What’s Your Something?
In Blog, revival 6 commentsFeb 12
There’s something about seeing people lay things down at an altar.
And yes, it was just folded pieces of white paper, nothing fancy about that, yet it was more.
The things that hold us back from a soul revival.
When the women of New Vision Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, signed up for a weekend called I Want God, I guess they meant it. The laying down of paper on the altar was just a last step visual of the heart work already done.
To the altar we came…some of us, in orange suits with county jail in black letters that said in tangible ways I am chained…some of us shackled, just the same, but in inside ways none would ever know because our church wear covers us.
I look up, after time passes, to see hundreds of somethings that holds us back laying scattered in a snowy white all across sacred steps that house preacher feet every Sunday. Appropriate, I thought, because isn’t that just like messy, scattered us?
The truth is: we all have our something. And that something holds us back.
I’m home now, from this event weekend…in my office, remembering. I dump the bag over, with the collected somethings and am shocked, but not, because everyone is different but the same and there is no limit to the deep needs.
And if we would truly surrender these somethings to Him, how our souls would see revival.
I wonder today, what is your something?
You don’t need a church altar. Today’s a good day, right where you are, to lay it down.
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“We all have our something. And that something holds us back.”
Ouch. Wow. So true.
Thanks!
oh for sure … the needs of the heart are all very much akin to everyone else’s … orange jumpsuit or no …
Seems you’ve touched a nerve – I’ll be brave a break the ice.
I’m laying down my entire life! It is His anyway, He gives me every breath that I take and I want to give it back to Him. I say Lord here I am – work out the plans You have for my life and may You be glorified in all the works You provide for this unworthy soul.
This post touched right where I am at right now in my life!! I have been going through the last few years with so many trials and struggles that I have been just hanging onto God but not moving forward. Things finally shifted at the end of last year and now I know that I am at that turning point where I am going to be able to receive full healing and breakthrough for all the garbage in my life. I am going through a discipleship class at my church that helps free us from all the things that are keeping us from fulling walking in the power of the Spirit of God. Today I declare that I am laying down my insecurities, my fears of abandonment and rejection, my false humility and my codependency so that God can free me to be and do what He has called me to! I need breakthrough in my life so I am move forward in boldness, free, and passion. I am expecting great things from God because He has promised that “he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Fear…fear of failure, fear of success, fear of what others think, fear of everything except what I should…praying I can lay those fears down and He will replace them with the only “fear” I need – a fear of the Lord.
Thanks for directing my thoughts in a way they needed to go right now Lisa.
I was gonna say “control” and then I read someone else’s and realized it is really “fear” that has me wrapped up these days.
I have been sick for three solid weeks and I have bronchitis and I literally have to gasp for air at times. THIS has been an eye opener on a very deep level. God truly does give me each breath I take!!
Thanks for asking Lisa.
Be Well,
Lina