I've been put with the task this week of leading bible study for the guys in my group tomorrow night. So I've been thinking about how do we teach something that is preached to me? Because I don't want to be preaching to them, because well it has no discussion or involvement. So then I started to think about my teachers in highschool and what they did to teach. And I quickly came to the conclusion that well they were essentially just preaching as well but with one key element which changes preaching to teaching. And that is asking questions and getting the students to even do the question. Pretty neat huh.
So I've been listening to the song Oh You Bring by hills, heaps these last few days as it is one of my favourite worship songs to listen to. It's simple got a steady beat to it and has that ability to bring that atmosphere of comfort to my surroundings and my mind. It's just amazing how we are reminded through this song that God is the solution to all of lifes problems. I love how it depicts so well how God is the one who opens our hearts and allows us to be able to hear what He has to say. It's not by our works at all that we are made righteous but by His gift of salvation. I think for me this song is a great way to remind myself in my struggles with life, I can be reminded that the creator of the world sees me as righteous because He has made me righteous by the cross and that at the end of the day I am loved.
Peter.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Had a bad day.
So here is the story that has repeated it self over so many times before.
- Woke up, slept in for thirty minutes extra had a shower went late for uni.
- Arrived at Uni and went to lecture and tutorial.
- Had lunch and spent time with my uni friend Jordan
- Went home changed and spent the rest of the day playing games.
- Ofcourse there was a dinner break for about an hour but the rest of the day very unproductive.
I didn't have the greatest day today. I can see that already as I start to live life again I can see the beginning of my oldself trying to re-establish itself once again. This state being described as self indulged, apathetic and self loathing. The issue here is that I'm forgetting about what is important and that is the grace of God in my life. Thus law immediately rushes into my life and tells me I am inadequate and a failure. But I know it isn't by my works that I am saved, but it is all God's grace.
Too often I have made the mistake of just letting my circumstance play out and bring me down. It's funny because I think that everytime I will be ok living a mediocre life, which ends up me being ultimately further away from God and people each time. But I can no longer accept this way of living anymore.
So I declare that my past life is dead and no longer has a root in my life, because I live in the OVERCOMING, FAITHFILLED, VICTORIOUS life which God has graced to me on the cross. And so there is nothing for me to be afraid of because through God all things are possible and no sin or addiction can seperate me from the love of Christ.
So for what it's worth, the lesson I take from today is simply this. God is everything I need and He deserves all honor and praise everyday of my life.
"All of my life, in every season, you are still God, I have a reason to sing, I have a reason to worship"
Peter.
- Woke up, slept in for thirty minutes extra had a shower went late for uni.
- Arrived at Uni and went to lecture and tutorial.
- Had lunch and spent time with my uni friend Jordan
- Went home changed and spent the rest of the day playing games.
- Ofcourse there was a dinner break for about an hour but the rest of the day very unproductive.
I didn't have the greatest day today. I can see that already as I start to live life again I can see the beginning of my oldself trying to re-establish itself once again. This state being described as self indulged, apathetic and self loathing. The issue here is that I'm forgetting about what is important and that is the grace of God in my life. Thus law immediately rushes into my life and tells me I am inadequate and a failure. But I know it isn't by my works that I am saved, but it is all God's grace.
Too often I have made the mistake of just letting my circumstance play out and bring me down. It's funny because I think that everytime I will be ok living a mediocre life, which ends up me being ultimately further away from God and people each time. But I can no longer accept this way of living anymore.
So I declare that my past life is dead and no longer has a root in my life, because I live in the OVERCOMING, FAITHFILLED, VICTORIOUS life which God has graced to me on the cross. And so there is nothing for me to be afraid of because through God all things are possible and no sin or addiction can seperate me from the love of Christ.
So for what it's worth, the lesson I take from today is simply this. God is everything I need and He deserves all honor and praise everyday of my life.
"All of my life, in every season, you are still God, I have a reason to sing, I have a reason to worship"
Peter.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
The first post.
Well this is the first post of my worship blog. I don't really have much to say apart from the fact that I just spent about twenty minutes trying to figure out a decent blog link when it was going to be a private blog anyway. So anyway I don't have much to say right now because I'm really brain dead, but I thought I'd share this.
This is one of the lessons I learnt at hillsong from the amazing Bishop TD Jakes. And it is simply this. "Don't let one moment define who you are". Because otherwise you won't be able to see the blessings you have in your life. This struck the walls of what I thought I knew. He taught this out of the book of Ruth and well Naomi thought she had lost everything and let her situation define who she was and didn't realise the fact that Ruth was still with her was a blessing.I've allowed let my cirumstances to cloud the view of the blessings I do have.
How crazy is it that often what we have left is what God is going to bless us abundantly with.I mean Jesus fed the multitudes with only a few fish and some loaves of bread. Which begs the question, what do I have left? Well in a nutshell quite a bit. I can't even imagine what God can do with what I have left. All I know that is what ever happens it will be to glorify the King of majesty, Jesus. And well at the end of the day I am Loved, by the one who only matters.
"Your destiny is attached to not what you lost, but what you have left!" - TD Jakes.
Peter.
This is one of the lessons I learnt at hillsong from the amazing Bishop TD Jakes. And it is simply this. "Don't let one moment define who you are". Because otherwise you won't be able to see the blessings you have in your life. This struck the walls of what I thought I knew. He taught this out of the book of Ruth and well Naomi thought she had lost everything and let her situation define who she was and didn't realise the fact that Ruth was still with her was a blessing.I've allowed let my cirumstances to cloud the view of the blessings I do have.
How crazy is it that often what we have left is what God is going to bless us abundantly with.I mean Jesus fed the multitudes with only a few fish and some loaves of bread. Which begs the question, what do I have left? Well in a nutshell quite a bit. I can't even imagine what God can do with what I have left. All I know that is what ever happens it will be to glorify the King of majesty, Jesus. And well at the end of the day I am Loved, by the one who only matters.
"Your destiny is attached to not what you lost, but what you have left!" - TD Jakes.
Peter.
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