A New Season The day I got home after the Atalaia Pastor’s Conference, my app reminded me that I was entering into my 3rd thousand-day stretch of at least 30 minutes of Centering Prayer each morning. It’s a new season. How blessed is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways to Zion! Passing through the valley of Baca [Weeping], they make it a spring; The early rain also covers it with blessings. They go from strength to strength, Every one of them appears before God in Zion (Ps. 84:5-7). |
 “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature” (Rm. 1:20a). Once you get away from social media and the news and spend time soaking in the biblical story, it is easy to see that God created the perfect environment to raise up leaders. The farther you move from the news and social media toward meditating on God and His Word, the clearer it is. This is why the prophets in the Old Testament were never part of mainstream culture. They were always fringe people. God desires to have a relationship with men and women, to teach them to steward His awesome creation. Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and [] let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.” So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Gen. 1:26-28). The problem comes in when people desire to be in control. It started with Adam and Eve and continued with the early people building their own Garden of Eden in the Tower of Babylon. The story repeats over and over, but there are always a few who choose to walk with God. The chaos, scariness, and unpredictability of the world systems run off their backs like water off a duck. They actually thrive in those environments. This is the story of the Bible, the story of the ages, and God’s invitation to you. And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed; and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life (Rev. 21:23-27). |
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