Oceans Calling

Meet Nate and Alex. God has chosen these two as School leaders for the School of Worship I will be apart of. I am so excited to learn from them and to see God move through them over the next 6 months. Watch this promo and hear more of their hearts for Worship and for our King!!

As human beings, I think many of us struggle with wanting to control things. We want to control situations so that we can avoid unexpected surprises. We want to control our future by creating security and comfort. We want to control the people around us by reminding them where they fail because we think somehow that would motivate them to change. We try to control God. We tell Him when to speak and how He should speak to us. We tell Him our definition of good and love and expect Him to be those things or we will tell Him maybe He isn't who He should be. We ask Him to move in worship times and in our lives, but when things feel out of our control we freak and accuse and judge. I wouldn't say these things if I hadn't myself battled this want to control and found myself doing these things. I want to focus mainly on control and worship. I believe there are times where things can get out of hand, distract from God, or can be inappropriate in a time of corporate worship.  I a

Lately I have had to battle a lot of discouragement while also facing situations where I am like "yeah Jesus!" because I can see Him moving. It can be difficult to stay courageous and full of faith. So long story short I was asking God to help me and I started looking in the bible for situations where people where in missions and what God has said about things like support raising and facing difficult situations. In doing so, I uncovered some amazing and encouraging words that remind me that I am doing what God says and to not loose heart! In the old testament the Bible talks about the Levites, one of the tribes who were ministers, or today we would say they are the missionaries. God said that they were to do what He had called them to do while being supported financially by the body of Christ. "I’m giving the Levites all the tithes of Israel as their pay for the work they do in the Tent of Meeting"  Numbers 18:21 "At that time the Lord set apart the tr

Hey Friends,  I apologize that I haven't updated every day!! I have a few posts that made it to my Facebook page but not the blog, so I am going to do a little catch up and share them today!!! Earlier this week I shared this message, Be Still. "Be still, and know that I am God". Sometimes the best thing for you is to do nothing. To Stop. To be still and know God is God. Pick a worship song, let it play. Sit and soak. Stop trying so hard. Invited God to come and be with you. I shared this because It can be so hard for us to simply stop. Many come from a culture of perfection, striving, work based acceptance and seeing being busy as success. However, when we try to take control over our lives and everything in them, we hold tight and don't give things to God. We try to fix things, prepare for things, make everything look good, when really on the inside we are falling fast.  Sometimes we even try to earn our salvation, or earn God's love by looking at wh

Part of Worshiping God is testifying what He is doing and give Him the glory for those things. Sometimes this is much easier to do when God has come through and we look back and declare His goodness. But what about when you are in the middle of a challenging situation, how do you testify in the waiting. I don't really know the answer but I think Faith and the Holy Spirit's leading has to do with it. God can give you hope in your situation and His voice gives us what is needed to hold to the vision and persevere through the hard times. So this brings me to what I want to share. I honestly didn't want to make it public that I booked my flights last week. I was afraid. Afraid of what people would think. Afraid of what could happen. Not a good place to be friends. So as I begin a new week and am moving forwards, I felt that I needed to testify to what God is doing! I need to have faith. After buying my tickets I had about $100 in my bank account. Because of being given th

If worship isn't really about the music and the songs, can you worship without them? I would have to say the answer is yes!!!! I want to share more about using the Arts as Worship. I have always been passionate about the arts. All I can say is that it is a gift from God. I'm not being prideful or dramatic, the thing is I have no idea where my passion and gifts came from. So it must be Jesus. Art, music, dance, design, writing, from the clothes I pick out in the morning to the way my brain works. So an amazing God breathed part of my journey, was that out of all the ywam bases out there, I landed in Brisbane, Australia where I was to be apart of a Music, Art & Dance discipleship training school. I then was called to be a leader on these schools, guiding people in how they can use creativity for Jesus. Students learned how to use Dance to evangelize, Use Photography to speak identity into others, Music to share what God had done in their lives, film to capture tes

Hey everyone!! I was able to have a fundraiser dinner last night and because of peoples amazing generosity $1,000 came in to support my next year in missions. Praise Jesus!!! So now I want to let you know where my need is at. I would love to see $9,000 come in over the next 3 weeks. this would cover everything I would need for the School of Worship. It covers home, food, soap, transport, and school fees, along with outreach and ministry costs. Please consider giving at my twards my Gofundme Campaign below. Click here to donate!! If you are not able to give, please be praying for me! I understand that not everyone can or should give. However, I also have had nothing but the $5 in my pocket and have given it to someone in need because God said to. He Provides man!!! So fight with me in prayer to see financial breakthrough!!

I believe that having a thankful heart and an attitude of thankfulness can open doors for God to move. It is also an amazing way to live a life of spiritual warfare. Fight discouragement and hard situations with thanking God for who He is!! I encourage you to think about what your current hardships are. Even if you don't understand, think about who God is despite your circumstance. thank God for that aspect of His character. Proclaim who God is over your life and invite Him to show you more of Himself. An example is like me and my finances right now. I tell God how amazing it is that He is my God and my provider. He determines my identity, not my bank account or my need. God is good!!!

Happy Monday!! I wanted to share my facebook page with you guys because I often am able to post more videos and pictures there. "Like" my page to get more updates and to see more of what God is doing on my journey!! My Facebook Page Thanks! Lindsey

About a year ago I was preparing to staff on my Second discipleship training school in Brisbane. One of my specific roles for the school was organizing the prayer and worship during the 6 months we were together. I was excited and nervous to take something like this on, but God knew. So as I started seeking Him for vision. I was reminded of a passage of scripture and a teaching I heard a few months before while at a week long Worship School in New Zealand. Luke 7:36-50 Shares a story from Jesus' life when He was invited to hang out at the house of a man called Simon. "Dinner at my place?". So Jesus went. While there, a woman showed up who had not the best of reputations (Some translations say she was a prostitute). She had learned Jesus would be there and so she entered the house with a jar of expensive perfume. She came to Jesus and she began to weep, her tears falling on his feet. She took her hair and wiped his feet. After, she kissed His feet and poured the expensiv

Worship. noun. the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity. glorifica tion, exultation, honor, praise. Looks good on paper I guess, but my experience has been more then a sweet definition and list of synonyms. It hasn't been as easy as a step 1,2,3. It hasn't been something where I could look at what the kid next to me was doing and just do the same. It has been far from simple, and yet being on a journey of discovering what worship really is has actually brought me to a simplicity of life that is unbeatable.  God is God. Give Him the glory.  Ok, so you may be thinking, "ok, so what are you saying Lindsey, what is the point." What I am saying is that. God IS the point. What is Worship? It is giving Glory to God. Not to your situation, your problems, your skills, your church, and not yourself. Maybe this sounds simple to you, but I am continually learning how to do this. Here is an example of where I had to learn what true worship l

Hey Everyone! My time in the US is coming to a close. One month from now the School Of Worship will begin! I hope to be there!! So I have 4 weeks to raise support for the next 6 months, pack, say good bye to Michigan and G'Day to Australia!! I will be posting something every day for the next month to share more of my journey, more of what God is doing, and give more of my testimony as to why SOW.  I hope what I share encourages you to trust God in your own life!! He is so good!!!!

Here is a look back on my 2014!! It has been such an adventure with many ups and downs. God has been there through it all and I want to thank the people who have walked with me and supported me this past year!! I began the year in beautiful Australia. I was Staffing at ywam Brisbane and had no idea what was going to happen and what God was going to do!! I was Baptized in the Pacific ocean in one of my favorite places, Redcliffe. I felt God in such a beautiful way that day and I haven't been the same since!!  After praying and preparing, the Discipleship training schools finally began in February. I was staffing on a school specifically focused to discover more of God in the arts and glorifying Him with our gifts. New students, new testimonies of God's faithfulness, new places to serve, however the same amazing God!! I Co-lead a team to England and Norway in June and July. It was an awesome time of serving with our brothers and sisters in the UK and Scandin