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!