Subido al Pico Loro

Today, I went with some friends into some communities in the mountains...we came along some people who were fasting and playing worship and we joined them and one of the women made us lunch and we went to a mountain top...and prayed, and came down and went swimming in a river with waterfalls. My friend David shared the gospel with single mom and a guy in heroin addiction on the way back home in the bus. It was an amazing day! And as we arrived in Cali we saw many lights and people celebrating festivities of Christmas! It was a very special time!

May the fire burn in our hearts with a sacrific of love never dwindling.

During my time here in Cali, I have had some incredible encounters with God. A few friends of mine from a church community have been starting some projects bringing out food and praying for the poor in the slums. We have been enjoying some incredible times of worship and intimacy with the Holy Spirit. Through an incredible worship experience that I had with a friend of mine, David Cruz, I felt the Holy Spirit revealing something to me about the power of sacrifice. We sang together, "May my life be a burning sacrifice of love consumed by your desires." I realized that something greater awaits us. If we can become the people who fully sacrifice all there is something greater, there is something that awaits us in our community. Imagine our community as a garden and Jesus as a seed. If we fertilize our garden with Love, what awaits us are fruits beyond our hearts wildest dreams. Trusting and having faith, a fully rendering love, a love which is a total sacrifice comes with pain for only a moment, for the Kingdom of lovers is before us. A family is awaiting to be revealed in the garden--a family of lovers which we were created for. Dissention, wounds, sins, and ills try to seperate us one from another. There is a choice for each of us. There is a choice to go our own way and take care of ourselves or to sacrifice all and trust in the Love pouring down on us. Sacrificing all is about a choice to overcome the sin of others with love, sacrificing all for love, until we are totally consumed by love. Trusting in Jesus is a lot of times about trusting in others. It's about trusting in those who are around us who are the body of Christ. It's about trusting in those who have become our brothers and sisters. It's about believing that love wins. It is trusting that if we sacrifice all we will be caught in a beanbag filled with love. The truth is. It hurts when others are not willing to sacrfice. It is like falling backwards on the ground and having no one to catch you. But when we learn...It is like falling backwards into the warm embrace of lovers. We must ask, "are we willing to be to the hands and feet of Jesus in whom others can trust with all their life?" When we get to live in this new transformed revelation of sacrificing love, a new world of love opens up before us. It is written that a gift brings a man before a king. So then imagine a burning sacrifice of total surrendering love--what can that open up for us! It's behind our wildest dreams! Love has a creative power that goes way beyond restoration...I had a vision of my friend Tony Brown, he's a guy who is always making sacrifices for all those around him--always buying food for others and driving people around in his beautiful antique van...I saw him sewing a seed of love which would be rewarded with a harvest of lovers. The point of this all is that...there is something awaits us...if we just surrender and trust. A glowing fire of love awaits us. If we follow in step and surrender all, what awaits us is an abudant life, the joy set before Christ before the sacrifice...there is something on the other side and it's worth it! :-) It's worth it for us all! It's way beyond worth it! If we can just open our eyes and see, we will be transformed and be unleashers of the consuming power of love! So may the fire burn in your heart and may you become the burning sacrifice of love consumed by the desires of something much greater than yourself. The desires of the one who gave everything for the greatest prize. The desires of the one which have the greatest reward. You were meant for something greater!