Day One Revisited

For those of you who know me, I have recently been doing a on-the-side business and have thus ventured onto other blogging opportunities. I have failed my readers once again by not keeping my promise to update regularly. Well, today I make a new promise. Yesterday, Jenni and I began a 21 day fast. I promise to recap each day of the fast on this blog. I do so not to brag about what we are doing or to sound over spiritual...rather, I mention this process so that you might lift us up in prayer. She and I both have been thick with the leading of the Spirit lately, and we are actively trying to discern what it is we are being told. Thanks in advance for the prayers, I know we have many good people in our lives that want the best for us.

Day ONe...

So, why the fast? Jenni and I are doing our best to live by faith. We enjoy wonderful opportunities to do so in our very Christ-centered work environment, and our very Christ-centered home environment. It seems though, that the most complacent seasons can come when we are the most "comfortable" in our Christian lives. See, our God is a God of seasons...seasons of joy...seasons of storms...but, it is when we are momentarily fulfilled with our current season that God wants to "shift" us into the new chapter of our lives...of our walks...of our faith...

Since God's Word tell us that faith "comes by hearing," should not our faith expand with the more of God's Word we hear? If your faith is not expanding, then either you are not hearing the Word enough on your own, or you attend a church that is not preaching the Word...each of these problems are mountains in and of themselves...the Good News is that it only takes a mustard seed sized faith to change your circumstances...

Jenni and I did not suffer as victims of these problems, as we regularly ponder God's Word and attend a church that is dutifully trying to express God's Word in a relevant way. Our season was a season of settling...a season of being OK with not taking the proper steps towards our God given destiny...we were 'comfortable' with who God was for us in our past, instead of seeking more of God with our present. We had become victims of an addage God gave me last year...a year in which he was trying to tell me that He had more for me, even though I chose to ignore His voice...the addage is that "most people never become who it is they are called to be because they settle for who they currently are." When God gave me that, I thought it was for the students in chapel, little did I know that God would be using it to challenge me today.

Jenni and I had the mutual feeling that we were on the precipice of a new season. The summer sermon series had really left me unsettled regarding what it is I am suppossed to be doing with my life; the school year has left me even more unsettled. Do not get me wrong, I love my job. I have great students, great co workers, and great superiors. I just do not know if this is all I am suppossed to be doing. With these feelings inside and Jenni's voice of reason, I decided it was time for us to seek out the change we felt was coming. So, we went to Free Chapel this past weekend for a change of pace and to hear pastor Franklin. What a blessing it was! Franklin spoke on the exact topic I needed to hear, about being a man of back bone and stability, whose character goes before him and who fulfills his calling...while the worship was literally unexplainable...Never have I felt so free to worship in my life...I took my portion home that day and I am still feeling God's presence around me...in me...and ready to work through me....

So, with what we experienced...Jenni and I started a fast...the details of which do not matter...all that matters is that we hear from God...so, please bathe us in prayer...

thanks...