Disturb Me Again!

I have blogged about God’s Holy Disturbance a few times, and feel I need to one more time.

The wave of momentum is moving at GJFA. Jump in and get involved. Let me share this verse w/ you from Matthew 6:34- Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes. -Message

It is easy to get sidelined from our busy lifestyles, but try to stay focused on the BIG PICTURE, the reason we are here.

Sometimes my fear is we are so caught up w/ our active, selfish lifestyles and comfortability, we do not want God to disturb us or bother us.  After all, if it’s working, why fix it right? 

The people that are willing to let God disturb, to bother them, to not only think about the vision, but that can feel the vision, are the people that are going to make the difference.

I am praying that God will raise up more and more leaders in our church.  Leaders that will want to lead out of calling & burden rather than for popularity or affirmation.

If a person isn’t disturbed, if nothing bothers them, if everything is gray and there is no black and white then your heart may need to be jump started again.  Maybe you have entered nto a state of numbness?  We live in culture and life where sex is glorified, affairs are on an all-time high, more & people are dying from smoking, alcohol, drugs and obesity than ever before. We are a serve me/ feed me culture and I see people being bothered less and less and less.

Hear my heart. I am not pointing fingers, because there would be twice as many pointed back. I am speaking to myself as well.  I am not judging people by any means. We are at all different cycles in life. I am simply stating, sometimes we need to sit back, find out which way is up, and allow God to disturb us, to realign our wheels, to bother us.

I want my heart to break for the things His heart breaks for. To see people the way He sees people. The only way to get there is to get close to Him and let him disturb us a little.

We are called to be disturbed every now and again!

I have prayed this prayer from Sir Francis Drake every now and again… CAUTION- do not pray it if you don’t mean it!  If you mean it- Hold on for a Holy Disturbance!...Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves. When our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little. When we arrive safely because we have sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord.” 

Disturb us God!!

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