Back From the Mountaintop

Six days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. 1-1 (NASB).

Moses climbed a mountain to receive God's Laws. Jesus climbed a mountain to meet Moses and Elijah. I am drawn to them myself, it just seems that God can get a little more done in your life when you get some quiet. It really doesn't have to happen on a Mountain. A "Mountaintop Experience" occurs anytime that you feel the active movement of the Holy Spirit in your soul! And, as you feel that, you begin to surrender more areas of your life to him, and you receive more and more Spiritual gifts.

Have ever had God lay out your life for you, showing all the good, bad, and the ugly? That's what he did for me. At about 4 am Saturday, He led me to two pieces of unfinished business. I had prayed to Him and told him I forgave all who had hurt me, or treated me unfairly . God asked if I was sure. Then two people who I had buried deep in the back of my mind come up. I still carried hate in my soul for them. I prayed for cleansing and could now truly say; yes I have forgiven everyone. God wanted to show me, for the last time, what life is like when you stop following God and begin to follow the World instead. It is one, huge, train wreck of messes, that is what it is. But after going through these times of life I would rather forget, he told me to no longer be controlled by the past. He reminded me that that is all covered under the blood of Jesus.

Besides the dreams, God spoke words of comfort to us through two missionaries we have come to be close to. God had laid so many of the things I dreamed of, on her mind when we prayed that morning. The honest truth is, I had not told anybody what I had dreamed. We also were encouraged by seeing, by stepping out in Faith on a few little things, God had turned them into International Missionaries, and led them to open their own School of Ministry, which has put thousands of well trained advocates for Christ in some of the most dangerous, and least Christian, places in the World. The encouraging part is it all started small. I know, now, that God will help my ministry to grow, in his way and his time. And that is all the encouragement I should ever need!