One For The Thumb

Like millions of others, I watched the Superbowl. And while I had no
favorite, it was tough. I saw Seattle as a young team with a lot of
fire and hope. My emotional ties to the Steelers stemmed from my
youth where there were annual trips to the practice field and many
autographs.

As the game ended, I felt a "letdown" of sorts. I had actually
watched a lot of football this year and a lot of pregame stuff on
Sunday. And I felt everybody watches the Superbowl. And yesterday I
read about churches that had Superbowl parties with prayer at
halftime (Obviously, they did not know who Mick Jagger was!!!). And
the rest of the day was a blur yesterday, with no real highlights. So
exasperating were many of the situations yesterday that I found
myself in the bathroom in front of a mirror crying out for the Lord
to come back and "now" would be a good time. Last night a family
situation put the cap on it.

But during the day I thought about the meaning of the win. Was there
one? I certainly would have been wrong had I bet on the game. And I
thought about this line, "One for the thumb." Lord, that means 5, a
completion of sorts. And the more I meditated on it (Better than
meditating on the lies of a company we spent a lot of money with last
week and they changed their pickup days causing us a complete change
of our week. But hey, if we wanted to keep the schedule they would
only charge us $500 per day.) the more I sensed something to it.

Another ring for the thumb. A fifth ring indicating victory. For me,
it was deeper than that. It represented a recap of prophetic words in
Ephesian 4:11, when Jesus says He will give the church the gift of
the five ministry gifts. One of the gifts being the apostolic. So
many denominations have held on to the pastor, teacher and evangelist
gifts, but have denied(I am sure in many cases it is out of
misunderstanding.) the gifts of the prophetic and the apostolic. Many
have embraced the prophetic in recent days, but let's be real, we
have almost been taught that the apostolic represents control. But
what if it simply means what it means? People "sent" to a people for
the purpose of establishing His kingdom, What if we recognize the
word apostle because signs and wonders follow and not because it is
on their business card?

Is it possible, one for the thumb" represents a season of true
apostolic leadership and gifting coming to the church?

Where I will be
February 11th-Prayer and worship @2PM Mountaintop Christian
Fellowship, Oakland Maine
March 25th-"God Loves The Witches" Conference all day University Of
Maine, Machias, Maine
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