Sleeping Giant & a Walking Beggar

At Remnant, we had the amazing honor of having some real men of God with us. The hard-core band Sleeping Giant was with us tonight. We are in our "Miracles" series and so we asked them to share their experiences of seeing God do the miraculous in their presence. It was so encouraging and faith-filling to hear the real-life stories of the God we all say is all-powerful doing the all-powerful. The guys helped with our altar call until 10p & we let students out right around 8:35p. We even had a special call for those with addictions and Jesus began the process of helping them be free tonight!!

Tonight we learned about a beggar who really needed a miracle but had friends just relegating him to his usually vice of coping with his pain. The ending of our service had people stand up on their seat to state what Miracle they really had in their heart. THAT WAS POWERFUL!! So often we walk right by the very people that God has strategically & purposelly placed us around. A GRIP of students just weren't ready to leave the spiritual & sacred night we were getting to experience.

 Remnant continues to grow spiritually and with passion towards the deeper things of God.  I pray that we don't 'hoard' these experiences, but that we share them with anyone we know or meet that needs to have it as well. If we do this, the months ahead are going to be RIDICULOUS!!
Lord, Remnant is yours, do what you will.

Miracles Part II

Remnants March series is on "Miracles." Last Tuesday we learned about what the Bible teaches us when it comes to the pursuit of a miracle. Often times, people are looking to God to 'touch' them, but we see a few times with Jesus that the people wanted to just touch the hem of His garment. The idea is that God wants to do miraculous things in our lives and sometimes they take place as 'we' reach out to touch Jesus.

The question then becomes what touches the heart of Christ in such a way that His power moves on our behalf? What are the things that touches Christ's heart and invokes His response to us? I know its not as simple as 2+2=4, but God has always responded to the cry of His people.

There is something about the passionate & trusting pursuit of Gods goodness that allows for God to dictate His response. When we really believe that the Miracle is up to Him, and that our role is to seek to touch the heart of God without an agenda, Miracles begin to take place in our hearts & lives.

Touching Him

Last night at Remnant we launched our new series "Miracles." We talked about a woman who was considered 'dirty' or unwanted by the standards of her day. She had a condition that made it impossible for her to be touched. When Jesus was touched by her, His power instantly healed her situation.

I was blown away by how Jesus didn't just restore her physically. He allowed her to have access again to a community that she was osterisized from. She was allowed back into the realm of friendship. She could be hugged.

I know a lot of people how have emotional issues that make them difficult to love. I want to introduce you to the real Jesus...He might be different than you've been told. He desires for you to want to touch Him & move His heart towards you. Just know, you will never be the same once you do.