Dream's Awakening

Worship was amazing last night. The best we've had in a couple of weeks. Every week run around like crazy trying to get everything set up on stage and everything practiced before we go on. We always pray before we play on stage. But this week was a little different, and I think that's why worship was so great last night. I felt we were rushing around too much (By "we" I really mean me) so I called everybody together to pray. We prayed instead of running through songs last night. We weren't 100% comfortable or confident with some of the songs and I knew we didn't have time to practice and pray for a long time, so I chose to pray for long time.  

I’m sorry it’s been a while since I’ve updated you. Life has been crazy, in a good way. Work has kept me as busy as ever during the day. My responsibilities are growing and things are going very well there. In my other life, we are working hard as a band to get new material out. The writing process has been grueling work; we are attempting difficult things and doing them well, as opposed to attempting simple things and doing them great. I’m pushing myself and the other members of the band to create with the best of our skills and talents. It’s quite challenge for us, but I think it will be very much worth it. 

I’m in Canada right now for work, Ottawa is a beautiful city. French is obnoxious but very nice to listen to, sort of, it’s a love/hate thing. At least I can understand some of it as it’s Latin based like Spanish and some English. Pronunciation in French is insanely delicate.  In short it felt like Canada is a mix of some European country the US. Just FYI if you’ve never been. (Here is a pic of the Parliament house in Ottawa, ON)

It’s been a while since I mentioned this on my posts, but God has made the answer/resolution clear regarding the prayer and fasting I talked about before. If you've kept up with this blog and happened to pray for me during that time, I greatly appreciate it, your prayers meant the world to me. I really can’t get into the details of the answer for time and privacy’s sake, but suffice to say that it was a humbling and enlightening experience, God is faithful and good.

I’d like to respond to some reader questions in the next post, the comment section on the other posts were getting really long (which is great!) so I’d like to spread them out. Keep em’ coming! 

Love ya'll 

David

Hi Jason, 

That’s really great to hear. I’m happy to hear that your perspective on God and his willing involvement is developing, you’re right, it’s amazing where we can notice God in places and times we never really though about.

I’ll defiantly take a look at that book “ Who you are When No One’s looking”. That is the real question to character, a tough one for sure. I’m currently reading “The Cost of Discipleship” by Bonhoeffer. It talks about what it means to be a disciple of Christ according to the scriptures and not the modern church. He was a modern martyr during World War II, he was a preacher and theologian who took his views of Chris to the gallows for the sake of the few remaining Christians in Germany. That’s a brief, his story it self is an amazing and encouranging tale. By the way, if you’ve never read about Christian myrtyrs, contrary to popluar conception of them being negative and morbid, I’ve found their stories deeply encouraging and eternally impacting in my life. A good book to start with is “Jesus Freaks”. The fact that they died for their faith in Christ is not the point of their stories, it’s how they lived so outragesously for Christ that the only way the governing people could shut them up is to kill them. That’s what I call devotion to the gospel.

Keep on praying and seeking the will of God in your life, the concert is just a means to an end, the event, our talents, all focused on Christ and our heavenly Father. I’m glad your exited, you should be. It sounds like you are on the right road. Keep on being diligent with your walk with Christ, and as he has put this passion and plan in your heart, he will provide to make it happen as well. In the end, the concert wouldn’t be worth having if the hand of God was not in the making of it , right? So keep on keeping on. On my side of things, I’m about to start fasting and praying for a couple of weeks regarding some new music we are in the middle of writing. Prayer is key. Fasting humbles us and helps us focus on God and his ways of seeing things. So, be encouraged, we are all in this together!

Regarding your question, that’s a great question. I had that question myself some time ago. It’s my opinion that in this Christian faith, we must never stop asking questions or we will never truly learn from God or each other.  I’ll keep it as short and sweet as possible as many books and sermosn have been made off of this event, and I can’t do those writings and teachings justice. Basically, Jesus directly quoted Psalms 22:1. If you read the whole chapter, which we know Jesus was familiar with as he was trained as a jewish rabi, you can see the cries of a man for help. But it doesn’t stop there. Most theologians see Psalm 22 as a prophetical verse regarding the messiah( there are numerous scriptures in the old testament that prophesied details of the coming messiah, Jesus Christ). If you look at verse 18, this is a exact description of Jesus’s situation told of in the gospels. We can see that the other verses describe Christ’s feelings of pain and also Christ’s exalting of God as Lord over all, and finally being the winner in the end for all of man, present and future (Verse:31). So I believe that Jesus was being literal and He felt like his father was forsaking him, because in fact at that point in time Jesus was bearing all of the sin of the world. God cannot stand sin, and to see his son covered in it must have been the deepest pain a father could have. Yet God chose to carry out this painful and costly plan to save us from the power of sin and to be able to live like his son here on earth. This moment in Christ’s cruxifictino is a very deep, complicated, and revealing moment in Christ’s life and his part in God’s redeeming plan for man kind.

Please let me know if that made sense, or if you have any other questions I can help you with. I'll be more than happy to give it a shot! 

-David

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 Hello Mike,