Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Deep and Wide

I used to be a mold maker. I would build many different types of molds for the plastics industry. One type of mold I made was blow molds. Your water bottles, milk jugs, and many cases for tools are made this way. In making these molds there were rules that you had to follow to make sure the there would be no weakness in the parts that came out of the mold. One of the rules was "Don't go deeper than your width."
EX: If I cut the cavity 2 inches deep I had to make it 2 inches wide. If I didn't the plastic would thin out trying to go that deep and would lose it's strength which would allow for a possible hole in the bottle.
The Lord has told us to be filled with Holy Spirit so that we could receive power.  The purpose is so that we can be witnesses from Corona (My Jerusalem) to the ends of the earth.
If all we do is go deep with Lord and don't go wide as in far reaching, we will weaken the body of Christ.
Deep and Wide is what we need.
Out of your depth with the Lord be as far reaching as possible.
God Bless you.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Deep and Wide

As we walk with the Lord, He would like us to go deeper in our relationship with Him. He would us to go beyond the shallow "How's it going?" to expressing our hearts to Him so that we begin an intimate, deep relationship. The challenge for us is in our relationships with each other, we have learned to keep it shallow so that when it comes to God we have a hard time with deep. Women crave intimacy and men are scrambling  to try and figure out what it is. The way we treat each other is the way it goes with God many times and vice-versa.  The understanding that we need to come to is that God already knows everything. He is all knowing. What He wants is that we express our hearts to Him and open up to Him. He's not looking for one-sided relationships.
In our going deep with the Lord and discovering the mysteries of the Kingdom, He desires for us to go Wide with that. As we take in what God has that we distribute it wide. We are to be far reaching people. He has filled us with His Spirit, not so we can just pray in tongues, but so that we can go to Corona, California, the USA, and the ends of the earth. As we go deeper we should reach further.
A missionary once said "The light that shines the farthest, shines the brightest at home."
Let your depth in the Lord push you to be wide reaching. Don't limit yourself today. Spread the Good News.