houseparty 2005 woowoo

pheeww, what a weekend. I'm too tired to function. But CU weekends away rock. And ours certianly did becuase God did the rocking!

The Greatness of God. Did you know that there're over 70 sextillion (thats like billion or million but 7 of them) stars that we know of in the universe. Yet God has called them out by name? (Isaiah 40)

Did you know that theres 136 million square miles of water (i think...) in the earth's oceans yet God holds all the waters in the hollow of his hand?

Greatness demands a response. Awe and wonder. Falling on our knees in worship. And changed lives.

It was hard work pastorally this weekend and I'm so drained, now i need someone to listen to me. But I'm so encouraged by the freshers and what God's doing.

We praised God HARD with 3 guitars, keys and a jambre...and there were only 17 at the weekend! We lifted our voices, we lifted our hands, we fell on our knees. We shouted out praise, we cried, we offered our lives.

We accepted the call to be an army in Goldsmiths. We shouted out our prayers and our heart's cries for Goldsmiths and our friends. I led a seminar on evangelism and we got caught up in the Sacred Romance and became afraid for the destiny of our friends and their need for Jesus. We walked our mind's eyes round Goldsmiths watching the blood of Jesus wash round the coridoors and the cross erected in the courtyard. We proclaimed there was no other name but the name of Jesus. Above every philosophy and every feeble excuse in comparison with Almighty God. And we saw on the backfield the whole of college praising God. And we pleaded that this be so.

We couldn't stop praising God this weekend and now the rubber hits the road. May those new CU members who've for the first time committted to this vision for Goldsmiths, for their part as an ambassador, a warrior be steadfast and unmoved.
May we fix our eyes on the Almighty God.