Worship, teaching, learning.

What a day. Today has been filled with worship, teaching, and learning. We are attending the Calvary Chapel Pastors Conference at Calvary Chapel Merritt Island Church. Its THREE full days of worship and teaching from some amazing pastors.

Today we were able to here teachings from Don McClure, Don Stewart and Jon Courson as well as a hello from Pastor Chuck Smith.

The day begun with wonderful worship with songs and then went into teaching from Don McClure on 1 Corinthians 15 - speaking about being steadfast, immovable! When you look up the word steadfast, some of the descriptions your given are "a marble statue" or "a wrestling position". A marble statue being immovable and a wrestling position being ready to receive a blow and it not affecting the wrestler.

Dont look at your problems and issues in your life and be discouraged. Look at your problems and think this is all the more reason to exist. Be immovable. Steadfast. Be a light to those people, issues and problems and bringing the Lord glory.
"I want to be poured out. I want to generate the most amount of power as I can"

After Don McClure, Don Stewart spoke a sermon entitled "Blessed are those eyes". Speaking about eschatology (topic of end times) and discussing the modern day israel and what the people thought during the first coming of the Lord and all the clear signs the Lord had given them that they were "blind to". - Matthew 13, Daniel 12:4

Finally, to end the night Jon Courson spoke on John 12:13-14 and asking/praying in Jesus Christ's name. He covered what it meant to ask in His name and praying in Jesus's name, which in turn glorifies the Lord. SUCH an amazing sermon with solid teaching backed up with scripture.

"and I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it for you." vr 14

Praying in Jesus's name also requires us to pray in harmony with Jesus's nature, conformity to Him and in congruent with what Jesus would pray.
Keeping in mind, that whatever you ask in his name will always be answered, BUT the answer might be different then what you envisioned it to be. It will be BETTER than what you dreamed. The "key" to seeing the answer for what you prayed for in Jesus's name is seeing it differently than what you expected or envisioned.
Finally ending with a fun quote: "Every name is odd. Every name is flawed. but not Gods!"

Ok, so I know my blog posts are not normally this wordy, but these were all very important things that happened today, and since I had no photos to tell my story, I had to tell you in words.
We ended the day with some wonderful worship music.
- End your day with some great music and words.

Desert Song by Brooke Fraser 

Rooftops by Jesus Culture

Beautiful by Phil Wickham

- hannah.