True worship....

Resting in the Lord has been refreshing, filling, anointed and powerful. I went into it asking the Lord to be my source of everything I needed for the next four months of this mission and that it would always be all about Him and completely glorifying to Him. I know He has called Leigh Ann and me together for this time and it will be the most life-changing months of our lives. For so long I hid my heart from Jesus but today I feel as though it couldn’t be more open to Him. I want to go wherever and be a mouthpiece for the kingdom of God. I can’t put into words what God is doing here. The healings are coming forth, the salvations are real, the enemy has been defeated and my heart is overwhelmed with the Joy of the Lord. As I am typing, I’m listening to Hillsong United and there is an old song playing and every time I hear it, I I must to stop and worship Him. The words go like this…”your will above all else, my purpose remains. The art of losing myself, in bringing you praise. Everlasting, your light will shine when all else fades, never ending, your glory goes beyond all fame. In my heart, in my soul, I give you control. Consume me from the inside out. Let justice and praise become my embrace, to love you from the INSIDE OUT.” Many of you know this song but I want you to listen to words again and let them sink in deep. My favorite part is where we ask the Lord to consume us from the inside out. Those words are powerful and if you ask for it, be prepared for Him to do it. I have been thinking a lot about the songs we sing to the Lord. I found myself frustrated and tired one night during worship and it was hard for me to sing. I started thinking about the song that was being sung. Many of you also know “Shout to the Lord.” I was struggling with the fact that I knew every word of that song and had sung it in youth, at every student camp I have been involved with and on every mission trip I have been on, but something was stirring in me that I know the words but if I don’t really mean it from deep in my heart then it is just noise coming out of my mouth. It wasn’t at that point a sweet aroma or the true sense of worship. I want every single time I sing, dance, clap, raise my hands, speak or love to be a sweet aroma. I want Him to always be lifted up, not just because I have memorized a song but that it is real worship from my core.
I wanted to share with you what God is doing within Mission Sebenzela. We moved to a new location which is about 30 min from where we currently live at Alabanza. Steve, Teresa, Alfie, Leigh Ann, Kristy and I moved there on August 24 and would love for you guys to be in prayer as to what the future holds for this anointed place. God has already revealed that it will be a place of discipleship and growth for missionaries, a place where young people are being raised up to be kingdom minded and prepared to go out to the Nations. This place will be a place to draw from the living water, rest for the weary and refueling for the next journey. Right now, it will house us six but the Lord is preparing the way for more people to be here. Our ministry sites will still be the same but we will also be going into some other communities close to the new base as well. Leigh Ann and I will be traveling around Africa to wherever the Lord has planned for us to go. I will be updating you on our whereabouts and what God has us involved in. Both of us are still planning on flying home for Christmas on December 10. Wow. This is a lot but such goodness is in it all. I hope you are all doing great and that you are captivated by our sweet Lord.
My heart, O God, is steadfast; I will sing and make music with all my soul. Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn. I will praise you, Lord, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples. For great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth. Psalm 108:1-5