Leading Worship, and an Interview October 21, 2008
Posted by Josiah in IHOP-KC, Life, Prayer Room, The Night Watch.Tags: Cory Asbury, Devotional, Humility, Interview, Leadership, Matt Gilman, Music, Musicians, Nightwatch, Prayer Room, Random, Religion, RHOP, Team, Word, Worship
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The director of the Nightwatch here at the RHOP broke his upper arm last week. He leads three sets a week on guitar. That means that there are now three sets a week that need substitute leadership until he’s all healed up. I’m leading his set this Wednesday, and then next week I’m leading the Thursday set. I may be leading more, but those are the ones that I know for sure.
It’s a little weird to be getting ready to lead a full team of musicians and singers again. I haven’t done that in about two years. I’m looking forward to this opportunity to grow, both in humility and leadership.
On a totally different subject; I was looking for the lyrics to a Cory Asbury song that I wanted to sing for my devotional set that I do on Mondays when I accidentally found this interview with Cory Asbury and Matt Gilman. It’s pretty long, but I enjoyed reading it. I have a lot of respect for both Matt and Cory. The Worship With the Word set that Cory leads with his wife Anna, Matt, and Jaye is one of my favorites.
Yay for random posts. :)
-J
I’m Back October 13, 2008
Posted by Josiah in Knowledge of God, Life.Tags: Alone, Apocolypse, Christ, Desire, Dream, Fasting, Father, God, Heart, Humility, Jesus, Knowledge of God, Life, Prayer, Real, Religion, Sleep, Waiting, Weakness
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Well, I’m back. Taking a week off to do nothing but seek God in solitude was eye-opening for me. There is nothing like removing yourself from absolutly everything and everyone to seek God’s face.
I won’t go into too much detail, but a brief summery of my week was this: I waited on God all day with humility and desire in my heart, and felt nothing; then at night He would visit me in my dreams. Not like The Man Christ Jesus appearing to me face to face while I slept (though that would be awesome), but God speaking in His “still small voice” through my dreams.
My dreams were so real that driving home today I felt like I was dreaming, because the dreams that I had been having seemed more real than life.
I can’t even try explain what it was like to be totally alone, with nothing to do, nowhere to go, and nothing to eat, just waiting on God for a week. I learned a lot about the nature of The Father, and even more about the nature of myself.
I didn’t get an angelic visitation revieling to me some vision of the apocolypse, which is kinda what I was hoping for (hey aim for the moon, right?), but I feel closer to God than I have since I was a kid.
I would do it again. Maybe I will sometime. It was worth the discomfort.
-J
One Week October 4, 2008
Posted by Josiah in Knowledge of God, Life.Tags: Alone, God, Knowledge of God, Prayer, Seek, Week
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God has put it on my heart to take this next week off from everything, and just seek Him. I will be totally alone, just me and God. My prayer is that He will make Himself known to me during this time. I’ll let everybody know how it goes when I get back.
-J
