Four a couple of years its been spoken about many times that there is a tidal wave of the Spirit hitting our shores. Certainly, that is true. There is a hunger here for God, as there never has been before. But what really excites me are those the Spirit is calling to Australia.
It is as if we (Australians) have become complacent about the promises of God, the prophetic words that have been spoken over the ‘Great South land of the Holy Spirit’ and so Jesus has been sending us missionaries from the very nations that our forefathers sowed their lives into.
It seems that this is a time or preparation, for the harvesters. He is enlarging the capacity and the resources of His leaders. There has been a laying aside of how we have done things and a taking up of things that have never been done before. We are beginning to see with new eyes and as we look at Him with Dove’s eyes, as we sharpen our focus we see not only more clearly but truly we see the big picture.
Just as in times of old, there were those whose service it was to prepare the bride for the bridegroom. This is indeed the hour that where He is refining the refiners, that Jesus is mending their nets. We will see a harvest as never before because the harvesters are using new tools they are looking at the harvest with a fresh perspective but most of all they are so overflowing with the love of God that what was once difficult is now easy.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
THE DANCE OF THE WARRIOR
How awesome are the plans God has for you. He is so beautiful so lovely.
Psalms 139:13-18
For You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in my mother's womb. I will confess and praise You for You are fearful and wonderful and for the awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are Your works, and that my inner self knows right well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought [as if embroidered with various colours] in the depths of the earth [a region of darkness and mystery]. Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them. How precious and weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them If I could count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When I awoke, [could I count to the end] I would still be with You. AMP
Stepping into the life God has for you, is in many ways like taking that first step of a waltz. Think for a moment of the heavenly ballroom, the beauty and majesty of dancing before the throne of your Heavenly Father.
Jesus leads you, gently guides you in the dance of faith, the dance of destiny, each movement has been choreographed by The Father.
As you give yourself to Jesus, as you surrender to Him. You dance as King David did before the Ark of the Covenant, you dance the dance of a warrior. For men this is a little uncomfortable because we are use to leading, but in here, we must learn to be led, we must learn to trust.
I love this quote from Jill Austin “Your dreams are like a cup of water but my dreams for you are like the vastness of an ocean.”
Zechariah 2:8 tells us that you are the apple of his eye,Jeremiah 29:11 says For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
God is for you, He delights in you. We often quote 1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him." But if you look with me at the next verse 1 Corinthians 2:10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
The Holy Spirit hasn’t hidden His purposes from you; He just wants you to draw a little closer so that you would be like the apostle John leaning on the breast of Jesus, that you would hear the heartbeat of the Father.
Jesus looks at His bride from across the heavenly ballroom. He looks at you.Take His hand, allow Him to lead you, to guide you. He is calling to you. Calling in that still small voice, that voice you have heard many times before, He is whispering.
“Come dance with me”
INTERCESSION
When the religious one hears the word prayer their heart sinks, they steady themselves to endure the hours to come. For this poor one he must pay his dues, prove himself in battle, or so he thinks.
But, for His beloved those that have discovered the joy of prayer, the thrill of communion with the Father, these ones who have been anxiously waiting
for the call, for the opportune time to slip away. Intercession becomes the melody of their heart.
Alone at last, my heart begins to race. He calls me into His presence and in His presence I find my future. He declares who I am, what I will be, calling me into tomorrow. Every prayer becomes an answer, every cry my song to Him. He is my alpha and omega, my first and last, no one is a beautiful as the ‘Morning Star’
as radiant at the Son of man. When He looks upon my heart, He doesn’t see the failures, when He looks at me He beams with pride at His workmanship.
I am listening for that one word. That one word that changes the course of nations, that same word changes the heart of a man. When He speaks strongholds fall, hope begins again, when he speaks, light overtakes the darkness, mysteries are revealed, life begins.
How I long to linger, to stay for just a while, just a few more moments. He stirs me says ‘my son, what you have freely received go, freely give, tell them that today is the day of their visitation, that today all things have become new. Declare the hope, that in Me all sickness is gone, that they are joint-heirs with me.
My child most of all tell them of my love, that I long to be in their presence, that I long to hear their voice. When they call out to me, just as an earthly father cannot deny his child I cannot and will not deny them. Tell them that if they stay just a little longer, then they will see my tears of joy.
But most of all , let them see me in you.
But, for His beloved those that have discovered the joy of prayer, the thrill of communion with the Father, these ones who have been anxiously waiting
for the call, for the opportune time to slip away. Intercession becomes the melody of their heart.
Alone at last, my heart begins to race. He calls me into His presence and in His presence I find my future. He declares who I am, what I will be, calling me into tomorrow. Every prayer becomes an answer, every cry my song to Him. He is my alpha and omega, my first and last, no one is a beautiful as the ‘Morning Star’
as radiant at the Son of man. When He looks upon my heart, He doesn’t see the failures, when He looks at me He beams with pride at His workmanship.
I am listening for that one word. That one word that changes the course of nations, that same word changes the heart of a man. When He speaks strongholds fall, hope begins again, when he speaks, light overtakes the darkness, mysteries are revealed, life begins.
How I long to linger, to stay for just a while, just a few more moments. He stirs me says ‘my son, what you have freely received go, freely give, tell them that today is the day of their visitation, that today all things have become new. Declare the hope, that in Me all sickness is gone, that they are joint-heirs with me.
My child most of all tell them of my love, that I long to be in their presence, that I long to hear their voice. When they call out to me, just as an earthly father cannot deny his child I cannot and will not deny them. Tell them that if they stay just a little longer, then they will see my tears of joy.
But most of all , let them see me in you.
One Word
John 4:39 many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified.
You are the difference. Throughout history, we read of examples of where one voice made a difference, where one person took a stand and everything changed.
When I read my bible, I see people just like you and I. Normal everyday people who made a difference.
One of the strategies of the enemy is to take your voice. To bring you to a place where you think that you don’t matter; He will tell you that you are not educated enough, you didn’t go the right schools, you don’t have the right connections or enough experience and though you may feel like Moses and say “I am not eloquent, “I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue” If you open your mouth, if you pluck up the courage and begin to speak, you will change everything.
When you testify about what Jesus has done faith builds and as you declare the miracles of the past, you seed the atmosphere with the miracles of today. When you testify about what Jesus has done, “he is the same yesterday, today and forever” then you are declaring what he will do again today.
Paul said that he didn’t come with excellency of speech or enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, Paul came declaring the testimony of God.
By your testimony, the enemy is defeated and the Father is glorified. You have been commissioned, sent into all the word to preach the good news to tell His story and what he has done in you.
You are the difference. Throughout history, we read of examples of where one voice made a difference, where one person took a stand and everything changed.
When I read my bible, I see people just like you and I. Normal everyday people who made a difference.
One of the strategies of the enemy is to take your voice. To bring you to a place where you think that you don’t matter; He will tell you that you are not educated enough, you didn’t go the right schools, you don’t have the right connections or enough experience and though you may feel like Moses and say “I am not eloquent, “I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue” If you open your mouth, if you pluck up the courage and begin to speak, you will change everything.
When you testify about what Jesus has done faith builds and as you declare the miracles of the past, you seed the atmosphere with the miracles of today. When you testify about what Jesus has done, “he is the same yesterday, today and forever” then you are declaring what he will do again today.
Paul said that he didn’t come with excellency of speech or enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, Paul came declaring the testimony of God.
By your testimony, the enemy is defeated and the Father is glorified. You have been commissioned, sent into all the word to preach the good news to tell His story and what he has done in you.
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