Reading this chapter reminds me of the sermon on Sunday. Jerry talked about Jesus "setting his face toward Jerusalem". This is exactly what Paul did too. He knew he was going to be imprisoned but that information didn't stop him from doing what the Lord told him to do. He even had "prophecy" telling him and showing him what would happen when he went to Jerusalem. He didn't allow fear or dread keep him from doing what he knew in his heart to do.
What does that look like in my life? Am I drawing back from what God has called me to do? I have felt like never before that we are in a battle - a spiritual battle - and it looks like and feels like a fight ALL the time some days. The fight is against the "status quo". I have to fight my flesh from being lazy or lethargic or from completing tasks that I know I am to do. From years of being in the ministry I have begun to realize these things come in seasons and we are in a season that the Lord is doing so much and the enemy is trying His best to keep us from seeing the fruit of what our labors are producing. He would like to blind us to what good is happening so we would loose heart and step back. BUT that is when our faith in His promises has to be clear and strong in our hearts. That is what propelled Jesus and Paul toward Jerusalem instead of just staying away or going to opposite way.
What does that "set your face toward Jerusalem" look like in your life? What do you have to battle with to keep yourself full of faith instead of full of doubt?
1 comment:
Paul obviously had a clear word from the Lord that he was to go to Jerusalem, which kept the prophecy from changing his plans.
Such a prophecy over our lives, without a Rhema word from the Lord, would cause us to say, "Well, it must not be God!" :-)
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