Ready, set, go!

Ok...2006. Happy New Year! Ready, set, go! Remember, as a child, getting ready to run a race someone would shout, "READY, SET, GO!" I hope you remember, it will help my story. So, early this week I had my schedule, then the Lord interrupted my schedule and called me and another leader to prayer, we briefly stopped and "readied ourselves" to hear what He had to say. He gave me this verse, Joshua 3:15, Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. As we continued to pray, He showed us both that the Israelites were facing overwhelming circumstances, but this came at a time of harvest! (Yippee, we all love this word, and since He is the Lord of the harvest he can say when, right? Right! And it usually is when there is alot of other things going on..but that is another story) I sensed he was preparing us, yes, let's dare to say making us ready! He even spoke that my overwhelming circumstance was my family. I humbly admit, that it has been overwhelming, the needs of my family outside of my home. It is interesting that the leader with me had the very opposite story.
So as we allowed that to set in our hearts and mind that he handled the floodwaters. Yes, they trusted him and placed thier feet in, but it was He who stopped the water. The next verse says "as soon as the priests feet touched the water's edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing"! (vs 16) They were made ready by a word from God for this crossing the Jordan into the promised land. He readied them and He readies us. His sets the word in our hearts. Then we are equipped to go. Shortly after the prayer time, I received a call that my mom (pretty lady on the right) had a massive heart attack. I was ready, I was set to go. I knew there was the circumstance, but I also knew it was harvest time. She had a procedure done the following day, with two arteries unblocked. Her blood pressure and pulse have not stablilized, but she is much better. We had just the most amazing time talking about Jesus. I was ready for this, but I wasn't before we had prayed. This year, think like a child..when you hear God calling you, climb into His lap, let him get you ready, don't rush off before what he has spoken has set in your spirit, then and only then, go.....Go and bring Jesus to a hurting world in 2006!