I am excited about a new worship service we started called "Sunday Nite Alive." We are simply a bunch of misfits desperately seeking the presence and power of God in these days we live. Every Sunday night, there has been a powerful and healing presence of God's Spirit as we worship. Teens have been touched and parents picking up their kids have been overwhlemed by the powerful presence of God among us. I have been studying Mark 14 about the woman who breaks open expensive perfume and annoints Jesus body. She is so crazy in love with Jesus that she washes Jesus feet with her hair and essentially poured out her entire future savings in this moment of complete abandonment to Jesus.
The question is when it comes to our own discipleshp and following Jesus, how far will we go? How much are we willing to sacrifice? How bold are we willing to step out so that we too can fall so crazy in love with Jesus that we hold nothing back from him? What I am learning from this story is brokeness brings God's annointing. God loves the broken and contrite person who gives what they can not keep to receive what only God can give. God gives nothing less but Himself to us. We don't have to wait to where we feel ready or think we have to be at a certain spiritual place before we can receive from God. God is looking for broken and poured out vessels so that He can fill us completely up with His life-giving Spirit. Nothing stopped this woman from coming to Jesus so don't let anything stop you.
