If you are looking for a good message to watch or listen to check out our Seven podcast. My friend Tim Ross from The Potter's House spoke this week on temptation. Spectacular.
Lots going on. God is proving his point right now in so many different ways.
Provision. Protection. Intimacy.
I have never lived like this in all of my life. He is ordering my steps in a way that I don't ever remember experiencing before. So many incredible things. Hope all is well with all of you too.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Great Message
Posted by Preston Morrison at 10:59 PM
Monday, February 18, 2008
He Sees Dead People, I Just See Sheep
Hello to all. Figured I would give a little love to all of those still checking in regularly.
I have never gone through what I am going through right now. This is without a doubt the richest my life has ever been. I have never, ever, ever, felt this close to the Lord or my wife. It is so difficult to describe what I feel to anyone right now. It's so heavy. I love it. The best part about how I feel right now is that even though I don't want to take the energy to explain it...it just is.
God has been so faithful to speak with new revelation, giving new instructions, new relationships and new perspectives. I have dreamt about this since I was 14. No, this is so far beyond what I have dreamt of, it is supernatural. It is God.
I feel safe.
I feel intimate.
I feel loved.
I feel corrected.
I feel excited.
I feel humbled.
I feel grateful.
God is at work. He is proving a point. I have never lived this way in almost 30 years. This is the way it is meant to be.
What's crazy is that the closer you get to the Lord, the more overwhelmed you are with a burden for what He has a burden for. It never looks the way you think it will. It never turns out the way you thought it would. It never takes as little as you hoped it would. If you want to be used by God, you are going to have to die. And death sucks. But there is joy in the morning. A joy we can't understand or express. It's better than we think. It's more than we can hope for.
P.S.- If you haven't seen or heard the message on Expectations last week, go to iTunes and get it. Whether you are 26 or 62, married or single, whatever you are, I promise that message will speak to you in just about every single area of your life. It was ridiculous. It was the Lord. Sorry for the "shameless" plug, but I'm not plugging my trash...that message was just one of those that was obviously God and not this messed up moron.
God is so good. So rich in mercy and grace. So helpful in times of need. And He is so quick to overwhelm us with his richest blessings. Blessings, Preston.
Posted by Preston Morrison at 12:34 PM
Monday, February 4, 2008
New Experience
Every once in a while I have to host the weekend services. Nothing big, it just means that I have to transition after worship, introduce the guest speaker if we have one, and close the service while making any necessary announcements. I used to think this was a big deal because I got to be on stage where everyone got to see me. What an idiot. Seriously, what a moron.
Over the next two months I have to host like 7 out of 8 Sundays. When Brooke told me I immediately asked when I was doing communion. She told me it was the first week of the stretch, which was last weekend. I was ecstatic. I couldn't wait. And for a different reason than any other time previous. I already had the word the Lord have given me and I knew it would be time to share it the next time I got a chance to do communion.
I shared the Isa. 40 passage after giving the definition of worry after I asked if there was anyone worried about anything (at least two-thirds of the people). It went over really well. I think it ministered to a lot of people.
As I sat down after doing communion in the 3rd service, I saw something I can't remember the Lord ever showing me...I saw sheep. I saw sheep eating. The Lord even said there were some who weren't in the mood to eat that were eating. Now understand this, I didn't preach, I hardly even talked outside of reading the Bible. But it was from the Lord. He used me to feed. And as I sat down the Lord said, "You feed my sheep like that, like I tell you, and I will keep feeding you and you will keep feeding them." He took me to a passage for the first message of the dating/marriage series and I got revelation seeping out of my pores for the message.
The enemy comes to me and says, "You just want to be in front of people. It's not about God, it's all about you." But I read this this morning...
1 Peter 5:2
Care for the flock of God entrusted to you. Watch over it willingly, not grudgingly – not for what you will get out of it, but because you are eager to serve God.
I didn't care who heard it, who saw it, I didn't care that Pastor Robert wasn't there to "see me hit a home run". It is the very first time that I have ever done something on the weekend that there wasn't ANY crap in me about it being all about me. It was all about God, and all about his sheep.
I was more eager than words could have expressed to serve God by giving that word.
I have the best job in the world and it just keeps getting better.
Posted by Preston Morrison at 11:20 AM