Countdown #8 to Running With The Horses~WOW 2016

Jeremiah 12:5 (MSG) “So, Jeremiah, if you’re worn out in this footrace with men,
    what makes you think you can race against horses?
And if you can’t keep your wits during times of calm,
    what’s going to happen when troubles break loose
        like the Jordan in flood?

I hear the Lord saying, "Sometimes you have to run alone."  This saddened me because as a pastor my heart is that we would all run together.  Then He said, "But I will always run with you and the Holy Spirit is within you."  God knows just how to talk to me.  So prophetically I am hearing that some of you have decided to come if no one else you know comes with you.  If you are concerned about the drive or the sleeping arrangements...be at peace.  He is with you.

The real puzzle of life in this first part of the 21st Century is why so many people live so badly. Not that people are so wicked, but that they are content with what is so ordinary and, in some respects, utterly stupid. Not that people are so cruel, but so unaware. There is little to admire and less to imitate in the people who are prominent in our culture. We have celebrities but not saints. Famous entertainers amuse a world of bored sleepwalkers. Those we read about and shake our heads at - as insane criminals - are, sometimes, those who act out our aggression. Petulant and spoiled athletes play games for lazy and apathetic spectators. People, aimless and bored, amuse themselves with trivia and trash. Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines. The human race is “a bleak business,” says Tom Howard. 

If we want to do what has never been done before and go where no one has ever gone before then we must step out of what everyone else is doing and saying.  We must be spirit lead and not flesh driven.  We must seek the Spirit and not be stagnant and satisfied with the status quo.  

So let's run the race set before us and be confident that we do not run alone.