Archive - August, 2010

Repost: The Moka Effect…

August 30, 2010 in Challenges with 0 Comments

This is a repost of a post I did in the beginning of starting to blog, and this will still, over time, grow into a book I am planning to write. Hopefully within the next couple of years, but it is more of a personal project than anything else.

Moka Pot

Last night, before we had our worship service at church, to end a wonderful weekend of games, and social gatherings, I had to lead the team in prayer.

Arriving there, I still wasn’t sure what I was going to speak to the team about, but God placed this previous post of mine, on my heart, with a new twist.

So, taking the workings of the Moka Pot into consideration, I want to change my original analogy a bit.

The water, is you.

The coffee, is your faith and God.

The heat, is the world.

Now, when things get hot around you, pressure builds up within you. Up to the point where you need to either explode, or go up, through the funnel, containing the coffee(faith), and into the pot in the top.

As we were practising, and I were worried about what to tell the team, and all that goes with that, I just had this realisation that the only way we can get to the top, in this situation, is when we go through God in hot and sticky situations. And the best part when you get to the top, is that you will get there a changed person. You will be what everybody was looking for in the first place, and you will have the joy of having reached your destiny, through Christ.

Now, when things get sticky in you life again, turn to God, and work through Him to reach your destination.

Repost: Extending your basic faith

August 25, 2010 in Challenges with 0 Comments

I stumbled upon this post of mine again today, and really felt moved to repost it here for everybody to mull about it again…

jesus-cross

What is your basic faith? Is it believing that God created the heavens and the earth, or is it believing that Jesus died for OUR sins on the cross, or is it simply believing that everything happened by chance and there is no eternity waiting for us?

If your basic faith is the last one, I want to commend you, in really having great faith, as this is a bigger stretch of faith for me, than having faith in a Creator and an Omnipotent and Omnipresent God.

To really believe that we humans, and other animals, have just happened form nothing, and to be passionate about it, really is amazing to me. How emotions, and all that goes with it, could just happen. That the drive that all of us have in us, is just because…

I have great faith in the fact that God created everything. That I am not here by accident, and that God really has a plan for my life, which He is already putting in place. By having this faith, I want to extent it by doing what Peter tells us in 2 Peter 1:5-9 (The Message)

So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can’t see what’s right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.

By doing this, I really want to develop and grow in my relationship with God. I want to be able to get up in the morning, and tell the person on the street corner that Jesus loves him, and pray for him, and be able to, confidently, lead that person to the cross, and give him/her eternal salvation.

I want to be able to take my musical talents, and be able to play to people in such a way, as that they will want to know what is different in me. I want to be able to bless people just by playing music.

A guy in our worship team came to me one day, and said that me and my wife brings healing through our music that we make, and I want to start seeing that. Not just play and be recognised, but to start making a difference for the kingdom, by using my talents that God gave me. To live my calling, and to be able to lead people to the cross.

I believe that we all have a certain thing that God gave us, that we need to use for His glory, to lead the unsaved to the cross. Let us all go out, spend time with God, and hear from Him how we are going to be able to do these things with our talents, and let us change the world one day at a time, through the power of Him that gives it to us.

Omega

August 24, 2010 in Challenges with 0 Comments

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

I listened to a sermon the other day, going on about how easy it is to see God in the beginning of things, but on the flipside, how difficult it is to see Him at the ending of things, yet He says He is the beginning and the end of all things.

I was once again reminded of the seasons of life last week, when we had to attend the funeral of an old friend, who died in his sleep, at the age of 26.

All seasons of life, is ordained by God, and we very often see Him in the beginning of those seasons, because the start of things are usually exciting and new and it makes it easy to see God in them. But the ending of things, are usually hard or sad, and that makes it SO difficult to see God in the ending of things.

The funeral service last week, was very apt in this regard for me, since this friend of mine was saved, but he had influence in people’s lives that was not saved, and the sermon was used in a  way to help these unsaved people, and I really believe that God used that ending of his life, to start something new in many other people’s lives.

May we start to focus on God in all things, and not just the easy starts in life, but also start to celebrate Him in the difficult endings that occur in our lives.

Chisel

August 5, 2010 in Challenges with 4 Comments

My good mate showed us this video tonight at Worship team rehearsal.

This followed after a VERY inspiring talk he did about worship, and what it means.

Now, back to the video…

This spoke to me on so many levels, it is not even funny.

Thanks for this guys, it really gave me the kick up the backside that I needed.

PS: Al and Alide, congrats on the news of the baby. I pray that God is going to bless the little one in every step it takes in life, and I know you guys are going to be awesome parents.

Harbourlight

August 2, 2010 in Challenges with 0 Comments

Last night, this new Christian Rock Band, Harbourlight, came to bless us with a great worship set, during our evening service at church.

Check them out, and support them, if you can.

You can find out more about them at their website.

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