This morning we had Staff Worship at the Ywam base with our team and the Kona team. It was early, I was tired and I really wasn’t expecting much. Which isn’t that an awful thing to show up to worship somewhere and “not expect much.” I guess that is what got to me. We should never show up to worship with the Lord our God and “not expect much.”
On the race we are reinforced to have low expectations when it comes to things. It keeps us from not getting disappointed with situations on a daily basis. It also is amazing when things exceed your expectations.
This mornings worship exceed all of my expectations!
Oddly, we don’t get to go to church that often. When we do, it usually isn’t in English, let alone has the same worship style we are used to in the states (although it has been awesome to experience worship in so many different cultures. It really opens up your eyes to how big God is and how often us Americans put God in a box). So back to worship…It was AWESOME!!! You could just feel the Spirit moving in this place. You could just hear the honest worship to the Lord that Funkie and Hya ushered in.
It was the kind of worship that brought me to tears.
But it was in a different way than I have experience in the past.
They were tears of true joy and thankfulness.
We sang Enough.
And all of You is more than enough for
All of me for every thirst and
Every need You satisfy me with Your love
And all I have in You
Is more than enough
More than I want
More than all need
More than I can say
You are more than enough for me
It moved me in a whole new way! God is more than enough for our every need and every thirst! I could sing it with confidence and this joy that I knew it in my heart of hearts and I was so thankful that is God is more than enough. It is one thing to sing it while your mind is racing about something else, but it another to grasp the amazing concept that God is more than enough for everything we are going through, have been through and will go through.
He is ENOUGH!!!!
Then we sang worthy is the lamb.
Hallelujah for our Lord God Almighty reigns!!! And I just so thankful that we have a God that reigns! A God that is Holy and Righteous and gives us so much grace. I mean if we grasp that we are signing to the Lord God Almighty who reigns it is just the coolest thing to sing directly to God and worship him! I was again just so happy that I could sing to God. With all these budah statues around I just kept thinking that I was so thankful that God could hear me and I was singing right to Him. Our God isn’t dead, he isn’t a statue, he is alive and he Reigns!
Then we sang Beautiful one I love.
Wonderful so wonderful is Your unfailing love
Your cross is spoken mercy over me
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart can fully know
How glorious, how beautiful You are
Beautiful one I love
Beautiful one I adore
Beautiful one my soul must sing
It was crazy because I just wanted to sing at the top of my lungs! I wanted to sing with all that was within me. It was awesome because I just kept thinking how awesome and thankful I was for God. And it was so happy it brought me to tears, with a huge smile on my face, and a song in my heart ♥
P.S. Happy Valentines Day!!!!
I love you all and miss you lots. Thanks for continueing to pray for me and the team. Pray that I can continue to know that the Lord is Enough for me and Enough for every need I have.
Love, Ash
(enjoy photos from an old bokah project ♥)
