We had our first team covenant meeting this morning.  It's hard to believe it, but it's only been 3 days and we're already experiencing conflict!  Ha!  But I LOVE IT!!!

After our services at Ardmore, I felt extremely out of place.  Any time anyone asked us how the services at Ardmore went, everyone on our team would say, "Eh...it was good...I guess."  Then, I would be in the back going, "WHAT?!  It was AWESOME!"  It's not that my opinion was different than everyone else's, just that I seemed to be more excited for some reason.  So, I addressed it in a team meeting this morning.  As it turns out, everyone was struggling with similar issues.  They felt weighed down, weary, and just to put it simply...blah.  Several of them were saying things like, "I thought the services went well, I just didn't feel much."  I knew we had to figure out why, so I dug a little bit.

After a lot of digging, we realized what was going on.  We were putting too much of our expectation on the way God moved in the natural.  We expected to "see" things happen.  And, to be honest, they weren't!  NOTHING happened in the natural except for just the normal stuff that usually happens in a church worship service.  Every time I heard one of the team members saying, "Eh...it was good" I was so confused because the entire time we were at Ardmore I was thinking, "YES!  God is moving!  He's here!  He's reigning over this city!  It's so EXCITING!"  Yeah...nothing happened in the natural.  But in the supernatural, God did some major junk!  He got some stuff checked off on His to-do list!

When we worship Him, when we praise Him, when we exalt Him and lift Him high over a nation, HE GETS STUFF DONE!  We can't base everything that we feel off of what we see in the natural.  We have to believe and know that God is moving whether we see it or not!  We are to set our eyes on the realities of heaven!  We are to have a heavenly mindset!

God keeps saying, "High spirits!  High spirits!  High spirits!  Be joyful and know that I am God, I am King, and I WILL DO WHAT I WANT WHEN I COME!"  God is not enthroned on our praises to just sit there and look around.  We invite Him in to take care of business!  Believe it!  Be joyful!  Be excited!  He is moving!!!

He is pushing us to march into the battle believing that He has already conquered the battlefield and not to walk in there feeling "blah" and wondering if we might win this time.  Celebrate!  Rejoice!  Focus on what He is doing now!  He is a today God!  And when His children gather with faith that He is going to show Himself, He will get stuff done!!!

We should be able to find excitement even at the most unnecessary times because He is King and He always will be!

Josh Cotts