Personally, I’ve found a peace that I haven’t had for a long time. For nearly the whole summer I have been struggling through my salvation. After I began to really take the Bible seriously, I went through an intense season of examining my life to see if I was on the right path. It wasn’t necessarily a fun time but I learned a lot of valuable things such as perseverance and I grew in knowledge. During the past few weeks things became more intense, prayer became more intense, and now God has granted me peace about it. I think that most of it came from a deeper understanding of the Spirit. I wasn’t sure if I had it before, now I’m certain.
For those of you who don’t know, I live in a place called Cranbrook. Right now God is really moving here, it’s really cool to see and I’m so thankful to be a part of it! Lots of people believe that we are facing the early stages of a revival. Just in my group that I hang out with, affectionately known as YAG’s (the Young Adult Group), there are new people hanging out with us weekly and getting to know Christ.
Satan is also moving, people have been experiencing individual attacks, sleepless nights and fearful spiritual dreams are a pretty common occurrence within our group. This week things sort of expanded, confusion and disunity came about from a group gathering. Things were taken care of quite quickly but it’s by no means the end of Satan’s “surprises.” So this is a call for those of you who are prayer warriors, any time that you could take to pray for us would be greatly appreciated! Pray that God’s Kingdom would continue to advance, that we would be unified, and more focused on God than ever. Most importantly, pray for the spiritual battle going on, our fight is not against flesh and blood.
Narrow Road by Brandon Peters
That being said, I’ve never felt so hopeful. Sure, these spiritual attacks are a nuisance but Jesus has already overcome. I’m very excited for what God is going to do here and I can’t wait to see what He has in store. I’ve never felt so much peace.
“For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”2 Peter 1:5-8
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Almost a month and a half since you posted this, I finally am catching up on my reading.
I too an on this quest to grow and make certain of my faith and of Christs’ call to me.
This chapter of 2 Peter 1 is so spot on to the need for constant growth and maturity as a Christ follower so we can become useful tools in God’s toolbox.
I am most thankful that I am not alone in this. Not necessarily referring to other believers which is also very important, but to the partnership we have with God and Jesus – He promises not to leave us on this road confused, but to lead us in the way everlasting (I also love Psalm 139!).