#newreality

I am writing this from a new reality.

No, I haven’t found the gap in space/time and pushed through it (ahha). Rather, the old has fallen away and a new season comes to take its place.

And believe me, I have been waiting, I have been praying, I have been longing for this season when He and I get to move forward together into all that He has taken those months of waiting and praying and hoping to prepare. Ask me what it looks like and I’ll tell you that I have no clue. But I also have peace and assurance, because this Lord who I have given my life to is good, undoubtedly, overwhelmingly good. And I know what He has been doing in me and causing to come out of me and it is good. And I know that this season will be different and so good from all the rest and able to move me further because I have a secret, a new one which launches me forth into more life and possibility (a new reality!) than any other. Want to hear it? Want to know the hope that changes the whole world (me included)? Here it is: I have died.

See, I always tried to do ministry out of self-striving, my own strength, my abilities and I failed pretty regularly, probably daily if I’m being honest. There was nothing filling me up besides myself and that, I tell you, is not enough to change the world. It’s not even enough to change me or be enough for me. More than anything, my claimed ‘self-sufficiency’ held me back from everything I longed to be.

And I write this not because I finally have it all figured out (God is definitely still at work peeling back the layers in the onion-heart of me) or that it all suddenly clicked in the last day or so, but because I feel that all I have been learning about letting who I am and my works go and stepping into obedience to Him and following where He leads are finally locking together and giving me wings—all the moving parts coming together organically to launch me into who-knows-what with absolute hope.

Because when I start flying now (as Robins are made to do) His wind will be under my wings.

Because the joy that fills in and flows over me as I get ready to launch is pretty fantastic and only to be shared.

Because this journey of becoming One of His Own is not just my own—I believe there are thousands of us out there, just on the verge of being launched.

That the Lord is birthing forth dreamers, doers, Kingdom Advancers in only the beginning of a Great Awakening that will astonish all those who witness.

Because we’re no longer here for us, or what can even be done in us, but for Him and that simple, tiny mindset change releases the Lord and His Word in ways we won’t even be able to fathom, until we’re behind them or in the midst of them and we look around and realize, “He’s doing it. What He always said He would do is happening, right in front of me.” And it’ll cause us to just revel and take delight in Him even more.

I can’t wait, I can’t wait, I can’t wait! Lord, Jesus, come have your way! Meet us in the middle of wherever we are and begin the dance that moves thousands, hundreds of thousands to you.

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God.”

Galatians 2:20

#newreality