God is still moving

God has been moving all over CWC! both in San Jose and Milpitas. We have been hit by waves of the Spirit every Sunday and all we can do is ride them. Amanda, my girlfriend, just recently started blogging and she posted a blog about her experience last Friday. It was one of the BEST reads i have ever read. so if you have time go ahead and check it out and see what God is doing here. I remember talking to her and saying, "Wow every ministry is getting hit by the spirit of God! first the youth, then the whole congregation, now the single adults! who's next? the Kids Club! I can't wait to see the children impacted with the spirit of God, imagine what they will be able to do?"

Smith Notes

Sean Smith is a powerful speaker , and every week it seems like the word gets better, but most of all the practicality that he brings to the table makes you want to prophecy over people. Here are a couple notes I jotted down on Wednesday at our Prophetic Evangelism Classes.
•Numbers 11:16-29- The story of the 70 elders who kept prophecy in the church but never took it out.
• When every one else was inside, Eldad & Medad were the only ones who took Prophetic Evangelism out to the camp (Streets, Market place, outside the church)
• "They're not the enemy, they're captives of the enemy."
• Prophecy is divine encouragement not human encouragement.
• It's a tragedy to keep prophecy only in the church.
• Prophecy- Knowledge imparted by revelation.
• Insecurity is PRIDE in reverse! (WOW) because you are still looking/focusing on yourself. God calls us to be humble. Humility is looking/focusing on God not you.
• Get Zealous for God- "God I refuse to live without you."
• Invite the Holy Spirit to interrupt your schedule
• "Bring the Experience, Be the Experience!" (this should the purpose of my blog)
• Be more impressed with the word going into you than with the word coming out of you.
• God is not expecting instant maturity.
• Obedience sharpens hearing.
• When we can't track God we can trust Him.

The Greatest Coach Ever

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." - John 16:33 (NIV)

• A couple of months ago I was able to finish Tony Dungy’s book “Quiet Strength” a quick commercial: this was a great book for leaders both in the church and in the market place. Yes, ladies it’s football, but there was a lot more than that it included: family, struggles, joy, death, victory, and JESUS. This book really touched my life especially seeing the values of a man of God being implemented onto the field and into his players. In my eyes, Coach Dungy was and still is one of my favorite coaches of all time. There are other several coaches that can arguably be the greatest coaches ever like Vince Lombardi, Bill Walsh, John Wooden are just a few that are on the top of my list. But to say these men are the greatest coaches, but not mention this one name is an understatement. This man never played on a field, probably never had to wear a cup, and maybe never had a chance to hold up a trophy in front of millions of people; yet this man goes down to be the GREATEST COACH EVER, His name is Jesus.
• In my life I have had the privilege to play a lot of sports and have had several caoches but there are only a few that were able to bring out the best, and those few had a couple things in common. I think my top 3 coaches had to be:
1. The first team I ever played in was bronco league, I played on the Daly City Royals and my coach was this young man named Anthony.
2. I decided to muster up some courage and finally play football my junior year, I was a linebacker, but a small one, our assistant coach was this short Mexican named Coach Rick, he was small but don’t be fooled by his size.
3. The last person on my list never had the title of “coach” but he always trained with me and worked out with me, and that is my brother Orlando, a.k.a. O-Dogg. What made these coaches so great in my life? Well...
o They believed in me - I was never good in sports, I was always the chubby kid in the back that couldn’t wait to get home to watch cartoons. I never saw myself as an athlete.
o They spent time with me - Time is so valuable nowadays that you wouldn’t just go spend it on something that isn’t worth it. These men spent their precious time with a kid who at times got on their nerves.
o They shared - I love hearing stories, especially stories about real people who defeated real odds. These coaches always shared their stories of when their back was against the wall, but somehow, someway they overcame... now that’s inspirational.
o They got in my face - Like I said coach Rick was small, but when we failed an assignment he let us know, and I swear this little Mexican became HUGE. Although I never enjoyed when they got in my face, it made me more aware not to blow my assignments.
o They encouraged - No matter how bad the score was, no matter how hopeless I might have seemed, their outlook was different than mine. Their words lifted my confidence when I was facing guys who were twice my size.
• I have been given the chance to be under many great coaches, but there is one Coach that is above the rest and that is You, Jesus. As a player I know I can get hard headed but allow me to follow You, listen to Your plays, accept Your confrontation, and believe in Your words.

Phillip-ino

There is something about "Phillip" that's just been bugging my finger tips. Phillip was a chosen disciple, which was an honor but several things about Phillip made me think that he was more than a disciple he was a thinking man, a business man, and a busy man. As I'm reading through this book of John, Phillip is starting to seem more like me, or vice versa, my life looks a lot like his. Recently I bought a planner in hopes that it would schedule my life: God, family, relationships, life, school, and work.(let me tell you that the planner isn't working my life is still in chaos) why did i come to the conclusion that Phillip was the thinker or the planner of all the disciples? In John ch. 6 Jesus and the disciples come face to face with yet another so called impossible task. they have hungry folks but no food! what is there to do? while the 12 worry, Jesus is calm and asks a question. Now he doesn't ask it to anyone else but Phillip. "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" (why does Jesus ask questions He already knows?) looking at this unscheduled task Phillip rapidly pulls out the facts. The facts that say we CAN'T do this, the numbers don't match, the task is to big... I started thinking how many great moves of God have been stopped or delayed because our schedule does not match Gods scheduled assignments? In the book, "In a pit with a lion on a snowy day," Mark Batterson says something that could have eased some stress from Phillip. "Faith is embracing uncertainty." Living by faith doesn't always mean we are going to live by the plans we've made, the goals we've set, or the schedules we've marked. Living by faith means we are uncertain of our next step, our next meal, our next everything. But when you have Jesus on your side of this life lived by faith, uncertainty starts to get a little clearer. if you are like Phillip be ready to embrace uncertainty and write your plans with pencil, because you never know when God is going to ask you to feed 5,000 people.