Something's bout to break

You know when something is about to break when satan kicks it into overdrive all around you.
Not even things that directly affect you every time, but things that will distract you just enough.

The past week God really softened my heart, made me more sensitive to the spiritual battle that is going on in my own life.

I went down to Orland, FL for a worship/leadership conference with Hillsong, and even before the conference started, God began to show me things. One verse he gave me to begin claiming over my life is Colossians 1:9-10

9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

I have begun to pray this over my life, that God would fill me with the knowledge of his will through spiritual wisdom and understanding. It is incredible the peace I began to feel over my life. I like to know what's going on, not in detail, but at least a general understanding. Reading this and praying it began to help me understand God's timing. He wants us to know his will, but in the mean time, while we're working all of that out, I am to live a life worthy of Christ.

Something else that was given to me this week is in part of that, to pray scripture. I'm not talking the health, wealth and prosperity prayers of "the prayer of jabez" and filler junk like that. I'm talking, take a psalm of praise, a piece of scripture applicable to your life and situations and begin praying it to God. Letting the promises of his word fill your heart. Talk about memorizing scripture, start praying something back to God that he has written and he will begin to impress it upon your heart.

I had a lot of other things impressed on my heart in the past week, a lot surrounding worship (because of the time and place), but also a lot concerning things like pride, watching your tongue, spiritual discernment, and the freedom of Christ. Much of this was spurred from conversations had with some guys this week. Out of the overflow of this I'll continue to speak.

Like Paul, I've not quite made it there myself, but I'm working towards Christ. There are a lot of things in my own life that I have to work on, work towards. Praise the the one who paid my debt, that he is there walking with me every step of the way, cheering me on, aiding me in my walk, and releasing me from the sin that holds all of us back from experiencing true freedom in Christ.