I have been challenged to have five minutes of silence everyday for a month. I have committed to giving this every effort and have missed missed one day out of four so far--not too bad. I start out by quieting my mind, taking in deep breaths to get relaxed. I do not believe you can keep your mind completely silent...I have not accomplished this at least. One day I just rolled around in my mind, "Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty" over and over again. Another day I read various things I have up on my wall like: "God show me everyday the true person you have created me to be! Give me the grace to live it out!" "Greater is He who is in me, than he who is in the world!" "The Serenity Prayer" and so on. The last successful day I read various scripture.
The point of the silence or at least where I am putting the focus of the silence is--stopping daily tasks, quieting my mind from worry and thinking of tasks that need to be done. Focusing on God and worshiping him. I feel challenged today to spend the five minutes to worship him for who he is not anything he has done, but his Majesty, Power, Sovereignty, Holiness etc... I do not feel I have done that enough, but each moment is a new day so I can start now!
Wow it has been a while. I have been very busy with school, which is a good thing and it has been going great, but busy. Currently I am in the class Defending the Faith. We are learning how to best share the gospel in ways that will touch the whole person-emotions, intelligence, and conscience. God has called all of us to be ambassadors for him. Sharing the gospel, building up disciples, and this week we are learning that it comes from our worship of God--and keeping ourselves in submission to him. I recently bought a kindle book "Wholehearted: Three Life-Changing commands of Jesus." Roger Wernette (2010) Says that we have a LOT in life--we are called to Love God, Obey God, and to Teach others to love and obey God.
I have been praying for quite sometime for the lost in this world, but this class is challenging me to be aware of people God places as divine appointments to share the gospel with them. I have created various versions of slideshow and paper tools to help me along with this endeavor. This is our last week and I have come up with the final tool, that when printed, is on 3x5 cards or online is a flipbook. It touches, what I believe, all the parts of who we are and is loaded more with scripture where the power is.
We are only to plant and water. God DOES the evangelizing and the saving work--in his time---in his way as he sees best.
I would love to hear what you think! Would you use this to reach out to others in your own life?? Leave a comment, I would so appreciate it. Have a beautiful rest of the day.
