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Day 4: SEALS 2012 Arise and ShineToday

Family Mosaic, Creative Arts Worship,
a mosaic of our communion time together.
Today concludes SEALS 2012. The morning began with cultural breakout groups to reflect and debrief the weekends experiences, lessons, and blessings.  Afterwards we moved into powerful morning of worship.  The mosaic cross of the broken pottery from the night before stood up as a symbol of our communion together as a family, and one tribe, under the Kingdom of Christ.

Worship Team!
James Choung came back speaking on how to fuel our drams.  He gave many helpful points that would equip us on how to re-approach our dreams and ministries with a new perspective. 
-We are to be God watchers, similar to birdwatchers who from a far can recognize the voice of a speck in the sky, as well as admire the  bird in its beauty up close.  If we are like birdwatchers, we can recognize what God is doing in front of our eyes.  
-Do know, do we live, do we have an expectation that God is breaking in to our daily midst, that he wants to speak something into our daily lives?
-The illustration in Jesus' ministry of when a shepherd opens the gate for His sheep and call to them, the sheep hear his voice and follow him.  The shepherd also in the same way knows his sheep, he knows them by name.  Jesus knows us by name.  

"The most important thing that a Christian can do for themselves is to listen for the Lord on a daily basis.", says James.  He goes on explaining how when we are engaging and listening for God throughout our daily schedule we are constantly connected with Him.  "This is the fuel for our relationship with Him."  In this same way we can see how our dreams can be approached not by fear but with confidence.  

The 5 ways we can be LISTENING for the Lord:
-Scripture-What is he saying?  (Acts 17:11)
-Prayer-What are you seeing and hearing when you pray
-Community-What does your community (friends, accountability partners, families, and mentors) say about what you are hearing from God?
-Faith-opposite of faith is not doubt, it is fear.  When we fear it causes us to fear approaching our relationships.  
-Fruits-are you becoming more like Christ? (Luke 6:44, Galatians 5

James infers that if we are following these 5 ways; it becomes a cycle that continues daily and healthily.  Lastly James cautions us that ultimately however we act out in our behavior, we are not in control of the results.  God is in control of the results.  The second caution was  that what we hear CAN change.  The example given was Genisis 22: 2, Abraham heard from God to sacrifice Issac, but in verse 22 God speaks again and stops Abraham from that sacrifice.  If Abraham did not stop to confer with God again, after setting up the alter and binding Issac, the results would have been most tragic.  

We spend time in reflective prayer listening and speaking to God about our needs, dreams, spiritual formation, and of our communities we wold be returning to.  We thanked Him for the good God that he is.  

Shout outs with great appreciation:  Keynote Speaker: James Choung,
MC: Amy Chanthaphavong, Guest: Jason Chu, and Director of SEAC: Ken Kong
Today this is our prayer,

I wait for the Lord more than the watchmen wait for the morning,
more than the watchmen wait for the morning.
Psalms 130:6  

The possibilities of our dreams are immeasurable with God who is able.


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