Hillsong Concert

Hey everyone! So last night I got to have  a extremely amazing experience, I saw Hillsong United and Young and Free in concert! When I say it was amazing I mean AMAZING. One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen is people by the thousands lifting up the name of Jesus and getting crazy for Him. I had a great time dancing and jumping around to all of my favorite songs (can I just say Christians know how to party), belting out lyrics to Jesus, and spending time with my youth group of course, but one thing that struck me during the show was a lyric from the song Aftermath."For You chose to take the sinner's crown as You placed Your crown on me." The image of Jesus taking away my sinful, dirty, shameful crown placing it on His head and in return giving me His sinless, glorious, and shameless crown flooded in my mind, and I became overwhelmed with His love. I mean who does that? Jesus does. He carried our shame so that we can have life and so that we can come to know the power of God's love. Isn't that amazing! Another thing I really loved about the show is that it would get quite for a few seconds right after a song and someone in the sea of people would randomly just shout out "Jesus!" and the whole arena flooded with shouts of praise. It's hard to explain in just words but I literally felt like Jesus reached down inside of me and said"Sofia I love you so much." The whole night I just felt peace and overwhelming mercy. I think I was at the humblest state I've ever been in my life. The last thing I would like to add is this. The world hates us, for loving God and following Christ. We will constantly run into people who will question us and try to defeat us with what they think is truth and knowledge but here is something interesting In the book of Acts when Peter and the other apostles were brought before the high priest who started yelling at them for teaching people about Jesus something really cool happened. A pharisee stood up and said 
            “Men of Israel, consider carefully what you intend to do to these men.  Some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men rallied to him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing.  After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in the days of the census and led a band of people in revolt. He too was killed, and all his followers were scattered.  Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail.  But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.”  Acts 5:35-39

   "You will not be able to stop these men." The kingdom of God is unshakable. Being at the Hillsong concert put that in perspective for me. It's been over 2,000 years since Jesus rose from the dead and people's lives are still being changed, arenas are getting sold out and filled to the brim with people in love with Jesus and wanting to pour their hearts out to Him. This isn't something of human origin. What I experienced at that concert isn't something that us mere humans could just make up. It all comes from God, and because of that we can not be stopped, we can not be shaken. God is alive, the cross is real, and the grace that comes from Jesus is overflowing and abundant. 

This picture was taken by Hillsong Young and Free at the concert! I know, it looks like  a lot of fun. It was. Like I said Christians know how to party.

Picture from the concert! One of the funnest nights ever! This is revival.
(P.S. -If you haven't listened to Hillsong before go check out their new albums Zion and Young and Free they are amazing!)