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2 Ways Christmas Mobilizes Missional Living ALL YEAR LONG

What’s one of your favorite Christmas memories?  Please comment below.  Every year as a child we were at Grandma and Grandpa’s house full of cousins, aunts and uncles and fun times.  There were no white Christmases, only blue, just because Grandma always played the Elvis Christmas vinyl record on the stereo that was larger than the largest clothes chest you’ve ever seen.  Every year Grandma inevitably  runs out of film for the Polaroid camera (I’m ancient or my Grandma was a hipster).   She stands next to Grandpa and yells “Will you go to the store and get some film?” Grandpa, hard of hearing, always responds with “What did you say?”  Grandma repeats louder.  Grandpa leaves and inevitably, would ALWAYS miss the excitement of bells thumping against the porch followed by a “HO HO HO” and Santa Claus, HIMSELF came to OUR Christmas Eve!  I noticed always wore shoes JUST like my Grandpa!  The excitement faded out and I always would find myself looking at the manger scene to the side of the excitement. This scene imparts two breakthroughs in my life and my daily missional living:

  1. God mobilized His missional living be becoming among us. In fact, on earth, as Jesus, He received a name that describes his missional living to you: “Look! A virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, And they will call him, Emmanuel.” (‭‭Matthew‬ ‭1:23‬ ‭CEB‬‬). Emmanuel means “God with us.”  What love! God went through extreme measure to be with you.  He expresses His love for people He calls out by proclaiming “I am with you”.  God expressed  this to Abraham and Isaiah when He called them into their personal ministry.  Jesus expressed this to you as His disciples the day He commissioned you in your missional living: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20 NASB). This is why we are passionate in Mobilize Ministries to intentionally meet or “be with” people we know in in everyday life replicating the life of Jesus: “The twelve were with Him,” (Luke 8:1)
  2. God mobilized His missional living becoming a baby, the utmost form of vulnerability and weakness.  He was enthroned in Heaven with all praise directed toward Him and incomprehensible power that made heaven, earth and YOU at His fingertips.  Existence does not get any more comfortable than this.  Yet, God mobilized His missional living by subjecting Himself to be what humans view as the weakest, a baby. Wrapped in the weakness of my Cerebral Palsy and old orthopedic metal legged braces, this scene gave me comfort.  God became weak to start His journey to the cross, where yet He’d become weak and vulnerable again: “For He was indeed crucified in weakness”. (2 Corinthians 13:4).
    [tweetable author=”@toddlollar”] God mobilized His missional living to you by becoming weak and vulnerable.  Your weakness and vulnerability through your missional living touches people in your life with the love of Jesus. [/tweetable]
Experience newness is what God has already given you.  You have your life.  Deep, huh?  You have people in your life. [tweetable author=”@toddlollar”]CHRISTmas your missional living every day of the year by being among family and friends intentionally even if it means becoming vulnerable and weak replicating God’s ministry toward you and me.[/tweetable] Please continue the conversation below about specific ways you can Christmas your missional living everyday of the year.

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2 Ways Prayer Mobilizes Your Daily Mission

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Living on mission is not about our human strivings; it is about stepping into a prayer-fueled lifestyle that actively targets the spiritual climate of our everyday spaces. Here are 2 ways prayer aligns us with divine order and mobilizes our daily mission:

1. Interceding With Friends to Form an Organic Community

Many believers struggle with missional paralysis because they try to carry the weight of the mission alone. But when we gather with a friend or two to pray specifically for our family, friends, coworkers, and the strangers we encounter, we experience a beautiful shift from isolation to cooperative victory. Jesus highlighted this dynamic in Matthew 18:20 when He promised that where two or three are gathered together in His name, He is there in their midst. This prayer-partnership is the exact blueprint for an organic Missional Life Community. Praying together for the lost provides the keys of advancement we need to expose the Devil’s schemes and dismantle demonic strongholds in our neighborhoods. As we lock arms in consistent, targeted prayer, the Holy Spirit brings a powerful breakthrough that equips us to walk in our calling with supernatural boldness.

2. Inviting Others Into God’s Presence Through Direct Prayer

The simplest way to bring Kingdom reality into a secular environment is to ask someone, “How can I pray for you today?” Whether you are talking to a stressed coworker or a stranger at a coffee shop, offering to pray for them in the moment bypasses religious arguments and invites them directly into an encounter with Jesus. Apostle Paul encouraged this proactive lifestyle in Colossians 4:2-3 where he wrote that we must devote ourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving, while praying at the same time that God will open up a door for the word. When we offer to pray for others, we receive an impartation of the Holy Spirit’s anointing that softens hard hearts. This single, gentle question can shift a casual interaction into a divine appointment, giving us the opportunity to declare the goodness of God to someone who desperately needs a spiritual breakthrough.

If you are ready to see your daily routine transformed into a mission field, start by bringing your spheres of influence to the Father in prayer. When we meet with Jesus first, He empowers us to meet and mobilize the world around us.

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