Stir It Up and Lay It Down!!

Have you ever heard this older worship song?

 

Rise Up

"There's a stirring deep within me.  Could it be my time has come?  When I'll see my gracious Savior.  Face to face when all is done.  Is that His voice I am hearing?  

'Come away, my precious one.'  Is He calling me? Is He calling me?  

I will rise up!  Rise up!  And bow down, and lay my crowns, at His wounded feet."

Ok, so you might not have ever heard it, but have you ever felt it?  Do you ever wake up and feel that stirring in your gut, and you're not sure why?  All you know is that your heart wants to burst inside of you, and if you just open your mouth and speak His Name, He might very well overwhelm you!  All you know is that if you bow down and lay YOUR crowns at His feet, He is going to download some seriously incredible agenda right into you!  

Do you realize the role that is at your fingertips to play in His plan?  Do you know that the aspects of your personality, the ones that touch the heart of others, were put there by your Maker for a purpose?

If there is one thing that really "stirs" my heart, it is that "one"....the individual....the lady who is sadly walking through the store with loneliness and insecurity written all over her.  See, it's not always about the 300 that could be spoken to at once, at least it's not for me.  It's about the hurting heart that He can restore one conversation at a time. 

The stirring in my heart today is to encourage you to focus on the ministry right smack-dab in front of your face.  The one that probably no one, besides your King, will ever know you did,  but it's the one that stirs your heart to bursting....the one you KNOW you are called to for such a time as this. 

Lay your crown down, sister, and take HIS!

"You will be a crown of splendor in the Lord's hand, a royal diadem in the hand of your God." (Isaiah 62:3)