A Word Vomit of Recent Spiritual Insights and Happenings

Passion ignited a flame and sense of urgency within me. I had written a couple of days before in my journal, “Lord, become the one and only desire of my heart. May my love and desire for you overshadow everything in my life, for you alone are fully satisfactory, good and constant.” This still remains the deep prayer of my heart! How fast I get so caught up in worldly matters. I want to be in awe of God, stunned by him. I want his word and love so seared within me that it makes my spirit soar!

Why do we not wake up every day and say, “This is the greatest day of my life!” We become numb, apathetic sometimes, to reality and the world around us that we forget that each day is the greatest day of our lives because…we are alive! I am alive physically and spiritually, and I have a goal I am striving after in order to “press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus,” (Philippians 3:14). In my newness and as Christ lives within me, I live and breathe with a purpose. God has appointed us to live and have our being in this present generation, the chosen generation. What will we do with that? We are created to seek him and find him and to make him known among all nations. I love Acts 17:

“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’”

In Christ we have freedom. My prayer is that in our freedom, we seek to pursue a deeper relationship with the Lord, as this takes a daily self-discipline and consciousness. How are we so forgetful that CHRIST himself LIVES in us! He has cleansed us, set us free, captured our hearts, and allowed us to be partakers of the divine nature. How are we so forgetful that Christ’s power is within us? His divine power has granted us all things that pertain to life and Godliness. He calls us to be true worshipers.

“His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. For this very reason, make every effort to add to your fait goodness; an to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and bind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins,” (2 Peter 1:3-9).

Francis Chan quotes, “Don’t get so near-sighted that you’re blind. You’ve been given eternal riches in Heaven, and everything is temporary. Forget everything you can see. What is left? Your soul and spiritual things. In your times of prayer, pray like this. You’re talking to the God who made the Heavens and the earth and everything in them.”

“If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore, all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God,” (2 Cor. 5:13-21).

Because of this, and because Christ is now seated in the Heavenly realms, it is FINISHED, and our sins are atoned for. Now, we are called to live lives that are hidden in Christ. “For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God,” (Colossians 3:3). There is no power in our flesh; there is only power in Christ, who is in us. There is power that is made available to each one of us! Therefore, the work that is outpoured from us is not our work but rather the work of Christ, and we should only boast in that! We have been appointed, and we have a position to withhold; however, our position determines our practice, in which we must daily deny ourselves and seek the Lord, as we are being refined and edified. Christine Cain put it as, “Get in your dark room. It’s not about your performance but your preparation; seek to be the image of Christ. There is a gap (the process, the practice) between the anointing and the appointing.” We should pray that we get rid of our image, as greatness is measured by how much like Christ we become.

Then, Beth Moore rocked my world with the concept of TIME.

I’ve never thought about how anxious about time we are. Why are we a people anxious about time? We created time, we count it, think about it, look forward to it. Why? It’s innately designed in our being to be anxious about time (just like other things such as why we long to worship, love, and do good). They’re all part of our creation – everyone.

So, time. It’s linear. According to the Kingdom calendar, time is continually COMING.

                  -Gensis 4:26

                  -Luke 2:6

                  -John 7:8

                  -Galations 4:4

The word “time” is used 700 times throughout the bible. There is something that makes us anxious about time, and it is this: time is working toward one huge event, which is the coming of our savior! Doesn’t it make sense?

We’ve been entrusted with this exact time and generation to live our “dash,” as she described. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 6:2, “For he says, ‘In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.’ I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.’” We’re not promised tomorrow, so what are we doing and how are we living so that the purpose of the Lord for our lives is fulfilled? We are a tiny puzzle piece in God’s enormous, planned-out picture of his creation, and we have a duty and story to fulfill as part of God’s will and in our freedom. It was so cool to behold 25,000 of my brothers and sisters whom I do not know all worshipping the same God and praying for each other, knowing each has his/her own duty to live out wherever they may go and to the ends of the earth to spread among the nations what He has done and to proclaim the Lord’s name! There were so many languages and nationalities. It was a small glimpse of heaven. Our generation is chosen because it is one generation closer to Christ’s return, but I also believe The Lord is doing mighty things in our generation. We’re to also fight the good fight and speak and hold fast to beautiful confessions. Jesus is Lord, and he is coming back.

Lord, my prayer is that I won’t move without you. This song has played over and over in my mind for a week:

Promise maker, promise keeper
You finish what you begin
Our provision, through the desert
You see it through til the end

The lord our god is ever faithful
Never changing through the ages
From this darkness, you will lead us
And forever we will say
You're the lord our god

In the silence, in the waiting
Still we can know, you are good
All your plans are for your glory
Yes we can know you are good
Yes we can know you are good, so good

The lord our god is ever faithful
Never changing through the ages
From this darkness, you will lead us
And forever we will say
You're the lord our god

So we won't move without you
We won't move without you
You're the light of all and all that we need
We won't move without you
We won't move without you
You're the light of all and all that we need
We won't move without you
We won't move without you
You're the light of all and all that we need

The lord our god is ever faithful
Never changing through the ages
From this darkness, you will lead us
And forever we will say
You're the lord our god.