It is going to happen. Over ten years ago I started praying for revival to come and Jesus, let it begin with me. I can feel it in my bones. The awakening. This Christmas the stirring has begin. I have felt it in the deep places. Deeper than goosebumps and chills. Deep into the marrow of my bones. This will be a new year!
Last Christmas the stirring began. During a visit to the local upscale diner in our town, the children and I handed out candies that we made. It was an effort to give away what we had prepared for the elderly and those shut in their homes for Christmas. My oldest son gave a baggie full of treats to an older man sitting at the counter, when he started giving it back. My son looked at me with questioning eyes and I stated to the man that it was for him, for Christmas. He looked awestruck and said, "This the first present I have gotten in three years." My heart churned hard, like when the children fall on the stairs, it make my chest hurt. And the mission began. We will give the entire Christmas season away.
This Christmas we made over 100 of those chocolate packages with verse reminding us that "God is with us". We gave them away most everywhere we went, and it stirred up love and joy. The atmosphere shifted like the sun coming through the clouds after a tornado. Everywhere we passed the gift of God's love people changed right before our eyes. People laugh in surprise, they cry and hug, they try to give us money, because it makes them feel so good to receive the love packaged gift. People are hungry. Their souls are hungry and they don't even know it.
So Christmas is over, but for our family it has just begun. We are going to give this winter away. I am not sure what this is going to look like yet, but it is going to begin in right here. I am praying that like Jacob's Dream, that Jesus will make our home a gateway, a ladder for His glory and presence coming to our county. That we will see His angels working, that we will be a people poured out for His glory and we will see His presence in this place. It's starting.
You may be like me and struggle with depression, you may be in a funk because life has treated you wrong, mistreated and it's not fair or maybe you are just looking for that next step to freedom from the weight and cares of this world. Give Yourself away. Share Jesus's love for your neighbor with your neighbor. Listen a little extra, buy groceries for the single mom, visit a lonely person, make a moment not about you. Pour yourself out. Spend yourself. Once you taste the joy you won't want to live any other way. Jesus did it and he's calling you. It's called fishing for men.
"Revival Ladder"
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