Childhood Reboot

"If I could only go back....." It is a phrase heard often throughout our lives. Yet none of us can actually move back the hands on the clock of time to an earlier moment of life. So why does God continue to encourage us to do just that?

In Genesis 35, God tells Jacob to go back to Bethel. Throughout Exodus and even into the New Testament, the Israelites are reminded of where they came from. What is so important about the past? It's the experience. The past represents encounters we have with our Maker. God wanted Jacob to get back to when he had heard God's voice. A time to remember the covenant he had made with God. To get back to what had been seeded into him years before.

My favorite memories of church was what happened at the altar. From our senior women dancing in the spirit up front to the people whose lives where changed as they prayed through. I can still see the night as an 8 year old when I received the baptism of the Spirit. I see the altar in the small white country church, us kids and youth kneeling in prayer with the adults around us. My life was forever changed. Communion as a family around the altar. Everything of value happened around that altar. And God revealed to me in a recent dream that He is crying out to His people, "Get back to My altar!"

God Himself is the one who ordained the altar in the tabernacle. Moses understood the significance. David yearned for time at the altar and was called "a man after God's own heart." Yet today we heard people in and out of our buildings by groups. We offer people to pray where they are and then send a text to receive follow up. But what about leading a people to that altar of incense. Yes. It can happen at home. But for a people who have never experienced that amazing, heart changing encounter of altar time, who will lead them?

I am so thankful for my dad, and pastor, who taught me the importance of time at the altar. It's time for a reboot in our spirit! It is time to go back to that 'Bethel' moment in our lives. Clear away the schisms and seek His face! To cry out saying, "Your face, Lord, I will seek!"

Where did He first change your heart? Have you drifted from that intimate time with Him and been distracted by life's events? Let's reboot today!

(excerpt from https://insecretstrength.com/2019/10/13/childhood-reboot/)