With Everything... part 2

About 5 months ago I wrote a blog called With Everything. With Everything is a song by Hillsong United (which we are all seeing in April!... I am so excited!)

It is funny.... when I wrote that last blog, it was the first time I heard With Everything. And since then I cannot stop singing it. It gets me so pumped up every time I listen to it. I just wanna run. I wanna get outside and run. I wanna run as fast as I can to Jesus. As my life verse says "My beloved, be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord because you know that your labor is not in vain." I want to run to Jesus with abandonment, like Paul did. I want to stop praying for safe things. (See Travis's blog for more thoughts about that) I want to recklessly love Jesus and love people. I want to be a bondservant of the King. With everything I have, I want to finish the race.

I want people to feel and know the love of their Maker. There is nothing better in this world. Nothing. I pray that my generation would open their hearts to God, and that they would desire that their heart beat to God's heart.

Look at the world right now? What goes through your head when you watch the news? Are you scared?

I used to be so scared of the end of the world. I used to lay in bed in fear that someone would hold a gun to my head and ask me if I beleived in Jesus, and I would say no. I was afraid I would go to hell forever if i said no. But that is not true! Because God has saved me!

But God.

But God.

"But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy has made us alive with Christ"

Jesus said "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Matthew 10:28

I am done being afraid. I am so excited for the end of the world. Because whenever it happens, I am going to see my Maker face to face. I don't care if I die as a martyer. I really don't. It is only by God's grace that He has changed my dead heart. It is only by His grace that He has taken my dead bones and breathed life into them in His Son. It is only because of Jesus that I am alive. How could I ever deny Him? Why would I ever deny Him? But I sometimes I do. Paul says in Romans 7:15-20

"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. "

This song, With Everything, is my prayer for my life, my generation, and ever single soul on this planet.


Open our hearts,
To see the things
That make Your heart cry,
To be the church
The You would desire.
Light to be seen.

Break down our pride,
And all the walls
We've built up inside,
Our earthly crowns
And all our desires,
We lay at Your feet.

So let hope rise,
And darkness tremble
In Your holy light,
And every eye will see
Jesus, our God,
Great and mighty to be praised.

God of all days,
Glorious in all of Your ways.
Your majesty, the wonder and grace,
In the light of Your name.

With everything,
With everything,
We will shout for your glory.

With everything,
With everything,
We will shout forth your praise.

Our hearts will cry
Be glorified,
Be lifted high,
Above all names.
For You our King,
With everything,
We will shout forth your praise.

Woah...

May we live like Sons and Daughters of the Most High God


JN