Letting God Lead!

Letting God Lead:

As you may have read in my recent Life on the Race blog. The teams had been discouraged by the turn out for services at Noe’s Home Church. We had been pounding the streets, we had been making fools of ourselves with our limited Spanish, we had been handing out lots of flyers. WE HAD BEEN….

Since we got to Mexico, it had been on my heart that we had not truly sought after God’s will. That I had no idea what Noe’s vision was. That I did not feel a clear direction from God. YET, I pressed on. Drive on. Work harder. If you want it done right, you must do it yourself. These are the thoughts in my flesh that have guided me for years. These are the thoughts that may sound familiar to many of you.

But I have been seeking God, learning to die to flesh and walk in the light, in the spirit, to let God lead me by the hand. Truly asking God to make me like a child again and learning to walk for the first time.

It was on the hearts of many of us. After a team debrief, we broke. Several team members, on different teams, in different meetings, all shared their hearts. That we had run ahead of God. That we had gotten caught up in activities, a full schedule, a game plan. But we were not seeing fruit, because we were relying on ourselves, our will, our desire. We had not sought after God’s heart.

Jer 29:13 teaches us that we will seek the Lord, but we will only find him when we seek him with ALL of our heart. ALL of your heart. Not just two hours of devotional in the morning, not just on Sunday’s, not just during “scheduled” ministry time, not just when we “feel” like it…. but all the time, and with ALL of our heart.

So we stopped, and we waited. On Wednesday night we went to Noe’s house, and we sat, and we prayed, and we met with God, we sought after his heart.

God is faithful, he was there, he was moving, we just had to slow down and wait for him, to listen to him, to let him lead us.

Last night, we prepared to go to Noe’s for service. Rather than the hurried rush, rather than planning our strategy or “sticking to the game plan.” We listened to the Lord. We did not hit the streets with flyers last night. Instead, we prayed, and we listened. We posted an intercessor on every corner, we claimed the block. We asked God to divinely bring people to the door. And he did.

People were coming from no where and from everywhere. People were just walking down the street and would stop in front of the “church” (aka Noe’s front yard) and then come in. It was clearly God’s plan and not ours.

The service was magical. Mallorie’s message was directly from Gods heart and out of her mouth. We welcomed several new brothers into our family as they accepted the Lord last night. We broke strongholds. Captives were free. The demons trembled as we took authority in Christ Jesus.

Amazing what happens when you let God lead…