Monday, March 30, 2015

Keeping Up With God

One of the things that needs to be established about the God we serve is that God is a God of movement. He's not a stationary God, He's a missionary God. He's always moving and He's always working. With this being the case, the Father expects His children to always be on the move as well. We're not talking about "just staying busy." We're talking about what Jesus said at 12 years old, "being about His Father's business" (Luke 2).

The reason why this is significant is because it's easy to go into a state of spiritual complacency. Once you've done something for so long, and experienced a reasonable amount of success, you can fall into the trap of resting on your spiritual laurels and find contentment in that particular place with God. This is deception. There's never a place of "arrival" in God. Yes, He wants us to rest in Him and labor to enter that rest (Matthew 11, Hebrews 4). But at the same time, He wants us to always to keep pressing into His will and pressing into His Presence.

Saints, there are too many churches and too many congregations that have grown content with where they are in Christ. Worship services have become predictable, praise and worship have become regulated, preaching and sermons have become monitored. Many churches are no longer reaching to come out of their "comfort zone." They're no longer anticipating a move of the Spirit beyond what they're used to. This attitude, my friends, is not of God.

God is doing a new thing. And the only way you're going to be in position to receive is to develop a sense of expectation for it. Don't fall into a spiritual rut. Don't let your time with God and devotion in the Spirit be reduced to just "going through the motions." Be receptive to the new thing that God is doing in your life and with His people. Don't become spiritually slothful, make sure that you're keeping up with God.

Prayer
Heavenly Father, we ask that You wake us up in the Spirit. If we have grown complacent and slothful in our relationship with You, we ask that You have mercy on our souls and forgive us for this sin. We acknowledge Father the new thing that You're doing in the earth and amongst Your people. We ask Father, by Your Grace, that You allow us to participate in the Kingdom Agenda that You have ordained for Your elect and Your chosen. Give us discernment, give us focus, give us an ear to hear and a heart to receive. And we'll be careful Father to give You all of the Praise. In Jesus' Name we pray, Amen.

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