"You're in for a Change"

Tonite, i had the blessing of playing with my boy Chase at his home church in the Gump. Apparently, they have been in need of a bass player so i told him id help out all i could. The pastor apparently really likes the bass (i think he's plays too) and therefore, he likes anyone who is willing to come play bass for his church. After the last song, he introduced me and announced to the entire congregation how happy he was to finally have a bass player! "Praise Jesus!" Followed shortly after (they are very much a talkative/responsive bunch of folk). I was a bit surprised he did the unnecessary announcement/introduction...this was a little awkward for me for two reasons... #1 i don't like the spotlite to be on me at anytime while in a worship setting for any reason, #2 It really caught me off guard! Anyway, he carried on for a few more minutes and i kinda tuned him out (i know, im a horrible person) then, he got serious and i recovered my lost of attention. He said prophetically, "Zach, you are in for a change, the Lord is gonna move inside you and change you!"Now, i know its nothing huge or life altering, but there was a lot of truth in those pastor's words to me. That pretty much sums up the past few weeks of my life since i decided to change my major. Total prospective from the Lord has come upon me in many areas of my life. He's so faithful to reveal Himself in the midst of change or to me, in this case. Just hearing this pastor say those simple words meant soo much to me, filled with encouragement, it was all i could do to thank Father. Thank Him for reminding me that i don't have to have it all together for Him to work in and through me for His good purpose! He's so quick to show himself when we least expect it or deserve it. Revealing that He is the author and giver of my life... of our lives and He will see to it that His good and perfect plan is carried out until completion in each of our lives. Father, i love that You are bigger than a time span, bigger than our hopes and dreams, bigger than our futures, bigger than our sin that so easily entangles us, thankful that You hold the scissors to cut us out of the mess we make in the entanglement (ha!). May You only continue to fascinate us. Will you keep in us a fearful reverence of our salvation... may we never get "tired" or comfortable with this person called Jesus. Risk and faith & love be the words in our hearts.

-Amazed-
ZEB

Holy Ambition...

Father, you never cease to amaze me... im still processing everything you did tonite in me and in the encounter community and its real late. I've weighed the options, counted the costs and its boils down to enternal life full of unending Worship. Holy Ambition, that's what i kept on hearing then only to speak it out repeatedly as the band played their last few songs. You are giving me incredible perspective since this whole major change has gone down. PreVet to Mass Communications was huge a change... yet, im so thankful that You are unchanging and You knew right where You were taking me... You are in hard pursuit of my fresh and a little sad outlook on life, finally away from the stressful sciences courses. School is now manageable and an easier source of joy for me... because of this change, you have allowed me to see deeper into your vastness and simply say "Yes" to You. "Yes" to your call to understand this phrase "Holy Ambition," Your heart for the nations is the source of this heavenly call on my life. You are jealous for your glory and worship, none other can share in it or steal it from You.. "One day every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord." This "holy ambition" You are calling me to... us as the Encounter community, us as the body of Christ... anyone who calls you Savior is such a complexly simple lifegoal. If our heart's long to see your Renown and Salvation worldwide, if we wake with this desire every morning and choose to say "Yes" to You, our lives radically become bigger than ourselves... basically; Zach, the Encounter community, Christians round the world, loose themselves in a "Holy Ambition" that is totally and undeniably selfless. The unreachable are reached, the unpreachable are preached to, the closed nations suddenly proclaim the eternal goodness of Christ! Our sin some how loses its power and we finally understand that it has already TRULY been defeated and paid for. Lots of Jesus and a heart that screams for Him has little room to allow sin and/or the Devil to play. A perspective for the Nations... the source for this perspective - Jesus, the one that can prepare and equip you to carry out this perspective - Jesus. Do you see it? Do you want to see it? Christ's ministry was all about people and loving them selflessly, whose foreign hearts does the Lord what you to love and be burdened for?

"Here am i send me!"

Saying "Yes" and searching for more "Holy Ambition,"

-ZEB-

I AM

And what does this great I AM say of Himself? He says to you and me: "i am the way, the truth, and i am the life. i am resurrection and the life. i am Savior. i am Jesus- the solution, the restorer, the builder, the answer, the Wise One, the Coming One, the Mighty One. i am the Lord and there is no other. i am God and there is none besides Me. i am the First and the Last. i am alpha and omega. i am the Beginning and the End. i am the Lord, that is my name, and i will not give My glory to another, or any of My praise to idols. I AM THAT I AM, and that is My name- My memorial name to every generation."

-Louie G-

Blessings,