Relentless: A 5-Day Guide To Discovering God's Faithfulness Exemplo

This idea is deep. We cannot miss it. It is fundamental. We must go. Yes, it’s important to meditate on big decisions, but not without always remembering that we are commanded to go. Particularly in service to others, and especially to new frontiers, which are always in front of us and so never disappear. The internet or friends and family will give you a hundred reasons to remain where you are. Comfortable. We must get uncomfortable. The land that’s beyond the land that we know is always where we should go.

I’ve since learned that the thing that beckons you forward is the Holy Spirit. Indeed, some of the smartest people I’ve known, interviewed, or studied have been compelled, led, inspired—you choose the word—by the power that is available to us courtesy of the Holy Spirit (also known as the Spirit of Truth). It is what led not just Connie and me but our children, Gib and Prima, to join the intrepid volunteers at Operation Blessing on their ten-thousand-mile journey to Sri Lanka after the tsunami in 2004. It would become one of the most profound experiences we ever could have imagined.

At the time, we didn’t know that we were fulfilling God’s command given in Genesis 12:1–2. I wasn’t familiar with the Scripture at the time nor did I have any revelation of the force that compelled us to go. It’s now clear that we had, indeed, experienced the tugging of the Spirit. The Spirit of the living God had asked us to go somewhere and do something we wouldn’t normally want or choose to do. It gave us the power to get uncomfortable.

I have tried life with and without this power. I much prefer operating with high octane fuel in my tank. You will too. And when you learn to “pray in the Spirit,” perhaps in your own special language, it will be jet fuel to your life.