Looking Back

   You know I had an original intent for this blog, but I think it is time to make it a little different. You know today I got a link for a Revival Movement taking place down in Alabama (yes i know it would be the last place I would think of two :-) ). But God is not picky, He is just looking for people to praise his name. But anyways as I was watching and seeing key leaders from the Brownsville Revival there and watching these guys that I sat under for four years I started to think back to everything I had experienced in my time in Pensacola. Then I started to think of how much I live in/ on past experiences of God and not looking for new ones. I mean how many of us think, "Wow you remember that one service or that one mission's trip, or that one camp?" and we dwell on that experience and then go on with our lives and wish we could go back into our past. But you know personally I don't think that was ever God's intent for our live to live on past experiences.
   Now let's think for a minute if Jesus did this, I can see it now: Jesus sitting with the disciples, "Hey Peter remember that one time that that blind guys saw again? Man those were good times" I mean if Jesus had this attitude how effective would His ministry had been. Instead He continued each day with the thought of how can I show god to the people around me today? How can we together have God move in our presence? I think sometime for myself I think of all the cool things God has done in my life and in the lives of those around me. I think of being in revival meetings until 1 in the morning and then going out to eat only to have another prayer service in Denny's, or of summer camps where it felt that the heavens had opened up so big and God was just pouring by the truckloads His glory, heal, and blessings. Or on mission's trips where worship gets so amazing that people are just on their faces before God in complete silence.  And the stories could go on and on, but the thing I have realized that these has all just become "great memories" where Jesus saw His Father move and then Jesus would just build upon that.
   So all in all I think the plan we should set out is when we look back to what God did it should push us to look to what God is going to do next. What is the next blessing, touch or movement He is going to do in your life. So let's not get into the habit of living in the past but instead build off the past. Like Chris Tomlin's song God of the City says, "Great things are yet to come, Greater things are still to be done in this City." So take up everything you have experiences, seen, and heard  and apply them to the dream of what God is going to do next. Because I am sure if you can dream God can do it!