Hope Fulfilled

This is a season of Hope Fulfilled. I am in awe of how amazingly wonderful the Lord is to us. He is faithful and gracious. People in my life are approaching their fulfillment or have had their hope fulfilled. New doors of opportunity. Strategic alignments. Each person had prayer before the Lord, and being that it was God's desire in the first place, the pieces are coming together. My thoughts......

My Hope lingers

A glimpse of fulfillment

I wait patiently

Press forward

Moments of impatience

Give way to trust

As I wait

And keep moving forward

Disturb Me!

Last year at Catalyst Conference (catalystspace.com) I listened to Craig Groeschel, pastor of LifeChurch.tv, speak about two very dangerous words: Disturb Me! It was a prayer of his heart to God to shake him from his current state of complacency and apathy. I knew these words were dangerous and at that time could not bring myself to truly mean them for my life. I knew the weight of that prayer. But these last few days the Lord has reminded of his words and they have now become my prayer.

I happened to be reading Acts 19 and came across this verse and it struck me with such conviction..... verse 23 says this: "...there arose a great disturbance about the Way."

The chapter is about Paul's ministry in Ephesus and this "disturbance" was the result of two years of discipling and adding people to the Kingdom. He put two major trade industries out of business - the equivalent to tens of millions of dollars! I love it!

My point is this - Disturbed people create disturbances.

"Disturb me O God that I may disturb what is around me."