Filed under: Community, Faith, Family, Joy, Love, Random Thoughts, Victory, worship | Tags: God, Jesus, religion, Faith, christian, catholic, elim, worship, pray, cab, work, team, revival
It’s Team Rev night tonight at Elim… can’t wait. Our car isn’t available this evening so my wife and I are taking the cab. I’m very thankful that despite my wife’s evening schedule, she has actually showed her desire to join worship with me by not attending the first hour of her shift so that she can be able to accompany me during Tuesday’s gatherings…
She won’t be able to finish the entire event but it will be enough to start and finish worship and the teachings.
Then she’ll be taking the cab to work from there. I really happy for that. I know the Lord will bless her with so much because she is slowly becoming the kind of follower and disciple I have always hoped she’d become.
I never thought back then that she’d make these kinds of sacrifices in order to be able to attend praise and worship… but our God is a mighty and powerful God… able to change the hearts and minds of individuals.
My prayers have been heard and my Lord responds faithfully just as He has always promised His obedient children.
Praise God for everything.
Filed under: Faith, Love, Video, films | Tags: catholic, christian, clip, elim, Faith, God, Lord, Love, Nooma, rain, religion, rob bell, teaching, Video
My friends over at Elim recently introduced me to a video clip which featured a speaker named, Rob Bell… and ever since I got to watch my very first video of a series of his talks, I was immediately hooked.
Rob Bell produces these short 10-11 minute videos (18 clips to be exact) that talk about God and faith in a manner that isn’t boring and completely cuts through the heart. It is presented in a way that doesn’t intimidate non-practicing Christians/Catholics using a “story-telling” approach.
I encourage you to watch this short video clip entitled, “Rain”. Give it a chance to speak to you… all you need to do is offer a little of your time to watch and listen… it’ll only take up 10 minutes of your day… and it might just be one of the most meaningful 10 minutes you’ve ever spent watching something.
This video is as wonderful as it is powerful in its simplicity.
Here is how this particular clip (”Rain”) is introduced:
Things don’t always work out the way we want them to, or the way we think they will. Sometimes we don’t even see it coming. We get hit with some form of pain out of nowhere leaving us feeling desperate and helpless. That’s the way life is. Still, it makes us wonder how God can let these things happen to us. How God can just stand by and watch us suffer. Where is God when it really hurts? Maybe God is actually closer to us than we think. Maybe it’s when we’re in these situations, where everything seems to be falling apart, that God gets an opportunity to remind us of how much he really loves us.
Enjoy the clip…
You can also visit Nooma.com for more about Rob Bell and his other clips.
Filed under: Community, Faith, Prayer, Ramblings, Random Thoughts, Reflection, Victory, worship | Tags: God, Life, Faith, christian, catholic, Community, elim, spirit, koinonia, group, Lord, kg, fellowship, Holy, flame, fire, ember, disciple, zeal, enthusiasm
Fellowship and Community, to me, can be likened to an intense blazing fire… while it’s people are the flame’s embers. It is vital that we, the members of community, stay within that fire… it is what keeps our hearts burning for God.
No one can maintain such an intense zeal all by his/her lonesome… a person needs to belong to a fellowship… a group of individuals gathered for the same purpose.
You feed off of one another… you share experiences… you lift each other up.
Take away an ember from the fire and the ember’s glow diminishes slowly… similar to a person taken away from community and fellowship for long stretches of time.
In order to maintain that zeal and enthusiasm, one needs to be part of active community worship and service.
I thank the Lord that I found my family at Elim. My KG (Koinonia Group) buddies in “Disciple 1″ have always been there for me as we all have for one another. I always look forward to our gatherings and actively participate in sharing and discussions. It brings me great great joy to praise and worship the Lord every day!
I enjoy prayer time… I love talking about God… I look forward to Sunday Mass every week. It’s the most wonderful feeling I have ever experienced.
Looking back now, I seem to wonder how I survived not belonging and actively participating in any community in the past.
All I know now is that, I am never going back to my old life…
I found God… in a very personal way… and boy, does it feel great!
