Well, I don't know if anyone has looked at this page in ages, it's my page and I know I haven't, but I have decided to continue blogging even though my adventures have slowed down for a time. I know that I have felt "dizzy", trying to process why God has me here. Here in Canada, here in spiritual limbo, here at school, feeling restricted in who I am to the conformities of the education system. In fact I'm not sure that God does have me here. I've been wondering lately if I have me here. I'm going to assess what I know, and what I don't:
1) God showed me in my last year in Australia that I was very interested in anthropology, a field I would have barely known existed prior to reading a book He put in my hands.
2) I felt He was saying that anthropology was important for introducing people to truth and to THEIR Father, rather than a foreign God.
3) I therefore thought that these two prior truths meant I must go to school and get a degree in anthropology; I deduced this by assuming that God was using people at home to tell me that school is important and I need security because that was a message He had for me. My conclusion was if I feel like studying anthro, people are telling me to get a life (as though the one I had wasn't valid) and getting a degree would apease them and myself in some degree, and possibly God...if it WAS Him speaking.
Now, the only part I didn't feel confirmation about in the Lord was school. But I felt that it all fit together. There are two possibilities for where I am now, God spoke, or He didn't.
If God spoke, then He's is helping me accomplish the practical side of my future in missions. However, the most important, in fact, ONLY important thing for ministry, or even an individual walk with God is relationship with Him and growth in your heart and mind towards Him. Now If God wanted to bring me to school, I would be provided for in this area. Growing in my heart and mind, being more and more prepared for heavenly purposes. He would provide things that I see as biblically important: community, mentorship, His spirit and growth, relationships, finances, etc.. Now I don't see provision in these areas since being home. I DO see success in school, I DO see interesting knowledge, I see a degree in the future, all of this however is extremely useful for a life here at home, making money, teaching, working in this city to further myself in this life. I believe judgement will come to us, and we will be judged on several things, actions, motives, stewardship, etc. But the stewardship of our gifts is an important one, I've been given the gifts to communicate in ministry and the passions and endurance to do it in places others may not want to.
At this point, I feel that on judgement day God will say to me.. "My son, I was with you wherever you went, I was by your side and my favour and blessing was upon you, you walked with me and are here with me now, in heaven. You did not, however, use what I gave you to make a dent on the darkness in this world, I gifted you to bring the truth in love to the world. You went to school to study something that I was giving you right where you were, an understanding of people from MY eyes, I put resources in your hands monthly to read and study and grow in my understanding of missions. You used a confirmation of who you are to run in fear from an insecure future. Seeds of doubt were planted by those around you, doubt in My ability to provide, and even further, your creative ability to succeed outside of the worlds mould."
When Jesus was asked...and He was asked... "by what authority do you come", "by what authority do you do these things" He knew He came in the Fathers name. I don't want to come endorsed by the world, proven by the University of Toronto. How proud will I be if I AM endorsed and made "great" (rolling my eyes) by an institution of this world. God CAN work through it, but how much more glory goes to him when a nobody from nowhere shows unconditional love, or moves the heart of man, or introduces the lost to the Father and His spirit. Then man can be sure that its the work of God at play in their lives and not a trained and skilled manipulator of this world, created by this world, for this world. I am made in heaven, for heavens purposes, I have faith in my God, and in myself, as a creation of the infinite and perfect one.
Now, briefly, the other option is that I am more scared now than I was before coming home. That fear is keeping me from encountering God at home. I feel alone, unable, isolated. I don't want to commit to a church in case I can't meet their demands, I hate school because I'm not naturally good at essay writing, I don't want to commit to people as a mentor or accountability in case I can't meet their expectations or needs. School, for me, takes a lot of energy and time, so things I actually care about can't be the center of my life. Giving to a church, tending to my walk with God, mentoring friends and family. I feel like if I start to give to them, I have to see it through, I'm someone who needs to know I can give my all before I commit to something, I hate failing, or falling short. And there are far greater stresses in my life. I feel inadequate.
Now these are lies, of course... God can use anyone, anywhere. But if I really am supposed to be here, I need to find a way around these things. I way to not spiritually suffocate here at home, because I don't care if I live my life poor and in the gutters of Mumbai, if my spirit is in tact, I'm in the right place. I need guidance from God not man, and I need to focus on being near Him amidst all the distractions that seem so important in this new season. This is long, and just the beginning of a New Year, and an active attempt to succeed at home.
Now, I don't want to type to much, because there are many days ahead to fill many pages. Essentially, what I write today is my opinion on MY life, MY situation, MY relationship with God, its a journal entry and is tailored to MY situation. If someone DOES end up reading this. God may have you at school, have specific purposes for your life that do require you to do some of the things that I seem to be so against. But I'm not against them entirely, I'm against what isn't God's plan for MY life and my design, I'm against fear, and running for cover under the shade of a tree. Once you sit under that tree and find that shade, going back out into the heat of the firey sun is very difficult. I am secure now, and ironically, its making me very insecure. I hate it. I am simply speaking for me. I am trying to untie if I, personally, am where God wants me.
Papa God, be with me, you are why I live and breathe and have my being in. Help me to succeed in my hearts deepest desire, while I fulfill other peripheral desires, and give me guidance along this path. I love you Jesus, and you need to be my center. I'm sorry.
Peace, Love and Prayers!
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Thursday, January 08, 2009
January 18th Deadline
Hello my friends. I am just writing to let you all know that I have found a fantastic flight home that is amazingly cheap. It will only cost me about $1190, it does mean I have to go backwards around the world, but I'm saving about $500. Unfortunately I'm spending about another 10 hours sitting on a plane, haha. But I do have a deadline to pay by January 18th, so please join with me in this challenge and pray in my plane ticket so I can see you all again in early February!
Love you all, thank you so much for your interest in my life and missions over the years, one more mission to tackle, then many more new ones back at home! Bless ya's!
Adam
Love you all, thank you so much for your interest in my life and missions over the years, one more mission to tackle, then many more new ones back at home! Bless ya's!
Adam
Friday, January 02, 2009
The Final Leg
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you! I pray that God will seriously bless your lives and increase them in this New Year, but I also pray that we would all learn new depths of blessing others and blessing God in exciting ways as well. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Christ, the church, you, me we are all blessed to be a blessing, whether serving someone, selflessly loving someone, encouraging someone, being generous with our lives and overflowing. I hope your Christmas season you were blessed as we enter another season of overflow into those around us.
Some amazing things have happened over the holidays! God has really been showing me that He is with me and will be no matter where I am. I have been on Holidays and not on our centre or "working" for almost a full two weeks now. I have travelled to Toowoomba, Mt. Tambourine and gone into the city to see some beautiful fireworks. And in this time God has put people around me who have either been inspired by my life or just felt like they should talk to me, two of these people came to know Jesus during this time.
This is really important for me knowing that I am coming home in a month, working and going to University. I am leaving, though only for a season, the mission field. BUT God has shown me while on a two week holiday that the love of God overflowing from my life is not going to stop producing fruit just because I come home, it is changing multiple lives even over these two short weeks. God has given me a vision to be in school, but to also be networking with Christians, meeting as "home churches" and heavily influencing people around me through God's heart.
One of these guys who got saved went to church the next day. He texted us and asked us to visit in Mount Tamborine this coming Sunday to visit and talk to him about God. We met at Mt Tamborine, he came over and talked to us and said that he just new he had to talk to us. He poured out his life and as we were leaving and had to go, he stopped us and said that he was sorry for talking so much, he wanted to hear who we were and what we did, because he felt drawn to us and wanted to know "what we were about".
We shared with Him for about 3 hours about God, about relationships, sex and how God sees them. About God's law and why God has boundaries, not for the sake of rules but for our own well being. We gave him counsel on relationship issues, told him how to stand strong in the Army (which is what he does) and influence rather than be influenced. But most of all, we encouraged him and he couldn't stop saying that he had the most fun he had had all year with us and was inspired by how we live. He and his girlfriend are finding a home church, we prayed with him and he is truly pursuing God. He will have many struggles but is headed into the arms of God.
Again, all of your support and people who are actively praying and creating a financial support network that allows me to do what I do...you have enabled me to be where God wants me in this time. You have allowed me to be in God's will, and therefore producing fruit like this consistently over almost four years. Thank you so much.
I just want to update you on my needs, seeing as I am coming home and have many at the moment. I am needing to find the finances for a plane ticket home, for my last couple months rent, food, and just before I leave I get my electricity bill (unfortunately), all up this is going to cost me about $2500 Canadian. This is a mountain for me as I have been struggling financially for that last while, I have great friends here and many of them have paid for me to enjoy a vacation at Mt. Tambourine and Toowoomba this holiday, but many of them are in situations similar to mine. If you are interested in helping me in these final months of my time in YWAM Brisbane please let my mother or I know. It would truly be a blessing and would enable me for two more months. I do need to start hunting for a plane ticket in the next week to make sure that prices to go up to much. Thank you all again, I really do love you all and am looking SO much forward to getting home to visit!
Your friend, son, brother, sister (wait no...) in Christ
Peace, Love and Prayers!
Adam
Some amazing things have happened over the holidays! God has really been showing me that He is with me and will be no matter where I am. I have been on Holidays and not on our centre or "working" for almost a full two weeks now. I have travelled to Toowoomba, Mt. Tambourine and gone into the city to see some beautiful fireworks. And in this time God has put people around me who have either been inspired by my life or just felt like they should talk to me, two of these people came to know Jesus during this time.
This is really important for me knowing that I am coming home in a month, working and going to University. I am leaving, though only for a season, the mission field. BUT God has shown me while on a two week holiday that the love of God overflowing from my life is not going to stop producing fruit just because I come home, it is changing multiple lives even over these two short weeks. God has given me a vision to be in school, but to also be networking with Christians, meeting as "home churches" and heavily influencing people around me through God's heart.
One of these guys who got saved went to church the next day. He texted us and asked us to visit in Mount Tamborine this coming Sunday to visit and talk to him about God. We met at Mt Tamborine, he came over and talked to us and said that he just new he had to talk to us. He poured out his life and as we were leaving and had to go, he stopped us and said that he was sorry for talking so much, he wanted to hear who we were and what we did, because he felt drawn to us and wanted to know "what we were about".
We shared with Him for about 3 hours about God, about relationships, sex and how God sees them. About God's law and why God has boundaries, not for the sake of rules but for our own well being. We gave him counsel on relationship issues, told him how to stand strong in the Army (which is what he does) and influence rather than be influenced. But most of all, we encouraged him and he couldn't stop saying that he had the most fun he had had all year with us and was inspired by how we live. He and his girlfriend are finding a home church, we prayed with him and he is truly pursuing God. He will have many struggles but is headed into the arms of God.
Again, all of your support and people who are actively praying and creating a financial support network that allows me to do what I do...you have enabled me to be where God wants me in this time. You have allowed me to be in God's will, and therefore producing fruit like this consistently over almost four years. Thank you so much.
I just want to update you on my needs, seeing as I am coming home and have many at the moment. I am needing to find the finances for a plane ticket home, for my last couple months rent, food, and just before I leave I get my electricity bill (unfortunately), all up this is going to cost me about $2500 Canadian. This is a mountain for me as I have been struggling financially for that last while, I have great friends here and many of them have paid for me to enjoy a vacation at Mt. Tambourine and Toowoomba this holiday, but many of them are in situations similar to mine. If you are interested in helping me in these final months of my time in YWAM Brisbane please let my mother or I know. It would truly be a blessing and would enable me for two more months. I do need to start hunting for a plane ticket in the next week to make sure that prices to go up to much. Thank you all again, I really do love you all and am looking SO much forward to getting home to visit!
Your friend, son, brother, sister (wait no...) in Christ
Peace, Love and Prayers!
Adam
Monday, December 15, 2008
Melchizedek is an interesting fellow
Melchizedek in the Old Testament is God's way of letting us know He is the Father of all peoples. He created everyone and has interaction with every people in every culture. The depth of revelation or understanding that other culture have about their Father in heaven obviously varies and they still need a revelation of Jesus to be saved. However, Abraham, who was God's chosen, who was going to bear us the Levitical priesthood through Isaac and then Jacob, actually tithed to Melchizedek. In the Jewish culture the Priests were tithed to, but Abraham recognized that Melchizedek actually knew God as well, and considered him a high priest. This is very significant, its not just us as Christians who have a connection with God. If God is really the Father of all nations then the story of the flood and of Babel should be evidenced in other cultures as well as ours.
Furthermore the word El...as in Elohim (God) or Bethel (house of God), El Shaddai (God Almighty) was a Canaanite word before it was a Hebrew word. This means that Abraham actually called inherited and willing used the word that Melchizedek use for God in the future Hebrew generations. He acknowledged that Melchizedek knew the same God he did. This would be comparable to Paul going to Greece and using the Greek word Theos which already meant "God" in their culture and Logos (or word) for Christ. Not comparable to using Zues, who is created, and not in the likeness of the God we know. Even the word G-O-D that we use is believed to have a Germanic origin "gudo".
Anyway, all of this to say, God has called me to study other cultures and find out where God is already there, a pure understanding of a transient creator being, with no barnacles of error. Then use God in that culture and their history to connect in Christ and the rest of the story. As an example of what I want to do, I'm going to tell you a couple of stories.
Firstly a YWAM outreach team was in the Amazon rain forest with a tribe that had never heard of Christ at all and many of the villagers had never seen white people in their generation. The team, wisely, starting ministering to the people by relating and asking a little about their tribal history. The asked where this tribe comes from. The chief replied with an answer that didn't really tell them much, so they asked over and over...the chief continuing to not communicate an appropriate answer. Later on that week they came back to the question. Again the team asked "How did your tribe get here? What is your story?" The chief responded with this story.
"Many years ago, the people of the world were building a large temple that was to reach to the heavens and show the power of men. Then a powerful Spirit struck the temple, confused the people and scattered them around the world. And that is how we got to this place in which we live."
The team, obviously overwhelmed with this amazing opportunity, pulled out a bible and showed the chief (through a translator) how the story of their ancestors was recorded in this book. The chief, overjoyed and teary eyed, cried out "Where...did you get the book that tells the story of MY people." The tribe listened over the days that followed and was taught the message of Christ and came into relationship with THEIR Father...not the YWAM teams Father, but that tribes Father. They knew a God that was theirs, that had already created and had a history with their people.
Their are stories of floods, creator beings who are supposed to come to earth one day, books that tell civilizations how to live and the story of their history that were "lost long ago" and the people are waiting for someone to bring it. God has created open doors all throughout cultures, if we only had the training or discipline to study and find out where God is already at work in peoples hearts, cultures and histories.
The Inca's worshipped the sun god Inti, until one day a bold leader named Pachacuti questioned this reality. Pachacuti asked some questions:
1. If the sun is god, then why can a cloud overshadow it and take its glory away.
2. Why is it predestined to rise and fall? Having no control over itself never mind the lives of those on earth?
3. Inti can't be universal if, while giving light to some he with-holds it from others
Now, Pachacuti's father, Hatun Tupac had a dream where a Spirit from the Inca peoples history named Viracocha, visited him. Viracocha reminded Hutan Tupac that He is the only creator of all things, and is to be worshipped. Pachacuti remember this story and new the history of this God, the Inca upper class, royalty and priesthood were told that this was to be the God that they worshipped from this point on.
Pachacuti's description of this God as summarized by Dr. B.C. Brunage of the University of Oaklahoma is as follows:
"He is ancient, remote, supreme, and uncreated. Nor does he need the gross satisfaction of a consort. He manifests himself as a trinity when he wishes,... otherwise only heavenly warriors and archangels surround his lonliness. He created all peoples by his "word" [shades of Heraclitus, Plato, Philo and the apostle John!], as well as all huacas (spirits). He is man's Fortunas, ordaining his years and nourishing him. He is indeed the very principle of life, for he warms the folk through his created son, Punchao [the sun disk, that was somehow distinct from Inti]. He is a bringer of peace and an orderer. He is in his own being blessed and has pity on men's wretchedness. He alone judges and absolves them and enables them to combat their evil tendencies."
The Spanish conquistadors came across and slaughtered the upperclass and royalty to get the wealth of this nation. This left the Inti-worshipping lower class as the sole inheriters of leadership in the country, thus Inca's returned to their belief in Inti and this one generation legacy of being so close to God is silenced. However, some of the spanish priests translated the songs written to Viracocha in the Inca language and they sound remarkably similar to Christian hymns still sung today. In reading the book "Eternity in Their Hearts" by Don Richardson, I had a revelation that with hundreds of stories like this from all around the world, sharing Jesus with people is so easy, while serving them, teaching english, practically helping or living amongst people, I am going to dig in and get to know their culture, finding out what revelation of God they already have, whether as small as having a value of saying thankyou or having a village elder who had a vision of Christ. This is my vision, it means a season of schooling, studying Anthropology and History. But its a clear vision that God has birthed in my heart and He is going to help me fulfill!
Bless you, hope you enjoyed reading...please contact me with comments or questions. I have so much more I could say about this topic and share with you! Merry Christmas!
Furthermore the word El...as in Elohim (God) or Bethel (house of God), El Shaddai (God Almighty) was a Canaanite word before it was a Hebrew word. This means that Abraham actually called inherited and willing used the word that Melchizedek use for God in the future Hebrew generations. He acknowledged that Melchizedek knew the same God he did. This would be comparable to Paul going to Greece and using the Greek word Theos which already meant "God" in their culture and Logos (or word) for Christ. Not comparable to using Zues, who is created, and not in the likeness of the God we know. Even the word G-O-D that we use is believed to have a Germanic origin "gudo".
Anyway, all of this to say, God has called me to study other cultures and find out where God is already there, a pure understanding of a transient creator being, with no barnacles of error. Then use God in that culture and their history to connect in Christ and the rest of the story. As an example of what I want to do, I'm going to tell you a couple of stories.
Firstly a YWAM outreach team was in the Amazon rain forest with a tribe that had never heard of Christ at all and many of the villagers had never seen white people in their generation. The team, wisely, starting ministering to the people by relating and asking a little about their tribal history. The asked where this tribe comes from. The chief replied with an answer that didn't really tell them much, so they asked over and over...the chief continuing to not communicate an appropriate answer. Later on that week they came back to the question. Again the team asked "How did your tribe get here? What is your story?" The chief responded with this story.
"Many years ago, the people of the world were building a large temple that was to reach to the heavens and show the power of men. Then a powerful Spirit struck the temple, confused the people and scattered them around the world. And that is how we got to this place in which we live."
The team, obviously overwhelmed with this amazing opportunity, pulled out a bible and showed the chief (through a translator) how the story of their ancestors was recorded in this book. The chief, overjoyed and teary eyed, cried out "Where...did you get the book that tells the story of MY people." The tribe listened over the days that followed and was taught the message of Christ and came into relationship with THEIR Father...not the YWAM teams Father, but that tribes Father. They knew a God that was theirs, that had already created and had a history with their people.
Their are stories of floods, creator beings who are supposed to come to earth one day, books that tell civilizations how to live and the story of their history that were "lost long ago" and the people are waiting for someone to bring it. God has created open doors all throughout cultures, if we only had the training or discipline to study and find out where God is already at work in peoples hearts, cultures and histories.
The Inca's worshipped the sun god Inti, until one day a bold leader named Pachacuti questioned this reality. Pachacuti asked some questions:
1. If the sun is god, then why can a cloud overshadow it and take its glory away.
2. Why is it predestined to rise and fall? Having no control over itself never mind the lives of those on earth?
3. Inti can't be universal if, while giving light to some he with-holds it from others
Now, Pachacuti's father, Hatun Tupac had a dream where a Spirit from the Inca peoples history named Viracocha, visited him. Viracocha reminded Hutan Tupac that He is the only creator of all things, and is to be worshipped. Pachacuti remember this story and new the history of this God, the Inca upper class, royalty and priesthood were told that this was to be the God that they worshipped from this point on.
Pachacuti's description of this God as summarized by Dr. B.C. Brunage of the University of Oaklahoma is as follows:
"He is ancient, remote, supreme, and uncreated. Nor does he need the gross satisfaction of a consort. He manifests himself as a trinity when he wishes,... otherwise only heavenly warriors and archangels surround his lonliness. He created all peoples by his "word" [shades of Heraclitus, Plato, Philo and the apostle John!], as well as all huacas (spirits). He is man's Fortunas, ordaining his years and nourishing him. He is indeed the very principle of life, for he warms the folk through his created son, Punchao [the sun disk, that was somehow distinct from Inti]. He is a bringer of peace and an orderer. He is in his own being blessed and has pity on men's wretchedness. He alone judges and absolves them and enables them to combat their evil tendencies."
The Spanish conquistadors came across and slaughtered the upperclass and royalty to get the wealth of this nation. This left the Inti-worshipping lower class as the sole inheriters of leadership in the country, thus Inca's returned to their belief in Inti and this one generation legacy of being so close to God is silenced. However, some of the spanish priests translated the songs written to Viracocha in the Inca language and they sound remarkably similar to Christian hymns still sung today. In reading the book "Eternity in Their Hearts" by Don Richardson, I had a revelation that with hundreds of stories like this from all around the world, sharing Jesus with people is so easy, while serving them, teaching english, practically helping or living amongst people, I am going to dig in and get to know their culture, finding out what revelation of God they already have, whether as small as having a value of saying thankyou or having a village elder who had a vision of Christ. This is my vision, it means a season of schooling, studying Anthropology and History. But its a clear vision that God has birthed in my heart and He is going to help me fulfill!
Bless you, hope you enjoyed reading...please contact me with comments or questions. I have so much more I could say about this topic and share with you! Merry Christmas!
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
I am Adam
God is absolutely brilliant...go figure. And He has done so much that I am thankful for in the past years and especially months. God has given me some amazing vision for my future over my time working in Australia and Asia! It comes in two parts, He has revealed to me who I am and what He designed me for. I'm so thankful for His amazing faithfulness to speak. How often do we get stuck thinking we are praying to a God that is billions of miles away who is hard to connect with. But in actual fact faith is just acknowledging and realizing He is sitting across the table from us, living in us, we open our mouths and He immediately hears and touches us. We can speak to Him and He speaks back, because He loves and wants relationship with us.
Anyway, I want to update everyone on what God is doing in me, and what He has prepared me for over the past few years. First I'm going to update you on a very significant word God spoke to me about who I am. Then share with you next week about what God has spoken about my future!
I AM ADAM
And Adam in the bible was not created for what He could do, for worship leading or doing missions or evangelising. Adam was created for intimacy, made with God's own hands, breathed into by the mouth of God. Adam was designed to walk with God, to know Him, holding hands and walking through the garden together. While others would hide, Adam was created not to, but to rejoice in the Glory of God, shameless and free.
Adam was created for leadership, he was the first of his kind, and the first and only one who walked with his Creator. Therefore, he was the only one who could introduce every other being to that Creator. He was meant to lead civilization and was given authority.
Adam was created to take dominion, he was designed with authority over land, over his destiny, the choices he made. That is, whether he partners with God or with the works of evil. He was told to name the animals and be a steward of the environment. He was God's manager on earth and was given God's authority, as an ambassador, or representative of God on earth. When the animals saw Adam walking in the garden, and Adam is created in the image of God, or in the "illusion of God" the animals should have been confused and wondered whether it was God or Adam they were seeing. This is obviously pre-fall. The glory of God was with Adam.
Now I am far from being this, but this is my identity, its what was intended for me. And for us. God has been speaking to me about how He created me to lead others into intimacy with Him by authority and strength. Integrity and a thirst for justice for the nations. God has given me an identity to aim for a journey to be a part of, He has shown me what He intended for me and its exciting.
I always had struggles with identity. I'm quite good at many things, but not especially good at any one thing. So while other people are "worship leaders" or "trade workers" or "writers" I always felt left out, like God didn't give me an identity. But over the last years and specifically last three months, God has told me I have an identity and if being His son, the one to inherit His kingdom isn't enough, then nothing will be. I'm a son of God, designed to know my Father intimately, and thats enough for me, thats who I am. Maybe this message resounds with where you are at. Maybe you are a "jack of all trades master of none", well, be a son, there is nothing more powerful than knowing your Father and receiving the spirit of sonship.
I am Adam, son of God, my Father. I am designed for intimacy with the Lord and to lead others there. Are you an Adam as well?
Be Blessed this Christmas, I will be in touch next week to share why I am coming home in February!
Anyway, I want to update everyone on what God is doing in me, and what He has prepared me for over the past few years. First I'm going to update you on a very significant word God spoke to me about who I am. Then share with you next week about what God has spoken about my future!
I AM ADAM
And Adam in the bible was not created for what He could do, for worship leading or doing missions or evangelising. Adam was created for intimacy, made with God's own hands, breathed into by the mouth of God. Adam was designed to walk with God, to know Him, holding hands and walking through the garden together. While others would hide, Adam was created not to, but to rejoice in the Glory of God, shameless and free.
Adam was created for leadership, he was the first of his kind, and the first and only one who walked with his Creator. Therefore, he was the only one who could introduce every other being to that Creator. He was meant to lead civilization and was given authority.
Adam was created to take dominion, he was designed with authority over land, over his destiny, the choices he made. That is, whether he partners with God or with the works of evil. He was told to name the animals and be a steward of the environment. He was God's manager on earth and was given God's authority, as an ambassador, or representative of God on earth. When the animals saw Adam walking in the garden, and Adam is created in the image of God, or in the "illusion of God" the animals should have been confused and wondered whether it was God or Adam they were seeing. This is obviously pre-fall. The glory of God was with Adam.
Now I am far from being this, but this is my identity, its what was intended for me. And for us. God has been speaking to me about how He created me to lead others into intimacy with Him by authority and strength. Integrity and a thirst for justice for the nations. God has given me an identity to aim for a journey to be a part of, He has shown me what He intended for me and its exciting.
I always had struggles with identity. I'm quite good at many things, but not especially good at any one thing. So while other people are "worship leaders" or "trade workers" or "writers" I always felt left out, like God didn't give me an identity. But over the last years and specifically last three months, God has told me I have an identity and if being His son, the one to inherit His kingdom isn't enough, then nothing will be. I'm a son of God, designed to know my Father intimately, and thats enough for me, thats who I am. Maybe this message resounds with where you are at. Maybe you are a "jack of all trades master of none", well, be a son, there is nothing more powerful than knowing your Father and receiving the spirit of sonship.
I am Adam, son of God, my Father. I am designed for intimacy with the Lord and to lead others there. Are you an Adam as well?
Be Blessed this Christmas, I will be in touch next week to share why I am coming home in February!
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