It has now been about 4 weeks since I've been here at Morning Star University. Once thing I have learned to do is to recognize that God moves and is moving all the time. It is usually me who does not recognize that He is moving.
My first week here I had such a hard time pressing into worship and just connecting with God. I was waiting for something BIG to happen, something extraordinary. My quiet times with God has been minimal and really really dry. I soon began to beat myself over the head for not spending enough time with God and not being "holy" enough to get that supernatural awesome touch. I was starting to doubt why I came to MSU and got really discouraged. Then one night after I gave up my struggle with God and gave up my fighting, I realized something; I had witnessed many many supernatural healings time and again. I found that the movements of God are indeed amazing, but very real... happening to very normal people.
I am learning to recognize the day of my visitation. The Pharisees couldn't see that Jesus was the messiah because were caught up in they what the externals should look like. I had been waiting on this over the top surreal experience with God, when all around me people were getting supernaturally healed.
God IS in our midst and is doing things all the time. I'm finding the more I learn to recognize different things are the blessing of God and not just life happening, the more I am encouraged to live this life by faith and not by sight. Now instead of waiting for something to happen I am thanking the Lord for what is already happening and dialoging with Him as to what He wants to do from this point.
I believe that today is the day! Today is the day for new revelation, breakthrough, favor, miracles, healing, provision, etc... from the Lord. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen." (Heb 11:1).
I'm going to sign off with this passage that has been very encouraging and inspirational to me:
Eph. 1:17-21
17[For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him,
18By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones),
19And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength,
20Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places],
21Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come.
