A Call to the Carriers

Many have asked me when they would be seeing something from me about my time visiting Asbury, and I have been wondering the same thing myself.  It seems that each time that I sit down to write out what is on my heart, I feel the need to pause and eventually come back and delete what I had previously put into words.

The truth is that it is difficult to express in words, especially written word an encounter that marks you so deeply.  I believe that each individual that took the time to answer the call and found themselves on the campus in a small town in Kentucky had very intentionally, specifically unique encounters with God.

I will say this.... God is loving a generation back to life.

God is taking a generation that has been cursed and is speaking life and potential into them.  He is positioning them to know him, be changed by him and to bring him into every space that they walk into.  This is the "show me" generation.  There are so many counterfeits in this world, they are looking for an authentic encounter with God.  Nothing less will do.   

I have many words that swirl around that I hope to some day put into black and white.  I am not sure that the words I have now will ever suffice.  God is so much bigger and greater than the words that I can come up with.  His gentle love and compassion is restoring and reviving what we have lost, what has been forgotten.  God is kind and merciful, he is patient and continues to draw us as a people back to him.

He is still saying, "Seek me while I may be found!"  He is answering the people whose hearts desire him over all else.  I am forever changed because 10 kids could not go back to class, but stayed, leaned in and cried out to God.  Ten kids turned into over 50,000 people in 13 days.  I cannot wait to see what multiplication God does with that 50,000!!

I am thankful for ten kids who stayed behind, creating a call to the carriers to go out and do the same thing.  If you want to see God move, give up your titles, give up your stages, give up your five point sermons and get on your face and seek HIS face.  Ask him to search your heart, and respond when he shows you what needs realigned.

I will end with this.  I do not pray for revival.  I am convinced that seeking God, seeking his face, needing him more than anything else is what God responds to.   We say that we want to see revival, in reality, we may just want a place or thing.  Do you want revival or do you want a show that you can control the narrative of?  God has told us time and time again that he isn't interested in those things.  He wants hearts that are devoted to him.  He wants us to remember our first love, the things that we did at first.  He loves to pour his love onto us, as we pour our love and adoration out to him.  
Next time you feel a pull like that on your heart, or a want to stay, I challenge you to be the one who stays behind, and watch how many lives can be changed.