jon mark

sooo, yesterday i got an e-mail from a man who attends our church…he wanted to share with me a song…also the fact that God had given him a vision of me leading that song at limacc…this is what he said…

In the past I would have just brushed this off as my imagination at work, but God has been working on that “selfish stinkin thinkin”. So I am just following through on what I saw, (obedience)  If this is from God then he will lay it on your heart in his time.

i finally had time to sit down this morning and check out the video for this tune…check it out…

i can’t tell you how much i NEEDED this song right now…i NEEDED to hear and to SAY the words that are being sung…i’m sooo thankful for this e-mail and for this man’s obedience!!!

LORD…

do what You will…

sooo, this is another post submitted as a part of the craziness which is now being hosted over at the worship community…it’s a weekly hot spot for worship leaders to blog about what all happened in their weekend services…GO CHECK IT OUT!!!

for whatever reason…PALM SUNDAY…EASTER…things have been crazy for me…sooo this is the setlist for a week and a half ago…can you say…LATE!!!

1. Hosanna…by starfield, (adding hillsong united bridge)

2. stronger…by hillsong united

then we had our video announcements and the offering set-up…

3. the power of Your name…by lincoln brewster

this was followed by our message by a guest missionary from lebanon…also we had our “faith promise” video, setting up our annual “faith promise” offering and the pledging for missions giving for the year…

4. follow  You…by leeland

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this was a tough weekend, but i would say that GOD pulled it off quite well…first we did our set acoustic…we had a click track/video with one tune…for the band of the weekend there were three new songs…we also had some MAJOR tech issues due to a power surge in the community…it destroyed our matrix controlling the screens through out the church…

good news is our tech staff were on top of their game and got things up and running before the services…also the band did a GREAT job of putting the music together…especially with the two “feature” songs…and i have to say that “follow You” has become a favorite tune of mine!!!

it was a great weekend at limacc…the last i heard there was $210,000.00 pledged for missions…

sooo there you have it…it’s LATE…it’s brief…but you have it!!!

sunday setlists…2010…take five…

sooo, this past weekend we did this song at limacc…follow You, by leeland…it’s been on my mind and heart NON-STOP…check it out…

sooo, this past weekend i was hanging out with the covey family down in ferrum, va…my family and i visited twin oaks baptist church on sunday…and i was ROCKED by a message from pastor terry…i had to go back and read the passage…and read the passage…and read the passage…i’m still reading over the passage!!!

he was speaking on joshua 5: 13-15…you can read through some of his notes here…

the part that really stuck out to me and that i’m still processing, is the response of the man standing there with sword in hand…mainly because of Who He states that He is…and then how He tells joshua that he’s neither a friend or a foe???

neither one!?!

joshua is leading the nation of israel at this point…God’s chosen people…they have done the whole 40 years in the wilderness thing…they are on a journey and have just crossed over the jordan river…they are following God’s lead as well as joshua’s lead at this point…not to mention the fact that all of the men had just gone through this medical procedure that God had instructed them to go through (you can read about that, at the beginning of chapter 5)…yet God is not on their side???

they were supposed to go conquer jericho…the biggest…strongest city of canaan…with this HUGE wall around it…they don’t have any weapons to speak of, or at least not weapons that can take down this wall or this city…and then God tells joshua that He’s not on their side!!!

joshua’s response is HUGE…facing what most would see as a hopeless situation…he falls on his face and says, ok God i’m Yours…i’m doing whatever you have for me to do!!!

he didn’t whine…he didn’t run cry to all of his friends…he didn’t start blaming people…he placed his life in God’s hands and trusted Him…now that’s a leader!!!

but in my mind i have to ask why God would do this…and pastor terry hit on this BIG TIME…he said that God was showing joshua that it wasn’t about him…it wasn’t about the nation of isreal…it wasn’t about jericho…it was about GOD and HIS will being done!!!

i’m really focusing on this passage right now…on the implications that it has, not just for joshua, but for me as well…i know there are areas in my life that i have made about “me”…i have made life more about “my goals” or “my dreams” and less about God’s will…i can hear God telling me…

neither one!?!