He brought me to His banqueting table
And His banner over me is LOVE
I am my Beloved’s and He is mine
And His banner over me is LOVE

We can feel the love of God in this place
We believe Your goodness, we receive Your grace
We delight ourselves at Your table, oh God
You do all things well, just look at our lives

His banner over You, His banner over me
His banner over us is LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

by Kevin Prosch © 1991 Mercy Publishing

⁸ “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.

⁹ “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55

“…the enemy has a breaking point. He does NOT have eternal strength. You are tapped to eternal strength, you are tapped to eternal courage, unlimited resource…” – Bill Johnson

Bill Johnson Sermons for [download]:

If the download link above does not work (because you don’t have iTunes, maybe?), try [this one].

Watch two really awesome IHOP KC worship leaders reveal their secret: Cassie Campbell and Seth Yates talk about asking the Holy Spirit for inspiration in worship leading…really encouraging, great testimonies. Don’t be scared of the 29 minutes – the interesting report is in the first 6 minutes ; -)

You can also read their stories here.

<– Und weil’s wirklich, echt, ehrlich richtig gut ist, mal wieder eine deutsche Übersetzung. An alle Lobpreismusiker da draußen… Clip angucken! oder  Übersetzung lesen!

…that’s why I needed to post it here. „do mi mi, mi so so, re fa fa, la ti ti…“

I love God. I love that song line “You do mighty things…” and I love to add “even in my heart”. Whoohoooo! Just had an awesome service: you know when God really is there and everyone gets something out of it and in the end though it’s late everyone is kinda wired and hyper because you can’t help but be happy when you meet your Daddy and he showers you. Haha! Anyways, it already started out kind of whacko when we were leading worship, just three of us. And do you know that when you don’t get back into the song on the right key after doing an a-capella-thingy… awful, awkward, awry, aw..-everything!!! However, my team leader just kept going with that big Jesus grin and „Hallelujah, your love makes me sing…“ ignoring my desperate attempts to wind ourselves out of the song as fast as possible. He just wouldn’t stop *LOL*. In the end, I think my guitar was off-tune…I don’t know, maybe that’s what threw us off twice. Anyways, I’m glad that 1) God understands and 2) there were only very few people witnessing that mess — oh no, I didn’t think of the millions of angels and the cloud of… oh, no… there goes the worship leading career;-), haha!

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So my internet is back and I’m enjoying the Prayer Room from IHOP KC again. FINALLY. It’s been months now that I couldn’t tune in… [edit] Need to plug God’s faithfulness first, because I prayed about my terrible cell phone bill and lack of internet access a desperate two second prayer of „Pls, God take care of it, I don’t know what to do“ and literally the next day one call and I got everything I wanted [/edit] Need to plug my vodafone ppl here, cause they really offered me the deal I was waiting and looking for and two weeks after the call  I’m online via UMTS for free ‘til the real DSL access is installed – that was pretty fast and it’s very nice.

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Wer mal ne dreiviertelstunde Bock auf Glotze hat: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/837470
Sehr witzig… ja, es ist logo! und jetzt nicht die umfassendste Wahlvorbereitung, aber es gibt viel schlimmere Sachen im Fernsehen, mit denen Leute viel mehr Zeit als 45 min totschlagen;).

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I like to listen to stuff from Bethel Church, Redding, CA recently.

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I came across this blog post a while ago:
Here’s a German translation!
Hier die deutsche Übersetzung! Klick aufs Bildchen
(Das heißt, es is wirklich lesenswert.)

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I’m cramming for biochemistry. I should do more. Good bye.

1. Der Zeitungs-Olli hat am Montag zugemacht – anscheinend für immer. Und ich hab nie etwas bei ihm gekauft, nur immer seinen olli-ischen Gang und selbige Frisur, seine John-Lennon-Brille,  sein Schachspiel, seine Kermit-Stimme, seine alle-Jahre-wieder mit dem Wetter wechselnde Kleidung und seine Sportumhängetasche mit den Zeitungen analysiert. Jaja, es gibt Leute, die jetzt sofort die Voyeuristen-Vorwürfe wiederbeleben, aber ich hatte nunmal kein Interesse an Zeitungen und Zeitschriften und wer schonmal aus meinem Fenster geguckt hat, weiß, wovon ich rede… der Analysegegenstand drängte sich  quasi auf.
   Ob sich ihm die Möglichkeit bot, groß beim Schachspiel rauszukommen?
2. Am Sonntag nach dem Gottesdienst ist Taufe (dis och so’n Witz für sich) und ich darf knipsen.
3. Aaaaber: mein Flickr-Account läuft aus und ich hab erstmal nicht vor, ihn zu verlängern. Good Bye!
4. Mein Internet-hungriger Läppi ist vom Fensterbrett umgesattelt auf offenes Seitenfenster. Der Uni-WLAN-Empfang ist zwar noch schlechter und damit die ganze Sache noch langsamer, aber ich bin ja endlich in freudiger Erwartung eines neuen Anschlusses.
   
5. Neulich auf der A2:
   
6. Neulich bekam ich Post von George W. Bush:
   
   DHL sollte vielleicht mal seine Wortschöpfungen überdenken.

Für alle die’s nicht entziffern können (hab auch ne Weile gebraucht), it says:
”WHAT WOULD MCGUYVER DO?”

Es gibt zwei Dinge, denen ich mich als überzeugter Fernseh-Verschmäher trotz allem nicht entziehen kann: Das ist einmal tagesschau.de und zum anderen der Wissen macht Ah!-Podcast. Get it here.

(oder http://www.wdr.de/tv/wissenmachtah/multimedia/podcast.php5 oder http://www.wdr.de/tv/home/videopodcast/vodcast.jsp)

I read a book. Sounds weird, but I’ve hardly been reading anything that is not related to my studies during the last couple of months. But two weeks ago, while I was actually terribly distracted and trying to focus on praying, I stopped pacing through my room and stared at the bookshelf. My mind was wandering. Then I grabbed that book, I’ve never peeked into before and started reading. At first, I didn’t know if it would have been better to keep praying but I was just so absent… so I read.
Few pages and it hit me like ten thousand volts.

The next morning Mr. Hopkins spoke about the Holy Spirit. He made it plain that He is a Person, with all the faculties of a Person, exactly like the Savior. He has intelligence, love and a will of His own; and as a Person, before He comes to live in a man, He must be given full possession of his body.
”As he spoke,” Rees said, “the Holy Ghost appeared to me and I knew him to be the One who had spoken to me the day before and shown me that place of splendor and glory into which natural eyes can never look. It never dawned on me before that the Holy Ghost was a Person exactly like the Savior, and that He must come and dwell in flesh and blood. In fact, the Church knows more about the Savior, who was only on the earth thirty-three years, than about the Holy Ghost who has been here two thousand years. I had only thought of Him as an Influence coming on meetings, and that was what most of us in the Revival thought. I had never seen that He must live in bodies, as the Savior lived in His on earth.”
The meeting with the Holy Ghost was just as real to Rees Howells as his meeting with the Savior those years before. “I saw Him as a Person apart from flesh and blood, and He said to me, ‘As the Savior had a body, so I dwell in the cleansed temple of the believer. I am a Person. I am God, and I am come to ask you to give your body to Me that I may work through it. I need a body for My temple (1 Cor 6:19), but it must belong to Me without reserve, for two persons with different wills can never live in the same body. Will you give me yours? (Rom 12:1). But if I come in, I come as God, and you must go out (Col 3:2-3). I shall not mix Myself with your self.’
”He  made it very plain that He would never share my life. I saw the honor He gave me in offering to indwell me, but there were many things very dear to me, and I knew He wouldn’t keep one of them. The change He would make was very clear. It meant every bit of my fallen nature was to go to the cross, and He would bring in His own life and His own nature.”

Grubb, Norman: Rees Howells Intercessor, CLC Publications, Washington 2002, 39-40

That’s what I read and it kind of hit the nail right on the head. Answering all questions and at the same time creating a bunch of new ones. This little, unimpressive book with it’s confusing title – I always thought Rees Howells is the author who writes on intercession – from last year’s IHOP Commission gift bag was definitely entailing some hardcore truth to be dealt with. I actually stopped reading after this passage, because I knew this topic would need some careful digestion and I felt someone very important wanted to talk to me about this.