Hey listeners , welcome to an extra bonus episode it's just me of Lead Time , tim Allman , here . It is a Wednesday night on a very full week for me and I pray that this conversation , this journal , this Lead Time journal , if you will , based on an upcoming blog , blesses your Spirit . And I'm a little .
You catch me most times it's like 10 am in the morning and I'm a little bit more contemplative . It's like 8.13 and I got 20 minutes before I go pick up my son from basketball practice this summer .
So I wanted to get on because growth has been a major theme in a lot of the conversations that I'm having , and anytime you're talking about growth personal , church , cultural there's a challenge , and I think the challenge is spiritual warfare and the wrestle with the flesh and recognize that there's an enemy .
It's not our neighbor , it is Satan , and then really me , I am the enemy , my negative thought patterns , the darker places that I can , the negative places that I can go , and I'm a pretty positive , positive guy .
But it just feels like the conversations that we've been having are just slightly , slightly heavier and one of the ways that that I , I guess , cope , meditate on the word of God is through is through writing . I've always loved writing . Not all writing is meant to be shared , and I hope you think this one is worth something .
Poetry has kind of become something of an interest , not a passion yet per se , but I really , really love the written word and so I hope you like this kind of spoken word . A little poem that I wrote just yesterday called Growth . Growth , a challenging word . Stuck downward and the flesh sets me back , flailing , falling , stumbling , crawling .
Growth seems stalling . I know me , god knows me , all of me yet loves me , is for me the audacity . Growth , I'm afraid of the word Not enough , never enough . Word Not enough , never enough . More and more there are , more and more , and I feel less and less Rising , running , dying , living Daily . Growth is not me , it's the spirit in me .
I've been set free of me . Greater is he . Growth we wrestle with the word lament , the word mask , the word insecure , perturbed by the word Growth . For growth's sake , man's sake , a church's sake , is a bad dream . Let us awake . Growth is God's plan , his divine plan for man .
He the executioner , we the receiver , he the forgiver , we the forgiven , he the life giver , we the life proclaimers . Growth makes the liar linger Linger to lie in our ears Fear . Don't try , don't trust , don't dream , don't release Fear . Strain gnats hide from truth , huddle in siloed clans while the masses perish , fear . Growth is God's word . Do not be afraid .
Growth is God's mission . Do not be afraid , growth is God's mission . Do not be afraid , though the mission is hard , do not be afraid . God wants all his kids back . Do not be afraid Jesus died and rose , ah . Do not be afraid Jesus ascended and reigns . Do not be afraid the Holy Spirit is here . Do not be afraid Creating , sustaining .
Do not be afraid Empowering , releasing . Do not be afraid Confessing forgiving . Do not be afraid Proclaiming the gospel . Do not be afraid His kingdom is here Now . Do not be afraid , the days are short . Do not be afraid the King is coming . Do not be afraid Until then . Growth , god's growth .