Twice this past weekend I was blessed to be in the company of some amazingly spiritual people. No, make that amazingly spiritual friends. Both instances left me breathless with joy and genuinely inspired.
As I'm wading through an ocean of uncertainty and change it does my heart good to be on the minds and in the prayers of others. And so it was late Friday when I received a call from two amazing brothers in Christ.
I was deep in the midst of lawn work late Friday afternoon when the call came in, and fortunately I dropped the garden tools I was holding, took off my work gloves, and decided to entertain the idea of a short moment of prayer and fellowship.
If you're like me too often we can get caught up in the day's agenda and find ourselves squeezing God out. In essence brushing off the Spirit's moment of intervening so we can continue with our own scheduled plans.
But for whatever reason I felt the need to drop what I was doing and invited my callers to come visit. What followed was seven hours of prayer, worship, conversation, fellowship, laughter, tears and food.
Their plans were to lift me up in prayer, but as God would have it, I did most of the early lifting. I say early because as the night grew late the work of the spirit kind of evened out the blessings. What had started out as an hour meeting in the early evening eventually came to a close seven hours later in the early morning hours. We had no intention of this being a full evening event, but we were operating on God's time.
Now it was only eighteen hours later, as I was finishing up a performance, that I accepted the second invitation. This time it was to grab diner with a husband and wife ministry team. Earlier in the week I had inquired about the possibility of us expanding our ministry relationship, and as they attended the event I was performing at, it seemed a perfect time to continue our conversation.
Once again the breaking of bread was at the center of an invigorating and inspiring meeting. A meeting that led us into a new working dynamic and the anticipated opportunities that are expected to develop from it.
Hours later our time together only came to an end because the establishment we were in was closing. Like the night before the spiritual energy was powerful. We shared and we listened, and as the hours passed our stories became as one going forward.
As I mentioned earlier, this season, this ocean of uncertainty, can at times become overwhelming. So I've been purposefully following James 4:8 and drawing near to God and humbly in real time sensing and experiencing Him drawing nearer to me.
I've certainly made my share of mistakes along the way, but His grace, His greater grace (James 4:6), has been astonishing as small but strategic things have been happening to shape my future ministry life. The fallout of these gatherings was felt immediately and my prayerful thankfulness will be never-ending.
So I want to invite you to allow His greater grace to work in your life. Don't squeeze God out, draw near to him and allow the love to unfold.
You give a greater grace then I ever could imagine
Humbled I surrender my pride
You give a greater grace then I ever could imagine
Now I'm awash in heaven's tide
from a new song "A Greater Grace"
Pray on,
Eddy
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