A Normal Week??

This week has been a week of challenges in my personal life, and of construction in our ministry.
We spent most if this week at an old persons home painting. I felt it was a good team bonding experience and we really got a lot done, whilst in our breaks we had Narnia adventures and explored the sights of India. I was also sick for a couple of days, which wasn't good, but I really used it as an opportunity to seek God on a lot of things and read and then hear from God. I'm so happy I serve a living God who speaks and excites and dreams with me. And then he reminds me that I am a partner with Him and these big, strange, scary things hes showing me will not be done alone but he has given us His spirit to go out and do amazing things.
I've been reading the book of Acts, and got inspired by the things the early apostles did. But then I got to wondering, why don't we see that any more? And more importantly, why shouldn't we?
I believe God wants to do greater things through us than what the apostles did. We have the same Spirit, the same power in us. The only difference is that they were willing to give of their all.
I read a book this week about the Chinese church and the Back to Jerusalem movement. It got me stirred up inside. Why do we fear our message of the gospel being rejected, and our feeling ashamed, when it is nothing compared to prison, torture or death that the chinese believers, and the early apostles went through.
I am challenged to be different. To not sit back and wait for "others" to do something. God wants to partner with you. He will be with you in everything you do, if you are serving Him. And if you empty yourself, amazing things will happen when God is able to fill you..
I'm going to make this a public declaration that I don't want to live a comfortable life. I don't want to be complacent. I want to grasp the fact that people are lost, dying and hurt and WE have been charged with saving them, and that persecution only means the enemy is upset with us because we're building the Kingdom of God. I want to see God work miracles of salvation in people the world would see as hopeless. I want to have God work powerfully in this world, and if thats through me, then good, and if not I'm fine with that too.
Our God is with us always, and all we need to do is let Him work. But He can't do that if we have our own agendas. Plus, I can guarantee, Gods agenda for you is infinitely more exciting than what you can dream of, after all, He is the one who invented imagination, and ours is only a shadow of what he can dream.
I love you all, and look forward to seeing you soon!!