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Colour Conference Day 2 Session 1

{ March 25, 2011 @ 11:41 am } · { Uncategorized }
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“Go cut down your nets.”

Speaker: Jeanne Mayo

Go make hell regret the day you were born.

Jeanne shared some inspirational quotes she had up on her fridge:

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live. – Martin Luther King Jr.

It is not what you do that makes your work sacred, but why you do it. – A.W. Tozer

If a vision does not cost you anything, it is just a daydream. – Anonymous

The church that will impact the 21st century is the church whose dreams are bigger than its memories. – Anonymous

  1. In a world of half-heartedness, dare to live with passion. Get excited about something! Sometimes we have so many balls to juggle, so many hats to put on that we settle for the neutral response. “What can I re-fan my spiritual passion for?” Passion = energy of the soul. Passion > Hype. Hype = energy without sincerity. Isaiah 55:12, 2 Samuel 24:24. Find something worth dying for, then live for it. A choice of Christ-honouring passion, coupled with the discipline of endurance will make us unstoppable.
  2. In a world of short-term sprinters, dare to be a distance runner. “A diamond is just a hunk of coal that stuck to its job and made good under pressure.” Hebrews 10:35-36. Start great, and FINISH great.
  3. In a world of disappointments and pain, dare to make a quality decision with your hurts and loneliness. Jeanne shared a personal testimony about her life and how she went into youth ministry. She shared about how she struggled 10 years ago about starting in a new church, but she noticed this pattern in the Bible: when Godly people face pain and reverses, they faced into the pain and reverses and gave the pain meaning and purpose – the enemy wasn’t allowed to let the pain define them; they defined the pain. Jeanne shared that this pattern allowed her to stand up and overcome, and she said, “satan, history will be kind to me because by the grace of God I will write it.”

This session got the ball rolling for me; it opened my eyes to see the urgency to be a difference in this world, through passionate living. “Find something worth dying for, and then live for it.” It also helped me gain momentum to say that once and for all, I am done wallowing in pain. There’s a greater cause worth living for than letting my pain define me. Greater things are still to be done.

Selah.

Colour Conference 2011 Day One

{ March 21, 2011 @ 3:41 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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This will be Colour #15 for Hillsong church.

Bobbie Houston opened up the Conference with Isaiah 60:1-5

Message version:

“Get out of bed, Jerusalem! Wake up. Put your face in the sunlight, God ‘s bright glory has risen for you. The whole earth is wrapped in darkness, all people sunk in deep darkness, But God rises on you, his sunrise glory breaks over you. Nations will come to your light, kings to your sunburst brightness. Look up! Look around! Watch as they gather, watch as they approach you: Your sons coming from great distances, your daughters carried by their nannies. When you see them coming you’ll smile – big smiles! Your heart will swell, and, yes, burst! All those people returning by sea for the reunion, a rich harvest of exiles gathered in from the nations!

She shared with us her heart for Colour 2011 and her vision was simple: “There is a message to tell, a mandate to fulfill, a movement to mobilise, a truth to unveil, a mosaic to weave, a world to awaken and a world to change.” She spoke about the momentum of this movement, from their first Colour Conference, how it started from a voice that became a message and then a mandate and then a movement, bringing them to where they are now, and the influence they have been able to reproduce by the grace of God. “Things birthed in the spirit reproduce.”

She brought on the fact that the spirit of sisterhood/helper (reference: Genesis) is important – sort of reminded me about what Belle shared during her session at Simply Women where she said there is enough room in God’s heart for everyone, that there is no need for competition within the house of God. Bobbie mentioned that sometimes there is so much talk between churches, in terms of comparisons and also badmouthing, but in fact we ALL make up the bride of Christ. Quote: “No one says to her earthly groom ‘Your bride sucks’, let alone a heavenly groom”.

“Get out of bed. Put your face in the sunlight” (v1). It’s not enough to be awake because there are lots of distractions (Psalms 91 – perilous days) and v2, the whole earth is wrapped in darkness BUT God rises upon us. v4 “Look up and look around” – don’t be numbed by the “norm” of what happens in the world and don’t grow weary in doing good (Galatians 6:9-10)

Her main point: Change the world by living from a place of rest with God (calm resolve). Which is important, because even Jesus ministered from a place of rest. Change the world by living it louder, shouting it louder, and understanding the power of ‘us’.

Bobbie ended with Song of Songs 5:1-6, what she called a story of lost opportunity.

What I got out of this was, there shouldn’t be a time where I would say “I have taken off my robe – must I put it on again? I have washed my feet – must I soil them again?” (v3) – as a shepherd, a JG in God’s house, a daughter…whatever hat I put on.

Fully awake, fully at rest.

Love Came Down

{ March 10, 2011 @ 11:10 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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Verse 1
      Em                         G                D
If my heart is overwhelmed and I cannot hear your voice
  Em                               G                 D
I hold onto what is true, though I cannot see
       Em                                G               D
If the storms of life they come, and the road ahead gets steep
       Em                                G                D
I will lift these hands in faith, I will believe
Pre-Chorus
   A	           B		   A
I remind myself of all that you’ve done
		    B               A
And the life I have because of your son

Chorus
E
Love came down and rescued me
A
Love came down and set me free
C#m             B
I am yours
     A
I am forever yours
E
Mountain high or valley low
A
I sing out and remind my soul
C#m             B
I am yours
         A
I am forever yours

Instrumental (Em, G, D) 2x 

Verse 2
        Em			             G                D
When my heart is filled with hope, and every promise comes my way
       Em			      G	      D
When I feel your hands of grace, rest upon me
	Em	                       G               D
Staying desperate for you God, Staying humbled at your feet
       Em                             G                 D
I will lift these hands and praise, I will believe

[And through it all I sing out, remind my soul that I am yours forever and that I am chosen by you.]