Can’t sit still

Posted by adamlepp in Identity, Life

I have to admit, I’m excited.

very excited.

For a while now, the prophecies have been talking about a great revival.  But everyone of them, up until recently included the word soon.  As in, not now.  We are crossing from soon to now though.  A generation has been rising up for some time now, taking their place, standing on the giants that came before them.  Waiting, watching, seeking, learning, trying. Read More…

My name is David

Posted by adamlepp in Identity, Questions

I’m noticing an increasingly scary trend in the church.  To put it simply – it goes like this:  more and more of God’s people no longer know who they are.  For some reason, many in the church believe the Kingdom of God is something that we enter when we die. In reality – we enter into the Kingdom of God the second we start to follow Jesus.  Every once in a while, I’ll run into a group of people that can accept that, except then they act like (and believe they are just) peasants in this so called kingdom.

To follow Christ is to step in who God created us to be.  Guess what, to follow Christ is to step into sonship (and daughtership).  If our father is the King – doesn’t that mean we are princes and princesses?  Doesn’t that make us coheirs to the throne?  Doesn’t that make us a lot more than just peasants?  I’ll let you chew on that for a bit, but for now – I want to take you to the intended point of this post.  I was with a group of friends earlier and we were talking about identity (among other things), and the question was asked “Who are you?”  I want to share with you how I respond to that question.

If I could some it up, I would say my name is David – which means beloved.  I am a son of God.  I’m a coheir to the throne.  I am a man.  I am a worrier and a worshiper.

I’d love to hear who you are?  Post in the comments!

You’re where I want to be.

Posted by adamlepp in Hope, Identity

Every Friday, a bunch of people in Bemidji get together to worship God.  It’s one of my favorite nights of the week.  Not only do we get to intercede for the city of Bemidji, but we get to spend time together in fellowship, sing songs of praise to our heavenly father, and even seen God do miracles by healing people (just last night, one of my good friend’s wrist was healed!).

That’s why I go.  God is doing amazing things in this city.  I’m going to focus on me for this post though .  There is one more thing I find happening at Friday Night Worship.  People are being filled up with the Holy Spirit.  People like me.  I often find myself drained after a long week and constantly find God renewing my spirit while I worship Him.  It’s like all my frustrations are lifted away.  The pain is gone.  And when I forget why I’m here, He gently reminds me.

Last night, we started off singing a variation of the song We Are One In The Spirit.  The lyrics we sang went something like this: Read More…

Like a Lion

Posted by adamlepp in Identity, Life

A rut.  A very deep rut.  A very deep and wide rut.

You ever drive down an old dirt road and get stuck in the ruts created from the vehicles that came before you?  It’s actually kind of cool sometimes.  You can take your hands off the wheel and the car practically drives itself down the road. Read More…

Scripture of the day

Posted by adamlepp in Heaven Bound, Hope, Identity

I was reading this today and wanted to share it with you.

Isaiah 61

¹ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
² to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor,
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who mourn;
³to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified. Read More…

West, sounds good to me

Posted by adamlepp in Heaven Bound, Hope, Identity, Life

But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish.

Ah, good old Jonah.  I love how Jonah is never running away from some thing, or some place.  But he is always seems to be running away from the LORD.

I like to run from the Lord.  I don’t think I do it on purpose, or even consciously, but I find my self running from God all the time.  This last month or so has once again been one of those times.

Thanks to the help and love of some great friends, I started to dive into my running.  I didn’t even know why I was running.  I had even less idea how to solve my problem.

And to be honest, I think it was/is the same stuff that was depressing me before.  It was just masking itself differently.

So, what is this answer I seek after?  I don’t know entirely.  If there is one thing I’m convicted of though, it’s this:  I need to fight for what I believe is Truth.  I haven’t been.  It’s scary.

So, please pray for  me, that I would have strength, and courage, to always fight for Truth.