Letters from Lilongwe

This song was used in a the SDP2013 video , then once I found the video I remember seeing it some other time.  Take a listen, but this song has me entranced...   You can analyze the lyrics but they are decently simple. The taste of eternity Is here on our lips With every breath we sing With every breath we sing of Your majesty It's here in our midst With every breath we sing All is Great in the Lord Paul Shackelford

Thinking back to how much the Lord moved and worked in my heart this summer is getting me pumped!  Can't contain the goodness of his love! SDP2013 from Grace Midtown on Vimeo . All is from the Lord Paul Shackelford

Deng this song is heavy.  I remember going to the Beach over the summer and someone was playing this song in the car and it was just rocking me.  The lyrics are below, take a moment and enjoy the truth that is laced throughout this song.  Most of it is simply spoken word that dives deep into the heart of God. Life. Love. Forgiveness. Acceptance. Stripping demons right off my back trying to leech life off me. Get off me and feel my father's fury oppressor! One day you'll feel the full blast of His vengeance. Cause I've got strength. He blew courage in my backbone. Now i'll stand straight and militant. Lining up with Jehovah? knowing you can't challenge Him so we march forward. Swift as eagles, set like talons ready to grip souls from your grasp slick snake and my Lord seizes you and vengeance is His. But for now? a holy mandate to heal cause I know how bad it hurts. Full of madness at first but now gladness bursts at th...

Tonight was an amazing night with the WayFare camp that our sister minstry 3DM puts on for Highschool and Middle Schoolers.  I volunteered with the group today to help the students on their service projects around the Myrtle Beach area.  The service work is not very important to my story but thats the reason I went to their night service with the rest of our group.  The topic for the night was all about identidy and transformation of identity from the curses we have had spoken over us to who the Lord sees us as.  We have been doing a lot of this is the past few weeks at SDP and the Lord has been revealing many of my false identities and replacing them with his Truth.  Tonight I surrendered my false identity as a Black Sheep.  There was a song in high school called Black Sheep by Saliva and I have since that point in time though of myself as the Black Sheep of my family.  My family never placed this identity on me, but rather I laid...

Tonight we had some amazing teaching and it would take a long to time relay some of the powerful truths the Lord was dropping during that time.  Therefore I will tell some of the cool things the Father revealed to me after the talk.  We met in some random building near the Hotel because the conference room was being used tonight.  So after the talk I went and spent some time just talking with Papa.  I walked to a abandoned parking lot designed for an amusement park that shut down in 2001.  This is an expansive area that makes it very conducive to sitting in silence listening to the Lords voice.  I was asking a lot of questions from just to hear he Lords voice in something.  I asked, "Why do You Love Me", and he just rocked me speaking truths into my heart where the Devil had fed lies.  I just cried and walk and cried and walked feeling the weight of the Fathers Presence.  Then I just kept on walking to bench I had ran past on my nightly ru...

These last few days have been packed.  David Rhodes, a leader in the 3DM ministry open up some questions in my mind about Silence.  After a short talk we all broke out and spread around the hotel and waited for the Lords voice.  During this time I did not hear any voices or anything but I go lots of clarity about my Leadership roles, my stewardship of the gifts of the Father.  My main take away from that time is that I will and have been given responsibility and its not my event, organization, project, but rather is a gift that I have a responisbility to care for.  My words are not really coming together but my mind is thinking back to Baby Dedications in my Church when the parents are charged with a fact that these babies are not their children, they are Gods children and they simply have been blessed with time of earth to nurture.  During our half hour of silence I had a Will Reagan and United Pursuit Band song dominating my heart. In the quie...

Greetings from Myrtle Beach!  My time down here has been amazing as I see Papa move in so many ways.  We have been learning a lot about what it means for the Kingdom to be at hand.  How we have God living inside us and what it means for the kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven.  These thoughts have been making my mind spin but the Spirit of Truth has been revealing so much in such a short amount of time.  Please pray for my faith to be ever increasing, trusting the Lord to do crazy and amazing things through our team. All is Great in the Comfort of God Paul Shackelford

Starting day three down here on SDP is gonna involve an early morning workout, a great breakfast and a long time diving into the Word.   I am super pumped to be down here and see what th lord does through our team.  Last night was an amazing time just talking about how the God of the universe lives in us and how that mindset radicallt changes our evangelism.  We had a great time of prayer as we prayed over people for all types of healings and restorations.  One thing yall can be praying for is that our family group gets oue jobs at Nike.  We will be interviewing sometime in the next few days just pray that the Lord will lead the manager and our words.  It is amazing to see the power of the risen Christ at work in our team. Update: The run was great and we played a lot basketball so now I am worn out and its just 10.  Time to jump into the word and tune my heart, mind and soul to the Lord. All is great in the Lord Paul Shackelford