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Thank God for satnavs! If it wasn't for the satnav that I had borrowed from my Dad, I don't think I would have found my way to the beautiful Derbeshire Dales for the first weekend of my Worship Academy journey quite so easily. As soon as I arrived I could hear my spiritual satnav saying 'you have reached your destination' - or more accurately 'this is where I need you to be, seeking me, learning from me - for this season'.
So I arrived with a sense of expecatation - and I soon discovered I wasn't the only one to do so! In fact all the other students on the course had come with that same sense - We are hungry for more of God. We want to be ready for his Spirit to move. We want to be positioned in exactly the right place for when the wave of God's spirit comes to break accross this nation, we want to be there - right in the middle of it!
From this weeked I have come away refreshed. Yes, it was intense, but somehow it was not draining. God's Spirit was so evidently amongst us, to the extent that some of the planned events on the timetable were abandoned to give space for the spirit to move and work - this alone tells me that Academy is run by people who are in tune with God's spirit and who don't want to get in his way, but rather people who are happy to let God be God - even if it means that things get a bit messy! How awesome is that!?
Music is a minor part of our worship to God. We are called to worship with our lives. To seek out the 'kairos' (the now) moments of what his Spirit is doing and saying to us corporately and personally. Not to be bound by 'chronos' (chronoligical time). A Christian's life moves from glory to glory, not from ups to downs. We have momentum and are called to move from strength to strength because we are spirit, and our spirit is seated with God in heavenly places, so we don't have to be bound by chronological time. This is helping me to overcome my negativity and pessimism (which is my natural mindset). I am more than a conqueror!
Another great part of the first Academy weekend is the relationships that are forming. Relationships that are already strong and have been supernaturally advanced and deepened in such a short space of time. This is one of the fundamentally important aspects of a school of worship such as this, that invests in people and spurs them on to be who they were created to be - not to churn out carbon copies! Prasie God I don't have to copy anyone else, nor indeed have the same sound as anyone else! I am me and that's good enough for God - may it be good enough for me too!
So as I sit and type this blog, I have only just got back from my first weekend at Worship Academy, and I already can't wait to go back again for the next one in 2 months time. I am looking forward to the stretching, the spiritual growth and impartation, building relationships, becoming a better worship facilitator, seeing what God is doing in me overflow into my leadership and ministry, and most of all seeking God with all my heart.
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