sooo, i come home from a LONG day at work…to say the least…and we sat down for dinner at home…no noise to distract us…just the mckanna family sitting at the table…
then i heard it…”shake, shake”…as i look over i see little miss molly shaking her pink spoon around…but she wasn’t done…
clear as a bell…she said, “shake your booty“…???
i about fell off my chair…we just had to start singing a little kc and the sunshine band…and the song has been stuck in my head ever since…enjoy…
sooo, i made my way to st. arbucks this morning and enjoyed a venti non-fat caramel macchiato…while reading through day four of week three, in pure praise…this, in coalition with studying jonah for the last two weeks in GPS (our mid-sized journey community at church)…everything seemed to be just fine…this mornings study was very good, especially the “daily surrender” at the end…
Ask God what you need to do to be more obedient to him. Willingly submit to whatever he tells you to do. (pg. 51)
then i packed up and made my way out to the car, heading to work…on my way to work, God told me to do something(i’m not sharing what it was, just because i don’t want people to think i’m tooooting my own horn)…this thing that God told me to do was nothing major…but definitely not in my plans for the morning…i needed to drop of the mail and then get to work…i didn’t have time to do what He told me to do…i had a couple other justifications brewing in my head shaved head, as well…
sooo, i kept driving to work…heading to the post office…i stopped to drop my mail in the box along side of the road, which was almost completely covered in snow…and there was a line…as i waited…conviction just started coming all over me…i was reminded of jonah RUNNING in the opposite direction of what God told him to do…i was reminded of my “daily surrender”…then i made it up to the box and dropped the mail in…
two stoplights later, and now within two blocks of work, i hung a left and gave in to what God had told me to go do…i wasn’t exactly “willingly” submitting…but once i did what God had told me to do it was like this HUGE relief…i was energized more by doing what God told me to do, than by the venti non-fat caramel macchiato that i drank…
but why do i go through this type of a process when God tells me to do something??? am i the only one that does this??? or maybe the only one besides jonah…why don’t i just…
sooo, this morning has been a long one…and it’s only 6:25am as i type this…little miss molly had me up at 2:30am, full of energy and ready to “pway”…not exactly how i would have planned on starting the day…but i can honestly say that God is using it to work in me this morning…molly finally went back to sleep about an hour ago, just after daddy finished getting ready for work…sooo i’m sitting here listening to “only by God’s grace” and i’m reading through day two, of week three, in pure praise…
the study has been good so far…today is definitely no acception…but there was something that caught the attention i have left at this point…i was directed to read a couple verses in psalm 33…but i was drawn back to read the whole chapter…and to read it again…all this before i got to the end of today’s study…check out the first 11 verses…
Psalm 33
1 Sing joyfully to the LORD, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him. 2 Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre 3 Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy. 4 For the word of the LORD is right and true; he is faithful in all he does. 5 The LORD loves righteousness and justice; earth is full of his unfailing love. 6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth. 7 He gathers the waters of the sea into jars; he puts the deep into storehouses. 8 Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere him. 9 For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm. 10 The LORD foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. 11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.(NLT)
i read that…and read that…and read that…i had two notes for myself in the margin…”God didn’t do things 1/2 way. He went ALL OUT!”…”so why do we question His plan or His leading? why do we try to make His plans fit into our little box?”…i see way too often how i feel God telling me to do something…i feel Him tell me that this HUGE thing could happen…
maybe it’s healing for someone…maybe it’s talking this person into giving that person a vehicle (for free)…maybe it seeing this HUGE building sitting vacant and thinking that God could really use that for His honor and His glory, to reach people…maybe it’s feeling led to share Christ with a complete stranger…
instead, i make plans…or i see where there is no human way possible that these things would work out(which there isn’t a human way)…i go and put God in a box…but God has this tendency…whether it is in His creation…or in the redemption of His creation…or in what hour of the day to wake me up and slap me around…(HAHAHA!)
He goes all out!!!
then i get to the last section of my reading in pure praise…check this out…
I recently saw a book entitled Your God is Too Small. I have not read the book, so I do not know its contents. However, the title continues to intrigue me. Let me ask us both this question: Is the God you’ve been worshipping too msall? Do you acknowledge only those attributes of him that you can comprehend? Is your obedience to him often based on your own understanding and approval of his directives? Could it be that your reverence and awe of him have been reduced to mere ritual and obligation? Write your honest response below.
sooo, my response…”OUCH!”…i’ve been challenged to go all out…to trust God’s plans and not put Him in a box…His plans “stand firm forever”…and…
sooo here we go again…this is another post submitted as a part of the craziness over on fred’s blog…it’s a weekly hot spot for worship leaders to blog about what all happened in their weekend services…go check it out!!!
this post is in regards to the happenings of the source this past weekend…so here we go…
sunday setlists…take twenty-one…
1. Your grace is enough…by matt mahar
2. reign in us…by starfield
3. Jesus Messiah…by chris tomlin
4. at the foot of the cross…by kathryn scott
then we went into our announcements…and our new venue pastor, for a new off-site video venue spoke about the vision that God has given the church leadership…then we had our offering…rolling into our coffee break…and then into the message, which was given by our district superintendent…the sermon was based on an incident where he was falsely accused of robbing the kmart jewelry counter!!!
5. at the foot of the cross…by kathryn scott
sooo, now that it’s all over…i can breath much easier…i had an busy insane weekend…not just at church, but in every aspect of life…i met myself coming and going from the church on a few occasions this weekend…but through out i can see God’s hand at work…
the service itself was great this weekend…but the band could have been much tighter…there were several times when i was distracted from Who and what i was singing about, due to the instruments…that’s not typical and i’m glad…it gives me a chance to lead and try to help those around me grow, even in their playing…at the same time it’s just another reminder of how God can work, inspite of us at times…
for the third week in-a-row we were packed…i’ve never seen that many people in the source(295)…we are re-thinking our seating arrangements and trying to figure out ways to fit more people in the room and still have them be able to see the video screen…problem is we literally need more chairs to put the people in…it’s great to see the energy that comes from just seeing new faces and seeing God at work in lives…to hear life stories of how God has brought people in and what He is doing…
