God showed up. God shows up.
God spoke. And God still speaks.
God spoke to our team as a whole and as individuals at training camp. Some of our team had never heard God’s voice before; whether that’s due to not ever having listened, or simply not knowing what God’s voice sounds like, people heard God’s voice. Because God showed up.
Because God shows up.
James 5:17-18 reads, “Elijah was a human just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced it’s crops.”
Woah. What if we believed, and actually walked in the truth, that we are no different from Elijah? that God speaks to his sheep, and that we ought to know his voice (John 10:4)? that Jesus said that his children will do even greater works than he did (John 14:12)? that the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in you and me (Romans 8:11)? What if we actually believed these things? And acted like it?
Jesus teaches us to ask the Father for our daily bread. When was the last time you asked the Father for bread? For the sustenance that feeds your soul? Today? Yesterday? Last week? Last year? It’s so easy for me for me to continue trying to live off the stale bread from two years ago, when God showed up and brought the rain into drought-stricken Malaba, Uganda. But how have I expected God to show up today?
I want to continue to expect God to show up. Every. Single. Day. God showed up at training camp and spoke words of love, or acceptance, of worthiness, of life over each person. And God wants to speak to you. You are God’s daughter. You are God’s son. Beloved. Accepted. Child of the King. Royalty!
So listen up! God is speaking! He is pouring out the daily manna for you and I to pick up and eat, to be full, and to be satisfied in Him. But you have to receive it. You have to listen. God is not dead; God is speaking, maybe in the whisper after the storm as with Elijah (1 Kings 19:12), or maybe in a vision as with Paul (Acts 9:3), but no matter how, he spoke, and God still speaks. To you, and to me. So show up, because God already has.
