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IZD
I have not been on my blog for a long long time! but if anyone reads this I want to ask you to pray for me as I am really seeing God stir up revival in me and in this area! I want to be apart of all that God wants for me here and all over the world. Be praying and if you have anything to say post a comment below.
IZD
Moses
Key Point #1: Prepare for the Call
21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become an alien in a foreign land.”Exodus 2:21-22
Moses went through a season of his life as a prince in a palace, as well as a season of his life starting his family in the country as a shepherd. We must also be ready for what ever the Lord has in store to prepare us for the calling that may take many forms of training
Key Point #2: Accept the Call
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” Exodus 3:11
13 But Moses said, “O Lord, please send someone else to do it.”Exodus 4:13
Moses first response to the Lord was that of much doubt and hesitation. Eventually Moses accepts the call of God from the burning bush, have you accepted your call from the Lord? All of us will face our burning bush experience, will you choose to accept the call or will you run from the call?
Key Point #3: Respond to the Call
1 Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the desert.’ “ Exodus 4:1
31 During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested. 32 Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.” Exodus 12:31-32
Exodus, the movement of God’s people happened because Moses responded to the Call of God. You see when we as believers respond to the call of God there is a movement that begins to take place in our own lives and in the lives of others.
Old School Hip-Hop
I believe that in this generation we have tried to create this type of compact cross that fits into what we want to do and follow our style of living. We have tried to format some sort of Christianity to make it MAC Donald’s Quick and Apple Computer easy. What happened to the days of just counting the cost and picking up the old rugged cross and following a savior who gave up everything just to have relationship with you? Back in the Day in the roots of Hip Hop It was not just saying you liked the music or listened to it, to truly be in that culture of Hip hop it meant walking down the streets of New York, Chicago, LA, or even the Dirty Bay San Francisco, proudly carrying the massive BOOM BOX and bumping your tunes as loud as you could to let everyone know that you were HIP HOP.
Hip-hop began as a youth movement. What started as a 1970’s and 80‘s inner city struggle for representation and identity quickly grew into a global culture. This culture was a movement to give those who did not have a voice a chance to declare their emotions and feelings, and no longer let the world dictate what they thought and felt.
As Christians we can learn something from this Hip Hop youth movement that for so many years has been looked at as only an unhealthy demoralizing trend. Although there are many negatives to what this movement has changed in our society, one thing is for sure. This culture would not back down would not give up, and was determined for their voice to be heard. As believers of Christ we also have a voice, and it must be heard! Just as that Boom Box was proudly carried for Hip Hop, we must represent Jesus, we must take up that old rugged cross and Follow Him.
Harvest Time
Harold Whitman once said:
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that, because the world needs people who have truly come alive.”
There is one thing that can make every one of us truly come alive and that is living to do the will of God. You see Jesus said in the book of John that his food was to do the will of God. We all have a God given yearning to change the world, but the only way to start is by changing one life at a time. We as christians could just spend all our time talking about the Holy Ghost, tongs of fire, shakes and quivers and then we could all go up to the church alters and ask for more of the Holy Spirit. Those things are all well and good, but I believe that there is a balance in our Christian walk and we can come into church all day and ask the Lord for more of the Holy Spirit, but if we don’t realize that there is a field of lost souls right here in our communities that are ready for harvest then we are missing out on what God is all about. The Bible says that the harvest is huge but the workers are very few.
IZD
Hello everybody this is IZD! I am glad to be on this blog sight, and to be apart of an online community like this. I hope that anything that I share in my blogs will be a blessing 2 all that reads them. I am just serving the Lord out here in the Dirty Bay and I am stoked to be apart of God’s Movement that is taking place all around me. Everyone feel free to drop a ton of comments all over this blog sight.
