RED Moon Rising!

I just finished reading the book Red Moon Rising which at first I thought I was going to absolutely hate. YAY!! Another book on prayer and how christians don't pray enough. The book wasn't at all like that at all it was more a book about how 24-7 prayer started from a vision on the coast of Portugal from a 20 something just like me and him following in obiedence to the open doors presented to him. It all started in one church in one room! The power of one is amazing!!!

I was thinking about the campus and the heartbeat of God to have people passionately pursue Him! As in this book it's really hard to pursue someone that you're not in love with. How do you get in love with someone? Spend time with them. This was the entire heartbeat of the start of 24-7 prayer.. INTIMACY with the FATHER that requires action. It's like the more intimate we are with God the more we'll be about His business of loving people who the world has cast away (prostitutes, drunkards, drug addicts and HIV positive people to name a few) All to often we pass judgement instead of praying for the person. Intercession happens when we're willing to bear another person's burdens to the point of making them as important as our own.

I'm not saying that this is easy but I think that if ONE person chose to really get intimate with God and follow HIS heartbeat to action.

Please God, empower me to be that intimate with you!

A catch up post

School started and for the first time ever I wasn't a student nor did I have my own classroom. The first couple of weeks of the semester was very difficult for me personally however with all the personal junk I got to see all the prayers that had been prayed all summer get answered. I got to see people that I met at orientation actually come to Chi Alpha and we prayed for freshman and that's exactly what we got. Freshman that have a real relationship with Jesus.

I've been challenged more this semester that I ever had been previously. Both in my own walk and in doin life with others. It's a choice to let someone else affect you...especially for the negative. Even when crap happens I can choose to look at the positive and serve the person which is the love i'm supposed to show anyway!

Altitude was this previous weekend and I will never again doubt what it means when someone says God is WITH us! That's what is so AMAZING about God that HE chose to give of HIMSELF to allow us to be WITH Him! Saturday night there were angels in the service and to see them worshiping with us was one experience I will never forget!