Out of Sync

Some of you might remember watching films in school. If I am not mistaken they were 16mm films that were projected on a screen by a complicated piece of machinery that usually made way to much noise. That is not my point. Sometimes the loop of the film was formed incorrectly by the projector operator and the people on the film would be moving their lips slightly faster or slower than the sound was coming from them. I used to have to turn my face away from the screen when that happened. It made me nuts. You possibly have that situation to thank for me being the way I am today. That situation is referred to as the picture and the sound being "out of sync". They were not working together as they should have. That is not a good thing. Some of you may also remember that was sort of what caused Milli Vanilli to have their grammy revoked. You can google that if you want. Actually, they were too much in sync.

I have been out of sync for a few weeks now. You may have noticed. I was coming along just fine with the painting and I got the new blinds hung and suddenly it was the afternoon before Thanksgiving. Everything was put on hold. Yes, I pretty much mean everything. I have barely gotten anything done other than going to work for a full week. That, of course, means the carpet will be laid before the baseboards are finished. That, in turn, means more masking and taping to protect the new carpet.

Sometimes life just gets out of sync. I suppose there are other examples we could use, but as I have to constantly remind my guys at the mission, do not get bogged down in the illustration. When life does get out of sync, we often try in vain, using all our own abilities and resources, to get back where we should be. Sometimes this works better than others, but it never really solves the problem.

Of course this is purely anecdotal evidence, but my experience leads me to believe that getting out of sync is nearly always a spiritual attack. Normally I do not leave fill in spaces between the lines, but I did in the previous paragraph. Did you notice the phrase "our own abilities and resources"? Did you read that as operating in the soul? Spiritual battles can never be won in the power of the soul.

Scripture tell us, "...whatever is not from faith is sin." (Romans 14:23) This means any time we start in the soul we are going to be wrong. There is no way to redeem an incorrect start in this area. We have to go back to the beginning and start all over again.

I am really not sure why I am telling you all this. Well, maybe I do know. Sometimes when I write or say something seemingly at random, I end up hearing something I needed to know. So far I am just out of sync. I am not at all sure what it is going to take to change that, but I do know there is something I am supposed to ask all of you to do.

Today I was in church and you would have thought I had the plague. I was in the third row. In fact I was the only one in the first three rows in that section. Another couple did come and sit in the row behind me. I am not going to give you too much information, but sometimes it is good to be in the presence of God, alone, even in the presence of other people, if you know what I mean. Somewhere along the line I had a random thought which is now obviously not so random at all. The thought was, "Tell the people to pray." It came bubbling up from my spirit and I knew it was time to really begin softening up the spiritual atmosphere. So will you pray, please? If you get a chance let us know what it is you are led to pray? As I said, I am a little out of sync.