Consuming Fire

Yesterday, worship was great. It's always great, for me anyway. It's what I love most! It's such a sweet way of communicating with our King. For Offertory, we lead the congregation in the song Fire Fall Down... SO GOOD. and before be began, I read from Hebrews 12, one of my favorite passages.


Hebrews 12:22-24, 28-29


²²But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, ²³to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, ²⁴to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.


²⁸Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, ²⁹for our "God is a consuming fire."




I love it. I'm in awe. Everyday I'm in awe. This is how MY God pursues me. Worship... Words... lifting voices as one body. The bride of Christ. :)

My About Me Blurb.

I am Catherine Elizabeth. Pure and Consecrated to God. Redeemed and renewed, I am a child of the most High King. I will spend eternity celebrating my Father and all he has created. I am a sinner, washed clean by the blood of Jesus Christ, spilled by those he came to save. I am perpetually flawed by my sin. I am imperfect, arrogant, selfish and lazy. I seek the approval of others first, before my God. I am a controller, seeking to make every situation better. I am living in the illusion that I can control my life and that what I do defines who I am though nothing I am capable of doing will cause my Maker to love me more or love me less. I am more messed up than I think I am and I am more loved than I will ever know. I am a recipient of the love everlasting, seized by the power of a great affection and loved more by my maker than anyone else will ever love me. I am a masterpiece, a diamond being polished and cut to show its greatest beauty, clarity and color. I am a servant, honored to rest at the feet of The Sovereign Lord. Humbled by the compassionate heart of God and rescued by the perfect bridegroom. My Father reigns over all and rules over all. My Daddy is the All Powerful creator of the universe, who loves me and finds great delight in my heart. My Abba is my King, whom I revere, love, respect and bow to. I am a light, a lamp filled with the oil of the Holy Spirit who speaks to me and through me. I am a vessel, given the task of protecting, guarding and growing the source of my Father's joy: The heart, mind and soul of his broken, yet beautiful daughter. I am a voice that sings with the hosts and multitudes in the sky. I am called to worship, made to worship and therefore I will worship with all my being.

Hallelujah

Hello my few followers. haha. This blog is really just for me to get my thoughts out, although I do enjoy sharing with you about how God is working in my life and the lives of those around me. :)

Happy Hump day. Yes, Wednesday. Tomorrow marks the second half of the week. I love Thursdays. I also love Sundays. I also love Saturdays. And it appears that right now, I love short sentences.

I've been working on a song lately simply about the word hallelujah. I was listening to the song "Praise to the Lord Almighty" but the version sung by Christy Nockels. I thought to myself, we sing the word Hallelujah over and over, what does it mean? Without really trying to figure it out, I googled it. (I love that google is a verb now.)   Is means Praise Yaweh. I love that. It is derived from the word hebrew word 'Hallel' (I'm not sure if I got the spelling right) That's the word that I'm looking forward to getting tatooed on my wrist. I just haven't gotten around to it. Anyway, hallel means, among other things 'rejoice' and the definition of rejoice is 'to spin about wildly'. That gives me such an incredible mental picture of the joy that our creator has for us. I have this picture in my mind because he [our God] 'rejoices over you with singing!' Just think. The creator of the universe and the Almighty beginning and end of all things sings and dances around simply because of the joy just one of us brings him.  What a love story.

So many times I remind myself of this picture. I have to. I know the truth, I know in my head that I am far more loved than I will ever know. Yet I feel like I have to prove to people (mainly my dad and family) that I am enough. I feel that way because I, for some reason cannot rest in the security of my God's intimate and perpetual love for me. He accepts me. I must truly believe that before I can be okay with who I am without the acceptance and approval from other people. Until then, I try to prove myself. That's really tiring and unnecessary.

Oh and here's another update. I've decided that instead of going into advertising, I feel like God's calling me to be a Lead Worshipper. More commonly known as Worship Leader. lol. I like the other better though. It's more of how I perceive it. :) To support myself until I find the place where God wants me, I will continue with advertising. I've also decided to attend seminary. I'm so excited about this I can barely stand it! I'm planning on going to Metro Atlanta Seminary. It's a fraction of the cost of other seminaries and I've been told still GREAT education. I've heard amazing things about RTS, but for now, I'm going with Metro. Then, perhaps in the future, I'll get another degree at RTS, if necessary.