Edify*

1O Lord, our Lord,how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and infants,

you have established strength because of your foes,

to still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

4 what is man that you are mindful of him,

and the son of man that you care for him?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than

the heavenly beings crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;

you have put all things under his feet,

7 all sheep and oxen,and also the beasts of the field,

8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord,how majestic is your name in all the earth!

I am not really in a writing mood, but I want to attempt to put into words some of the things God did at Xtreme.

First of all, I have to say that Grant Layman is a wonderful and gifted speaker, a blessing to those who hear him. I think his 1st and 3rd messages spoke to me the most.

the first was on God's greatness (Psalm 8). Grant showed a huge poster thing that had different diagrams of the universe. I had a hard time following, from lack of sleep and my great abundance of human weakness and uncomprehension (does that make sense?). anyways, he pointed out the sun, the earth, and shared some facts about the universe and how large it is. almost everytime he said: "and this is the sun here" (or something to that effect), and used his little laser pointer, I was looking down at my notes, so by the time i looked up, I had missed it! even still, I was amazed, overwhelmed, and a little frustrated at how little I could fathom.

Some things I jotted down in my notes:

INCOMPREHENSIBLE

my brain hurts

~Psalm 145:3: Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable.

puny man

a speck of dust and a sinner

this is the essence of sin= preferring other things to the glory of God.

so there was lots more in that message, but i don't have the time, space or capability to share it all. Listen to the messages on the xtreme website :)

the other message that really spoke to me was Grant Layman's message on heaven. Wow. conviction. how little do i think of heaven and long for it. for the sake of time, i won't got into it too much, but I will say that it affected me alot, and it was a while after the message before i was able to keep myself from crying. God is so gracious to let someone like me into His presence. which ties into somethings Danny Jones said in his message about what to do next. God wants me. He chose me! without His mercy, gently pulling me off of my own little path that was leading to death, I would have never chosen Him, and continued on my way. Sometimes I think that I didn't have a 'dramatic' conversion. I was 5 when I gave my heart to the Lord, but even though I was so young, I was still an evil little person, sinning against God and doomed to hell. Praise God that He chose me in His kindness and love.

that was a little lengthy, but it could have been longer. Be encouraged, and listen to the messages!

~Beks