Welcome again to the Front Porch…mighty early here…gotta get back in a routine, a schedule, hopefully not a rut…need to avoid those at any cost.  Back to school for us GISDers…well most of us…students not back until Tuesday…so back to moving around early, early. But I made a promise to myself that I would meet here on the Front Porch for 29 days…28 words to explore and one day to introduce these meetings….so glad you stopped by.

Today another 2 or 1 deal... Energize and Synergize…more horse and carriage analogy….work together...SYNERGY is a fairly new word as far as I know…I guess as words go…very interesting word, a ‘buzz’ word, companies want, churches want, employers want, we should all want it…it means “collection of different elements or agents…could be as small as two…working together to produce greater results than the sum of their individual efforts” hmmm, hmmm, sounds like just plain working together, seeing ‘eye to eye’, on the same page….ahhh…but there is more than just seeing and thinking…it is actually working….expending energy…making an effort…energized

I know we all are familiar with the commercial with the little rabbit that is beating a drum and running around like a little hyper bunny….a spokesperson, so to speak, for  a certain type of battery…I believe he is called the Energizer Bunny.  Hyper bunny…we all want to be like him from time to time…full of pep, vitality, enthusiasm, e n e r g y.  A good thing...energized

Too often we can present just the opposite image….tired…I hear so often “I’m so tired”….true most of us are running the ‘rat race’ referring to a pace of running to and fro, here and there, around in circles due to commitments, jobs, family and so on.  Often the challenges of life are met with a sense of being overwhelmed, underprepared and over extended….too much to do and so little time.

Ever spend much time with someone who is lethargic, sad, negative, downright bitter and at times nasty….kinda passive aggressive…they can drag you down into their valley of despair.  They shuffle through life, barely getting by physically, emotionally and often financially…sighing all the way with a victim mentality and their theme song “poor little me”.  Sad, sad, sad…especially if you are a Christian!

Ever seen a poor basset hound with the saddest, droopiest, red eyes??  Sad…pitiful, absolutely deplorable……If we are not careful this is the persona we can project to the world…’tempted, tried, and tested’…sigh….sigh….sigh… 

We have scripture after scripture for help, encouragement and enlightening…”Joy of the Lord is my Strength…and there is always, always, always, something to be thankful for! Always!

On the other hand, the folk who are energized are bright, cheerful, peppy, so to speak. They light up the room, brighten the day, chase away the blues..hmmm.. kinda like being the ‘light to the world-reflecting the LIGHT of the World…..They have the ‘get it down’ mentality.  “I can do All things through Christ who strengthens me”.

Remember the suffix ‘ize’ means to cause; to become.  Through the Word, prayer, listening to uplifting, inspiration speakers and music will ‘ize’ us…cause to be filled with energy, be motivated and just overall pleasant, inspiring, an example and encouragement.

Synergize…..now that is where those different elements, could be people, could be parts of our body, such as our muscles, machinery.....synergize,  a working together to produce a greater good, a greater result, a greater outcome than the sum of the individual efforts….

The Word and Prayer, Prayer and Fasting, work together for the greater good.  We, God’s people should be synergized, motivated, and determined to ‘live, move and have our being’ in such a manner that we work with each other-not against… being energized…so that the result, the efforts, the outcome…will bring about a better world that we could never do on our own.

The Holy Spirit energizes, synergizes…God speaks, the Holy Spirit moves…in complete harmony and agreement with God…resulting in an outcome even greater than our greatest imagination, dreams and desires...

My prayer today is that we will let the Holy Spirit breathe on us…energize us and move us into a place of being synergized…for the Kingdom of God.  Let’s determine to make it a part of Lifestyle Living, to ‘live, move and our being…not in our strength (on our own) but team up with the Holy Spirit (collective agent added) and just see what happens!

Speaking of energize and synergize…need to move on now, back to a routine and schedule…but part of that routine and schedule will be to meet here again, tomorrow…on the Front Porch and let’s get ready to ‘revolutionize’!