Merry-go-round Faith

Our faith-walk can be like a merry-go-round. We seem to go around the same spiritual struggles, again and again- never getting sick of the turmoil and strife. Or so it seems. However, there comes a time, when we should get sick of sin and its inevitable consequences. The spirit world is not for the faint-of-heart or the immature for that matter. In order to be effective, I must first allow the Holy Spirit to deal with sin and procrastination in my own life. The Apostle Paul declares, "When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways" (I Corinthians 13:11). Leaving selfish motives and taking up the cross that Christ declares is each believer's duty calls for maturity.  II Timothy 1:6-7: urges us: " For this reason, ... to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you...[;] for God gave us a spirit not of fear, but of power and love and self-control." In essence, we are instructed to move in the power and in the authority of the Holy Spirit by allowing self-control to determine our decisions and then use power and love to defeat the evil one.  Ponder these Spirit-inspired words that God gave me one night:

Walk your own road to crucifixion

I cannot walk your road

Nor can you walk mine

But, when we meet in the middle

With Christ between us

Let us walk that road together

For the time we have, my friend

The dusty highways before us

The time before Emmaus

Lies in our path

An hour awaits- unsuspected

Maybe death or another road altogether

And we must separate

Not age, gender, or any

Inconsequential difference

Should keep us travelling

These hard-packed miles

Apart

Now

We are the voice of God that

Confuses the enemy

God wrapped in a flesh suit

He sees flesh and blood

But he hears the voice of God

Which makes him tremble

It makes the darkness peel back

Its layers of hidden depravity and wretchedness

We reach our hands and

Deliver the innocents and victims

Of Evil

The roar that erupts from our spirits

Filets the Principalities and Powers

Rattling the thrones upon which they sit

Unity does that

It is a tsunami in the spirit-realm

It causes nations to realign

It is the earthquake that upsets governments

It took the Nazi and Communist regimes down

It destroyed Rome

We are that powerful

We just don’t know it

Or believe it

We are the spittle that emits  from

The very mouth of Christ

Sent for transformative miracles

He takes this simple dust at our feet

Mixes it with the

sweet spray of His lips

and transforms it

It is power

to change the nations

 As we walk this path,

to our mutual and individual

crosses



A path of decision lies before us! Around and around or a straight path to the cross.