This School Rocks

Yea, yea, I know....I'm biased....but it's still true; this school rocks. This first year class of 7 is a complete pleasure to teach and lead. Thank you FSoM! I am completely proud to be your spiritual father. Pastor Randy Dean

Repentance in it's purest form

I have been waiting all of my 24 years of not being an overcomer in my christian walk to hear a message on repentance that would require change! To repent beyond an overcoming lifestyle.

I used to say, " if I do not hear a minister stand up and cry for repentance I do not know what I will do" I did not know what the message was but I knew desperately I needed it!

I started getting thrown into treatment at a very young age 12 or 13 years old. I remember thinking if I need to stop using just to be a "good girl" it's not enough.

I've in some ways carried that thought process into my christian walk.

This principle of repenting to the fullfillment of not just an overcoming lifesyle for myself and others but repenting all the way to recieve the full destiny and see the destiny of others come to pass as we pull the whole deal of The Kingdom of Heaven to this earth!

In prayer before service we were crying out for the real deal God we want the real thing here God "what is it going to take" we want your fire to fall like never before in history God. We want the real drink served here. Give us new wine skins for the new wine God. Touch your people in this place...show us how you want us to pray God...

Our prayers were answered, "Pastor Randy is moving into incredible boldness and is so incredibly transparent and real, we love him!" We will stand behind him in prayer!

As I was saying our prayers were answered, we have a new revelation that the Holy Spirit can now use to direct us in prayer, to repent into what God has for this place and the people in this place to never stop repenting we are going all the way with you God, there is no other!!!

Iv'e heard it said before to live a life of victory you need to live a life of repentance. If your mind like mine was defining repentance just to be a good girl or a good boy, you know then that just was not enough. Then Iv'e heard it said also to repent is to change your mind and go another direction but if your mind is not changed about repentance and you do not get the revelation of repenting into your destiny, your mind will never be changed to go another direction. Wow!

How incredibly wonderful is the word of God, our Father, the work of Jesus Christ, the precious Holy Spirit and the manifestation of the Sons of God!!!

Thoughts about Daddy God

So this weekend I went home to say goodbye to my dad as he left for a Job with the government and not knowing how long he'd be gone, but knowing that the next time I'd be seeing him is at my wedding in November.

But one thing that we did was all of us at his goodbye party went around to say one thing that we appreciated about him. We don't have to wait for someone to die or for someone to leave in order for us to tell them how we feel about them. In fact we should be doing this regularily as the body of Christ. We all said differnt things, some said how they appreciated how my dad would drop everything and selflessly go to help with all things. Others were thankful for the ways that he encouraged those around him. Some who weren't family, were blessed by how he'd raised his children to be people of God.

And as I was in worship this morning I was thinking about the very same thing with our Daddy God. There are things I so appreciate about my Daddy in Heaven.

Here are some of those:

I appreciate that He doesn't rule us with an iron fist or with a sword, but He rules over us with love.

I appreciate how He picks me up time after time, when I fall, or am in need of His grace

I love how He loves me with out condition, or without need, he just does.

I love that He provides for my every need.

I love that He gives of himself without us deserving any of His love, but still He gives it.

I appreciate how He speaks to me, showing me time and time again that He loves me.

I love the example that He sets for us in His son Jesus. The example of what a good husband, father, mother, and child looks like.

I am eternally grateful for how He sent Jesus to die so that I might live, and share His kingdom with others.

I have so much to be thankful for. Should there be a limit to our thankfulness?
I think about the message we heard at church about the 10th leper who returned to show his thankfulness to Jesus. Yes Jesus had sent the 10 away to show themselves to the preist. but only one returned to the True High Preist to give the thank offering to a God who deserved his thankfulness.

Lord may our lives be like this leper, who having nothing, yet gained everything, only to lay it down again at the The Preist's feet. I want to be that Human tithe, I want to be the life expended for the Kingdom's expansion. Thank you Lord for revelation, In Jesus' Holy Name!

Just some thoughts to share...

• Every once in a while, History delivers up a violent one. One who will by force, change the status quo. One who defies the cultural norm. We see Michelagelo who worked as if unto God. We see the early Greeks who put into motion the spirit of democracy. An Idea by which we still live.

• I want to take you on a journey back into time. A time where life was quite a bit different than what we have come to know and expect. A life where people of many differing backgrounds would come together, and actually live together. In the days of these ancients were ideas and ideals that spoke to the human as a whole. It was in these days that men (philosophers) like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle would break the everyday mundane with thought that provoked the entire history of mankind into new ideas and ways of thinking. Many of these early ideas haven’t changed over the centuries. This ancient world was a world where families would live all together communally, with extended families and good friends all sharing the entire home as their own. It was commonplace for homes to have a large central courtyard where they could gather to drink and discuss issues of the day. It was in these courtyards that we see a violent one, Jesus talking and eating with men like Zacheus, it was in this type of setting that he was invited to heal the Rabbis dead or dying daughter. There wasn’t a sense of this is mine and you aren’t entitle to it. Nearly everywhere was considered a public space, except the inner part of the synagogue. For here you couldn’t enter as an unclean person. It was this idea that caused the man to stay at the sheep gate outside Solomons temple. It was this idea that caused early church leaders to drag a woman from her home, naked, and ashamed. It was this idea that a violent one came to change. This violent one named Jesus. The bible says that the kingdom of God suffers violence. What really does this mean? Does it mean that the enemy of our soul is acting violently on the Kingdom, or does it mean that other such violent ones are pummeling the walls of the kingdom to gain access to its contents? I suspect both, however it is my goal to inflict a holy violence on the treasure that God has entrusted us with. This is the violence in which Christ operates out of, a sense that if He doesn’t move, doesn’t bring about change, doesn’t transform lives than he hasn’t real purpose. You see people all fight to have purpose; we fight to scratch out our identity. We want to be valued and be valuable. We want to show the world how important we are. If not the whole world, certainly the world around us. An example of this can be seen in King Louis XVI, who wanted to be known as the “sun king” or Napoleon who wanted to be known as “The Holy Roman Emporer”. I ask what is it that you want to be known by? By what name do you find your value and your valor? There is no more a valuable name than the very name of “Jesus” or “Jeshua”. The very worth of this name contains a violence that devastates the untouchable places within us, within our souls. This one beautifully violent name, commands water to be silent, to become solid. He commands fish and loaves to be multiplied. This violent one turns the very notions of society completely on their heads. He isn’t interested in what we have come to know as political correctness, rather he seeks to inflict an entirely different set of values on the human race. The value of “Son-ship” to a “King”, the one and only King and Creator. There is no other violent one who has had such a violent impact on the gates of the kingdom since Jesus.

It's official!

Well it's officially started! The Firebrand School of Ministry is here and now we've been through almost two weeks of classes.

it's been an amazing journey since God originally gave the idea and concept to us a few months ago. But its here and we're expecting God to move in HUGE ways!

For more information about our school please visit the church's website at http://www.lwc1.com/ or check back here for more posts to follow!