Some of The Greatest Fruit & Legacy You Can Have

I was blessed, challenged and comforted by a message passionately delivered by Christine Caine last week at the Catalyst West conference (can she be other than passionate?). She is a fruitful minister, author, advocate for justice, a "doer" for the Kingdom of God. These are her words, her perspective:

 

“I think some of the greatest fruit and legacy I will leave the next generation is not all my accomplishments for God but the fact that after all these years in ministry (21 years full-time):

Ø  I am still passionately in love with Jesus

Ø  I am fully committed t building His Church
Ø  I am still in awe of so great a salvation
Ø  I am not bitter, offended or cynical
Ø  I am still pursuing His plan for my life
Ø  I still believe the best is yet to come
Ø  I still love my pastors and my local church (same pastors this whole time)
Ø  I still believe it is a privilege to do what I do
Ø  I adore my husband
Ø  I delight in my daughters
Ø  I don’t see a conflict between family and ministry
Ø  I love God, life and people
Ø  I am bruised and have taken some serious knocks, but I am still going
Ø  I didn’t slow down at 40 but ramped up to another level.”

Do you feel challenged by any of these in your own journey?

What’s getting in the way?

What made you squirm as you read it?

Perhaps these are areas where we need healing. Repentance. Restoration.

“In all of our doing we must continually evaluate our lives to determine whether we are in fact becoming more like Christ.

 
Ø  Is our faith growing?
Ø  Are we developing the fruit of the Spirit?
Ø  Are we enjoying the journey?
Ø  Do we love God and His church more or less?
Ø  Are we still filled with awe and wonder or are we getting cynical, disillusioned, disappointed or discouraged?
Ø  Are we more committed to building His kingdom rather than our own empires [lives]?
Ø  Do we still value things like commitment, faithfulness, loyalty, submission, honour and respect?”

My prayer is that we'll be honest; that we'll find the healing, courage, grace and re-kindled love that we need, which only truly comes from Him.

Are you challenged? I am.
Is there hope? Yes.

"For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened." Matthew 7:8

The ball is in your court.
Will you ask? Seek? Knock?
Will you receive? Find? Enter?

Blessings, friend. Blessings, grace and courage.