The Central Moment

While being chased and hunted down, David learned to cry out to God. It shaped a spirituality within him that we can benefit from and even imitate ourselves.

We all love underdog stories when the underdog wins. But in our spiritual battles, we are not to look at ourselves as the champions. God sent the real Champion to win the battles we could never win.

We need to stop fighting ourselves. There is no use in wearing Saul’s armor and trying to be like others. God has apportioned to each one of us unique grace and gifting. Walk in it and let God use you!

God is always preparing us for something. There is a strategy to the sovereign seasons that the Lord allows us to walk through. Facing obstacles in the obscure seasons of our lives can make us resilient and strong in the public seasons.

Our mentoring of children, teenagers and younger adults cannot be optional. The Lord is always raising up new, young generations of leaders upon whom he puts his Spirit and through whom he takes his church into the future.

A counterfeit religious spirit wants to placate God with good intentions and external shows of self-denial and sacrifice. But God wants obedience. It’s submission over sacrifice.

No risk, no reward; no pain, no gain; no steps of faith, no breakthroughs. Everything worthwhile in life will require taking risks. And although we may only have a ‘perhaps’ on the front side risk, on the other side is a God who is able!

God validates our callings with confirmations and favor. Although trust is earned, not demanded, the Lord knows how to raise us up and create those trust-earning moments.

Life without God’s Spirit is like a car without gas. We can get out and push, but it is far better to be fueled up and drive. When the Holy Spirit comes upon us our lives change and we live in power not our own.

It’s honestly not easy to live differently than the world around us. Yet we are called out to be holy, to serve a Kingdom not of this world, and to make Jesus our King.