Face Time
Friday, June 15, 2012
Today's Face Time begins with Morning Prayer. "Is Jesus Christ come in the flesh?" Pastor Clay suggests that we test the spirit to ask from where it comes. Is it the will of God for us, here and now? I hope to begin a Life Recovery chapter at our church. Lord, is this your will for us, here and now? Life Recovery chapter, is Jesus Christ come in the flesh? I will Vision Map this plan; this inspiration, as the Lord leads me. Lord, let your will be revealed for us. Life Recovery isn't limited to alcohol and chemical abuse/addiction. Life Recovery is intended to expand to all of the area's of our life that is revered as an issue that needs recovery.
Your will and your plan for our lives have, at some point been compromised by our own will. However, I know that your word does accomplish what it was set out to do. I have life abundant. I am restored in Jesus' name! I dedicate my heart and my will to the purpose of your work; your purpose. I hope to share my experiences with others that are experiencing the same, or similar. I hope to follow a known, effective format to this goal. Again, it is not always accomplished the way we originally thought. I don't know fully if Life Recovery is the way you will have these restorations to occur. I do know, by the testing of the spirits, that your plan does include an involved and specific structure; a weekly or even bi-weekly meeting that progresses through the areas in our lives that need restoration. There is grief and loss among us. There are broken relationships that resulted in some dysfunction in our ability to have healthy relationships. I mean, how can one brother see an extremely beautiful woman walking by, and seem totally unaffected by it, while another brother feels compelled to approach the woman as described in 1 Corinthians 7?
This in only one of many examples of how a subtle dysfunction can be so much a part of someone's life, that it don't seem like it needs any restoration. Some things we have grown to accept as the natural course of things. It is not. Who knows what a healthy relationship is, when all we think about is, "I never noticed that God had convicted me of that", or something similar. What could I know about healthy relationships, after living nearly completely alone for so many years? I may even think that nothing is amiss, but I know when I search myself, to die out to the sin in my life, sexual shortcomings always surface, to be addressed and overcome; to be restored to healthy and Godliness.
Even that is just one area that you want to completely restore in my life, and in the lives of others. We won't be ashamed or afraid to face these things, and to plead the blood of Jesus over these. I know you desire that I have abundant life, and that I not die in the sin that purposes to interfere with your plan in my life. I claim victory for my life, for the will of God, for your glory, oh God.
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