What Has You?

What has you?  What I mean is, is there anything in your life that you simply just have to have or do?  I felt in this season, the Lord is challenging me, "Don't let anything have you."  For me there have been times in my life where I had to watch a Duke basketball game.  Or I had to watch all 64 teams in the NCAA tournament.  I had to have a cup of coffee or I had to look at my emails for the 10th time in 5 hours.  This season for 180-degrees is and surely my life is a season to go deeper into the presence of the Lord.  God wants to show Himself mighty and strong and I have been so excited that He is offering me an invitation to experience more of His presence and His glory in my life.  As we have been on this journey, the Lord asks this of me and I ask it of you, "what has you?"  So in seeking the Lord, He is responding, make room for me.  In this season, I laugh about making a commitment to quit coffee because it "has me".  The first 3 days all I could think about was my mistress, "coffee".  I know it sounds over the top, but I realized that in my putting it down, all I could do was think of it.  Now, you may ask, what good is that doing?  Not much for 3 days, but after 7 I start to realize, OK, this thing ain't so hard.  So, in a sense, I feel like I have begun to cut away of some of the clamor in my life to hear more clearly from the Lord.  God is asking of us to move stuff out of the way and invite Him to operate in our lives.  The Holy Spirit is a gift....that must be received.  He doesn't just "operate" over our will, He more like dances with us in relationship.  No interest in Him, seasons of dryness....No desire for Him? Lack of peace....No Spirit activity, no Kingdom work done in and through your life.  I want to encourage you all this season to see "what has you".  Consider laying it down...for how long?  I don't know....maybe till it doesn't "have you".  Make way for the greater working in the Spirit of God.

Stuart