As my season in EDJ is about to end this week, i find myself trying to think about something significant and special to blog here, and I can think about alot of good stuff that eventually Ill write, but right now, really all I want to talk about is how much He loves us! Here is a song that’s been messing me up on a daily basis by the truth of Gods love for us... its called "How He Loves" by a worship leader - John Mark Mcmillan.
He wrote this song and pretty much the whole album after alot bad stuff happened like one of his best friends dying... so he made a worship cd and that’s changing lives of many... the name of the album is "The Song Inside The Sounds of Breaking Down" and its truly that, its worshiping God in the brokenness of our heart... so if you ever been broken before you might appreciate this... Ill write some more later, God bless, LEO
You can check him out at http://www.myspace.com/johnmarkmcmillanworship
And theres a cute video on the bottom with the song on it... its not the best video but its kind of cute and the song is AMAZING!
HOW HE LOVES - JOHN MARK MCMILLAN
He is jealous for me
He loves like a hurricane and I am a tree
Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy
When all of a sudden
I am unaware of my afflictions eclipsed by His glory
And I realize just how beautiful You are
And how great Your affections are for me
O how He loves us so
O how He love us, how He loves us so
He love us, whoa how He loves us, Who how He loves us, Whoa how He loves"
So we are His portion and He is our prize
We are drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
And if grace is an ocean we are sinking
So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss
my heart turns violently inside of my chest
I don't have time to maintain these regrets
when I think about the way that He loves us
O how He loves us so
O how He love us, how He loves us so
He love us, whoa how He loves us, whoa how He loves us, Whoa how He loves"
HOW HE LOVES US SO!
Monday, June 18, 2007
Sunday, June 10, 2007
The Underground
WOW! Cheak this video out!
Their making a documentary about the prayer movement
seriously, I almost cried watching this!
Lou Engle, Mike Bickle, Rick Joyner, Jason Upton, Derek Webb!
The Underground!
I CANT WAIT
I LOVE JESUS!
Their making a documentary about the prayer movement
seriously, I almost cried watching this!
Lou Engle, Mike Bickle, Rick Joyner, Jason Upton, Derek Webb!
The Underground!
I CANT WAIT
I LOVE JESUS!
A Word For Future Interns... and everybody else that reads it!
Being a intern, working at a church, doing ministry is a good thing! You get to serve the Lord everyday, be in His house, enjoy fellowship and learn from other amazing Christians. But the big mistake that I saw alot of us doing, was thinking that just because we are in church all the time, our relationship with God must be good... It could be, but what I saw in my life and in many others is that because we work so hard for God in ministry, we dont feel such a strong need to spend time with Him on our own... big mistake, Our relationship with God, is far more important that our relationship with what we do!
This was a message that the Lord put on my heart earlier this year and its something that Im still trying to live out everyday, its out of matthew 25, speaking about how important it is too keep our relationship with God first, so we can have the oil to fuel our lamps :)
Hope it blesses you
Leo
WE NEED OIL
Matthew 25:1-13
Lamps What we do… our gifts and talents… things we do that shine, that are seen by people…Ministry.
Oil It represents the anointing that the Lord gives.
1Sa 16:13 -
So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the Lord came upon David in power. Samuel then went to Ramah.
Psalms 23:5 -
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Oil is the fuel to their lamps, without oil the lamps can't function; Oil is the essence of ministry, without anointing, ministries is not effective.
The foolish had taken only their lamps, but they forgot to take oil.
The wise took the oil first and then the lamps.
When the Bridegroom (Jesus) came, the foolish had no more oil to light up their lamps; therefore they weren't able to make it to the wedding banquet
The 5 wise however, had enough oil to keep their lamps going, so they were ready for the bridegroom.
How to get oil?
I believe that oil comes from our relationship with the Lord, it comes from our intimate times of prayer, it comes when we take time to worship God. Jesus had A LOT of oil in His 33 years here on earth, Jesus also prayed A LOT.
I believe that God has oil available for us, and He is waiting on us to come and get it the secret place of devotion to Him. How do we get oil? Through our prayer life!
THROUGH INTIMACY WITH GOD
Moral of the story
A lot of people get consumed in their busy lifestyles… from ministry to academics and pretty much everything else, 24 hours a day is not enough to get anything done, so the first thing we put off to the side is our time with Jesus. Even strong Christians, who devoted themselves to living for the Lord, and doing ministry for all their lives, find themselves focusing more on their lamps than on the oil. Jesus called such a thing behavior as "foolish". The wisest and most important we can do is to focus on our relationship with Jesus, we should always take the OIL before the LAMP.
CLOSING THOUGHT
Matt 25:12
"But he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I don't know you.'
When the foolish virgins came, Jesus did not rebuke them by saying they did something wrong. His only offence against them was that He didn't know them.
I believe God wants us to choose oil first, and to patiently spend time with Him so He can pour out that oil on us. He wants our relationship with Him to be first.
I believe that a lot of us today are like the foolish virgins, because we have put more focus on our relationship with ministry than our relationship with God.
They worked hard to please the bridegroom, but they didn't take the time to get to know Him.
The apostle Paul said it best
Phil 3:8
Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
Paul wrote 2/3 of the new testament, preached the gospel to the nations, raised up churches everywhere, and he still says, that he considers everything else worship compared to greatness of know our bridegroom Lord Jesus.
When I get to heaven, I don't want my concern to be the "lamp" resume that I can show Jesus
I want to truly know Him and to be known by Him.
This was a message that the Lord put on my heart earlier this year and its something that Im still trying to live out everyday, its out of matthew 25, speaking about how important it is too keep our relationship with God first, so we can have the oil to fuel our lamps :)
Hope it blesses you
Leo
WE NEED OIL
Matthew 25:1-13
THE BREAKDOWN
10 Virgins 5 wise and 5 foolish.... represents us
10 Virgins 5 wise and 5 foolish.... represents us
Lamps What we do… our gifts and talents… things we do that shine, that are seen by people…Ministry.
Oil It represents the anointing that the Lord gives.
1Sa 16:13 -
So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the Lord came upon David in power. Samuel then went to Ramah.
Psalms 23:5 -
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Oil is the fuel to their lamps, without oil the lamps can't function; Oil is the essence of ministry, without anointing, ministries is not effective.
The foolish had taken only their lamps, but they forgot to take oil.
The wise took the oil first and then the lamps.
When the Bridegroom (Jesus) came, the foolish had no more oil to light up their lamps; therefore they weren't able to make it to the wedding banquet
The 5 wise however, had enough oil to keep their lamps going, so they were ready for the bridegroom.
How to get oil?
I believe that oil comes from our relationship with the Lord, it comes from our intimate times of prayer, it comes when we take time to worship God. Jesus had A LOT of oil in His 33 years here on earth, Jesus also prayed A LOT.
I believe that God has oil available for us, and He is waiting on us to come and get it the secret place of devotion to Him. How do we get oil? Through our prayer life!
THROUGH INTIMACY WITH GOD
Moral of the story
A lot of people get consumed in their busy lifestyles… from ministry to academics and pretty much everything else, 24 hours a day is not enough to get anything done, so the first thing we put off to the side is our time with Jesus. Even strong Christians, who devoted themselves to living for the Lord, and doing ministry for all their lives, find themselves focusing more on their lamps than on the oil. Jesus called such a thing behavior as "foolish". The wisest and most important we can do is to focus on our relationship with Jesus, we should always take the OIL before the LAMP.
4 THINGS
WE ARE MACHINES
· WITHOUT OIL WE BURN OUT
We all have so much going on, weather it is school, work or ministry, we are all working all the time, with lots of things to do. We become like machines, constantly working… Machines need oil to keep them going, without it they eventually burn out.
We are just like that, if we keep working like machines without getting refreshed with oil.
We will burn out!
John 15:4
Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
Branches must remain in the vine, if they are not connected with it, they start dying, because the vine is what gives the branches life.
Same way with us! If we are not connected with our source of life, we start dying.
God is our source of life! God is our source of OIL that keeps us going!
· THERE IS ALWAYS TIME FOR OIL
The foolish and the wise virgins took their lamps; it did not say that the foolish took more lamps then the wise, or that the wise took fewer lamps because of the oil. I believe they had the same amount of lamps, and the wise ones just made the decision to take their oil first.
Meaning… Both of them had the same amount of stuff to do, they where both busy, but the wise one choose to still spend time with God
Having a lot of stuff to get done it's not a excuse to not to pray and spend time with God.
We can keep doing as much stuff as we are already doing and still have time to spend with God, its all about choosing to put Him first, and when we do that I believe He will make the rest of our time a lot more productive.
Being busy it is not a excuse not to get oil
WE ARE TOO BUSY NOT TO GET OIL
· WITHOUT OIL WE BURN OUT
We all have so much going on, weather it is school, work or ministry, we are all working all the time, with lots of things to do. We become like machines, constantly working… Machines need oil to keep them going, without it they eventually burn out.
We are just like that, if we keep working like machines without getting refreshed with oil.
We will burn out!
John 15:4
Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
Branches must remain in the vine, if they are not connected with it, they start dying, because the vine is what gives the branches life.
Same way with us! If we are not connected with our source of life, we start dying.
God is our source of life! God is our source of OIL that keeps us going!
· THERE IS ALWAYS TIME FOR OIL
The foolish and the wise virgins took their lamps; it did not say that the foolish took more lamps then the wise, or that the wise took fewer lamps because of the oil. I believe they had the same amount of lamps, and the wise ones just made the decision to take their oil first.
Meaning… Both of them had the same amount of stuff to do, they where both busy, but the wise one choose to still spend time with God
Having a lot of stuff to get done it's not a excuse to not to pray and spend time with God.
We can keep doing as much stuff as we are already doing and still have time to spend with God, its all about choosing to put Him first, and when we do that I believe He will make the rest of our time a lot more productive.
Being busy it is not a excuse not to get oil
WE ARE TOO BUSY NOT TO GET OIL
IT TAKES TIME – SO SPEND TIME
Wouldn't it be nice if we could take like a oil injection once in a while and not have to worry about it? Wouldn't be nice if we could get filled up on a couple of retreats a year and not have to worry about it the rest of the time? Well it's not like that.
God said that He will pour out his spirit Joel 2:28
God wants to pour out his oil on us Psalms 133:2
We need to take time, and just let Him pour it out on us, we need to be still and let the oil run down and cover us completely.
God wants to pour out His spirit on us, He wants to pour out His love on us, He wants to bless us with spiritual gifts, He wants to give us joy in His presence… all we have to do is stop, and take the time let Him give it to us how He wants to.
It takes time – so take that time, its worth it.
· ONLY YOU CAN GET YOUR OIL
Matt 25:8 The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.' 25:9 "'No,' they replied, 'there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'
Nobody can get your oil for you, nobody can spend time with God for you.
Its your choice, nobody can choose for you.
God has your portion prepared only for you! He has exactly what you need! And only you can go and get it. And the same way He has something special that only He can give you that He won't give to anybody else He has made you with something that only you can give Him that's so special that only you can give Him… Your heart, your affections, your attention, your time, your life and your love.
You're the only one who can choose to give God your time.
You're the only one who can choose to give God your love.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could take like a oil injection once in a while and not have to worry about it? Wouldn't be nice if we could get filled up on a couple of retreats a year and not have to worry about it the rest of the time? Well it's not like that.
God said that He will pour out his spirit Joel 2:28
God wants to pour out his oil on us Psalms 133:2
We need to take time, and just let Him pour it out on us, we need to be still and let the oil run down and cover us completely.
God wants to pour out His spirit on us, He wants to pour out His love on us, He wants to bless us with spiritual gifts, He wants to give us joy in His presence… all we have to do is stop, and take the time let Him give it to us how He wants to.
It takes time – so take that time, its worth it.
· ONLY YOU CAN GET YOUR OIL
Matt 25:8 The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.' 25:9 "'No,' they replied, 'there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'
Nobody can get your oil for you, nobody can spend time with God for you.
Its your choice, nobody can choose for you.
God has your portion prepared only for you! He has exactly what you need! And only you can go and get it. And the same way He has something special that only He can give you that He won't give to anybody else He has made you with something that only you can give Him that's so special that only you can give Him… Your heart, your affections, your attention, your time, your life and your love.
You're the only one who can choose to give God your time.
You're the only one who can choose to give God your love.
CLOSING THOUGHT
Matt 25:12
"But he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I don't know you.'
When the foolish virgins came, Jesus did not rebuke them by saying they did something wrong. His only offence against them was that He didn't know them.
I believe God wants us to choose oil first, and to patiently spend time with Him so He can pour out that oil on us. He wants our relationship with Him to be first.
I believe that a lot of us today are like the foolish virgins, because we have put more focus on our relationship with ministry than our relationship with God.
They worked hard to please the bridegroom, but they didn't take the time to get to know Him.
The apostle Paul said it best
Phil 3:8
Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
Paul wrote 2/3 of the new testament, preached the gospel to the nations, raised up churches everywhere, and he still says, that he considers everything else worship compared to greatness of know our bridegroom Lord Jesus.
When I get to heaven, I don't want my concern to be the "lamp" resume that I can show Jesus
I want to truly know Him and to be known by Him.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Fort Mills SC - Preparing for The Call
God is good!
This past weekend I had the opportunity to go to Fort Mills SC for The Call’s 40 days for 40 years prayer cast conference, we kicked off the 40-day fast with a nation wide prayer meeting with 8 different churches in the US and being broadcast on TBN, Daystar, and God TV live all over the world! Fort Mills was the main location, with Lou Engle, Rick Joyner, Dutch Sheets and Will Ford speaking and leading us in prayer… It just might have been the biggest and most important prayer meeting I have ever been apart of, like Lou Engle told me afterwards “You just made history man, wait no, we are making history with this global 40 day fast”. We are calling a nation to a Joel 2 assembly to return to the Lord with fasting and prayer, believing that God will pour out His spirit and seeing this nation return to God! I could go on and on about this, but words cant explain what happened in the heavens last Saturday! It was AMAZING!
It was intense, it was powerful, and it was only the beginning! I am soooooo excited to see what God is going to do in this nation and what He is already doing in me!
This weekend was a crucial moment in my life, the fullness of the impact it had on me I will only be able to understand in Heaven…
I’m still trying to process what happened, seriously all I know right now is that since Saturday night I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO WALK… I seriously damaged my calf muscles because of the intense worship! For real… I have never jumped soo much, so high and so hard in my life…well maybe the retreat that I got saved at, I remember my first as a real Christian I needed help walking heheh.
And this is the beauty of it… I wasn’t the only one, the room was full of extravagant worshipers… little 6 year old girls dancing and twirling for Jesus, a bunch of wild young adults, moms and dads, old hippie dudes with long hair and dreadlocks, and the most amazing of all, a 60 or 70 something year old man, with grey hair all over his head was next to me praising Jesus with all he had and no joke, he was jumping with his hands held up in the air and I couldn’t keep up with him!
I’m starting to think he was a angel or something it was so inspiring!
Anyways, to wrap this up… major spiritual warfare was done, major learning was done, and major praising Jesus was done! I’m filled up, fired up and ready to follow God’s leading wherever he takes me
Im going to blog some more on what happened there on my next ones
Any questions just drop me a comment or come talk to me, I would love to share more about thisJ
Love you guys
Go Jesus
Leo
This past weekend I had the opportunity to go to Fort Mills SC for The Call’s 40 days for 40 years prayer cast conference, we kicked off the 40-day fast with a nation wide prayer meeting with 8 different churches in the US and being broadcast on TBN, Daystar, and God TV live all over the world! Fort Mills was the main location, with Lou Engle, Rick Joyner, Dutch Sheets and Will Ford speaking and leading us in prayer… It just might have been the biggest and most important prayer meeting I have ever been apart of, like Lou Engle told me afterwards “You just made history man, wait no, we are making history with this global 40 day fast”. We are calling a nation to a Joel 2 assembly to return to the Lord with fasting and prayer, believing that God will pour out His spirit and seeing this nation return to God! I could go on and on about this, but words cant explain what happened in the heavens last Saturday! It was AMAZING!
It was intense, it was powerful, and it was only the beginning! I am soooooo excited to see what God is going to do in this nation and what He is already doing in me!
This weekend was a crucial moment in my life, the fullness of the impact it had on me I will only be able to understand in Heaven…
I’m still trying to process what happened, seriously all I know right now is that since Saturday night I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO WALK… I seriously damaged my calf muscles because of the intense worship! For real… I have never jumped soo much, so high and so hard in my life…well maybe the retreat that I got saved at, I remember my first as a real Christian I needed help walking heheh.
And this is the beauty of it… I wasn’t the only one, the room was full of extravagant worshipers… little 6 year old girls dancing and twirling for Jesus, a bunch of wild young adults, moms and dads, old hippie dudes with long hair and dreadlocks, and the most amazing of all, a 60 or 70 something year old man, with grey hair all over his head was next to me praising Jesus with all he had and no joke, he was jumping with his hands held up in the air and I couldn’t keep up with him!
I’m starting to think he was a angel or something it was so inspiring!
Anyways, to wrap this up… major spiritual warfare was done, major learning was done, and major praising Jesus was done! I’m filled up, fired up and ready to follow God’s leading wherever he takes me
Im going to blog some more on what happened there on my next ones
Any questions just drop me a comment or come talk to me, I would love to share more about thisJ
Love you guys
Go Jesus
Leo
Videos from Fort Mills SC
I Am a Temple - John Mark McMillan
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
Fun Weekend - Cornerstone - Orlando
I just wanted to share a little bit on a very fun and needed get away I had last weekend… Im a keep it short, ask me about it later and I’ll LOVE to tell the full stories
So Josh Turner our middle school pastor, took a group of us and the south campus youth to christian music event in Orlando called Cornerstone.
So Josh Turner our middle school pastor, took a group of us and the south campus youth to christian music event in Orlando called Cornerstone.
-There where like 50 bands playing in 2 days -
-Most of them were Hardcore bands, meaning they play VERY loud -
-Not really my favorite style of music, but I had decided on enjoying it to the max-
- Within acouple of hours there Clay teagle told me there was a band giving out free haircuts-
- I got a Mohawk-
- Family Force Five blows me away with the most fun show I’ve seen in a while-
- Charlie Hall did a amazing worship set -
- snuck into our hotel pool at 1 a.m. -
-sleeped on the floor :)-
-spend some good quiet time under a tree-
-wrote a song for Jesus -
- Did double back flips on a bungee thing -
- MADE 20 DOLLARS GIVING OUT HUGE BRAZILIAN HUGS FOR A BUCK -
- Meet some cool missionary kids from YWAM -
- Got home at 1 in the morning and woke up to go to south at 6 -
I LOVE JESUS
Goodnight
The Vision
So through my two years in EDJ, God has slowly been revealing what His will is for my life, He has been showing me what I was created to do and how I am to function in the Body of Christ. He awakened the passions and gifting I have inside, He gave language to my weird expressions of love and abendment to Him :) There are key things, places and people who He has used to shape me into the man He wants me to be… and tonight I want to share something from a book that’s really been fuelling the fire inside of me, its called RED MOON RISING by Pete Greig… and this poem called “The Vision” is pretty much my heartbeat right now, so check it out, its definitely worth it!
More on God’s will for my life and the book on later blogs
Your Favorite Brazilian
Leo
The Vision
The vision is JESUS – obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus.
The vision is an army of young people.
You see bones? I see an army. And they are FREE from materialism.
They laugh at 9-5 little prisons. They could eat caviar on Monday and crusts on Tuesday. They wouldn’t even notice.
They know the meaning of the Matrix, the way the west was won.
They are mobile like the wind, they belong to the nations.
They need no passport.
People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existence.
They are free yet they are slaves of the hurting and dirty and dying.
What is the vision ? The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes. It makes children laugh and adults angry. It gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the stars. It scorns the good and strains for the best. It is dangerously pure.
Light flickers from every secret motive, every private conversation.
It loves people away from their suicide leaps, their Satan games.
This is an army that will lay down its life for the cause.
A million times a day its soldiers choose to loose that they might one day win the great ‘Well done’ of faithful sons and daughters.
Such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as Sunday night.
They don’t need fame from names. Instead they grin quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again: “COME ON!”
And this is the sound of the underground
The whisper of history in the making Foundations shaking Revolutionaries dreaming once again Mystery is scheming in whispers Conspiracy is breathing…
This is the sound of the underground
And the army is discipl(in)ed.
Young people who beat their bodies into submission.
Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms.
The tattoo on their back boasts “for me to live is Christ and to die is gain”.
Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes.
Winners. Martyrs. Who can stop them ? Can hormones hold them back? Can failure succeed? Can fear scare them or death kill them ?
And the generation prays
like a dying man with groans beyond talking, with warrior cries, sulphuric tears and with great barrow loads of laughter! Waiting. Watching: 24 – 7 – 365.
Whatever it takes they will give: Breaking the rules. Shaking mediocrity from its cosy little hide. Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs, laughing at labels, fasting essentials. The advertisers cannot mould them. Hollywood cannot hold them. Peer-pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late night parties before the cockerel cries.
They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive inside.
On the outside? They hardly care. They wear clothes like costumes to communicate and celebrate but never to hide. Would they surrender their image or their popularity? They would lay down their very lives - swap seats with the man on death row - guilty as hell. A throne for an electric chair.
With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days,
they pray as if it all depends on God and live as if it all depends on them.
Their DNA chooses JESUS. (He breathes out, they breathe in.)
Their subconscious sings.
They had a blood transfusion with Jesus.
Their words make demons scream in shopping centers.
Don’t you hear them coming? Herald the weirdo’s! Summon the losers and the freaks.
Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes.
They walk tall and trees applaud, skyscrapers bow, mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension.
Their prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of Eden.
And this vision will be.
It will come to pass; it will come easily; it will come soon.
How do I know? Because this is the longing of creation itself, the groaning of the Spirit, the very dream of God.
My tomorrow is his today. My distant hope is his 3D. And my feeble, whispered, faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking great ‘Amen!’ from countless angels, from hero’s of the faith, from Christ himself.
And he is the original dreamer, the ultimate winner.
Guaranteed.
Written at 3 a.m. on a prayer room in Chichester U.K.
Pete Greig - Red Moon Rising
More on God’s will for my life and the book on later blogs
Your Favorite Brazilian
Leo
The Vision
The vision is JESUS – obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus.
The vision is an army of young people.
You see bones? I see an army. And they are FREE from materialism.
They laugh at 9-5 little prisons. They could eat caviar on Monday and crusts on Tuesday. They wouldn’t even notice.
They know the meaning of the Matrix, the way the west was won.
They are mobile like the wind, they belong to the nations.
They need no passport.
People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existence.
They are free yet they are slaves of the hurting and dirty and dying.
What is the vision ? The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes. It makes children laugh and adults angry. It gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the stars. It scorns the good and strains for the best. It is dangerously pure.
Light flickers from every secret motive, every private conversation.
It loves people away from their suicide leaps, their Satan games.
This is an army that will lay down its life for the cause.
A million times a day its soldiers choose to loose that they might one day win the great ‘Well done’ of faithful sons and daughters.
Such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as Sunday night.
They don’t need fame from names. Instead they grin quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again: “COME ON!”
And this is the sound of the underground
The whisper of history in the making Foundations shaking Revolutionaries dreaming once again Mystery is scheming in whispers Conspiracy is breathing…
This is the sound of the underground
And the army is discipl(in)ed.
Young people who beat their bodies into submission.
Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms.
The tattoo on their back boasts “for me to live is Christ and to die is gain”.
Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes.
Winners. Martyrs. Who can stop them ? Can hormones hold them back? Can failure succeed? Can fear scare them or death kill them ?
And the generation prays
like a dying man with groans beyond talking, with warrior cries, sulphuric tears and with great barrow loads of laughter! Waiting. Watching: 24 – 7 – 365.
Whatever it takes they will give: Breaking the rules. Shaking mediocrity from its cosy little hide. Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs, laughing at labels, fasting essentials. The advertisers cannot mould them. Hollywood cannot hold them. Peer-pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late night parties before the cockerel cries.
They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive inside.
On the outside? They hardly care. They wear clothes like costumes to communicate and celebrate but never to hide. Would they surrender their image or their popularity? They would lay down their very lives - swap seats with the man on death row - guilty as hell. A throne for an electric chair.
With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days,
they pray as if it all depends on God and live as if it all depends on them.
Their DNA chooses JESUS. (He breathes out, they breathe in.)
Their subconscious sings.
They had a blood transfusion with Jesus.
Their words make demons scream in shopping centers.
Don’t you hear them coming? Herald the weirdo’s! Summon the losers and the freaks.
Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes.
They walk tall and trees applaud, skyscrapers bow, mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension.
Their prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of Eden.
And this vision will be.
It will come to pass; it will come easily; it will come soon.
How do I know? Because this is the longing of creation itself, the groaning of the Spirit, the very dream of God.
My tomorrow is his today. My distant hope is his 3D. And my feeble, whispered, faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking great ‘Amen!’ from countless angels, from hero’s of the faith, from Christ himself.
And he is the original dreamer, the ultimate winner.
Guaranteed.
Written at 3 a.m. on a prayer room in Chichester U.K.
Pete Greig - Red Moon Rising
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