Hey guys! So we wanted to send out a special thanks for all of you who came out to Josh's concert while we were in NY! We raised over $600 for the Cambodian Orphanage! You guys are awesome and that will be huge for the kids! It was also just so sweet to see all of you! Josh and I never feel like we have enough time when we come for a visit because the time always just flies by! But needless to say, it was awesome!
As some of you know the past few weeks we have been in Mijas, Spain. God has a funny sense of humor sometimes when it comes to His provision, but we had been praying about taking a few weeks to go to Spain to just get some rest and get filled up. (There is this Leadership Academy here called G42 that we really wanted to come visit.) Anyways, we had it on our hearts to go, but weren't sure how we'd get there financially. So we asked God to provide if He wanted us to go too! Then someone side swiped our car, insurance decided to total it, though it still worked perfectly fine so we can still drive it, and we got a nice check in the mail that allowed us to pack our bags and head this way! So like I said, God's provision can come in funny ways… But it truly was such a blessing!
Spain is beautiful, and the teachings we have been sitting in on have been phenomenal! It all boils down to INTIMACY with the Father, but man the meat that we have been chewing on! Like right now we have been learning about the Old Covenant vs. the New Covenant, and how so many of us still live in an Old Covenant mind-set. So many of us still ask the question of "what do I have to DO for God?" or "How do i get there?" (law) vs. just BEING with Him, and out of the "who we are in that place" flows the Christ-likeness (love)! There's not a method to this.. It's just relationship! And I know that sounds so simple.. But how often we forget! Or at least I do anyways.. It's not the things we have to do; out of intimacy with Him and His presence is where we find life to the fullest. It's not about being good, it's about LOVE. And we can only love Him, because HE FIRST LOVED US!.. 1 John 4:19.. So if you're having trouble really loving Him, stop trying to love Him and let yourself come into the realization of how much HE LOVES YOU.. and then your love for Him will just gush out like streams of living waters! It's the Living Waters you guys! Are you getting this? Do you have the LIVING WATERS gushing out of you, or has that water become stagnant and started to stink? Because religion likes to creep in (Old Covenant thinking) and it stinks and brings death. So the question I want to leave you thinking about is this… Do you live in the Old Covenant mindset or the New Covenant mindset?!
