Going to bed:)

Good morning! Writing again this morning! May we glorify God in all we do today:)

California week 1

Luminate just finished their first week of tour in California and I've been so amazed by the work God has done in kid's lives! It's super crazy how God can take a nobody like me and use me to completely change someone's life! That right there show's God's grace and mercy! Wow I'm so not worthy Wow...I love being able to connect with so many people... it's such a great oppurtunity to love and serve... We've been staying in Running Springs and I can't even begin to describe the beauty of the mountains... Sometimes I wonder how people can see such beauty in creation and deny that it points to a creator!

I pray that this next week will be amazing and that I can truly serve these kids...it is super heavy on my heart to want to see something radical happen...just getting to meet them tonight I felt such a connection...

Lord may You just fall on us in these mountains and show Yourself so clear to these kids. May they know that You are real and have such a freaking huge Love for them! May they see that You are a stronghold...that You long to give them rest. It amazes me that You have such a selfless heart to all of us even though we don't even begin to deserve it! Lord you are awesome, You are enough! I pray that these kids will find all they need in You!

God you're amazing!

Here's a few pics from the trip so far

Santa Monica Pier
The top of Runion Canyon looking down on L.A. and Hollywood

Manhattan Beach
7,000 ft. above sea level in the mountains in Running Springs

Broken vessels

So I sit in bed this morning and all I can think about is the Lord's promises! I'm so thankful for how he can surround me with people who He uses to speak into my life! Lord as I leave to embark on this 7 week journey, may I long after You... May I long to be completely broken... So that when your abundant blessings flood my life, they have no where to pool but flow out of of me, my broken vessels, and changes those around me! Thankyou Lord that you continue to pour into my life in abundance so that I don't even have to attempt to pour into others lives but just realize that your love overflows my cup and anyone near is gonna get wet! You are sovereign... Its not me, it's you! Lord, keep me humble, keep me broken... Lord have your complete way in me. I want to see lives changed this summer! I am your broken vessel:)

Faith and glorification

Lord today I make my prayer to be humble in everything I do as well as think or speak... You are my rock! Help me to be so willing to serve others... My heart is burdened to long after You and not find my strength in this world... In everything, I truly want nothing more than to cling to your cross... It's the only thing that stands firm in my life, the only thing that grants me peace....

So, Lord, please help me, help me, help me! I truly need you today... So that I can be a reflection of your love. Humble me, put me on my face and let me get to washin some feet!

The Lord is most glorified when we are most satisfied in Him

I love you God.... Something extremely fierce

Nashville Pics

LOVE

Maybe this is random but I feel the need to get it off my chest or maybe just to get a better hold on what I'm thinking in my head because I can't get the pieces together yet...so, feel free to read and I apologize if it makes little sense.

I guess over the past few weeks I have been experiencing many forms of love and have seen positive effects as well as unfortunately negative effects when love is put it someone's own context... I honestly don't know what I'm trying to say...but I do know that the the human heart longs to be loved and in most cases will do anything to achieve it.... Love is by far something most beautiful in my eyes and especially after experiencing a wedding that was completely founded on a firm trust in the Lord and his plans for these 2 individuals lives.... I am so thankful for that love

I am also thankful for the love of my parents...it is so unlike anything else:) it leaves me very speachless and in deep thought to try and grasp how deep it runs...but that also is rooted from my thankfulness that the Lord would be merciful enough to give me such amazing parents...

I guess my final words would probably be...LORD I AM SO THANKFUL FOR YOUR LOVE! I am so thankful for His willingness to suffer pain and loss and go through everything I can even imagine i would encounter in this hurtful life...just so I could experience the Love of His Father...that is some amazing grace

So in a nut shell...my Lord is overwhelming to me and so unfathomable because I can't understand the power of Love, it is what I long for, and I love to see the effects of full out down and dirty love on the people around me: ) its powerful stuff

Three words: God is Love

Learning Every Day

I must say that this week has been an incredible one...the Lord has revealed himself so much this week. I kinda took some steps back to listen to the Lord... to hear from Him. His intimacy has been incredible, It is so beautiful...The Lord's love is so outstanding I have trouble bearing it,it overwhelms me... Thankyou Lord! I am so thankful for the cross and how it is continually an anchor to which I can cling... I know that more recently God has blessed me and always will...but I am thankful that when the storms come, I Know that I serve a God who is not only Greater than I but has also made himself lower than me....He knows and Has experienced all the pains that this world has to offer....He gave it all for me! He truly is my only Hope that is lasting!

Lord I pray that I will continually fall on You...Your love is overwhelming! Help me Help me Help me cause I got nothing...Your it! You are all I have to live for!

Ephesians 2:1-6
1 It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. 2 You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. 3 We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. 4 Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, 5 he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! 6 Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.

Time Passed

Well alot of time has passed since I last blogged....

I have recently turned 20 years of age as of march 20th
I have recently signed my first record contract with sparrow records
I feel like this year has been a huge year for growth in my life already...I am so thankful from where the Lord has brought me and that he overflows with grace and so much goodness...It overwhelms my heart! : )

-dustin

The New Year!

Well it sure has been some time since I have written on here.... I still can't believe it is 2009. It honestly blows me away to think of where God has brought me within one year...

there are things that I have lost,things I have gained, times that have been awesome and more than ever, times that have been painful. But I can't thank the Lord enough because through all of 2008, I have gained a more intimate relationship with my Father.

My prayer for this New Year is that I would truly learn what it means to serve others. That I can look past people's present circumstances and choose to love them in the midst of their trials. In Saying that, I am so thankful for Christ's love for me. No matter how many times I screw up, He is always right next to me. The Lord is truly amazing.

Dear Lord, teach me to serve my Family, My Brothers, My Sisters, and everyone around me so That they may know that they are Loved by You.....

John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.