It's all about Jesus!!

Wow!!! This past week has been nothing short of amazing. Jesus is so unbelievably good and his word is true. The adventure that Jess and I were certain would begin in Africa has come early and has come powerfully with the Spirit. People are being healed, prophetic words and pictures are being given to both of us, and we are being unified in a way we never thought possible. Jesus has been taking me (Josh) through a time of drawing closer to the heart of Christ and truly seeking and relying on his voice via the Spirit. Jess and I both felt like Jesus was asking us "Am I truly enough?" My answer at the beginning of my fasting was, "I know you are enough in my mind but I don't believe it in my heart." It's easy for many of us to get to this place where we say it in our minds but don't ever truly transfer that belief to a heart belief; to a complete faith that in any situation or difficult time or circumstance Jesus is enough. It's okay to be hungry when Jesus is near. It's okay to live without possessions when we have Jesus. It's okay to have no home when Christ is alive and at home in your heart. This is where Jesus has taken me. I don't want anything but Jesus. I was reading in Acts when Peter and John healed the crippled begger outside the beautiful gate when Jesus truly gripped my heart and captured my attention to what he really was asking of Jess and I. The man was crippled for 40 years. 40 years!!!! In that time you have to assume that he recieved many things. He was there which tells me that he must have recieved food to sustain life. He probably recieved clothing from time to time as well as maybe even a little bit of money. As I was thinking about this, Jesus impressed on my heart, "This man could have recieved food and had a full stomach but at the end of the day he was still crippled. He could have been given money or clothing or even a home to live in but still would have been crippled. He didn't need 'things,' he needed Me(Jesus). Period." I sat there completely dumbfounded and realized that no longer can we (the body) hand out bandaids when arteries are severed. No longer can we try to "fix" things in people by giving them perishable things that are here today and gone tomarrow. Jesus is looking for people that will stand as Peter and John stood saying, "I give you what I do have, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth get up!" Instead of treating the symptoms we have to seek the cure. Jesus!!!!!! That's it! Jesus has been, is, and always will be enough. He has proven this time and time again and somehow amid this busy life, the distractions, our complacency, etc...we have forgotten this. It's time we got back our vision of who Jesus truly is and start believing that his promises are true, his word is perfect, his authority is absolute, covering all creation! When we start relying on created things, man-made tangibles, we have a problem. Jesus has to be enough otherwise he couldn't be the Saviour. Truly think about this!! If we can't see him as more than enough, nothing will ever be enough. We will spend the rest of our lives seeking a false reality, slaves of the flesh, never seeing or living out the fullness of life that has been paid for with blood. Jesus is everything!!!!!