Over the last two weeks it has become abundantly clear we are headed in the right direction.  How do I know?  Because when you’re heading in the right direction, you often encounter the following types of confirmation:

1.  Affirmation.  I have been blown away by the number of like-minded people who have responded to this message.  Here is but a sample of their you’re-on-the-right-track comments:

• Your words spoke to me. This is exactly what God is speaking to me.

• OMG…I really needed these words today…  He REALLY knew I need affirmation. THANK YOU for listening!!!

• I WANT TO BE ONE OF THOSE WOMEN!!!! Who “lives like I’m loved”, who REALLY EXPERIENCES the LIFE-CHANGING LOVE OF GOD!!!!!!!!!!

• It’s fun to see what He is saying to you is what He has been saying to me as well. Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could really live out of the place of knowing, really knowing and experiencing His profound and life changing love at the core of our being?  To take hold and not let go. Oh, the rest, the peace, the joy, the powerful and effective lives we could be living. 

• I’m joining you—I’m all in!!! Yes, Lord!  Show us experientially what it means to be loved. Show us how it feels and what it looks like and then how to love others the way that You have loved us. O! Yea!  I’m totally in. 

2. Inspiration.  Call it synergy. Â Call it hitting your stride. Â Call it the sweet spot. Call it whatever you want to. When you’re in sync with the Creator, creativity abounds.

When the Holy Spirit becomes a part of the mix, everywhere you look you see ideas.  Everything you experience becomes a lesson.  Everyone you meet is a glimpse of Jesus.  Every bit of every day becomes laced with the Divine, as if suddenly illuminated with a sliver of sunlight through a high, corner window.

Sometimes, it’s all you can do to keep up with your mind.

I’ve had a few weeks like that.  How about you?

3.  Acceleration.  Ideas flow more rapidly when you’re right where you’re supposed to be. Random pieces begin to click into place. Wheels start turning. Events begin to be set into motion. The process is accelerated. Sometimes you’re ready. Sometimes, you’re not.

When you step out into the flow, sometimes the flow carries you to places you’d not imagined, in timeframes you could never have conceived.  You have no other choice but to be swept away by the current, forced to trust in the magnificent and terrifying power of God.

When you step out into the flow, you can’t be surprised there’s a current flowing.

When you step out into the flow, you’d better be ready to hang on and enjoy the ride.

4. Opposition. Finally, you know your tentative steps into a new dimension of faith and obedience are on track when you immediately find yourself wondering what the heck just hit you.

Within a week of stepping out onto the field of play, Satan slammed me into the next zip code with a full-scale attack pointedly directed at the very heart of this message. You want to talk about experiencing the love of God? Let’s see how committed you are to this notion once I’ve triggered every possible doubt you’ve ever had about his love for YOU, shall we?

Indeed, we shall.

We are on the right track, friends.  The confirmation is clear. So we will press on, trusting something amazing awaits us out within the rush of the rapids, where the Holy Spirit flows.

Still up for a little adventure?

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