Journying

Isn't it marvellous how God can tailor everyone's journey to suit His plan and agenda? I am so thankful that Father knows me better than I know myself. He must think I need a little 'stretch' as the school inspection is drawing near, and as a Governor I am experiencing the ripples of pressure. Anything to do with education freaks my flesh. I get very defensive around clever people and I'm always sure I'm going to mess up and I'll be told off. It goes back to my school days when my maths. teacher traumatised me. After having a self evaluation session with the head teacher this afternoon the Holy Spirit reminded me I can do all things through Christ, that He was not going to leave me, or let me get intimidated; let alone bullied.

To journey on the Route to Revival I must walk in the spirit, not in the flesh. Dad spoke to me the other day and said,  'You have to live every minute of everyday believing I am your Father and that am with you, and I will never fail you.'

I love you

They are the words I hear every morning and every night. The awesome majestic all powerful God loves me, and you. I don't know why, but I now I want to be loved by Him. If Britain slides into an Islamic fiefdom. or is controlled by PC I don't care, I'm committed to the love of God and giving that love away to whoever wants it. 
I'm going to bring the kingdom to earth even if it kills me. 

Works

Jesus said, 'If I am not doing the works of My Father, then do not believe Me.' John 10:37  In His ministry Jesus spoke the good news of the Kingdom and the Presence of the Holy Spirit confirmed His message by miracles and wonders. The anointing on Jesus, the presence of the Holy Spirit, freaked the religious leaders of His day. They even told Him the works were done by satan. Is it much different today? The Holy Spirit turns up to do what He wants to do and often the church thinks it's demonic.
We, the church have plenty of words, but until we move consistently in the father's works we won't be believed.
Anyone with me on this journey?

Food for thought

I've always been transfixed by Jesus's words in John 5. 'Of myself I can do nothing, I only do what I see the Father do'.  
Jesus only spoke what the Father gave Him to speak, when the Father told Him to. He only did what the Father told Him to do, when the Father told Him to do it. That is an amazing life style, but it's what my heart yearns for.
In fact Jesus is what my heart yearns for, I don't want anything else now. I just want to be like Him.
Funny how I yearn for what I already am! When the Holy Spirit came to me He gave me a new spirit just like Jesus spirit. [If anyone is joined to the Lord he is one spirit]. Our spiritual reality is such that the church has not generally been taught the gospel.

Pleasing God

What I sense pleases God more than anything is trust. Can we substitute trust for faith? Sounds good to me. Jesus said in Mark 11:22 'Have faith in God'. So radically profound and world changing that it takes a long time to get it, well it did for me. Having trust in Daddy every minute of every day. Since the fall man has had to rely on  self confidence or self trust. Not for christians though, not since Jesus bought the kingdom Yipee. But if we walk around living the kind of life we did before the Holy Spirit moved in then kaput, we are right back to zero.
Was Jesus positive in His attitudes and mind set when He walked around Israel? Silly question?
Then why do we walk about with such pessimism?  

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Continuing

How can I please God? Scripture says without faith is is impossible to please God. We must come to Him and believe who is is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. That's really childlike isn't it? In my natural thinking I would assume I had to behave or perform to please God. But Dad looks at it another way; it's all about relationship. God loves everyone, yes everyone on the face of the planet, that's why He sent Jesus to redeem us. But when faith is exercised and we receive the power to be called son's of God through Christ is God pleased? you bet. Is He pleased with His sons and daughters all the time? Yes. Because it's all about being loved, and returning that love, not doing. Daddy wants fellowship with us more than we can ever imagine. Does it matter about our behaviour? Of course. Holiness (separation unto God), and purity, keeps us close to Him, and the devil out of our lives. God is pleased with His children. If we make fellowshiping  with Him our lifestyle then we will not only please Dad, we will bless Him too.

What pleases God?

What pleases God, or to put it another way how can we please God? The Bible tells us many ways we can please God, for God has the capability to be pleased and to be delighted. What I suppose I'm asking is how can I please you Lord? I believe it is a very valid question, don't you?

Immersion

This morning I heard the Lord say to me. "You must immerse your mind in My Kingdom reality". How big this world appears in our individual and collective consciousness. We may not be 'sinning' as such, but I am sure the western church is basically very worldly, and carnal. What evidence have I for this statement?

Only observation.

Bill Johnson says that unbelief is putting faith in an inferior reality. This world is inferior to the Kingdom of God which was central to the life, and ministry of Jesus. If it were so for Him it must be so for me.

High Expectations!

As soon as they got out of the boat, the people recognised Him [Jesus]. And they ran about the whole countryside, and began to carry around sick people on their sleeping pads or mats to any place they heard that He was. And wherever He came into villages or cities or the country, they would lay the sick in the market-places and beg Him that they might touch even the fringe of His outer garment, and as many as touched Him were restored to health. {Mark 6:54-56 Amp.}

Not seen this yet in a town near you? Keep praying and join me believing that even now this could happen to us in our locality. As He is so are we in this world. 1 John 4:17

I have felt burdened this year to meditate and pray focussing on John ch.17. particularly from verse 21. Just after this prayer Jesus was arrested. John doesn't seem to record the Lord praying in Gethsemene, but he gave Jesus's prayer of intercession for the disciples, and the disciples that followed from their teaching, a very high emphasis. I have also noticed that others in the Body of Christ are echoing this call to prayer.

At the heart of the gospel is the Agape love of God. That Love that came to earth incarnated in flesh, and lived and moved amongst the people for God is Love. Jesus was crucified, and raised from the dead that all of us may have a personal relationship with God, and have the power to be called sons of God. God's mercy flows from his unquenchable love. In his intercession Jesus prays that the world would know that God sent Him, because people will see the unity of the church. The unity of the Godhead would be manifest through the church for all to see. He prays that through this unity not only would people know that God sent Jesus, but they would know that God loves the church in the same way He loves His Son.

I don't know how this will come about only that it will because Jesus only spoke the words the Father gave Him, and that Father always answers prayers. My belief is that it will be fulfilled before Jesus returns, and my hope is that I will see it.

So much is involved

Even just a cursory glance at revival shows us that it is much more involved than we may at first perceive. Out of the Moravian church came a prayer revolution that lasted 100yrs. and their model of community life has never been bettered. In more recent moves of God whole areas of land have been transformed producing rich and vibrant crops; economies have been radically changed, as well as the people living there. Revival in the church, transformation of the nations. Personal revival, corporate church revival, lands healed and whole communities falling under the love and power of God. There is nothing that God cannot do given a yielded person. Didn't Paul say that we could pray for those things even outside of our imaginations? Wasn't it Jesus who said we can have everything we can believe for?
I think it must start with us. What is God saying to you today? Whatever it is it will fit in with His plan, and that's the important thing. 

What happened on the 13th. August 1727?

On that date in the church at Berthelsdorf in Saxony the Herrnhut community came together for a special holy communion celebration. As Zinzendorf  began a prayer of confession at 10am. the pregnant heavens over Herrnhut finally burst open and the power and glory of God descended on the assembled people. The Spirit of God came like a wind storm; mighty, rushing irresistible. The Love and Holiness of God [my emphasis] touched them like a fire stream: heart-warming, dangerous, and life -branding.
Taken from The Lord of the Ring, by Phil. Anderson [24-7 Titles]

Earlier in the year the community had been riven by internal division, and the young Count as the lord of the manor, had to exert leadership and courage, implementing a document of  'Manorial Injunctions and Prohibitions', swiftly followed by a 'Brotherly Union and Compact'. By mid June the community was a place of civic harmony and order as everyone had agreed to be obedient to the 'rules'.

Jesus gave the disciples a new commandment at the last supper. 'As I have loved you, you must love each other.' Love had to be restored to the Herrnhut community before God could proceed with His plans for them. At the Father's heart is community, flowing from His love for us. Jesus commanded us to love each other so people would see that we are His disciples. We need true repentance in this area before we can see what God has for the 21st. centry chuch, and what He has for the world.

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A Few of My Favourite Verses

And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.
Also multitudes gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed. Acts. 5:14-16.

We need to spend a few minutes here just allowing the 'scene' to sink into our imaginations. This is the pattern for normal church activity. I don't know about you but I need to be 'radicalised' by the Holy Spirit as I have never seen or been in a situation like this in my entire Christian experience.

For this to happen constantly in every hamlet,town, and city globally would, in my opinion, constitute revival.

Can it continue till Jesus comes?

I find it interesting that they men attributed to leading the Welsh revival of 1859, and Asuza in 1906, both knew they had been called to be the catalysts for the move, but the revivals faltered. I suppose all revivals have had short term impact in reality, but wouldn't it be marvellous if the next move of God resulted in global revival right up until Jesus came?

Pentecost

The Holy Spirit came in power on the 120 disciples in the upper room on the day of Pentecost, and then in the book of Acts it seemed like half of the known world came into contact with the risen Christ. What would it be like today if the Holy Spirit fell in power on the global Bride of Christ?

Take a Step

All journey's begin with a step, even journeys that have no maps or plans. A journey in God needs no maps for He is the map, and He is the plan. We must take a step of faith and begin to pray for what we think is the prophetic, or rhema word from God to our own heart. Is your dream bigger than all that you have ever read or heard about? Is it bigger than anything that has happened on the earth before now. My prayer is for just that.

The Start

Where to start? The only answer today for any country, or continent is the manifest presence of God. This has been the truth since the upper room day of Pentecost. Every move of God has included people who were prepared to engage in prayer for an outpouring of His Grace, and Mercy.

What should we do? Are we aware of our own inability? Do we really desire Jesus more than anything else for ourselves, and our nation? What sparks revival?

I wish I knew.