A Disciple's Renewal - Valley of Vision

O my Saviour,Help me.
I am so slow to learn,
so prone to forget,
so weak to climb;
I am in the foothills when I should be on the heights;
I am pained by my graceless heart,
my prayerless days,
my poverty of love,
my sloth in the heavenly race,
my sullied conscience,
my wasted hours,
my unspent opportunities.
I am blind while light shines around me;
take the scales from my eyes,
grind to dust the evil heart of unbelief.
Make it my chiefest joy to study thee,
meditate on thee,
gaze on thee,
sit like Mary at thy feet,
lean like John on thy breast,
appeal like Peter to thy love,
count like Paul all things dung.
Give me increase and progress in grace
so that there may be
more decision in my character,
more vigour in my purposes,
more elevation in my life,
more fervour in my devotion,
more constancy in my zeal.
As I have a position in the world,
keep me from making the world my position;
May I never seek in the creature
what can be found only in the Creator;
Let not faith cease from seeking thee
until it vanishes into sight.
Ride forth in me, thou King of kings
and Lord of lords,
that I may live victoriously,
and in victory attain my end.

Valley of Vision pg 334-335

Chosen Ones - Adopting with Albinism

I am amazed by this story.  A couple who adopted three boys from China who have albinism.  In China, those who have Albinism have no chance of going to school, getting jobs, getting married etc. they don't have much of a future.  Also I heard that in Tanzania people who have albinism are being murdered and their limbs being taken off because it has been said that their body parts will make them rich. This is horrific. I had no idea this was happening in other countries. There is a need for adoption with albinism. Get on it.
I love the lady when she says, "We could just get old, or we could get old and do something."

Chosen ones from preston gannaway on Vimeo.

New Website

Hello friends!
This is a new website/blog for your enjoyment!  Please update your links/rss feeds/google readers  etc.
Explore a bit and learn more about me, listen to some great music by my friends and read about my ministry at the Austin Stone Community Church.
My prayer for this website is that you are blessed and that it can be a resource of encouragement to you. Would love any feedback from you and would love for you to share this with those who will be blessed by what God is doing through me and my ministry.  So thankful for all of your support.
You are loved!

My Hearts Cry

My sweet Jesus, All I am
All I have
Everything is Yours
Everything

With everything
With everything
We will shout for Your glory
With everything
With everything
We will shout forth Your praise

"My soul yearns, even faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God." - Psalm 84:2

Our hearts they cry
Be glorified
Be lifted high above all names
For You our King with everything
We will shout forth Your praise

My sweet Jesus, All I am
All I have
Everything is Yours

Everything

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like You have loved me
Break my heart for what breaks Yours
Everything I am for Your Kingdom's cause
As I walk from earth into eternity

Heal me, heal my heart and make me clean
Open up my eyes to see what I can't see 
Show me how to love like You have loved me
Break down my heart, break it for everything that breaks Yours
Everything I am, everything I have, all of me is for You and Your glory
Heal me, break me as I walk from this earth into eternity

Our God is a consuming fire
A burning Holy flame with glory and freedom...
Our God is jealous for His own
None could comprehend his love and his mercy...

"Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the Lord your God has forbidden.  For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God." Deuteronomy 4:23-24


Songs in bold:
With Everything - Hillsong
Hosanna - Hillsong
A Mighty Fortress - Christy Nockels

My Ministry & ONLINE GIVING

I have been given the amazing opportunity to be a resident at my church, The Austin Stone Community Church.  

For the last year and a half I have been able to do full time ministry and I have been beyond blessed.  God has blessed me with an amazing team that I get to lead with and learn from. 

Every Sunday I get to help lead worship for thousands of people, alongside some of the greatest worship leaders including Aaron Ivey, Jimmy McNeal, Todd Agnew & Justin Cofield. Every Sunday, I am humbled that God chose me to do what I'm doing.  To see the way that He moves in people to worship...it's a beautiful thing.

The Lord has also called me to love on the women in our church, building them up and walking through life with them, pointing them to the gospel, towards Jesus and His word. Again, I am humbled that God would use this broken, messed up girl who struggles with all kinds of things, to make an impact for His glory. It is only through His strength and grace, it is completely Him.

 

I have also had the privilege to help coordinate the production of our new LIVE worship album, released December 6th. Austin Stone Worship. I'm so excited about this album.  These are songs that we sing on Sunday and love that people can have these songs to take with them throughout the week to worship Jesus wherever they are.

I'm so thankful for this opportunity to serve God and to give back what He has given me. He gives willingly. Provides abundantly. Loves graciously. I'm forever thankful

If you would like to support me and my ministry at the Austin Stone check out the DONATE tab for more information or go to the ONLINE GIVING link on the sidebar to take you straight to the website.

Worship Him, Moon

So we may not be athletes or in shape…so what.

Ani and I decided to go for a “run” tonight at 9:30 around our neighborhood. It’s 10:00 and we are back home. With a total of maybe 2 minutes of actual running.
Let’s skip past the parts where it’s dark outside, we have headphones blasting our music and the fact that it’s STILL 105 degrees outside and we kind of got lost…I promise…we ARE safe…
We decided to make our way back to the house so we turn back around headed back the way we came…except this time I look up and see a full moon shining at us. It was beautiful. Light.  The sky was clear and it was beautiful. God’s greatness.
I was listening to the new Passion CD, Awakening. The songs that came on at that point had me almost on my face.

For You and You alone
Awake my soul, awake my soul and sing
For the world You love
Your will be done, let Your will be done in me

And my hands went up.
Your will be done Lord. For You alone. For YOU.

Then came this song:

With everything, with everything
We will shout for your glory
With everything, with everything
We will shout forth Your praise

Our hearts they cry be glorified
Be lifted high above all names
For You our king
With everything we will shout forth Your praise

Again…the hands went up.
Everything I have, all that I am, everything for YOU.
There was a point where there was a big gap in the trees and houses and you could just see sky and moon.
Oh my heart.
I love worship times like this.

Psalm 148:1-5
“Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens! Praise him from the skies! Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all the armies of heaven! Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you twinkling stars!  Praise him, skies above! Praise him, vapors high above the clouds! Let every created thing give praise to the Lord, for he issued his command, and they came into being.”

I Need An Accent Please

Sometimes I wish I had an accent. A fun accent like British or Australian or Irish. Not like a Kentucky accent. (no offense to anyone who lives in Kentucky)
I would actually just settle for thinking in an accent. I feel like I could come up with some great writing if I were to think in an accent. For real.
This was a completely random, ridiculous post...but I felt like I needed to post it.