Friday, January 21, 2011

sweet spot

Last week I had a conversation with a good friend about living in your sweet spot. Knowing what it is that you were created for and passionate about and then living there, growing in what you were made for.
I feel like I'm discovering more of where my sweet spot is: Enjoying and sharing the Kingdom of God with others.
Last Sunday was a great example of living in the sweet spot. I started by going to a 5:30 am prayer meeting with some Latino Kingdom people and spent more time on my knees than I have in a while. We prayed and then looked at the story of Rachel and Leah's wanting to have more kids than each other in Genesis 30. The leader ended by sharing that he felt like God was showing him that Joseph, the 11th child was a sign of God's provision of fertility and that this year, 2011, is going to be a year of fertility for the Kingdom. Interesting thought, I never would have looked at it that way, but I can pray that it happens.
We have a lot of goals for this year and among them is that of training the people that we are discipling how they can better share Jesus with those around them.
Last Friday and Saturday I was able to participate in a Skype training that presented Discovery Bible Studies and we had a chance to practice it with some other disciple makers. We then talked and prayed about it with some others from our house church network on Sunday morning.
Sunday afternoon I took what I learned and translated it into Spanish to share with our house church later that night. We had one of the most memorable gatherings of our church's short existence. Everyone shared, everyone was challenged and everyone prayed for each other. This was where I saw the joy of the Kingdom most visibly. Our friends are very disturbed by the recent raids that ICE has been doing in the area and we spent a lot of time praying for each other and sharing how we could help each other out if something were to actually happen in our families. We ended the night with lots of laughs as we watched the kids present a song they are sharing at our church network's retreat this weekend. Then we picked a song to teach all of the Americanos how to dance merengue! God was visiting with us and we were sharing deeply with each other. The Kingdom come. That's sweet!
Where is your sweet spot? What do you do to live there more?

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