Awakening

Where do i begin? Awakening 09....passion.alive.broken.blind.alive.FREEDOM.breathe...ok.exhale...alive.selfish.bitter.hearing.listening.crying.deeper.embarresed.intimacy.hard heart.shattered.soft heart.....still alive...wanting to run, wished i could hide...scared.MY GOD IS BIGGER...He will never leave me..born to cause change..VISION..determination..TRANSFORMED..still alive..smiling....AWAKE AWAKENED AWAKENING!!!! i felt....i fought....i lost the battle to keep my hearts walls up from being broken for this world.....God won my heart once again, he opened my eyes, my heart, my being to his perfect love and to the love WE MUST SHOW TO THIS WORLD...i didn't walk into every Awakening conference thinking id walk out the way i did, London,New York...especially Sydney all shattered the core of my walls that i brilliantly built up to stop me from seeing the pain and disfunction this world owns so well...but now i have a set of brand NEW eyes.....and before them the path God chose for me to walk.....NOW I SEE!!!
Lv Brooke Dillon

^{Matthew 22:34}Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. ³⁵One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:

 ³⁶"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" ³⁷Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'^{[b] 38}This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'^{[c] 40}All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

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I sometimes wonder why I always complicate things.  My world and my emotions seem to be in a vicious cycle of confusion to clarity back to confusion.  I would like to say that as I write this first blog that I have figured everything out and that my life makes sense however this is not the case.  I am in a perpetual tension of faith and doubt, life and death, flesh and spirit, joy and sorrow, laughter and crying and a whole lot of other opposites.

This is the reality of my life, not sure if you can relate...

I tend to hang my future, my thoughts, my emotions and choices on things that cannot handle the weight of them and ultimately let me down everytime.

We all would like a more simple life, one filled with peace...I mean real peace not just the notion of it.

Jesus silenced the self righteous.

Then he silenced my fears.

Joshua....just do two simple things, love me and love people.  All the rest of that other stuff hangs on this.

Easy.

Revolutionary.

Life altering.

Now take a deep breath and live it.

No ifs ands or buts.

It is that simple.

As I was about to speak in Singapore this weekend I felt a voice in my heart say clear as day...

"Trust me Joshua"

It was the most simple and clear thing I have heard in a long time.

This is God.

Simple, clear, love, truth, joy, peace...

So let us not hang our thoughts, lives, decisions on anything else.

Ask yourself does this choice love God and love people?

Does this thought love God and love others as I love myself?

IT ALL HANGS ON THIS....LOVE

+jk

Something powerful has happened - Awakening has become a global movement. That's easy to say, and probably sounds like hype. But it is real.

We have just finished the first ever Awakening conferences in London and New York. Both weekends were incredible, with so many highlights. But what struck me more than anything was the significance of so many people from different countries uniting for the one cause. People attended the conferences from the UK, US, Canada, and countries all over Europe. It was clear that people from all of those places have caught the Awakening vision. Awakening has become much bigger than any one church. And that is what is so great - the focus is on God, not on religion or any particular church. This has united people, even though different types of churches were represented.

Do not miss Awakening Sydney, it's going to be epic. And invite people from everywhere - because that's what it's all about.

Rob Kerr

Awakening for me was by far one of the most eye opening experiences I have had in far too long. And I don't mean in the way were God showed me  few cool things and then I forgot about them within that next week, I mean that  the my spirit and my heart were forever impacted and that God really used the two weekends to make a massive shift in my life.

Francis Chan's message on the last night of Awakening NYC, combined with some of the most powerful worship moments were just some of the highlights for me through out the two weekends, and as God moved my eyes were opened to the truth of what it means to love God, to love
His people.

I was so honored to have been apart of what God did over the two conferences and I am so excited to her about what He is going to do in Sydney.

Dylan Thomas

My experiences with getting churches to work together has been limited but the experience that I have had has shown me that getting everyone on the same page for an event like Awakening is not an easy task. Almost impossible. With the rise of the denominational church, our generation has become a very ambitious, independent church causing us to become a body that doesn’t know its eye from its big toe but expects its foot to act like an arm.
    
Now to stand in a room with 400 other young adults and worship together is something we do week in week out but to stand in a room of 400 young adults comprised of Pentecostals, Baptists, Anglicans and Catholics from England, France, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, etc and to see every hand lifted in unified worship brought me to tears.
    
There was this one moment in particular in London where the worship was just hanging on the presence of God and everyone started singing their own song to God and then in a moment everyone, without the aid of a worship leader, just united in one loud chorus of Worship.
    
Awaken my heart, awaken my soul, awaken this life to you oh God…
    
For a moment we were a church that felt so beautiful and pure that we could have been mistaken to be the bride of Christ.
    
It made me think that if we, the Christians, can all get on the same page and stay there then maybe the Muslims, and Jews, and Hindus, and Buddhists, and Atheists just might start thinking that these Christians are on to something…
    
My prayer is that this newfound unity and brotherhood in the faith between the different church’s and denominations doesn’t stop here at an event. I believe that this is the dawning of a new day and I pray that this continues to shine brighter and brighter and brighter….
    
I think we saw some light on the horizon.

Joel Corrigan
    
Awaken this Love.