Lynse Leanne

When i was in 24/7 we had scripture memory…each week we had to memorize a different scripture.  It was challenging, but as my life has progressed over the years i have gone back to those scriptures and held onto them…at the time i thought it was meaningless, but now, there is so much value.

This Isaiah 30:21 verse is one that i have been meditating on the last few days.  As Chad and I are in the transition phase and waiting on God to move and speak and show us what may be next.

I have to be honest in the fact that i have been a little stressed about what is next.  what is next for Chad, for me, for the Stevens’….but God reminded me that we will hear a voice behind us…IF we are listening.

So i am focusing on silencing out some other voices and noise to listen for THAT VOICE. I have to work on it…to hear THAT VOICE…

Do you have to work at hearing the voice of God or do you hear it easily?

WARNING: I kind of get on a little soapbox so please excuse me.

My husband and i were talking last night about our Jr. High kids. Some of them come to Church of the Highlands and others dont. but they still love God.

With the recent election and inauguration of our new President and the promise of no partisan lines i have been thinking alot about it in the church. And then Pete Wilson posted here asking “why do you go to that church?”

Here is what ticks me, I find in the south and the buckle of the Bible belt that there is a church on every corner and most of them want you to come to their church. and there is the denomination fight over whose services are more relevant or scripture based.

I dont think that God really likes that whole process that the American church gets stuck in. I am not saying that I am so open minded that you can go to any church and worship any god, but why does it matter if they choose to go to the Baptist church down the road or the Presbyterian church across town? They are worshiping the God of the Bible.

Anyways, i think that as the Body of Christ we need to be willing to step past our “partisan” lines in the church and be the Body. each church and denomination serves a purpose and people are touched and lives are changed by their ministry.

Today i want to encourage you to pray for the churches in your city. Pray that God would influence people and change lives. Pray that God would give the Pastor a word for the people under him/her.

We are the body and i think as the American Church we need to start acting like it.

How can you pray for the Body of Christ as a whole today?