Spiritual Bucket List
A Spiritual Bucket List is most likely exactly what your thinking it is, but let’s look at this short definition to help us know for sure.
The Spiritual Bucket List; a list of things you want God to do through you and/or you want to do for God while on this earth.
So what’s on your Spiritual Bucket List? Do you even have one?
I’ll give you my top five count down! The best part is they all come with a biblical passage or story connected to them (as all the things on a Spiritual Bucket Lists should).
#5 Lunch is on me!
Can you guess already what this one is about? Let’s go straight to the scripture to get a clear idea.
Matthew 14:15-21
That evening the disciples came to Him [Jesus] and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away so they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus said, “That isn’t necessary—you feed them”. “But we have only five loaves of bread and two fish!” they answered. “Bring them here,” He said. Then He told the people to sit down on the grass. Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, He gave the bread to the disciples, who distributed it to the people. They all ate as much as they wanted, and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftovers. About 5,000 men were fed that day, in addition to all the women and children!
Number 5 on my list is for God to supply, super naturally, a whole meal for myself and those around me.
Don’t get confused on what I’m trying to say here. While there have definitely been times in my life where I have literally had to rely completely on God for the provision of finances for food, what I really want to see is exactly what happened in the above passage. Food that literally appears out of thin air.
You can bet that the extra food God made that day was delicious too!
#4 Walkable Water
Ready for the scripture on this one?
Matthew 14:25-33
About three o’clock in the morning Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. When the disciples saw Him walking on the water, they were terrified. In their fear, they cried out, “It’s a ghost!” But Jesus spoke to them at once. “Don’t be afraid,” He said. “Take courage. I am here!” Then Peter called to him, “Lord, if it’s really you, tell me to come to you, walking on the water”. “Yes, come,” Jesus said. So Peter went over the side of the boat and walked on the water toward Jesus. But when he saw the strong wind and the waves, he was terrified and began to sink. “Save me, Lord!” he shouted. Jesus immediately reached out and grabbed him. “You have so little faith,” Jesus said. “Why did you doubt me?” When they climbed back into the boat, the wind stopped. Then the disciples worshiped Him. “You really are the Son of God!” they exclaimed.
Peter got to do it! I want too also! I keep praying someday I’ll be in a situation where walking on water is a necessity. In that moment, I’ll be praying that God will make that water walkable!
#3 Instant Language
This one gets me super excited! Let’s look at Acts chapter 2 for an example:
Acts 2:4-11
And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability. At that time there were devout Jews from every nation living in Jerusalem. When they heard the loud noise, everyone came running, and they were bewildered to hear their own languages being spoken by the believers. They were completely amazed. “How can this be?” they exclaimed. “These people are all from Galilee, and yet we hear them speaking in our own native languages! Here we are—Parthians, Medes, Elamites, people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, the province of Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, and the areas of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism), Cretans, and Arabs. And we all hear these people speaking in our own languages about the wonderful things God has done!”
Wouldn’t this be amazing? I pray all the time that God will put me in a situation where He’ll need to instantly give me a language so I can share the gospel with someone!
#2 Lazarus Power
We all know the story, but here are the highlights just for the fun of it:
John 11:14-15, 25-26, 33-35, 38-44
So he told them [the disciples] plainly, “Lazarus is dead. And for your sakes, I’m glad I wasn’t there, for now you will really believe. Come, let’s go see him.”
Jesus told her [Martha], “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?” When Jesus saw her weeping and saw the other people wailing with her, a deep anger welled up within him, and he was deeply troubled. “Where have you put him?” he asked them. They told him, “Lord, come and see.” Then Jesus wept. Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the tomb, a cave with a stone rolled across its entrance. “Roll the stone aside,” Jesus told them. But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested, “Lord, he has been dead for four days. The smell will be terrible.” Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?” So they rolled the stone aside. Then Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, thank you for hearing me. You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.” Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in grave-clothes, his face wrapped in a head-cloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”
This one is just pretty straight forward. I really want to be in a moment where God uses either myself, or someone else, to bring someone back to life. Cause He is God, He can do that!
#1 The Phillip Annointing
This is my absolute favorite! And the biblical story behind it is the greatest! Are you ready?
Acts 8:26-40
As for Philip, an angel of the Lord said to him, “Go south down the desert road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza.” So he started out, and he met the treasurer of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under the Kandake, the queen of Ethiopia. The eunuch had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and he was now returning. Seated in his carriage, he was reading aloud from the book of the prophet Isaiah. The Holy Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and walk along beside the carriage.” Philip ran over and heard the man reading from the prophet Isaiah. Philip asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” The man replied, “How can I, unless someone instructs me?” And he urged Philip to come up into the carriage and sit with him. The passage of Scripture he had been reading was this: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter. And as a lamb is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. He was humiliated and received no justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.” The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, was the prophet talking about himself or someone else?” So beginning with this same Scripture, Philip told him the Good News about Jesus. As they rode along, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look! There’s some water! Why can’t I be baptized?” He ordered the carriage to stop, and they went down into the water, and Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away. The eunuch never saw him again but went on his way rejoicing. Meanwhile, Philip found himself farther north at the town of Azotus. He preached the Good News there and in every town along the way until he came to Caesarea.
I love the wording here: “The Spirit of the Lord ‘snatched’ Philip away”
That’s what I like to call The Philip Anointing. Suddenly finding yourself transported to another place! What a rush! Do you know what I love the most though? Philip kept doing what God called Him to do as if nothing out of the ordinary happened, He was so intently focused on the mission God had for Him that nothing distracted Him from preaching the word.
Now. I know what you’re thinking…
“Oh she’s one of those kinds of people, the crazy fanatical kind”. And I would say that if we look at the definition of the word fanatical which is “filled with excessive and single-minded zeal”, then absolutely I’m a fanatical Christ follower! Christ is my life, He’s even better than sliced bread. I don’t follow Christ because He makes life better, but because He is better than life!
But let’s bring this back to scripture so I can actually biblical prove to you that you should have a Spiritual Bucket List too. Let’s bring it all back to Jesus shall we? He’s the whole point of life anyway (John 1:3)…
John 14:12-14
“I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it!
There you have it, Jesus walked on water, fed 10,000+ with barely enough to feed a handful of people, He raised Lazarus from the dead, He calmed the sea with one word, He healed the blind, deaf, and lame and He cast out demons and conquered over sin and death!
Are you ready to do greater things than this?
This is my absolute favorite! And the biblical story behind it is the greatest! Are you ready?
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