Radically Happy

Hat tip to Samson’s Bad Hair Day

If you cannot hate those who love you,
you will never love those who hate you.

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Confronting my subconscious fears
• To vulnerably pursue
• Authentic intimacy

Spirit Approach Memo

Continued from One Who Cried

I am… facing a door.

It feels
Impossibly high
And heavy
And locked

The girl I want
Is on the other side

And even if I could open it
She may not want me

And I would weaken myself
And make myself vulnerable
To my enemies

I listen to the Spirit.

He says:

“Why do you fear enemies
When your God-given destiny
Is to die for them?”

He asks:

“Is your objective
To love as you have been loved
Or to be loved as you have not?”

I yield to the Spirit.

The Spirit of the Lord
Comes upon me

To plug the gaps
In my broken heart
So He can fill it
With His love

As His breath
Fills my lungs
I speak a word…

And the doors burst open!

To be continued

Reflection

I feel…

• Thwarted
• Self-pity
• Cowardice
• Inspired
• Empowered
• Reckless
• Infatuated

Scripture

One day, Samson went to Gaza, a Philistine town, and slept with a prostitute there. Word soon spread that Samson was in town, so the men of Gaza gathered and hid at the town gates, cutting off his escape. They made no move during the night, saying, “We’ll kill him at dawn when he tries to leave.”
But in the middle of the night, Samson got up and left. On his way out of Gaza, he took hold of the doors of the town gate and ripped them off their hinges—two posts, the gates, and the locking bar. He hoisted them all on his shoulders and carried them off a great distance to the top of the hill across from Hebron.‭‭

Judges‬ ‭16‬:‭1‬-‭3‬ ‭TPT‬‬

Inspired by Courage to Conquer