I woke this day with a simple and profound revelation about making too heavy of a load to travel, in my pursuit of the lost. I was plopped right down in the middle of a community of lost men back in April 2014, and this entire calendar year was about changing the hearts of these 20 men. Spending every morning praying for each and every one of them, continuing to spend time talking to each one of them at least every few days, and never passing the opportunity to speak the truth, and to lay a subtle obstruction to their previously worldly thinking. The Lord put on my heart at Thanksgiving, that my time with these men was done, and He moved me onto another group of 20 people, people Im slowly beginning to get to know. However, I continued to pray each day, for the people I was no longer engaged with this summer and fall, thinking somehow, that I had to continue to cultivate them like a farmer cultivates a field. Needless to say, the Holy Spirit filled my heart this morning with the analogy of a farmer. Even a farmer, after he plows the field with an initial connection with the ground (connection with a lost sheep), then plants the seed (with the Kingdom of God), and finally waters the field each day (with the Word of God and Prayer for the lost), he still has to have a period of waiting for the field to grow, or waiting for the Holy Spirit to work on the heart or conscience of these men. My New Years resolution is to let go of those that God has asked me to minister to in the past, and to trust that His Spirit is working on them now and in the future, without my prayers. I have planted a seed, and seeds need time to be to themselves. I am to focus my attention now, on those the Lord has placed me in the midst of for 2015. May the Spirit continue to nag at each and everyone of those men that I have encountered this year. If they have been changed, its not because of me, its because of HIM. After gaining this revelation this morning, it had occurred to me that even Paul rarely returned to the same town, trusting fully in what he left behind in each place and with each person, the Spirit of Christ. The Spirit can change any man, but a man cannot change a man. In most cases, the Spirit doesnt change a man until the influence is long gone, or in Pauls case, the Holy Spirit did not change these people until after Paul had left their presence. This reminds me of the farmer watering the field and waiting. In 2015, I am going to trust more in the fact that it is the Holy Spirit that is doing everything. All I have to do is dribble out of my mouth what the Spirit has filled my heart with. May the Lord be with me, and may the Spirit be with those that are forever changed by HIS presence. In Jesus Name. Amen. Amen.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 15:06:24 +0000
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