He Calms The Storm Within

Sometimes there is no need for words....just the need for stillness.

Show Me Your Glory

I see the cloud, I step in
I want to see Your glory as Moses did
Flashes of light and rolls of thunder
I’m not afraid
I’m not afraid

Show me Your glory, show me Your glory, my God...
Show me Your glory, show me Your glory

I’m marked by Your beauty, lost in Your eyes
I want to walk in Your presence like Jesus did
Your glory surrounds me and I’m overwhelmed
I’m not afraid
I’m not afraid

Show me Your glory, show me Your glory, my God...
Show me Your glory, show me Your glory

I long to look on the face of the One that I love
Long to stay in Your presence, it's where I belong
Oh how we love You, oh how we love You
Oh how we love You, Jesus

(Show Me Your Glory--Jesus Culture)

Then Sings My Soul

You remind me again and again...that "By Faith" does not mean "Without Pain."

My heart was made to worship. I have never felt so close to the presence of God, the feeling of Heaven touching Earth, as when spontaneous worship erupts and the cries of the soul get to escape and exclaim the greatness of our God.  It is when I sing of Who God is that I begin to understand who I am.  The ways of this world melt away, petty problems, insecurities, burdens they have no place when God's glory fills a room and overwhelms the temples of His people.  There is Authoritative Power when worship overflows and God answers the cries of His people.

There are those seasons where you get to lead others into that awe, into those moments, where God uses you in a mighty way and you are humbled to be His instrument.  

But then....there are those Season where God calls you to His Mountain.  Like Moses, He pulls you away, He asks of you to make the hard climb to meet with Him and Him alone.  To Sing His praises to an audience of One.

I have noticed that all the "By Faith" individuals of the Bible (Hebrews 11), not only got to encounter the Glory and Presence of God but also had to endure some of the loneliest and hardest lives ever written about. They all dealt with sacrifice and loss.

I wonder as Moses made His journey up the mountain to encounter God, if his heart was ever pulled back to the people--if He ever wondered if they would forget about him, if they would move on, if someone would take his place.  He was going to encounter the God of the Universe.  He was getting ready to see the glory and the presence of the very being that He was leading those people towards and yet I wonder if His earthly desires made Him question His spiritual calling.

How many times has God asked of us to pull ourselves away to meet with Him, to encounter Him in a life changing way?  So many times Christians will talk about what they left to answer to the calling of Ministry--the high paying jobs, the expensive cars, the comfortable homes BUT yet we very rarely hear about the ones that God asked to step down from their platforms of ministry, to leave their roles of leadership to spend seasons seeking God and God alone.  This calling is one of the hardest because it requires complete sacrifice and trust--It is walking through the valley and up the mountain in complete isolation and separation from all you know and wondering if you will return the same...if what you left will still be there when you return.  THAT IS ANSWERING THE CALL.  

When we are standing on the mountain top, in the presence of God and God alone--do we still sing with the same authority and passion?  When we don't know what tomorrow holds, when the comforts of yesterday are gone...when God has called us to THIS very moment...Is being in His presence enough?

This has made me re-evaluate ministry...to ask the Hard question of Who are we serving?

Walking into your calling is not pain free....it hurts, it rips at your heart, it asks of you more than you think you have to give.  Sacrifice rips you raw---it takes everything you thought you knew, everything you thought you were and it leaves you completely vulnerable and exposed.  

We must train our ear on the one who calls---the one who writes His covenant and promises on our Hearts, the one who reveals His glory to us in such a mighty way that we can never leave the mountain the same.  He who calls is faithful.  He will not forsake me.  

And so I climb the mountain of uncertainty, singing His praises at the top of my lungs.

Letting the tears of sacrifice fall onto the alter of promise.

Keeping my head up--anxiously awaiting the God who waits for me with outstretched arms...

For He is My Calling.

It is For Him that My Soul Sings.