Blizzard this Weekend

Sitting here in a chalet on the lake. Two feet of snow outside. Listening to Jason Upton's Dying Star while preparing to listen to the Word Himself.

Please pray for me and my family this weekend... Dar is home in Canmore, Alberta with the kids. I'm in Muskoka Woods, Ontario with two intercessors... So much going down. Over six hundred youth coming here to Blizzard for the weekend in Muskoka Woods. It's about protection, authority, the release of the Air Force in the heavenly war above our shoulders... It's about the glory of Jesus Christ, majesty, dominion, power and praise which belong to Him. That He would come and be among us... visit us himself. His Spirit free to comfort and empower. That He would come and sing over us, release us, prepare us for that greater call into the deeper trenches of His warfare.

:: Dying Star (by Jason Upton)::
You've got your best man on the front side
You always show your best side
And evil's always on the other side
You say this is your strategy
But son I hope you take it from me
You look just like your enemy
You're full of pride
We better trash our idols if we want to be
In the army of the Lord
And the greatest idol is you and me,
We better get on the threshing floor
When will we learn that God's strategy
Is giving glory to the Lord?
We better trash our idols if we want to be
In the army of the Lord

Star how beautiful you shine
You shine more beautiful than mine
You shine from sea to shining sea
World-wide is your strategy
But shinning star I hope you see
If the whole wide world is staring straight at you
They can't see me...


All I want is for Jesus to be Himself among us.
That He is free to speak and free to be silent.
Free to be God amidst His people.
As if He needs our permission.
Maybe we need His.
That we would be aware of His absence

before we are desperate for His presence...

That's all I really want. It's Him.
If He is not glorified and welcomed amidst His people...

It's all a waste!

Lord, we wait for you alone.
We wait on you alone.
Your will is our command and pleasure.

:: Matthew 4 ::

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert

to be tempted by the devil.

After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

The tempter came to him and said,

"If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."

Jesus answered, "It is written:

'Man does not live on bread alone,

but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

Then the devil took him to the holy city

and had him stand on the highest point of the temple.

"If you are the Son of God," he said,

"throw yourself down. For it is written: "

'He will command his angels concerning you,

and they will lift you up in their hands,

so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"

Jesus answered him, "It is also written:

'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'"

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain

and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

"All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me."

Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan!

For it is written:

'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'"

Then the devil left him,

and angels came and attended him.