I feel that God is calling together a band of elite warriors who are willing to be trained in the deepest of His anointing. But it will be tough training and filled with many trials… much like the Navy Seals but only in a spiritual sense.
ARE THERE ANY TAKERS?
The Apostle Paul was well versed in this kind of training:
“I’ve worked much harder, been jailed more often, beaten up more times than I can count, and at death’s door time after time. I’ve been flogged five times with the Jews’ thirty-nine lashes, beaten by Roman rods three times, pummeled with rocks once. I’ve been shipwrecked three times, and immersed in the open sea for a night and a day. In hard traveling year in and year out, I’ve had to ford rivers, fend off robbers, struggle with friends, struggle with foes. I’ve been at risk in the city, at risk in the country, endangered by desert sun and sea storm, and betrayed by those I thought were my brothers. I’ve known drudgery and hard labor, many a long and lonely night without sleep, many a missed meal, blasted by the cold, naked to the weather.
And that’s not the half of it, when you throw in the daily pressures and anxieties of all the churches. When someone gets to the end of his rope, I feel the desperation in my bones. When someone is duped into sin, an angry fire burns in my gut.
If I have to “brag” about myself, I’ll brag about the humiliations that make me like Jesus. The eternal and blessed God and Father of our Master Jesus knows I’m not lying. Remember the time I was in Damascus and the governor of King Aretas posted guards at the city gates to arrest me? I crawled through a window in the wall, was let down in a basket, and had to run for my life.” (2 Corinthians 11:20-33 from The Message)
But oh the anointing and souls that were impacted because of all the Apostle Paul endured. Make no mistake, suffering is part of living every day with Jesus, but not suffering for suffering’s sake. No, this kind of suffering is for the cause of Christ, for souls to be wrought from the enemy’s hand and brought into the kingdom of God!
Are you up for the task?
Lord, help us to be brave and ready to do all that is asked of us. Make us the ELITE WARRIORS you want desire us to be that many might be saved!
Remember my precious reader, in Jesus there is always hope. Jesus is always with us in all that we endure. Doesn’t it make it worth living every day with Him?