Seeking the Kingdom

Listening to Into Marvelous Light by Charlie Hall on the Passion Website this morning ~ http://www.268generation.com/2.0/splash5.htm

How phenomenal is this!
Tears of joy, tears of gratitude, tears of longing, tears of repentance and a stirring feeling and hope that God is indeed raising up an army of worshippers with the Romans 12:1 definition of worship.

I once was fatherless, a stranger with no hope;
Your kindness wakened me. Awakened me, from my sleep
Your love it beckons deeply, a call to come and die.
By grace now I will come. And take this life, take your life.

Sin has lost it's power, death has lost it's sting.
From the grave you've risen . . . . VICTORIOUSLY!

Into marvelous light I'm running, Out of darkness, out of shame.
By the cross you are the truth, You are the life, you are the way

My dead heart now is beating, My deepest stains now clean.
Your breath fills up my lungs. Now I'm free. now I'm free!

Lift my hands and spin around, See the light that I have found.
Oh the marvelous light, marvelous light

The West Family

Here we are! Wow am I blessed with an incredible wife, Eileen, who is beautiful, a gifted partner in life and ministry and a wonderful Mom. We're 12 years into this adventure called marriage!

Josiah is 5 and is serious about 'getting the bad guys', Evie is 3, she loves to be the princess and Luke at 2, is convinced he's Batman.

Kingdom Thoughts

The Life Jesus wants for us . . . Drinking of the Spirit and allowing Streams of the Spirit to flow out of us to refresh others. Connecting the words of Jesus with Paul's appeal:

John 7:38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.

1 Corinthians 12:13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body-- whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free-- and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

We cannot live without water and this life source can flow out of us, though we are not the Source. Amazing. The drinking is also fascinating - the English translations agree on 'drink', there is also the concept of irrigation and saturation in the Greek. This theme runs all through the Scriptures! Abram blessed to be a blessing to all the nations in Genesis 12. Jesus sanctifying himself, so that they too will be sanctified. And thus the Kingdom comes.