Power Level: 9000

What an AMAZING season of life I am in!

Full-time Bible college is intense.

Here are the few things that are going through my heart as I do Bible college:

1. I am actually a sinner. - The more I "learn" at Bible college, the more I realise just how sinful I am, and just how badly I need God's grace to cover me..

....and it does cover me... so perfectly.

2. As the days go by, the calling on my life becomes clearer and clearer. No more insecurities, Just a man on a mission - which God commissioned me to do.

Nothing more, nothing less.

3. I am still so intensely hungry for revival.. More than ever. Revival in the churches, revival in Sydney, Australia and the whole world.

4. I find that the more we get into Scripture, and the more we dive into it, My head becomes clearer.. my ability to think and assess myself - becomes so much easier..

wow. How amazing the Word really is.

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so what is my purpose with this?

I am soooooooooooo determined.

to pour into anything and everything.

anyone and everyone that will listen.

I will pour out everything i have, know, and have to offer.

This life isnt even about me anymore.

I need to bring as many people as I can close to Jesus.

and the Gospel.

- which saved ME from eternal death, and i just know it will save you too.

all of 2010 I was crying out for "Passion and Discipline"

now.. in 2011, that has a whole new meaning.

MORE LORD!!!!!!!!!!

some things that God has been speaking to me recently:

"Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it."

- Jesus Christ.

my question to myself is this..

no no.

my question to you, and the world is this:

What does that look like?

What does it actually look like when someone denies himself?

I will deny myself the "good things"

- in order to gain the intense joys of following Christ...?

so maybe to me, in this season of life, it means giving up "good things"

in order for the "best thing"

yep.

definitely worth it.

here is a question for all you Christ-followers.

are you denying yourself?

are you counting the cost?

are you carrying your cross?

this cannot be done alone!

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2011 is going to be one crazy crazy year.

my prayer and desire, will be that God sets a whole new standard for us - in what the word "Radical" actually means.

NLCC - man I love it.

5 new bible college students

5 returning DTS-ers

5 more leaders at Community Outreach Night

man. this is going to be one crazy crazy year.

God,

help me to pour out everything I have, for the sake of Your name, and the good news in which You bring.

I pray that you would challenge my standards daily.

Increase the passion and discipline in my life.

...For the sake of Your holy name.

in the unfailing name of Jesus i pray.

Amen.