I have been at Northwest University for 4 1/2 months almost, which is crazy to think about. The entire student body has the opportunity to participate in what is called the 30-day Live Dead Challenge, using the Live Dead Journal, which has daily meditations/devotionals for the 30 days. There are two main aspects to this: 1- to spend extravagant time with the Lord daily. 2- to pray for unreached people all across the world.
A big part of the challenge is tithing 10% of your time to the Lord. In fellowship with Him, in prayer, reading of His Word, and in simply listening to Him speak. On a given day that is around 2 1/2 hours. No, its not legalistic, but as to get to know a friend, you spend lot of time with them. To get to know the Lord, giving Him a great portion of our lives, which are already His, is what will grow our knowledge and relationship with Him.
I am so ready to begin this and His timing is perfect. My heart has been slowly stripped away lately and He has revealed to me in part how utterly undeserving, selfish, and unworthy of Him I truly am. I try to create what my life serving Him will look like and make it what I want, where I want, but all this is not about me. This life I have been given, only by the grace of Jesus' sacrifice, is a small part of HIS story. His story of the redemption of His lost people back to Himself. I how amazing to think that we get to be a part of it!
40% of the world has little to NO access to the Gospel and has never heard the name of Jesus Christ. Who will reach them. We are all called and commissioned as believers in Jesus Christ to go into all the world and make His name known. Will He send me? I have no idea. Will he send you? Maybe. Will we be willing to answer yes? I would hope so. But before we could answer yes, we have to know His heart, hear His voice, and understand who we are in Him.
Our lives are not our own. I am as ready as I could be right now to begin this journey of learning what it means to live dead to myself and come fully alive fully and only in Christ.
Come on the journey with me over the next 30 days! I hope my hopefully occasional blog posts will be an encouragement to you as I ask honest questions of myself and seek Him the best I know how at this point in my life. I know there is so much to the Lord I do not understand or can even fathom. I hope to know Him, His heart, and His call to us all better at the end of these 30 days.
