Watch and See

"I see what you've done. Now see what I've done.

I've opened a door before you that no one can slam

shut. You don't have much strength, I know that;

you used what you had to keep My Word. You didn't

deny me when times were rough."

Rev 3:8 (The Message)

I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying, "Watch what I will do for you. Watch as you lay on your face before Me surrendering and yielding all to Me. Watch as you become that branch that abides in the vine, as you look and draw from Me as your source and power. Watch as you lay your hand on that person or situation and look to Me for the answer. Watch as I release My power and show My glory. Watch as I take your weakness and reveal My strength. Watch, just watch and see what I will do. I have seen what you have done, but now watch and see what I will do. This is My hour of power and glory. This is My hour that I show Myself mighty on your behalf. Watch, just watch and see what I will do."

Being Proof Producers

"What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?"

John 6:28
 

Being stirred in my spirit from reading the book "The New Proof Producers" by Morris Cerulla, the Lord had me look at my hands and ask this question, "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?", and then the Holy Spirit said, "The keys are in your hands." He said, "These signs will follow them that believe, they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. They will be like a tree that is firmly planted by the water that bears its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither, and whatever they put their hands to will prosper." He said, "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be My witness. When you believe and receive, My power will flow through your hands and whatever you put your hands to will prosper, it will be blessed, it will be healed and it will glorify My name." 

Then He began to show me how electric power is created and released by two wires touching one another, a positive and a negative wire that have come in contact with one another. When an electrician cuts away and strips the insulation off the wire and wraps them together and then flips the switch, an electric current of power flows through them. To get the power to flow you've got to have a negative and a positive wire, and you've got to have stripped the plastic coating or insulation off, and then you've got to touch the two wires together and flip the switch on to send the power through it.

To see God's power released in your life, you need a negative situation that needs a positive charge and release of His power. It may be someone with a critical sickness or disease that needs healing. It may be a financial situation that's deep in the red, a debt that needs to be cleared. Or it may be an unsaved family member that is in the world and caught up in negative circumstances that needs to be broken. As a born again believer when you take this negative situation, and by faith bring it before the Lord in prayer, laying your hands and heart on it, God releases His power through your hands and His words of life spoken over it. You become His conduit to release His power through. Your eyes are not upon the situation, only your hands are. Your eyes are focused upon Jesus, the One with the power, the Creator God, the Healer and Provider, the Author and Finisher of your faith, the Source of your divine inheritance that has been appointed and predestined for you for this good work that He has prepared beforehand that you should walk in. But first, like the insulated wire, you've got to be stripped of self. First you've got to be stripped of all self-effort and all thoughts and attitude of self-accomplishment. "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself; but if it dies, it produces much fruit." So when you've laid it all down, when you've been stripped of all self and self-effort, when it's all been laid on the altar of sacrifice to be consumed by His fire, when all that you have and all you desire is Jesus, and you are looking to Him alone to produce the power, that's when He comes and connects to your heart and releases His divine love that produces the current and power that begins to manifest the desires that HE has put on your heart. His love has always been there for you, that hasn't changed, but now as you are stripped of self, you're able to be a clear receiver of more of His love and enter into that divine connection of His supernatural power. You're able to partner with the Creator God to prophesy life, healing and prosperity into the negative situation and be that positive charge and conduit of His blessing.

Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil, and He is seated now at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for us. We are His Body and Bride that He loves and has given His life for. We are His pride and joy, and we are here on this earth to be His hands, arms, and mouthpiece. He said those things that He did we will do also and greater things will we do because He goes to the Father. He wants to release His power through us, through His Bride the Church, to be "proof producers", to be His witness in this world that He is alive and living in us, and that His power and life flowing through us is the proof and evidence of it.

What is it that God would have you lay hands on today? What is something negative that needs His positive life and power flowing to it to be transformed and recreated for His glory? Let God challenge your faith and step out by His leading and lay your hands on that situation or that person that needs healing, and speak life and healing into them. Give God an opportunity to show Himself mighty through your faith as you yield to Him and give yourself to be His conduit of blessing.

So, Lord, we lay it all down for You, so that You may be glorified through us, so that You may use our hands to release Your power and healing and grace through. We give all to You that we may receive ALL OF You. Jesus, You are all we need. You are all we want and desire. Come and pour Your Spirit upon us, upon Your Church, upon Your Bride, and let us be all that You've called and desired us to be. Come and pour Your Spirit upon us that we may be Your "proof producers" and magnify Your name here in the earth. You said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be open to you."  We ask, Father, that You would pour out Your Spirit and send Your power, manifesting it through our lives and through our hands in this desperate hour for Your glory. Amen and amen

Stirring God's Creative Juices

Last night the Lord brought forth through His servant and prophet, Randy Chandler, a divinely inspired word in our Friday night glory service that went deep into my spirit. As I have meditated on it and brought it before the Lord in prayer this morning as I lay before Him, the Lord began to speak to me and expand it. I would like to share it with you as it was processed through my heart, mind and spirit. This is what the Spirit of the Lord has spoken to me.

In the position of a "laid down lover", the position of total surrender, submission and dependence upon Jesus, the Lover of our soul, in the position of humility and complete yieldedness, we come before Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service of worship, that we might not be conformed to this world, but that we would be transformed by the renewing of our minds so that we might know the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. In this lowly position of a "laid down lover", we are even yet partakers of the divine nature of God, the divine nature of the Creator of the universe, the Creator of heaven and earth, the Creator of the human man with all his intricate, detailed and miraculous bodily parts and functions. In this surrendered and dependent position, our Creator, the One that created and birthed us into this world, and the One that then re-birthed us once again by His very breathe and Spirit into the kingdom of God, has given us and placed within us the inheritance of His divine nature, the ability to create with our spoken words just as He did "in the beginning" when He said, "Let there be light" and there was light. We receive this divine nature, and in this divine nature our God and Creator has given us, as His children, the ability to create wealth that He may establish His covenant with us. He has given us the ability to hear His voice, to know His mind and to speak forth His will and purpose into our lives to create this wealth and to manifest His Word. In this place of dependence He gives us divinely inspired ideas to create wealth.

As we worship God, acknowledging His divinity, His power, His greatness and His majesty, as we worship Him and wrap out lives around all that He is and all that He has done and all that He is able to do, as we worship Him just because He is worthy, as the prophetic word that was spoken last night says, "we begin to stir up His creative juices", we begin to stir up the heart of God to create. As we worship we stir up the Lord, our God and Creator, to create in and for us what we need to walk out and fulfill His divine purpose and plan for us. We are not in a place of striving and "making it happen" as the world would do, but we are in a position of worship, of submission and total dependence, a position of a "laid down lover" totally embraced by the Lover of our soul, totally taken in by His love and majesty, totally yielded and surrendered to His will and purpose, yet totally empowered to create with our spoken word the words of life and blessing that He has for us.
This is a place where the miraculous happens, a place where God receives all the glory, a place where His Word and will is revealed to our spirit, because our flesh and human nature, our talents and abilities are laid down. They've been laid on the altar of sacrifice to be consumed by His fire. They've been submitted and surrendered to Him so that all that would be done and all that would come forth would be of Him. It's in this secret place, this place under the shadow of His wings, this place in the cleft of the rock, this place that's hidden in Him that we are able to be used of Him, the Creator God, to partner with Him in creating the miraculous, to be His instrument of divine creativity. It's in this place of a "laid down lover" that the Lover of our soul begins to share with us His secrets and empowers us to speak and cause them to manifest in the natural.

O how He wants us to discover this place. How He desires for us to come out from among them and be separate, to hide ourselves in Him, to embrace the love and place of His divine communion with Him. I believe Jesus is inviting us today to this place, this secret place of our prayer closet, this secret place of separation unto Him. I believe His is drawing us into His heart so that we may hear the secrets of His heart and know His purpose in our lives, so that He may empower us to speak forth those things that He desires to manifest in our lives, and so that He may manifest the covenant of His blessings in our lives through His "creative juices". I believe the Spirit of God is saying "Come away with Me. Come into My secret place. Come into My bridal chamber that I may love you as you have never been loved before, that I may share My secrets with you. You are My beloved. You are the apple of My eye. You are My precious jewel and pearl of great price. Come. Come. Come away with Me into My secret chamber."

God Who Answers By Fire

"Then you call on the name of your god,

and I will call on the name of the Lord,

and the God who answers by fire, He is God."

"Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed

the burnt offering and the wood and the stones

and the dust, and licked up the water that was

in the trench. And when all the people saw it,

they fell on their faces; and they said, 

"The Lord, He is God; the Lord, He is God"

1 Kings 24,38,39

Our God, "the God who answers by fire" wants to show Himself powerful and with holy fire in this hour through the hearts of His people, a fire that is all consuming, a fire that burns up the dross and residue from the spirit of this world. Our God is calling us to be layed down lovers, living sacrifices that are not perfect but are lovers of God that have hearts that are yielded and submitted to Him, that are willing to give it all for the sake of the call so that His kingdom may come here on earth and in our lives as it is in heaven. He is calling us to be that sacrifice that is holy and acceptable to Him that will lay our lives down on the alter, that will stand in the gap and will call heaven down to earth. Our God is a consuming fire. He is a jealous God, a God after the heart of man, a God that is unrelenting in His love towards us, a God that is shaking everything that can be shaken so that eyes will be opened, ears will be unstopped and hearts will become soft and pliable to His Word and will. Our God, "the God who answers by fire" is calling us to turn from our idols and our stumbling blocks that have kept us from knowing Him, that have kept us from fully embracing all that He has for us, that has kept us from embracing the fullness of the call upon our lives for this crucial hour. The world has got to SEE JESUS. The world has got to see that He is real, that He is alive, that He is alive and living IN US. The world has got to see His power and His love and His undeniable truth exemplified in our lives, the proof and evidence that the living God is truly alive and has the power to change lives and circumstances.

God is calling us. So let us answer His call and lay our lives down as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God that we may not be conformed to this world, but that we may be transformed by the renewing of our minds, so that we may be able to prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:1,2) Let us be filled with His Spirit and walk not according to the flesh but according to the leading of His Holy Spirit. Let us be that living evidence to the world that Jesus is alive, that He is living in us, that we walk different from the world, and in this different walk and different way that He answers by fire and with evidence.

Come fire of God. Come with Your holy fire. We lay our lives down on the altar with all our dreams, with all our visions and aspirations, with all our achievements and failures so that You may come and consume the sacrifice of our hearts and lives. We present ourselves as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to You that we would not be conformed to this world, but that we would be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Come fire of God, consume the sacrifice! Show Yourself mighty in our lives, show Yourself mighty before the people of this world. Let them see a God that answers by fire. Let them see a God that has consumed this sacrifice and has left evidence of His power and greatness. We lay our lives down on the altar for You, O God. Come and consume us! Send us out in the power and spirit of Elijah. Send us out consumed by Your love, giving evidence of Your power and glory to this dying world. We call on You, O God.  We call on YOU.
We lay it all down and call upon Your consuming fire, so that all that would be left would be pure and holy and would shine forth Your glory. Amen and amen

Two Kingdoms Square Off

As I continued to meditate on the flaming heart of God within me (the revelation revealed in the previous blog) the Lord was showing me that at the core of every believer is the flaming heart of passionate love that the Father has towards us as His children and the passionate love that the Bridegroom Jesus has towards His Bride, the Church. And as I meditated on it in the Spirit the Lord began to show me the core of this earth, the core of the spirit of this world, and that the core of this earth is as a fire. It is as molten lava, but it is a tormenting fire, a totally different kind of fire in comparison to the fire of His kingdom love. It's the place we identify often as the torrents of hell. As I stood there, with His flaming heart of passionate love blazing within me, looking at this tormenting fire at the core of this earth, I felt as if the two kingdoms were squaring off; two kingdoms, two fires, two spirits, two powers, two forces. The very core of God's flaming fire in me was standing face to face with the very core of this tormenting fire of this earth. And I heard, "Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world." And then I heard, "The kingdoms of this world HAVE become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ." (1 Jn 4:4; Rev 11:15)
I knew that the powers of the kingdom of light were always victorious over the powers of the kingdom of darkness. I knew that the power and fire and authority within me was greater than any tormenting fire, power or principality that was upon or within this earth, and there was a great strength that began to arise within me as I acknowledged and stood in the power of the living God that I knew lay within me. And from this position of authority, in the passionate fire of His love and power, I began to speak to the powers and principalities of darkness that would try to sneak into my home and family, as I took dominion of my household, speaking in the authority of His name, the name Jesus, the name by which every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that He is Lord, the name that sends demons fleeing and angels responding.
(I share this with you as one born again believer to another to share a revelation of authority and dimension that I believe the Lord wants us to recognize and pray from as we stand in the gap for our households, "for we wrestle not with flesh and blood but against the principalities, against the powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual wickedness in heavenly places." Eph 6:12)

I continued to speak and declare God's Word and truth over my home and speak to the powers of darkness that would try to creep in, commanding them to leave in Jesus name, praying in the Holy Ghost and seeing with the eyes of faith. The fire of God within me, which is a consuming fire, began to consume the very atmosphere of the room that I was in and then go through every room, every closet, every nook and corner of my house. The fire and love of the living God was consuming and overtaking the powers of darkness, consuming all that stood in the way of His kingdom coming in its fullness into my house and family. He was taking dominion of this establishment. It was HIS possession, His dwelling place, His home and He would was not allowing anything of this world to pollute it.

I praise God for the power of the Holy Spirit, for the gift of the Holy Ghost, and for the power of prayer and intercession as we stand in the gap and in our authority as children of God, as joint heirs with Christ to the throne and inheritance of the living God. His power and authority lie within us and must be tapped into as we recognize and pray from that position of His flaming and passionate love within us. God's love never fails. It's all consuming. There is no power greater than His love. God IS love. His love is pure and unconditional and without measure.

Help us Father to operate in this love, this love that's been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Help us to be so consumed in Your love that no other love, no other counterfeit of this world will take it's place. We give You our hearts to consume with Your love. We give You our lives to overshadow and take full control of by Your Holy Spirit. We turn and run away from religion, from the powerlessness of it's substitute for Your life-giving freedom of the life of the Spirit in Christ Jesus. We embrace all that You are and all that You want to be in and through us. We give You full reign in our lives and submit to Your leading and Your guidance through the Holy Spirit. Fill us, O Lord, with Your power. Fill us to overflowing and baptize us in Your all consuming fire. You are the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God that answers by fire. Send us out in these days in the spirit of Elijah. Let signs and wonders follow the preaching and ministering of Your Word. Let us be evidence of the One that lives on the inside of us. Let Your kingdom come and Your will be done in us and in this world in this desperate hour in Jesus name. Amen and amen

Uncovering His Flaming Heart

 "Is not My Word like fire?"

Jeremiah 23:29

This last weekend I had the privilege of attending a school of ministry by Morris Cerullo here in Dallas, Tx. where I live. It was an incredible weekend of revelation, and I will never be the same. I would like to share a particular experience that I had during the second morning before the actual ministry of the Word began. 

Before the worship started they showed us a film from several of Morris Cerullo's crusades down in Mexico with the thousands of people getting touched, saved, healed and delivered. It was testimonies of God's hand of protection and deliverance from the enemy for Brother Morris himself as well as Brother Cerullo sharing his heart towards the Hispanic people of Mexico. As I watched the sea of people in the crusades on this film my mind and heart when back 20 years before to the midnight hours of travail and intercession on the floor of my living room as the Lord placed a burden and heart of intercession and travail on me over the people of Mexico (as it was just 10 miles from my home town at that time). I was remembering the heavy pain and burden over the oppression and poverty of the people in this country and my desire to help them and see them free from the oppression of the enemy and the poverty of the land.

And as I watched the film the Holy Spirit began to say, "There is a well of wealth right underneath their feet. Begin to dig the well of wealth that is right underneath them". What the Holy Spirit was showing me was that rather the people were in Mexico or here in my own city, there was a well of wealth right underneath their feet. The Holy Spirit was saying that it belonged to them. It was theirs as a child of God, and it was theirs for the claiming, for the digging, for the reaching, uncovering and possessing. But then as I prayed in the Holy Ghost through all this, the Lord began to show me that the opening He wanted to go through to reach this well of wealth for them was through the heart of the person. This well of wealth was a kingdom wealth of riches of all sorts, including finances as well as other giftings, but it was only going to be reached through the heart. 

The Lord took me to the carotid artery as I prayed in the Holy Ghost and showed me the Holy Spirit going through the carotid artery of the Body of Christ, and like a rotta-rooter type machine, He was cleaning out all the callused stuff that had clogged up the arteries that have prevented the blood and life of the living God from flowing freely through us and to the heart. Through the power of the Holy Spirit God was cleaning and rotta-rooting out religion, doubt and unbelief, fear, disappointments, and the things of this world that had clogged it up.  In the Spirit He kept drilling and digging through it all until He reached the heart, and then He kept drilling some more, because He had to get past the hard shell of the hardened heart, the shell of protection that many of us put up to cover the hurts and pains and wounds of rejection and failures in our heart and the hard shells that form from our pride and self-sufficiency. This shell is so hard sometimes that the life of the heart of God is never felt or discovered. But the Holy Ghost was digging and drilling past it until He broke through, and the shell began to crumble and fall off and uncover a heart that was aflamed with the fire and love and passion of God. He was showing me that this flaming heart was the very core of each believer. 

In the very core of each of us He has placed His heart that is on fire and consumed in a passionate love for us, and that flaming heart when discovered would consume our flesh and all that would stand in the way of His kingdom coming forth from within us. Everything we needed was inside of us in this heart of fire, we just needed to dig it out by the power of the Holy Ghost. Then the Lord gave me the Word in Jer. 23:29 "Is not My Word like fire?" and then the Word from John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
He was showing me that our very core or beginning or essence is His Word, and His Word inside us is as a fire that will consume everything that doesn't line up with the Word if we will believe it, use it and release it. And as I meditated on this flaming heart that was within me, I could feel the kingdom within growing stronger and full of His power and anointing. My heart was on fire! I could actually feel the fire and heat. It was the fire of His passionate love. And as I looked at the people in the film again, and the people around me, I no longer saw their faces, but I saw a flaming heart on the inside of them that needed to be discovered and uncovered. It was the core and essence of who they were, and they needed to know that. We have to know that Jesus is alive, that He is living on the inside of us, in our hearts, aflamed with a fire and passion of love for us and for others. He wants us to discover and uncover that flaming heart so that the pure and passionate love can be released and the true essence of who we are can be released as well. He wants to come out of us with fire and passion, but many of us have covered Him up with a shell of protection that has made us callus to the things that move His heart. Our arteries are so clogged with worries, with the concerns of this world and with misplaced priorities that His life is unable to flow through us, much less through a heart that is passionate and on fire for souls and for the gifts and fruits of the Spirit to flow out of us.

The Holy Spirit was showing me that as we "seek first the kingdom of God", giving ourselves wholly to Him, that the wealth that we desire will spew forth as a hidden well that has been tapped into and uncovered because it's just part of the manifestation and biproduct of the kingdom within us. Seeking the true riches of His passionate heart towards us, letting the Holy Spirit clean out our arteries and break through the callused shell of our old heart, and letting Him give us a flaming heart that's on fire for Him and for the things that move His heart, namely souls, is where we will find fulfillment and where God will receive glory in our lives.

So, Lord, we just give You our hearts, our lives and all that we have, and we ask You to come and clean out anything and everything that is hindering the free flow of Your life giving power within us. We give You full access to our heart and our arteries, to clean out any residue of the world, any callused particles of resistance to Your perfect will in our lives, and anything that does not belong there. We thank You that You are doing a perfecting work in us, that You are molding and changing us into Your image, that we are Your workmanship created in Christ Jesus for a good work that You have prepared beforehand that we should walk in. We thank You that You are not finished with us yet, but as we yield to Your leading and Your shaping, we will surely bring glory to Your name and walk in the power and anointing that You have longed and desired for us, and those things that You did, we will surely do also and even greater things will we do because You have gone to the Father. 

So, Jesus, thank You for the fire of Your love that is in the very core of our hearts and our being. We reach in deep and partner with You as You uncover this flaming heart within us to release Your love and passion to a dying world. Amen and amen

A New Heart and a New Spirit

"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit

within you; and I will remove the heart of stone

from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you

to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to

observe My ordinances."

Ezekiel 36: 26,27

I heard the Lord speak this to me yesterday and my spirit rejoiced and began to praise Him as my mind immediately went to prodigal sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, wives and husbands, prodigals that He was touching, giving a new heart and bringing home. I knew His Spirit was being poured out in this hour, and the first fruit of the Spirit is love, and "love never fails", so I was rejoicing as I knew the Lord was doing a love-work, and His Spirit of love was drawing the prodigals home, and now He was telling me that He was going to give them a new heart and put a new spirit in them, removing the old stoney heart and giving them a heart of flesh that's pliable and soft and tender to His Word and leading. It was a great word to hear and a real encouragement to me as I thought of one particular prodigal that I had been praying for.

Then it was like the Holy Spirit began to take me deeper into the heart of God and then back into mine, and when He did, I began to see and become painfully aware of my deficiency of love and compassion, the real God kind of love, the kind of love and compassion that loves unconditionally and unreservedly, the kind of love and compassion that loves lavishly and without reservation. I knew that God had given me a gift of faith, a faith that would believe for the miraculous and stand until I saw it in the natural, but I was now hearing in my spirit, "and if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have faith, so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing" (1 Cor:13:2).  And my heart began to sink as I become convicted in my heart and aware of my lack and deficiency and it made me desperate once again and in need of more of His love, more of God's pure love that He loves me and the world with. And I began to pray and ask for this love, for Him to do a new thing in me.

A little later I began to read another chapter of a wonderful book I had started reading by Heidi Baker called "Compelled by Love". It's about her life and ministry to the people and orphans of Mozambique in Africa. It's about living out the Beatitudes and being Jesus' hands and feet to reach a dying world, the pour and suffering in third world countries and even in our own back yards. This particular chapter "Blessed Are Those Who Mourn" went deep into my heart and spirit as the Lord had already tilled the soil of my heart with His life-breathed Word in preparation for this reading. This reading continued to convict me and reveal my deficiency and need for more of God's love, and it spurred me to cry out for more of His love and more yieldedness in my heart. And then I realized that the Word from Ezekiel 36 that the Lord was speaking earlier was not just for the prodigals but it was for me and for the bride of Christ. He was pouring out His Spirit in this hour and was going to give us, His church, new hearts, taking out our old stoney hearts and put in a heart of flesh that's soft, pliable and full of mercy and compassion as He was going to be sending us out into the world to touch and heal and be His heart and hands.

Let me share a segment of this chapter with you to help you see how God was speaking to my heart.
 

"The Lord is calling for servant lovers who will call in the outcasts, who will go into the dark corners of the world and compel them to come home. And they will come. Who will go and leave their life of comfort and call in the broken? Who will go and be a learner? Who will go among those who are mourning and lay their life down for Jesus? The Lord wants His house full. It is time for us to go to the poor, to the broken, to the homeless, to the dying, and to the lonely and call them in. Thousands and thousands of "sent-out ones" need to go out to the darkest places, to the poorest places, to the forgotten places, because the wedding feast is about to begin. So many still must be called. So many are mourning and need to be comforted by our Father's love.

"Many believers in the church are frustrated because they don't see a harvest. They're discouraged because they see so little fruit being produced; they wonder why. But they keep going to the same people.

In the parable of the great banquet in Luke 14:15-24, the rich didn't want to come. They were busy enjoying their money and possessions and made excuses. The poor can't do these things, and they are eager to come to the banquet when they are invited. God says there are no excuses, but believers keep going to the wealthy and well fed in the world, wondering why they don't respond. There are just as many lost in the first world nations, yet the church is often not equipped to reach them.

"Jesus awakens us to love, but the church itself must wake up! We are not yet ready to go to the banquet at the wedding feast. The Father's house is still not full. We must reach the lost, but first we need to learn how. The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers who carry His heart are few. Our lives must be living incarnations of the love of Christ Jesus if we will ever have an effective ministry.

"What is our motivation for ministry? The Lord is looking for servant lovers--people who are passionate and filled with love for Him, people who desire and are longing for the Bridegroom's return, people who can already taste the feast and know it's about to begin. These people can no longer stand to stay in their comfort zones. They will literally run out and call in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame. And if we will go out and call them--showing the love of God--they will come."

As I read this I felt the conviction of my heart as well as the heart of the Bride, the church, and I began to repent for our lack of love, compassion, sensitivity, and laborers in the field of the poor. I began to pray for more laborers, more hearts that were passionate for the Lord and passionate to be filled with His Spirit. I began to pray that we would come out of our comfort zones and step into the "super" of His natural, to go deeper into His love and let that love move us to say and do things that we would never have said or done before, to really let the Spirit of God that lives on the inside of us flow out of us freely to touch people bring healing to them, spirit, soul and body.

Brothers and sisters, it is time for us to look deep into our hearts, to recognize the hardness and complacency and lack of love that we carry there. We know a measure, but it is not the deep, agape love of the Father, the deep compassionate and sacrificial love of Jesus that would give up all to see the restoration and redemption of the world. God SO loved the world, that He gave His only Son. We need that kind of love, that we would give our very lives for the world, the lost, the poor and the suffering to be touched and healed and brought back to the loving arms of their heavenly Father.

Help us Lord. Do a work in our hearts. Help us to have Your heart like this. Help us to truly feel Your love for the world to the point that it compels us to make a change and be Your hands and feet and heart. Help us to step out of our comfort zone and do what we've never done before, to say what we've never said, go where we've never gone, and be who we've never been. This can only be done by Your Spirit so we ask You to pour out Your Spirit upon us in a greater way. We thank You that as we drink from You and Your Spirit that the river of life in Christ Jesus would begin to flow out of us and out of our bellies.  Let the rivers of living water flow and bring healing to all those that we come in contact with. Give us yielded hearts to go to the nations if that is where You are leading us. Anoint us and use us as the leaves on the trees that stand by the river of life flowing from the throne (Rev 22:1) that are for the healing to the nations. We say "Yes" Lord. We say "Yes".