For the last week I have not been able to get away from Matthew 12:30 which states "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters." 

This could relate to so many different area's of my life. What I take away from this scripture is anything that I'm doing that is not bringing me closer to God is just taking me farther and farther away. I know it's such a simple concept but I believe it's one that my generation has gotten away from. We have all this technology and shortcuts where we can find away around anything. 

But technology and shortcuts aren't getting us any closer to God. In fact I would argue the more technology that we get involved in the farther away we are drawn. Because for a lot of us technology consumes us. 

A man I respected very much made this statement "We are a microwave generation. We want everything quick and easy with no work on our part." Which is probably one the truest statements that I have ever heard. 

We live in a society that proclaims one thing and reacts in another.  Including myself at times. We can stand and sing "all i need is you Lord, is you Lord" but we walk to our cars and click on the iPod and we have "i wanna make love in this club." I am not at all excluding myself. But at that moment how are we gathering? How are we for God? At that moment we are against God and scattering his work. The work he just preformed in us. 

When someone angers you at work. And you attack back. Scattering and against. All I'm really trying to say is in everything we do, "we" as children on the most high God, must gather. 

where are they?

as i lay here eyes closed and mind focused on the ones i see the most, the church; i begin to wonder where are they?

where are the raped? where are the molested? where are the taken advantage of? where are the broken? where are the bruised? where are the busted?

where are the depressed? where are the fugitives? where are the crack addicts? where are the alcoholics? 

where are the hippies? where are democrats? where are the lame? where are the sick? where are the uncool? where are the whores? 

where are the cancer filled? where are the lonely? where are the homeless? where are the hopeless? where are the helpless? where are the simple minded? 

where are the ones searching for truth, salvation, trust, mercy, grace, redeeming power, and everlasting love?

i know some of you are reading this and are thinking well i have some of those people at my church. or they used to be like that!

these are the people that we see or come into contact with everyday. they business woman walking past us with a smile and a blackberry and going home to drink her problems away. or the clerk at the grocery store that works nights at the strip club to support her child. 

these are the people that need to be filling our pews. not the ones that have it all together. those people are not interested in what we have. we have a mandate from God to care for these people.

proverbs 31 tells us to speak for the ones that have no voice. stand up and judge fairly. 

so where are they? well find them and share your story!

//marcusbeecham

//changeyourworld

dreamers

//a visionary creation of the imagination.

a dream can be many things. it can encouraging or discouraging. it can create passions or kill burdens. it's powerful enough to unite people together but destructive enough to rip them apart. it brings hope as well as fear. not everyone is a dreamer. 

dreamers face extremely difficult obstacles throughout their entire lives for one single dream. most will risk everything because the price is worth the sacrifice. 

lets take joseph for an example. he was the last born unto jessie and loved my everyone in the land because he was born when his father was of late age. but his own brothers were jealous and despised him. 

he was  dreamer. he dreamt that one day all of his brothers and even his father would bow to him. that he would have reign over them. and dream after dream after dream.

eventually they planned to kill him but one brother changed their minds. so they sold him into slavery instead; telling their father that he was murdered by an animal.

although joseph was in slavery he found favor with potiphar and he was placed in control of all the food in egypt.  later thrown in jail because he would not sleep with potiphar's wife. but eventually find favor with pharaoh and is put in charge of all of egypt. 

i believe that joseph was blessed because he never let go of his dreams. he knew what God had promised him and held on to it even when times were not so hot. he believe God heard his cries.

another dreamer is dr. martin luther king jr. we all know about his great accomplishments and famous speeches that eventually paved the way for african americans today.

but his road was not an easy one. he was arrested over 20 times, and never held a violent protest. was assaulted at least 4 times. his home was bombed and his children and family threatened. but still he pressed on. he understood that violence was not the answer to peace. 

dr. king had a dream. a dream that no matter what circumstance's came his way he would not let die. and eventually was murdered because of his dream. but his legacy lives on today because of his dream. 

throughout history every man or woman that you will read about had a dream. something drove them to accomplish what they set out to do. there is somethings that drives to live of out their dreams.

i wonder what would happen if all of us united, with hearts as one set out, to complete a dream. a common goal. how many lives would be affected? how many people would be saved or revived because we would not let anything nor anyone suffocate our dream.

are you a dreamer?

i am a dreamer. i dream to see my world saved. i dream to see the lost welcomed home. i dream to see every homeless individual with a place to call home. i dream to see every person involved with ethnic genocide brought to justice.

i dream to conquer my world!

//marcusbeecham

//changeyourworld

//beadreamer

break me

Oh God here I am again
Begging for strength, but no longer
God I want you to break me
Into millions of mold less pieces
That people will look at and say that he will never amount

But Lord break me so far
To where I have no direction
No guide ness, completely confused and no hope
And then Lord the process will begin
After I am humbled and completely submitted
To you and your kingdom

How my heart long for the place where
I feel you every second of everyday
Completely consumed by your presence
So deep in love with you
A memorial in my life

God this is the hardest prayer that I have ever prayed
And will be my roughest times that I have ever seen
But God mold me into a mighty man of God and submission
Bruise me, Beat me, and Break me

lay down your crown

revelation 4
8. each of the four living creatures had six wings, and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying:
holy, holy, holy is the lord God almighty was and is and is to come.
9. whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever,
10. the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
11. you are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.
i believe that when God reveled this vision to the apostle john there was obviously a motive behind it. and i don't believe that it was to just show us a glimpse of what heaven is going to be like. but yet what our daily lives should be like.
think about it. at all times there at the VERY least 30 things praising God. no stop. in verse 8 it says "day and night they NEVER stop saying." i wonder what our lives would be like if we united together and throughout whole day just praised God. in everything we did. in everything we say. we thanked him. we cried holy holy holy.
if we would just lay down our crown. our carnal and worldly possessions and praised God. would we change our situation? would we change our world? would the world know about our saviour? yes. yes. yes.
//changeyourworld
//marcus s. beecham

dance through your circumstance

in the world today there are many chains that bind people. chains both big and small. some are seen. some are not. some are eventually broken after a season or a well fought battle. some are not. i have had many battles in my life. some won. some lost.

another man that i have read about and read many of writings experienced many battles and troubled times as well. most of you know him as david. he was a mighty king, great worshipper, and an example to many. but david lost battles as well. but one thing that he realized is that worship was greater than himself. that God was greater than his situation that he was in.
psalm 63: 1-4
1. oh God, you are my God. earnstly i seek you; my soul thrists for you, my body longs for you in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
2. i have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.
3. because your love is better than life my lips will glorify you.
4. i will praise you as long as i live, and in your name i will lift up my hands.
david wrote this why he was in the desert of judah. and it is quite possible that he was there because he was fleeing from his own son absalom who was trying to take over his throne. his own son was after his life. he was king in a desert. in a hiding fearing for his life. YET he danced through his circumstance.
most of us know the story of job. but i will give you a run down. in a matter of hours job lost every worldy thing that he had besides his wife. the bible says that he was one of the richest men in the world. his messengers ran to him telling him of his cattle, camel, and sheep were stolen or destroyed. a mighty wind killed of his sons and daughters and he was struck with an awful illness. God gave the devil complete reign on jobs life. to test job. to test his faithfulness and trust in God. when jobs friends and own wife asked him to curse God. so that God would take his life; jobs response was, " THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST HIM." job had the concept that he was going to dance through his circumstance. no matter what came his way. God was still worthy of all his praise.
i pray for the heart of david and job. i pray that i have so much faith and trust in God that no matter what the devil or this world throws at me i lean on the fact. that GREATER is he and is in me, than that is this world.
and i pray that no matter what you are going through and you DANCE THROUGH YOUR CIRCUMSTANCE!

romance

i'll take your hand, as you lead me to this mysterious land
we romance, as the rivers dance around us
so clean, so pure
my soul thirsts for that love that only you can quench
i lift up my hands in praise, only you will I raise
in total adoration i surrender all to thee
all that i am, all i desire to be
i feel the romance, as we dance
around and around, neither making a sound
enjoy the presence of this silent love
that is more pure than the whitest dove
hold me tight
with this love we shall conquer this life called a fight
i lay my life at your feet
you can hear my heart beat
it's the beat of love's lost before
but this love last for evermore
let us romance, as all creation will dance

hold your brothers hand

Exodus 17
8. The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.
9. Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some of our men and go out to fight the amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands."
10. So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went to the top of the hill.
11. As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning.
12. When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up one on one side, one on the other so that his hands remained steady till sunset.
13. So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.
14. The Lord said to Moses, "Write this on a scroll as something to remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven."
15. Moses built an altar and called it the Lord is my banner (Jehovah nissi).
16. He said, "For hands were lifted up to the throne of the Lord. The Lord will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation."
When I first read this chapter it really stuck out to me. I begin to read it over, and over, and over again. It was like there was something there, but I just wasn't getting all of it. Finally I began to understand the importance in these few verses. It deals with submission to authority, the power in worship/surrender, foundation, support, and built alters of remembrance of your victorious battles.
In verse 9 Moses commands Joshua to gather men and prepare to fight the Amalekites. Joshua did not question the man of God. He simply did what was asked of him. Joshua was submitted to the authority that God placed in his life. He understood though I can not see what is ahead I will trust my leader and my God. He had faith that Moses heard from God.
In verse 10 Moses begins to go UP. In my personal belief, I believe that not only did Moses go up physically but he begins to go UP spiritually. Exalting and worshiping God. I do not imagine that he just simply stood there hands raised with no worship releasing from his lips. Because we are victorious through our worship and praise. "And when he lowered his hands the Amalekites were winning." So in the battle your praise can not cease, in order for victory praise and worship must be offered to God. David said in Psalm the 63 chapter that "because your love is better than my life my lips will praise you." Praise him in your battles and you will leave victorious because ALL things are working for our good.
Verse 12 speaks of Moses becoming tired but he was not willing to let his praise cease because the battle was not yet won. So Aaron and Hur set a ROCK underneath him. I do not it accidental that it was a rock. A rock is a FIRM foundation. The Lord built his church on a rock. A rock is not moving. It is solid and firm. It will not break until pressure and will not sway with the wind. As Moses exampled on the mountain.
Same verse it says that "Aaron and Hur held his hands up one on one side, one on the other- so that his hands remained steady till sunset." Sometimes we become tired in our battles. We become weak and our bodies ache. That's how we were created. But that's the reason for the church. To help the needy, the broken, the tired, the helpless, and that's exactly what Aaron and Hur did. They saw the need that Moses had. They saw that he began to grow weary and physically could not do did by himself any longer. So they held his hands. Until the battle was won. They were not going to let an entire tribe be defeated because of their lack of worship!
And lastly, Moses built an alter in remembrance of his victorious battle over the enemy. He gave God all the glory for the defeat over the enemy. He would not let it be forgotten what God did for him. How we delivered him once more. I believe that he visited that alter daily thanking God for the victory.
So you may be wondering how all this ties together? Just know that if you see your brother struggling to be victorious hold his hand. Worship and rejoice with him. That's all I got. Peace.
//change your world
//marcus s. beecham

willing generation

Thomas Jefferson stated "Every generation needs a new revolution." The first time that I read that quote I remember it moving me. But not in the degree that it has this week..
I began to review my life. My daily routine if you will. I thought about all the things I do for myself or my bosses or anything or anyone else that we are responsible for in this lifetime. Then I began to review the time that I spent with God and the that I spent being a disciple. I looked at how much I really I mean REALLY help others. Where I just do it knowing that no good will come out of for me. In fact knowing that I could lose something so someone else might gain.
I was was extremely disappointed with myself. and then I thought of that quote by Thomas Jefferson "Every generation needs a new revolution." But every revolution needs a willing generation. Because without a willing generation the revulotion is hopeless. It is lost. A waste of time.
That's why I believe that we need to be a willing generation. Not willing to preach the biggest conference or do the music at the sweetest live recordings this year. But willing to witness to that homosexual at work and invite them to church. Or that hooker that you pass everyday on the "wrong" side of town. Or the girl that sits at her desk at work and speaks to no one. Or the girl at school that no one will talk to because she's not popular or maybe a little to heavy.
Or willing to move chairs or vacccum after church. Or pick up the elderly that can't drive anymore. Or pay for that person's meal that might be having a hard month. Or even really caring enough to actually listen to what someone has to say and care.
All I ask is that we become a willing generation with a servent's heart. Not for the betterment of ourselves but for the betterment of others.
Thank you and Goodnight.
//be you//be different//be willing//be ONEMOMENT

//marcus//beecham

hold on to the promise

Many times in the bible you can find where many different people were promised by God many different things. I believe that one of the most known would be Joesph.
You know the guy with the coat of many colors that his brothers sold him into slavery and they told his father that he was killed.
Then through time he was awarded by being one of the kings right hand men. But as you all know he was tempted by the kings wife and she claimed that Joesph raped her.
Didn't go over too well with the king as you can imagine. So Joesph was thrown into prison but even in prision God still used Joesph because he was willing. Although he didn't have the most ideal circumstance's at the time he was n't willing to put is situation in the way of his anointing.
He knew that God had something special for him. Something that was far greater than being in prison bound and captive. He had a promise. And he didn't lose sight of that promise even when falsely accused. I believe that Joesph knew that even in the wilderness time when it seemed like no one was around and no one cared that there was something in the work.
There was something greater than him happening in the spiritual world. As we all know Joesph finally was released from prison because of his ability to understand dreams.
I wonder how much we could change our world if we could all grasp the concept that Joesph did. You know my situtation isn't really dieal right now. I was just raped, or my parents divorced, or my wife just left me, or I lost my best friend or parent. No matter the circumstance we have to udnerstand that there is something bigger than us that is in the work. Because of that death you might be able to save your entire family. Or because you were raped you might be able to reach a special group of young women that no one else can reach nor understand their pain and hurt and shame.
We all have our promises. We all have our own dreams. I am just asking you today do not give up on your promise just because you situation isn't ideal right now. Hold on to your promise. You will come out of the fire gold. God never meant for any of us to fall. That's not his will or wish. Hold on.

let it go

Let it go ...by T. D. Jakes There are people who can walk away from you. And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone. When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay. Let them go. And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person, it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead. You've got to know when it's dead. You've got to know when it's over. Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay. Let them go!! If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to ...LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ... LET IT GO!!! If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth... LET IT GO!!! If someone has angered you ... LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge .. LET IT GO!!! If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction ... LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents .. LET IT GO!!! If you have a bad attitude... LET IT GO!!! If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better. LET IT GO!!! If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him... LET IT GO!!! If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship.... LET IT GO!!! If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves.. LET IT GO!!! If you're feeling depressed and stressed .... LET IT GO!!! If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it," then you need to... LET IT GO!!! Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing for 2007 !!! LET IT GO!!! Get Right or Get Left .. think about it, and then LET IT GO!!! "The Battle is the Lord's!"

be the church

It is not a human rightTo stare not fightWhile broken nations dreamOpen up our eyes, so blindThat we might findThe Mercy for the needSingin Hey NowFill our hearts with your compassionHey NowAs we hold to our confessionYeahIt is not too far a cryTo much to tryTo help the least of thesePolitics will not decideIf we should riseAnd be your hands and feetSinging Hey NowFill our hearts with your compassionHey NowAs we hold to our confessionWoah-oh-oh,God be the solutionWoah-oh-ohWe will be Your hands and be Your feet.Yeah, yeahHigher than a circumstanceYour promise standsYour love for all to seeHigher than protest line and dollar signsYour love is all we needOnly you can mend the broken heartAnd cause the blind to seeErase complete the sinners pastAnd set the captives freeOnly you can take the widows cryAnd cause her heart to singBe a father to the fatherlessOur savior and our kingWe will be your hands, we will be your feetWe will run this raceOn the darkest place, we will be your lightWe will be your lightWe will be your hands , we will be your feetWe will run this race for the least of theseIn the darkest place, we will be your lightWe will be your light (we'll say/sing?)We will run we will runWe will (run with the solution?) (2x)We will be your hands we will be your feetWe will run this race for the least of theseIn the darkest place we will be your lightWe will be you lightI along with a few others from my church attended a hillsongunited concert tonight which was amazing i might add. and why had been talking durning the concert/service.. how there pastor was not that good of a preacher and how is wasn't only music that was making their church such a growing church.. it wasn't that they had something that we don't have. they are just connecting with something that we do not..the song above i have heard over a hundred times. i have sung it and it has been suck in my head countless times. and also my myspace song at one time.. but singing with 3,000 other people and reading the words as we were singing them we all began to realize the difference. i understand why hillsong has only been a church for fifteen years and they are running over 20,000 people.. they are the chuch.. they run the race for the weak. they are the hands and the feet of those which are not strong enough on their own. they minster to the poor and the needy. something that we for the most part do not do. it's a come as you are atomsphere it doesn't matter who is wearing the lastest armani suit or who looks like the models in vogue. they are they for one purpose. to worship the almighty. i believe that it's time for the rest of us to step up. be the church. be the hands and the feet. run the race for the weak. don't let any oppertunity pass you by to change a life. Marcus S. Beecham

passion

Passion.. What is it? Passion is any powerful or compelling emtion..
Many people in this world are passionate.. Like the bum downtown.. He is passionate about getting that couple of dollars for his next fix.. We will stop at nothing to get what his body longs for.. Or the guy that is at the office late every night to get that raise.. He will risk his family and happiness for it.. Or the solider that is on the front lines fighting for what he believes in.. He lays down his life for ours.. There is something driving these people.. They have their eyes set on a place and will not stop until they think they are satisfied.. The disappointing part is usually when they reach they are still not satisfied.. There is more passion for more and more and more..
But we as christians are satisfied when we come into a place of worship and leave unchanged for unmoved.. This baffles me.. All of these people have passion and work towards a goal that they will mostly likely never be satisfied with.. But something is driving them.. Telling them just a little farther and you can have what you want..
I have been a service after service and not felt passion.. The spirit of God is there.. He is manifesting his presence and I see people unmoved and unchanged.. We have lost the passion.. I believe because we have everything handed to us as a generation.. Nothing has to be worked for nor earned.. Most of us don't have to go on a fourty day fast or spend five hours in prayer to see a move of God.. Because the ones before us have already ushered in that presence.. Bearing the burdens that are ours..
What if David would have not had passion? Would he have been the great leader that God intended and called him to be? He screwed up in every possible way that you can.. He was in prison and that passion never left.. Only grew stronger..
Or Moses who was sent into the desert for 40 years having thousands of people breathing down his neck.. He never lost his passion..
So I challege you today to become passionate about Christ..
Love Peace and Passion
Marcus S. Beecham

not worthy

Jesus, Jesus blessed Saviour
You came and you died
Crucified for me
You hung on that cross
For all who were lost
You gave yourself for me
So I lift my hands, to praise your name
I raise my voice, not ashamed
I clap my hands to complete my praise
Your worthy, worthy, worthy
Jesus your worthy
Your worthy, worthy, worthy
Jesus your worthy
Your worthy, worthy, worthy
Jesus your worthy
Worthy of all my praise