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(October 16, 2015)
In Luke 24:30, we find two discouraged followers of Jesus, who had walked away from the crucifixion of their Savior deeply disillusioned because it seemed to them that all their hopes laid buried in a tomb. Have you ever thought to yourself---“Well, I THOUGHT that was God…I guess I was mistaken”---only because that thing which you were believing for did not pan out the way you had hoped. However, just as The Lord did for the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, Jesus will catch up to you at your place of disappointment---begin to sovereignly remind you of His promises and His plans for you---and dine with you, if you will invite Him---as He begins to freshly bless your places of nourishment and refreshment. "Now it came to pass, as He {Jesus} sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. And they said to one another, ‘Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road {to Emmaus}, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?’” {Luke 24:30-32} God will re-ignite a ‘fire in your belly’ as the Holy Spirit begins to burn fresh anointing, new inspiration, divine wisdom, and amazing strategy for the days ahead. (October 3, 2015)
I recently saw a trailer to a new movie about Steve Jobs---the man whose vision for innovation in communication technology and a deep ‘fire in his belly’ to envision the future drove him to keep asking the relentless question: WHAT IF? It was that incredible sense of adventure in Steve Jobs which changed the landscape of the way we ‘communicate’. It made me think---“WHAT IF we began to dare to believe God for the most excellent things to happen in our lives, so that the ‘theatre of our imagination’ would take a whole new turn for the amazing?” John 11:39-40/ “Martha, the sister of {Lazarus} who was dead, said to {Jesus}, ‘Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.‘ Jesus said to her---‘Didn’t I say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?’” In other words---‘WHAT IF YOU DARED TO BELIEVE ME?’ We know what happened to Lazarus. Even with all the crowds of sobbing people, including his sisters, Mary and Martha, Lazarus was still lying dead, surrounded by the stench of death. HOWEVER, one Man had a “God-notion”. WHAT IF the dead man doesn’t have to stay dead but have brand new, God-breathed life? We are ALL ‘Lazarus’! Without God breathing salvation into our lives, we are merely ‘dead men and women walking’. However, WHAT IF we are willing to let someone in our lives ‘roll the stone away’ from our hardened hearts and instruct us into breathing the BREATH OF LIFE by inviting Jesus into our hearts? If Steve Jobs could inspire the world into communicating in a whole new, dynamic way---HOW MUCH MORE CAN WE COMMUNICATE WITH HEAVEN ITSELF by conversing with God Almighty on a daily basis. There are no weak or dropped satellite signals to worry about, no internet viruses, no unwelcomed robocalls--- “NO WEAPON formed against you {can ever} prosper…” (Isaiah 54:17) WHAT IF we said to Jesus---WHATEVER You want for my life, Lord, COUNT ME IN!---? WHAT AMAZING THINGS GOD WILL INTRODUCE UNTO US! WHAT AMAZING THINGS GOD WILL DO THROUGH US. GOD WILL TRANSFORM OUR ‘WHAT IF’S' INTO ONE CONSISTENT ‘WHY NOT?’!!! |
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