A Call to Stand for Truth

Yesterday morning as I was driving my brown truck I was praying and a word came to me from God. I was thinking about how far I've come in the last year, regarding my worship leading.

A year ago, I wasn't leading anywhere for anyone. And I had no plans to do anything with it. I was busy. We had just brought Tasha home to live with us. Being new parents, life was crazy. In only a couple months (we didn't know it) we would be changing churches. I was frustrated in my ministry and I had thoughts that I would never do worship leading again. A friend and brother of mine thought otherwise (I suspect that he was busy praying that I would change my mind).

Shortly after Christmas, I realized that I needed to be back in fellowship with my band of brothers. I had taken a hiatus from the bible study. Spiritually - I was drained and could feel the devastation in myself from lack of fellowship. As I began to go back, I made a commitment to myself to lead worship for the guys every week.

Something had happened in the months between April and December of last year. This "break" from leading worship had affected me. God showed me that his gifts really matter. When he made me, Nev, when he knit me in my mother's womb (Psalm 139), before time began, he gifted me with specific, unique gifts and talents. And so this question came to me:

Who am I that I should decide when it is no longer good for me to lead worship? When did God give me the choice to forsake the gifts and talents he bestowed upon me?

God blessed me with the gift of music, song. He blessed me with the desire to lead others in worship. God called me to himself, so that I would walk in the light, walk in the truth, ...be in obedience to his plan for my life.

So, as I prayed yesterday, I realized that I am a worship leader. I lead others in worship. I am called to lead others in worship. I must obey that call to lead others in worship. But there is one thing that is more important, I am a Christian. I am called by God to lead others to Christ. I must stand in Christ. I must stand for truth. I am called to stand for Truth.

One Year Anniversary!

It's been one year Apr 11th that we've been parents of Tasha!!! Praise God for his goodness, greatness, mighty hand, provision! Our God is an awesome God!

Jackson Senyonga

I heard a great sermon this past Sunday. We had a missionary from Uganda, Jackson Senyonga, come and speak to us about prayer. Here follows some things that he preached:


Does God answer prayer? What kind of prayer does God answer?

He preached from the Scripture :

2 Chronicles 20

Here are some quotes from Jackson:

"God has no credibility problem in the area of answered prayer."

"It's impossible to seek the Lord and not find him."

"When you stand on your knees, you are taller than your enemies."

His Message:

There are 5 kinds of prayers that God answers:

1) Desperate Prayers:

a) Casual prayers: America loves this one

b) Crisis prayers: (9/11) its a good prayer, but it dies quickly after the crisis is over

c) Committed prayers: This prayer causes real change

-2 Chr 20:12 - "we don't know what to do Lord, but our eyes are on you...."

- in humility - ex. Moses, Jacob

"Prayerlessness is an exhibit for Pride."

Jackson believes right now, that "Prayer is the missing ingredient in the American Church."

2) God likes to answer the Big Picture prayers

- Kingdom Minded prayer

3) Pray for Other People:

-"It starts with you, but doesn't end with you."

-"We are so much in our own way"

- "It's not about me, it's about the Kingdom."

4) Act/Walk out your prayers: everyone has a part to play

"Prayer is harder on our knees"

"Some of us want to hide in prayer to disobey God"

-"We want to spiritualize our disobedience.----that's witchcraft."

-"What ever you don't do, it goes undone."

-"If you don't go and touch those(non-believers) people [you just prayed for], they will go untouched and go to hell."

5) Pray sacrificially

"Not out of liking, but out of obedience.

Ex. from Scripture:

Matt 16:21-23

21 From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 22And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you." 23But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man."

As soon as Jesus began to speak on sacrifice and death, Satan [through Peter] interrupted because ----

"Sacrifice produces power"

"Fires from heaven (Power) don't fall on nothing, they fall on sacrifice"