Have you ever considered how quickly time goes by...it seems when we were youngsters we thought that summer would never get here...I know I did! I couldn't wait for the time of playing with my friends...we had a small group of us that spent a great deal of time together climbing trees, working on our hide out, playing in the tree house. Oh there were a great many things we did to pass the summer away.
I was in many ways blessed as a child by the associations I had in the friends I had. Although there were times that my mother didn't feel I was being blessed....usually those were the times that I foolishly brought different behaviors home with me that were not acceptable in our house. I had one particular friend when I was young that was a little bit disrespectful of her parents at times, not that she didn't love them, quite the contrary. There was a ton of love in her household! In a lot of ways there was a great deal more than in my own home....but let us remember that I was an army brat, my natural father (before my parents divorce) was in the army, however it was my mother who was the Staff Sargent. That being said, we where taught to be prime and proper, we said yes mam, no mam, yes sir, and no sir...now I consider this carrying "respect" a bit to far to the extreme. But back to where I was going...occasionally I would bring home some unpleasant behaviors and would be grounded from spending time with my friend...I didn't do that again to soon, because, I was much happier being with my friends than being at home in the summertime!
These were times of blessings for me. But now as I am older I receive blessings in so many other ways. This past weekend we had a youth conference at our church and it was quite awesome. We had wonderful, anointed speakers. In fact here are the direct lines to the three nights....
Night one. http://www.harvestchapelpa.com/medialisttest/item/408
Night two. http://www.harvestchapelpa.com/medialisttest/item/409
Night three. http://www.harvestchapelpa.com/medialisttest/item/410
The first night was Brian Connolly, who is the father to one little girl and is going to be being a father again to two more little girls. He is a very rich man. And an amazing writer. I was blessed to receive his book that he wrote titled "First Dance."
This book is awesome, on May 2, I will be celebrating my 24th birthday in Christ, and in reading the dedication, who reads these, some of us do, and I will from now on, I learned that I am in fact worth what Jesus did for me...I am worth the blood he spilled for my sins (and I will live for Him). That I learned from the dedication.
Then in the forward I learned about the purpose of the wonderful music we sing as the"worship leader" leads the congregation to the throne. I guess I never realized it but the worship leader leads...and therefore the worship leader must themselves be really right with God. A quote from the book's forward, which is written by Nic Billman, "You can't give give what you don't have, or another way of saying that is, you can't lead others where you haven't gone yourself. Once you know what is on the Father's heart for a particular service or time, then you know what to sing over the children."
Isn't that awesome.? I thought that the worship leaders just got together a list of songs and sang, but apparently this is not so!
Oh phooey....I have run out of time. But I will continue on with this tomorrow!
So go and take some time to bless someone today.
I was in many ways blessed as a child by the associations I had in the friends I had. Although there were times that my mother didn't feel I was being blessed....usually those were the times that I foolishly brought different behaviors home with me that were not acceptable in our house. I had one particular friend when I was young that was a little bit disrespectful of her parents at times, not that she didn't love them, quite the contrary. There was a ton of love in her household! In a lot of ways there was a great deal more than in my own home....but let us remember that I was an army brat, my natural father (before my parents divorce) was in the army, however it was my mother who was the Staff Sargent. That being said, we where taught to be prime and proper, we said yes mam, no mam, yes sir, and no sir...now I consider this carrying "respect" a bit to far to the extreme. But back to where I was going...occasionally I would bring home some unpleasant behaviors and would be grounded from spending time with my friend...I didn't do that again to soon, because, I was much happier being with my friends than being at home in the summertime!
These were times of blessings for me. But now as I am older I receive blessings in so many other ways. This past weekend we had a youth conference at our church and it was quite awesome. We had wonderful, anointed speakers. In fact here are the direct lines to the three nights....
Night one. http://www.harvestchapelpa.com/medialisttest/item/408
Night two. http://www.harvestchapelpa.com/medialisttest/item/409
Night three. http://www.harvestchapelpa.com/medialisttest/item/410
The first night was Brian Connolly, who is the father to one little girl and is going to be being a father again to two more little girls. He is a very rich man. And an amazing writer. I was blessed to receive his book that he wrote titled "First Dance."
This book is awesome, on May 2, I will be celebrating my 24th birthday in Christ, and in reading the dedication, who reads these, some of us do, and I will from now on, I learned that I am in fact worth what Jesus did for me...I am worth the blood he spilled for my sins (and I will live for Him). That I learned from the dedication.
Then in the forward I learned about the purpose of the wonderful music we sing as the"worship leader" leads the congregation to the throne. I guess I never realized it but the worship leader leads...and therefore the worship leader must themselves be really right with God. A quote from the book's forward, which is written by Nic Billman, "You can't give give what you don't have, or another way of saying that is, you can't lead others where you haven't gone yourself. Once you know what is on the Father's heart for a particular service or time, then you know what to sing over the children."
Isn't that awesome.? I thought that the worship leaders just got together a list of songs and sang, but apparently this is not so!
Oh phooey....I have run out of time. But I will continue on with this tomorrow!
So go and take some time to bless someone today.
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