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Intentional Attention

MAKE TIME FOR GOD. Now walking with God and knowing God isn’t about trying harder or about meeting a must have must do checklist – it’s about RELATIONSHIP.  Its not religious activity but relationship.  The amazing thing is God starts the fire – just as He started the fire in the tabernacle and solomon’s temple – supernaturally boom – He starts the fire in our hearts. And then we choose to respond and fan that flame. The priests were instructed to keep the fire burning 24/7, they had to add the fuel to maintain the flame.

  • Make Time To Rejoice
  • Make Time To Remember
  • Make Time To Pray
  • Make Time To Read The Bible

 

  • Make Time To Worship:

Worship reinforces what matters most, reminds us of truths we forget and renews our desire to live what we believe.  Rick Warren

Worship REMINDS us who God is, His greatness, His goodness, His power, His grace

It REFOCUSES our attention on Him, His greatness, His goodness, His power, His grace

It REFRESHES our heart and CONNECTS us in RELATIONSHIP

It is an expression of love, adoration, surrender

I like my worship loud – I don’t have a quite time, I have a loud time. On Tuesday I was listening to our God reigns by Jesus Culture the other day – it has 3 words in the whole song, repeated. Our God reigns. Over and over again. I can tell you by the end of the song my whole being was like, Yes, He reigns. My God reigns. He reigns. On the inside I was jumping round like I had just won an oscar or a gold medal! It’s the same with the worship song How He Loves Us… I just have to put that on repeat for a few times and boom, I know He loves me…

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Psalm 27:14

In the Bible the word most often translated “wait” in the sense of waiting on the Lord is the Hebrew qavah. Qavah means (1) “to bind together like a twisted rope” (2) “look patiently,” and (3) “hope, expect, look eagerly.”

The picture here is like a braid in the hair, there are three pieces, but they become so intertwined that it is hard to tell them apart. Don’t you love that picture?

Isaiah 40:31but those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

What a great picture of living an uncontained life. Soaring like an eagle.

Waiting on the Lord develops intimacy with God – it intertwines our heart with His, it teaches us to become sensitive to His voice and Spirit.

And interesting when you apply that thought to Jesus command to the disciples after his death – wait for me in Jerusalem – and they waited and then were filled with the Holy Spirit and went out from there, looking like Jesus, doing the works of Jesus, representing Jesus to the world.

 

Anyone here on tank water? Bet you’re desperate for rain. When I lived in edendale we had a tank, and when it got dry you couldn’t water the garden, wash the car, have long showers, or flush for number ones. When the tank is filled the limits are removed. When we are full we live more uncontained.  let it RAIN on our lives today!

 

see Living An Uncontained Life #1 HERE

see Living an Uncontained Life #2 HERE

see Living An Uncontained Life #3 HERE

see Living An Uncontained Life #4 HERE

see Living An Uncontained Life #5 HERE

see Living An Uncontained Life #6 HERE

 

*** http://www.craftact.org.au/uncontained

Interesting word study and context for the word uncontained

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