passion 2012 songs!

throughout the week, there were several songs that were released and made for just for us.

the awesome new is that there were new songs to worship.

but the bad news is that because of that, they're not on CD till march...MARCH!

here were the songs that totally enhanced my experience.

'we raise our white flag, we surrender all to you.  all for you.

we raise our white flag, the war is over. love has come. your love has won.

we lift the cross, lift it high, lift it high'  

--white flag and the Passion theme song

'let our praise be Your welcome, let our songs be a sign,

we are here for You.  we are here for YOU.....

let our shout be your anthem, let our praise fill the skies,

we are here for You. we are here for YOU.

we welcome You with praise, we welcome You with praise.

almighty God of love, be welcomed in this place.

Let every heart adore, let every soul awake.

almighty God of love, be welcomed in this place.'

--we are here for You, matt redman

{this is the song that always played when we were in nosebleed section and bummed.  this slapped us into the right mindset, for sure}

'i'm not ashamed of the One who saved my soul.

i'm not ashamed of the One who saved my soul, my soul.

this fire inside of me, is burning for Your name,

i'm not ashamed.  NO, NO. (insert fist pump). i'm not ashamed!'

--i'm not ashamed, kristian stanfill

'all i need, i have found.

in my life, Jesus.

more of you, Jesus.

You are the One, You are the One.

in everything, Jesus.

my heart sings, Jesus.

You are the One, You are the One!

--Only One, chris tomlin

'on the altar of our praise, let there be no higher name,

Jesus Son of God.

You laid down your perfect life, you are the sacrifice,

Jesus Son of God.
....

be lifted higher than all You've overcome,

Your name be louder than any other song.

there is no power that can come against Your love,

the cross was enough, the cross was enough!'

--the cross was enough, chris tomlin

'you are Holy, Holy, Holy

God most high and God most worthy.

You are Holy, Holy, Holy,

Jesus You are!'

....

who shall we say you are?

you're the living God.

who shall we say you are?

you're the great i am.

the highest name of all,

you're all you say you are'

--holy, matt redman

'i lay me down i'm not my own,

i belong to You alone.
lay me down, lay me down.  oh, oh, oh.

hand on my heart this much is true,

there's no life apart from You,

lay me down, lay me down.

.....

it will be my joy to say, Your will...Your way!

it will be my joy to say, Your will...Your way!

it will be my joy to say....Your will...Your way....always!'

--lay me down, chris tomlin

'bless the Lord, O my soul, O my soul,

worship His Holy name.

sing like never before, O my soul,

i'll worship Your Holy name.'

--bless the Lord, matt redman

'christ has died and Christ has rised,

and Christ will come again!'

--mystery, charlie hall

'yahweh, your name alone be exalted.

yahweh, our hearts are Yours forever.'

--yahweh, chris tomlin

'the cross before me, the world behind me.

i will follow, i will follow.

no turning back.  no turning back'

--chris tomlin

'and when shadows fall on us, 

we will not fear, we will remember.

when darkness falls on us,

we will not fear, we will remember

....

we're resting in the shadow of the cross'

--shadows, david crowder band

'i want to love you more and more,

know you and all that Your heart is for.

Jesus, my all in all'

--jesus my all in all, charlie hall

'waiting here for you, 

with our hands lifted high in praise.

and its you, we adore, singing alleluia'

--waiting here for you, christy nockels

one night i cried during the 'i will follow, no turning back' and 'white flag'.  

something about that night, january 3rd, was just so amazing. i felt so overwhelmed by His love and i wanted to badly to just give my all, ALL the time.  there's NO turning back.  this relationship is a fighting battle.  a battle to be intention and draw near to Him, so He can draw near to me. and a battle that is so so worth it.

it had been my prayer (oddly enough) that i would cry during worship at Passion.

i just feel so intimate with Him during worship, and knew i wanted to get to that place where i was so overwhelmed, i couldn't help but cry.  and it happened.  i was just so stinking overwhelmed by my almighty Savior!

and on that night of january 3rd, chris tomlin also led us all in 'our god is greater, our god is stronger' in several different languages.  it was one of the most amazing things.  french, spanish, swahili and many others.  it was beyond powerful to have the representation of all the nations, praising our King.

{me and josh at the david crowder band concert!}

{david crowder band did their last concert ever at Passion 2012.}

{getting recognized by louie}

{hillsong concert!  5th row--jack, josh, aj, me, susannah}

happy birthday j and k!

today my big brother and sister turn 24 years old. 

while we have had our moments of voice raising, i am still so blessed to have them.

the other day we went to california pizza kitchen to celebrate.

{birthday boy and girl}

and today i went to the franklin park conservatory with my mama. 

it was so good and i hadn't been in YEARS.

{awesome chihula glass}

{a pretty pond}

i am officially all move back into malone.

it's such a weird feeling--feel i never left!  lol.

i am certainly not ready for another semester, but i supposed i have to start in order to finish.

i'm praying for strength to get through this semester and be open to the Lord's oppostunities that may arise.

i had a great talk with our RD, stacy, tonight.

had some home made tomato soup, which was delicious!

then talked about a lot of good stuff.

she is 30 and single, and we talked about how that was not her choice, and how i fear that will be my situation.  and how badly i don't want that.

but how important to know that the Lord is being faithful and giving us exactly what we need.  whether that is being single or married, He knows.  and if we are called to be single longer, than He knew that was exactly what we needed to do His work.

good stuff, and a great way to start the beginning of a semester!

now let the sleep deprivation begin :)

p.s...tomorrow is a long post about passion...i promise!

trying to describe passion 2012

the post i've almost been dreading..in the best way possible.

passion 2012. i don't even know where to begin.

trying to describe this is like describing the impossible.

i am slightly depressed to be back, and wish i could be surrounded by Jesus and His word 24/7/365.  it's so hard to come back and not be totally surrounded by Jesus.  make sense?  

my heart is just so desiring of Him, and i often let the business of life quench that.

{the opening night we read 45 minutes of scripture.  so awesome}

the week started as me going with a group of 25 people, only 1 of whom i knew.

and that 1 girl, susannah, was not even a really close friend.

i barely knew her.  so as you can see i was a bit worried.

but i quickly discovered that there was no need to be worried!

we drove through the night (they left around 7 pm and i met them around 9 pm) and they met me down here so that i didn't have to drive 2 hours north to come back south--i was so thankful for that!

{passion 2012}

when we got to atlanta, we were all freaking exhausted.

we got in around 7 30 am and they had some of my room ready, except the room with me and my roomies.

however, someone {rebecca} graciously let us crash in their room and all 5 of us slept for over 2 hours.

we were woken up and told we had a room, and then we started getting ready for the evening stuff.

Louie Giglio--who heads Passion--started off the night with a passage in Luke 7:11.

it is about the son who is being carried during his funeral, and Jesus interrupts the funeral and tells him to get up.  

this went in to talking about how many of us are on our way to spiritual deaths and Jesus wants to intercept. and we should want Jesus to use us to intercept other 'deaths' going on.

and it got me to thinking about all the lies i have been believing and how i was on my way to my own Spiritual death.

do you know how hard that hit? 

i believe i am not good enough.

not of love, and of true everlasting life.

and not believing that is a HUGE issue. and continuing to believe that leads to DEATH.

and as Louie said, 

'Jesus didn't come to make us from 'bad' to 'good'.  but He came to take us from DEATH to LIFE'. 

so needless to say, after the first session i already knew the Lord was doing awesome things.

then, we met with our small groups.

we had community groups where everyone in the group was given a colored wrist band.

there were 19 total, and all 44,000 of us were split up.

i was part of glitter green--the best community group!

we had the largest amount of people EVER in any Passion CG and had almost 4,000 people.

not to mention, we made the top trend on Twitter throughout one session!

there were also two other times where things going on at Passion were top trends in the world on Twitter.

how awesome is that? 

{a little proof! go glitter green}

{glitter green and striped green unite!}

{my glitter!}

 {our favorite greater!  every morning she would say 'show me your glitter!'

in our group of Glitter green, our leaded was ben stewart.

he was fabulous and hilarious.

and once we were there the first night, we broke into groups of 8 people.

we were to randomly meet 3 people and on the 3rd person, stay with them.

for me that was me and morgan.

she is such a sweet heart and we connected on a lot of levels.

we both struggle with family members not being believers, and with living those those who are not necessarily interested in furthering their relationship with the Lord.

then us 2 were to find 2 more people.

then those groups of 4 were to find 4 more.

so we ended up with 8 amazing people. and that is what my group was-amazing!

{ben stewart--our fearless leader}

{glitter green praying}

{awesome family group--nick, josh, devin, bryan, julia, emily, me and morgan}

all the speakers at Passion were fabulous, needless to say.

there were several songs, quotes, people, and conversations that impacted my life.

i can't believe it took me so long to get to the Passion Conference.

the Dome was PACKED and we had to wait in lines a lot.

but luckily, several of the guys didn't go to their family groups and got there early to get us seats. 

we would have been in the nose bleed section all the time had that not been the case!

there were a couple times where Susannah, Peter and i got stuck in the nosebleed because our session would get out late and they only let you save seats for a certain amount of time.

and i tell ya, that was not a pretty situation.

we were all slightly irritated, especially since we couldn't be with our group.

and the first song we started singing?

'let Your word move in power,

let what's dead, come to life.

we are here for you, we are here for YOU'

me and Susannah instantly felt slapped in the face.

it didn't matter that we were in the nosebleed.

the Lord and His presence was everywhere.

on the floor, in the lower bowl, and even in the nosebleed.

and after this time of being in the nosebleed, we were careful to always be with aj, josh s., or other josh cause they knew their way around.

and one day before the david crowder band we could not find them to save our LIVES.  and it was so so frustrating.

peter and roxie wouldn't leave till we found them and we felt babysat.

and we ended up in the nosebleed with aj and josh. 

but again, we decided our attitude needed to change if that happened again {it was happening at the beginning so we were thinking we were going to be in the nosebleed every session! LOL}

there were many other songs that touched me so deeply, and other quotes that really hit home.

i will slit up the post so that this isn't too massive.

but some pics of our adventures {these will be split up too!}

{everyone worshiping!  so amazing to be with 44,000 others praising my King!}

{julia, me, susannah}

{AJ, me, susannah}

{annie, forget her name!, kristin, me, susannah}

{some others in the group!  danny, maddy, rixy, julia, abby, leah}

{in the Georgia Dome!}

{we raised  36K towels and 156K pairs of socks for the homeless}

{lots and lots of people.  they wouldn't let everyone go so we had to wait for traffic to clear!}

{before late session--julia, me, maddy, susannah}

{josh aka sepos, maddy, susannah, me, julia}

{so amazing to look around and see others worshiping}

here is a start.  

can't wait to share what i've learned!

can't wait to share about passion 2012!

so so so much to say about passion 2012.

basially, it was amazing and the Lord showed Himself in more ways than i could imagine.

i spent some time de-briefing and it was much needed.

look forward to sharing more about what He spoke to my heart.

and of course, can't wait to share pictures :)

but today i got to see my best friend for the first time in over a year.

wow.  my heart is beyond happy.

we spent some time at Target and then having wine and chocolate at her place.

it was much needed.

we had some great conversations--including religion, adventures, politics, and you can't forget about boys.

i am so thrilled she is HOME!

{someone pinch me that i'm with her in person}

{me and my bestie}

{don't know what i would do without her}

needless to say, i am so blessed she is in my life.

plus, and there is nothing like a good talk till 3 am.

happy new year! 2012.

happy new year.

can't believe it's already come and gone!

brought in the new year with bishop and brook, and it couldn't have been more fun.

enjoy some of the adventures:

disclaimer:  there was NO alcohol involved.  only grape juice!

{hellllllo streamers}

{such a cutie}

{me and my brook}

{me and my bishop. she'll be at Passion, too!}

{oh my}

{love them!}

{one of my favorites}

{keepin in classy}

{love her}

{this is how we watched the ball drop.  live on the iPad.  we know....whoever chose this house as the party house didn't really think that through haha.}

{having fun}

{after the ball drop!}

 

{we're excited}

{par-tay}

 

{happy new year!}

hope it was one you'll never forget.

and i pray this year is a great one for all.

as for now, i'm headed to the Dome!

PASSION 2012, here we come :)
(see ya'll in a week!)

cheers, 2011.

it's so crazy to think that tomorrow is the last day of the year 2011. 

how does it go so fast?!  

as i reflect on the year, here are some personal highlights:

--i completed my first real clinical rotational (and then another one!). 

--i completed my 3rd half marathon--the Columbus cap city.

--i got the amazing opportunity to attend a new church and get really involved.  i met some of the most amazing people in the process.

--i went on my first 17 day vacation with a family who is not my own.  fun....yet challenging.

--i went through the grieving process {and still am} with a family i love more than anything.  all because of a decision made with good intentions. i had to feel how the heart can literally ache in the absence of those you love (missing my sweet aidan, rory and aubrey). 

--i got to be a 'returning' CA, and a small group leader.  this position has blessed me so much the last two years.  my small group was amazing, and it's the best one i've had yet.  we all connected so well and i felt like we could share anything.  what a blessing true friendships are.

--i turned 21 years old.  helllllo accomplishment!

--i ran, and completed, my first Warrior Dash with 9 of my closest friends.  great life choice.

--while i got to be a big part of my now 'home church', i also found an amazing church back at school, Parkside.  i got to experience what it is like to not want to go home, because you love your church at school, too.  while VGF is my home, Parkside is a great 'second' home!

--i started part-time nannying for an amazing family with a set of twin boys (born 9-12-11). they have brought so much sunshine to a challenging semester--not to mention, their parents have been awesome too!

--i went on my first date EVER with a guy.  this was one thing i wanted so badly this year (not only to date, but to make that big step in my commitment phobia).  i actually had two '1st dates' with two different people {gabe and mike} and then got asked by alex but couldn't.  holy year of getting asked on dates {for my record!}

--i also went on my 'first' 2nd date with a guy.

--i survived the first half of my junior year.  i officially have more completed school than there is to finish.  what a great feeling!

and throughout the year, the Lord has been teaching me so much.  i have learned about my arrogance, humility, insecurities and many other things.  He has been refining me and i know He is doing amazing things through all the challenges that have come about.  while this year has been so challenging--with all the learning, and then the almost failing nursing--it has amazed me to look back and see that the Lord was with me every step of the way.  He has never left my side.  what an amazing feeling of comfort and love that has been. without my Savior, my life wouldn't be the same. 

i get to bring in the new year tomorrow with some amazing women. 

looking forward to the celebrations of the new year, and all that 2012 will bring.  

2011 has been a good year...and i hope 2012 is even better :)

ann and bishop=AB=amanda bishop and annabelle.

today was lots of ann and bishop time.

it was so awesome.

i am beyond blessed by her friendship.

i made her family a big meal, and someone left her fridge door open so it was perfect timing.  everything last night got spoiled.  great timing on my part to cook for today!

then, we all ate {it was so so good} and then bishop and i took it to her dad.

i tell ya, he is so sweet. and i like him a lot.

he told me to remember what it's like to be a patient and how it can be lonely and humbling.

and it was really good for me to hear as a nursing student.

i pray that i am a good nurse and never forget this is someone's family.

and treat them with the respect i would want.

oh, i also got to meet baby sydney today!  so precious.

then we went to bishop's starbucks on the way back and then khols.

and then we went to her house and watched 'he's just not that into you'

we had a glass of wine and just relaxed.

it is one of my favorite movies.  so cute...and cliche.

but a good one, for sure.

bishop loved it :)

so i saw her from 4 pm-12:45 am.....and didn't get sick of it one minute.

we're both going to passion...and i can't WAIT.

{love this woman to pieces}

lookin sexy in our new books!