Stopping For The One

Experiencing how God's love transforms us to love others

Tag: Jesus

Flooding Los Angeles with fire from the Azusa Revival

Revival is easy because it’s God’s idea. All you have to do is say “yes” and he says, “I can work with that!”

If you were to come up to me a year ago and prophesy that I would be standing on a bench in the middle of a well-respected university in LA (UCLA), to preach the gospel to passers by who pretended they couldn’t see or hear me, I don’t know if I would have believed you. The very idea would have offended my insecurities and fear of rejection that I had worked so hard to hide and protect.

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Jesus gives us authority, but he never intended that we should operate under authority alone. We need to be clothed with authority and power. They are not the same thing.
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“Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.” 

— Colossians‬ ‭2:7‬

“Strange when tears come. In worship during a hymn noticing flower blossoms blooming from the thorns woven around the cross.”

— John Piper

“God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it.”

— ‭‭Acts‬ ‭2:32‬

Stopping for the one?

Last year, our Senior Pastor had been to one of our sister churches and had heard one of their visiting speakers use the phrase “stopping for the one”. This was the first time I’d consciously heard that term, and it stood out to me. Sometimes a phrase just leaps out at you, and this one has definitely embedded itself in my mind.

For the last year I’ve been turning this over in my mind, examining it for the gold held within. I started noticing it come into use by a few speakers, but it stuck in the back of my mind and wouldn’t be silenced. I’ve been wrestling with the text — the Biblical meaning of meditation.

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