Nothing Will Be Impossible For Them

So, I unfortunately won't be there for The Pursuit this week or the next as I'll be in Florida but distance doesn't stop God from speaking does it? I'm going to continue to write while I'm here and see what God decides to do during this time. The word on my heart is unity. I'm reminded of the people who came together to build the tower of babel. While what they were doing was wrong, in a manner of speaking, how they were going about it was so right. The Lord even says that nothing they do will be impossible for them because of their unity. There is something amazing that happens when we come together in unity. I could go on and on about this but I want you to dive deeper on your own. (Ironic that I'm saying to do this alone regarding a subject like unity) The point is, that there is so much to learn about us joining our hearts together towards a singular purpose. Faith, can we do the same thing? I would love to see a people united in purpose and heart towards our God. Can you even imagine what could happen if the whole congregation was literally on the same page and we were pursuing the Father together? Nothing would be impossible.  Whether it's our time at The Pursuit or our Saturday or Sunday morning gathering, let's seek after Him with everything we have. Then truly, we will be in one place united together and Nothing will be impossible for us.

Prayerfully

The Season of Declaration...

So for all of those who were there today, The Pursuit was awesome! And for those that weren't, I urge you to come check us out! But more importantly, I urge you to come and find yourself deeper in the love of our Creator. Towards the end of our time together, Pastor Brad felt lead to start speaking out in remembrance. We were basically making a declaration of the things that God has promised us. It is not because we feel like God has forgotten. God remembers His promises. But there are many instances in the Word that the prophets, teachers, and people of God would ask God to remember. Maybe a better way of saying it for todays world would be, "God, we believe these promises are true even though we haven't seen them yet because we know you won't leave a promise unfulfilled." But what has been on my heart is the power in the declaration of these things. There is a very big difference between speaking something and declaring something. If you'll notice, we don't have the "Asking of Independence". We have something much greater in the "Declaration of Independence". There's a feeling of resolution with this. I think with a declaration, there is a component of faith involved as opposed to casually speaking things. When we declare something, we are basically stating as fact something that hasn't happened yet. When we as a nation declared our independence from England, we were not free at that moment. But we spoke it as if we were. That's the element of faith. I say all of that to say that I feel as if God is asking us to make declarations in this season. This is not a season to hope things happen. This is a season to declare the things we want church. Do you want to see faith increase in our church? Declare it. Do you want healing for whatever is hurting you? Declare it. Do you want to see your kid's grow up to be powerful and active follower's of Jesus? Declare it. The choice is yours. As for me, I'm going to start making declarations of my faith knowing full well that when I make a declaration in the spirit, it's not me that fulfills it. It is He who has overcome the world!

Blessings

To know Your name.....

So I've been listening to the song, "To Know Your Name" by Hillsong tonight and it's really resonating inside of me. The lyrics are pretty straight forward. It goes:

Cause I know you gave, the world your only son for us to

know your name, to live within the saviors love and he took my place

knowing he'd be crucified and you loved....you loved, a people undeserving

As I no longer believe in chance, God must have been trying to speak to me today when in an awesome time with Pastor Brad, Pastor Josh, and Pastor Tony, God brought up this scripture. "But the man who loves God is known by God." 1 Corinthians 8:3. It just seems to speak again to God's character. He desires so strongly that we would know Him. That desire was strong enough to send His Son to die that we might be able to know Him for eternity. Jesus says the exact same thing. John 17:3 says, "This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent." We are so incredibly undeserving of anything. And what continues to strike me is that His love is so overwhelming that through everything, He wants to know me. Father, may we be known by You. May we love You with every bit of who we are. May we know You more intimately each day.

To know Your name.....

The Pursuit Begins.....

So this wednesday will officially begin The Pursuit in its newest form and I've got to say, I'm so excited! I felt as though walls really started crumbling this weekend at Faith Chapel and I fully expect them to continue to break over us as a people. If our main services are where the walls begin to crumble, then I feel like The Pursuit is actively pushing against the cracks that have formed. I was remembering today what a pastor once told me. We are like rubber bands. Very profound right? If you've ever seen a very old rubber band, you know how fragile it is. It literally can snap very easily or crumble all together. It does this because it has not been stretched. The more it is stretched, the harder for it to crumble. Our lives are no different. When we choose the comfortable positions of life, we stop being stretched and in turn, we are far more likely to be brittle. But when you look at the well worn life, you see something else. You see someone who has chosen to step outside of the things they know, follow God through the stretching, and become so much stronger for it! We are rubber bands. God, would You stretch us? Would you continually challenge us that we wouldn't become stagnant and brittle? Let us grow in You Father. 

Passionately Pursuing You

The Pursuit

Welcome to the official blog of The Pursuit! I've got a feeling that God will be speaking long after we've left on Wednesdays so I wanted a place to write down not only those thoughts but my own here and there. First off, in case anyone is confused The Pursuit is the new name for Live Worship Wednesdays. It's really been going great but I feel like the ultimate expression of why we gather is to continually pursue the heart of God in a deeper and more intimate way, hence, why I feel lead to start calling this, The Pursuit. This is more then a time to sing. This is more then a time for words. This is a time to actively pursue He who has pursued us first. As we push deeper into Him and His love, I know that He responds by pulling us into Himself. It is literally commanded in the Scriptures that we pursue righteousness and as our righteousness is in Christ, we chase God. 2 Timothy 2:22 says, "Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart." Let's make that the real motive for meeting together. Let's actively pursue righteousness. Let's actively pursue faith. Let's actively pursue love. Let us actively pursue our God.

The Pursuit meets every wednesday from 11 to 1pm at Faith Chapel