Songs, and File Storage

Hello,

I would like to update you on a few changes in my "community online"

First I would like to say, that I have a soundcloud website over [at] soundcloud/sinclairnathan where I will be uploading any new songs that I write.

The second is, I have a storage account on rapidshare! Because of the small size to my soundcloud, anything that I move off soundcloud will goto rapidshare. (I will be putting any songs I put on soundcloud also on Rapidshare for download)

I have moved a talk that I had with someone at YWAM base (in roughly December 2010) named "Selflessness and the Glory of God" onto Rapidshare. This is the description of the talk:

Work in progress, finally finished! Php 2:5-6, 1 Cor 15, Jer 23:18, Luke 22:44, 1 Cor 13:1-3,11, 1 Cor 8:1 After being moved for quite a while about spiritual fragrances, the glory of God to comfort us, and revelation (discernment) of spiritual things to our bodies, the pursuit of pleasure and the selfless love of Jesus which if we have any measure of is of immeasurable value compared to any spiritual gift (1 cor 13:1-3) and our absolute need for His love and how he satisfied everything by His love, ask for His love because it's the same thing that you are asking for which He wants to give (faith and hope carry us until we receive His love) And how everything works out for His purposes.

Here is the URL

While singing and processing with God I wrote two songs that I would like you to hear.

The first is called "Glory Song" it comes from the passage in Psalm 27:4 where it says (NKJV)

One [thing] I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple.

Here is the URL
here is the rapidshare link

The second is called "You Came and Saved Me" it's a song about Freedom and Loving Jesus with His Love
Here is the URL
here is the rapidshare link

Regards,
Nathan

Birthday Special Surprise

I have recently had a birthday! That makes me 29! My clearest memory of this birthday, was a wake up call from God - where I was pastored in freedom. I asked Him if there was something that he wanted to say to me, because my thoughts were in a jumble, my spirit was filled, and I was wide awake. The first thing that He said to me was, "Forgive one another" This takes me back to last year when I was in the prayer room, with our good friends, Scott and Kaili Bailey. (the reason I say "our good friends" is to paint the mood) We were upstairs in the prayer room, and while praying for each other - Scott and Kaili were about to leave - we had a moment - in which we both shared a fabulous memory. God bless you for recalling this memory! Hallelujah! In the morning I was still overcome by this experience we shared. I came up to the prayer room, before intercession, and while there God's presence came into the room, and I received some wonderful insights into God's character which so impacted me I had to share it at intercession. We only had a handful of people at intercession at the time (including Scott and Kaili Bailey)

Lord, help me to communicate the rest of what is on my heart! I want to share something with you from my journal during my birthday. I hope to communicate a little more of what is happening in me at the moment, of which everyone is eager to know. After all, my friends, It's the heart that God is really interested in.

My heart is unmoved by finances
I have committed all things to Him
My heart is being renewed day by day,
according to the desire of God who called me.

I could care less about going on some trip for God, the real thing that moves me is when I can reach out to people. My heart quivers to say this, but if God has something for me, it's not like I can do anything about it. My motivation comes from wanting to please Him, if He has a journey for me to go on, one that I do not simply want to go on because it is a trip that I get to participate in (even one that is a promotion) I want to prove to people that I'm not just going on a trip. I also want to prove to Him my love is stronger than my desire for candy or birthday presents. I have learnt that the heart cannot be divided, it cannot be going after one thing or another, it has to be undivided (which is a funny word - given the implication is the heart is divided) Whether or not I cry is somewhat irrelevant in this, but it's what my heart is really wrestling with - that is what I hope to communicate. The brilliant part is, Jesus says "Your heart is undivided" - even when you want to be in one place, or you want to do something for someone - your heart is undivided. It is undivided - in Him.

This is where a simple transaction on Trade me can explode and eternity can break out on earth. This is where a computer that I have received can be so much more than just a cool gift as a birthday present. It can become a sign and a wonder, a sign and wonder that God uses to really speak something very important.
While I was in the prayer room on Tuesday the 27th of April, some girls came in, including Kathy with her computer. The whole event made me think of how God had miraculously given a computer to my friend Davaun. So I shared of how I had found a computer in the freebox and came to bed at night with a dream - in which Davaun and I were working on my computer. Through this all, I was praying everyday God would repair the computer. Since I would meet Davaun in Israel, I brought the computer along with me, where I found out that Davaun also had a problem with her computer - it would not work unplugged. We prayed for our computers and said "God is going to give us new ones" (This included Nelson) I heard back later from Davaun that she had received a computer. Then I shared with the people in the prayer room "I have not yet received my computer" This is when my mum sent me a text asking me to check trade me and see if this computer was the one I needed. I hadn't thought about the computer for weeks honestly! I looked at it and said "This is the one!" (actually my heart was racing, I wanted to tell everyone) I just want to say, this alone is enough for me - that God would remember my prayers and answer them. I said "this is the one!" and this is mine - Because I want a computer. This can sound silly on the outside. On the weekend we won the auction, and would receive it during the week. This is a sign and a wonder! Don't you agree? It's not about my reading into a situation, it's far bigger than that! Why? because if God is in charge of the bigger things, He is in charge of the smaller things too, right? So I have to say this is a sign and a wonder from God - He is in charge of everything.

During my birthday God proclaimed freedom over me! I can't even call it a gift, because a GIFT is received. But I am FREE! The funny thing is, I think that it would be just the most boring thing ever if I told you. I want to demonstrate it to You. After work duties a song came together, called Freedom Song. I would like you to listen to it! This is an outworking of an inner change.

Freedom Song
here is the rapidshare link

YWAM Update: Father's Day!

Hello everyone,

I'm feeling rather free at the moment. To explain, I have to share what has happened today. A phone call, a text message, and I decided I would like to come for a steam engine ride with the Weka Pass Railway in Waipara. So, at 10 oclock in the morning my brother Andrew arrived to pick us up (my brothers and I) and take a drive to Waipara. For anyone that has not heard of this, there are train tracks from Waipara (think of the mud house cafe surrounded by wineries) to Waikari. The journey takes roughly half an hour, however on the way there we are invited to get off the train, and watch it come around the corner. There were alot of people that took advantage of the time - including us, taking videos and photos of the whole experience. If you are into steam trains, make sure that you pop on for a ride (it runs roughly twice a month - search it up on the internet under "Weka Pass Railway")

So what makes me so free at this precise time? I realized that I'm the only one that knows God created all that I am seeing. While watching the mountainside, I was able to say "God how amazing is this place - This is really God's own" it makes me think that these simple excursions are what God intends us to delight in. My mind darts off into the way that the world was made, that He has sovereign control over the world, that I know Him. And that I'm financially free. What a wonderfully wonderful feeling. I mean to do exactly what I want to do, because I am not at the beck and call of money. This is where real multiplication begins. Today, Nathan Sinclair is choosing to live in the blessing, provision, and love of Father God.

Also, I'm bound by conscience and the desires of my heart to choose what is better, namely, God. This is where my freedom really comes from. I'm choosing the better part, which is to say with my mouth, God is better. Jesus you are worthy, you have won my heart. Because the freedom we have, it's a choice. But that choice is only because we see that we would rather be doing one thing or another thing. So then the choice that we made, bows down to our impulses (it's not the opposite). So then when God says "I want you to worship me" he is asking for us to choose what is better in our esteem. He wants us to be excited by Him, to love Him, to choose Him, to praise Him. Just like someone that raves about His favourite obsession.

If all this is what I have gained from the trip then that's wonderful. Because my Savior is Magnificent! I would do anything for Him because He's my superior pleasure!

As a matter of interest, I was working outside alot this week, we have been planting new plants around the base. The weather has made this very easy (it was sunny the entire time) - apart from the sprinkling of snow that came on Friday! Also watering the plants. We will be having the rest of the Backpackers, and Justice school staff arrive in the next week and they will begin staff training until the students arrive at the beginning of October. This marks two years of involvement at YWAM! There will also be a national YWAM gathering happening at our base in October, meaning the base is going to be packed full!

It will be super important to keep up the maintenance duties, and praying for unity among staff and students, that we would be like a family and that God would pervade the Spirit of Unity in encountering His person, and His people. Pray that we will have a large harvest on base as God gets to do what He wants. No better freedom! I'm super stoked for having your support and prayers. If you would like to find out more, I would love to catch up, honest!

YWAM Update: Backwards Forwards

Hey there, for another update, from Oxford! (though I'm in Christchurch at the moment, visiting my parents!) I am super excited at the moment though I feel like every step I take I take two backwards. I have really been struggling for the life of me to be victorious over my addiction to video games. If you would like to share in this with me, contact me and I would love to be more honest and open about it. Well, maybe the best way to put it is, I am honest and open about it, but part of victory is confessing to another our faults and allowing the Holy Spirit to not only be victorious, but Ignite in my heart and show God superior to everything.

Impartation

Hello there, I have been blessed while working on a song tonight and recorded and put it up on youtube. If you would like to listen, here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RAnDu459Lw
The lyrics are up on the page.

Dream of praying for persecutors

I recently had a dream where in I was held at gun point but said "do what you want I can't die" Would you consider watching the video and praying for those involved? This is an incredible opportunity to partner in with the Lord in this city.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy80odDyIOk

Pleasure and the Pursuit of

I was going to call it God's Passion for His Glory - after the John Piper book of the same name. Let me recommend it to you. It will blow your mind (Hopefully more than that-) take you deeper in the Lord Jesus. Here is a humble teaching on Philippians 2 which I would like to offer up so that your hearts are rewarded with true riches. Lets start...

Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.