I read this today:

Isaiah 43:18-20 (NIV)
Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
See I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

Then I read in “A Renegade’s Guide to God” by David Foster:

What a promise to live each and every day. Forget the former things. Don’t dwell in the past, even a good one. What’s God saying to us here? Look at all the things I’ve done in the past. Look how great they have been; look how generous I’ve been…how faithful. Look at how I’ve lavished my gifts to so many. When you think about how great all this is forget it, release it, and let’s you and me do it again. But what I’ve done in the past dwarfs what I’m willing to do for you right now and in the future. I’m doing new things through people who have an abundance mindset and are focused forward.
It may be small now and it may be hard to perceive at first, but God is doing great things for and through ordinary people like you and me everyday. Why be left out of this wonderful world of abundance? Why would we trade a beggar’s life for the abundance Jesus pours out on every Renegade for God who is willing and able to receive?

I thought I would share this as it helped me today, and I know we all want to live the abundant life God has planned for us.

God Bless,
Molly Bail

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Richard Foster writes, “The tongue is a thermometer; it gives us our spiritual temperature. It is also a thermostat; it regulates our spiritual temperature.”

He continues, “The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a constant process of adjusting our public image. We fear so deeply what we think other people see in us that we talk in order to straighten out their understanding. If I have done something wrong (or even some right thing that I think you may misunderstand) and discover that you know about it, I will be very tempted to help you understand my action! Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification. One of the fruits of silence is the freedom to let God be our justifier.”

The purpose of silence and solitude is to be able to see and hear. “Only when we learn to be truly silent are we able to speak the word that is needed when it is needed.”

“A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.” Proverbs 25:11 (NIV)

~Marq Caughell

*All quotations from Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster, unless otherwise noted.

Serving can feel like a fulfilling honor and sometimes serving can feel like yet another thing on our much too long to-do list. If we live long in the later we begin to resent and provide our service grudgingly. If we live in the former, we find that our serving fills us up rather than drains us.

So what makes the difference? I can’t speak for everyone. But, for me it’s all about my motivation to serve. When I have my priorities in place and I’m truly doing the things I know I need to do to stay fully connected to God then I find that my motivation to serve is an overflow of what I’m experiencing in my relationship with Him. I find that acts of service no longer are things I have to do but things I can’t wait to do and I gladly arrange my schedule to fit these things in even when they are impromptu.

But, I have also found that it just doesn’t work the other way around for me. I cannot do my serving to get to a closer place with God. That becomes way too much like trying to “earn” His love, which just isn’t possible and is so very unnecessary.

So, how about you? When do you find your serving truly fulfilling? When do you find it draining? Do a heart check and see if your motivation might be what makes the difference.

~ Deana Kistner

Let’s say you’re sitting around a fire with family or friends.  You’ve had a great evening together eating and talking and the fire has burned down to glowing coals but you’re not ready to call it a night.  You’ve been given the job of stoking the fire back into flames.  How do you go about doing that?  How do you go about stoking your spiritual fire into flames?

Visit the sermon blog/podcast to listen to the teaching online, review and reflect on the sermon notes, and consider the next step in your spiritual journey.