As we get rolling here on the ground, oftentimes I find panic setting in.   You can feel like you have to get a pace cranking that is faster than a speeding bullet.  When I was not yet on the field, I had a nice and respectable pace that I enjoyed and I realize that I must re-connect my mind to that line of thinking simply because “God builds the church,” and Shane doesn’t.  The mind is so powerful, for the good and the bad.  We literally have to control and tell our thoughts what to do.  God never had in mind, a self-propelled way of life.  We have a choice of how we think.  I have found this discipline to work for me many times. 

I get into a good groove and think right, but every now and then, the enemy sows an attack on my thought life that paralyzes me, and causes me to regress into discouragement or depression, saying, “Shane, you can’t do it, it’s too tough, you don’t have the staffing, the funding, the know-how.”  I’ve heard it said that if you change your mind, you change your life. 

We’re not God!  We are all on the starting team in His kingdom, no doubt, but His plan is being worked out for us, and if we are listening quietly, obeying, available to move to the left and right at any moment, God will give peace.  I think it’s when we lock in on something that we feel is permanent that God begins to unveil a lack of rest and lack of peace.  Reason being: He knows ALL things and we don’t.  Therefore, we don’t know our chapters and seasons like He does and we should never be unavailable to do ANYTHING for Him at any moment. 

Here’s a thought:  Don’t (I’m speaking to me too) have more expectation and standard for your ministry and life than God does!  No more-no less.

God’s will is God’s work;  Go to the next best place He has for you!  Add value to somebody every day of your life.  Practice the art of “Thank You” power.  It works!