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For the majority of us, it's highly likely true to say, we'd like to see expansion in our lives, in some, if not all areas of our lives. Whether it'd be a pay increase, a job promotion, a bigger house, a larger sphere of influence, higher education, a bigger ministry or church, a more successful business, and the list could go on and on from there. What we oftentimes forget to take into account is that with increase into our lives also comes increased responsibilities and accountability. The idea of more sounds really great, and I'm not saying it's not great, I believe it is, but more often than not, when we imagine increase being given to us, we neglect to consider there will be a process of learning how to manage our newly instituted level of increase.
This is a turning point and things are going to start happening at a fast pace. Watch as a new door will appear for you after June 13th. This is the end of the Jewish Feast of Weeks, also known as First Fruits, Leviticus 23:15. It occurs 7 weeks after Passover. Seven is the number of completion — so 7 weeks ago God released something powerfully new from Heaven and it is now coming into your life. If you did not see my Prophetic Word yet from last month, Why It's Safe For You to Hope Again, please go read that. Passover this year was so strategic. I have been having divine encounters nonstop since then.
I am in love with God and the local church. And I am in bondage to God, but I am not in bondage to the local church. I deeply love the local church because the people of God are in the local church, and I relate to them as best I can. But sometimes I can't always relate to them, especially if I feel there is not a real unity in the relationship. I will work to serve them as best I can, but sometimes that has its limitations. I don't want to step on their toes any more than I want them to step on mine. (Some have called me weak for saying that, but I am not.) And I have found that the same two feet that walked me into that church or fellowship gathering, are the same two feet that can walk me out. It's not about spite. It's about seeing and knowing Him and believing in that.
I want to tell you a secret you may never have heard before. There's a special place you can go that's so sweet and more real than mere words could ever express — a place that will cause you to raise your hands and fall to your knees, where you can't help but weep with great joy. In this special place you can bask in God's love and lie before His feet for hours on end. It's here where He draws near to you and imparts spirit and life into the dark, empty places inside you. It's a rare place where the very fire of heaven is released to work deep in the recesses of your soul. In His presence you behold Him in His beauty. His face shines upon you and you see Him as He really is, a Father so in love with His precious child that He desires to do a miraculous healing work inside you.
I was standing near the window in my kitchen thinking about this election. I often do this as I begin to pray. I have no passion to endorse a candidate. Just to lift up Jesus over each one running. I was starting to pray when I heard the Lord. I could feel his presence coming in strong and I felt tears in my eyes begging Him to come closer. I was being moved to pray for our beloved nation. The Lord began to speak, "I love your love for this nation. I am calling you to speak out and be of good courage." I began to break. I just wept. Suddenly I saw an angel with a huge sword.
The morning routine can "make or break" your day in no time. For many of us, the a.m. routine includes dragging ourselves out of bed, dreading to start even the day. A pot of coffee is added to the morning "to get us going" only to find challenges lead the way. Making the most of the morning routine changes "the mood" for the rest of the day. The first 60 minutes of the day is the most important in determining how the rest of the day will go.
God beckons us to love Him so the fear of the Lord will keep us clean, enduring forever. God is love but it is only one of His many attributes, so it doesn't limit or completely define Him. God is also holy, just, faithful, truthful, kind, immutable. God's love will cover a multitude of sin, until we are able to recognize it as sin and repent. God is infinite, sovereign, and self-existent, eternal and incomprehensible. His love for us disposes Him to desire our best. God's dominion empowers Him to secure the utmost and highest for us. If we keep God's pure commandments, our eyes will be enlightened. His statutes and true judgments enable us to walk in righteous, godly ways, even in our imagination.
This is the hour of the rise of the modern day circuit rider. These will be persons that will forsake the comforts of the hour to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth. Young men and women who will lay down any right to earthly pleasure to obtain the pleasures of heaven on earth. I have always been amazed at the men and women who preached during the Methodist revival. Many of them preached circuits in their lifetime. They would go from town to town on horseback preaching in houses, on haystacks and in General stores. They didn't care much where they preached unless the gospel was being released and people's lives were being transformed.
The wind of the Holy Spirit is always blowing, but there needs to be something for that wind to "blow into". God looks for us to put up our sails that His wind might blow into our sails to take us where He wants us. When we step out in new ways it is like putting up our sails for the winds of His Presence. It takes some effort on our part to find out just how to put up those sails. In our times with God the light of revelation gives us guidance on just what to do. God inspires us to do things that His wind might find something to blow upon. Sometimes it may seem like we are putting up our sails but the wind is not blowing. Persistence is necessary to find His wind, discovering what works and where the wind is blowing.
Jesus, as a rabbi, chose disciples into whom He would pour His life — not just teach them information, but disclose His heart. These disciples observed Him in every setting. They had backstage passes to His most intimate moments. They were welcomed into His private dealings. Jesus' disciples — with all this up close access — made a connection between His life of prayer and His life of power, and they asked Him to teach them to pray.
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