"Behold our God is great and we do not know Him." Job 36:26
Jesus is so good. His mercy triumphs over judgment and we must praise Him. He is so good to me especially as I grow into a deep intimate relationship with Him. He has called me personally on a radical lifestyle after Him. What I am talking about really is not radical, but it is living out the Sermon on the Mount. I just want to mention some stories about His faithfulness.
Today I went to school feeling very rough in my flesh. I get to school and my body is physically weak. So as things carry on throughout the day I begin to feel a tiny bit better. The reason here is because I finally followed through with the conviction He had been telling me to do for a good 2 years now which was asking for forgiveness from someone. Immediately I felt free. I felt like a heavy bolder had been lifted off my chest, but my body was still weak. So the day continues on and I can tell I am sick. Earlier when I check my temp it was at 98.3 or something close, but it was not bad. So after school I go to drama practice and I practice for about 1 hour. Then I go and take my temperature and find out that it is now at 104.5. No joke that is what the thermometer said. So I leave. On my way home I call up my friend whose really close to me and told what was going on. She prayed for me over the phone and I got home and the temperature was only 100.0. Yes it really did go down 4.5 degrees. I kind of brush it off for a second but then I think about it and I realized the only reason it went down was because she prayed. I saw the Lords faithfulness. So I went to sleep and woke up and my temperature is now 99.3 and my body no longer aches. This is obviously the hand of God. Get this though this is not the only time that this has happened. The exact same thing happened 3 weeks ago. We must begin to believe God for this and look for it when it cannot be found.
This past weekend I went to a conference at the International House of Prayer in Atlanta (IHOP-Atl). The Lord sent His power with a spirit of wisdom and revelation. The main thing I want to mention about that is the scoffing spirit that makes think we know about God when we truly have no idea who this Man is. Many of us are possessed by this spirit which tells us that we do not need to read the word, we do not need to pray because we know everything. I tell you read Job 38-42 then see what you think you know. We have no clue of the knowledge of God. He is so far above us. Right now I believe the Lord is asking the church today, "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand." (Job 38:2) If Job did not understand why do we think we do. We must through everything out the window that we think we know and sit before asking for a true revelation of who He is.
Amen, even so Amen.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Stuff going on in Life
Well lately in wrting articles for this blog I feel like I have been somewhat holding back. I feel as if I do not share everything going on in my life spiritually. The reason being because I know that some of the people who read this have drastically different beliefs. But now I am beggining to not care, the Lord has put me in others life to preach the good news so sure enough that is what I am going to do. Well the spirit of the Lord has been rocking me lately. As I am connecting in various ministries around town, aka IHOP Cartersivlle and the Glory Barn, the Lord is taking me deeper into His presence. He is showing me the truth of living in the Holy spirit. My weekends basically consit of praying and ministering to people. Friday night we go to IHOP Cartersivlle, saturday we go to The Glory Barn, and sunday I go to Riverstone Church in the morning and either IHOP Cartersville at night or youth group. Things that go on in these places are seriously working my spirit. I will go to cartersville Fri and weep under the travail of the spirit, go to the glory Barn saturday and laugh all night from the joy of the Lord, and sunday go to church and dance with all might for the goodness of God. I am so blessed to live in the life I live and I cant imagine what it would be like to be anywhere else.
I want to mention something else that has been burdening my soul deeply. There are so many people today who are just satisfied with where they are, and what they have spiritually, but the Lord is saying to you that you have access to so much more. As I look at the church today my spirit weeps because we are settling for so much less than we need to be. The Lord longs to bless us and let us feel His presence but we so often fall into complacency and contentment. I tell you the cry for the hour is for a generation to rise and declare the word of the Lord. I feel it more and more. Revival is coming, are you ready. This isnt any normal revival this the greatest revival in History, its called Jesus returning to His Bride. There will be great salvation in that day, multitudes will be added to the kingdom, but there will also be great deception. Will you be able to stand? Is there going to be oil in your lamp. When flase prophets and false christs arise will it usher you to a place of intercession to a place of travail for the lost, or will you be decieved with what you think you know. What is comeing is bigger than anything ever imagined. Matthew tells us that there has never been anything as bad as this day, that it is so bad if it were not shortend we wouldnt be able to last. But hear this, it is about love. Jesus is coming to remove everything that hinders love. He is coming for you, so that He can finally have you without sinin the way, with a pure heart and a pure mind. Yes it is going to be a terrible day, but it is also going to be a great day. we must begin now to cultivate intamacy with the Lord, so that when that day comes we wont be using old oil we will be in a place of encounter with the Lord.
Amen even so Amen!
I want to mention something else that has been burdening my soul deeply. There are so many people today who are just satisfied with where they are, and what they have spiritually, but the Lord is saying to you that you have access to so much more. As I look at the church today my spirit weeps because we are settling for so much less than we need to be. The Lord longs to bless us and let us feel His presence but we so often fall into complacency and contentment. I tell you the cry for the hour is for a generation to rise and declare the word of the Lord. I feel it more and more. Revival is coming, are you ready. This isnt any normal revival this the greatest revival in History, its called Jesus returning to His Bride. There will be great salvation in that day, multitudes will be added to the kingdom, but there will also be great deception. Will you be able to stand? Is there going to be oil in your lamp. When flase prophets and false christs arise will it usher you to a place of intercession to a place of travail for the lost, or will you be decieved with what you think you know. What is comeing is bigger than anything ever imagined. Matthew tells us that there has never been anything as bad as this day, that it is so bad if it were not shortend we wouldnt be able to last. But hear this, it is about love. Jesus is coming to remove everything that hinders love. He is coming for you, so that He can finally have you without sinin the way, with a pure heart and a pure mind. Yes it is going to be a terrible day, but it is also going to be a great day. we must begin now to cultivate intamacy with the Lord, so that when that day comes we wont be using old oil we will be in a place of encounter with the Lord.
Amen even so Amen!
Monday, March 12, 2007
Gods Love Toward You
Most of us have been told, or at least heard that God loves us, that Jesus loves me this I know for the bible tells me so. But do we really understand this, or has it become a passing issue that we look over. This Love is something which we need to experience like we do in worship, we must encounter this Love. Eph. 3:16 - 19 says that this Love that we have access to is something that surpasses all knowledge. This is a love that does not have a top a bottom or sides; it goes on through all eternity. Get this:
-We live in one galaxy called the Milky Way Galaxy. There are more than 100 billion known galaxies in this universe. God created this with the word of His mouth. God spoke this very universe into being.
-Think of how many stars are in the whole universe. Think as big as you can and have that number in your head. There are more than 70 sextillion stars in this universe. That is a 7 with 22 zeros. Isaiah 40:26 tells us that He knows the stars by name. So God knows 70 sextillion stars by name, every single one and He commands them where to go and what to do. One time I heard a preacher say “… if all those stars were put into Websters dictionaries you would get 40 quadrillion dictionaries. 40 quadrillion dictionaries is enough to build a highway to the moon and back.”
-But hear this, none of that moves Him. The only thing that moves God is you. His heart is ravished by tour simple desire to look to Him. The heavens are the works of His hand and He loves you.
We are sinners doomed to die without the grace of God. The only reason this grace is available is because of Jesus Christ. Jesus came to the earth and died for our sins. Listen to me, Jesus Christ hung on a cross for you.
You ________________, were on His mind when He hung there on the cross. He was replaying the picture of you in His mind. He was scoffed at and beat so that He could have you. Nails really did go through His hands and feet for you. God sent His only son down to the earth, but more than that Jesus came to earth, knowing that He was going to die a slow and painful death. Something we cannot even grasp is that Jesus was seated in Heaven and was in perfect fellowship with the Father and the Holy Spirit for all eternity past, and then he suffered the loss of eternity so that He may have us. He was siting on the throne forever, in perfection then He came to earth for YOU. He loves you. Let the conviction of the Lord pierce your heart now with His consuming fire of Love for you. Amen.
-We live in one galaxy called the Milky Way Galaxy. There are more than 100 billion known galaxies in this universe. God created this with the word of His mouth. God spoke this very universe into being.
-Think of how many stars are in the whole universe. Think as big as you can and have that number in your head. There are more than 70 sextillion stars in this universe. That is a 7 with 22 zeros. Isaiah 40:26 tells us that He knows the stars by name. So God knows 70 sextillion stars by name, every single one and He commands them where to go and what to do. One time I heard a preacher say “… if all those stars were put into Websters dictionaries you would get 40 quadrillion dictionaries. 40 quadrillion dictionaries is enough to build a highway to the moon and back.”
-But hear this, none of that moves Him. The only thing that moves God is you. His heart is ravished by tour simple desire to look to Him. The heavens are the works of His hand and He loves you.
We are sinners doomed to die without the grace of God. The only reason this grace is available is because of Jesus Christ. Jesus came to the earth and died for our sins. Listen to me, Jesus Christ hung on a cross for you.
You ________________, were on His mind when He hung there on the cross. He was replaying the picture of you in His mind. He was scoffed at and beat so that He could have you. Nails really did go through His hands and feet for you. God sent His only son down to the earth, but more than that Jesus came to earth, knowing that He was going to die a slow and painful death. Something we cannot even grasp is that Jesus was seated in Heaven and was in perfect fellowship with the Father and the Holy Spirit for all eternity past, and then he suffered the loss of eternity so that He may have us. He was siting on the throne forever, in perfection then He came to earth for YOU. He loves you. Let the conviction of the Lord pierce your heart now with His consuming fire of Love for you. Amen.
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