God Likes My Haircuts?

Last night I had the IHOP-U Awakening on and this girl Vanessa was giving this testimony about how she encountered the love of the Father. The whole thing is awesome but there was this one part in particular that just really did something to me. She was explaining how one of her friends who was praying for her started to prophesy over her and speak from the heart of the Father. One of the things He said was something like, “I was there all those years and was excited to see the woman that you would become, I was even excited for every haircut you had.” Now, her whole testimony my heart’s getting touched but when I heard that I was like, “Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat????” He was excited even about every haircut she got. For real?!

It’s kind of funny too because lately I’ve been thinking about how I need to get my hair cut and what I’d want to do and for some reason I didn’t think God really cared about that. I almost like, felt bad that I wanted to get a haircut a little. I thought that ya know, because that wasn’t something that had some sort of “eternal purpose” that my Father was just kind of indifferent towards it. I didn’t think that He thought it was wrong but I just pictured Him I guess with this kind of, “whatever, that doesn’t really matter and isn’t really important” expression on His face. But when she said that I realized that there was a side of the Father that I really didn’t know yet. The delight that He has even in the little things in my life. He actually cares.

I started to think about how earthly parents get super excited about little stuff like that too. I mean, I know that when my daughter gets her hair cut or picks out certain clothes she likes or whatever, I’m definitely going to be excited about it because it’s like celebrating her beautiful uniqueness. And if earthly parents feel that way, how much more does our perfect Father?

Hearing that testimony has made me wonder what other seeming seemingly small things my Father treasure about me. I’m still kind of like, “Really though? You really were excited about every haircut?” It’s the fact that He cares about that stuff that unlocks something in me. I just need revelation of my Father who treasures.

Vanessa’s testimony:

Oh, the Beauty of This Man

All I’m sayin is…Misty Edwards+Psalm45+HolySpirit = a sermon that leaves you feeling like you just ate a whole meal. I just wanted to share something she said that Ive been thinkin on since I heard it, it’s good times 8)

She was going over verse 2 where it says: “You are fairer than the sons of men” So she said to imagine all of the conquest of men throughout history and Jesus’ conquest is far greater than even the noble deeds of men. Imagine all the great heroes of history, and Jesus excels and outshines them all. It reminded me of the verse in Song of Solomon 5:10 where it describes Him as being  ”chief among ten thousand.” When I read that again I stopped and just imagined what ten thousand people looked like. It’s a couple thousand less than what I saw at the onething conference last year but still a massive amount of people. Now imagine one person standing out among all of them. This isn’t just someone who kind of stands out and you can notice Him juuuust a little bit more than the others. Nuh-uh. He literally shines. It’s unquestionable. There’s no one like Him. No one holds a candle to the beauty of this Man. It just unlocks something in my heart and makes me go, “Man, what is it about Him? I gotta know it.”

Another thing she said  was something like, “Imagine all the qualities of humanity that we want and enjoy…Jesus has all that in one being.”

Ah I love that so much! So beautiful! All the things that we admire and long for, ALL of them, are in One Man. He’s perfect in His beauty. Crazy.

“We barely even peer into the beauty of this Man”

Enough said.