Ian Yates
Two years ago Ian Yates was a young worship leader committed to a small church set in the middle of one of the UK's areas of highest unemployment....
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The Desperate Cry (The Hope And The Glory)
I have a passion to see broken lives transformed. I have a passion to see God move in an amazing way. My heart is to see the lost and broken getting completely transformed by the power and love of God I have seen glimpses of what God can do and I believe there is so much more. My hearts cry is to see God move in our town, in our city and in our nation I believe that as we worship the presence of God comes and dwells with us. When we lift God high He comes and dwells amongst us. As we worship we can experience the manifest presence of God and when we experience the manifest presence of God peoples lives are changed. We see healing, we see the addict getting set free, we see demons flee, we see blind eyes opening, broken lives being restored, we see lives being redeemed. Wouldn’t it be awesome to see this in our churches and on our streets? We live in a broken and hurting world. The only answer is God. It’s Jesus. We have seen various glimpses of God’s glory and power transforming lives. People always say there is a tangible presence of God at church. For me there is nothing more inspiring then seeing someone whose life was a mess, having there life changed and worshiping God At church we’ve seen God do amazing things Alcoholics getting radically saved, People with depression getting healed, People who have been abused getting their life restored Single parents finding hope and love I’m longing to see more! Only Jesus can save this world and only Jesus can bring the change! I believe our worship, our Songs can change the atmosphere they can bring down the glory of God, the manifest presence of God! As we see this we will see lives radically changed! We will see the atmosphere around us change I believe this is what will change many lives My prayer is that we would be desperate to see God move!
Hope in the hopelessness (The Hope And The Glory)
We live in a broken world, full of broken people who have lost hope People have no ambition, no purpose to life and they feel they have no future. In Bootle there is a lot of unemployment. A lot of kids are brought up by parents who have never worked and sometimes their grandparents have never worked. These kids have no aspirations and no ambitions. Around us are single parents, people with depression, people who think they can’t do anything with their lives. The area is known as one of the poorest places in the country. People are broken Now this may paint a negative picture of Bootle, but the reality is this is the case in many areas of our nation. Even wealthy areas have many people with no ambition or hope. Over the last few years we have seen God do amazing things! We have seen many lives radically changed. Amongst all this hopelessness and brokenness, I believe there is hope! I believe there is hope in Jesus and because of what He has done there is hope in us True hope is only found in Jesus! He gives us purpose, He gives us a future, He gives us life in abundance. He gives us unmerited favour, He gives us a reason to live. He gives us unconditional and boundless love When we truly realise what Jesus has done for us, we become the light in the darkness, we can be the difference, we can bring joy, we can bring peace. We can comfort the widow, the orphan, the torn we can feed the hungry, be strength to the weak, see the captive free. We can bring hope to the abused, to the single parent, to the drug addict, to the alcoholic. Now, I’ve been sitting on this blog for 4 months since being asked to write about it. I’ve struggled with sending it off and I’m not really sure why, but tonight I watched the I-heart revolution film at the odeon in Liverpool and once again it confirmed to me this message that we have and we are the answer. We can be the difference We can bring the change We are all is this together and little by little, step by step as we live out this awesome message of hope many hopeless lives will find hope!
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