Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The Invitation

You've been invited into a mystery. The mystery of partnering with someone who is a master of what you were created to do. It's much like a parent inviting a toddler to participate in planting flowers or sweeping the floor or changing a tire or building a treehouse. The toddler is thrilled with the invitation because they want to be in the parents presence. They want to be where the parent is. They want to help create whatever delights the parent. Partnership is formed. Partnership implies mutual interest, joint participation, collaboration. Imagine that. God desires to collaborate with YOU! Where is He inviting you to collaborate? Whatever the joint venture, His presence is there waiting for you, calling you, desiring YOUR presence. Just reach out your hand and receive the tool The Master offers. Join the mystery. This is the invitation.

Monday, May 02, 2011

Streaming Waters based on selected verses in Isaiah 43 & 44

God is doing a new thing! It springs up into my spirit, like new blades of plush grass breaking forth through the soil. I can see it. He has made a way in the dry and dusty desert. Look! Over there! Those are STREAMS! STREAMS in the wasteland. Streams water this newly formed grass. It seeps into my spirit. 43:19. Oh thank you Lord for pouring out the streams on this thirsty land and gushing water on this dry ground. In the same way you pour out your Spirit on your children. As water pours forth and is not held back, so you pour... and pour... and pour... your Spirit out of heaven over us. What a blessing water is to thirsty ground. What a blessing your Spirit bestows. 44:3 I belong to you. I am Jacob. I will write, "The Lord's" on my hand for all to see. I accept your name. 44:5