As my husband keeps reminding me, I have horrible grammar. This shows up in my posts quite frequently I'm afraid, and for all you natural born grammar correctors out there, I formally and most sincerely apologize for any pains you may be experiencing due to my un conventional grammar and spelling practices.
Love,
The Beth
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
We Be Crazy.....or Be We?
So for the first time in...well, let's just say "A loooong time" Brando and I went to Grace for a Sunday morning service. This is strange because the Lord has recently called us away from there. We went to hear Pastor Steven, a man of God from Nairobi,Kenya. This guy gets it. And I think as crazy as it may seem, Brando and I are GETTING IT!! Like for real.
Revival is going to happen. The Lord is stirring His people out of their slumber and blowing the trumpet to tell them "WAKE UP! You sleepy Christians!" There is a regiment growing steadily unwilling to compromise for comfort or churchianity. Unwilling to sacrifice the lord for the World. We are at the gate.
I have a desire in my heart, my mind every part of me to find the lord Jesus, no matter what that takes from me or gives to me because HE IS Worthy....
So what does that mean? For me and Brandon (Brandon and I for all you English majors out there), it means forsaking all of our....stuff! Gasp! Yes, our stuff including but certainly not limited to the Tele, the video games, the couch, everything will eventually be going away. For some wierd reason everyone but a select few think we're crazy for this. Like stuff is anything but...well...stuff! We don't want to sell this stuff (or give it away- anybody need a TV?) so that we can be "hyper-spiritual" or labeled as Radicals or something, although I'm learning that even if you don't want that to happen, it does anyway:) We're doing it for two reasons 1) First and foremost, we desire to see the Lord and to know Him, yes, to ACTUALLY KNOW the god of the universe, and He is worthy of the best of our time, the best of our effort and even if He could speak to us (which I know He can) amongst all the noise and stuff-i-ness of life, He deserves to know we're REALLY listening. 2) We are praying and seeking the Lord's will about missions. Currently our focus in prayer is if it would be the Lord's will to be trained up in Minnesota at BCOM. Any prayer or support we could recieve from you guys would be the bomb cause if we go, it's gonna have to be the Lord $17,000.00 doesn't just come out of the sky:) Unless Jesus wants it to I guess......Anyways, that's what's happening in our lives right now.
Which brings me back to Pastor Steven: I'm glad we could hear this man speak. He "does church" in a way that is active and alive- something the church of America is in desperate need of today. Anyways, the Lord really used Pastor Steven to confirm much of what has been happening in our lives- that the way is narrow and we must forsake all to find it. The time has come to quit shying away from the truth- "For I am not ahsamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of god to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, 'The just shall live by faith'" Rom 1:16
How is it that I can be afraid to tell anyone about the truth of the gospel? Even in America where we think everyone knows it, and maybe they do, but dag nabbit! We need to know that we know that we know that they know it. We are going to be accountable for every opportunity- for everyone who knows us by name, the lord will ask us, "What did you do about....?" I shudder to think of how much blood is already on my hands as a lukewarm pansy of a Christian. Pastor Steven brought up Ezekiel 33:1-9 I won't print it here-it's way long, but check it out (I know you all have Bibles). This watchman position that we have as members of a sleeping body is not something that the Lord takes lightly .
Anyway- all that to say that I have come to a place with the Lord where I recognize my poverty stricken spiritual state and I just need to seek Him while He may be found.
Love, love:)
Revival is going to happen. The Lord is stirring His people out of their slumber and blowing the trumpet to tell them "WAKE UP! You sleepy Christians!" There is a regiment growing steadily unwilling to compromise for comfort or churchianity. Unwilling to sacrifice the lord for the World. We are at the gate.
I have a desire in my heart, my mind every part of me to find the lord Jesus, no matter what that takes from me or gives to me because HE IS Worthy....
So what does that mean? For me and Brandon (Brandon and I for all you English majors out there), it means forsaking all of our....stuff! Gasp! Yes, our stuff including but certainly not limited to the Tele, the video games, the couch, everything will eventually be going away. For some wierd reason everyone but a select few think we're crazy for this. Like stuff is anything but...well...stuff! We don't want to sell this stuff (or give it away- anybody need a TV?) so that we can be "hyper-spiritual" or labeled as Radicals or something, although I'm learning that even if you don't want that to happen, it does anyway:) We're doing it for two reasons 1) First and foremost, we desire to see the Lord and to know Him, yes, to ACTUALLY KNOW the god of the universe, and He is worthy of the best of our time, the best of our effort and even if He could speak to us (which I know He can) amongst all the noise and stuff-i-ness of life, He deserves to know we're REALLY listening. 2) We are praying and seeking the Lord's will about missions. Currently our focus in prayer is if it would be the Lord's will to be trained up in Minnesota at BCOM. Any prayer or support we could recieve from you guys would be the bomb cause if we go, it's gonna have to be the Lord $17,000.00 doesn't just come out of the sky:) Unless Jesus wants it to I guess......Anyways, that's what's happening in our lives right now.
Which brings me back to Pastor Steven: I'm glad we could hear this man speak. He "does church" in a way that is active and alive- something the church of America is in desperate need of today. Anyways, the Lord really used Pastor Steven to confirm much of what has been happening in our lives- that the way is narrow and we must forsake all to find it. The time has come to quit shying away from the truth- "For I am not ahsamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of god to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, 'The just shall live by faith'" Rom 1:16
How is it that I can be afraid to tell anyone about the truth of the gospel? Even in America where we think everyone knows it, and maybe they do, but dag nabbit! We need to know that we know that we know that they know it. We are going to be accountable for every opportunity- for everyone who knows us by name, the lord will ask us, "What did you do about....?" I shudder to think of how much blood is already on my hands as a lukewarm pansy of a Christian. Pastor Steven brought up Ezekiel 33:1-9 I won't print it here-it's way long, but check it out (I know you all have Bibles). This watchman position that we have as members of a sleeping body is not something that the Lord takes lightly .
Anyway- all that to say that I have come to a place with the Lord where I recognize my poverty stricken spiritual state and I just need to seek Him while He may be found.
Love, love:)
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