Sunday Thoughts

A-MAZING!

All week I have had a sense about what God was going to do today, and did He ever show up HUGE!

The picture is what the stage looks like in preparation for our VBS "Crocodile Dock". The team did an incredible job! I'm very proud of them. Looks like I will be preaching in the "bayou" for the next few weeks. :-)

Great day yesterday as we joined with Continuum Church to work at the Teen Challenge center. This is a summer long project that I am heading up trying to help them get moved into a new office building on their property.

This morning we had our typical video technical difficulties before service, but got through them. A change is coming real soon that will stop these issues, I guarantee it. With that and the fact that I left my power adapter at home for my laptop and didn't have a fully charged battery, I was fighting frustration early on. Thankfully, God is bigger than my frustration.

Once I got settled in to my office, the Holy Spirit really began to work in my heart as I had a terrific worship & prayer time.

We kicked the service off with my favorite video "Resurrection Injection." This was put together by Elevation Church this past Easter. I could just about start off every week with it. Powerful.

The band today sounded as good as they ever have. Today was one of our best times of worship since I've been here. Right from the start it was obvious that God wanted to do something. The flow, the sound, the energy, the connection of the congregation, all of it fell right in place. To grab a phrase from someone else, it was a Whole Nutha Level!

Even the announcement video clicked today. Great job to Nathan and his team in putting that together. A bit cheesy and fun, it was great.

Today was wrapping up the One Prayer series. I was going to show a clip from Dino Rizzo of Healing Place Church, but the aforementioned video glitches stopped me and I wanted to have full time this morning to share what God has been preppeing in my heart all week. I did leap frog off Dino's title though, "God is Here and Anything Can Happen."

Used my favorite story of Jesus as the text today, Luke 7:11-17. I am waiting for that to happen today. Stop a funeral procession and raise the person to life! That would cause a stir! If we would truly live our lives expecting God to be God and know that He is always with us and when He is around ANYTHING can happen, I believe lives would be changing at a tremendous rate! Imagine all that God would do through of us if we had that level of faith and audacity!

The response today was off the charts! People came to the altar and poured out to God and laid it out for Him to do His work. Knowing some of the situations I am fully convinced that miracles are happening right this very minute as a result of what God started this morning! Can't wait to hear the stories of life change and healing and restoration and the hand of God.

Just wait, I don't think we've seen anything yet! God is here and ANYTHING can happen!

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