Through our week of training, the thought of team leadership and how those persons would be chosen on occasion sprung to mind and for some reason I did not want to have much to do with it. I don’t know, maybe it was me just not wanting any extra responsibility than necessary and as usual just wanting to be chill, but I soon came to realize this was God my Father placing hints of His plan on my heart.
He spoke quite a few times with words like authority, strength, leadership and intimacy amongst others. Towards the end of our training period, all these words of knowledge began to fall into place, giving me more of an insight into what He is trying to teach and build in me.
He’s teaching me a new style of leadership, teaching what it means to lead a family and how being that leader is entwined in deep intimacy with Him. The thing is it really applies to just being a servant and willing to extend His passion, and that extends to just about anything we do in His name.
So yea, lately I recognize a need for growth, to grow in the Fathers strength and authority, but through deep intimacy with Him.
So check it, how bout you join me, lets get INTIMATE with the Father, that we may grow in His strength (power) and authority to subdue the body, the flesh, the habits, the lies we believe, the traces of sin that still reflects the image of the old nature that once was us. Let us begin to grow in intimacy and likewise begin to chip away at that old image a little piece at a time, one step at a time, letting that light slowly but progressively burst through revealing that new man that is anchored in Christ Jesus. That although its OK not to be OK, its not OK to be OK …with where we are at.(think ’bout that one)
Even as Joshua spoke out of intimacy with the Father to have the Sun and moon be still, we also will speak ‘out of intimacy’ to the circumstances in our lives to be still, with Truth and Authority.
Note, it will require sacrifice, in whatever form that comes, but I challenge and encourage you today, join me!
So yea, not sure if you noticed, but not quite what I started out intending to write for a blog, but I believe this is where it needs to be right now…so I’ll leave it at that, talk soon.
“…Joshua said to the Lord in the presence of Israel: O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon. So the sun stood still and the moon stopped…” Joshua 9:12-13
