I'm currently back in Portland until Sunday to spend time with family and friends. While I hope everyone who encounters this blog is having or had a amazing time enjoying the comfort of those who care about you. Since this is Thanksgiving after all, here are a few things that I'm thankful for this year:
1. God - His love, grace, and mercy... Because he first loved us.
2. Family - where you can always count on them to be there
3. Friends - For all of you who I've met in this journey. The impact in my life from all of you cannot be described in words.
4. For the ministry team that I have been placed in. I am learning so much from the examples that you have set on how to minister with a Christ centered mind.
5. All the Epic students, past and present. All of you who have made the ministry what it is today
11.26.2009
11.13.2009
Works Don't Fly
It has been a few weeks since the last time I posted something on my blog. I guess there is a lot for me to share with you, as there has been a lot of things going on with me in the last few weeks. The other day I was listening to a guy by the name of Jaeson Ma. It was a message did he did over a series of a few days at the University of Texas a couple of years ago (you can watch the videos below). One thing that has really stuck out to me lately is:
Romans 12:1-2
1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship. 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
The phrase "renewing of the mind" is what has been playing over and over in my head. I'm constantly asking myself, what is my mentality? Is it pleasing to God? And one thing that I realized from listening to Jaeson is that there has been something lacking as I've been ministering the past couple of weeks. I needed a passion that is not of my own. What I mean by that is that I have been going out there with a passion, but it was a passion that I instilled. What I really needed was to go with God's passion, his love for his people.
I saw that I not only needed to be filled with the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit ought to be overflowing out of me. That nothing is done of my own will, but completely by God, his Spirit. What I needed to do was pray for and study his passion. I needed to wait upon him. I went to sleep praying and woke up praying. There is no, absolutely no better feeling then when the Holy Spirit is doing the work, and all we're doing is obeying.
Romans 12:1-2
1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship. 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
The phrase "renewing of the mind" is what has been playing over and over in my head. I'm constantly asking myself, what is my mentality? Is it pleasing to God? And one thing that I realized from listening to Jaeson is that there has been something lacking as I've been ministering the past couple of weeks. I needed a passion that is not of my own. What I mean by that is that I have been going out there with a passion, but it was a passion that I instilled. What I really needed was to go with God's passion, his love for his people.
I saw that I not only needed to be filled with the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit ought to be overflowing out of me. That nothing is done of my own will, but completely by God, his Spirit. What I needed to do was pray for and study his passion. I needed to wait upon him. I went to sleep praying and woke up praying. There is no, absolutely no better feeling then when the Holy Spirit is doing the work, and all we're doing is obeying.
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