I want to share with you a video that Isaac showed us before he left for YWAM. The link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRqDmDohTLM. This video is from a DTS Lecture in Oxford, New Zealand. I believe it represents Isaac’s heart well, and the passion he has to continually be transformed and challenged in faith and obedience for God’s purpose. Throughout the past six months Isaac shared with us many of the testimonies of what God was doing in him, and through him for God’s glory. Kris and I have been extremely challenged by our son’s pursuit of God. God uses the message in the DTS lecture entitled DECISIONS THAT DEFINE US to constantly pull at my heart and stretch my walk with Him. Isaac gave testimonies about complete surrender and obedience to God to be used for Him each and every day; a breaking of self for God’s ultimate glory.
In Romans chapter 12, Paul urges us to offer our bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, as our spiritual act of worship. I know that Isaac’s worship to God extended way beyond his ministry in music. Below is something he wrote that I found in his Bible:

I’m placing my heart on Your altar
Cut away the things that don’t bring glory (not of You)
I’m placing my life on Your altar
Let me be a living sacrifice

You have washed me
You have washed me
You have cleaned my heart

Let me not be blinded by sin
Let your Spirit reign in me
Holy Father
Let Your light come
Let Your light come

Isaac told us about how God told him several days in a row to go stand in the streets of Melbourne Australia and simply ask people if they needed prayer. On one of the days, he prayed for a man who had been badly beaten and could hardly lift his arms. A short time later, he saw the man down the street talking to others and moving his arms fully and pointing toward Isaac and the young lady who was ministering with him. The next day the man brought another for prayer. Then Isaac shared about a man who was bitter toward God and brought his friend in a wheel chair. The friend had been run over by a tram and was disfigured and unable to speak. The man challenged Isaac, “Can you heal him?” Isaac said, “I can’t, but God can.” He assured the man that it is within God’s power to heal the man if God chooses, then he and the girl prayed for the friend in the wheel chair. Even as they were praying the man began to make movement with his mouth trying to speak. He had not done this since the accident. The man’s heart was softened and expressed that he wanted to go back to church and start trusting God again. Isaac sent him names and contact info for some churches in the area.

We are all being stretched throughout this hard trial, but we are believing that God will heal Isaac and even give us a greater belief and testimony in his sovereignty and power! What a testimony it will be. Still, we are praising God for calling so many people before Him daily, earnestly petitioning on Isaac’s behalf. I know we are all being challenged and strengthened to tell the story of God’s power. Thank you for being the church of Acts, and not just reading about it. God is giving us a testimony of healing and God’s unfailing love and grace. We struggle sometimes with the “what if” question, but trust that God’s best plan for Isaac is being manifested. Let your decisions today define who you are in Christ, and even greater, who He is in and through you. Blessings!