More in Faith

 I just finished my previous post and I'm still wrecked with His presence around me. I hope you got something from it. It's not about lifting one finger to try and reach Him or please Him or to do for Him. It's about yielding to Him and just believing He is moving in you to change you from what you were to what you shall be and that is to be just like Him. I cannot fathom what lies in store for me and I don't try. I don't spend hours watching prophetic preachers trying to nail down the tribulation period or what's coming up for 2023. I don't subscribe to the noise out there about wars and rumors of wars or who is doing what to whom. I don't worry about what the day brings anymore.

I just wake up in faith, live in faith and sleep in faith. I cannot put it into words as my heart is full of joy and my eyes are full of tears but it's unlike anything I have ever been privileged to experience. I don't worry about what I think or do or say because He orders my steps completely. I don't think about anything but Him. I don't want for anything, I don't try to do anything. I completely let Him tell me my path. 

I go about my day and I just exist. I do what others expect of me and do what might bring joy to others but it's not me that provokes me to do, it's Him. The other day my wife had to work and I was at home alone. I usually do a few things around the house as I watch a movie but as I sat down to watch, I got a distaste for it. It didn't bring me pleasure like it used to. I turned off the TV and went to work on some projects that needed done. The whole time I relished in Him by having the faith to say He is here with me always. He loves me and wants to spend time with me. I didn't plan on that, it just happened. It was organic. I didn't do it out of guilt or as an obligation to my wife, me or anyone else but He showed up and said don't tune Me out today. Work on something and spend time with me as you work. 

For those out there thinking I've totally lost it, I want you to try something. Drop all your normal routines of Bible study, church, music, journaling or anything you do to get close to God for two weeks. In those two weeks, be still and just have faith in Him to do what He wants to do in you. Don't pray a fancy prayer, just be still before Him in a quiet dark room. I like to do my quiet time in the middle of the night. If you get up to pee, then go to pee and then just go sit on the couch or chair for 30 minutes or an hour. Sit in faith that He will move in you. Release all doubt and believe He loves you and wants a relationship with you. Believe that He will show up and move in you to change your heart. Don't think of scripture quotes or say too much. Just believe you are His and that He loves you. Have a yearning in your heart for fellowship. Crave His presence. 

It's really hard to put into words what I feel and how alive I am in Him. I don't think words do the relationship I have with Him justice. Knock and I'll answer, seek and you shall find, used to be the words I struggled with but now they are my friends. I can't convey to you what I'm experiencing and neither could Jesus and He tried. He told his disciples, when you see me you see the Father. He also said, I have come to do the Father’s will and not my own. 

We think, Jesus was Jesus, He had that relationship with God that no one else had. Wrong, Moses had that relationship yet he chose to disobey, Samson was chosen yet he disobeyed, King David was after God's heart yet he disobeyed, Adam was with God every day in the garden and disobeyed, they all chose disobedience and Christ did not. Jesus dropped His deity and became man to do one thing and that was to walk in obedience unto death. Our death is less painful to our body but death non the less must happen as we obey Him in faith to forsake our flesh.

We are Christians which means Christ-like ones, it's in the title. We must follow His example of obedience in faith. If you look back in the New Testament, do a word study and read every passage that deals with faith. It's so vital that we walk in it it and live in it every day. 

To God be the Glory