"I have a burden." I've heard those words many times in my life and I've equated them to a heaviness in the spirit, something that is really tugging at your heart, something that needs your full attention, something that is eating at the very center of your existence. I've heard others say that about their children when they are not walking in the way that they should or who have chosen the wrong path. I'm sure there were many years that my parents had a heavy burden in relationship to how I've walked at times (this is where I need to stop and Praise our Holy God for His grace and mercy to love the unlovely to love me regardless of my actions and to forgive me forever - not just for a little while but forever when I repent ((say I'm sorry, mean it, and walk away from it))
A burden.....what is your burden is it something not going right in your life, is it a hurt or a forgiveness that has not been forthcoming, is it a lack of understanding by someone you love - when you try and try to explain your feelings all you hear back is argument and more pain? As difficult as it is to walk in the spirit in those times, we must. We must realize who our Father is and how much He loves us and how His love letter (The Bible) will explain and cover every issue and every need. We must trust Him completely and stop trying to handle things in our own might. That would be one of my burdens - letting God handle the things I know in my head that He will handle perfectly without me in the way and yet I so want to take it up and handle it myself. As a true southern girl would say, "Fix it; I just need to fix it" Only the Creator can "fix it" and his "fix" might not be the same way I would want to, but His way will be the right way, the perfect way.
Do you know what I wanna fix? I wish I could wave a wand and fill the altar of our chuech of all churches with the Body of Christ on their knees, humble before a Holy God crying out for the souls of our nation and our world, crying out for the souls of our brothers and sisters, cyring out for the souls of our neighbors and our church members.
We MUST come back to prayer. Where did we get the idea that it was okay to start anything without talking to our Holy God first? Where did we turn away from prayer. When I was in High School, my basketball Coach had prayer with us before every game. Coach Ken Harris from Sprayberry High School was a light to me in that dark world of High School. He is still a light in our community. We all talk about how prayer was taken from school but we are lost in knowing how to turn it around and yet as we walk aimlessly through life without prayer where we need it, radical, false religions are growing at monumental rates and threatening our peace of mind and our safety because we've forgotten how important prayer is.
Pray with me....please pray with me that we would get on our knees and ask God to direct our every thought, step, and deed. I remember as a child Wednesday night prayer meeting at our little church in the country. The saints of God would fill the altar on their knees and pray to God with all their hearts and without shame as they cried to their Father about broken hearts, broken lives, and for revival in our community. Revival would break out in those altars. A renewal of dedication and service to Jesus Christ would be evident on those faces as they stood and hugged each other after an hour or so in prayer...An HOUR??? We can't pray now but a few minues and we feel awkward and don't know what to say to our best friend, the creator of the Universe who desires your and my companionship.
Remember how God walked through the Garden in the cool of the day looking for Adam and Eve to talk to them? Think of how that would be today. Then, stop, kneel before Him and ask Him to walk in the garden with you today. And sit quietly in His presence as He reveals to you what He wants you to hear from Him. Let's just pray for communion - a time with Him.
My burden is prayer.....prayer from the church (the people) body....communion - true communion with God. Prayer for our leaders, our staff at RSBC, for each other, for our nation, our Pastor, our President, our Deacons, our lives....
Will you pray with me?
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