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FAF ---> Friggin Awesome Friday
Posted by Brody
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4:46 AM
So, I just needed to let everyone know just how awesome today was. I got to go to a Shawn Mullins concert tonight. It was a little acoustic setup with just him and his guitar. (If you don't know who Shawn Mullins is, then just think about the song "Rockaby"(Every thing is gonna be alright, rockaby). Yea, that's this guy. So anyway, I just kicked back and listened to some of his music that I love. Beggs went with me and we had a good time pounding back the H2O on the rocks. David Koon, the lead singer from the Dave Matthews Cover Band was one of the opening acts as well. It enthralls me to listen to singers that sing about character based stories in their songs. It just puts everything into place about what is going on in the singer's mind. It was just an awesome concert.
So we leave there and we go over to the Promised Land where I proceed to laugh for about 3 hours straight. The randomocity that developed during the guitar singing sessions was hilarious. My stomach still aches. This continues on for about an hour and out of nowhere Nick wants to talk about how we were blessed today by God.
It was absolutely amazing.
Just the initiative that it takes to jump that gap between our social good times and our God awesome times was incredible. When your are laughing and having a good times we often think that there is no good way to jump into a God-talk. Tonight completely disproved that theory. We jumped clear across a quarry of worldliness into our God and His indescribable character. Several of the attendees took turns just talking about what has happened this week that has been a blessing from God and how it has changed them. And then we prayed about our lives and how we want to live them for Him and then we proceeded to break into songs of praise to our Lord as Steve played the guitar. That totally blew me off of my feet. To sit and be a part of a group of Christ lovers totally delve into a random act of worship without plans or preparations and know that God intended that night for each of us to fully experience who He is and what He offers us in return for the giving of our lives to Him.
This went on until 4 in the morning and it was so amazing to just feel God there...Because He was there...and we were listening.
That leads me to this. Excuses about the awkwardocity of turning a conversation into a Godversation are no longer valid. If God created us and God is with us and God wants a relationship with us, then it is our duty to make everything about God. Nick said it well tonight when he talked about "our daily bread"...not our weekly bread, or our Sunday bread...daily. That means that God doesn't need for you to try and fit Him into all of your conversations. That means that God needs to be your conversations, and everything that you do fits into Him.
I am blessed.
So we leave there and we go over to the Promised Land where I proceed to laugh for about 3 hours straight. The randomocity that developed during the guitar singing sessions was hilarious. My stomach still aches. This continues on for about an hour and out of nowhere Nick wants to talk about how we were blessed today by God.
It was absolutely amazing.
Just the initiative that it takes to jump that gap between our social good times and our God awesome times was incredible. When your are laughing and having a good times we often think that there is no good way to jump into a God-talk. Tonight completely disproved that theory. We jumped clear across a quarry of worldliness into our God and His indescribable character. Several of the attendees took turns just talking about what has happened this week that has been a blessing from God and how it has changed them. And then we prayed about our lives and how we want to live them for Him and then we proceeded to break into songs of praise to our Lord as Steve played the guitar. That totally blew me off of my feet. To sit and be a part of a group of Christ lovers totally delve into a random act of worship without plans or preparations and know that God intended that night for each of us to fully experience who He is and what He offers us in return for the giving of our lives to Him.
This went on until 4 in the morning and it was so amazing to just feel God there...Because He was there...and we were listening.
That leads me to this. Excuses about the awkwardocity of turning a conversation into a Godversation are no longer valid. If God created us and God is with us and God wants a relationship with us, then it is our duty to make everything about God. Nick said it well tonight when he talked about "our daily bread"...not our weekly bread, or our Sunday bread...daily. That means that God doesn't need for you to try and fit Him into all of your conversations. That means that God needs to be your conversations, and everything that you do fits into Him.
I am blessed.