Life Of Danger
In the sermon at my church last week, the girl who was speaking told a story about a pastor and his son who were praying one night before the boy went to sleep. The boy had heard stories about demons at a church camp and he was scared to be alone. He asked his father to pray to keep him safe while he slept. The pastor told his son that he wouldn't do that. Following Jesus isn't a safe life. Jesus never said that it would be. The pastor told his son that he would not pray for his safety, but instead would pray that he would become so dangerous that the demons would run the other way when they saw him coming.
As I am preparing to leave for the World Race, I am praying for God to make me and my squad so dangerous that demons flee when they see us coming. The world belongs to the enemy, but God is on the move. The enemy knows that his time is limited, so he is fighting as hard as he can to win as many souls as he can before his time is up. Some of the places we will be going on the Race are far from safe for Christians. Places where the enemy has hardened the hearts of people so much that you can be arrested or worse just for preaching the gospel. I don't want to back down from these people. That's what the enemy wants me to do. He wants to scare believers off so that the people in these places never get the chance to hear the gospel and experience the love and grace that Jesus has for His sons and daughters. I will not cave to these scare tactics. I want to love people so radically, so furiously that the enemy quivers in fear and flees every time he tries to win these people back. I have the Holy Spirit living in me and my God is greater and stronger than anything the enemy can throw at me. I am not afraid.
I don't want y'all to think that I am being cocky when I say that I am not afraid. There is nothing that I could possibly do on my own that could take away my fear of imprisonment or death. Only the Spirit living in me can overcome that kind of fear. I do not boast in myself, I boast in my God.
When God took away my addictions and gave me the peace that I had been chasing my whole life, I asked Him to use me. I had lived my entire adult life in a way that should have killed me years ago. God walked beside me all of those years and kept me alive and healthy while I saw people falling all around me. When I came through the other side of that, there was no way for me to deny that there really is a God and that He has a plan for my life. I flat out should be dead right now, so God must have a pretty good reason for keeping me around. I want to live my life in a way that reflects that truth. I will go where He sends me and do what He asks of me for the advancement of His kingdom.
Only He knows where this life of service will take me. For now, He has called me to the World Race. After that, who knows where I'll be or what I'll be doing. I just pray that wherever I go, He makes me so dangerous that the enemy retreats. I ask y'all to pray the same thing for me. Please don't pray for my safety, pray that God makes me dangerous. Thank you as always for reading my blog and for your continued prayers. Love Y'all!!!
