Loved and Protected

If you’ve been with me very long, you know I’m holding onto God, believing for a personal revival, everything God has to offer, and I’m not going to let Him go until He blesses me.

Well, let me say that God has been putting puzzle pieces together before my eyes, and many of them have to do with GodTV. Now if you had told me that a Christian television channel was worth watching, I would have shaken my head and said, “I’ve already heard all that, and all they do is make promises they don’t intend to keep and ask for money people don’t have.”

Now some of my friends disagree with me on this, but I’ve seen and heard enough to be suspicious of motives. But I’m sold on my God, and falling in love with Jesus again, asking Him to stir me deeply, so that I’m not just a nominal Christian. I want to turn the world upside down with my passion for God.

I want to stop playing games–stop settling for a poor, dead imitation of the real thing.

In fact, this weekend I was watching the God Channel and saw something I got very excited about. In Alabama there’s a revival going on. Not a typical “Go hear someone talk and start jumping up and down” revival, but a true Holy Spirit revival led by a man named Damon Thompson. He was talking to a crowd of maybe 500 teens, and he said that they were the generation that would turn the world upside down if they followed wherever God would lead with their whole hearts. And then He prayed for them to die to themselves and many got spirit-filled, and were not afraid to worship with wild abandon.

Well, I’m no teenager but I want in on the good stuff, so I listened and watched with rapt attention. And he spoke about two blind men who had heard that Jesus could heal them. Now Jesus was walking to a friend’s home to spend some time, and because those blind men were so focused on getting their healing they just walked right inside that house, following Jesus. Even in that day, it wasn’t good manners to just walk into a stranger’s home, so what they did caused an uproar. But guess what? They got their healing.

Thompson’s message was this: we’re going to have to break a few rules, step over a few threshholds, upset people if we have to, but we can’t settle for less than going after God with every fiber of our being if we want what He has to give. Are you with me here?

If you are satisfied to settle for the old, dead stuff that’s passed for Christianity, stop reading–stop wasting your time, but if you’re tired of it, then plan to do whatever it takes, to get to where Jesus is.

The trouble with most of us is we care more about what others think than about what God thinks. Let me say that again–we care more about what others think than about what God thinks. And God is sick of mediocrity. He says in Revelation that He wants us to be hot or cold, but He spits out those who are lukewarm. And isn’t that exactly what most of us are right now?

Well, let me warn you here. To get where Jesus is we’re going to make some people uncomfortable and make others angry. We’re going to embarrass some, and convict others just by being hot for God. We’re going to be as politically incorrect as it gets, and be in trouble everywhere we go, so we’d better get over caring what other people think.

God says now is the time to get serious about being a believer. And the signs of the times are saying that from now on it’s going to cost a great deal to be a sold-out believer in Jesus. But I’m sick to death of playing church. I want more, and I’m not going to settle for anything less. What about you? I’m going to crucify my own desires, and hang on every word Jesus says, asking Him to use me as never before. There’s one thing though, it takes obedience I’m not sure I’ve ever understood. It takes commitment and doing the hard things, the uncomfortable things, getting out of that old rut and following hard after God.

But I’m excited. I see Him breaking the old stuff off me, so that I can fly as if light as a feather. And I want that with everything inside me, and I’m going for the goal.

Come along, won’t you? And together we can change the world.

Because of His great love,

Nancy

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