Stewarding the Presence

Just a couple weeks ago we were in a worship session that was so sweet and intoxicating. A student from the school was leading worship and God began urging me to go to the front and release a word over the school. I stepped up to the front and was faced with one of the biggest responsibilities of someone in my position at that exact time. In that moment God told me to not just release the word but to "Steward His Presence". I can hear Gods voice, thats not what He was teaching me. He was teaching me to be a steward of his presence and to release that word in the midst of what He was doing, increasing the flow of what He was doing and not taking away.

stew·ard·ship

  [stoo-erd-ship,styoo-]

noun

the responsible overseeingand protection of somethingconsidered worth caring forand preserving.

We have been given the responsibility to oversee and protect the presence of God as stewards of God. To not hold the reigns but to oversee and protect the presence as He runs where ever He wants to run.

As the body of Christ, as His Church, as Gods own people we must learn that leading is stewarding. We have gotten so used to "the bit in the horses mouth approach", pulling and directing where we want our services, our flock our theology and our ministries to go. This approach has rendered God a visitor to our house instead of letting Him make our house His home. What we really need to ask ourselves is, have we placed higher value on our programs, timelines, idea's and the religious way of doing things, that God's presence now requires an invitation? Have we become stewards to our churches and ministries but not to the Presence?

Father I pray that we would all see that your presence is worth caring for and preserving. Teach us how to oversee and protect that Presence as stewarding Sons and Daughters.

"We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved"
-Mother Teresa