Hello Dear Loves:
I posted this as a comment and Felicia suggested that I repeat it as a new post.
I've enjoyed reading your posts and would like to give you some new things to think about.
First, we are in the "the baby is about to be delivered" stages or the "30 seconds old baby" stages of a revival. If you read the book of Joel the pattern is God reveals sin and the conditions of Israel (or the church) from HIS perspective. Daddy scolds His kids and they deserve it. The second part is where anyone who has heard His voice, who has a teachable heart, who really wants to please Him, and really wants to change on HIS terms goes into a state of mourning and deep repentance. The people start to see the TRUTH about their own condition and the TRUTH on how serious that is from God's perspective. A lot of us are going through that right now. Some of you are still stuck in the, "It's all about me--what do I get out of this?" mode. That attitude is selfishness (pride)and is blocking your progress and making the process longer. The changes we go through will certainly benefit us, but it must be about pleasing Him. We are children of the King. As children we have great freedom and privileges, but it still must to ALL ABOUT HIM and HIS DESIRES--HIS WILL. When we choose to live our life from that perspective, we start to mature and deliverance comes quicker.
All of you have leadership potential and the DS leaders all felt that God wanted us to work with you for that reason. We were originally only going to chose a handful of you for one-on-one mentoring, but we looked at each other (Gary, Caleb, and me) and said can't we mentor them all? I feel that was God's doing.
Being a leader in a revival and in a kingdom-based lifestyle is a very heavy responsibility. Everything I do with you, I do with "fear and trembling" and by keeping as close to God and Gary as possible because I know my own weaknesses and I know how serious making mistakes can be for you. I cannot allow my life to be "All about me" because it will interfere with "your highest good". Hanging on to "all about me" prevents me from loving you on God's terms.
I believe a full manifestation of revival is going to break out soon. When new Christians come into the family, we need a small army of leaders to disciple them effectively on "GOD's terms" without religion and without setting up "our own kingdoms". Tag you're it-- you are part of that small army. For God to use you, you need to be very deeply in love with Him, listening to every word He says and allowing that love to flow through you to even the unlovely. So I encourage you to go in red hot pursuit of your Daddy God. Let Him in there to heal your pain and resolve you past. He knows exactly what to do and He has your highest good in mind. Don't settle for mediocre religion anymore.
I challenge you to start going through your day connecting with God on HIS terms and making your worship, family interactions, work and all other activities "All about Him".
Love you so much!
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ReplyDeleteWhat you said in the last big paragraph about new Christians and discipling on God's terms was really awesome. It has to be selfless. We have to be FULLY surrendered to Him and walking in His ways so that we can help others too. If we're caught up in our own pain and aren't focused on the Father it's hard to help because we're helping from our humanness rather than God's greatness.
ReplyDeleteSomething Gary told me in a meeting was that God doesn't ever give us direction without grace. So as all of us Discipleship school, and Christians in general, keep pursuing God and His plan for us he will go with us through it and guide us and all ways be giving us grace along the way. Which at least for me is relieving! Cause it means, even if we mess up or the following Him is just messy as long as were following his directions for us, he'll make sure everything's all right. :)
Thanks Jan for posting this and sharing some of your pearls. :)