Task of the Day

T.O.D.
Task of the Day--- A daily inspiration and spiritual call to action.


The Challenge:

Creatively enrich your/my/our spiritual growth and personal relationship with Jesus Christ while utilizing this forum to regularly hold each other accountable and lift each other up!

How it Works:

Following prayer and consultation with the Lord, I will post a task every day. Each task will correspond to a Word from God/scripture. At each day's end, you are invited to post the results of the task in action including artifacts from the journey. I imagine that some days will feel more successful than others. Additionally/realistically, "daily" may end up being "weekly" during certain seasons.

The Goals:

The overall goal is to deliberately carve out the time and put work into each day to become better lovers. Let us love ourselves better, love strangers, friends, enemies and family better. Let us love God better. Did you know that of all the richness that is God's Holy Scriptures, the two greatest commandments are to love God and to love people?! (Matthew 22:36-40) Basically, love is a big deal and we want to get better at it and walk in it.

Each T.O.D. is meant to focus on a bite-sized, actionable step to help us recognize what love looks like on a day to day basis so that we may recreate it and dwell in it... and it in us.

Let us welcome God into our lives and allow ourselves to be perfected.

The Invitation:

You are invited to join me in each T.O.D. and I encourage you to post your results as well. Although tasks are designed as "daily bread", definitely wrap them into a week, month, year, until they are engrained into your daily members. There is only one rule. You must be honest and transparent about your struggles and successes! Testify! Please invite others to join us on this fantastic voyage!


Be Blessed!


Wednesday, January 1, 2014

It Doesn't Matter How Long




Scripture:
2 Cor 4:17 (KJV) For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Inspiration:
This revelatory phrase came to me in a dream. In the dream, a struggle between good and evil ensued. In the midst of the battle, paralysis threatened to claim me but I realized that amidst the futility of all other offenses and defenses , I could still praise God. The evil one could not steal my praise. Physically bound yet determined to praise God, the evil one attempted to discourage my growing power by planting seeds of doubt. What if this isn't a dream? What if you really are paralyzed? Do you know how long this bondage is going to last? Empowered by praise and convinced of God's promises, I responded, "It doesn't matter how long". I considered the current struggle juxtapose eternity and realized that such a comparison was laughable in its absurdity. No matter how long the current struggle lasted, God promised me eternity in glory with Him... and so I would fight... and I would press on... for however long. Upon receiving this revelation, the chains loosed, the paralysis ended and I immediately awoke (Jumping and leaping and praising God as it were...).

TASK OF THE DAY 1:
Today's task, the first task of 2014, is to walk in the Fruit of the Spirit, longsuffering. Patience is the focus of the day. Throughout today and your various interactions with self, with people, and with God, keep in mind  and act on the revelation that "It doesn't matter how long"... Tomorrow's benefits/promises tremendously outweigh the "suffering" of today.

Let's focus the next 24 hours on today's task. #T.O.D. for God






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