its time

I am sitting listening to one of my friends preach. he is talking about unity, which happens to be one of my favorite topics. it is all about "one" can one person change the world? i think they can, as we all unite with a common cause, a common love, a common force, we can as one change the world.

I have been reading today about Bono and what he is doing. i really don't care what ya'll think about his faith, is he christian, isn't he, i am not even rendering my opinion here because that is not what matters at this moment. what matters is that he, is gathering a force with a common purpose, vision and love and he is changing the world. Go Bono!

we as a church need to stand up and make a difference. we spend so much time talking about other people, bothered by other people, hating or loving another person, or people group. talking about our visions, our destinys, and never taking the step towards making it happen. God is not going to pick us up and force our legs to walk forward into our destiny, just like he will not pick us up and force us into salvation. christian or not, i believe that people like Bono have done more for people and therefore for God than most of us confessing christians (and i lump myself into that!)

We need to be radical people for our faith, now that is a dangarous word to use, because in this world, we see faith radicals as those who blow things and people and themselves up for their faith, that is not how i use the word. I mean, willing to do anything and give anything (in love) for God and those around us.

we have been given so much, so many giftings of the holy spirit and we are using a fraction of a fraction of what we have been given. I believe the reason that we are not seeing the miracles, the signs, the wonders in our lives and those around us is because we are not willing to tap into ALL of God. the whole fire, the whole shabang. when the followers were in the upper room, the holy spirit came in FIRE and rested upon everyone of them, so that even their shaddows falling on people healed and delivered them. it isnt a work thing, deliverance and healing are things that should be able to happen by just our shaddows falling on others. isnt that amazing. i wonder even if those who were killing the believers at that time were healed as they killed them. now that would be amazing.

its time to risk everything, its time to enter into the adventure, IT'S TIME! Its time for the fire to fall, and its time to be burned up and consumed by it. its time guys, and girls, leave your saddness and depression and lack of faith, drop of your faith crisis, your mid-life crisis, your quarter-life crisis, leave all your crisis at the cross where christ destroyed it all, and stand up and follow, and leave it all behind, its time!

-me