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Lately the Lord has been speaking to me a lot about how we modern Christians take the Sabbath. It’s been so heavy in my spirit the last several weeks that I had to post about it. If we are truly living the first commandment out then we are already placing God first, though I am sure that many of us are not there and/or fail often. Coupled with that is the scripture that tells us to remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy. In my quiet time God has been showing me what this means to His heart at this time. God is looking for more time to spend with us. More time to reveal His will and direct our steps in that. More time to revel in the beauty of His children, His creation, His bride. Wont we accommodate Him? Wont we sacrifice, if you can call it that, this one day a week so be quiet? To silence the world around us, media, phones, tv’s, movies, friends, family? Those things that we consider urgent and emergency? How could anything take us away from the beauty and rest in His presence as we go deeper and more silent to seek His face? Just a few things to ponder, silently, perhaps this next Sabbath. Love you all and hope this blesses you as much as it did me The next writing is from Eugene Peterson.

Sabbath is the time set aside to do nothing so that we can receive everything, to set aside our anxious attempts to make ourselves useful, to set aside our tense restlessness, to set aside our media-saturated boredom. Sabbath is the time to receive silence and let it deepen into gratitude, to receive quiet into which forgotten faces and voices unobtrusively make themselves present, to receive the days of the just completed week and absorb the wonder and miracle still reverberating from each one, to receive our Lord’s amazing grace.

Sabbath is one of the great gifts that God has given us. Every day of creation is “good” – good for receiving all that God has created, good for participating in the work of God, good for working in God’s garden, good for naming and caring for what God has given, good for being a “helpmate” with and for another. But Sabbath is distinguished from the first six days of each week by being holy, a day set aside to be present to God, to assimilate and celebrate all the gifts of creation and salvation.

Lately I have been working on getting a fellow minister’s website up! I promise to get working on my own a little more soon. I have a guy working on the coding right now which I am super excited about! Should turn out beautiful And a wonderful wonderful man named John is working on the banners that will be rotating on the homepage when it launches so I will keep you up to date! These days I’m way better at tweeting and staying in touch via facebook so add me if you want! We’re super excited– praying for the upcoming ministry trips in Wisconsin and Illinois with Europe following and then Israel. Later in the year may include some time in Mexico. God is opening so many doors to those who are set apart and consecreated: pouring out their lives to make Him known. We have no agenda besides knowing His voice and following His heart. In that there are truly no limitations.
New music will also be coming out soon! So far I am just working through the demos and arrangements but I’m not ashamed so I’ll be posting those soon and hopefully it’s a great blessing in your quiet and worship time with the Lord.

I pray you feel His presence more richly than ever before and that you are enlivened by the beauty of His word and the fragrance of who He is as you worship and seek Him. We are promised that as we seek Him we will find Him. As we knock the door will be opened. Just the fact that you are on this site, reading this, I am praying for you. That the doors be opened, that you seek and you find, that you be encouraged more than you could ever even think to ask, that you are provided for far and above mere ‘need’ at every turn of your life and that you be able to steward this blink that we’ve been given just as our Father intended.

Love you guys

Prayer at Fellowship Church in Racine, WI

This year we are looking not only at worship and prayer all over the US but also in Europe and possibly Asia and Israel. God is opening a lot of doors but it is necessary to have clarity and to pass through the right ones in His timing. Be in prayer please. Spreading His intoxicating love is rarely easy but always rewarding! Thank you all so much for your support.

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