I often don’t want to sing anymore…

I’m getting to where I often don’t even want to sing during worship anymore, I just want to play music and just BE with God… Last night I wanted to just play and seek the heart of the Lord for a long time, but I felt like I had to sing songs because that’s what people expect…

Why do we sing? It’s a way to express to the Lord… But I think there is something to be said about the waiting, about the just being… I don’t think we always need to be saying things to God in order to “worship”

Last week my wife and I went out without Zoey… We laughed in the car when we realized we went 10 minutes without talking… what made us laugh was the realization that we were without noise (the noise of Zo) and we were just enjoying being with each other in silence…

When I go away, like I am now as I write this in Michigan, my wife seems to have a harder time because I am not there… At first I thought that maybe it was some kind of spiritual issue, but now I think it’s mostly because I am simply not there… The lack of my presence… We need the presence of God and we need to walk in the awareness of His presence in our daily lives.

I want to find and discover and help others to engage in the presence of God in ways that are more expanded than just what we do during worship times. I want to just BE in His presence. Music helps me focus on His presence, but so does going out on a walk in silence.

Here is the thing, the things of the world only have the power to take our focus off of His presence. Song Lyrics help us focus back on the character aspects of God, but when I sit in silence I just begin to be with God… I don’t even necessarily need to focus on something… just a renewed awareness of His presence brings me back to a place of peace and refuge.

It’s hard to get people to this place because that is not what we culturally do in worship. I would love to have a worship gathering where I took a group of people to a park and said, “Walk around for an hour and that’s your worship time…” Sounds weird but it so should not sound weird at all…

This post is the most jumbled thing I have written in a while, but I hope it makes sense and I hope we all learn further how to just BE with Him…

Jason

Waiting On The Lord Does A Brain Good – This Will Change Your Life

I’m sitting here in Connecticut on the back porch of some dear friends… My wife and I, along with the little Zo, have spent the entire day just relaxing far away from the city of Dallas, TX… I have been spending time here close to nature today, here by the changing foliage of the New England trees… I am sensing such a peace and connection to the Lord AND THE REASON WHY HAS TO DO WITH THE STATE OF MY BODY SOUL AND SPIRIT…

I’ve included an article down below that talks about the different stages of our brains and frequencies… Check it out for some deeper scientific truth… It basically says that we as humans spend almost all of our time during the day in what is known as the “beta state” or analytical thinking… I believe that this goes for many christians as well… The problem is that this “beta state” is the place of always thinking, always wondering and, at times, worrying…

There are states of mind that God purposefully desires us to go to so that we can relax and receive revelation… I am learning that the spirit can affect the soul if we will take time to allow it to… Otherwise culture, media and society will affect our souls and keep us in states that we are not meant to be in…

Listen, you need time to chill EVERY DAY… YOU NEED TIME to get away from your analytical state of mind and get into places of peace and places of discovery and insight… If the NEW AGE movement gets all the peace and meditation and “christians” are running around worried and fearful all the time, something is WRONG…

I believe that when Jesus went away into the places of solitude, He was keeping himself aligned with the kingdom of his Father… He was getting away from the city and the bustle of the crowds and rejuvenating himself in the presence of the Father…

I love how God is confirming, even through science, that what I am my wife are doing in this Ministry of Rejuvenation is SO NEEDED in the church. We need to purposefully take time to get away from the bustle, to get our brains into a place where we can insightfully and peacefully align ourselves with the Kingdom….

I will be as crazy to say that I doubt that I spend much time anymore in this BETA ANALYTICAL state… I think I’ve learned how to keep my mind stayed at peace, stayed upon Jesus, stayed upon the Kingdom… NOOOO, I am not perfect nor am I ALWAYS THERE, but I am there more than I was a year ago, three years ago, five years ago…

So check out the science… Get out of the BETA Today and take a walk and tune into the PEACE OF THE KINGDOM OF JESUS… Amen…

Article by David S. Walonick, originally printed in Borderlands (Vol. XLVI, Nos. 3&4, May – August 1990)

There is evidence that ELF magnetic waves can affect brain waves. These set of experiments were designed to study the effects of ELF rotating magnetic fields on the brain.

The specific ELF frequencies I was interested in studying are 6-10 Hertz. These frequencies are the same as those produced by the human brain in the theta and alpha states. Generally, specific brain wave frequency ranges can be associated with mood or thought patterns. Frequencies below 8 Hertz are considered theta waves. While these seem to be some of the least understood frequencies, they also seem to be associated with creative, insightful thought. When an artist or scientist has the “aha” experience, there’s a good chance he or she is in theta. Alpha frequencies are from 8 to 12 Hertz and are commonly associated with relaxed, meditative states. Most people are in an alpha state during the short time immediately before they fall asleep. Alpha waves are strongest during that twilight state when we’re half asleep and half awake. Beta frequencies (above 12 Hertz) coincide with our most “awake” analytical thinking. If you are solving a math problem, you’re brain is working at beta frequencies. Most of our waking hours as adults are spent in the beta state.