Over the years people have said to me that they don’t pray much or enough. Truth is we can never pray “enough”. I’ve been told I’m a prayer warrior, and sometimes I am. Not as often as I need to be.
The Lord has given me fair discernment most of the time and intense discernment at other times, but I make mistakes in spiritual evaluations on occasion like most Christians sometimes do.
I know people who have endured the presence of demonic beings and others who have seen magnificent angels, and most likely we all have “entertained” or been assisted by angels, unaware of them.
If you attend a church that is full of the Spirit of God with a pastor who celebrates and preaches the Gospel with joy, fervor, and Spirit-led insights, then you have experienced the priceless presence of the Living God in your midst.
Some balk at seeing visions, hearing the whispers of the Spirit or the audible voice of God, disbelieve in the baptism of the Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues or the use of the spiritual gifts in an orderly way within a service, and some even decry contemporary worship in music. Others will not pray out loud, raise their hands in praise and worship, or tolerate those who do.
There are those Christians who walk an anemic faith and remain satisfied with their powerless version.
Switching gears a bit now . . . If you visit this blog, you might have noticed that if I don’t feel passionate about something—one way or another—chances are it won’t appear here. There is a spiritual side to every event in our lives because our God does not slumber or sleep, and His eyes roam to and fro over the whole earth. He loves us, He created a plan for each of our lives, He gave us unique characteristics, looks, personalities, and He enjoys us. I know: hard to believe at times.
He designed something for us to feel passionate about, but I’m convinced the farther we are away from His designs for us, the closer we are to feeling passionate about the world and what it offers us. In fact, it seems the farther away we are from pursuing Him and His plans for us, the more frustrated, the angrier, the more depressed and distressed we often become. And the odd part about it all is that we blame God, projecting our anger and depression upon Him and His decision not to fix our problem(s).
It’s true we don’t always want to do our life His way. He pushes us to accept less to gain more of Him. He prods us to let go when we hang on with a death grip. And we will face humiliation if we don’t choose humility.
Accepting suffering and trouble in this life isn’t easy for most of us. Yet we are exhorted by the Lord Jesus Christ that He has overcome the world, and we are reminded to be like Him, we must also share in His sufferings. This life here on earth will not be perfect regardless of what some insist.
So where am I going with all of this? Farther . . .
God, you are perfect and so are your plans. Help us to yield to you. Help us to humble ourselves before you and welcome what you have for us. Apart from you, we can do nothing. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
*Please pray for Kristy Dykes and her family.*
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