Would the revelatory prostitutes please
sit down... Your actions and words betray the very essence of the
heart beat of God
Ok I know that that is quite the
opening statement... But the more I enter into this season and
actually have my eyes opened wider my heart gains understanding I
wish I had always walked in and ache to walk in all the more...
In these moments where kindness has
exploded into the atmosphere and strength and joy gets imparted, my
eyes are laid open to where in life I have both participated in and
watched as people take that which they see and feel and know and
exploit it for their own benefit... for their own building up instead
of the building up of The Body and humanity.... The lifting up of a
name of man instead of Christ....
As one who works with ministry as a
livelihood I stepped back and took account of what it is we are doing
and where it is that we are going and what is necessary and what
would be the tables that Christ would come and knock down and
cleanse...
I thought of the most intimate moments
between my husband and I and how I don't go around broadcasting the
details of such times to anyone who will listen however how many
times do I/we take the experiences and visions and moments with the
Lord and handle them carelessly instead of cherishing them as
precious between the lover of my soul and myself....
As I processed these emotions this
afternoon I began to separate out truth from falsehood.
There are places where in the sharing
of such moments what is being expressed is the reality of the Kingdom
of God and that these moments do indeed take place and are indeed
precious. That in sharing when the Heavens are open and whether here
or there sweet and beautiful transactions in the spirit do occur
people's faith is built up and the hungry are fed and understanding
comes forth.
However we all know the difference
between those times and the times where we want to look good.. or we
want to be the one that has the most profound revelation of the
hour.. or and the list can go on and on... how absurd these thoughts
and these behaviors...because the truth is we always carry the most
profound revelation within ourselves and when we walk there and allow
the realities of who it is that we most intrinsically are to flow
forth everything changes.....
In these last few years the prophetic
or revelatory lifestyle has changed for me.... The understanding of
why we see and hear and feel and know has become all consuming... If
the testimony of prophecy is Jesus and that which Jesus said about
Himself was that He came not to condemn the world but to bring
salvation and to birth within creation the understanding of the
passion of our Father for us then anything we would ever walk in must
meet that criteria.
Spiritual experiences and supernatural
occurrences are reality... they are fire... and they will either
mess with someone and burn them for life or they will ignite both the
participate and the observer into life within the explosive reality
of sonship and daughterhood. It is love.. it is kindness... it is
generosity of action and behavior that must be always left as the
most fantastical aspect to any sharing of experience or activity...
If it misses that mark you are squandering your Father's wealth and
prostituting the gifts He laid out for you....
Why see? Why hear? Why know? Why feel?
It is so that the Kingdom of God is expressed in tangible and
powerful ways... the litmus test must be the fruit.... has kindness
so infected the atmosphere... has love so penetrated the hardest of
soil.. do the hearers leave knowing that they are the sons and
daughters of God or do they leave thinking that the speaker is and
where do they lack? If that second is the case... it is not the
failure of the people but the failure of the one who ministers.....
This season is for the building up of
the Body so that all can mature into the headship of Christ and it is
upon the sons and daughters of God in this time to grab a hold of the
reality that the Body is made up of many parts and all are
necessary.. not one more than the other....
1 comment:
Beautifully, and lovingly put. I confess I have operated in the "need to be affirmed" mode of the revelatory in my past, but hopefully never again. As the time draws to a close there is all the more reason to stop trying to get each other's attention and only want and linger in His.
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