so needless to say - im ready for next week!
haha
i hope it went well for those of you who were there...? :)
i just want to share some things God has been sharing with me lately.
He's been having me pray a lot for the team and its future and i have just been working to listen and be led by Him...
and something kind of random that has really stuck with me is a line from the movie the Book of Eli...i was watching it (really good movie, a lot of killing at times, but good) and at the end after all he has been through he says...
"thank you, Lord for giving me the strength and protection to complete the task you entrusted to me"
and he goes on - but that line really stuck. even though my life is not quite as epic as walking through a desert trying to survive and protect the last Bible in the world...i just feel like we, as a team, are on this mission. this mission that God is calling us on to go from where we are now to where God is calling...and right now it seems overwhelming and huge. right now, i have no idea how to get where He's leading us to...but in the movie God took care of it. Eli was just the tool. and after all of it, all the impossible moments - he was still able, at the end of it all, to look back and thank God for helping him complete the task entrusted to him.
and when i heard that, it was like i was just filled with this drive to be able to say that one day. knowing that i trusted God enough to get us through the impossible - TO the seemingly impossible. and be able to say "thank you for getting us here..."
how exciting!
and He has been having me read Psalm 72...
its a picture of what is possible when God is in control...when God is the one providing the power and authority. and its pretty amazing stuff...and it is causing me to want to dream HUGE. realizing that He can do it. and to dream it with confidence...confidence that He wants to do big things. im not going to put it all in here because its long, but go read it. its a really really powerful prayer for leaders. it was written about King Solomon, asking that God give him the justice and righteousness to lead the people and do all these huge things through him, using His power...and just touch lives all over the place. asking God to be the power that impacts people. what if we prayed that over all our leaders? that they be filled with God and granted the justice and righteousness of Him? i know i want that. i dont want to do things just to please God..i want Him to do what He wants through ME.
"blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things." (v.18)
He also brought me to Isaiah 45:3 last night. a powerful promise...
"I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel who called you by your name."
i have said before that i have really no idea what is coming...but i'm going to keep praying, keep seeking and follow Him when He leads, no matter how small or huge the steps are.
i pray that we ALL take time to find out what God's seemingly impossibly huge dreams are for our lives...and then trust Him to bring us to the completion of it! so one day we can get to the place where we look back in AWE of Him and say "thank you for strengthening me and protecting me to complete the task you entrusted to me..."
what a huge privilege to be called to be a part of His plan - and we ALL are! He has the greatest, most creative imagination ever...and He has a specific plan for each of us. lets find out what it is!!!
:)
and its something we can only really do by surrendering ourselves to Him, and allowing Him to work and refine us. Allow Him to prepare us, and only He knows what we need, for what is coming, for what we are called to.
long story short - ask Him to do ALL the work! :)
still sad i couldnt be at ALIVE last night...i missed you team if you are reading this!
i hope to see you all next week!
We missed you... thanks for blogging :)
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