just a few b4 the Jewish New Year...

i use to be frustrated for being born in this generation....

i always felt caught in a pool of luke warm water just floating between revivals before me and maybe not seeing the 2nd coming of our Lord Jesus. I have seen so many churches just trying to grow but not focused on healing and equipping. I hear "serve like Jesus" yet He did more ministering and teaching than He did setting up tables for potlucks. Of course the Holy Spirit has been working on my inner core and I have been to the woodshed plenty of times after being born again, again (yes twice, lol). My God works on me daily.

I am excited for this upcoming season. I may just be a part of a global church reformation. I may just be used to help set the captives free. Glory! God is good and its time!

_.pLanted._ (cleaning out the closet of my BrainSpace)

...and here we are:

In the spring of 2005 I ran out of the bar; my bar.

 I owned one of the largest bars/music venues in Arizona. I also owned the 2nd largest promotion company in Arizona. My name was on most news papers, print ads, web search engines and radio stations. I was on MTV and in Rolling Stone. I had VIP service to any club, concert and art show. I had long hair, baggy Dickies, glazed eyes, a touch of Kamel breath and a Jameson Whiskey after taste. I had burnt bridges, built bridges and hid under bridges. I had friends in high places and low places. I tried suicide by drugs, alcohol, liquor and driving my Volvo off a mountain.

...but in one day a mighty force invaded my life.

...this blog today is not to glorify my past but to clarify the direction that my wife and I are heading.

In 2005 (the day after attempting to drive my Volvo to heaven) three women, two close friends, two random missionaries and one homeless man all walked into my bar with the same story. They all said that God had visited them and told them to give me a message. The funny part of this story is that only half of them had professed to be walking with God and the other half had said they would walk with God since this experience. Crazy! So here is their message from God that they all delivered on the SAME day at DIFFERENT times. Oh and none of them told each other their experience until I left AZ.

"Cole. You are called to preach to thousands. You need to leave your bar and promotions company. You need to be transformed and equipped to fulfill your calling. REFORM"

So I left Arizona in three days, moved to Idaho and started my journey. In 2006 I started my Bible schooling and discipleship. I committed to a church and a new gathering of people called family. I made money with my hands like my dad and dreamed of seeing generations free to change the world. God began to add fuel to my man-child dreams. I prayed for a wife daily until I was finally put face to face with her. Lacey Q Smith. In 2007, on July 7th, we committed our lives together forever. (7/7/7) FOR-EV-ER. We became ordained and started the next phases of our journey as The Masseys.

Our dreams rang together like a gong. We followed our hearts with the leading of our Sheppard. Passion and redemption charged our direction like two kids running towards the finish line in potato sacks. We fell down at spots and picked each other up around different corners. Some of our close friends slipped out of our grips at times some of our distant friends were planted with us in unknown fields. We have followed wisdom from wounded leaders and we have missed the divine words of the anointed at times too. Sometimes the rainbows we leaned upon from Above were black & white and other times the promises were in HD and 3D.

We left Idaho in a plane and a truck to commit ourselves to a blessed people who were building one the greatest churches in America from the plains in Colorado. We were loved on, prayed into and reshaped. We will never be able give back as much as we were given but I hope someday we will. After almost a year, the Lord moved us to a dessert in Washington where the Light revealed some needed fixing in our walk. With our knapsacks and a red letter edition we pressed towards the goal to arrive at our tribe. Pressures squeezed our marriage untill we felt empty. We held on to Jesus' hand like a child clutching to just a finger of a father. We prayed for faith to keep hoping for the unseen. Thank God for that tribe! Truth reveals.

...and here we sit in the wine country of the Northwest. We found our tribe. We found each other again. We found the river that we will be planted next to and raise our kids by. I think one of hardest things to understand about Christians is if they really heard from God when I look at their journey from my path. Although, what has shaped me now is staying convicted to that small and quiet voice that guides my path when others question my journey. Friends come and go but family never lets go. Our parents have loved us to our dreams and guided us with their relentless prayers. 

A dream will just stay a dream if it’s not believed in. The sky has a limit if that's where your heart stops hoping. We have supernatural capabilities if we are consistent with the elementary principles. Our God has more faith in us than we have in Him. My largest "Goliath" has been me. I had to die to myself to let Him live in me. The devil now is just a nagging voice that I have the power to silence. My wife is a gift that I don't deserve but I have a responsibility to keep her safe. Our life has changed allot since that first day of interns when we knew God had big plans for us once we became one. I think we are done with interns now but we want to keep learning. 

If you knew us then, keep us in your prayers still now. We are at that next chapter and I hope the last chapter was only the first. BE CHURCH. Jesus loves you more than I can but I will sure still try with this finite make up. You will find your voice in the wilderness and you will learn what you are TRULY thirsty for while in the desert. Trials grow you. Perseverance shapes you. Fight from a place of victory. Love most when it's the hardest. Honor your mother and father and know that somebody is praying for you right now. In the last chapter of Job are the blessings that came from Job praying for his friends. Shalom

Here is a video of a song that has been on my earphones through this season! Enjoy and listen close to the lyrics... they are my heart for you.

They're Rapper's, Not Pastors!

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They're Rappers, Not Pastors!

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*WaterCoolerChapel*... launching full tilt website soon! we have been blessed with some new interviews that we thought were impossible! keep praying for it! it's going rock your socks off!

Heath McNease...Love Me featuring Pigeon John

Interview with HEATH McNEASE!

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Interview with our good friend Heath McNease:

1)         Ford or Chevy?

I would rather push a Ford than drive a Chevy

2)         Coke or Pepsi?

I have not drank caffeine in over 2 years!

3)         Sprite or 7up?

Water…”Arrowhead”, they call that “Jesus Juice”

4)         Which variety of M&M’s?

plain… I have a slight peanut allergy

5)         Snickers or Milky Way?

Milky Way

6)         Icee or Slurpee?

Icee

7)         Flex-Fit or Custom?

Flex-Fit… I have a really odd shaped head

8)         Gatorade or Powerade?

Gatorade…orange or fruit punch. Oh my gosh, PowerAde is the worst!

9)         Where do you live?

Colquitt GA

10)      What’s the name of your home church?

Mother’s Home Free Will Baptist

14)      Who is your favorite preacher?

Reverend Bobby Whitaker

15)      Is Heath McNease your real name?

Yes! Best rap name ever!

16)      Do you remember the day you transitioned into “full-time” performing?

I was going to school for a degree in theatre and a record label approached me about touring full-time. Up to that point I had only toured through the summers and performed on weekends, so it would be a change. I prayed about it for a few months because I had planned to go to Chicago and be a part of Second City HipHop after graduation. I just came to the conclusion that I needed to move out, put my stuff in storage, hit the road, and live out of my car. That was in the summer of 2007.

17)       How albums do you have out?

I have 3 albums out and I just released 2 of them last week

Wow that is crazy. Is it hard to release 2 albums at the same time?

The plan was to give an acoustic album for free but the record label did not like that

18)       Favorite song on the new albums?

That’s hard… its like asking a mother who her favorite child is; of course my mother would say me.

Me too!

Gun Show album> I like Faith Cowboy

Shine On> I like Paved

19)      Where can we buy your new albums?

Itunes and Amazon

#81 in 1^st week on Itunes! Was not expecting that because the record label did nothing to promote it.

#19 on Amazon… acoustic album did just as well!

20)      Who is the girl on the song “When the Fever Breaks”?

Her name is Alisa Turner.

I like it better than the Jay-Z New York song!

If was 1 millionth as popular I would be sitting on a beach somewhere

21)      Is it challenging to be versatile?

I try to change anything about what I do regardless of the crowd. If somebody is bound to have a problem with it’s traditionally “the church”. When you are really speaking out of the heart, than do it “artfully”.

22)      Do you have anything to say for the grom just chilling at home dreaming to do what you do?

It’s absolutely possible for you to accomplish anything musically or artistically that you want and if you are willing to devote 10-15 years to it before you see any success. It is everything that is not glamorous or “Rock-n-Roll”.

23)      Any artists that we should check out?

Yes!

AVETT BROTHERS

DEEPSPACE 5… they just released a new album last week!

Awesome! We just got their new cd!

And also JARED MAHONE

Well my friend… we miss you. Stop by Denver anytime. We will start booking some shows we get more planted and you will one of the first.

Yes! Anytime. Call me whenever. I am so stoked you guys had an easy transition into a new church. Proud of you.

Ok peace… and we will tell all of AZ friends to go to your show in Gilbert AZ on Tuesday the 18^th!

Ok cool. Well I better get to driving. Later.

INTRODUCING... Worship Pastor Derek Henbest

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As one first meets Derek Henbest, you have to find him...

He is a humble man with a northwest hair top, some type of vest over a v-neck or snap-button Levis shirt, a vintage belt and buckle holding up his skinny jeans which sometimes tuck into and sometimes cover alligator looking pointy boots that remind me of Benny Perez or a lead singer from the hood of Portland OR.

He blesses others with an original perma-smile that has a "father like" anointing and there is always a half dozen look-a-likes that seem to trail him as if his talent is falling off him for those to pick up and keep. He wants the best for those around him and those around him always see his best.

Derek Henbest is the Worship Pastor at Capital Christian Center in Boise Idaho and lead singer for a band called The Waiting Kind. He is also the husband to Katie Henbest (a woman of God that will "out joy" you).

I would like to say one more thing about Derek Henbest before you read the interview. If you go and see Derek lead hundreds of youth into intimate worship with God on a Wednesday night then you will find youth barely in their teens who have been raised up by this man of God to play instruments with him. The gifts that God has given him, he uses to equip younger generations.

Thank you Pastor Derek for being a disciple maker and world changer!

*at the end of the interview there is a link to download a FREE song by The Waiting Kind and don't forget to buy his album on iTunes!

1) Coke or Pepsi?
Coke always
2) Snake or alligator boots?
Snake
3) Icee or Slurpee?
Icee
4) Snickers or Milky Way?
Snickers
5) What variety of M&M’s? [p-nut, p-nut butter, or plain]
Plain. I'm a simple man
6) When did you hear the call of God to become a worship pastor?
When I was 15...can still remember the presence of God in that meeting
7) What has been your favorite service you’ve played in?
Its a toss up between Easter services and Christmas Eve services...love the atmosphere when people show up ready to give/receive
8) What do you love to see most in a worship service?
 Love the moment when God shows up and people take their eyes off of whats going on...and realize who just showed up....(hands raised, sometimes speechless, mostly grateful/humbled)
9) Who is your mentor?
Krist Wilde/ My father
10) Who is your greatest critic/someone who spurs you on?
My wife no competition. love her.
11) Who are your influences as a musician and as a pastor?
My musical influences are broad yet specific...meaning i have to feel inspired when i listen to it otherwise i don't get into it. Also the Psalms...make them a daily reading habit...they always inspire lyrics and thoughts.
12) What is your life Scripture?
Phil 3:8- really the whole chapter. It never ceases to GRIP my heart with truth in that statement.
13) What is the most important event which has shaped you as a pastor?
Whenever I am around people/pastors/leaders that I look up to...I always allow it to shape me.
14) What advice do you have for a young person considering going to interns vs. college?
 I believe its really a decision that needs to be EARNESTLY prayed about...I believe God's call is never generic its always SPECIFIC...talk with a leader/pastor you trust and ask more importantly what the Lord thinks. I LOVED my Intern year...it set me up for what God has for my life! But for others...college is what the Lord has for them.
15) How did you meet your wife?
She played at GCB for an invite night in the lobby...and I helped her carry her equipment out to her car after the show...with full intentions of getting to know her. ha.
16) Do you have advice for young people regarding purity, dating, and marriage?
Like my pastor Krist Wilde always says...purity is not what you DON'T do its what you DO do. I personally had to make it up in my mind that God wants the best for my life and His ways are better than mine! Now that I'm married...I love every moment I get with my wife. It was worth every "waiting" period.
17) How do you (personally) hear the voice of God when writing lyrics?
I have to get "away" in my mind...block out all the traffic of the day. Sing some melodies...Psalm 45 is my theme scripture when writing lyrics: "my tongue is the pen of a ready scribe..." I am always open to hearing what God is speaking to me throughout my day...when I write I just allow it to flow into melodies. Hopefully that makes sense.
18) What are some of your personal goals and ministry goals?
 Well this is difficult for a worship/music dude to describe...without sounding really generic I would love to be apart of thousands of people getting lost in Gods presence and seeing broken hearts/bodies healed...prodigals return home from knowing God is in the room and that He never left them, in fact pursued them all the way home. Goals like that...but for me lately God has been stirring in me the goal to write songs that help encourage "THE CHURCH" maybe He could use my meek melodies and C+ musical ability to sing a phrase into the heart a person who is seeking the heart of the Father. Humbling thought.
front man for a group called The Waiting Kind. How did the band begin?
It begun my intern year with Dust and I just worshiping together in the prayer room of our church...writing...arranging till pretty soon other guys wanted to get involved and songs starting coming together.
20) What are the names of the other band members?
Dustin LaMont. Brittain "Beiber" Belden yes that was a reference to Justin Beiber. and last but not least Jeff Bull Jr.
21) As a pastor/musician/lead worshipper, what legacy would you like to leave for the next generation?
I would like to leave this legacy on the stage every time we worship..."He must increase. We must Decrease." That is when lives encounter the Savior and not the mishaps of us.

Thank you Pastor Derek Henbest! I can see why God has put you in front of thousands and with other national acts like Leeland, Spoken and many others. Also thank you to the Waiting Kind who has not just impacted my youth group but many others around the world! Oh and say hi to your pastors for us... we miss you guys so much! I hope we worship together again before Heaven!

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