Our church has been in the sermon series Dare You to Move through the month of November. I have been speaking to our church about hearing from God, choosing to step out in obedience, and holding on to His promise. I have preached these messages with a sense of expectation. I have expected people to step out and make decisions to trust God. What I didn’t expect was to experience this series in such a personal way.
Over the past few weeks, God has been speaking to me about some things that need to happen in my own life and ministry. They are things that I can see that He has been preparing me for. So the words that I spoke to our church a week ago must apply to me as well:
Life change steps of faith happen when conviction seizes the opportunity to move in faith.
I will be talking more specifically about what these things are in the weeks to come. The point of all of this is, however, that my expectation for God to move amongst our church must begin with the expectation for God to move in me.