Tears from the saints ( Global day of prayer )

Yesterday all of mankind got to be part of something amazing. It was the day of global prayer and about 300 million people, 200 or more nations gathered together and cried and prayed before their creator. I was blessed to be witness to this , to the day the Lord gathered his flock and as a mirror of the kingdom to come , prayed as one body , worshiped as one people, praised with one voice to the God almighty. Yesterday was a big day for mankind. We as the people of God were given a glimpse into Gods glory, his kingdom and the hope of eternity with him.
One of the highlights of the night was particularly beautiful. Following hours of prayer and worship one of the pastors stood and started to pray and talk about the cleansing of our sins, how we ought to pray for God to wash over this land , our sins , the sins of our forefathers....we prayed for the broken , the lost, the hungry .... and all of the sudden this one big cloud, just above the hundreds of people in the stadium started to sprinkle rain. The prayer kept going and everyone as one looked up to the rain , this rain from heaven that poured over us. I could not believe it... the beauty of it all... i stood paralyzed to this beautiful act from heaven. One of the pastors said that it felt as if it was tears from heaven , that God along with the saints were weeping over the land... that those tears were washing over us. Yesterday all of us got to be part of something amazing , some of us embarked in a new journey with our savior , some re-newed their covenant with their father, others were simply citizens in Gods kingdom for a couple of hours. The Lord our God is well and alive and He lives in us , we are the church and we are the body, and we are called to live our lives radically for a kingdom that draws near, God is gathering his sheep and we may be the generation that comes to see the final closing act.  Yesterday was a day of change, of cleansing... and today is just the beginning of greater things to come !

The Zoo

"All creatures of our God and King..."

That song kept playing in my head as i walked around the zoo today. it was the first time i went to the zoo in fort worth and it was such an incredible experience. The zoo turned out to be a great place of worship. Hard not to stand before God humbly when we see all the creatures he has created.
Walking around i had a child like feeling of awe for the fathers creation. we live in this very secluded world where we may a lot of times forget the beauty of Gods creation, the zoo is a quick reminder. i thought it was funny how foreign and alien like the animals were to me. Looking at animals like a giant crocodile , or the rhinos in the park it was looking at mythical creatures... they seemed so unreal. What an amazing God... he has been in the business of making these wonderful creatures since the beginning of creation. Not only did he make the stars and the universe, the ocean and the land He goes on to make all these wonderful creatures one by one. God is an artist and with no short imagination... the more i walked around the more i found incredible that in this small spectrum of all gods creatures all of them were so unique. Even more amazing is that out of all these creatures He would make us the most unique of all.
So if you want a glance of how amazing of an creator we serve take a trip to the zoo... and maybe sing a little like i did :

"Let all things their Creator bless
And worship Him in humbleness.."

Lets go to the mall!

As i sat at the mall i couldn't help to wonder about the countless souls that walk this place. Malls are a great for people watching and one of my favorite things to do. there are just so many type of people running around ; i wonder about their lives , their identity , and if they know about the love that Jesus has for them. i cant help to wonder about salvation and about hell and heaven and lost souls. It suddenly become a little hard not to feel a little convicted... these are my sisters and brothers, they are 2 are the children of God and call him father. Sometimes i forget that Jesus is father to more than this broken child (me), He is father to all of us. He was the father of Moses and Jacob as much he is the father to all these people i see walking by me - He is a father to all whom he has created and to all who will call him father.

The simple understanding that we belong to one big family should compel us to have compassion towards one another. The homeless man in the corner of the street is not a stranger but a brother, these people in the mall are my brothers and sister, they are family. We don't learn to love strangers, we simply need to learn how to love our family better. Jesus is the father and as His children we have come to understand the best love of all , this same love should be the love we share with one another. this makes me think of the sorrow that this may cause to Jesus as he looks down and see his family broken,separated, fighting wars against one another , judging and hating one another.

This family one day will be united and we will stand before Dad and sing with our brother and sisters. That is our hope, it is our joy, but Gods kingdom is now and our family must get together now. We have something that unites us and it is Jesus the loving father.

Wake up o' sleeper

Today i had planned to write about something completely different but it was clearly obvious i had more insight about a new topic. This morning i woke up at 7... not by choice but mostly because there was a crying little ( not so little )dog. His name is buddy and if you haven't met him it might be a little harder to see the picture. I am sleeping in the floor while my sister is in town and this morning i shared that piece of floor with our dog ah. Waking up so early leaves a person with 2 options - "get up", "go back to sleep"... for me it was option number 1. I got up and went on with the day and this made me think of how much time i spend sleeping and how much longer days are when i am not sleeping. I may add that today 2-3 hours after i was awake i felt back asleep on the couch ahha.

Sleeping is a funny deal. since i was a kid i was always fascinated by the ability of sleep. Christmas evening i sometimes would go to sleep at like 3pm so i could just wake up the next day. In my head sleep was this magical trick where my body could make time pass by faster but it would feel like 2 seconds ago. The moment i felt asleep the fastest i would cruise through the time space continuum wait. It also helped that i was incredibly good at falling asleep anywhere, my prodigal list of places where i felt asleep go from basketball stadium to stairs. I can say i enjoy sleep , i can even say i'm darn good at it, when i am deeply asleep, phones dont make a sound , noises cease to exist and most likely the world could be crumbling down and i would be deeply asleep.

I think its an amazing thing that even sleep is an act of grace of God. Forget that its just a cool gift and it rests our body , we have cool dreams, and it feels so good (naps); but the greatest gift of grace that we get in our sleep is waking up in the morning the next day. I came to think about it and this might be one of the most gracious acts of God we may ignore. Because how much is the extent of God that we fall asleep at night and we get to see another day?

Everyday we wake up is an act of grace, it is like Jesus extends one more day , just one more day his grace is displayed for us , one more day we live to see his love , to witness his majesty as the sun rises against your window. It is so humbling for me to know that when i get up i witness Gods grace, BAM right there, there is no escape,right then i am a humble witness of His love for he chose to give me life one more day , not that i may dwell in evil but that i may live in his courts; THANK YOU LORD !!! What an amazing act of worship can my mornings be then for i am a witness to his glory , witness of his grace and love, extended one more day.

Jesus thank you that your grace covers all things , even a silly little nap. Thank you that you look kindly on us and everyday that passes by it is a revelation of your love for us and you hold your wrath against our sins. Lord we are not worthy of such grace but everyday you make the sun and the moon rise and in this majesty orchestra we stand in awe. Father thank you for sleep but help me wake up so that i may dwell in your courts one more day, to join in adoration to your kingdom. Praise you Jesus , graceful father.

Habit of Holiness - Summer 2010

"if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful"
2 Peter 1:8


It is the summer and i have many times started and stopped this blog. i believe i can call it seasons of writing. i never thought of myself as a writer but there is just something about the summer that provokes me to write. i don't like to journal but i have come to notice these blog sessions have been quite therapeutic to my soul.it is amazing to me how Jesus can work the tenderness of our hearts by just sitting down to some Brandon Heath and a laptop...

These past days have been days of transformation - i am graduated (wow) - i can wake up whenever i want and therefore to me all excuses of being busy are out the door. This is where the Lord starts to work in me... mostly because i am actually willing to be worked on. It always amazes me that it is my unwillingness to be shaped that defines His love for me. I don't feel loved not because of the extent of Gods love but because of how much i allow him to love me and carry me in my life. I truly believe this is the foundation at the heart of the father , that we would simply allow him to dwell fully in our lives; not in our habits or in our on self righteousness or big acts of worship but simply in our delight for the life Jesus has given to us. As i think about the adventures that the Lord has ahead for me i smile.. for i am so exited for how i will learn to live with Jesus, how i will dwell his presence , his love , his grace, his kingdom. what greater adventure than a life with Christ. this i wish was a constant state of mind i would have, I look forward to the day that my life will be an spontaneous expression of who Christ is. The time when i will see less of me and my own life and i will embrace his blessings as a child; Jesus i long to be more childlike as i look to the father i want to have the life of a simple child.

so this will be the beginning of a lovely journey. Jesus will be glorified and i get invited into this beautiful journey... i get to walk around holding hands with "papa" as he points me to His wonders...