I wrote this post a week ago, but the irony of me posting it now lies in the fact that last night and just a few minutes ago I had a couple conversations with friends about being with Jesus instead of letting all the unfinished business of my life consume me. My life is such a work in progress! Praise God for grace!
“You know the depths of my soul.
You love me with beautiful abandon.
You pursue me with reckless passion.”
(spontaneous worship)
Her voice rose and mine soared and we were the two and more gathered in one place, together in a holy moment. The intensity of the music, my hand strumming the strings grew to meet the fervency of what we sang, what we were praying for. What had started as a casual invitation for Adeline (one of my little sisters) to join my time with Jesus, became a powerful experience shared between the two of us. We were in the upper room and we didn’t want to leave, didn’t want to step out of communing with God in this passionate, open manner.
As we worshipped, our hearts were moved to intercede and something shifted, in the spiritual realm things were happening. Isn’t it a wonderful, mysterious thing that God changes the world, reveals his power, glory and love to people through our prayers!? And as we interceded and felt our prayers coming to pass, it moved us to greater awe and sweeter worship. That’s grace: not only does the blood of Jesus cover us, remove the punishment of our sin, but He raises us up with him to become His ambassadors on this earth.
I am so excited to physically, in person share the love of Jesus with the people that I am going to be encountering on the race, but I am equally looking forward to spending time in prayer in worship. It is such a sweet and humbling moment when breakthrough happens, a prophetic word is spoken or a miracle occurs and the Holy Spirit whispers to my heart that this is prayer coming to pass, that my words matter to God, that He is attentively listening to the prayers I pray.
It is this intimate, ongoing conversation with and worship of Jesus that matters, not a life comprised of “I’m just so busy” or “let me just text this person back and then I can continue our conversation in which you are pouring your heart out” and “I feel Jesus telling me to just go take a walk with him, but let me write one more e-mail”. I daily experience a tendency in me to do and not be and I am fighting that with more doing:) (ridiculous, I know!) As I prepare to graduate in two weeks, move out of my house in College Station and continue getting ready for the world race, I want to use this busy, task filled time to practice this ongoing prayer and worship of Jesus, trusting that when he tells me to come away and just be with Him, that He is going to provide the time and people I need just when I need them.
What’s going on in my world through the lenses of friends:
Singing “Hallelujah” at the park with my dear friend Kaylin
Getting to spend some quality time country/western dancing with two of my sisters over Thanksgiving break:)
My dad giving me my Aggie ring. Whoop!:)
Thanks for reading friends!
