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Freedom!!

Back in the Bible there was that old Pharaoh
Who ruled over Egypt and Israel
God spoke to Moses through fired up bushes
Said kick off your shoes and stay awhile
All of humanity was made to worship me

Pharaoh get outta my way
(God is sayin')
Freedom to dance
Freedom to sing
Freedom to grow
I'm telling you Pharaoh let Gods people go!

Worship now
Worship now
Worship your God
(let 'em go)

Well, we live in a country supposedly Pharaohless
But all over town and in churches abide
Powerful weeklings who practice they're politics
Stealing from Jesus his beutiful bride
Whether you're Pharisees, Sadducees, heresies
You best get outta God's way!
(God is sayin')

Freedom!!
Worship now
Worship now
Worship your God
(let 'em go)

Jason Upton: Freedom

I will not have to know

For His Glory, I shall wait.

I will wait for revelation -
of identity, of destiny, of mission,
of people to join to.

If He is not with me,
I will not go.
But when he calls I want to be
ready to trust, jump up and run.

But now, for His Glory, I shall wait.

Wait and dream,
dreams of identity, destiny
and mission, dream of people
who are already waiting for me to join in.

I lift my head up,
and feel it in the air.
Something is coming,
something is calling...

Shall my heart be prepared.

And there will come a day, with no more
questions, no more reasons, no more doubts
and no shame.

And I will lift up my banner
obey the command
and I will run.

And how will I know?
My heart will recognise my call,
and my mind will trust intuition.

+2.2

Tämäkin talvea.
Ulkona sataa - vettä. Helsinki on harmaa
ja loskainen. Ihmiset vaeltavat katse maahan painettua
kierrellen pahimpia vesilammikoita ja juoksevat päin punaisia.
Hakaniemen rannan yli puhaltaa jäätävä viima, joka saa
märän untuvatakin tuntumaan hyödyttömältä.
Kengät ovat jo nilkkoihin asti märät, lämmitävyysominaisuuksiensa
vuoksi aamulla jalkaan valitut pörrösukat tuntuvat naurettavilta ja
riisuessa näyttävät yliajetuilta viemärirotilta.

Ajattelin ajella vielä ratikalla munkkiniemeen, tarkastamaan seminaaripaikan.
Olen lupautunut avustajaksi, vaikka tällä hetkellä mieluisimmalta tuntuisi
kaivautua peiton alle, unohtaa ympäröivä maailma ja nukahtaa
talviuneen, kunnes pakkaset palaavat. Menneen viikon kiireet painavat
vielä hartioita. Tekisi mieli soittaa jollekin, mutten oikeastaan jaksa puhua.

Olo on jotenkin väsähtänyt. Taidan hetken levätä tässä surumielisyydessä,
annan otteen herpaantua ja vain hengitän. Lepään ennenkaikkea
ajatuksessa että minua kannattavat suuremmat kädet, iankaikkisten
käsivarsien varaan voin jättäytyä, loskan keskeltäkin.

love is the point:

Music that makes you want to jump up and dance.
Movies that make you want to laugh, cry or both.
Movie theathers where you can by fresh pop corn and watch movies described above.
People who are inspirating and supporting in crazy ideas, those that are always ready to share an adventure.
Good food, (spicy/sweet/salty/creamy/healthy) both cooking and eating will do.
Books that make me forget everything else and live in the story.
Israel.
Travelling, new countries, planes, buses, trains, ferries, passport controls, airports, timetables,..
New schoolbooks, empty notebooks, unopened packs with wide selection of crayons and colouring pencils,..
Lifestyle magazines with witty columns.
Blogs by people who have great insight.
Power and beauty of nature: lightning, storm, waves, sea, wind, snow, rainbows, waterfalls,..
Long-trough-the-nite conversations with friends, who are more like sisters and brothers.
Hospitality.
Steak fries.
Dancing.
Worshiping with flags.
Listening good music played live.
Photographing, specially trying to capture that one perfect shot of live gig or any once in a life time scene or moment.
Vanilla cafe latte.
Being part of a team where I am accepted and required.
Men who are warriors of God.
Women who are warriors of God.
God coming through in people.
Learning something new and using in succesfully.
Riding a horse so that I feel like we have a connection.
My little sisters and brother.
Insights.
Strawberry-banana juice and lebani on pita. Olives. Falafel (=Israeli cuisine)
Cutting-edge, still gentle prophecies.
Perfoming for live audience when I know what I'm doing.
Adrenaline rush.
Feeling after you have exercised with full capacity.
Dreams and visions and sharing those.
Sleeping.
Sunshine.
Chocolate.

And if...

It somehow made me think.
You say that what I call my rock, looks like
a wobbly swamp to you.
I know, people make mistakes,
but how you can't see His face behind them, how
can't you hear His voice past them?
I would never want to be judged by values of this world alone.
By longing eternity and knowing grace I can rejoice.
How did they hurt you, so you deny the call of the Lover
that pleads you to join the greatest adventure..?

And even, if in the end I'm proved to be mistaken,
my life I lived in hope and faith.

Shut up and don't even ask

• Am I allowed to ask, where are all the men of my generation going? Doesn't look like to heaven, atleast not to church... Why?
• What is future, where does it begin and end? If I look around me, isn't future everything I can see around me, atleast as far as I can see. If I can see to the fridge, a way to my fridge is my future, but I can't see what is inside, so I can only dream about it, not yet think about it as my future. Actions together with time make dreams my future and then suddenly my present and ..oops.. my past. Next ten seconds of my future are now present and ..4..3..2..1..so gone. Complicated?
• How do you measure success? I have so much people in crisis because of pressures of aging and growing up around me, that I am considering soon to found a anti-aging movement. Thought that again is something society tells us to do. So, come along, let's just tear down all kind of assumptions hanging in the air like this one: "before you are xx years old you are supposed to xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx and accomplished such things as ........." All rubbish, may I say.

Let just ask our Lord, that as almighty and our Father, he would give us revelation of who we are, how he wants us to be and behave and spend our time and specially and specifically to reveal us our true identity, because eventually, identity becomes a destiny.

V.I.P.

It's been awhile, sorry guys, just blame the winter :)
Anyway, to my point, which is that...

..I wasn't created for loneliness, I am invited to fellowship.
..I was'nt created to be lost, I am invited to follow the way, the truth and the life.
..I wasn't created to be captured, I am invited to be captivating and in freedom.
..I wasn't created to darkness, I am invited to walk in the light.
..I wasn't created to worry about future, I am invited to live eternally.
..I wasn't created to sorrow and pain, I am invited to rejoice and praise.
..I wasn't created to be judged by values of this world, I am invited to grace by my Creator.