Fear of the Lord

I just finished painting my nails and the only safe activity seems to be typing, so here comes another entry! I'm sitting in the kitchen listening to Andrea and Brad warming up for worship set. I love their voices together! I'm loving living with Aimee and Andrea, they're absolutely hilarious. I really hope one day I'll have a friend as close as they are. Anyways as I mentioned in my video, monday was a bit different schedule wise. In the morning we split into our outreach teams and worked on the dramas as a team. Switching around some roles and learning new ones. We totally rocked it. Dan and I do this sweet lift at the end. Ill make sure we get a picture of it. Then in the afternoon we did a video conference with Danny Lehman who is living in Hawaii with YWAM. Our lesson was about how to reach different types of people when you're doing evangelistic outreaches. Finding a common ground is always the first goal and what they previously know about the Bible. He talked about 7 different evangelistic outreach styles and how each are effective. Now yesterday and today, Gerry Fry spoke to us. Now this is one amazing 70+ man. Everything he spoke I felt the need to write down. I'm barely kidding. I feel like I just need to get a recording of the last two lessons so I can listen to it again. I feel like I'm should just write all the quotes down. Day 1 we talked about Gods glory. He said that to understand Gods glory is just to know Jesus. If we pursue Jesus we will understand God better because Jesus is Gods glory on earth. To know the glory of God we need to enter into true worship. To start this we need to acknowledge who God is in every aspect of our life and how we live. Love for Jesus is the way to worship. Iv been just reading the Word so I can better understand who Jesus is and therefor who God is. Iv been discovering new ways to pray. Its mind blowing the difference of how I pray through things and what God does. God wants to reveal his glory even more than you want to see it. Imagine that. Now on to something I am still meditating on and trying to understand. The fear of the Lord. Now true fear of the Lord is NOT being afraid of him. It is to stand in awe, knowing all he can do. "Fear the Lord, you godly people, for those who fear him will have all they need" Psalm 34:9 One things I am trying to grasp is that you must fear God more than you fear man. Iv spent a ton of time thinking about that. You need to ask God for the fear of Him. I know it sounds strange but by holding nothing back and laying it all down you can ask him to reveal the awe of what he can do. He gave us about 8 verses about the fear of the Lord. If you want them I'll give them to you. Iv been really just praying, reading and asking God to reveal it to me. We spent about an hour on the Beatitudes today. I have no idea how to sum it up. One thing that hit me was when Gerry said " To be meek is not be be weak. It is strength under control" It gave me a new out look on that. One last thing I want to touch on was that offence is one of the major things that come between relationships. When a person is offended they have built up anger and they come to a place where they are limited in their ability to love. Take away this - Offence leads to Disloyalty which leads to Betrayal. There is a lot more I could write but I need some sleep. One thing Gerry said I think we all should live by "I look at the past only as a prologue to the future. I need to look at the past to make sure that I don't make the same mistakes again but then I move on further than I did before."