Spiritual Battlefield

I want to be used by God to expand His kingdom, but sometimes I forget what a huge battlefield it is out there. When lives are transformed by the power of God, something happens in the spiritual realm. To be in tune to that experience, the war over souls, can be both exhilerating and exhausting at the same moment. I know who will win the battle, its obvious - God. But, to be part of it is both uniquely exciting and strangly abusive.

I want souls to be saved. I want to be used in the harvesting of souls. I want to introduce people to Christ. I especially want to introduce people to Christ who come from a family line that do not yet know Him. I want God to use me as a tool to change generations in His name. When I get to heaven, I want to cry tears of joy in celebration of who is there. I know they say that there are not tears in heaven, but, I don't know how one could contain the intensive emotion of seeing a soul saved.

Someday,

someday.

Someday, I will stand in amazement before God, and watch as He with His eyes full of love, welcomes all of us sinners into His kingdom, and calls us by name, "Saint ___________."

Someday,

Someday. That list of names will include people I know now whose names are not yet listed, yet still are known.

I celebrate in advance the salvation of everyone who God has blessed me with the gift of praying just once, just one time, for their salvation. I know that God answers our prayers. I know that He desires for all to be saved. I know that He rejoices when His children come to repentance and lie their life down before Him.


I know He is a good God. Yes!!!!!!!!!

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