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This race is different.  Things are shifting in my spirit.  My desires and wants are changing.  I don’t want to be a quiet anointed person.  I want the sick healed.  I want the bound set free.  I want the lost to know His relentless love. I remember coming on my first race with the intentions and mindset to just love people and be Jesus to the world, but this race is different.  Don’t get me wrong, I do love people and I love my God, but its beginning to take new shape in my life.  Anybody can be nice and do good things, false prophets can even love people and do good, but the fruit that comes from living by the Spirit should look different.  I don’t want to just help people; I want to show them Jesus through the demonstration of the Holy Spirit and presence of God at work.  Not coming with empty words but demonstration and power of the Holy Spirit.  All throughout the Gospels we see that Jesus went about teaching, preaching, and healing.  It is recorded multiple times.  He had compassion on the crowds.  Truth was spoken.  Freedom and deliverance happened.  Healings were a norm.  Multitudes were fed.


 


That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.  Matthew 8:16


 


And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction.  When he saw the crowds he had compassion for them…  Matthew 9:35-36


 


And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them. 


Matthew 15:30


 


There was a distinct difference.  I want to see the fruit of living a spirit-filled life. I want to show the world who my God is by demonstration and power of the Holy Spirit.   I want the World of God to be living and active in my life.  I recently read Forgotten God by Francis Chan and one of my favorite lines in his book was this, I don’t want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.  Ahhh…this is my heart. I don’t want to move or act in my own ability…I don’t want to say the right things and have the right answers because of wisdom, knowledge, or life experiences.  I want to be so in touch with the Holy Spirit that I do nothing apart from Him.  I knew going into this race that if the spirit of God was not living and active in my life, I would fail.  In other words, if I was not sensitive to the Holy Spirit in my life…living and breathing the Holy Spirit, I would fail. 


 


 


And my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.  I Corinthians 2:4-5


 


For the Kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power.  I Corinthians 4:20


 


I am the vine; you are the branches.  Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.  John 15:5


 


I want to expand the Kingdom, awaken a generation, and live by the Spirit.  I want to go further and deeper with the Lord than ever before.  I refuse to walk in fear this year or give Satan any place in my life.  I choose boldness and faith.  I choose to believe the report of the Lord.  I choose life, joy, healing, and the testimony of Christ.  There is a blazing fire in my Spirit that I don’t want to contain or control.  A fire that is raging war against the enemy.  I will not be silent.  I was born to worship.  I will declare freedom to the nations and healing to the broken and wounded.


 


The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.  Heal the sick.  Raise the dead.  Cleanse lepers.  Cast out demons.  Matthew 10:7-8


 


 


This is what I want.