Foundation

The question was asked, “Where do we begin?” The simple answer is always, “At the beginning.” Right now it seems like we are searching for what that means.

The leading we received, I believe, is truth, and we must not let go of it. Our foundation is discipleship. We have accepted a call to make disciples that make disciples in obedience to our Lord and in living by His Spirit. We have proclaimed the necessity to live in the Spirit and be dependent upon His leading, for this we must recognize how essential spiritual disciplines are. I think we are having a problem grasping the vision for where God wants us to begin because it has not been the foundation we have experienced.

Our focus in prayer for each other seems to me around God’s leading us towards righteous men and women who are willing to pour their relationship with Christ into another. Until we are being discipled according to the Scripture and Spirit, I don’t think we’ll truly know how to disciple someone else the same way. You can't give what you don't have. Also, until we ourselves are living obediently to the Spirit and walking intentionally and constantly in His guidance, how can we expect to pass on the passion for God’s presence to others? Let us continue to pray for each other in that way because that is the foundation for what God has called us into.

The beginning of anything is the foundation. This is seen in everything… we don’t build houses from the top down- but from the ground up on a foundation… infants do not develop in the womb beginning with the skin- but with the skeletal structure and form… trees did not precede the ground in creation- but were dependent upon it before their existence was possible… neither can structure precede foundation for this movement, but foundation must set before building begins. The desire and passion and uncompromising focus on discipleship and life in the Spirit must be at the foundational, DNA level if we are to expect them to be reproduced as fruit. I have no doubt to our passion. I have no doubt to our courage and commitment to what God is doing and what He has laid on our hearts. I believe that God is beginning a movement that will bring His people back to Himself one by one, and that is because the movement itself is beginning one on one in discipleship and life in the Holy Spirit.

We must continue to encourage each other and pray for each other in this.
-G.N.