A message from Girls With Swords Study by Lisa Bevere
you know Matthew 16:24 says jesus told
his disciples if anyone and I believe
you’re actually in anyone if anyone
would come after me let them deny
themselves take up their cross and
follow me you know it was very late one
night I don’t I don’t know why God talks
to me at 2:00 a.m. in the morning but it
was very late 2 a.m. in the morning when
I felt the Holy Spirit asked me the
question Lisa what does it mean to carry
your cross well I personally don’t feel
like that’s a 2/m question I feel like
that’s a 10 a.m. question so I was half
asleep and I just said it means to lay
down my life and he said no Ashley deny
yourself is laying down your life what
does it mean to carry your cross well I
just started to think I I don’t I
obviously don’t know the answer to that
and he’s why can’t you answer me Lisa
it’s an order not an ornament well
earlier that day I had made a list and I
had asked everybody I drew on the deep
well of wisdom that is Facebook and
Twitter and I said what one word does
the cross mean to you and I had gotten
over 400 responses he said go get your
list so I got my list and I started to
type it out and I looked at this list
and when I got to the very last word I
heard the Holy Spirit say behold the
cross he said all that the cross
provided for you is what you need to
carry out into your everyday ordinary
world and you do it by following me you
know I just want to challenge you what
might happen if every day you and I
prayed God made all that the cross
purchased in my life gain full
expression through my life as I follow
you and I carry healing and hope and
freedom and forgiveness to other people
I dare you to sit down and say what is
the cross meant to me make a list and
then carry that out it is not a
sacrifice it is an issue of obedience we
are witnesses of his goodness
and his faithfulness carry across like a
hero