Then recently something happened. I met these amazing people, and the Lord just radiated off of them. His love for them, and their love for Him, was tangible. It was like I could touch and feel it. God was showing me what He was trying to create in me that type of contagious and tangible love. Then all of a sudden that love in some unexplainable way was transferred into my life. God had definitely planted the seeds for this transformation in my life in the preceding weeks, but when I met them I saw the picture of what I was to become in my own way, and by seeing the picture God made me into that picture. I do not believe the process is over or finished. I still have a long way to go, but a major has definitely taken place in my life.
It was not anything radical in the natural sense. The fireworks did not go off, but everything radically changed, my vision and my motivations became radically different. My spirit had been awakened. I watched everything else fall in comparison to the Kingdom. The Kingdom must advance, and we must take it to those who don't know, so they can take part, so they can feel Love. There is nothing else is nothing else that matters. This our ultimate and primary purpose. Everything else is an extra. A gracious addition from our Father to bless us. That is unless it becomes a block to spreading the Kingdom and knowing Love, and then it is an idol that we must rid ourselves of.
Like I said I do not know what happened that day. I just walked into a room with amazing people following God. They talked to me and listened to my story, and then something just happened. God happened I guess. I am not even quite sure how to explain the change that happened in my body, soul, and spirit, besides my vision and motivations have been altered towards Him. I am sure this shift is more radical and powerful than I can put it to words, and God has just begun to illuminate the shift He caused in my life. What I do know is that I have been made alive, and I do not think there could have been a better time then now.
Why now? Well, my life is changing. I am moving cities, going to new horizons. Leaving Cincinnati and going to Kansas City. Opening a new tour in Minnesota. My life is just moving, but it is more than just moving, it is beginning to pick up speed. Dreams and visions that God has given me are starting to come to fruition. God is beginning to awaken the sleeping giant that is within me! My spirit is starting to pour out and transform those around me, like those peoples spirits poured out and transformed me.
In the past two weeks God has taken me to places and used/allowed me to see people lives engaged by His presence. I have seen a mom watch God heal her two 3 year old twins. I have seen a man receive healing in his back, which awakened him to his call to ministry, which He thought He was not good enough for, and then his entire family lined up for prayers for healing, and they were ALL HEALED. A single mom was given a passion for Jesus and was led back to her church and ultimately to the love of Christ. He has awakened my spirit and it is impossible for me to contain. None of this is because I am good. It is because I asked God to use me to change the world and He was gracious enough to grant my request!
Not to mention in these last few weeks He has led me to key people for my life. My next journal entries will fill in the blanks to this one, but He has given me contacts to Germany. Why Germany, aren't you going to Minnesota next? Yes, I am, but Germany is to come, and these are opening the way for after Minnesota. I will explain more next week. He has led me to people who want me to help create this networking database. Again, what database? It was one that I believe will have power to change to world because of the people it will connect, but again I will explain more in the coming weeks. There is just too much for me to write in this one entry.
The moral of the story. God is good, and He is changing me and wants to change you. He is encountering me and granting me intimacy with Him, and He wants to encounter you. He has given me stories and He wants to give you stories. He wants to take off your blind folds like He has taken off mine. He wants to show you the Kingdom like never before, but you must be ready for life to be like never before, because there is no going back, but it is awesome that is how it is!
I love you guys. Please pray for me in this next month of transition which is full of potential. I am closing up Cincinnati with the rest of the team. We just closed our office this past Tuesday. Then I will be traveling home to spend time with family, spread the vision of IWT back home, and try and gain partners and financial support, so I can continue with my work. Then I will head to Kansas City at the end of the month, to reunite with all of the IWT staff out there, and my boys/best friends, Ian and Andrew, who I miss very much. They are my brothers. After that it looks like Minnesota, just in time for the snow, to open a new tour which I am pumped about, for a variety of reasons that I will share with you more later. In addition, to all of that there are side projects that God has me working on, and they are growing by leaps and bounds that I cannot wait to share with you as God brings them into fruition.
I pray blessing and grace over all of you, and that God's provision and love would be abundant in your life! God bless!
Wow! Matt, this is some thrilling stuff God is doing in your life! When are you moving to KC? I'll be praying for you.
ReplyDeleteHey Meghann! How are you doing? What have you been up to? I am moving out to KC at the end of the month, and will be ready to start in the office on the 29th of November, so I think I will make the trek out starting right after Thanksgiving! Thank you so much for your prayers!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat post and your comments are very true and insightful. When you speak of the vision and passion God gives us becoming an idol I am reminded of Phil Vischer's book: "Me, Myself, and Bob" about his story and journey with Big Idea productions. Continue to pursue the one who pursued you to the Cross. Praying for you man!
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