Grayscale is a million shades of gray. We look in a lot of different places for the answer to what is right or wrong in the media. If I don't the definition defined by God for something in my life, something or someone will define it for me. The only way that gray is defined is because of how light shines through the color. The only way we know the answer to specific situations is by letting HIS light shine through.
I recently listened/watched a video featuring Jenn Johnson. It was absolutely amazing!
We get so wrapped up in looking for the answer. We've got to figure out our lives by connecting with every issue with His light to define in HIS scale where our answer lies. We've got to look to God. God is the source. Friendships and leaders are vital but relationship with God comes first. When you partner faith with active faith and hearing him out of that Faith is amazing. I take who I am and bring it to HIS table. I can take every situation that I have to the table and ask the Holy Spirit about it. We focus so much on who HE is we miss who WE are.
If I become to obsessed with who HE is then I miss who He has made me to be. What are the things I love in life?? What are my dreams? What makes me come alive??
Then partner with who He has called me to be.
Who is the Holy Spirit, God, and Jesus to me?
How do I relate to HIM??
I've been thinking alot about how I relate to the Lord. I've always seen Jesus as my Prince, and I'm HIS Beloved Princess. But it's not easy to live like that all the time. I tend to forget about that some days and I just live as if I'm a regular person. It takes reminders and setting things before myself to act like that.
There have been alot of changes and things taking place in my life recently. I've come to realize how much I've grown up over the past few months. It feels like its been years, and I feel like I'm about 24. :)But the Lord is so good. I've had amazing encounters and connections with people that I would have never dreamed of.
At Bethel Atlanta we just had a guest speaker Randall Worley. He was phenomenal. Its going to take me a little bit to continue to process what he spoke about but I can't wait to share it. It's good.
I will share this one thing. He was talking about the significance of numbers. The number 7 being perfection and then the number 8 being new beginnings. Well for singers, when warming our voices up we sing the doe, ray, me, fa, so, la, te, [doe]..... Well if you look at it the last thing you say is doe- which leads to the next level, and before it is 7 notes. Isn't that amazing.
He just has all these little nuggets like stored in his head and he just spills them all out and its just incredible.
More to come.
:)
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
True Beauty and some....
Michael asked if I would help him research something for his paper. The topic was "effects of advertising on woman's self image." I began to look at different articles. There were alot of research papers that people just had posted on the web. I also remembered a Dove advertisement that I had seen that had alot to do with this. It was for the Real Beauty Campaign. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
It's called Dove Evolution. It is absolutely brilliant. When I first watched it I had no idea that that many edits were done to a picutre before its published into a magazine. Its like really. What can we even believe about what any of the media tells us.
I began to look more into some of the articles they had published there. One of the articles I read, stated a statistic that said that only 2% of women in the world are comfortable enough to consider themselves Beautiful. I was really shocked by that. I mean I know that alot of women have self-image issues but only 2% of the women in the world could actually say that they are beautiful. That has to change.
I believe the Lord is raising a generation of people that understand how the Lord is really moving. I just heard Paul Manwaring speak last night and he was talking about how the Lord is Moving. Technology is transforming and expanding every single day. You may get the newest computer and within less than a year its already out of date. The media has a way of exposing things that we don't need to know. They are very creative but many times give off the wrong side of the message. I would love to hear ALL positive thing in the news, then maybe it wouldn't be called news. Can you imagine if the media industry was all occupied by Kingdom People. What would THAT look like?? That would be amazing. That is where I think we are moving too. This generation is so hungry for the spirit and how the Lord moves. We will be the people that will be leading this nation not too far from now.
God is so good. He knows all the things there ever is to know. He loves us, and He gets so tickled when we discover things that He has put just out of reach for us. Like when the next invention is made. How incredible. He never grows tired of our excitement over new inventions and things like that.
You know another thing thats so amazing..... GET THIS! We are made in HIS image, right? okay, so We are all made in His image, BUT we are all different. God hasn't run out of ideas. He is so so so so so creative.
Another thing is that when we express ourselves we are expressing God! We have the infilling of the Holy Spirit in us, so whatever we do, we are brining Glory to HIM. Imagine watching the news and hearing testimonies of what the Lord is doing all over the world. That just blows my mind. I can't wait to see that.
In the meantime, Express yourself. Be who you ARE!
You are beautiful, handsome, fearless, patient, kind, loving, peaceful, Glorious, etc.
Don't forget it!
Go and spread glory wherever you go.
It's called Dove Evolution. It is absolutely brilliant. When I first watched it I had no idea that that many edits were done to a picutre before its published into a magazine. Its like really. What can we even believe about what any of the media tells us.
I began to look more into some of the articles they had published there. One of the articles I read, stated a statistic that said that only 2% of women in the world are comfortable enough to consider themselves Beautiful. I was really shocked by that. I mean I know that alot of women have self-image issues but only 2% of the women in the world could actually say that they are beautiful. That has to change.
I believe the Lord is raising a generation of people that understand how the Lord is really moving. I just heard Paul Manwaring speak last night and he was talking about how the Lord is Moving. Technology is transforming and expanding every single day. You may get the newest computer and within less than a year its already out of date. The media has a way of exposing things that we don't need to know. They are very creative but many times give off the wrong side of the message. I would love to hear ALL positive thing in the news, then maybe it wouldn't be called news. Can you imagine if the media industry was all occupied by Kingdom People. What would THAT look like?? That would be amazing. That is where I think we are moving too. This generation is so hungry for the spirit and how the Lord moves. We will be the people that will be leading this nation not too far from now.
God is so good. He knows all the things there ever is to know. He loves us, and He gets so tickled when we discover things that He has put just out of reach for us. Like when the next invention is made. How incredible. He never grows tired of our excitement over new inventions and things like that.
You know another thing thats so amazing..... GET THIS! We are made in HIS image, right? okay, so We are all made in His image, BUT we are all different. God hasn't run out of ideas. He is so so so so so creative.
Another thing is that when we express ourselves we are expressing God! We have the infilling of the Holy Spirit in us, so whatever we do, we are brining Glory to HIM. Imagine watching the news and hearing testimonies of what the Lord is doing all over the world. That just blows my mind. I can't wait to see that.
In the meantime, Express yourself. Be who you ARE!
You are beautiful, handsome, fearless, patient, kind, loving, peaceful, Glorious, etc.
Don't forget it!
Go and spread glory wherever you go.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Snail Mail....
I'm just realizing again today, how amazing it is to send mail!! It makes me so happy to receive mail in my mailbox, but also to send people mail because its always so unexpected for the most part!!! I love it. Its a little surprise of happiness. And I LOVE surprises (note to yourself.. haha)
We started our AMT's last night at school. I can't remember exactly what AMT stands for, but I do know that MT stands for Ministry Training I believe. Its basically like electives within the General School. I'm in the Worship AMT and it was totally awesome!! We learned so much last night. It was crazy. The teacher is this amazing guy named Paul Spencer. It was so good. I'm still digesting what all I learned so I'll get back to that later.
This past Sunday we started our Outreach. It was really crazy. My outreach is Little Five Points. Its in the downtown area of Atlanta. Its apparently where 5 little roads meet. Its very eclectic. There are many different types of people down there. Many different lifestyles, there are homeless, witches, psychics and homosexuals. Just anything that you can think of they are down there. Everyone that I've told that I'm going there would tell me something different about the area, none of it was really positive, but I still didn't know what to expect. From the time we got there to the time we left I was very uncomfortable. I guess you could say I was a little intimidated. I still wasn't sure what to expect so I was just a little bogged down by all the dark spiritualness in the atmosphere. We didn't do any specific outreach then, it was more just being in the area and praying and getting and idea for what we can bring to Little5Points. As I was walking around with my group I was noticing all the trash that was just thrown everywhere. I tend to think in more practical ways, so I was thinking that one thing we could do was just to take ownership of the place and clean up around the area.
After we met, we were told to spend sometime praying this week for Little5Points and just get a vision for what we want to see happen. Last years group had a hard start. It was just hard to find a connection point with people, they did have alot of breakthrough, and at some point during the year, I'm not sure when but at some point, there was a person that had died, and they were taking him away in an ambulance to the Morgue, and the team and a couple of homeless people they had ministered to gathered around the ambulance praying, and the guy came back to life!!!
So They have raised the dead in that place. I believe they are more than ready to receive Love and Jesus in that place. For me personally I just need to align myself with the Holy Spirit and conciously and intelligently recognize Him. There are spirits that we can be affected by around us when we are there, but if we are aligned with the Spirit, those things can have no lasting affect on us. When I walk into Little5Points demons flee, because I have things things in me BIGGER than them!!! For Greater is He that is IN me, than he that is in the world!!!
I can't wait to share the testimony of things that happen in Little5Points.
Remember: The Level that you are dedicated to is the level to which you will see change!!!
We started our AMT's last night at school. I can't remember exactly what AMT stands for, but I do know that MT stands for Ministry Training I believe. Its basically like electives within the General School. I'm in the Worship AMT and it was totally awesome!! We learned so much last night. It was crazy. The teacher is this amazing guy named Paul Spencer. It was so good. I'm still digesting what all I learned so I'll get back to that later.
This past Sunday we started our Outreach. It was really crazy. My outreach is Little Five Points. Its in the downtown area of Atlanta. Its apparently where 5 little roads meet. Its very eclectic. There are many different types of people down there. Many different lifestyles, there are homeless, witches, psychics and homosexuals. Just anything that you can think of they are down there. Everyone that I've told that I'm going there would tell me something different about the area, none of it was really positive, but I still didn't know what to expect. From the time we got there to the time we left I was very uncomfortable. I guess you could say I was a little intimidated. I still wasn't sure what to expect so I was just a little bogged down by all the dark spiritualness in the atmosphere. We didn't do any specific outreach then, it was more just being in the area and praying and getting and idea for what we can bring to Little5Points. As I was walking around with my group I was noticing all the trash that was just thrown everywhere. I tend to think in more practical ways, so I was thinking that one thing we could do was just to take ownership of the place and clean up around the area.
After we met, we were told to spend sometime praying this week for Little5Points and just get a vision for what we want to see happen. Last years group had a hard start. It was just hard to find a connection point with people, they did have alot of breakthrough, and at some point during the year, I'm not sure when but at some point, there was a person that had died, and they were taking him away in an ambulance to the Morgue, and the team and a couple of homeless people they had ministered to gathered around the ambulance praying, and the guy came back to life!!!
So They have raised the dead in that place. I believe they are more than ready to receive Love and Jesus in that place. For me personally I just need to align myself with the Holy Spirit and conciously and intelligently recognize Him. There are spirits that we can be affected by around us when we are there, but if we are aligned with the Spirit, those things can have no lasting affect on us. When I walk into Little5Points demons flee, because I have things things in me BIGGER than them!!! For Greater is He that is IN me, than he that is in the world!!!
I can't wait to share the testimony of things that happen in Little5Points.
Remember: The Level that you are dedicated to is the level to which you will see change!!!
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