February 17, 2005

• have you ever been so excited about serving God that you can’t sleep?

  
  

  i can’t believe it, but this is the second time in two weeks that this has happened.  i think the best kind of excitement is the kind that is inspired by belief in God’s promises.  i believe that with God, amazing things can happen, and that makes serving Him sooo exciting.  but if i were thinking, “oh well, however much i input will bring about x output” than it’s a burdensome drag, because everything depends on my efforts.  but what i believe is that God can make what i do ten times more powerful by His Spirit.  isn’t that something?

  
  

  something i’ve been really struck by recently is how important it is to fight for full reception with God.  i want to hear God as clearly as possible.  to get that, i must fight for it.  be vigilant about purity, be quick to confess my sins, and always be in prayer.  and then i hear God.  i hear Him telling me to do things that i wouldn’t normally want to do, and in my obedience, i get to see amazing things happen. 

  
  

  so what if you always prayed, “Lord, please help me be in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing”?  what would happen?

  
  

  the other night, i went to eat at a restaurant (on my way to a missions conference) and since the restaurant was so crowded, the waitress asked if i’d mind eating with a stranger. i said, “sure.”  so i sat with a girl – who turned out to not be a stranger after all! – i’d met her before.  so over dinner — this totally unplanned-by-me-but-orchestrated-by-God dinner — i got to sharing my life story with her (just bits) and amazingly enough, it really spoke to her situation.  not a big surprise to me at all.  and i walked away from the conversation knowing that God had put me there to talk to her on purpose. 

  
  

  and what happens if you pray, “Lord, i want to offer myself up to you completely at your disposal”?  what would happen?

  
  

  tonight i was called to share at the aacf at sjsu and i could sense that the Lord wanted me to share something very personal in my testimony.  i didn’t really want to be so vulnerable, but it was His desire, and i knew it.  so i shared my story.  it turned out that my story matched that of one of the student’s almost perfectly.  and again, God used my life to encourage his…

  
  

  to experience the joy of serving God costs us something.  it costs us our “privacy” and our “pride”.  but in every way, it’s so worth it.  so worth it to be in sync with him.  you see why i’m so excited i can’t sleep??

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