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I’m going to take you back to something that became so familiar to all of us just a few short months ago and that is plexiglass! Do you remember every store, bank, restaurant, office, fast food place separating us from one another? It was everywhere!

As we look around today many of those sheets of plexiglass are gone. No more separation. We feel connected again. We can actually even see one another better!

During the four weeks of Advent we readied ourselves for the celebration of Jesus’ birth. We longed for His coming. We did not want any separation.

Advent has been described as the preparatory period of longing. On December the 25th the joyous celebration of Christmas was upon us and we were reminded that the message of Christ’s birth turned the whole world upside down. No more separation!

This is why Jesus came!! To heal! To cleanse! To bring salvation. To be truth. To meet the needs of each one who seeks Him. To bring peace. To be joy.

God with us!

During this Advent season these words “God With Us” have been resonating with me, yet as the celebration of Jesus’ birth moved closer, something didn’t feel right in my heart. I felt a block, a separation, like a sheet of plexiglass.

I could see God clearly. I could experience the words of worship and I could resonate with the words being preached but I did not sense the fire in my bones being fanned into flame.

Something was welling up in me. What was causing this sense of distance? What was the plexiglass?

As I prayed with a trusted friend the Lord showed me what that sheet of plexiglass was. I was always trying to minister to other people but I had neglected in prayer to ask Him to minister to me. As I opened my heart to allow the Lord to minister to me miraculously I could see that sheet of plexiglass dropping away right in front of me!

My desire is to fully embrace all the He has for me so that I can be free to grow and experience my life in the fullest way possible.

During these 12 days of Christmas I want to set aside time in prayer for the Lord to continue to minister to me.

I know God is with me. The plexiglass is gone.