Mission Statement for Oil to Fire

Hey everyone! As you may remember, Corey and I are again recording. This time it will look quite a bit different. In short we will be holding 6 nights of prayer and worship for America and recording all the events. After that, we will mix it all together to create a worship album. We are so excited about this! I know this doesn't really explain it much but if you would like to know more, we have created a kickstarter page (there is a link for it on the left hand column) and there is a video that explains the project in more detail. We are also trying to raise $1,000 to help produce the album. Kickstarter is a way you can get involved with this project and help us accomplish what God has placed on our hearts to do. I mostly wanted to post our mission statement here though. I think it's worth the read. Enjoy!

Oil & Fire Mission Statement

Saturating in the presence of God to ignite our community. 

2 Chronicles 7:14 says "and if my people which are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their land." This is the motivation for Oil & Fire. We want to humble ourselves to the realization that our country, our state, our city NEEDS the intervention of God. In response to this, we will pour out our hearts to God and seek His face and His desire for our nation. We want to see restoration come to America. We want to return to our original design and purpose. We want to see the Kingdom of God come to this earth and be a part of ushering in the new things that God is doing. 

"He is doing a new thing, so were singing a new song"

God has given us 4 areas to focus on. Like the Isrealites crossing the jordan into the promised land, He has given us the strategy to cross over into new territory.

The first area is our personal encounters with God. We realize that we cannot be a people of change until we allow God to change us. It is our vision to take time to spend soaking in the presence of God before we cry out to Him. We need to allow Him to transform us so that He can enable us to transform cities. Transformed people, transform people! We need to lead by example. We need to be a people addicted to His presence.

The second area is worshiping God together. Declaring who His is. His greatness, His goodness, His faithfulness, and His love! We want to lift Him up, because He is worthy of all the worship we have to give.

The third area is prayer and warfare. We want to stack the throne with our prayers. We want to cry out to God for change in our nation. Prayer changes things! We will go boldly before the throne and get God's heart for this nation, this city, and this community. We will get God's heart and His strategy's to reach our city.

The fourth area is Praise. We don't just want to cry out to God as a hopeless people who don't really believe that He will do what He says. We need to praise Him for the changes that are going to happen because He promised to hear us and to heal our land because of our humble cries. We want to shoot arrows of praise into the spiritual atmosphere to release our city from oppression. 

We are in a season of preparation, but if we do not begin to prepare ourselves we will be as the foolish virgins who did not bring oil for their lamps, so when the bridegroom arrived, they were unprepared to welcome him. We will not be caught unprepared! We will soak in the oil of His presence so that when we cry out for the fire of His Holy Spirit we will be ignited and able to carry His flame into a dark world!

"Arise! Shine! for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the Lord will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you. Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising." Isaiah 60:1-3

Thanks for reading!! Don't forget to visit our kickstarter page!! 

I am a Prophetic Worshiper

Well, I'm entering yet another new season. It's a season of discovery that I know God has been trying to speak to me for quite some time but it's finally getting through. 

Recently, Corey Robert and I decided that we wanted to create a new album while were both home this summer. We talked a lot about what we thought we could possibly do. We decided to stop talking about it and pray about it separately and then discuss what God shared with us. I actually struggled quite a bit with this. I went back and forth between actually hearing God and deciding what kind of musician I wanted to be. I can honestly say that until up to this point, all I knew was that music was a part of my life, but what kind of musician I was supposed to be was still a mystery for me. I've always been drawn to prophetic worship and Misty Edwards has been my absolute favorite artist since I was 17 but I never had that "yes! thats me" moment. 

Since I've been home songwriting has NOT come easily. I thought it would and for a while I kept hearing melodies and half lyrics but the only time I could actually write a song was when I was upset. I would just spill all of my frustrations through writing. I thought maybe it's time to share these things (since I obviously didn't have anything else). It was the only thing that made sense. Then one day as I was just sitting listening to misty in the IHOP prayer room, she started singing "where are the singers, where are the singers who prophecy". Immediately my spirit responded with "THATS ME!". In that moment I knew that God was calling Corey and I to do something different. Not your normal get in the recording studio with your collection of songs, but creating an environment where we can just go and allow God to use our talents to prophecy over our city, our state, and our nation! I've been given this voice not so that I can be just another singer or worship leader, but the words that I sing are meant to change the environment around me. I've finally figured out my purpose and I'm running towards it full force. It was an amazing discovery and even more so when Corey told me that it was the EXACT same thing he got. God is so great like that. We are so excited to allow Him to use us. We will see change in York County, Pennsylvania and I'm so excited about it! Keep a look out for more information about what we are doing. There is a link here on my blog to our myspace page and you can like us on facebook as well.

Being a prophetic worshiper is not as easy as just picking out songs. It's about sitting down with your Bible in front of you and instrument in hand and just singing when nobody else is listening. I listened to a teaching about the practical side of prophetic worship today and afterwards I just had to pick up my guitar and open my Bible and just sing! I've never experienced anything like this. It was like spiritual prophetic vomit! I couldn't hold it back and I have no idea where it came from. The words were there without me even really having to think about them. When God calls, He equips. I know what I'm supposed to do. Don't know what it looks like, but I know He will be faithful to show me when the time is right. I trust Him. He's been right this whole time. He's proved Himself to me. Not that He needed to, but it's because of His goodness that He has. I love Him for it!