A Prayer... and Some Encouragement.

I have been feeling so dry lately, and I'm not even sure why. It's distressing to read the Bible and not get any inspiration from it. Oh how I want a fresh outpouring of God's Spirit on my heart and life.

Oh Lord, pour Your Rivers of Living Water through me. Use me to bless others. Forgive me for my sins, create a clean heart in me, restore the joy of my Salvation to me. For Your Name's sake, Lord! I will praise You, oh Lord, for Your wonderful works to the children of men. I will exalt You, oh my God, for You are great, awe-inspiring, majestic and holy; and You alone are worthy of exaltation and praise and honor and worship and glory forever and ever, AMEN! Father God, Your Glory is inconceivable... You dwell in unapproachable light! Your Power and Majesty and Holiness are fearsome, and Your Love and Mercy and Patience are infinite and unfathomable!

Oh, how great is the depth of the riches of Christ Jesus our Lord, through whom we have become partakers of those riches of His Glory! Praise the King Eternal for His loving kindness which He has shown toward us in making us children, friends, even brothers, and has made us fellow heirs together with Him! Praise Him!

The Greatness of God

I don't think we truly grasp how great and HUGE and awe-inspiring our God is! Sometimes we do get a little bit bigger picture of God, though, and it totally blows us away. Like the sermon I watched recently by Louie Giglio, "How Great is Our God". I watched it at a young adult retreat I went to, over Labor Day weekend, hosted by Don and Vickie Howe. As Don Howe was giving the introduction to the DVD, he was talking about how powerful it was and how, after his family got done watching it for the first time, they sat in complete silence for about 30 minutes, unable to say anything. At first I thought maybe he was talking about the presentation from the planetarium at the Creation Museum, and was kind of smiling to myself at having already seen it. Then they played the DVD. After it was finished, the WHOLE ROOM was silent for a long time. I don't know about anyone else (it didn't seem to matter that there was anyone else), but there were tears running down my cheeks as I watched the DVD, and I found myself weeping and on my face before the Lord as soon as I could get away from the others. Never in my life have I been so affected by a sermon or movie as with that one. I think everyone needs to see it.

In this DVD, Mr. Giglio talks about some of the stars that they have found out there... massive, huge, gigantic flaming orbs that boggle the mind with their size. And to think that all the stars, from the biggest to the smallest, were created by our vast, infinite God! Giglio mentions a verse that says something to the effect that God breathed the stars into existence. Imagine... God is so huge He simply breathes these unbelievably enormous balls of fire into space exactly where He wants them! We serve a great and awesome God!