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Without further ado, I’m going to launch right into the latest and greatest news….there will be much more coming but this is kind of a summary of the last month…..
I just returned to Canada after four weeks down in Redding California at a place called ‘Bethel’. They run a school there for a bunch of musicians, artists, and dancers who want to use their giftings as expressions of the love God has for all people. In the midst of the music which made us more aware of the powerful Presence of God every morning I would be standing next to people from South Africa, Sweden, Australia, America, Canada, Ireland, England, and the list goes on. 370 people after the Presence of God. 370 different cultures, backgrounds, nationalities, 370 representations of the creative genius of God, diverse personalities and opinions, longing to express the creativity they possess right back to Him. 370 spirits, souls, bodies, all on their personal quests to love and be loved. All compelled by love, His love. 370 different dreamers, visionaries, anointed and gifted, but most importantly worshipers. (1. see below terminology)
It may seem small now, but those 370 people got lit on fire with something that is way too important to pass off as just a cozy church time experience.
And some may dwindle, some may walk away, but there will be those from this school whose fire has only begun. And it’s beginning to spread, licking up the brittle branches that lay in the wake of it.
Because when we encounter the Presence of God (2. see below), the LOVE OF GOD, in the form of HEARING HIM, SEEING HIM, FEELING HIM, KNOWING HIM, and KNOWING WE ARE LOVED BY HIM it consumes us, it fills us, and then it begins to affect everything and everyone we meet. Although it’s that simple, i find myself constantly learning something new about it and sometimes missing it completely, and then sometimes running full force into the middle of it. Nevertheless, it’s not His love that changes, it’s my perspective that does. His love is constant, mine is trying to learn how to be. 
And it’s in an encounter with the Presence of God that we discover the gravity of His love.
1.) ‘worship, worshipers, worshiping’ the word worship in the dictionary means to love, admire, or respect somebody or something greatly and perhaps excessively or unquestioningly. So when I talk about worshiping the Lord, it means just that. And the way we can begin to truly worship Him in that way is by realizing that He loved and loves us unquestioningly and excessively first. This can happen at any time of day, on any day of the week, at home, in the car, on the plane, with your kids, with your husband, watching a movie, in a church or a prison, at a ball game or a grocery store, anywhere a person goes on any street at any time. It does not require a minister, a band, or a song. It only requires a moment of having faith to believe that the love you hoped for but had almost given up on exists and could be wrapped up in the One Who is the Presence of the Love of God, Christ Jesus.
2.) I talk about ‘The Presence of God’. I will be referring to it as just that, because I believe we’re in a time when people want to KNOW and be KNOWN by a GOD WHO IS INTENSELY PERSONAL. We are not after more information ABOUT Him, as if He is someone of human celebrity status, meant to be talked about and reported on but not known on a first name basis. Rather we are after the PURSUIT of HIM as He is, by NAME. Because that’s the way He says He knows us. Isaiah 43.
So today I’m daring you to pray this prayer over yourself today and then watch and see what happens….because God wants His love to be known. It’s what He created us for.
‘Lord Jesus, You are who You say You are, I need You to be what I need You to be today. Would You show me a picture, a vision of Your love for me, the way I need to understand it? Through Your Spirit would You show me?’
……wait for it.
Peace.
A.
