What can I say other than OMG!!!! I'm all wired so I decided
to read a bit of T.D. Jakes before bed...let's just say the reading didn't help
because it's now 11 pm and I am up writing this...keep in mind that I am
usually awake at 2 am so you can just imagine how long my day has been.
T.D. Jakes floored me with his comments about how fire and
adversity purifies things....he touched on how faith cannot change
purpose...faith is just the thing that keeps us as we go through the fire to
reach our purpose. He spoke on how the enemy uses things to hinder our purpose.
But OMG Jakes' insights on Jacob. I was all off into the fact that you have to
be alone with God in order for Him to accomplish anything with us. I then
flashed back to Jakes' teachings on anointing and Gethsemane. I started
thinking about my spiritual rebirth and the adversity that got me alone with
God.
Jacob, whose name
meant "supplanter" or "trickster", literally "con
man" was left alone with God. God cannot accomplish anything with us until
we are left alone with Him. There in the isolation of our internal strife, God
begins a process of transforming disgrace into grace...It only took a midnight
rendezvous and an encounter with a God he couldn't out slick to bring Jacobs
leg to a limp and his fist to a hand clasped in prayer. "I won't let You
go till you bless me," he cries. God then tells him what he really needs
to know. He tells Jacob that he is not who he thinks he is. In fact, he is
really Israel, a prince (Genesis 32: 24-30)
When I read this I wondered what I must have looked like to
God before He got me alone. I thought about how hot the fire had to be to
purify me.
I do know and praise God in the fact that it is impossible
to be in His presence and remain the same...I have my new name. I know my
purpose and I'm willing to experience the flames.....what about you? How ya
livin' ?!
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