Today I continue to write to you from Arkansas. I now sit in a beautiful home settled in Cabot. Just 30 minutes away from where I was originally living when I first moved here. I am very much grateful that I live closer, 1 mile away from the church. It takes literally minutes to get there and for my wallet that is a great relief. :)
A whirl wind of events have taken place. Like I said, I now live Cabot, I have two wonderful roommates. I now live with August and Monica Ortiz. It's been so great having them as roomies. Doing life with them has just been amazing and I love coming home to family and faces I love.
Oh by the way, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :)
I am now employed at Sam's Club! About 20 minutes in a town called Sherwood. I am loving it. It's definitely a new experience but the best part about it is that I meet so many different people every day that come through my register. Its great to tell people that I'm from Florida and see there reaction as if I was crazy (As my friends and family nod their heads in agreement hehehe). God has really been just doing a work in me. Lately I have been doing a lot of self examining. Just really checking myself in my walk with God. I am reading a book now called "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan. I got to Ch.4 and It basically slapped me in the face. You got to read it for yourself to understand why it challenged me. So go get it!
Nothing really deep today, just giving you updates...
I am leading worship a lot more these days, I love it and I still running into things I still need to work on, like timing. Urg!
The other night, God really challenged me and reminded me about my worship techniques and leading. Here at NLC, there is so much that goes into a worship set. We have run throughs, in-ears, clicks, timing, light changes, so much production to allow our guest experience awesome worship. We are truly blessed with the equipment and talented people that we don't take anything for granted and use most of what we have to our very best.
Excellence is what I strive for when it comes to everything in my life, especially ministry, we must represent God and His Kingdom to the most up right manner.
The other night, I was stressed out about these two songs that I had to sing. Worship songs that I knew but for some reason I wasn't getting the timing right. I was so overwhelmed with the flow and techniques that I truly forgot the nature of what I was doing. I allowed my over compulsive self to distract me from my worship to God while I was preparing to "worship" him. Sounds confusing right? Well, here's what the Holy Spirit spoke to me.
I was reminded that the Presence of God is far more important than any timing, click or set. What must come first is our desperation to seek His face and His presence. Our hearts must be in the right place before we can continue to lead others. We cannot allow the techniques to over take the purpose. If something is not working out then its probably because we are over thinking it. We are putting to much time in technique rather then putting our time in seeking Him out. I'm not saying that technique and striving for excellence is not important, what I'm saying is that when we allow it to take over the nature of worship then we are not really worshipping, we are putting on a performance.
I want to strive for excellence and perfect my techniques but I also WANT to strive for His presence, because I know that IN HIS PRESENCE God is there and He is doing a work, I long for His anointing so that I can minister effectively. We can't change lives with techniques and gifts, we can only change lives with His presence and His leading. If we put that first in our worship time and sets, then everything else will fall into place.
That's what I'm learning and will continue to learn, if you have any input, I would love to hear your thoughts!
Thanks guys for chiming in and catching up, hope to write again soon!
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