LONG HAUL MISSION

How to make it the Long Haul in Mission
Pastor Leo, MMP Board member (these are notes not necessarily quotes)

Faith, hope love are gifts from God, imparted to us. They are given to one who asks with open palms…you can not be cynical and have faith, hope and love.

They have nothing to do with the circumstance or object but rather is connected/defined by the Giver. They are from God, defined by God and sustained by God.

Contemplative prayer (makes us more real, humble, honest and mature)
Don’t ‘think’ just ‘look’ inward like you might look at a mountain: you don’t say “hey, how did that get there, I bet giant tectonics plates through the centuries collided to…” no rather you just stand there looking, gazing.
Just be aware not judging- putting a name to what is around on the inside of you (rage, despair, lust, depression)…look at the hurts, insecurities, distractions…admit them but don’t evaluate.

Eventually God finds us there, brings clarity and perspective and the false-self dies.
When God brings clarity and the false self dies then the true self is discovered, the one that wants to pray, worship, trust.
Don’t fight the false-self…just let it go. Open your hand to God and let him blow. Don’t fight in loosing it or to loose it.

Our inability of acknowledging what is really going on (no name for it) then it owns us and inhibits us from receiving gifts. (3rd degree burn stop feeling though it still burns you.) To stop identifying our suffering keeps us from responding to our suffering, thus tightening our fist not allowing God to blow it away.

Help people feel what they are going through. Must identify what’s going on. We are loosing dreams, visions, passion if no response to what is happening on the inside.