Let's worship

While writing the last post, I saw that the topic of worship is absolutely linked to the last one.

I was asked a couple of times to lead worship at some places, but I always said that I don't do this kind of worship anymore. Maybe it's time to explain you why.

I'm living in a relationship with Jesus and in this relationship I want to be truely myself.

I always thought, that I truely worship Jesus through playing guitar and singing songs.

Well I still love to do that, but I haven't found a way, yet, to lead people in this new style of worship I discovered.

Jesus loves me, takes care of me. He truely made my life absolutely awesome and showed me that I don't have to worry anymore and that I can be who I truely am.

I would say that worship comes from the heart and I think that worship can take place everywhere to everytime and even can be there for a very long time and I'm talking about months or years.

Worship is the outpouring of hearts for someone. It means it can't be created, it can't be prepared.
Worship happens!

Jesus lead me through the darkest times to show me religion and finally he brought me to a true relationship.

I think that worship is brought to Jesus out of pure love that is developing through realising and believing who God is and what he has done and then the whole container overflows with love and this will happen in the way you feel it. You WILL not care about what others think, you WILL just worship.
Worship is overflow and nothing else!

You can't worship without being full with love for Jesus...
...but I can release you! You don't have to, because Jesus loved you first and always will!

It's not our duty to love and worship God!

He just said: belive in meand what I've done!

Worship happens! And it happens, the way you are.

When you are happy about Gods creation, worship is there, because you give him praise through your feelings. When you play guitar, and what ever you play, worship is there, because you do something God created you for, using your God given gifts.

Worship happens, where you are who you truely are, because that's how God made you...

...and you are made perfectly, awesome, beautiful, nice, kind... everything good you can think of.

(I think there is another topic... Identity, but that's for another post)

Truely worship is something you can't make up. It's something, that comes from inside of you true being.
Get to know and believe God and you will overfolw.

In this way... Enjoy.

Well, it's about life or death!

I recently had an amazing conversation.
It was all about believing. Living on the right side and all that stuff.
This one is for all those who have hard times to believe that the life on the bright side is the right thing to do and actually even more than this... :)

I just want to give you a picture that's quite drastic...
Think of the two sides, the Devils side and Jesus side... sounds like a lot you heared before...
But I bring this to the top of it!
You have to decide in your life where you want to be, on the dark side or on the bright side.
But here is this:

This decision shouldn't be that hard if you're looking at these two ways to live.

You can decide to live in fear, terror, pain, hard situations and just desert all the time which is the life you live in darkness. It's pure pain. It is death, the absence of happiness. It's a life that never will feel complete.

And...
You can decide to live in happiness with Christ inside of you. Jesus living right through you, as a son of God, pure and holy. Living in the state of complete forgiveness grants you the possibility to live in everlasting life.
Life is not the thing you do on this earth. Life is to live in completion, without any fear that will break you down or living in happiness that will NEVER be taken away from you.

I think you get that this decision is actually pretty easy if you look at it this way.

But how does all that happiness work?
Well, there will be no 10 point plan I will give you, it's just about beliving, trusting in the sacrifice, the grace of God and your identity you have since the day of salvation.

God is absolutely happy to be with you all the time of your life, he can't be taken away from you. The curtain, that separated us from the holy of holies, was cut after Jesus was crucified, which means the holy of holies is open for everyone, which is the presence of God.
When we start to BELIVE he turely gives the best for us, we can live without fear.
We will live a life without worries, because the one who cares about us is God, the crator of the universe.
When we believe all this and live inside of this knowledge we will get happy and worship God more and more. We will be truely happy when we truely stop looking on our dayly problems and start believing that Jesus cares and that EVERYTHING we are going through is for our best, we wil stop having headaches.

Even when we forget something, or we do something wrong, Jesus takes care of us! What a relief!!!!!!

You see, this is why I belive in Jesus and I'm already starting to ban bad thoughts and habits from my life, because I see that it's worth living in joy made by Jesus!
This joy will increase every day, get ready!

In this way... enjoy.

Art and the way we live

Hey there,
Just recently I started my studies for a creative job and for me as someone who lives with christ in an art environment, I am confronted with lots of questions.
In wich way can I live my creative lifestyle that God loves it? How should I implement my believes?

I have always been a creative person and I needed something like writing, drawing or music to express myself. I needed it to let it out. Sometimes I just wanted to draw some cool creatures or I wanted to scream in a metal band, but there was always the thought of not fitting into Gods thoughts there. I thought he wouldn't like what I'm doing.

These last weeks gave me a lot of time to think about it agiain, again and again.
I came to one interesting point... Let's look at art itself. What is the nature oft art?
Art is expression of the things we experience, that we see, dream or feel.
God is the first ever artist to me. He created it because he wanted to share and he loved us soo much and made us perfect (or does God make any failures :) ). He was and is expressing his love and joy for us through all the cool things on earth, think of these crazy skies that always change and have the most crazy formed clouds in it, or look at sparkling snow in the sun and soooo much more.
He made it for us to enjoy it or feel as well. Art makes us come alive sometimes or gives us interesting perspectives at things.

I use my art to release my fantasies, the thoughts spinning in my head, making me think too much.
All the good and bad thoughts need to be released, because I am somebody who feels the urge to share.
I don't need to necesserily show it to others, but the release comes by putting it into art form.

So my art will look the way I experience things, or the way my thoughts look like to me. It can be that you may see a picture that looks totally dark, or evil and then there is this next one totally beautiful and warm.
And there is the point where I always struggled.
Can I really draw that, what I feel like drawing right now? Can I scream because it feels right to scream it into the world to give it more power? Or is all that something evil, God doesn't like...

I thought about this quite a long time, because I always heared the thoughts about this kind of art. "Well maybe there is the devil inside..." or "Does that reflect Gods personality?"
Well I totally found out, that at this point it's not about God at all. It's about me and my feelings, experiences, thoughts. It's about my special way of living, my special way of enjoying or disliking. It's about expressing MYSELF.
I totally believe that God wants us to be real and that's why he wants us to also pour out our heart on paper, scream our loungs out to shout a message into this world or do what ever we like to do to express our innerest beeing, the point we are standing at right now.

In art, it's not about wrong or right, it's about yourself and only yourself. be authentic in your art, but of course also in your daily life, because that's what God wants from you. Don't let anyone tell you, the way you express is wrong.

I see so many people trying to be something they are not, especially in church, because we often tend to put the devil into things, that are actually amazing parts of this special perfect made individual.

I could say these next sentences a thousand times:
When the personal way of yours, to express yourself, feels natural and just flows out of you, then NEVER EVER let this be taken away from you!
Don't let others judgement change the art you bring.