Following His lead

Christian life is simply just discovering again and again and again that Jesus is madly in love with me.

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Today was one of the strongest testimonials i've heard about madly falling in love with Jesus. Dan Baumann shared his amazing story of how he was wrongly accused of espionage and thrown into the most infamous high-security prison in Iran.  But in the unlikely place, under the threat of execution and in the midst of despair, Dan witnessed the powerful triumph of God's love over fear. 
He started his story with his insignificance. His inadequateness. Thinking people of great integrity, people who have the ability, and genes can do amazing things for the world and for God. But he reversed that notion by saying that when you give yourself to Jesus, God will do great things with the weak & ordinary people. So isn't God such a great God?

A little history on Dan Baumann, He is a YWAM staff since he was young, and was in Afghanistan for 10 years in the 90's. When he was imprisoned in Iran, his mothers first prayer was "don't release Dan until your will is done"


Everything you want to do for God will come from the intimacy with God. Wow... can we be friends with God?


When Dan was 16 he was pondering on what it means to be intimate with God. He was throwing rocks at a river and he asked God that question. and he heard an inner voice say, "Can i throw rocks with you?" what does that have to do with intimacy? what do you mean? and he asked again, and he heard the voice again say "Can i throw rocks with you?" this happened several times more, and all he could hear was "can i throw rocks with you" and then he realized that God was so so madly in love with him that He just wanted to be with him. Not only when i'm reading the bible, at church, but also when i'm walking, playing basketball, or throwing rocks. Jesus just wants to be together with me, like a friend. 


Some more of the gold nuggets he shared with us
- Christian life is simply just discovering again and again and again that Jesus loves us. that He is madly in love with me. 
- When you discover you are loved by Jesus, then you realize what to do next. and then you again realize more how much He loves you, and you want to love Him back. 
- Where is the safest place in the world? It's exactly there God wants you to be.
- I want to lean so hard on Jesus that when He moves, I fall down. 
- When God told him to get on a bus to Iran, he felt he wasnt' ready, and was afraid. thinking i'm not qualified. Exactly how we can feel when God calls us. 
- You cannot kill a deadman. we've given our lives to Jesus so many times, that is our confidence in the midst of persecution. 

 

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