t’s a good season and at the moment there are 2 things that I think we need to harness together. One is that God was speaking to us a few months ago about being ready for a move, being ready to anticipate what God is doing. It came out of a passage about David encountering his enemies and the sound of movement in the balsam trees or the mulberry trees, waiting, watching and hearing something. And again the stirring of the water – watching something and getting into what God is doing.
I think God is saying WATCH.
Even a few weeks ago, when Chris Simpson was speaking from Psalm 19 about the Heavens declaring God, watch. There is something in that watching which may require some dynamic of the Spirit which says ‘hey, it’s time for the lid to be taken off’. We had been given the presentation of the jumping fleas this morning and their conditioning to stay within a framework. They are conditioned by a stronghold that says ‘This is my life, it is always in this box. This is my faith, it is always in this box.’ God is saying it is time to spread out, time to transform your thinking, time to renew your mind, time to be expanded. So, that is the kind of thing to anticipate and watch for. We need to encourage each other whether it be at prayer meetings, the encounters meetings, the Sunday morning meetings – I am going to meet with God. I have something to contribute.
The second thing is ACTION
Earthing that in terms of our enthusiasm for God and the joy and life that can generate among us and of sharing this beyond the walls of our church. I had a picture a few weeks ago of us being in a blackout like in the Second World War. Everyone put their blackout curtains up – we were light inside but were blacked out from the terrible, scary world. I feel that partly, the breaking out, lifting the lid, breaking the walls involves taking down some of the blackout curtains and letting this light get out. That is where some of the Hope08 and mission initiative comes in. I really have faith that this is a time when we need to be pushing out in terms of sharing our faith and taking the warm contacts and the good feel we have got in the area around us beyond just ‘aren’t they nice people down at Unit 3’, to ‘these people have met something fundamentally life changing in relationship with the Living God, and we want that for ourselves’
Lets pray that this seed change can be in our hearts
I think God is saying WATCH.
Even a few weeks ago, when Chris Simpson was speaking from Psalm 19 about the Heavens declaring God, watch. There is something in that watching which may require some dynamic of the Spirit which says ‘hey, it’s time for the lid to be taken off’. We had been given the presentation of the jumping fleas this morning and their conditioning to stay within a framework. They are conditioned by a stronghold that says ‘This is my life, it is always in this box. This is my faith, it is always in this box.’ God is saying it is time to spread out, time to transform your thinking, time to renew your mind, time to be expanded. So, that is the kind of thing to anticipate and watch for. We need to encourage each other whether it be at prayer meetings, the encounters meetings, the Sunday morning meetings – I am going to meet with God. I have something to contribute.
The second thing is ACTION
Earthing that in terms of our enthusiasm for God and the joy and life that can generate among us and of sharing this beyond the walls of our church. I had a picture a few weeks ago of us being in a blackout like in the Second World War. Everyone put their blackout curtains up – we were light inside but were blacked out from the terrible, scary world. I feel that partly, the breaking out, lifting the lid, breaking the walls involves taking down some of the blackout curtains and letting this light get out. That is where some of the Hope08 and mission initiative comes in. I really have faith that this is a time when we need to be pushing out in terms of sharing our faith and taking the warm contacts and the good feel we have got in the area around us beyond just ‘aren’t they nice people down at Unit 3’, to ‘these people have met something fundamentally life changing in relationship with the Living God, and we want that for ourselves’
Lets pray that this seed change can be in our hearts
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