“God wants to bring his living water to your nation too, but you need to first realize that the living water will not flow directly from heaven, nor will it flow from your church buildings, for the Lord said that streams of living water would flow from within us! Before your nation will see a revival, the followers of Jesus Christ must first experience a revival in their own lives. Only then will the water be able to flow out and bring refreshment to others.”

—Brother Yun

I’ve been so stirred during this season with how truly simple the gospel is, and how unfortunate it is that only a very small percentage of believers is actively sharing Love Himself with those around them, with a world that is doing everything it can to manufacture this Love - and failing - because it has never been introduced to the real thing. We’re SO equipped to share Jesus, you guys! Those of us who’ve grown up in the American church especially are oversaturated with information about Jesus that rarely moves from the theoretical to the activation/application stage - it’s time to strap on our shoes of Peace of the Gospel of readiness and step out in FAITH, knowing that everywhere the soles of our feet tread, the Kingdom of Heaven IS ushered in and lives ARE transformed.  To that end, I want to invite you guys to take #theprojectlove challenge!!!!  It is a 30-day challenge with the purpose of demystifying evangelism and a missional lifestyle.  It’s a beautiful invitation to daily walk in love, intentionally displaying the supreme care and compassion of the only uncreated God, to love our communities, to display honor and affection toward those who may despise us and treat us wrongfully, and to see every moment from Heaven’s perspective and every heart a potential home for Life itself. 

So check out this promo vid and then cruise on over to theprojectlove.com and read more about this AMAZING endeavour.  And if you want to join me on this challenge so that we can hold each other accountable, let me know!  I would LOVE to walk through this with you all.  Bless you guys :)

Getting rocked by these notes from BSSM Santa Cruz (at Carmel By The Sea)

I refuse to be one who says “Did God really say…?” simply because times get tough. He speaks, we listen, and like Noah, we will be a generation of faith-filled believers that says YES and AMEN to every word He utters. Even if we have to wait 100 years for the Lord to send the rain. We’ve come too far to turn back now… 

God is God and He does not lie. His character is PERFECT. A firm foundation. That which anchors our soul. Perfect Truth. A Promise we can take to the bank. Let’s rise up with FULL FAITH, that does not bend or waver simply because it’s being pressed!

Consider it WHOLLY JOYFUL, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations. Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience. But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a THOROUGH work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing. — James 1:2-4 (AMP)

“There is FREEDOM
where is the Spirit of the Lord is,
and the Lord is here!”

—Spontaneous Worship - Joy Oladokun

“Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the span of his life?…Therefore DO NOT worry and be anxious, saying, ‘What are we going to have to eat?’ or, ‘What are we going to have to drink?’ or, ‘What are we going to have to wear?’ For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father KNOWS well that you need them all. But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all HIS kingdom and HIS righteousness (HIS way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together WILL be given you besides.”

—

Matthew 6:25-27, 31-33 (AMP)

the Kingdom of Heaven is upside-down. time to embrace it. #theadventurebegins #takingtheplunge

“Exercising the gifts of the Spirit we can be like spiritual body-builders, developing for the sake of being strong. What is the use of a man being able to lift 300 pounds above his head on a show if he cannot lift a finger to help his wife in the kitchen? What is the use of all our outcry for power if we do not do the jobs there to be done – the door-to-door evangelism for example, or Sunday school work? The release of the power of the Spirit is never possible while we are not active. When we apply ourselves to do the will of God in service, God sees it as us making ourselves ready. The same God who is behind the healing miracles is behind all the ‘activities,’ the willing service to God.”

—Reinhard Bonnke

I just want to pack up my bag and go.

“Love liberates. It doesn’t bind. Love says. ‘I love you. I love you if you’re in China. I love you if you’re across town. I love you if you’re in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I’d like to have your arms around me. I’d like to hear your voice in my ear. But that’s not possible now. So I love you. Go.’”

—Maya Angelou 

(Source: jordanboboltz)

This little nugget is 24 today!

Filming the promo video for @awakerevivals, calling a generation to RISE UP — “Therefore PRAY Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into His harvest fields”!!!!! 

Taking the Plunge.

Thank you for making me* so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship** is marvelous - how well I know it…How precious are Your thoughts about me, O God.  They cannot be numbered!  I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!  And when I wake up, You are still with me! - Psalm 139:14, 17-18 (NLT)

 

*fashioned, designed, created, formed, sculpted

**masterpiece, workmanship, marvelous, more breathtaking than the most perfect sunset, more intricate and exquisite than the Sistine Chapel

You see that??  Breathe those words in.  Allow that imagery to sink in… 

That is the essence of how the Lord feels about us, His creation.  Made in His image.  We, I, look like God.  The only uncreated God, ruler of the universe.  And He loves me.  He delights in me.  He dances WILDLY over me with loud singing.  What the flip?!?!  

He created me for Himself.  To share in the perfect, unconditional, mutually beneficial love that the Trinity has for itself.  To display His characteristics and attributes in a way that no one else can.  I was crafted uniquely in Him, with all my likes and dislikes, passions and desires.  And like Rembrandt or Picasso, He steps back from me, His handiwork, and nods approvingly - “it’s GOOD.”

I have the affection and approval of the King of every king.  He says that I am without flaw or blemish.  Right here, right now.  And yet He breathes life into my lungs and continues to transform me more and more into the likeness of the One who He already sees superimposed on my being.  What a love!  To be fully known - the good, the bad, and the ugly - and yet fully, unabashedly, unendingly adored!

It’s my delight to serve a happy God

who won’t let go of me

because His heart is 

ravished by

the weakest glance from me

And so now I’m free to love.  Free to receive without question or flat out rejection due to false humility, insecurity, or feeling unworthy.  Free to explore what it means to be this poema of God, to discover what makes my heart beat faster, what makes my soul sing and my spirit soar.  Because this journey of being His is just as much an act of worship as singing in church.  It’s a life laid down, a fragrant offering, to discover and flesh out what relationship with the God-man Jesus Christ really looks like.  It is wild and weighty.  And anything but textbook.  

Here’s to the adventure.

swimmertkesh asked: Enjoyed reading your testimony. Been to Saddleback Church once before. I believe it was for a Shane & Shane event. Anyways, praise God for always pursuing us, even when we don't pursue Him. :)

yes and AMEN! wait so you live in socal? or were you just visiting?

Anonymous asked: Wow, what an amazing thing you're doing It sounds like you're very much passionate about God

thank you! and yes yes, i am :)

mesmerizedbyyahweh asked: so much beauty in your testimony. praise God, sis.

Amen! He’s so faithful! So glad it blessed you :)