Birthday Boy

Happy Birthday to me...etc Before you wonder, no it's not today, the actual day was last Saturday. I had a really good weekend though, got loads of cards and pressies and spent time celebrating with friends. Thanks so much to those of you who helped make it such a good one.

I was completely blown away by yesterday's meeting. Strangely, when we started at 10am it was a bit of a cosy 'sing along' but suddenly God broke in. Someone got up to share about wanting more of God and invited everyone to join her is crying out to Him for more. This triggered a powerful outpouring of love, adoration and faith from the people. At one point nearly 95% of the Church were kneeling before God, simply seeking his face and longing to touch and be touched by Him; truly awesome.

In recent times of worship leading, I have been more and more aware of this power dynamic; we worship the most powerful God there is. Were this not the case then He could not claim to be 'Lord of Lords and King of Kings'. Last Friday night we were being lashed by storms, high winds and driving rain. At about 3am I was woken by a loud BANG! It might have been thunder but no lightening or thunder followed it. Immediately, the Lord spoke to me, "My voice is like thunder". I know this is from a Psalm and the next morning I looked it up. Is is part of Psalm 29:1-11 and was written by the Holy Spirit through King David. Commentators believe he was watching a storm come in at the time and this inspired him to write a song of praise to God by way of a response. I think this is one dimension of this Psalm.

As I meditated on this Psalm (i.e. concentrated on filling my mind with Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit) I felt Him say to me that "My Voice is in you". If you look closely at Palm 29 you will see that it talks about God's voice and I realised that God's voice does not make silly noises, He speaks WORDS. I believe that what we see here is a picture of what happens in the spiritual world when we integrate God's Word (His written AND spoken Word) into our lives. The Bible makes clear that God's word is VERY powerful. Hebrews 4:12 (The Message) says,

"God means what He says. What He says goes. His powerful Word is sharp as a
surgeon's scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying
us open to listen and obey. Nothing and no one is impervious to God's Word. We
can't get away from it - no matter what."

It makes sense that when we allow Holy Spirit to activate this Word in us as we read it, meditate on it, study it, learn it and most importantly DO IT (Matthew 7:24-27, John 14, 1 John 5:3), then our lives will carry the 'thunder' of His voice speaking through us and against spiritual forces opposing us (Ephesians 6:12), sickness which hinders us, sin which entangles us (Hebrews 12:1) and Satan who seeks to destroy us (John 10:10).

Stir up a storm in your life today!