesus was going to take many of us back to when we were little and let us start over without the hurts and pain of life that had built up in our hearts. It totally blew me away!
How faithful is He?! Ahhh! That vision totally rocked my world. He is soooo dang goood.
Peace. Love. Joy.
So many good teachings in the past week....let me see if I can summarize it ha!
Bill Johnson really hammered in us the fact that we should live a life full of joy and never have another day of discouragement. It's kind of a new thought to me, living out of a place of joy so that no matter what happens in life I choose to press into the Holy Spirit instead of get wrapped up in the "natural". What a revelation.
He also talked about not allowing emotions and intellect to control us...becuase, "Christian's do things because they're right not because we feel like doing it." Kinda, a brilliant statement Our relationship with our Abba isn't from rules and what we should do, but it's an overflow of our love for Him that we follow Him and choose to become like Him.
Another man, Pastor Mark talked to us about seeing our Father as just that our Father. He said one thing that really stuck out to me, "It's NOT normal not to be able to feel His rpesence because He is tangible."
Kris Vallotton talked a lot about becoming a prince and not living from a mentality of a pauper. It was soooo good. He was saying that whatever we imagine and see ourselves as, we become. It was all about identity and living our lives from a place of knowing our Daddy is King and we are royalty and should live life from a place of royalty. It's really something that is so profound, that I believe if Christians walked from that place it would totally revolutionize our lives and the impact we can have.
Beni Johnson, Bill Johnson's wife, talked to us as well. She talked about intercession and praying from a place of knowing what Jesus was praying and then praying that. It was so grand!
There is so much more but it's just too much to write in one setting ha!
Here are some awesome quotes though:
"The Holy Spirit wants to show us how to feel and what to feel." (BJ)
"Your greatest successes were won before the circumstances happened." (BJ)
"How you prepare yourself will determine if you will have a solution when a problem arises." (BJ)
"If you want joy, rejoice. You are only phony if you live off of your emotions." (BJ)
"He doesn't want to bless me betond my capacity to handle- He wants to bless me beyond my imagination." (BJ)
"You are not the product of your environment, you are the product of how you respond to your environment." (Kris V)
"Unforgiveness teathers you to the past." (Kris V)
"Religion is trying to get through performance what you already have through creation." (Kris V)
"We teach people how to treat us by the way we treat ourselves." (Kris V)
"You were born to terrorize the works of the terrorist." (Kris V)
"You can sin, it's just not your nature to sin." (Kris V)
..................................................................................
The other day in worship as I was just allowing Abba to love on me I had this vision, I was in a palace and I was a little girl and all of a sudden Jesus walked over to me, held my hand and we began to walk. As we were walking pain in my life began to just dissappear. I felt the Holy Spirit say, "Brianna, go back to when you were a little girl and start over without the hurt." It was so lovely.
The very next day during a service, one of the leaders got up and began saying that in the Spirit he saw that Jesus was going to take many of us back to when we were little and let us start over without the hurts and pain of life that had built up in our hearts. It totally blew me away!
How faithful is He?! Ahhh! That vision totally rocked my world. He is soooo dang goood.
Peace. Love. Joy.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Heidi Baker was here Sunday night and unfortunately it wasn't my assigned service so I couldn't go. But, she is certainly one of my heroes, all she has done in Africa and accross the world seriously amazes me! I got to watch the service though on ibethel...here it is for anyone who wants to enjoy it as well:
Becoming Sons and Daughters : September 19, 2010
Yesterday our worship was led by this awesome New Zealand band called the Ember Days. They were seiously amazing! Check them out:
http://www.myspace.com/theemberdays
There is so much that God is doing in me right now...I will update Friday on the details! :)
Peace. Love. Joy.
Becoming Sons and Daughters : September 19, 2010
Yesterday our worship was led by this awesome New Zealand band called the Ember Days. They were seiously amazing! Check them out:
http://www.myspace.com/theemberdays
There is so much that God is doing in me right now...I will update Friday on the details! :)
Peace. Love. Joy.
Monday, September 20, 2010
The Welsh Revival.
I just got done reading, "The World Aflame" by Rick Joyner for class; it is a book all about the Welsh Revival. It was so amazing to hear all the amazing stories from that revival. It really spurred me to cry out for even more of God than I ever have before. If you want to be super inspired as well as learn about the history of the revival I would totally suggest reading the book.
There are so many amazing things that happened during the Welsh Revival but two stories that really hit me hard are as follows. First, there is a story about Evan Robert's (the leader of the revival)Mother and how she left a service before it was over to go and get some sleep, when Evan eventually got home he found his mother in so much physical agony because she felt so convicted she couldn't simply wait on God long enough. Man, to have such a desire for His presence that you neglect necessities, that is what I call desperation!
Another story is about the Welsh Rugby team, which was pretty much the big thing that everyone followed (compare to the NFL in America), eventually they stopped competing because all the players got radically saved and all they wanted to do was spend time in His presence that they completely forgot about the sport all together. Can you imagine the players on our NFL teams getting so radically saved and moved by the spirit that they just forget to compete because they are spending their time in His presence ha...how crazy would that be!
Here are some quotes from the book:
"A revival is something like a revolution, it is apt to be wonderfully catching." (RJ)
"Bend the church and save the world." (Evan Roberts)
"Our intercession must be for intimacy with Him, and then with Him for His purposes." (RJ)
"Prayer is not used to change the mind of the Lord as much as it is used to bring us into one mind with Him." (RJ)
"Those who are controlled by fear will be the most threatened by anyone whom they cannot control through intimidation." (RJ)
"When we know that we are known by God, we will not be overly concerned about what anyone else thinks of us." (RJ)
"Those who allow themselves to be emptied, who lay aside all personal ambition to become of no reputation, who patiently suffer rejection and misunderstanding, will soon stir the entire world with the King's message." (RJ)
Peace. Love. Joy.
There are so many amazing things that happened during the Welsh Revival but two stories that really hit me hard are as follows. First, there is a story about Evan Robert's (the leader of the revival)Mother and how she left a service before it was over to go and get some sleep, when Evan eventually got home he found his mother in so much physical agony because she felt so convicted she couldn't simply wait on God long enough. Man, to have such a desire for His presence that you neglect necessities, that is what I call desperation!
Another story is about the Welsh Rugby team, which was pretty much the big thing that everyone followed (compare to the NFL in America), eventually they stopped competing because all the players got radically saved and all they wanted to do was spend time in His presence that they completely forgot about the sport all together. Can you imagine the players on our NFL teams getting so radically saved and moved by the spirit that they just forget to compete because they are spending their time in His presence ha...how crazy would that be!
Here are some quotes from the book:
"A revival is something like a revolution, it is apt to be wonderfully catching." (RJ)
"Bend the church and save the world." (Evan Roberts)
"Our intercession must be for intimacy with Him, and then with Him for His purposes." (RJ)
"Prayer is not used to change the mind of the Lord as much as it is used to bring us into one mind with Him." (RJ)
"Those who are controlled by fear will be the most threatened by anyone whom they cannot control through intimidation." (RJ)
"When we know that we are known by God, we will not be overly concerned about what anyone else thinks of us." (RJ)
"Those who allow themselves to be emptied, who lay aside all personal ambition to become of no reputation, who patiently suffer rejection and misunderstanding, will soon stir the entire world with the King's message." (RJ)
Peace. Love. Joy.
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