September 13th, 2022 – 7:50am:

So much of my God’s future plans for my life have been revealed to me that it makes it difficult for me to focus on today. Today is where I need to live. I have things to get done today. God give me the grace to live today… in every moment for you.

In the world today people are so concerned with end result that they forget how to focus on strong beginnings and deep roots.

God is speaking to me this morning about my roots in Him. These past four years have been the deepening of my roots in Him. The pushing down of my faith into the depths of who He is. He keeps saying that my time has not come. I hear Jesus words echoed in these words of God to me. So I have to say, “My time has not yet come.” And the understanding with these words is that God is still preparing me for whatever He has planned for me to do. Tomorrow may be my time… but today is still “not my time”. So I must wait, trust, and rest in Him.

Now keep in mind that just because it is not my time yet does not mean that I am not producing fruit. Yet probably not fruit yet, but planting seeds. When my time comes so will the harvest… but the harvest will be of all the planted seeds over these past four years. All the traveling, the meeting people, the small conversations, the every morning with God, the discipleship of myself and others, these are the seeds that have been and are continuing to be planted by God.

God has one day in mind to bring it all to its fullness but today is a planting day. It’s a “sitting in the closet with Him” day. It’s a listening and obeying day. Small beginnings, obscure and from solitude, these are the places that revival springs forth upon the earth.

I may have another 20 years of planting before I will begin to see the fruits spring up. If I can grasp the lessons God is teaching me now. The hidden away of the solitude of these past years is so lost on people around me. They want to see instant results of my relationship with God but they are looking at the surface and not below at all that God is doing beneath the surface in me.

Every single act of obedience is preparation. Every single conversation… every single prayer… everything is focused on the roots. This I see clearly because He shows me the end result of my actions today. He asks me to do this and says this will be the result. And so I obey. He is teaching me not to look at the dying seed being put into the ground but to look ahead and see the ultimate tree that will spring forth from this one moment.

This is what walking with Him is like. It’s moments… one single moment that can change the course of a life forever. One conversation, one word from Him for someone that shifts their trajectory just slightly so that eventually they end up on the right path toward Home, toward Him.

So I can rest today, having only $15 dollars to my name. Sitting in a park home trailer in the middle of Texas unknown to the world. But here is where He is and He is with me. I must submit to the journey… and not run ahead of Him… but stay in sync with Him daily. Today and in this moment let my feet follow His.

Do you hear it? Do you hear His whisper? “Go this way.” He says, or, “Stay here a moment.” “Talk to him today or talk to her today.” “Go for this walk or invite them to do this.” “Turn aside and spend a moment here.” This is how you walk in the Spirit of the Living God. “This is the way walk in it.”

Obedience comes in many shapes and sizes but all of these acts of obedience have eternal consequences. And this is the lesson God is teaching me today.

Father, let me learn this lesson well. Give me your grace to live in today, moment by moment.