Thursday, August 23, 2012
Sunday, August 19, 2012
The View from outside my Tent
There’s nothing more
blinding than the experience of claustrophobia. It affects you on every level of your being—mentally, physically
and spiritually. The
confinement envelops you and the uneasiness mounts.
There once was a girl who
developed claustrophobia. It came
on gradually…. slowly…creeping into her like a lava flow, burning up everything
in sight to the point where all she could see was the confined space of her
situation. After a
while she got used to the view, there was a weird kind of comfort in it…but
then again not really. Yet it was all she knew at that point in her life.
It reminded her of Abram in
Genesis 15. It had been 10 years since Abram first received God’s promise that
He would make of him a great nation. Abram
still had no son and really couldn’t see how this “great” nation was going to
come about. He was
confined within the tent of his environment and circumstances and couldn’t see
beyond the canvas surrounding him.
The girl realized then that
when she looked up, like Abram, all she could see was the inside of her
tent. Her
situation, her circumstances, her life was giving her a narrow vision of her
true destiny.
Maybe she is on a career
path where it appears her path was all laid out for her. She goes to college, she gets a job, she goes here, she goes
there, she gets promoted…she knows exactly how it’s going to go. Perhaps the doctor has told her this happened, next comes this,
and after that comes this other thing and then this is how it ends. You know what she’s just done? She’s
described the inside of her tent. She’s
described human limitation.
She’s described the folds
of the tent, she’s told us what it looks like, where the stitching sews the
canvas together. I’m sure
what she sees is true…she’s telling us what the tent looks like.
But God says, “You’re
looking at what man can do. I want to
show you what I can do.”
Sometimes God needs to take
us outside our tent. Because
inside our tent we look up and all we see is tent. The tent is man-made. The tent
symbolizes vision. Inside
your tent you can have a vision, you can see, but you can only see as far as
“man.”
God wants to take us
outside our tents so that when we look up we don’t see limitation. God wants to show us the stars and say to us as He did to Abram,
“I want to bring you to a place where you understand I AM God and with Me there
are no limits…nothing is impossible to Me.”
He says to you and me, “See
those stars? I
Almighty God spoke a single Word and flung them out into the universe. With Me there are no limitations.”
God wants to do far more
for you than you can ever imagine. He wants
to take you outside your tent and expand your vision.
A final thought: though Abram could only see the inside of his “tent,” he didn’t
panic as claustrophobics sometimes do…his faith in God’s promise is evident.
Father, open my eyes, so I
can see beyond human limitations and experience.
Take me outside my tent so
I can see Your Power and receive Your vision for my life.
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
ANNOUNCING OUR FIRST MINI-G3 SUMMIT IN DURANT, OKLAHOMA
We can't believe it is our 7th year of Summits!
And, this year we're having TWO Summits...
a Mini-Summit (one day) in Durant, Oklahoma
August 25, 2012
and our regular 4-day Summit in Midlothian, Texas
October 25-28, 2012
For more information regarding either of these Summits email:
cindy@cqgcreative.com or jamee@thejsagroup.com
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