“The brokenness we experience on a journey is the raw material God uses to establish the Kingdom in us.”
Seth Barnes, “Kingdom Journey’s”
I’m coming from a place of darkness, stepping into the Kingdom of light.
I have stepped from death into life.
When I am weak, He is strong.
My God is a God of miracles. He makes the lame walk.
The blind see. The deaf hear.
He makes beauty from ashes.
And that’s what this month has been about.
It has been a month of wrestling with Him so that He could become greater,
And I, less.
It’s been about surrendering my will.
My desires.
My plans for my life.
It’s been about trusting in the unseen.
The past year of my life is marred with brokenness and pain. I walked into The World Race feeling immensely broken as if I had lost nearly everything. It was a year of constant struggle and uncertainty. Many of the turns I took this year held pain and heartache. I came to the Race not knowing how to fight. The reality that God has asked me to step into this month, is that I don’t have to fight anymore.
I have to let Him fight for me. I have to surrender my pride, fear, brokenness to Him. And He fights. He fights the battle and I am a willing participant.
I get to choose to let Him fight for me or not. And this month I made the choice that He has to fight for me, or I am a goner. There is no way that I could have continued in the brokenness that I found myself in without the willingness of an incredible Father that fights for His children.
And in that decision to let Him fight for me, He has begun to re-create me. He is making me new. As Seth says in his book, God uses our brokenness as His material to establish the Kingdom in us.
Brokenness is God’s material to establish His Kingdom in us.
God is using the brokenness in my life to establish His Kingdom. And I feel utterly unworthy but I am desperate for Him to do something great with this life. And He is.
If it wasn’t for a month of hard work and [what I felt as] utter seclusion – I would still be living in a posture of fighting for myself.
But God used this month to show me that He fights for me.
Jesus lead me to an island for a month of seclusion and hard work.
A month of exhaustion and constant busyness.
He brought me to the end of myself so that I would allow Him to finally step in and fight for me.
Now, I feel the Kingdom coming alive in me – like never before. I feel freedom that has never been felt. It is the freedom that is expressed in Isaiah 12:3 “Joyfully you’ll pull up buckets of water from the wells of salvation.”
God's freedom never ends.
His love is constant. It doesn’t change.
He is always there ready to fight for us.
Seth Barnes, “Kingdom Journey’s”
I’m coming from a place of darkness, stepping into the Kingdom of light.
I have stepped from death into life.
When I am weak, He is strong.
My God is a God of miracles. He makes the lame walk.
The blind see. The deaf hear.
He makes beauty from ashes.
And that’s what this month has been about.
It has been a month of wrestling with Him so that He could become greater,
And I, less.
It’s been about surrendering my will.
My desires.
My plans for my life.
It’s been about trusting in the unseen.
The past year of my life is marred with brokenness and pain. I walked into The World Race feeling immensely broken as if I had lost nearly everything. It was a year of constant struggle and uncertainty. Many of the turns I took this year held pain and heartache. I came to the Race not knowing how to fight. The reality that God has asked me to step into this month, is that I don’t have to fight anymore.
I have to let Him fight for me. I have to surrender my pride, fear, brokenness to Him. And He fights. He fights the battle and I am a willing participant.
I get to choose to let Him fight for me or not. And this month I made the choice that He has to fight for me, or I am a goner. There is no way that I could have continued in the brokenness that I found myself in without the willingness of an incredible Father that fights for His children.
And in that decision to let Him fight for me, He has begun to re-create me. He is making me new. As Seth says in his book, God uses our brokenness as His material to establish the Kingdom in us.
Brokenness is God’s material to establish His Kingdom in us.
God is using the brokenness in my life to establish His Kingdom. And I feel utterly unworthy but I am desperate for Him to do something great with this life. And He is.
If it wasn’t for a month of hard work and [what I felt as] utter seclusion – I would still be living in a posture of fighting for myself.
But God used this month to show me that He fights for me.
Jesus lead me to an island for a month of seclusion and hard work.
A month of exhaustion and constant busyness.
He brought me to the end of myself so that I would allow Him to finally step in and fight for me.
Now, I feel the Kingdom coming alive in me – like never before. I feel freedom that has never been felt. It is the freedom that is expressed in Isaiah 12:3 “Joyfully you’ll pull up buckets of water from the wells of salvation.”
God's freedom never ends.
His love is constant. It doesn’t change.
He is always there ready to fight for us.
Brokenness is God’s material to establish His Kingdom in us.
And when the Kingdom is established in us, it can be established to the world.
Amen.
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