To be honest, this month has been pretty dry for me Spiritually in what I am learning. After a month of Father teaching me things left and right, its weird to be in a month where the learning is slow and the silence is deafening. In times like these, I am curious as to what Father is trying to say and looking for something to learn in every little corner. And I realized today that what I am supposed to be learning this month is to realize when ministry gets in the way of Father. Being a ministry major at college, times like these were always talked about, but I never had a real picture of what that looked like. When ministry becomes so much of a priority, you lose focus on resting and being with Father. So today, I took the entire day off for the first time in a while solely to focus on Father and listen for His voice during the day.
And it didn’t take long before I heard Him speak, and realized rest in Him is a time of learning and is more important than ministry. A lot of times on the race, we get so lost in ministry that we forget one of the main purposes of this trip is OUR relationship with Father as much as the people we come in contact with. If we are not focusing on hearing from Father in our own lives, it makes it hard to keep speaking it to those we come in contact with.
As I sat down this morning and read and really listened to what Father wanted me to hear, this is what He said. He gave me a list of things to always remember and focus on first thing every day. To pray these things and remember them:
1. I am proud of you for living another day for My Kingdom. Your effort to wake up and devote to Me communicates your willingness and love for Me. Before you have even done anything, your mindset makes Me proud.
2. Acknowledge your worldly nothingness to Me. In this acknowledgement, you are saying that your sin and imperfections are not greater than My love and forgiveness. In your nothingness, you see My everything perfected in your life.
3. Acknowledge your heavenly place in My Kingdom I made for you through your surrender and My Grace. Being confident in your Heavenly place is the only place worth being confident in.
4. ALL hope and faith only come through Me, and no one else. EVER! You have hopes and dreams of love, perfection, grace, and all other things, and putting that hope in Me is the only chance of those things coming true.
5. Compassion and love are My character. No matter what, My Love is ALWAYS bigger. No question.
They may seem simple, but the fact that we take time each and every day to remember what Christ says about His children is key. Without remembering those promises, our life has no hope.
