Tribe of Judah

I listened to these very funny/powerful/hilarious/awesome sermons and it changed my whole walk with Christ.

Its a six, count them six part sermon about EMBRACING GRACE. 6 hours of grace. Youth Pastor Judah Smith preaches about why youth today are not embracing grace, and how you should react to the Lords grace.

Here are the links:

When grace runs at you
http://generationchurch.org/download.php?file=gca08-01-172.mp3

When grace hugs you
http://generationchurch.org/download.php?file=gca08-01-312.mp3

When grace kisses you
http://generationchurch.org/download.php?file=gca08-02-062.mp3

A robe, a ring and Reebok's
http://generationchurch.org/download.php?file=gca08-02-142.mp3

What Do You Do When Favor Finds Your Friend Next To You?
http://generationchurch.org/download.php?file=gca08-02-203.mp3

Carried To The Table
http://generationchurch.org/download.php?file=gca08-02-282.mp3

Pastor Judah Smith will also be preaching at Hillsong Conference 2008. Getting pumped?

so moving on to the next best thing... ta-dah

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The Glory of the Living God...

Last night, a group of brothers and sisters came together to pray. We had no other agenda but to pray and to welcome the Holy Spirit to move in the place as He pleases.

We began by praying in tongues. A few of us led in prayers and welcomed the Holy Spirit to speak through us and intercede as He pleases. Very soon, we began to quieten down as we rested and stayed still in our Lord's presence. After a while, we all began to pray in tongues again and began to pray loudly and with tears flowing down our faces.

What followed was a stream of the Lord's Almighty presence which swept over the room. I will let the other brothers and sisters share their experiences with you. I will share with you my experiences.

During the gathering, Anne spoke particualr words over different people. She also spoke particular words over my life, and I found them to be truly amazing. In response to what God had said through Anne, I knelt down before God and spoke in my heart and audibly to myself (I spoke wholeheartedly with every part of my being focused on what I was about to say with willingness, obedience and full submission to the Lord), I said that I am here to be Your hands and Your feet O Lord. I am here to serve all people. Whether they be big things or small things, I would be here to serve the Living God and His people. I thanked the Lord and opened my heart and life to God to be used by God.

As I knelt down to pray this prayer, I felt that my whole body was extending and protruding so that my arms and legs were stretched. As I did this, I felt a strong heaviness press down upon my whole body. My face was pressed onto the floor with my nose squished onto the carpet. My arms, legs, chest, stomach, just my whole body was pressed down heavily. I could not move. I layed pressed onto the ground experiencing the weight, heaviness and the glory of the living God. I stayed in this position for a long time. I don't exactly know when I began to lay there (I think it was about 11:00pm, but need to check with the others who were in the room to confirm). I was only able to get up at about 12:34am.

During the time I was on the floor, I tried a few times to get up. With all my strength, I would try and lift myself up from the floor. But it was no use, none of my body could be lifted. It was like I was glued to the floor, with a really really really heavy weight placed above me. I could only move my head slightly to turn my head from left to right and face down to change the position of my head. Eventually, at about 12:20am, my feet and ankle were able to move. And then slowly and gradually, different parts of my body were able to move. First my feet, then my lower leg, then my hands, then my arms, then my whole leg, and eventually my chest, stomach (centre part of my body) was able to move again. I then tried to stand up, but the weight was still there. I tried to stand up to my feet with all my strength, but it was no use. So I sat there a little longer until I could stand up.

Wow, our God is truly amazing. Truly, truly amazing!!! I really do not know what to say. He is a real and living God. Quite often, we can use words to describe our experiences and feelings, but when it comes to expressing our experiences in God, we are limited in our vocabulary. Praise the Lord for His glory and His power and His grace. He is truly amazing.

God Bless everyone!

Where to begin...

I can begin by saying what is at the heart of this message...
My Greatest Love is You...

There are songs and words that can express love; there are actions and thoughts that can express love. But all these don't really mean much when you cannot express this love to someone or something. To whom or to what is the 'object' of love that you are bringing to?

A thought came to my mind one day when I was going about my daily work. I was thinking, the worship songs that we sing and play music to unto the Lord may seem quite strange to someone who does not know who we are actually singing the songs to. I mean lyrics like...

'I worship you'; 'There is none like you'; 'I'm hungry for you'; 'Lover of my soul'; 'Deeper in love with You'; 'to feel Your heart and know Your mind, looking in Your eyes stirs up within me'..

I remember when I first went to Church in 2004, (I went because a lot of my high school friends went as well) it came to the time of worship. I would sing along with the songs, but whenever it came to words such as 'God', 'Jesus', 'Spirit', 'Son of God', I would be silent and not sing until those words were skipped over. I did not know who Jesus and God was, and I did not see why I need or should sing songs to them and say that I love them and cannot live without them. I thought stubbornly to myself, I am not going to sing those words.

You see, the same worship song that we sing can lose its significance and purpose when we do not know why and to who we are singing it to. If we do not know the 'object' to whom we are singing to and for, then the song will be quite empty, with just words and melody.

Who is your greatest love? Do you know why you sing the song that you sing when you worship? Do you know to who you are singing the song to? Are you just singing with words from your mouth, or are you pouring out your heart as you sing each word and play each note. That each note or each word that you sing is your heart's expression to the love that you have for the person that you are singing to.

We really have received such a wonderful gift and it is really by God's grace and His love for us that we can worship to someone who we know personally and have experienced in our life. As God has kindly and graciously revealed Himself to us, we can now worship and sing with the revelation of to who and why we worship.

Let us reveal this Person who loves us so dearly to those who are around us. This person who loves us so much that He died in our place. That though He was pure, blameless, just, and holy in every way, yet He took all our uncleanliness and infirmities and transgressions upon Himself for us that we may become clean, righteous, and pure. This Person who saves and heals is waiting for you to reveal Him to others around you. Let us share this wonderful gift to the people who are around us.

My Greatest Love is You... Jesus

I would like to share the following song with all of you. The song is called, 'My Greatest Love is You.' It really touched my heart immensely when I was worshipping with this song. I could not stop crying. I only have the lyrics here with me. If you would like to listen to the song, feel free to tap me on the shoulder and I will sing this song to you personally :-) God Bless everyone!