"Notice that God didn’t take Ezekiel to a mountaintop, He didn’t take him to an ocean or a meadow, He took him to a place of despair; a valley, a low place full of death, and completely devastated by mortality. And there He says, “Prophesy.”
So often we get into this mentality in which, if we are not at a mountaintop moment in our walk, we shut up and back down. We walk away from a fight, especially such a seemingly impossible task as raising up dead people to stand as the army of God. But when we are at the lowest, when we are in the valley of the shadow of death, God demands that we prophesy, that we see that even in the hopeless place, the Word of God prevails. And as we begin to speak it, every circumstance, no matter how dead it seems, will bend to meet the dream of God and stand to serve Him."
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I’ve always thought it would be sweet to pray for someone personally, like at my Church, or ask someone in public if I could pray for them. I just have never built up the nerve. I feel as though I’m way to wrapped up in what other people would think of me if I did something bold like that.
And this is my problem. Some people have trouble with drugs, alcohol, self-harm. Mine is what people think of me, and my image in other peoples mind. Some might say well that’s not as bad as drugs or anything along those lines. But to me it is, I want to move in my relationship with God, yet I’m to afraid of what others think of me. I don’t know how to deal with this either. I liked reading about Paul, because he didn’t care of what other thought about him and his relationship With God. Paul was bold, I want to be bold. Paul did whatever it took to get the message across, even if that mean’t being chained up in a prison. I’ve always wanted a Paul like attitude. Not caring about what other though, just caring if he got the message of The Gospel across.
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#personal
"If you left the Church to get away from hypocritical people, you should also quit your job, drop out of school, disconnect yourself from all your family and friends, and lock yourself in your room while you’re at it. There will be flaws wherever there are humans. And, in fact, the Church is the only establishment on earth with the solution."
Mattie Montgomery
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