Prayer.

This morning instead of typical worship time Kal had us all just pray together. We literally spent an hour in prayer, it was amazing. God brought such revelation on all that we have to be thankful for. Exploring Worship was good...every day is just so much to absorb...I honestly never knew that there really is a specific way God wants us to praise Him, & that it really has absolutely nothing to do with us. It's our responsibility to prepare our hearts for worship every day & praise Him without reservation or question. It isn't conditional on when we need help or want something from Him either...would YOU want to be loved like that?

Bible Review with Gary was awesome today as well. We've been reading Acts still, & he asked us what each of us really got out of it. For me, it's incredible how many times it says that all the believers were of one heart & mind, & that they shared everything. It's such an amazing picture of how Christ intended His church to be. I couldn't stop thinking of the new song from Flyleaf, "Beautiful Bride." THAT'S how it's supposed to look! After we each shared our revelations we spent more time in prayer, asking God to make us bold in the Gospel the way Paul & Peter were. So many times we think we need to baby people when we're sharing the Gospel with them, like we don't want to hurt their feelings or make them mad. Did Paul & Peter care what people thought? HOW many times were they thrown in jail? Haha. During prayer time God just kept telling me, "KTF, KTF, KTF," over & over & over. I think I'm supposed to use Mr. Geissler's example in some way...I'll have to spend a bit more time praying for clarity about how...but it should be interesting.

Keyboarding was...okay. On one hand I'm completely bored in that class because I've learned this stuff already, but I'm SO out of practice that it's still a bit of a challenge. A good balance I suppose. My team actually LED worship this afternoon...that was a bit scary. I think I did okay though...it's just hard to focus on the music as well as being in a completely abandoned state of worship. But I'm sure it will come over time. I feel like I did pretty well for my first time on stage with a band, actually in front of people. It felt good anyway. The improv was kind of hard, but the more confident I got the better I sounded, I think. It was great.

Homegroup tonight...we're listening to JL's teaching on the Shield of Faith. After hearing the teaching on the Sword of the Spirit I'm pretty excited for this one. Should be good.