A Stirred Up Spirit

Today I started reading the book of Ezra.  In the first chapter a phrase jumped off the page at me.

              "the LORD stirred up the spirit" (Ezra 1:1) and 

                                      "everyone whose spirit God had stirred" (Ezra 1:5)

The idea of a "stirred spirit by God" is really big.  What would happen if everyone who said they were a Christian lived with a spirit that was continually being stirred by God?  

Here in Ezra, God stirred the spirits of the people to return to Him, to rebuild the temple and to worship Him as He had said.  I feel that the "church" today needs this same stirring. We desperately need to be more concerned about Kingdom affairs than we are. Church isn't about money, numbers, making an appearance, feeling better about yourself, and certainly not about feeling comfortable.  The God we serve is BIG and He asks something of His people - to live a life by His direction now our own.   

To live this way is scary and dangerous.  It requires trust and surrender.  To live a life that God says, we must be able to honestly say that even if we don't understand His plan, it is still a better plan that the one we've been dreaming up.  You have to give up something to be a Christian - Your life with your plans and dreams for His. 

No, I'm not always good at this but I want to be.  

I want to be the kind of person 

God knows will obey 

without question when

He stirs my spirit.



My husband showed me this video today and I thought it fit really well.