“When the music fades / and all is stripped away......your looking into my heart” Sound familiar. All too familiar, huh? We sing it all the time. With audacity and ferver, we sing, “I’m comming back to the heart of worship....I’m sorry Lord for the thing I made it....it’s all about You Jesus.” But do we really mean it? Do we really know what it means to “worship”. Sing a song...lalala.... play an instrument.... strumstrum.... but no, it’s more than that. The heart of woship knowing that your “...all in all....” is in Jesus and in Him alone.....but not only knowing it, living it. Worship doesn’t require music or a song, like Matt Redman says, it says “...your looking into my heart...”. Your heart makes your mouth speak, your heart dictates your actions, your heart must change before the rest of you falls into line. I said all this to say that, as you all go off to One Day (sorry I can’t be there!) ask God to change your heart, as well as show you what He wants for this generations....because it’s going to take more than just a vision, it’s going to take touched, changed, burning hearts. Make this song true in your life...”When the music fades / and all is stripped away...your looking into my heart...it’s all about you, Jesus” .

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"...It's all about you, all about you Jesus..."

It's all about You, Jesus
And all this is for You, for Your glory and Your fame...

I love both of those songs NR... they speak so much to me - about how we (I) get away from the central purpose for being - worship. When we take our eyes off of Him, like Peter, things tend to sink in a hurry - friends, relationships, finances, you name it. I am a walking billboard for that... when our (my) eyes are kept on Him, and we (I again) remember that it is all about Him, then things go more swimmingly...

Enough of the metaphor/ analogy/ similie/ homily/ hominy (we call it maize)/ stuff... a birdie told me you are going to oneday.... waaaasssssuuuupppppp?

I am really looking forward to getting back to the heart of worship this weekend...

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THere was late breaking news, I am going....see ya'll there!

!~Alamma

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"...It's all about you, all about you Jesus..."

Will be praying for those who are going to oneday.

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Have a great time at Shelby Farms! You guys and gals are covered w/ prayer! Come back to us Dangerous! Love God, Love People!

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Until He Returns, I remain... About souls,
crucified_with_christ

NRefining you are right...

When the music fades and all is stripped away... How many times do we sing that--or We fall down, We lay OUR CROWNSat the feet of Jesus... And then live our lives the same? The crowns we supposedly lay down sure get picked up fast when it's another ministries event we are visiting. Our "crowns" or those things which we feel prideful of or responsible for that we decide is ours and not God's we lay down when ever we are trying to impress those who are at our event so they will feel that we are super spiritual--are the same crowns we pick up and use to bash those around us who are also trying to Honor God.

We go around "stripping everything away" when we are at church or at our christian events, yet we throw it back on almost instantaniously as we leave the building.

It's as if we think that if we lie to ourselves and everyone else around us enough then it will be true.

One Day taught me that I am sick of lying to myself and those around me. It doesn't do me any good and it doesn't honor God

So here it goes...

When I first rededicated my life I was on fire! God was everything! And all that I prayed for was Godly "Christian" friends, and God gave them to me. What I didn't realize was this would be the source of my cooling off for the next year.

Don't get me wrong I got some great friends and some prayer worriors that are true and will be true to the end, but I also got a lot of fake in the process as well. This fake came not from those trying to find God as much as those who Claimed to already know Him. I know now why Jesus hung around prostitutes and tax collectors--at least they were real and didn't pretend to be people they were not in order to impress Him.

WE actually claim that we talk to God...That we really know God...The God that made the mountains God...The God that whispers and galaxys are made God...The Alpha and Omega Creator The Great I Am God...

We don't know God. BUT, HE KNOWS US!!

We need to learn to fear God again and quit pretending like He is our chum. We need to realize that when we bring division within His body He doesn't look the other way.

HE is our GOD and not our pal!

My life had become not a chance to praise Dad, but a fight and competition to prove how "Christian" I was. I talked about unity and I preached about a pure heart, yet the whole time I let some people mold me to there level of hypocricy.

I say this because being a new christian I didn't know how to be fake because I had never been real. What I mean is the fact that all I wanted to do was love everyone and I was being taught that's not the case its how smart you sound or how well you pray or how strong you worship. Or how you made me feel or if I went to this church or that or if I was this denomination or that...Blahblah blah.

What I realized at One Day is that I had turned into something that I had never been (even in the world) someone who had no joy in their heart for others. Yes I did a lot for people on the outside and I said all the right things in groups, but I didn't do it with a pure heart... That's what One Day was "PURE HEARTS" truely desiring unity and not just saying it to sound good.

There are a lot of Pastors and Youth pastors and Leaders (including myself) that talk a great talk IN OUR MINISTIES about unity and doing the work of God. Yet there are those in other ministries that call leaders such as mine and those who come to Stand to purposely and slanderously plant seeds of division in the very soil that God is trying to use. Yet they talk about reaching the lost and winning souls for Christ.

These are just personal examples of mine I am sure you have your own...but my point is
Stand is HIS ministry and not any of ours in leadership, so if seeds of division are being planted in, around, or by us then we have to ask ourselves who are we kidding? What type of heart would try to divide Christs body?

And until this weekend I let the resentment I felt for those who were planting these division seeds build up inside of me until what grew was not a sweet fragerant plant of God, but a rotten mutation of Satans.

Let's really look at ourselves and realize that we can do more and accomplish greater things if we really believed what we say. How many times do we go to others minstries or churches "out of obligation" not truely expecting to receive or meet God because we are not "at home?" Or we quit hanging out with that person because they don't fit into our circle of friends? Or we don't go out of our way to show someone God because we are too busy or they are the wrong race? Do we really believe our own lies?

Well for me enough is enough...I might not be able to ever make everyone love me, or like me, or even respect the ministry I help to glorify GOD...But, I can decide not to let them steal my joy in Him!!

My soil is clean again and I refuse to worry about that which they should worry about God judging.

My heart is again full and the center of me is a Pure Heart as well and I wanted to tell everyone within STAND and outside of STAND that I am sorry for doing the same thing to you that was done to me. If God's heart truely is in me then my yearning should be to love you with no division.

I am not talking about only between ministries...although that's a given...but what also between people.
I know it's getting long but God is GOOD and worth a little reading.

Lastly I feel it is our unique opportunity to break this generational curse of division and show our pastors and those around us that the next generation respects their laws but refuses to let our joy be stolen anymore because of principalities and precepts that were set in place waaaaaay before we were ever even born. Catholics against Baptists; Methodists against presbyterian; all against the Penticostal's etc...etc... Sadly enough the list could go on and on.

My point is this--God loves us all and He made us all different,; which means none of us are perfect and we will all mess up. And, if we will begin to realize that division is the complete opposite of what Jesus prayed then we will see that it has to be of the devil. And if it is of the devil then lets FIGHT IT!!! But lets fight TOGETHER!

And for those that I affected by my negative seeds-- Again I am sorry...IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN!!


innerdawg

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We love you, Jason. I'm praying for you and the rest of 'em with everything I have right now. Satan is a thief and a nasty lying piece stinking rotten garbage and in the name of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, he has to flee. He has NO PLACE here, and he cannot steal our joy. Just know that I may not be around as much as I'd like to be, but I'm praying and I'm with ya'll all the time in my heart.

I agree Whit...

It's like it all became just "something I did" not who I was. I also wanted to prove to other what the big bad Christian I was. Man, it's just amazing that I was like that. And not only that I was like that, but that I stayed like that. I'm not as transparent as you Whit, but I will say that God was put back at the center of what I am and what I'm doing and alot of things where done away with. Like pleasing people before God. Yuck. I NEED GOD. I NEED to have quiet time every day to survive. I don't care what it interfer's with, or what plans I have to break. I NEED to worship. I don't care if I"m on the right key, I can't find the right harmony, or if I don't know the words, I just need to focus on Him, not them. I'm sorry, God, that it took something like OneDay to put my priorities in order. I should have listened to you long before now. I'm sorry...thanks for helping me get back to the "Heart of Worship" and showing me how to fall down and REALLY lay down my crowns at your feet....Thank you.

~Your daughter,
Alanna

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"...It's all about you, all about you Jesus..."

When seeking to purify yourself, you often realize that there has been GREAT pressure from the outside and also on the inside. I submit to you the outside pressure is usually a demonic force trying to steal, kill, or destroy. But a very large part of the time the pressure on the inside is from God. I don't believe that there are absolutes either way, but I believe that is pretty much how it goes.

A potter will put pressure inside of his pottery while molding it to make greater capacity.

Everything that is uncomfortable might not be from satan, and everything that is comfortable might not be from God.

Anyway you look at it...when you go through the fire, impurities rise to the surface. You can choose to deal with them or you can ignore them. But just remember, after you cool off is how you will remain. If you leave the impurities, they will NOT go away on their own.

Please always remeber the focus though, not to have a sin conscience, but rather a God conscience. If we focus on sin, then our eyes are off of God. If we focus on God, then we shouldn't sin. Bold statement--yes--
but the truth often is.

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Until He Returns, I remain... About souls,
crucified_with_christ