Meeting With God
Dear Champions,
The short excerpt is from David Thomas in his book Remember Why You Play. The author follows the Faith Christian Lions football team during the 2008 football season. Head coach Kris Hogan is the Christian head football coach. The Scripture is Mark 1:35 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Coach Hogan opened Open Floor Thursday by saying it would be an extremely short session. If you are going to be what God intended you to be, if you are going to have any impact at all spiritually speaking, you must meet with God as a lifestyle. You must take the time to put that on your calendar and schedule everything else around it. If you do not, you will not have spiritual impact on this planet. It is like taking a car and not putting gas in it. It does not matter how many horses the engine has, it is not going to go without fuel.
Meeting with God is to your spiritual life what food is to your mortal body. It will shut down and cease to function. It is not that you will lose your sonship or relationship, but you will lose your fellowship with God, and you will be spiritual midgets. You will not impact your kids. You may think you will, but you will not. The reason why is because the words you spoke did not have the anointing of God, so they are going to fall on deaf ears. An uneducated person, such as Peter the fisherman, can get up and speak with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and 3000 can run to join the church. But an educated man like Nicodemus, without the anointing, can speak and everyone will say, That is nice and go on about their business.
Your resources and mine are not enough to function in the Spirit and make an impact. Oh, they might be enough to do some certain job, if that is what you want your life to be. But you will have no impact spiritually if you do not make it a priority to meet with God over and over as a lifestyle.
Champions, have a great week!-David Vining
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