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G'day all Y'all. Morning, Evening, Noon or Night, I bid you welcome to this day!! After all it is a day that the Lord had made....amen? As He's given the day, so will He provide blessings that will encourage and bless you as you walk thru this 24 hour period. Let us all rejoice and be glad for all that He has provided today!!
Recently, as I prayed for Kingdom Bound, all it is, has been and will be, the Lord kinda showed me another interesting picture from my experience at the festival over the years....and how it represents our lives.
The Worship Tent (WT), where I helped to minister, is exactly that, a tent. It is lotsamany feet long and a notquitesomany feet wide. Most of the area is given for chairs for those who come and worship. Part of it is partitioned off for the stage/worship area and an area behind for crew, artists and speakers to do and to get ready to do what they do. The tent came with canvas sides to shelter those inside from strong winds and rain'n'stuff. On the other hand, when it's sunny and warm outside, that canvas dwelling/meeting place can begin to get quite hot. Altho I didn't take my degree'o'thingy with me, I know there were just too many degrees, for good health, in there on certain days!! This would cause all the men to sweat and the ladies to perspire.....a bit!! :>))
Consequently, it became a morning routine, for a team of young men and gals, to stop by and roll up the sides.....all the way around this lotsamany feet long tent.....even to the notquitesomany feet wide areas. This would allow cool and refreshing breezes, when available, to blow thru. These breezes would try to empty out the many excess degrees and bring some respite to the heat and the humidity. One thing we prayed daily was that God would crack open the doors to His Treasuries of breezes and let'em flow thru our worship arena. He never failed us....Praise His Name!!
What came to my mind as I was praying is that our lives can be a lot like that WT with the sides down. As long as the sides are down, or the doors closed, none of God's refreshing can get thru. Degrees hang around and warm the place up. Also, those things that are not of God may begin to decay and stink up the place. I know that if I don't empty my trash after I throw some vegetables in it, it doesn't take long for some odors to rise up and make the surrounding air kindasorta tainted....K? At least that's what my daughter used to tell me.....it always took awhile for me to notice.....must be a guy thing!! :>))
When we open ourselves to the Lord's gaze or ministry, when we, in effect, roll up our "sides" to allow others access to our lives, then we begin to get aired out and refreshed....amen? If we don't do this, then we get all hot'n'stinky and become worse and worse and no one wants to deal with us....amen?? CanIgetawitness???? God created all of us for fellowship.....with Him and also with each other!! That's how He's designed us. We all have gifts and anointings that will bless others that we're around. Contrary to what Frank Sinatra told us, we're not "built" to do it our way!! We are all being conformed into the image of Jesus Christ, who never turned anyone away but welcomed all, even when He was physically tired....amen?
So, I will leave this with you. Is your life seemingly hot and stinky or are you cool and refreshed?? Perhaps you need to open up a bit more. Don't get me wrong, I'm preaching to myself as well. I guess I have a tendency to keep my flaps down a bit......but I've been given a breath of fresh air and I like it.....so I'm trying to roll up my sides more often. Join me will'ya?? Have a sides up and refreshing day in Christ!! .......jack/uj/dd jack york |
