Don't let the cold weather fool you. December is heating up as we head deeper into the things of God and experience greater awakening on a daily basis.  Now is not the time to sit back and relax as another year comes to an end, but rather it is a time to fasten your seat belt as things are preparing to accelerate.  During Sunday morning prayer on the last Sunday of November, the Lord kept speaking the word "momentum" to me.  When God speaks a single word to me without further explanation, I know it generally means that I need to dig a little deeper to see what God is saying, so I began to examine the concept of momentum.

Momentum can be defined generally in two ways.  It is the capacity for progressive development, that is, the capacity to increase or develop at an ever growing pace.  It is also defined as the speed or force of forward movement of an object.  Both of these definitions seem relevant to what God is saying in this moment.  As a corporate body, The Bridge Birmingham stands at the edge of something great, an awakening unlike any that the world has ever experienced.  Yet, there is a cost to participate in this mighty move of God that we must consciously make the choice to pay.  Momentum does not come into play until the object or concept is first set into motion.  God, in His sovereign power, will provide the momentum, but we must be willing to carry the burden of setting our spirits into motion and join in with his plan.  We truly have the capacity to increase our spiritual journey at an "ever growing pace"; however, the question really becomes "are we willing to pay the price to start the movement?"  The spirit of God is the force behind the movement of this object we call "church" and if we are willing to step into the flow of the spirit, we will certainly be swept along in the current.

If we examine momentum more closely, then we find that it does not have to do solely with the motion of the object, but also with the power residing in the moving object.  So often we have sought to experience the power of God for ourselves and some have even taken the position that if God would just "show up" and display his power, then we would step out and join Him.  I have to believe that if we want to see the power of God, we must remember that it is residing in us, but only as we shift from stationary objects to moving objects.  When we are sleeping we remain relatively still, but when we awaken, we begin to move.  It is a time for awakening and movement in the body of Christ and more specifically in The Bridge Birmingham.

I used the illustration on Sunday morning of a large bolder poised at the top of a steep incline.  While it may take a great deal of effort to get that boulder over the edge of the incline and started down the hill, once it has been set in motion it is far more difficult to stop than it ever was to get moving in the first place.  We have a tendency to focus on the difficult in getting into motion and upon the opposition that we face instead of concentrating on the fact that one step in our own strength is all that it takes - after that it is the responsibility of the Holy Spirit to "keep the ball rolling". 

While it may seem difficult, or perhaps even impossible, I challenge you to step into motion now.  Henry Blackerby says that we don't always need to have God tell us what to do; rather we need to look around us, see what God is doing and join Him.  This is a season to join God, to step out and move and let the momentum of His Spirit carry you headlong into this next "Great Awakening".