The Currency

What is the currency of intimacy with God?

What is the currency of power from God?

What is the currency for the anointing of God?

 

Do you have to be willing to be mocked?

Do you have to be willing to be stripped of some of your wants and desires? Do you have to be weird?

 

Well lets back up…

First the currency to be used by God, to be intimate with Jesus and to be anointed greatly by the Holy Spirit is simply this… you must be willing to spend time. 

Time is a very valuable commodity - maybe the most valuable commodity… and you have to be willing to spend it. Cut out time from your calendar, your TV watching time, your friends, your hobbies, you must be willing to even isolate people because you choose time with God over time with others. You may have to say not to special projects, dinner with friends, time on hobbies or even just resting on the couch… you SPEND your time on God.

 

Now because of that you will be led in different areas, and used in uncommon ways and even minister in very odd and to some- disturbing methods.

 

Now because of that you will be mocked, you will be stripped of some desires and wants, you will be ridiculed. 

 

Some people think being weird will bring the presence of God - nope. but having the presence of God will make you stand out for odd reasons. 

 

There are times when I will be watching a movie with family and or friends and I have to leave to go pray. It might be that the movie disturbs me so much I have to leave and pray… and BTW by disturbing me I mean to most in a very mundane almost pedestrian way. like I leave because a woman is having an affair - not even sexual content, just the mention of it… to most it would seem benign - but anyway. Sometimes I just leave the movie or the room because I realize it is a waste of time and i could be praying.

Now because of those things, you will also be preparing yourself to be mocked (but you will be able to take it, because you have the intimacy to rest in) You will be ridiculed, you will be called a phony, you will be questioned on your theology, you will have family members lash out at you or even treat you with a smug and snideful attitude. 

 

But then something strange starts to happen, you will gladly offer up your life, your interests, your goals, your time, your talent, your money all that is within you- you will say Take all of me God - and you will truly mean it. And yes, he may in fact take all of you and more! 

But it is worth it! 

Push in, pray, seek him and trust the process. Be willing to pay the currency of time to know him more!