It really blows my mind when God confirms things, even if they are just mere thoughts journaled out on paper. I was in my Sunday school class, “Walking in the Spirit,” and today we were doing part in our book and part in a tape series by James MacDonald, who just rocks (what would it be like to be in his congregation every Sunday?). Anyway, before we start, we always have some time for individual quiet prayer, then group prayer. In my silent prayer, I specifically asked God to speak loudly to me today, because I’ve been having a lot of questions around the issue of recieving being a new creature in Him (2 Cor. 5:17-21). While I have been asking these questions I think I’ve been elsewhere when He’s been answering, or… He has waited until now to answer. I asked to hear undeniably from Him.
So, after we started, we talked a little bit then started the tape, and on it, I was literally being blown away with MacDonald describing an anology that was almost identical to what I had written in my notebook back on September 14th. Hearing it made my heart start pounding after the initial shock that it sounded like something I’d thought of, then I flipped over in my notebook while still listening, and read what I wrote, and my jaw dropped, as I saw what I wrote and compared it to what I was hearing. It just blows me away how and when God works like that….. I have a lot to go over with Him in prayer and in processing what I heard today, what I had written, along with some Scripture references that I hadn’t reflected on yet.
+++Rock my world God, twist my current head and heart knowledge into a new shape, transform it into a more efficient, usable, and fresh translation of my new heart alligned to Your own. I desire to recieve fully and live fully the Spirit and gifts you have gifted me with. Lord, take me for a ride at 120 mph where I literally feel like my cheeks will be frozen in a smile from excitment and astonishment. Take my self, as I continually discover how to die to it, in order that I can live daily anew and alive only with Christ in me. Thank You Lord, in Christ’s precious and holy name, Amen.+++
2 comments
Comments feed for this article
October 10, 2004 at 6:03 pm
Tom Reindl
Monica, This post encouraged me. Sometimes we forget how MUCH God really does speak to us, and the amazing ways He chooses to do so. Thank you.
October 11, 2004 at 11:26 am
monica
sometimes I’m tuned, other times I just miss what He’s saying because I’m allowing myself to be distracted by the thoughts that have nothing to do with Him… I’m learning, trying to “practice,” so to speak, to be in His presense, and tuned to how He’s speaking… it’s a journey of one “oh, I see…” on top of another for me.