No More Couch Potato Belief

After the holidays, I asked God to direct me in setting goals for the New Year. I felt Him lead me to set several goals for work, for home, for the family and for finances. Of course spiritually, I wanted to deepen my relationship with Jesus, to spend more time in prayer, to read the Bible more and become a better servant. However, the phrase I felt like God kept giving me was "ACTIVE BELIEF". The word "action" kept coming up in my thoughts and prayer time again and again. When I began imagining a Rambo-esque, spiritual action hero, crawling through the muck with a fish sign dangling from his bandanna, a dog tag embossed with a cross and a bedazzled spiritual bowie knife, I knew it was time to rein in the imagination and get on my knees to ask God what He meant.

I must admit though, I asked for some help from my mentor in searching out some scriptural references for active belief before going to God on this. I had done a few google searches here & there and kept coming up empty based on what I was typing in. My mentor is an incredible Bible scholar & very quickly had returned tons of information to me via email (she was being a great example of the word). Tomorrow we'll really dive into some of the things she sent me. Anyway, on the way home tonight, I asked God to just spell it out for me. This is what I sensed... now it not the time for couch potato belief; now is the time to believe for the things that I have put in your heart and ACT on them.

Okay, that seems fairly clear. Hear what God is saying & do it...pretty simple huh? Not quite so simple. I believe we're in a time where we cannot just be satisfied with praying the same old prayers, half-heartedly expecting God may or may not show up. I believe He longs to move and He is awaiting His people to position themselves for Him to do so. For me that means digging deeper into His word, committing to a time everyday where I listen to Him instead of talking - even if I don't hear anything specific. It means acting immediately when the Holy Spirit prompts me; it means getting outside of my spiritual comfort zone and allowing God to reveal Himself to me any way He would like. It means applying my time & talents in a very focused direction toward expanding the kingdom as Holy Spirit directs. It means even when it's not convenient, even when I don't feel like it, I hear Him, Believe Him and ACT!

So, here's the drill...

Step 1: Get off the couch.

Step 2: Get on your knees.

Step 3: Get up & do it!!!

ACTIVE BELIEF - Couch potatoes arise and put on your spiritual NIKE's - just do it.