7 Realities

Last week on my Facebook page, I used the "7 Realities of Experiencing God" by Henry Blackaby and Claude King" as my status updates for each day. "Experiencing God" was a great blessing to me when I took the course several years ago. It was also a textbook for one of my classes in seminary. I thank God for Blackaby and King and the wonderful truths that their book and course unearthed for us.

Here is a list of the 7 realities:
1. God is always working around you.
2. God pursues a continuing personal love relationship with you that is real and personal.
3. God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.
4. God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes and His ways.
5. God's invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.
6. You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing.
7. You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes His work through you.

As I typed out this list just now, I realized how this is the story of my life the last few years. Finding out about how God was working in church planting movements and pursuing His will for my life led me to leave the staff of a ministry where I had served for 25 years (the only employment I had had since age 21) and "launch out into the deep" into missions ministry. (For details of this journey, read the 1st 3 blog articles from 2008).

But even more than a personal experience, these realities describe what we see happening in the Honduras church planting movement project. We are really seeing that it is God at work, not us. He is the one planning and moving the process forward. In fact, in one region where we are seeing great multiplication, we had no plans to work there. Our team was only there because after the political overthrow some of our team members were in that region and the travel problems and restrictions kept them there. They began to work there and now God is giving an amazing multiplication in that region. God was ready to work there all along, but we did not know it. But through the circumstances of the nation, God sent our team there. Now in about 2 weeks, Randy Travis will return to that region and conduct a 2nd leaders training seminar.

These realities must be remembered, especially in what to many of us are tough times economically and in other ways. God is at work. We are joining Him. He even uses the circumstances to get us into position. He knows where He is about to visit (Luke 10:1) even when we don't.

Friends, please keep praying for the HCPM project and let us agree for an amazing harvest for the Kingdom of God.

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