IF....

I have stumbled upon a gathering called - IF.  A fleeting glance at the website gives you a glimpse of simple beauty in flowers and smiling women and welcoming tables.  Women are being drawn to this. 

For me, though, it is the fragrance that comes over me as I discover more.  It smells a great deal like Servanthood and Allendale to me.   The fragrance of Christ is all over it.  It is the breaking of walls between denominations and backgrounds.  It is the empowering people of all sorts to impact their worlds.  I have had very little contact so far with the events of the group, but the scent continues to draw me. 

I have friends that have engaged in the ideas of IF and have gathered women in their homes.  I have heard beautiful stories and I smell Jesus as they tell the stories.  My mouth salivates as I imagine the tastes of heaven that are being experienced. 

There is power here;  I can sense that.  The Holy Spirit is inhabiting these gatherings.  The enemy of our souls is fighting against them.  I see the nameless, faceless generation rising.  This is not about IF or my friends, but about living real for Jesus wherever we are.  It aligns with the vision of ARISE (our youth group) - "To shine the love of Christ to whomever, whenever, wherever we go."  All these threads are being woven together to make something more beautiful that we can imagine.

On September 23rd, I'm going to pray with some of these women.  I don't know them and I don't like strangers.  However, I love Jesus and this is not about me but about Him.  I have this tiny little dare to dream about what God might do if....

Wanna come with me?

7pm at The Watershed

in the Old Mill

on Main Street in Lexington