Week 1 : prayer

First off, thank you to everyone who made that weekend possible! Being poured into like that was amazing. Can't imagine what the camp will be like. =D haha! can't wait!!!
So here are my thoughts. All of the things that caught me.

I loved how music makes you out of yourself and this is how prayer should be with your body and your inward senses. That the result is your body singing a song. This is a powerful image that inspires me to pray more intesely and connected to God.

The concept of having your mind on God at all times. To be praying constantly. Not meaning "dear Jesus" all of the time but having a mind that is Christ centered and constantly thinking about how to be more like Jesus and show His love. What a blessing!

How if we cannot give anymore of ourselves to a person, then we pray. Meaning that we love them beyond what we can do for them. WOW!

Expiriencing God by shutting myself up. Something that I realized just a couple of days ago is that life gets simpler and simpler the more we grow with Jesus. Because as we grow the more we become to understand that WE DON'T DO ANYTHING. It is by God and because of God that we do and can do anything. All we have to do is raise up our hands. He does the rest.

"For I seek not to please myself but Him who sent me." Jesus said this. WOW! That this should be what we say and Jesus says the same thing. He is modeling for us how to be. Jesus says also during when He rises up into the sky that we are to do even greater things than He. How powerful that we can expect to do greater than rising people from the dead. We'll see what God has in store this summer. "Bring it on God =D We're ready." This is my prayer for us.

Psalm 139 talks of how God is everywhere. But, it is sad that we often fail to see Him everywhere. This is the constant prayer that Paul talks about.

No one knows the wisdom of the Lord but we often pretend to. At my school we did an applied theology  chapel on the Wisdom of God and the foolishness of the Lord is wiser than man's greatest wisdom. God's "foolishness" would seem to be Jesus dying on a cross. But, we cannot understand this. I love to see human wisdom fail. Such as, in science, how often we are proving ourselves wrong and reformulating theories. Just like how scientists creation theory has changed so much yet the Bible has had it right all along.

I pray that my mouth reveals the mystery of the gospel. And my purpose be to befriend-encourage-model-challenge. =D

Remain in HIM and fruit will come. This promise encourages me.

John 14:6 Thomas asks Jesus, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" Jesus answered, "I am the way..."           
                       I love this! haha! Thomas is like where are we going and Jesus slams down the gospel! "Thomas I am the way!" Jesus takes the opportunity to show them something more than directions. He is saying that as long as you remain in me then you will be going the correct way.

I to hear and read about being persecuted and how it is for the blessed. This massively encourages me to be all in for Jesus. This I pray, "make me a fool for you Jesus."

I am excited to be reading your guys' responses!
-Kevin =)