I once rode a horse one hundred miles in a day, through a forest fire with a woman on a mule named Danny who sang songs she’d made up to help pass the time…
I once rode a horse one hundred miles in a day, through a forest fire with a woman on a mule named Danny who sang songs she’d made up to help pass the time…
Do I really believe that I can trust God to take care of the entire environment (the universe around me) and lead me through the passageways and narrow gates that are for me? I find myself when I’m honest, thinking it’s my job to figure it all out. This means I have to be pretty busy, and busy minded in order that I don’t miss anything important.
When the LORD speaks, life bursts forth! His voice brings the crumbling of false walls, false selves, false barriers. The voice of the LORD reveals truths previously hidden or obscured. The voice of the LORD obliterates chains and forms of bondage.
As the revelation dawned that once again I am seeing the people who create speed bumps and potholes in what I am certain is my well-deserved straight path before me I remember the sons of thunder from Luke 9:54 (“Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”) I imagine Jesus shaking his head at them, and at me, wondering when will you get it?
I want to sow a field of trust in God for what he is going to bring out of the ground. I want to take the seeds God is handing me and throw them into the ground without having to know what they are in advance. I want to be a woman who sows those seeds and knows with confidence that in the appointed time (Kairos) the harvest will come!
I think God wants to enlarge our territory and calls us to expand into bigger spaces – not because we need to be important, or have influence, or matter more, but because He has limited children willing to say YES to his potentially messy plans, and it’s how he’s able to bless the world!
** This post is the first I have read as an audio. In honor of my good friend and prayer partner who is struggling with some reading issues and headaches … Continue reading Lost the plot?
Fear is everywhere, but those people I see living a passionate life and burning with the fire of the spirit of the son of the living God in their eyes- what they fear is not persecution, or being misunderstood, or not having basic needs met, or even death… they fear losing the connected presence of God in their lives and the intimacy they have said yes to.
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.” Proverbs 13:12 ESV I have considered this verse from many angles over recent years from … Continue reading Fear of hope
When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went … Continue reading Choosing Sides