In this season God is doing a mighty and powerful thing.
Not just in me, but everywhere I look, all around me.
He is moving.
The more I seek Him, the more I see that God is doing something beyond what I can even comprehend.
"God, your kingdom come."
It's a simple prayer, but one that is transforming my life, transforming every aspect of it. As I have sought the Lord, He has brought me to a place of surrender.
Surrendering my pride
Surrendering my walls and privacy
Surrendering my inadequacies
Surrendering my time, my schedule
Surrendering my expectations
Surrendering my home
Surrendering my family
Surrendering my life
The more I surrender, the more God is entrusting to me and the more I find myself prayerfully saying YES. Yes to crazy things. Yes to sacrificial things. Yes to brokeness. Yes to people. Yes to working. Yes to ministry. Yes to stepping out of my comfort zone. Yes to more prayer. Yes to His Word. Yes to grieving with those who mourn. Yes to standing with the weak. Yes to speaking truth. Yes to unconditional love. Yes to undeserved grace. Yes to mercy. Yes. It is a season of yes for me.
This is a season of not missing a single opportunity to be the hands and feet of Jesus. Believing that what He calls me to, He is faithful to equip me for. Believing that His power is great, His plans are great, His purposes are perfect. Believing that His kingdom come is the best prayer that I can possibly pray... on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.
I have seen Jesus working in me and through His people in the most miraculous ways. The most inspiring thing is that I'm not the only person saying yes. I am privileged in this season to be living life with other people who say yes everyday too. They say yes to the opportunities God brings them to love miraculously. They make the most of every opportunity to be His hands and His feet. Seeing their faith, their love, their sacrifices and them saying yes as well, has ministered to me in such a powerful way and encouraged me in an inexpressible way. I am treasuring up these moments where I see the people I love be a tangible extension of King Jesus. We are united in one purpose, to see Jesus transform, renew, restore and reign in this place. Jesus in His people is miraculous.
Jesus is beautiful.
Jesus forgives the unforgivable.
Jesus loves beyond human capacity.
Jesus shows grace to people who haven't even asked for it.
Jesus embraces the broken.
Jesus shows mercy to people who don't deserve it.
Jesus is not intimidated, afraid or put off by the messiness of sin.
Jesus heals.
Jesus restores.
Jesus brings hope.
Jesus brings life.
Jesus Saves.
It is a miracle that we have any capacity at all to display who He is to the world. However, when He lives in us the same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives in us! We can love, forgive, extend grace, hope, comfort and peace at a capacity beyond ourselves. A heavenly capacity. When we say yes to the eternal, yes the opportunities in our lives that give God all the glory, yes to the moments that shine light in the darkness, bring hope to the hopeless, love to the unlovely, peace to the chaos, and comfort to the grieving, healing to the broken... that is what it's all about.
His Kingdom come, His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
