Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The Wales Team

This is a video that we sent to the church in Wales that we are working with so the could have a little insight into our team, check it out!

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Sons and Daughters


I am constantly in awe of God. The way He orchestrates our lives blows my mind. My paradigm has been so drastically shifted over the past couple of years. I always knew that the bible says that God loves us and we are children, but only in the past year or so have I truly been able wrap my mind around the fact that I am not an orphan in God’s family. I am adopted as a son! I don’t have to beg God for anything! Yes I have to make my requests known to Him, but I don’t have to beg! I actually make my requests known to Him with thanksgiving, because I know He will answer me with the best response for my life. He is a perfect Father who never makes any wrong moves. He never messes up. He always makes the right decisions concerning my life. Even when I screw everything up, He has the ability to redeem and restore all things! Contrary to a lot of false thinking we have sometimes, God is actually for us, not against us! He is not out to make our life difficult. We have to get out of the orphan mindset, and step into the reality that we are sons and daughters of God!!!!! Seeing as how we are sons and daughters, God provides for us in extravagant ways because we are His children. I have some exciting news about our outreach! I am going to make a video this week with some new details that we received today! I will post the video within the next couple of days!

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Wrecked by His Love...

It is hard for me at times to sit down and put into words all that God is revealing and doing with me right now. His love and grace have been penetrating the depths of my heart these past two years. He continues to reveal His love more and more. This past month has been full of spending time receiving His grace. I have been recollecting memories of my time spent at Teen Challenge. The more I think about my time there, the more I see God's grace at work. He met me exactly where I was at, I didn't have to get all cleaned up before He encountered me. I began to learn that I don't meet Him by striving to do all these certain requirements and rituals, but simply by receiving His love for me. Over the past month I am seeing more clearly that I cannot attain righteousness in and of myself. I am righteous because of what Jesus accomplished through the cross, plain and simple. So instead of striving to be perfect, I begin to take God at His word and start viewing myself as He views me. I begin to read the book of Ephesians and start believing who I am in Christ. Like Paul says in 2 Corinthians, I begin to boast in my weakness because that is when His power is perfected. His grace is sufficient! I think as Christians we sometimes get things backwards. While we were still sinners, Jesus died for us (Rom. 5:8).  God's love for us compelled Him to send His son to die for us while were dead in our sins! Why would we think that once we respond to His love that He would all of the sudden become angry at us? Jesus made a way for us to be reconciled to God, not to push us away. He wants us to receive His love! He sings over us with shouts of joy (Zephaniah 3:17)! His countenance shines upon us! When we receive His love as sons and daughters, our heart becomes revived! When revival in our heart takes place, the world can not stop us! A group of people who carry revival in there hearts are bound to release it into the earth! His glory begins to leak out of us on people everywhere we go! We are so excited to carry this simple truth of God's love to the nations. Just like Jeremiah, we have a fire shut up in our bones that we can not contain any longer! It has to be released, people have to encounter the love of Jesus! My outreach team leaves in just under 4 weeks to head to the UK. Our team still needs around $36,000 to meet the budget. We are believing God for it and know that He will provide. If you feel led to partner with us financially please email me at znash22@gmail.com. God is moving in mighty ways across the earth and we are so excited to be a part of it!