When you work out, especially after not working out in a while, your body experiences physical pain and the tearing of muscles in order to be built up and experience growth. Why do we expect a spiritual workout to be any different??Why do we expect to not be tired after prayer or outreach. Don’t we know, by now, that the Lord desires for us to be LONGSUFFERING!! But how in the world are we going to be longsuffering unless we work ourselves out spiritually to gain more endurance??
My mind is so full processing everything that happened in Denver I can’t hardly communicate it to myself much less to this computer screen.
I know one thing my spiritual life was challenged to run a 5k whether i was ready for it or not. My Father called me to prayer in places that were HIGHLY uncomfortable for me..for rather long periods of time. I experienced favor that only Christ HIMSELF can bestow..yet He can only bestow it when we are willing to go to these highly unlikely places and do things the world will call crazy while picking up their stones to chunk at us. People..Believers..Warriors..there is NO other way to live!! I don’t want to live any other way. I always desire to share adventure with my Heavenly Father who loves me enough to allow me to tag along on His GLORIOUS adventures!! What an honor to be able to plant spiritual seeds places that you didn’t expect to plant them..to pray things like “hide us Father under the shadow of your wings..” and literally mean PLEASE LORD MAKE US FOGGY to the normal eye so that we have the ability to finish what you called us to this night.
It’s fun.
Serving God will always be way more exhilerating than anything else that this fallen world has to offer..walking in the Spirit will always lead to things that, I , in my carnal mind didn’t expect to be led too..and this truth..intoxicates me and challenges me and pushes me to be more and prepare for more..and burn more and more and more of my flesh off at the altar. People of God RISE UP!! Rise up and shine God’s love be infintely more! Our life is but a vapor..
Thank you Father for believing in me and for calling me to things so much bigger than myself. You are more than enough and I can’t imagine life without you guiding my every breathe. Challenge me Jesus. Change me Lord. Help me to rise up and throw off everything that hinders me. Be my strength. I love you daddy.
Psalm 25:1-4
1-2 My head is high, God, held high; I’m looking to you, God;
No hangdog skulking for me.
3 I’ve thrown in my lot with you;
You won’t embarrass me, will you?
Or let my enemies get the best of me?
Don’t embarrass any of us
Who went out on a limb for you.
It’s the traitors who should be humiliated.
4 Show me how you work, God;
School me in your ways.
