I just returned from an amazing night of prayer, worship, and fellowship with hundreds of college students from the Twin Cities Metro area. My heart is bursting with love, joy, questions, excitement, contentment, pleas to the Lord, anticipation...the list could go on and on. The Lords presence was so evident in that place tonight. As I sat next to some of my dearest friends in the world--my amazing sisters and brothers in Christ--I looked around the arena and saw so many faces of people that I did not know, but who I loved anyway. I was blown away by Christ's family. Each person in that room was a daughter or son of the Father. Each one of them was dearly loved. God has called each one of them to a specific purpose and can use them in powerful ways.
As I considered God's family, it gave me such excitement!! Seeing so many believers gathered in one place, worshipping and praying to the Lord gave me a such a strong desire: to add to the gathering. To share God's love with EVERYONE. I closed my eyes and imagined a sea of people as far as the eye could see. People of all ages from every corner of the globe. Each one lifting up the name of Jesus, each one joyful and thankful to be a part of the family of God! I pray that God will use each and every person who was at the gathering tonight to reach out to those around them, to go to where the Lord is sending them, and to share His love, to add to Christ's family.
God loves us richly. He holds us in an incomparable embrace.
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!- 1 John 3:1
I agree with all of this! At one point, I also imagined a similar sea of people. I kept thinking about the Bema seat. I was just sitting there imagining (actually, unable to imagine) all the believers past and present together in heaven. And thinking about heaven, it just hit me that worship in heaven will be a bajillion times better than even the most intense moments of worship we can experience here because we'll be SO MUCH closer to God! HOW AWESOME IS THAT?!?!?
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