CCIPH,
Jay and I have set our course to walk with you as the Lord
leads.  We are in awe at what the Lord is doing in such quick time. what a wonderful provision the Lord has given us with the gift of the building.  But the Fear of God is on me for you & us, CCIPH.  I vaguely see the traps set for you ahead. I hear the loud voice of Martha calling to you, distracted by all her preparations, "Do you not care that you have left me to do all the serving alone? Come help me!" And yet I hear the still small voice of the bridegroom calling, "Come away with me, my Beloved. Only one thing isneeded. Choose the good part, which will not be taken away from you. Adam was formed so that I could walk with him, not so that he could tend the Garden. You were made to have communion with Me. When you fulfill your purpose by spending time with Me, everything that you need in order
 to accomplish your assignment in life is released."   CCIPH, you must choose which voice to follow and it will be a daily choosing, maybe a moment by moment choosing as the voice of Martha gets louder and more annoyed as we choose the seat of Mary, at His feet. I know these voices well as I too am experiencing this pull. Martha's voice calls to me, "You are a home schooler, a mother, a wife. Look at all you should do.  Look at all your gifts.  You should  be teaching CEF, leading a puppet team, this program, that program, etc. But at the same time I hear the wooing sweet voice of my Groom, "Come away with Me to the Secret Place.  Set your course for whole hearted devotion & abandonment to me.  Come away from busyness to major intimacy with Jesus."    I was changed this last week as I listened to a CD of two young sisters from IHOP speak at the One Thing Conference in Kansas City, DEC 31. Their testimony of Whole Hearted Devotion to Jesus, of fasting   & praying & their hunger for God & intimacy with Jesus.  My heart burned within me as I realized God is  calling thousands of young people to this intimacy and I don't  want to be left behind because of my busyness!  I have set my course for total abandonment to God.  I am clearing out my School room and leaving only bear essentials for school and converting it to a worship center where I can dance & pray & sit  at His feet, trusting God for the grace for all the rest. Part of Jay & I's call is to be horns. Literal shofars, calling out warnings. Calling out calls for worship.  Calling out cries of war. Calling out, "Behold the Bridegroom Cometh!  May we do this only in His Love and may we both hear the sound of His call.

 

 

- jodi