DISCONTENT ABOUT BEING CONTENT
Last week, with my mind engaged in my job, which is nonspiritual by any stretch of the imagination, my train of thought was interrupted. Out of the spirit came a personal message to me and to many others who have been internally feeling a little ill-at-peace with what seems to be a season of apathy. Lately, it's as there is no fire for intercession; no great concern over the state of the world or loved ones. Not only that - I've been oddly content in my spirit, though a bit condemned in my mind about it.
INTERUPTED AT WORK
And - so - in the middle of the day, when I was exerting no energy or thought toward hearing Holy Spirit, He chose to speak.
I do love it when He does that. Anyway this is gist of His words. I stopped immediately and tried to capture everything, as I felt those Holy Ghost surges rushing around as I typed.
Dark days are over the horizon and the world is going to desperately need a strong vibrant Christian to help them walk through those days. These days seems like a time of not too much happening; a time when there is no fire for intercession, no burn for souls. It feels almost sinful to be doing so little – but this is the Lord.
This is the time of His preparation.
Not of study – we’ve done that.
Not of soul purging –we’ve done that too.
This is a time of re-supply; a time of drinking and eating to build up strength.
This is a time of learning the rhythm of resting and running and becoming skilled in both.
This is not a day when you are unproductive.
This is a time of gestation; of pregnancy – not of labor pains.
A pregnant woman is only in labor for a short spurt, but she is carrying the child as she eats excessively, sleeps much and makes a home for the new one coming.
This is the time to take care of yourself. But right now, enjoy the peace. Receive. Be refreshed.
You’re going to need your strength soon enough.
Don't fret that you won't be ready and equipped with the power and anointing to slay dragons, to bring life to the dying.
You won't be able to prepare for what is coming through your own efforts. When the time comes, the anointing , the equipment, the power, the words will be there.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
More "floor stories"
Last week we met again at the Zion Road Healing Rooms for a soaking meeting. Soaking is just a good word to describe time spent with all of our being focused on the presence of God.
With all other gatherings, there is a "DO' purpose. And we need to DO things truly, however it is too common to neglect DOING NOTHING so God can finish what He began in us.
FREEDOM FROM PERFORMANCE BASED LIVING
I'd been feeling a nudge to point the meeting toward freedom from performance based living and brought briefly the outline from Soaking School on the subject. The CD that followed as we soaked was about nearly 2 hours of music and other pieces that further layered that into us.
A few days later a friend told to me of a very weird thing that she experienced in the meeting. She went on to describe in depth an encounter with Jesus reaching into her and pulling a deep critical root and taking all the time of the meeting to surgically stitch up the little crevices where the root had spread. (If we had shortened the time, He wouldn't have been able to finish up. )
I just got another email from her. Holy Spirit has continued in that process with her and is using other ministries to go into the root and really free her up from something that had been a barrier in her life for years. Through exposure to many perfectionists in her life, the root had come and is now being eradicated.
Her Father, she said, was quite a nit-picky guy. Nothing was ever good enough for him. She married someone who was similar in that perfectionism as is the extended in-law family. This has all seemed in to her soul over many years. Now she is free!
THAT'S why I love soaking meetings. They allow Jesus to come and plunder in His garden in ways no man can. We are His garden and He does His own weeding.
With all other gatherings, there is a "DO' purpose. And we need to DO things truly, however it is too common to neglect DOING NOTHING so God can finish what He began in us.
FREEDOM FROM PERFORMANCE BASED LIVING
I'd been feeling a nudge to point the meeting toward freedom from performance based living and brought briefly the outline from Soaking School on the subject. The CD that followed as we soaked was about nearly 2 hours of music and other pieces that further layered that into us.
IT MAKES HOLY SPIRIT HAPPY
It's a stretch for an American Christian to lay down and allow Holy Spirit that much uninterrupted time, but it makes HIM happy. He expressed His joy by coming personally, on a very real and intimate level to each person in the room.
ENCOUNTERS TOO PERSONAL TO SHARE
Afterward, some said that what was done in them was too personal to share. Others had some powerful images embedded in them and everyone agreed that this was a much needed amazing time.
A few days later a friend told to me of a very weird thing that she experienced in the meeting. She went on to describe in depth an encounter with Jesus reaching into her and pulling a deep critical root and taking all the time of the meeting to surgically stitch up the little crevices where the root had spread. (If we had shortened the time, He wouldn't have been able to finish up. )
I just got another email from her. Holy Spirit has continued in that process with her and is using other ministries to go into the root and really free her up from something that had been a barrier in her life for years. Through exposure to many perfectionists in her life, the root had come and is now being eradicated.
Her Father, she said, was quite a nit-picky guy. Nothing was ever good enough for him. She married someone who was similar in that perfectionism as is the extended in-law family. This has all seemed in to her soul over many years. Now she is free!
THAT'S why I love soaking meetings. They allow Jesus to come and plunder in His garden in ways no man can. We are His garden and He does His own weeding.
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