I just had a eureka moment. I’m walking down the street and my brain is flying in all kinds of directions. In fact, my synapses have been firing since I’ve been in Denver. I’ve got about twenty voice memos just capturing ideas. It seems like I can’t even open my eyes these days without ideas flying at light-speed. My ideas seem to be reproducing like rabbits. Some of them are just good ideas. For example, I saw some coasters today and thought to myself, “Coasters are restaurant billboards. What a great way of advertising.” Maybe it’s already happening, but restaurants need to sell advertising space on coasters as a stream of revenue. Maybe we’ll do that at Ebenezers! I think that’s a good idea. But I honestly think most of them are God ideas. It just seems like the Holy Spirit is sparking ideas right and left. And I think that is part of what it means to be Spirit-filled. The Holy Spirit is an idea machine!

Sometimes I feel like I’m cursed because I can’t turn my brain off I’m waking up with ideas these days. So here is my revelation. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed or stressed but I finally figured out why today. I’m always trying to catch up to my ideas. I’m not sure what the solution is. I think I’ve got to accept the fact that I’ll be playing catch up the rest of my life. I feel like my life could be epitomized by this saying: so many ideas so little time. I think I need to be surrounded my people who can run with ideas and our team is great at that. One of the things I appreciate about our team is the way they tolerate my “off the wall” ideas.

Don’t get me wrong. I have as many bad ideas as everyone else! But for me it boils down to this: I want to be a good steward of God ideas.