-In the hard times, the struggles, and the pains, tears, wounds, praise the Lord, for He IS good. He is holy. He is the source of all that is beautiful.
Sometimes you just have to LET IT BE.
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John 4:1-24
Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
The Lord says: Now, and even more in the future, my children will worship me in spirit and truth -- with my Holy Spirit and my Word. The most real, full life one can lead is to to have the foundation of your life in the Word of my Lord, and be intimate with Him through His Spirit.
What do we hold back from God? Better yet, what boxes do we keep ourselves in?
Are you meant to go to college just because that's what you always thought you would do? Are you meant to get married just because that's what is the normal way society works, because it's expected, because you want to? Are you supposed to go into full-time, career ministry because you've always thought that's how God uses people best? Are you meant to get a job with a growing company because you want security and your parents did that?
Where do we get our ideas of what our lives are supposed to look like? Do we get that picture from ourselves, our desires? From the society we live in (a society that does not acknowledge the Lord)? From what the "normal" Christian life looks like?
Read the New Testament and meet the normal Christian life...
-Hearing from God in tangible ways.
-Sacrificing your life for His kingdom
-Prophesying over God's children, receiving His word for other people and through it giving encouragement, comfort and support.
-Being anointed with His Spirit.
-Actively listening for the Lord to tell you when to move and what to do, being His hands and feet.
-Praying His heart, His desires instead of our own.
-The normal Christian life is not marrying unless you must and He tells you to.
-PURSUING God and His gifts as if its all you were made to do...because it is.
Live in the FULLNESS of what the Lord wants you to have.
Cheryl Beckett
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