I’m a 45 and Proud of It!

Earlier this year, my job had a theme for each day of the week. Thursday was Jersey day. You could wear jeans and tennis shoes to work if you wore a jersey.  I’m not really into sports so I don’t wear jerseys but I wasn’t about to pass up the opportunity to wear jeans! I asked my cousin Ronald if I could borrow a jersey.  He gave me a Michael Jordan jersey.  I don’t know much about sports but I do know that Michael Jordan’s number was 23! I was a little confused when I saw that this jersey had number 45.  My cousin explained that when Michael Jordan retired and came back, he wore number 45.  I had never seen anyone wear a Jordan jersey that didn’t have a 23 on it. I wore it to work the next day.  I saw SEVERAL Michael Jordan jerseys; ALL had a 23 on the front.  I felt really awkward for a couple of reasons….. 1.) I don’t wear jerseys and  2.)  Mine looked different from everyone else’s!  I took the jersey off and laid it on top of my file cabinet.  As soon as I took it off, every guy that passed my desk stopped to admire it! They told me how rare it is, and many of them said that they had been looking for one! Here I was with something to be admired and I didn’t realize its value because it didn’t look like anything I had seen before!  I left my desk and went to lunch proudly displaying my 45 jersey!!   Each gift and call is different. Many of us don’t fully walk in what God has called us into because it doesn’t seem normal. Don’t put your self in a box.  Stand out!  Don’t be afraid to do what has never been seen.  You might be the difference that the world needs.  There a many 23′s, we need a 45! Be a 45!

Love you 4 Real

Rach-NoAssemblyRequired

1 comment April 30, 2010

I’m the Ram?

 
The Lord has been recently dealing with me about sacrifice. On yesterday, the Lord spoke to me about the “ram in the bush”. Most of us are familiar with story. God spoke to Abraham and told him to offer up his son Isaac as a sacrifice.  Abraham was obedient to God and was willing to sacrifice his son.  An angel came to Abraham and told him not to kill Isaac. Abraham saw a ram entangled in the bushes and he used the ram as a sacrifice instead if Isaac. This story led to the often-used phrase “The Lord will send a ram in the bush”, I’ve even heard people say, “the Lord will ALWAYS send a ram in the bush”! Yesterday the Lord said, “Stop looking for the ram!” I can’t explain how shocked I was lol! He said that too many people are expecting a ram (wanting to take the easy way out). Sometimes we don’t need a ram, we need to die!!! We have to kill our flesh! There is no scapegoat, WE are the ram! There are some things in our lives that we should have killed along time ago. Let those things die; leave them on the altar of sacrifice. Abraham had the knife in his hand….he was willing to give up his son, his own flesh and blood. God is not impressed by what we lay on the altar, He wants to know what we are actually willing to sacrifice (kill). This week I’m working on dying to myself and killing the things that I should have left on the altar a long time ago. What do you need to kill? What are you willing to sacrifice? Don’t just lay it on the altar, go all the way…KILL IT! 
luv ya 4 real 
rach 
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2 comments April 12, 2010