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Posted in Practical by David Hepting on 3/6/2010
To walk with God in the high places we must lose our
fear. Fear can only be lost in the desert, in the crucible of
warfare, inferiority and internal struggle. In the place
where only God can shelter you. Only His Comfort
works. All is stripped bare and we come to rest in His
goodness.
-Graham Cooke
While we have been in Africa there has been a significant amount of spiritual warfare. We aren't into finding a demon behind every bush and sound in the night. But there has been significant attack against some of our teams. Just this morning our host Patrick and his wife both had the same vision of someone shackling up a racer and pulling them back. So we all prayed for a bit this morning for freedom and peace against the enemy.
I could tell some crazy stories of some of the things that have happened but I really want to focus on the protection of God. I think that a proper understanding of God and his battle strategy will blow us away and put our hearts at rest. He is a strong tower that the righteous run to and are safe. We can rest in the shadow of his wings.
Rest is a weapon. To know peace at depth is a most
urgent discipline to acquire. To be able to bring yourself
to peace in moments under severe pressure is vital.
This is so good, rest is a weapon that will destroy everything negative. As we just trust in God and rest in His safety it takes away the main weapon of the enemy: intimidation. We can destroy His power by just ignoring Him and being fascinated by God and resting in Him. I used to be bound by sin and the major way that God set me free was to just get in His presence when tempted and fall asleep. When I woke up I felt awesome, in my right mind and felt the absurdity of the temptation.
Those whom God inhabits fully are always singled out
by the principalities and powers. There is a place in the
Spirit set aside for us where no weapon can prosper
against us. We can make the enemy tired, weary and
inferior through the quality of our rest and peace. We
cannot be intimidated because we are too busy being
fascinated . . . by Jesus.
All these quotes are from Graham Cooke, He is one of the most peaceful and joyful men of God I have ever heard of. He has an incredible ministry setting satanists and occultists free. He is never intimidated by them because he is so amazed by Jesus. One day in a sermon he was talking about Psalm 23 it says "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for you are with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies." God prepares a table for us! While we are thinking about battle and warfare with our enemies God is preparing a picnic!! He certainly seems secure and more interested in intimacy with us then battle with them.
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Posted in Faith by David Hepting on 3/6/2010
I just listened to an amazing sermon by Shawn Bolz. One thing that he talked about was in a relationship it is so important to interact with each other. Instead of just telling God "I love you" all the time it's good to interact with Him and ask for specific things that you know He wants you to have so I have been starting a list and it's getting pretty massive quickly. I've already seen some amazing and exciting answers but if you guys could pray for me for these things and feel free to pray for yourself for these things as well. I would appreciate it so much. History belongs to the intercessors.
1. Financial Provision - Debt free, free to follow God wherever he leads.
2. Anointing to bring freedom to people, and healing Luke 4:18-19
3. Guitar skills - inspired creativity
4. Faster Reading ability
5. Influence
6. Clarity to daily hear what to do
7. Boldness/Passion - Set me on fire!!
8. Bible would come alive
9. Running endurance - Isaiah 40:29-31
10. Encounters with God/ Angelic
11. Open hands - Spirit led generosity
12. Wisdom
13. Authority in the Spirit
14. More friendships, and deeper friendships with people of: Deep love for God, poverty, influence, joy, encouragement, accomplishment, hurting, broken, successful, and dreamers.
15. Daily walk in and enjoy peace, joy and righteousness
16. Learn how to release the river of God.
17. Blazing purity Matt. 5:8
18. Eph. 3:16-19 To know God's love, and mine would abound
19. Better understand and walk in God's favour and blessing
20. Family, Best friends, Gospel for Asia missionary, Dallas Valley, AYMI, FIRE, and friends.
21. Learning - God would give even more passion to learn, better memory and better questions.
22. Walk in an open heaven.
23. Walk in innocent, trusting, amazed childlikeness in wonder of God and everything He does.
24. Cleanse me from all unbelief and doubt
25. God would speak if I should go for a masters degree, online or in person, and where to go.
Thank you so much for your prayers. They are literally changing history. I get so excited when I think about the possibilities of today and the future. Thank you for joining me.
-David
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Posted in Thanks by David Hepting on 2/15/2010
Hey Friends,
I am writing to you from Lira Uganda. This last week we have been in the district of Amolyatar. In a town with no electricity or running water. It's been an experience to say the least :). Some nights my teammates have woken up covered in sweat because of the heat. But it's also a place that's becoming more and more like home. We have gotten to preach and lead worship and lead a little women's conference where quite a number got healed and really blessed. Also go to the school lead over a hundred kids in worship and bible stories. Many kids gave their lives to the Lord. It's been great.
I've been the finance person for our team for the last 3 or more months. Taking reciepts and helping stick to our monthly budget and seeing what we can afford. As I've been in this position it's been amazing to be able to watch exactly where your money goes. God has really provided in amazing ways and in tight situations through you guys and I wanted to take this time to thank you so much for your prayers and your financial support. I wish I could thank each of you personally who have supported me but the finance lady at my church had a stroke and is still recovering so I don't know who has given to me personally. But I am so thankful and appreciative for each one of you, I am almost at my goal because of all of your help!!
Here are some of the things we have been able to do through your generous help.
1. To rent a building with six rooms and a backyard with a new outhouse for our team of six for the whole month costs just $75. It's amazing how far a small amount can go to help our team be in a place for a month where God can really use us.
2. Last month we were in Kenya where the unemployment rate is almost at 70% in the country, it's a major problem. We were able to hire 4 helpers and a lady to help us with laundry for just a few hundred dollars so that they could provide for their families and have the dignity of work over a hand-out.
3. We were able to buy benches for a church we helped start in Eldoret as well as part of a sound system and rent for a couple months for the church building. The pastor is a man deeply in love with God and his community and it was such a blessing to be able to partner with him in his work.
4. The pastor who is caring for us and helping us in Uganda is an amazing man and his bycicle was recently stolen. This is a main means of transportation in Uganda and for only $70 we are planning on helping him with a new one.
This is just a small glimpse at what you are doing across the world, along with providing for our daily needs of food and shelter and transportation. Thank you all so much, I just wanted to let you know a bit more specifically what you are doing in this part of the world. God bless each of you. I pray for more of his peace and joy!
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Posted in Practical by David Hepting on 2/3/2010
Finally brothers... (Paul is saying to sum up this whole book) whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Philippians 4:8
I used to be really introspective.
On the outside I was quite happy and fun but I often used to overanalyze people's reactions to anything I said or did. I thought a lot about anything that was wrong in me because I wanted to be pleasing to God.
I went to a bible school that came out of a revival and it was a place where holiness was so important. God definitely changed my life there, I wouldn't trade my experience for anything. But in that culture of repentance and holiness a lot of us became often introspective. Always looking for new sins to repent of, and trying to look around our heart for anything bad to despair over. There were altar calls twice a week. Through all of this I never really felt good about my relationship with God, I felt there was always so much more sin to get over before I could really be close to God. Then one day I read a prayer.
I was reading a book by Bill Johnson, one of my biggest heroes in the world. He was so hungry for revival and always trying to repent and get closer to God. But he kept feeling so down by how far he felt from God. Then one day he prayed a prayer like this
"God you know I don't do so well when I always focus on my sin. Would you please convict me when there's something you want me to deal with? Let me just worship you and keep my eyes on you, that's what I like the most."
It blew me away, I felt so much freedom and excitement that such a lifestyle was possible. Here was one of the holiest men I knew of who walks in incredible miracles and the presence of God and he just trusted God to convict him whenever God wanted him to deal with an issue. It was so freeing.
On the race it's really easy to compare, it's easy to get frustrated because there are so many amazing people, with really strong giftings, or beautiful personalities and it's easy to feel like we are missing out. I've caught myself a few times this year getting introspective and frustrated with how much I still need to grow. But I feel like God is calling us to be sons and daughters again. Children don't care much for self-analysis, they just love being with their dad and playing with him. They want to help him at work and they don't mind if they mess up much because they just love being with him and doing what he's doing. And he loves that!!!
To sum it all up if you are thinking about your sin you are in fact sinning. Because sin isn't pure, lovely, or admirable. If God convicts you then just repent immediately and quickly move on to abundant life with Him. I can testify that ever since I let God worry about convicting me and shifting my gaze to God and everything that's good and pure and admirable in the world my life has changed dramatically. It's amazing. I remember I used to watch movies with my eyes on the look-out for swears, or sex scenes to look away from then after my christians friends and I could complain about how bad movies are nowadays and say things like "Why did they have to put that scene in there and ruin the whole movie?". Never did I realize that the whole time we were focusing on what wasn't pure. It's often the people who are the hungriest for holiness that have their eyes most fixed on sin (in order to avoid it).
Now whenever I watch a movie I have my eyes fixed whatever is beautiful in the movie, where courage is displayed or genuine love. I ask God to highlight anything he wants to teach me from the movie. I am so focused on just absorbing everything beautiful and good from the movie that I hardly remember any bad parts. (as a disclaimer, I'm still not perfect and I'm growing in this, but it's an exciting adventure). Paul would read greek and cretan poets and was trained under Gamaliel, one of the most culturally aware and relevant rabbis of his day. Still regarded today as one of the great rabbis of all time.
I think as christians we need to start absolutely being committed to beauty, to purity, creativity and life. We can't retreat any longer into our comfy sanctuaries and churchy lingo. The gates of hell can't stand against against a church on the offense. The armor of God has nothing for our backside, our only protection is continual advance and victory. Let's not fear creativity and truth, no matter from where we find it. Every good and perfect gift is from above.
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Posted in Stories by David Hepting on 1/22/2010
On the way to Eldoret Kenya I was sitting beside Danielle. She hadn't journalled memories in awhile and didn't want to forget them so she was writing her memories out. I* hadn't in awhile either and so I started writing some good memories of my time on the race. Pretty soon I had almost sixty and we were already at Eldoret! It was really good reminiscing and not wanting to forget some of the great moments so fare. Here are a few that I will share.
1. In Dublin Drea and April made the second best salad I have ever had in my life! Just using our mess kits and the local grocery store, I am still amazed at their culinary prowess.
2. We went to a big celebration thing with a band and fireworks and we all started dancing and getting really into it and the band dedicated a song to us. It was so much fun. Also there were giant mascots dancing with us, a big cat and a giant mouse.
2. At launch training camp Shawn prophesied over me that I have a heart of gold and it meant a lot to me.
4. Standing at a bus stop in Ireland and just making conversation with an older lady and when she heard I was from Saskatchewan it was amazing. She knew an extraordinary amount about it and said that she always wanted to visit there. I love it with all my heart because it's home and so many of my favourite people in the world are from there. But it really astounded me that someone would really want to come to probably the flattest and most rectangular shaped province on earth.
5. Meeting Mark Marx, and watching my leg grow out half an inch in front of my eyes! Seeing amazing miracles and falling more in love with this generous and healing God.
6. Staying with Abby and his family in Romania. They showed us just amazing hospitality letting 14 of us crash their place for a month and cooking for us every meal. They had the freshest food with garden vegetables and a great hill for their backyard that was great to go up on an pray. They made doughnuts for us one day and I had 22!
7. On the hill on night Grant and I had a man's night with some of the guys from H-Squad. Roasting big hunks of salami over a fire they built on the path. I can't think of anything that better epitomizes manliness :). They shared stories from the race of all the craziest things they had done. From jumping off a forty foot cliff in Malawi after church into the lake, to starting a giant monkey fight in Asia by throwing food to the monkeys, staying in a mansion for a month where they just asked God to provide a place to stay, riding motorcycles in Thailand and having a crazy three bike pile-up but God completely protecting them. They said if there's anything we can tell you guys as you are starting out on the race "Never miss an opportunity, if something seems even vaguely filled with potential for adventure, take it!" I've thought a lot about that and that's how I want to live the rest of my life. It's really opened up a lot of great adventures on the race so far.
8. A lady in o0ur romanian village had been hit by a car and I remember going to her funeral to support the family even though we didn't even know them. We also went to pray and command her to be raised from the dead. She wasn't, but her sister was crying and thanking us so much for being there. She said to us "A day will not pass that you are not in my prayers, thank you so much for being here."
9. Eating the very best pizza slice of my life in Belgrade, Serbia. I can't even describe all the incredible flavours coming together to create pure deliciousness in my mouth. They have bakeries everywhere called "Pekara" in Serbian. Probably one or two on every block. They would sell really low-priced and amazing pizzas, and olive bread, and cheesy sticks amazing.
10. Perhaps I'm including too many food ones on this list but for a man time in Belgrade Casey and Grant and I went for "Pljeskavicas" they are these amazing 2/3 pound burgers that are filled with melted cheese in the middle. They sold 1 kg or 2.2 pound ones as well! we never took up the challenge. That's probably my only regret from Serbia :).
11. Meeting Dragon outside of a church. he had been struggling with alcohol for years. We prayed for him and befriended him and he gave me this gold coloured heart. He said "You are some of my only friends, you have a part of my heart". He was weeping as he was praying and said he felt really good afterwards.
12. In Turkey we met some amazing world travellers at the hostles, two guys biked all the way from England to Turket and were planning on going to India and maybe China. Oney guy named Andrew just started travelling around tand he would just knock on doors and ask if he could stay at people's houses. He said it restored all his hope in humanity. The hospitality was unbelievable, some people would urge him to stay longer they would let him use the family care to go sightseeing and just bless him so much. I learned a lot of good travelling advice there.
13. We got to travel by ferry to Asia and back once or twice a week in Istanbul because it has both continents in the city. So now I can say I have been to Asia about 7 times!
14. We got to see so many biblical cities and regions in Turkey and then of course in Israel it was amazing. I was overwhelmed by God's kindness when we got to go to Antioch (modern day Antakya). It's the place where Paul and Barnabas were sent out from. We got to go to the actual church where Paul spent a year at before being sent out. We sang some worship songs with some christian tourists from Singapore. It was a really special memory for me because I love to imagine how Paul had prepared himself for so long and still didn't really have any idea what was ahead of him in life but said "I'll go". I feel kind of like that sometimes.
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Posted in About Me by David Hepting on 1/20/2010
Twas the day before my birthday in Kenya and not a creature was stirring... well, maybe some chickens and lizards and flies and Patrick our host. Yesterday was the day before my birthday here in Kenya and I had a really cool and great day, I am so thankful to God for it. We went to a gigantic beautiful waterfall and got to climb in a big kind of cavern underneath it. Our bus driver wrote my name on the rock. Then on our way swimming we saw a lady milking a cow and asked if we could try it and so I got to and some others did as well. It was really fun, I likely have milked a cow before but definitely never in Kenya yet.
We took a tour of a hydroelectric dam, it was pretty cool. Then we went into this beautiful river that is an outflow of the waterfall and swam down it aways with our bus conductor. It was so fun. We learned from him that manure is not only good as fertilizer but if you rub it all over yourself it protects you from bees and maybe mosquitoes and also if you mix it with blackbirch and rub it in open wounds it is very good for them. I don't think I'm quite ready to try that out yet but it could be good to know. Then as we were walking up the hill back to the bus we find out that it is the exact hill that the Kenyan 3000m Gold Olympic medalist and I think World record holder used to train on. I was so amazed, I've grown to just love running more than almost anything it is so fun. It was such a blessing from God to be able to run up that exact hill that he trained on and get exhausted after just one run and he usually does 10 at a time.
Then on our way back we stopped at a mud hut to check it out and ate fresh guava from the tree in perfect sunlight and beautiful weather. Chased some chickens and took pictures and then headed back home. I started reading "The inn of the sixth happiness" about Gladys Aylward and it was so amazing and encouraging. We had corn and potatoes my two favourite vegetables for supper and it was just an amazing day. I'm so thankful to God. Now today is my birthday and I don't know how it could get any better. God is so good :).
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Posted in Thanks by David Hepting on 12/28/2009
(photo courtesy of the great Paul Iwanaga)
We just got back from En-Gedi. It is the place where King David hid with 400 men from King Saul and cut off a piece of his robe. It is unbelievably beautiful and filled with cool little animals and furry creatures like Coneys and Ibex. But the best part was this little waterfall. We walked past it then reconsidered and came back. Matt wanted to go and jump in with his shorts on. I thought it was a stupid idea. But he went anyways. I realized it wasn't a stupid idea but rather one of the funnest and best ideas that he had ever had. I ripped off my shirt and jumped in as well.
We swam under the waterfall and splashed each other and did cannonballs off the ledge. It's the stuff movies are made of. I had so much fun. It came after day after day of God just blessing my socks off and being so overwhelmingly kind. On Christmas Eve after talking with my parents I almost started crying in thankfulness in disbelief at how kind and tender God has been to me. With the media fast this month we have had so much time to just love each other and have so much fun and be creative and be ourselves. I feel so alive.
Even ministry has been so much fun. We have been teaching english to children in a small Beduoin village. They are very energetic and excited. Last time I'm not sure how it came up but I started having a little beatboxing battle with Amir one of the students during the english lesson. There is so much freedom in God to love life and be ourselves.
Yesterday I got to go to Nazereth, Capernaum, the sea of Galilee, the place where Jesus multiplied bread and fish, the sermon on the mount mountain, and the place where the angels spoke to Mary and Joseph. We've been really busy with ministry and helping out in different places. In the last two days before we leave for Uganda God opened the door so that we could do all of these amazing things and go to the dead see this morning and hike through huge dessert ridges and bluffs early this monring. Celebrating Christmas with some of my favourite people, I don't know how life could be any better.
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Posted in About Me by David Hepting on 12/18/2009
We arrived into Jerusalem at about 9:00 at night. We were filled with excitement and a bit of curiosity. All that we knew was that we were staying with an orthodox Jew for two weeks and helping out with a soup kitchen. As we met our contact it turns out that he is actually from Chicago and has a great sense of humour and is very kind. That night we had some friendly conversation and figure out what's going to be happening for these next two weeks. We are all pretty tired from an exciting bus ride the night before where our bus hit a donkey on the road just leaving Tel Aviv! So we went to bed.
The next day we get back from the soup kitchen and are kind of hanging out in the living room and talking. Our host comes home and pretty soon the conversation switches to Christianity and Judaism and a whole array of great questions and discussion about our faith. He really wanted to begin to challenge us and help us to grow in our understanding of God. So at one point he started asking some intense questions to Lauren. He said "I don't want an answer you can think of in 5 minutes I want you to stop and actually think about these questions for a few days." The first question that he asked was this
"At what point does a person need the right answers before they can get saved?"
Many years ago I might have quickly put forth a pat christian answer, but this time the question really challenged me. I know without a doubt that when we come before God on judgment day there will not be a knowledge based multiple answer doctrine exam or anything like that to determine who gets in to heaven and who goes to hell. It's deeper than that.
"What does it mean to accept Jesus?"
Do you have to say a little prayer? Do you have to be a good person? Go to church once a week? What does it really mean to accept Jesus? Do you have to accept Christian culture and lingo and put a little fish sticker on the back of your car?
"What does it mean to reject Jesus?"
Sometimes we forget that there are 2,000 years of often very ugly church history that people have to get over before they can think positively about Jesus. To a Jew whose ancestors have been murdered and raped and had their villages burned down by the crusaders and the pograms and even a nazi regime that was unopposed by the church in germany and even supported at times, there is a lot of historical baggage to get over. (Check out "Our hands are stained with blood: by Dr. Michael L Brown for a powerful and convicting look at that)
If Jesus actually walked into the room and talked to them and loved them and showed them who He really was, how would they then feel? Are they rejecting Jesus or the presentation of Jesus that church of the last 2,000 years has offered to them? I know Jesus is the only way to the father. I know there is no other name under heaven by which men must be saved. But I have really been challenged a lot by the love for God and incredible faith of so many Jews and those three questions I don't know an answer to yet.
To continue the story we ended up learning a ton in our two weeks in Jerusalem. Lots of great discussion and we even celebrated Shabbot and Hannukah with our host. Also amazing was the fact that when we arrived he had a big brace around his leg and his ankle was still healing from a fracture a few weeks before. But we prayed and prayed for him and within a week he went to the doctor and the doctor confirmed that he was totally healed!! Praise Jesus!!
I'm so thankful for my time in Jerusalem and the sites that we got to see and all of the amazing things that God did in my life. I really loved it. Now I am here in Arad and having the time of my life. We are staying near an incredible scholar who has his doctorate and is just a treasure trove of amazing information. I'm trying to soak in as much as I can :). Thank you so much to all of you who have supported my trip in prayer and financially. I really appreciate it. God bless!
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Posted in About Me by David Hepting on 12/10/2009
His love is deeper...
That means it goes lower than our expectations. It swallows the lowest and darkest parts of our world in it's warmth. Nothing can stop love. Good will overcome evil and love will rise as a beacon of hope for a disheartened people. I believe in the power of love.
(From my journal this morning)
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father... that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith-that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
I was sitting in my room thinking and praying this morning and the phrase "His love is deeper" wandered through my thoughts. I wrote it down and then thought about it and wrote that section above. God's love is something that makes everything else worthwhile. There have been times on the race when I really begin to wonder if I'm even making a difference. In romania one week we mainly just chopped wood for people and smiled at everybody. I remember thinking
"What difference is all this going to make in the long run?"
Sure some people might appreciate having more chopped wood for the cold romanian winters. But have I really made a difference? Whenever I start thinking like this I remember a verse in Corinthians that gives me hope.
Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:8
I'm convinced that the only hell which exists is the inability to love.
-Dostoyevsky
When it comes down to it God is love, so those that reject God, reject love and choose a hell for themselves. Already on the race I feel like God has given me a path and a destiny for the rest of my life (which is pretty exciting!). It's pretty simple, for the rest of my life I want to hear His voice and share His love.
After world war two they were clearing out houses and rubble, they found this quote from someone who likely died in the Holocaust.
I believe in the sun, even when it doesn't shine
I believe in love, even when it isn't shown
I believe in God, even when He is silent
Stop and think about that for a minute. I love that attitude of faith and rugged determination to never let go of God even when every evil circumstance seems to scream out unbelief at His existence. It spoke to me in another way as well. How much easier is it to see God when love is shown? How much easier is it to hear God when we proclaim what He is speaking? That's what I want to live for.
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Posted in About Me by David Hepting on 12/10/2009
These last couple weeks have been incredible. Our team has been in Jerusalem helping out with a soup kitchen. We have been able to tour around as well and see a lot of the city and holy sites. I am so thankful and blessed to be here. Recently I have also started spending more time waiting on God. Being still with Him and waiting to see if there's anything He wants to show me. Often He lets me feel His presence. I highly recommend it, or any way that you enjoy spending time with God.
This week I was thinking about simplifying my life and getting rid of distractions and learning to focus on what's important. I know that Jonathan Edwards had well over 80 resolutions and life principles that he kept faithfully throughout his life. But I think it's ok if I just start with four things and see how I do with those.
1. Always keep my attention on what God is doing.
It's amazing how many times God has taught me this lesson and I have forgotten it. A practical way that I do this is by counting my blessings throughout the day. Taking a little while to ponder each good thing that God has done for me throughout the day. In James it says that "Every good and perfect gift is from above", so that means to me that if something good happened then God gave it to you. I love to credit the really small things to God and the big ones too.
I will just share a little history from my life of how God has used this. About two years ago I started counting my blessings in April. Every day I would a few times throughout the day stop and think about all the little blessings that God gave me in the last few hours and it was so fun. It entirely changed my mindset, I don't think there was one day that month that I was ever discouraged or bitter or sad. It was probably the funnest month of my life.
The crazy thing was the more that I gave God credit for the things He did, the more good things He did. Miraculous blessings would just come out of nowhere and amaze me. Shane and Shane came to Regina (one of my favourite bands), when I was support raising almost every second day huge gifts would come in for my trip. Friends would call out of nowhere and want to talk. Every single thing I did became so enjoyable because I couldn't wait to find the little blessings that God had hidden in each circumstance.
But the crazy thing is I have never kept it up for more than a month. Somehow I always let myself become distracted from focusing on the great things that God is doing. So this is my goal for the rest of my life to focus on what God is doing.
2. Seek God as the answer for every difficulty.
"God wants workers who lean heavily on His strong arm. I believe that our entire success in life depends on one thing. How greatly we can depend on God. How fully can you lean on His strong arm? Does your life show it? Are you dependent?" I wrote that in my journal last month.I wonder what would happen if we really believed that God loved us and wanted to be the answer to every problem we face?
3. Stay drunk in the Spirit, and do the impossible.
All I know is, God loves when we are filled with Him. On Pentecost day they got drunk in the Holy Spirit and 3,000 people got saved. He gives us supernatural boldness and fun when we are filled with Him. I carry around a little batman mug now that I drink from throughout the day. Faith always looks ridiculous before the answer comes.
4. Be who I am, become who I was meant to be and never compare, never compromise, and never back down.
To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.
Revelation 2:17
As I was praying today I thought of the verse "These are the names of the the sons of Israel..." from Exodus 1:1. The whole book of Exodus starts with the names of the twelve tribes then talks about how each tribe lives out it's name and it's destiny. In the Hebrew the book is actually called "the names" and there are word plays throughout of each name of the tribes. A person's name and a person's destiny are intertwined in the bible. Afterwards, that revelation verse popped into my mind.
If we overcome, if we walk out the destiny that God has given to us and don't let anything stop us, then we will get our true name. It will be written on a white stone. That's awesom
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