Arthur writes:
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WEEK 4.6 BIRTHING A NEW THING 9:00 A.M.
On Resurrection Sunday, THE Church was birthed.
No one was there for the event, except those assigned to keep it from happening. Such irony.
The 11 were trying to deal with their PTSD, before it was officially a thing.
His mother was processing her grief by solidifying His death.
The Jewish leaders were relieved that they had stamped out the gadfly who had been bothering them for three years.
And the Romans were standing down, after having survived yet another highly volatile “feast” of the consistently turbulent Jews.
An inauspicious beginning for the most high-impact spiritual organism God ever purposed.
But . . . it worked. And the world has never been the same.
Right now, in America, we have people dying, businesses dying, civil rights being trampled ruthlessly, international relationships built over decades being trashed, 22 million people filing for unemployment (almost three times the total population of Austria), trust in government, health care and the press being shattered.
And in the midst of that, God is calling many people to birth something new, AND is providing the grace for it.
For some, it is highly visible, such as a new business or a ministry. For others, it is a smaller venture, such as a new book, or a room addition.
If it is a birthing season for you, then you have been prepared for it by God. Your spirit, soul and body are made for this event in this season. Everything is in place, except public opinion. It seems like the worst imaginable time in many people’s eyes for you to take a huge risk and to do something so new, so far outside your history.
If God is in it, I urge you to tune out public opinion and run with the new thing. You will know if you have been pregnant with the purposes of God for some time, before this crisis. If it is a birthing time for you, bless the birth, and lean in.
And if not, then pour out your prayers for the people in the Tribe who ARE called to birth, and who are being resisted by the “practical” ones around them.
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This, gang.
Don’t drop the ball. It’s go time to run it and gun it.