not because they are easy, but because they are hard,

There is a stirring and a passion burning inside of me for you...... for my friends... for my family... for my neighbors... for those of you who I pray for as I lift up town, city, state... country... A passion that our eyes would be made open wide and that our ears would hear and that our hearts would receive the truth that we are so sought after and so loved....

Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil John3:19


Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold Matthew24:12

My life was lost.... nothing.... really.. nothing.... I'm not exaggerating... a story of a broken splintered fractured human being if you could have called me that.... more like Ezekiel's dry bones than anything ... But He who knit me together in my mother's womb was not going to let darkness have its day.....He pursued me when I didn't even know Him... He whispered in my ears and pulled me forward.....

So here we stand in a moment with great possibility.... this evening JFK's speach when addressing the pursuit of the moon would not let me be....." we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

I am ignited... period..... what I ask? Can you dream with me? What are the best energies and skills of the Body of Christ... if we rose up in love and in unity... could dream with me? Saying not because this is easy ...certainly not.... but will you dream with me? If we choose righteousness? If we choose Him and walked in Him? Could you dream with me? What it would look like to have churches and congregations dropping individual agendas to embrace Him? To stand and watch and wait upon the Father? What would that look like? Our best energies and skills forged together by the passions of a Savior who is hungry to see the passions of His Father... Our Father fulfilled upon the Earth? What would that look like?

I am determined....

I falter daily.... but every stumble towards Him brings me one step further in.... I want to shed the things of this world... I want to shed the things of the flesh... When I lift up and actually walk in moments where I am His new creation the who I see in those moments in me is who I always want to be..... The strength that courses through my veins when I am yeilded is amazing and awe inspiring.. not me... but when I surrender and He lives His life through me there is nothing better.... nothing....

Darkness when exposed by the light is not at all appealing but hidden within its aweful illusion is that you are in control..... whether the darkness is blatant evil or subtle it robs you of the joy of knowing aspects of your Creator.... I desire that His light turns up in my life in a way that burns away all darkness... all mediocrity... all compromise....

You see it is amazing to me how the Lord redeems.... Light is hot and bright and burns... have you ever sat on a pavement in the heat of a high Summer day and felt the burning of the sun's rays..... I want to stand in that heat and light and let everything that is not of Him burn off of me.....

My God... My God ... You are amazing... Redemptive love that knows no end.... Passionate and Jealous.... Consuming....

I AM YOURS

Oh that we would let go of the lesser...

I am utterly foolishly mad after You... You have stirred and awoken me... You have blinded me to all other.... all other is lost upon me..... You .. Oh dear Lord... You have utterly ruined me for which I could never muster up enough gratitude..... I will live my moments ruined after You... So lovesick for the end of an age that separates us... and yet so aware of Your hungry heart to have the passions of Your Father's and my Father's fulfilled......

We are those passions... you and I ...... our towns and our cities... our land and lands beyond they are filled with His passions..... I put off mediocrity and I put off compromise and I embrace a death so sweet that He might live that those passions of His will be fulfilled ... to that end I journey... embracing death that I might live and bring Your light... Your life... Your love to my children and my family and to those You bring across my path....

Colossians 3
He Is Your Life

1-2 So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that's where the action is. See things from his perspective.
3-4Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life—even though invisible to spectators—is with Christ in God. He is your life. When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth, you'll show up, too—the real you, the glorious you. Meanwhile, be content with obscurity, like Christ.
5-8And that means killing off everything connected with that way of death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy. That's a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God. It's because of this kind of thing that God is about to explode in anger. It wasn't long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better. But you know better now, so make sure it's all gone for good: bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk.
9-11Don't lie to one another. You're done with that old life. It's like a filthy set of ill-fitting clothes you've stripped off and put in the fire. Now you're dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete. Words like Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and irreligious, insider and outsider, uncivilized and uncouth, slave and free, mean nothing. From now on everyone is defined by Christ, everyone is included in Christ.
12-14So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.
15-17Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in step with each other. None of this going off and doing your own thing. And cultivate thankfulness. Let the Word of Christ—the Message—have the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct one another using good common sense. And sing, sing your hearts out to God! Let every detail in your lives—words, actions, whatever—be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way.