Last night was my first time leading in what feels like months, even thought it’s only been a couple weeks. I love having the opportunity to worship with people that I love and I know love me.

 

The band last night was awesome, Craig was playing guitar filling in for Brandon, and Chris Holcomb was playing drums, so Heather stepped up front and sang with us.

 

It started off amazing with a really good practice.  I love when the most intimate times with God come while we are suppose to be “practicing”. It is always the time when God shows us what he wants for us in the evening and just allows us to worship him and with no one else there, there is always just an ease because you aren’t even leading worship, your just worshipping. When we have a practice like that I always assume that either the evening is going to be amazing, or it’s going to suck. No in between. But it was awesome.

 

There was so much time where we were just worshipping and letting God speak and we weren’t singing or really having anything happen but time alone with God. God spoke a few really awesome words through people. Brian Carswell, Ryan Borowko, Luke Tuitt, and myself. The one that really hit me was Ryan’s.

 

It was “simple” but so powerful, God was speaking so directly and strong. I’m so glad he shared it. We had just sang The Stand by Hillsong United and there is a line in the song that says ” And all I am is yours” Ryan came up and the thing that hit me the most out of what he said was God said to him “Ryan, all you are is mine”.

 

It’s no different if your tecticle other than he is made it about him taking us and not about us giving ourselves to him. I like that. When God says he is taking you because you’ve opened yourself up to him.

 

I love when God does something different. Quiet time with God is not normal at converge, it is usually all about the alter calls and the words and the worship and last night it was just about being quiet with him and letting him speak. Man I love when God changes things and yet he stays the same. Faithful and loving.

 

Anyways that is what happened for me last night, if your reading it and things were different for you I’d love to hear how they are different…

 

Later