Are you in a crisis today

Are you in a crisis today? Congratulations! You’re about to be changed. You don’t have to stay the same. God is getting ready to make a change in your life. The Bible teaches that your biggest struggle in life is with God because you want to be in control. When something happens to reach down into your very core and make you change who you are and what you are about, that is awesome! That’s a crisis; that’s dangerous. But it is a dangerous opportunity.

Perhaps you’re in a ‘no win situation’ right now. Who do you think is behind that? God is! God backs you into a corner. Why? Because God often allows crisis in your life in order to get your attention. All of a sudden you’re laid flat on your back and you’re forced to look up. Why? Because you rarely change until the pain you feel exceeds your fear of change. You don’t change when you see the light; you change when you feel the heat.

How do you work through a crisis?  Spend time praying through, thinking through the meaning of what is happening. The first thing you do is to give time to the Holy Spirit to teach you and shape you. Instead of just barging in with your new ideas, stop and wait, to make sure you’re going to do the right thing next. Take time to pray and think it through.

Recognize that when you are in a crisis, you have to spend some time in reflection, in thinking, and in prayer. You can’t just rush out and do. You have to make the truth your own truth.

You will come to a crisis moment, if you listen to your heart; you hear change wanting to take place. You feel something new struggling to be born. That’s a crisis. The first task is to pray, to listen, and to discern. To what is God telling you. Is there something new you need to be for him?

And the day will come when you will have to do something with your convictions. The time will come when the personal crisis will be taken into the public arena. And something very interesting will happen. When God invites you to do something for Him, that invitation leads to a crisis of belief. It tells you that when you get into crisis times, the crisis will always be the tension between what has been and what is to be. Between the old established pattern and what is about to be born. But here’s the good part. When you take your crisis public, and do something about it, genuinely spiritual people will go with it, if it brings Kingdom growth.