The podcast below from Charlie Shamp is strategic for our times… I say this because I believe we need revelation from heaven on how to live and operate in our world.
There is an ongoing reaction among some believers that’s legitimate. This reaction sometimes says that the new thing God is doing is just one more in a long line of ‘new things’ and how incredibly disappointing it is when nothing happens. But our Father doesn’t have that view. I think, if he did, he wouldn’t have bothered to birth Jesus into our world. Thank goodness, his perspective is much more hopeful.
We often acknowledge we live in a world where our wickedness of heart appears powerful and overwhelming. For example, we’ve just had a summer where a number of individuals were brutally murdered and we can’t understand it with our human reasoning or feelings. We are rightly appalled and shocked. But, as people who know Jesus, human reasoning and feeling isn’t the basis on which we live. Aren’t we called to rise above those human emotions to a spiritual perception based on faith? Can we afford to be cynical about what God is doing? I don’t think so but we have to acknowledge our cynicism because of the nature of man’s inhumanity to man on our planet.
Processing and feeling these emotions isn’t easy and helps us to understand what’s going on for us but I know I don’t want to remain in hopelessness. Can we, afresh, recognise and hope that God could be doing a ‘new thing’? Can we have a hope that isn’t in man, but in God and in his faithfulness? If we can, it’ll generate a response of faith in our hearts and offer hope to others. And hope and faith are the means by which we earth what God is releasing.
And so I say again that revelation of hope, faith and new things God is doing are strategic for our times. Thanks Charlie.
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