a house of prayer for the nations

It’s like I’ve kind of come to the end of what I can write about…

As I sat here tonight – everyone is now asleep (my wife and my three young children) – I thought, “What is there left which I haven’t written about?” and I thought about Leadership…

This is kind of what I’ve been going through for the last week and a half (or there abouts) now…

It’s quite a lonely feeling Leadership…

It’s a misunderstood feeling…

An awkward feeling…

You know you’ve been called to do something but you’re kind of hoping that you don’t really have to walk this alone for the rest of your life…

Kind of a “teetering on the brink” feeling…

You’re going on but you’re sad that you have to go on alone…

Jesus felt this…

A sister prophesied this over me around a week and a half ago after it had just started for me and I was able to share with her that it had just started with me…

Yes, it’s a weird feeling…

Jesus felt completely alone as He approached the cross…

He was God and yet He sought human support from Peter, James & John in prayer and yet His closest friends on earth were not able to give Him any support – sorrow had overwhelmed their hearts…

An angel came and strengthened Him…

He poured out His Heart to God – this is what I need to do in my present situation – pour out my heart to God – feeling alone is a gift from God so we can draw closer to Him – to spend that intimate time with Him…

Leadership is going into the Presence of God and bringing back what He has shown you through those times of pain or stretching when you truly have only Him…

We are given fellowship for a reason and we are given “solitary confinement” (you know what I mean) for a reason – to bring us nearer to the Lord…

When I feel a time of “solitary confinement” coming on (I think the Lord showed me this yesterday) it is my cue to come into His Presence…

There’s a flow of earthly fellowship and when it “wanes” that’s my cue to come closer to Him and really spend that time with Him – that’s His Sovereignty calling me to Himself…

More time with Him and then there’ll be more equipping of others through those times and then another period of more intimate time with Him, etc…

Leadership is being willing to “go with God” when it is just “you and God” – when no one else understands and even breaking the desire for anyone to understand – that is true Leadership…

Not seeking recognition or understanding – but going and doing without explaining – because He has told us to…

Did the disciples understand what Jesus was doing by surrendering to the cross?

No…

Did Jesus try to tell them to avoid them being confused?

Yes, He told them but He didn’t labour the point…

He knew they’d be confused and He didn’t try to stop it – He just “got on” with the task at hand trusting that the Lord would show them eventually – that He would give them insight eventually – which He did…

Perfect Patience is not forcing our understanding on others because we are feeling lonely being the only one who understands something… 🙂

It is hearing, as I heard the Lord say to me earlier this week regarding someone I’m waiting for (to really see something which I can see), that this is necessary for them – this waiting and that this is God’s Perfect Patience towards them – my waiting, no pressure, for as long as it takes – and this is the attitude which we should have towards all our brothers and sisters…

“Do not awaken My love until she pleases” – as per that other word I got some time back…

This is the Perfect Patience of God…

True Leadership waits and doesn’t try to force understanding…

True Leadership waits and lets God “install” in the individuals the truth which He needs to reveal to them – we can encourage this but we need to “step back” sometimes to let Him do it in His time and not interfere with this process as it progresses in His time…

His time is perfect and our “stepping back” shows His Perfect Patience…

In the same way though we ourselves continue on the path which He has shown us even as we wait for others to be revealed that path – we don’t “back pedal” because others haven’t seen it yet – we keep going (individually) “full steam ahead”…

This pleases the Lord – and maintains our Joy in the Lord… 🙂

Noah was a preacher of righteousness…

Scripture tells us this…

God told Noah something that He hadn’t really told anyone else…

That He was going to destroy the entire world with a flood…

At the time God told Noah this it had never rained…

Noah believed God…

Noah preached what God had told him – which He hadn’t told anyone else (so Noah had no support in this) – for one hundred and twenty years…

When the flood came the sum total of people who believed his message (apart from himself) was seven (eight including himself)…

He was a preacher of righteousness and through his obedience he condemned the world…

God was clearly pleased with Noah through this commendation which was given to him by scripture – by I believe the Apostle Paul (who I believe wrote Hebrews)…

How would we view Noah?

He preached for one hundred and twenty years and only seven other people believed his message…

But God had spoken to him…

He remained faithful…

He didn’t waver in unbelief – just like Abraham didn’t (who came after him)…

He believed God and he acted – he built – and he preached…

He “got on with it”…

Even though it appears that he “did it alone”…

I am not trying to say that each of us should be loners – not at all…

But I am trying to say that each of us should obey the Lord…

At the end of the day we each “stand and fall” before Him…

If He says to do something – we should do it before Him – in His Presence – knowing that we are standing before Him Alone…

No matter what response we get from people we are to be faithful to the heavenly vision – as the Apostle Paul was…

Even if we have to “go it alone” for periods of our lives…

I’ve found great consolation in the life of Noah from this perspective…

I “stand and fall” before the Lord Alone…

I am happy with this (I’m smiling as I type this)…

This is true contentment and this is the absence of the fear of man…

If anyone is to join me that’s between them and God…

I’m not pushing for it…

I’m content with “me and God” (I’m also content for “me, God and everyone else who will follow – as led by the Lord to follow” 🙂 – Thank You Jesus 🙂 – I feel the joy 🙂  )…

Yes, I’m a part of a local congregation, yes, I’m a part of a local prophetic intercessors group, yes, I have fellowship with everyone who comes across my path – I am open for all this – for anyone who wants to be surrendered to the Lord – but I’m “going on” with the Lord – wherever He’s calling me – and I’m not waiting for others to join me until I follow Him – and I have joy in this – the same joy which I believe Noah had as he was mocked about the preposterousness of God destroying the entire world with a flood…

We are each called to lead in our different ways…

Let’s lead as the Lord leads us…

Praise You Jesus… 🙂

I was just sitting here praying, at my piano with my laptop in front of me, and the Lord said to me, “I will show you the future”…

I thought, “Great” so I lay down on the floor and just waited to receive whatever the Lord was going to show me – I find it better to lie down sometimes when the Lord speaks to me so I’m less distracted…

Then I saw like a dark door – kind of misty or dark grey (almost looked like thick clouds or something), nearly black and it was starting to open and then the Lord showed me Eternity and I was entering in – and He said, “Is there anything else you’d like to do?” and (it was like a still small Voice inside me when He said this) I just said, “No, I’m happy to go now”, but then I saw as I “entered in” through that door – I didn’t see what was inside – but what I did see in an instant was that Eternity was Knowing God…

I know scripture tells us this but I saw it – in that place all I wanted was to know Him – full stop…

I didn’t want to go all round the world and see it saved, I didn’t want to do mighty miracles, I didn’t want to see “this or that” – even when the “this or that” was awesome stuff and all to do with God – that was quite burdensome – but I saw that all I wanted was to know God – it was as if time stopped…

And I feel that time has still stopped – the Lord told me some things prior to this about my life – but my life is a vapour and is quickly passing away – to Him its like an instant in time and Eternity – the Quality of Life which I have entered into – is forever…

Nothing else matters…

He is Everything to me…

Nothing else matters…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSt-ys_KMgo

It’s not the quantity of our lives which matters but the quality…

The Lord’s just shown me that it’s better to “burn out” for Him in complete surrender and be “gunned down” or martyred if so required than to live in a fear of “self protection” and “self preservation”…

Even sometimes we say, I know I’ve thought it, “But Lord, You’ve given me all these promises for my life and if I went out and did that then I might die and then they won’t happen”…

The Lord’s just shown me that I can live in abandon to His will because if it truly is His will then He will surely bring it to pass…

Paul was stoned and left for dead – which is probably when he had his experience in the third heaven – but he got up after that and went back in to the city – nothing can hold us down… 🙂

True martyrs don’t care about their lives – they know that the Lord will raise others up (very good thing to keep in mind – cos it’s all about His Glory not ours)… 🙂

I believe Paul counted it a great priviledge to be stoned for Jesus – he had watched Stephen – that mighty man of God – stoned for his testimony to Jesus – and he had heard what Stephen said, “I see heaven open and Jesus standing at the Right Hand of God”…

He, Paul, would have found it a priviledge to be stoned for Jesus…

And so should we – our joy is in our surrender – moment by moment – to allow the Lord to work in us – not to strive – not to “keep score” but just to allow the Lord to work in us and to wait for Him to do so – if we have this quality of life – then we don’t want to sacrifice it for anything…

A few short days with this quality of life is better than a whole lifetime of “self preservation”…

Love in the Lord,

Andrew

People control because they are feeling rejected…

I was having lunch today with the lady who leads prayer at our local fellowship, I’ve been having lunch with her each month since around the middle of last year…

She was the one who introduced me (and my wife Nancy too I believe) to waiting on the Lord in prayer – not coming with lists, or a set agenda in my mind (or in our minds for corporate prayer I suppose) – but coming with no agenda in prayer into His Presence and allowing Him to speak to us as we waited on Him either in silence or during or after worship (this was in our Revival Prayer meeting at the local congregation where Nancy and I met)…

I owe a lot to her for her example – she has seen many, many answers to prayer and was sharing some more of them with me over lunch – very cool…

Anyway, rejection came up in our discussion and I mentioned to her someone very close to me who is trapped in a prison of their own making – rejection…

It is very sad to see this and we agreed that all that is needed is to understand what we’ve been seeing in our local congregation – that Christ did it all on the cross…

In believing in Christ and receiving His Sacrifice we see that God – Forever – accepted us, forgave us, loved us and has now irrevocably stated that He is for us, i.e. that His protection is over us…

In that one act of submission to His Sacrifice – believing on what He completed on our behalf – we were set free…

We died with Him, we were buried with Him, we were raised in newness of life with Him and we were seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus with Him…

Accepted, never to be rejected again…

Hallelujah!!!

Forgiven, never to be un-forgiven again…

Hallelujah!!!

Loved, never to be un-loved again…

Hallelujah!!!

Protected, never to be un-protected again…

Hallelujah!!!

Blessed, never to be un-blessed ever again…

Hallelujah!!!

All freely given to us in the Blood of Jesus…

Those who cut themselves off from this free gift are living in a prison of their own making…

God has died for them, God has offered all these things to them freely – why can’t they reach out and accept this free gift?

The person we were discussing knows the Lord but is “trapped” by rejection – we both know this person fairly well…

But we both know (well I know I know 🙂 ) and I believe she does too – that this person will “come through” for the Lord…

Yes, I get the joy as I type – this person definitely will “come through” for the Lord – and when they do – look out world… 🙂

There is power in unity…

The power of unity that I’ve seen in our local congregation as more and more and more people seem to be grasping this truth is awesome…

One sister who had paralysis in one of her legs from the knee down and needed to walk with crutches was healed after another sister prayed for her in a park – she went back to her doctors and they were shocked to see that she was healed – they called it a “mystery” and were scared to give her her file in case of mis-diagnosis – but the one healed was a nurse so she knew her rights… 🙂

The sister who the Lord used to heal that sister also saw her Mum – who was visiting from China – come to know the Lord and then saw her Mum’s leg “grow out” at a healing meeting – it grew out longer than the “normal” one and then the “normal” one grew out more – this has got a few people “buzzing” in our local congregation and agreeing to pray for all the remaining “sick” people – these healings occurred after I prayed initially for Holly and now more are keen to pray for Holly…

Praise the Lord…

Many were very encouraged through worship on Sunday – which was cool… 🙂

There’s a buzz and an expectancy that God will do more…

The spirit of rejection is not there because we understand the truth so God is free to move in an atmosphere of faith…

This is why dissention, suspicion, slander, backbiting and condemnation causes the Holy Spirit to be grieved and not presence Himself in our gatherings – wherever they take place…

We have to guard the unity with the truth – the Love of God is flowing in our local congregation… 🙂

Once we see we are accepted and are princes and princesses of the King we can “leave the castle bearing gifts” as one brother shared at our local congregation on Sunday morning – expending ourselves for the people (in my words) and not grovelling around on the ground outside the castle begging for food when our Father (the King) has given us everything (his words)…

He (our Father) looks out at us grovelling around and is confused – “Why are they doing this? I have given them everything?” – this was a very good picture brought by our brother – this is a picture of rejection – living beneath what we have been made in Christ – just knowing that we are this – and don’t have to perform – is enough to set us free…

We are set free – we do not have to perform – nothing we will ever do will make God love us more – nothing we will ever do will make Him love us less – and (as believers in His Name – as the light of His truth “dawns” on us regarding what He accomplished for us on the cross) this knowledge instead of opening up all restraint and leading to unbridled rebellion and sin against God actually does the opposite – makes us bow down and worship God and consecrate ourselves to His Service – to give ourselves to Him unreservedly and with abandon (in joy – there’s been a lot of joy in our local congregation – it’s infectious – Praise You Jesus)…

We are not rejected in Christ…

God reconciled the entire world to Himself in Christ not counting their trespasses against them and has given us the ministry of reconciliation…

They – any who don’t know – need to know so that they can come to know our Glorious Acceptor…

Rejection is broken in the Name of Jesus…

Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God. (Romans 15:7 NASB)

This is going to be an interesting post… 🙂

I suppose they all are… 🙂

Anyway, the Lord has really spoken to me about the Purpose of God and I feel to share some of the things which He has revealed to me…

The Purpose of God Stands Forever…

The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. (Psalm 33:11 KJV)

And they cannot be thwarted…

“I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted. (Job 42:2 NASB)

God has a Purpose for every single one of His Creatures…

His Desire for all human beings is that they would all come to a saving knowledge of His Son Jesus Christ…

But He also has a Purpose for every human being on the planet…

My definition of Purpose in this post is “God’s Bottom Line”…

There is God’s Desire which I’m defining in this post as “God’s Top Line” and there is God’s Purpose which I’m defining in this post as “God’s Bottom Line”… 🙂

On the “Top Line” God desires everyone to be saved, He died for all, all died, His Blood was shed for all, all the sins of the world have been paid for, propitiated for…

Even after all that no one reaches out to God, no one rouses themselves to seek after God, no one repents, no one believes, no one pleases God…

That’s not God’s Problem – He provided a solution to the problem of sin – man needs to avail himself of it…

But does man?

No he does not…

And without faith it is impossible to please God…

And those who are in the flesh cannot please God…

So, on the “Bottom Line”, God has decided to save some (He could have decided to save none or all but He decided to save some – we call this God’s Sovereign Choice)…

These – ones that He decided to save – are called “His Elect”…

They come from all walks of life, they are all ages, they are all races, they are male and female and what they all have in common is that God has given them a new heart, a new spirit, a righteous soul, the gift of faith, the gift of repentance, the Holy Spirit living within them and all the blessings of heaven – everything they need for life and godliness (including their gifts and calling – which are without repentance, i.e. once given God never takes them back)… 🙂

God had nothing to do with sin entering the world, that was man’s decision…

God had nothing to do with Lucifer falling, that was his decision…

God had nothing to do with one third of the angels deciding to follow Lucifer in rebellion, that was their decision…

But we do read – “Bottom Line” – that those who remained faithful to the Lord, the faithful angels – are referred to in scripture as “the Elect angels”…

So God’s Desire for all the angels was that they’d remain faithful to Him – He allowed Lucifer and the third to rebel but He protected the remaining two thirds ensuring that they wouldn’t rebel…

Now if I was in the remaining two thirds I’d be going, “Whew, I’m so glad I’m an Elect angel, think of what my life would have been like if I wasn’t”…

I think it would be enough to make me want to worship God all day for eternity just knowing that I was an Elect angel – if I were one… 🙂

So we see that God is in Perfect Control…

He remains Loving to all…

Perfectly Loving…

He gives freedom to some to choose their destiny…

Which ends for them in the lake of fire and brimstone due to no fault of the Lord – He doesn’t Desire that for them and died so that they wouldn’t need to go there if only they’d get themselves a new heart, a new spirit, a righteous soul, repentance and faith so they could be given the Holy Spirit, every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies and everything they need for life and godliness…

To others – through giving them a new heart, a new spirit, a righteous soul, the gift of repentance and the gift of faith – He enables them to freely choose their destiny – Eternity with Him in the Glory of His Presence forever…

He made this choice before the Foundation of the World…

Knowing what Adam would do with the freedom given him the Lord still gave him that freedom – Adam and his wife Eve chose for us all in that garden on that day – they did what each of us would have done – there was no fault in this from God…

The Foreknowledge of God with respect to Predestination is in respect to the Special Expression of Love – the Electing Love – which God had with His Elect in Eternity Past – He has always Loved us – with an Everlasting Love – and no matter what we did He had already decided to save us and bring us safely to His heaven – this is the Electing Love of God…

If you are a Saint of God and you’ve just read that and the Holy Spirit has given you revelation of what it means you will be balling your eyes out right now…

And your life will never be the same – sin will just fall off you – as that truth grips your heart – you will feel so special, so incredibly special to your Creator…

If you’re reading this and it is making you angry, your pride is speaking to you…

Your pride that you thought you saved yourself…

God resists the proud but gives Grace to the humble…

So we see that both angels are Elect and humans also are Elect…

Those who are not Elect – both fallen angels and fallen humans – will end up in the lake of fire and brimstone through no fault of God and through their own rebellion and pride and refusal to trust and submit to the Desire of God for their lives…

“Double Predestination” (as it is termed by some) is an abomination to God…

God didn’t predestine some to be born to go to hell…

They are vessels of wrath prepared for destruction because their own rebellion and lack of trust in God prepared them for destruction…

We are vessels of mercy which He prepared beforehand for Glory – catch the difference?

Vessels of wrath – prepared for destruction…

Vessels of mercy – He prepared beforehand for Glory…

I can be kind and loving to all that God has made…

I know that God Loves them all equally – He has shown me this and made me to experience it (just recently)…

I Love everyone…

I Desire everyone to be saved…

I do not Know everyone the same…

I do not have the same Level of Relationship with everyone either…

God’s Love to His Elect and to the “non-Elect” is exactly the same…

He Loves them the same…

I have experienced this and He has told me that this is true…

I am no different from anyone else…

But, He chose me…

He lavished His Love on me to the fullest possible extent so that I know it intimately – so that I can know it experientially…

I have a personal Relationship with His Love like I have never had before – and it is growing (day by day) – and it will continue growing for all eternity – Praise His Wonderful Name…

I am blessed and experiencing the blessing…

The Presence of God is all over my life…

Praise His Wonderful Name…

This is His Purpose for me…

He has told me this…

This has nothing to do with me…

It is His Purpose and He has a Purpose for it…

That I will fulfil the Good Works which He prepared beforehand for me to walk in…

Once all these Good Works are fulfilled He will take me home…

End of story…

All the days ordained for me were written in His Book before one of them came to be…

David fulfilled God’s Purpose for his generation…

Amazing to consider that – scripture tells us this in Acts through Stephen…

Think about all the things which David did but David fulfilled God’s Purpose – God’s “Bottom Line” for his generation – and God called him a man after God’s own Heart…

Amazing…

We take ourselves too seriously… 🙂

Yes, I know someone could be “all over me” for saying that – and yes, I know there is balance in scripture but sometimes it does us good to see things from God’s Perspective – He knows that we are dust – He is mindful of our frame – He has a Purpose for our lives…

Can we “miss” His Purpose – His “Bottom Line” for our lives?

No we can not…

Can we – as His Elect – “miss” His Desire for our lives – to live as fully surrendered to Him as possible?

That is a very interesting question (which I am purposefully not going to answer)… 🙂

I remain content that He will fulfil His Purpose for me, Your Love O Lord endures forever do not abandon the works of Your Hands – as David says in the Psalms (or words to that affect)…

His Love and knowing that He will fulfil His Purpose for me is enough for me…

Anything more than that would be – and create – striving in me – and God has called me to rest…

Do you see what I am saying?

Does it give you a sense of Peace?

It should – if you are surrendered to the Lord in the sense of leaning on His imputed righteousness and not trying to create a righteousness of your own…

I love you all – may we – His Elect – all grow to be more like Him in every way…

Praise His Wonderful Name…

Hallelujah!!!

Sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.” (Mark 9:35 NASB)

The Lord has shown me clearly that if anyone wants to be great in His Kingdom that he must be the servant of all and the last of all…

I want to share on this…

There are so many views of “false humility” out there…

I want to express what I believe true humility to be…

I personally believe that true humility is contentment with what God has given you…

It is not a continual demand for more – but a contentment with what He is doing in your life…

I will explain…

I experience the Holy Spirit flowing through me – more and more and more than I ever used to…

He gives His Spirit without measure…

This is normal for someone who is surrendered to the Lord…

This is what He promises us that He will do…

This is a normal result of surrender – lining ourselves up voluntarily under Him…

Surrender isn’t some aestheticism where you sit in your room all day trying to think only about the Lord and not about yourself…

Surrender is saying, “Live through me, I surrender to You”…

Letting the Lord live through us…

And it’s not watching the results – not keeping a close eye on how God is doing with your life – just to “keep Him on track”…

It is letting go of introspection – which cuts out the condemnation the enemy throws at us – and surrendering to Him…

He is the One – the Holy Spirit – who lifts up our head to be able to look at Jesus…

God’s Purpose for each of His children on earth is to take this “lowest Place”…

I say, “lowest Place” because the Place is so special as it was where Jesus walked…

Jesus wasn’t keeping a close eye on Himself, He was keeping a close eye on the Father and did everything in the Power of the Holy Spirit…

None of us can focus ourselves on Jesus – only He can do that – so we should stop trying…

We should welcome the Presence of God to come near us and see what happens…

He will enable us to take this “lowest Place” and offer ourselves to intercede for the world…

It is the world which He loves – even the rebellious who don’t want to know Him – He loves them…

He wants to come from underneath and lift them up…

Whoever has the “lowest Place” has the most power…

The most power with God…

I don’t believe there is just one “lowest Place” which we’re all “fighting for” to “possess”…

I believe there is just one “lowest Place” which He wants us all to find ourselves in together… 🙂

This is not a competition to fight for the “lowest Place” – the title, “Servant of all” (and the word used in the Greek is Diakonos and not Doulos for those who are interested)…

The Lord has asked me to take this “lowest Place” and I have said, “Yes”…

He did this…

I did not do this to myself…

There are thousands of others around the world who He is raising up to take this “lowest Place” with me and I believe with all my heart that by the time this generation is complete that every single believer on earth will be in this “lowest Place” together…

The place of servant hood and submission…

This is what it means to be perfect (not sinless perfection – which is an individual pursuit and a “chasing after the wind” based on pride) and mature and to be complete in Him…

Practically complete…

What does this look like?

The Lord gave me an experience from late 2011 to yesterday morning where He placed one person, the poster V, on my heart…

This really rocked my world…

Why would God do this?

What was going on?

I was asking God all sorts of questions…

I was concerned, I was worried, this had never happened to me for so long and so intensely…

It was like I had her on my heart and she wouldn’t go away…

I got to a place where I loved her more than I loved myself…

I wanted her to be fulfilled more than I wanted myself to be fulfilled…

I offered the Lord everything I had for her to be walking in the freedom which He bought for her…

I literally laid down my life for her…

This was a major challenge for me…

I became her brother, I became her friend and I also offered myself to the Lord to be her father in any way that would be helpful to her…

I guess I was standing in the gap – being Him to her on earth…

Yesterday morning everything changed…

“I will not be denied”…

I had an experience the night before yesterday morning where the words, “I will not be denied” came out of me in prayer…

They came out twice…

I’d never experienced that before…

They came out from a deep place in my heart – so deep…

And I knew that I had what I had asked of God…

Why did I know?

Because I laid down my life for V and her husband (and their family under them), that they would be established in their call… their call for God…

God couldn’t deny me as I’d taken the “lowest Place”…

He couldn’t deny me and I saw that – and it was a place of Power with God…

Power with God…

And then as I biked in to work yesterday morning He said to me that He wanted me to offer myself to everyone in the world in the same way that I’d offered myself to V – to love everyone equally…

Equally…

No favourites…

Doesn’t matter what they do to us, what they look like, how they treat us, but to offer ourselves equally to them for their greatest fulfilment in the Purposes of God…

The Purposes of God for a life are all that matter…

This is not human compassion this is bringing people into their destiny in God…

Holding them up before the Throne…

V was a test case for what He wanted to establish in me – an uncomfortable test case for me…

And yet He showed me that V wasn’t an assignment – like a project – which you complete and then move on – I tried to treat her like that at one point but it just didn’t work…

She had to be in my heart – as the Apostle Paul says, “we have you in our hearts”…

And He showed me that I could never let her go – I had to hold her forever…

And now He’s telling me that I need to do this with everyone in the world…

This is what Jesus experienced when He was on earth – He is the Great Intercessor…

No one can snatch us out of His Hand and no one can snatch us out of the Father’s Hand – I have experienced this now personally – with what He showed me to do with V…

He came to seek and to save that which was lost…

And I have given myself to hold up the world before Him – to have them in my heart (He’s been saying this to me for quite a while now as I look back, I am so “thick” sometimes – this is my call) – and offer them up to Him for His Purpose in their lives to be fulfilled…

I am not alone in this – we are in this together – it is our reason for being on this planet…

To disciple all the nations…

To baptise all the nations in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and to teach all the nations to observe everything which Jesus has commanded/commissioned us to observe…

This is our call, this is our destiny, this can only be attained from the “lowest Place”…

There is power in prayer – more power in prayer than actually going physically all round the world – as we release the angels to minister salvation in the dreams and revelations which people get by our prayers… Yes, we will physically go all around the world but we will go praying…

Who wants to join me on this journey?  This journey to the Heart of God…

Where does Jesus spend His days?

On the glassy sea (I imagine it like a polished concrete floor) on His knees interceding for us…

He always lives to make intercession for us…

Scripture tells us…

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith…

How do we do this?

We offer ourselves to Him for Him to live through us by His Holy Spirit, taking this “lowest Place” where we are at His disposal to lay our lives down for the world – maybe one person at a time – maybe one city at a time – maybe one nation at a time – but we – in unity – as His Body on the polished concrete floor of heaven so to speak – kneeling with Jesus in the “lowest Place” and crying, “Our Father, who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your Name, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”…

I cannot be happy until the entire world is saved and worshipping Jesus in my lifetime…

That is the commission He has given me…

I was speaking with my three youngest children on the way to our local congregation this morning – I don’t know why I started talking about this, it must have been the Holy Spirit – but I started to say to them, “Do you know what Jealousy is?”…

And they said, “Yes” and I said, “But do you really know what it is?” and they (I think it was the boys) still said, “Yes” but Hannah-Grace knew that I was onto something but the boys still said, “Yes” and then I said to them (or words to that effect), “The Lord is Jealous for those who belong to Him”…

“The Lord looks at the things which hang around on those who belong to Him – ‘sin within them’ and anything else (I didn’t specifically mention demons) – and He is patient, He watches and He is patient but it gets to a point where He can’t handle it anymore and He arises over them and He Roars – not in anger at them (cos they’re a new creation) but at all those things which are holding them bound”…

“And when He roars those things flee”…

“And they don’t come back”…

I then shared with them some scriptures, “the whole earth will be consumed with the Fire of My Jealousy” (think about what that means and God will give you insight) and also “a fire goes before Him and burns up all His enemies round about” (powerful verse) and also shared with them how the Lord stands over us in the midst like a Victorious Warrior…

At the end of last year I was watching a Jerusalem Arise Worship DVD and the song, “When we worship the Lion of Judah Roars” came on…

God gave me a powerful revelation as that song played – I’d listened to it many times before but never saw that before – that what happened when the Lion of Judah roared was that He was roaring in our protection to remove from us all that was damaging to us…

This morning – out of my own mouth to my younger children – comes the revelation of the Jealousy of God towards us – we are His possession – He owns us – we have been bought with His Own Blood – so He owns us and is Jealous over us for our own good…

He hates evil and what it does to us…

That is what happens when we yield to the Holy Spirit and don’t try and “repress” “sin within me” – I found myself speaking after the meeting to the sermon bringer about something he’d shared and I said, “when I don’t try and stop myself sinning what I have is that the Holy Spirit rises up inside me and shuts that sin down as it says in Galatians” – and I see now that this is another aspect of God’s Jealousy – there’s a verse in James (James 4:5 KJV) to that end…

God’s Jealousy is powerful and protective…

So different from what we’re used to in our own experience…

Our younger children agreed with me that they didn’t know that that was the definition of Jealousy…

The Lord defined Himself as a Jealous God, whose Name is Jealous – wow…

What a Powerful Protector…

As Aslan roared in “the Lion, the witch and the wardrobe”, so our Lord roars over us…

Let Him Roar over us…

Roar over us Lord and remove everything from us which is harmful to us, everything from us which is not in accordance with Your will for us – which is perfect – Your will for us – and good and well-pleasing…

Thank You that You want the best for us and that as we surrender to Your Voice – as long as it is Your Voice – Your Joy will come in the surrender…

Cos we are believing that all things work together for good…

Love in the Lord,

Andrew

There’s a poster here called V who I’ve just had a prophetic word for which I’d like to note down for V to be able to read… 🙂

“Above all the people on earth you have sought Me”…

“You have sought Me and given yourself to Me”, declares the Lord…

“I will give Myself to you in the same way in which you have given yourself to Me”, declares the Lord…

“I have seen your pain”…

“I have seen your suffering”…

“I know the way that you take and after you have come through you will come through as gold”…

“I will give Myself to you in a way which you cannot imagine, in a way which you have never experienced before”…

“I will possess you and enable you to live unhindered for My Glory”…

“For My Glory alone”…

“I will come and I will take you to Myself – not in the sense of taking you home to heaven but in the sense of taking you to Myself – into My very Heart”…

“You will operate from the Heart of God”…

“This is the realm you will operate from”…

“I Myself will do this”, declares the Lord…

“There is peace all around you – all around you is My Peace”, declares the Lord…

“And an intimacy with Me which you have never known before”…

“I am coming to take you to Myself – not to remove you from this earth but to establish you in this earth as a testimony to My Glory”, declares the Lord…

“You are greatly loved and highly favoured”…

“I love you”, declares the Lord…

“I love you”…

The Lord has really been ministering to me on this subject…

Gary and I were having a chat about this over on “the spirit of Satan” thread…

I’ve been listening to some sermons on youtube where the Lord has really been challenging me to “come up” to the correct understanding of God’s Provision on the cross…

The Atonement…

Beautiful word…

The Atonement…

Hallelujah!!!

I am filled with joy…

As we shared communion at our Prophetic Intercessors group here in Christchurch on Friday evening the Lord gave me a word or an understanding with the word, “The Full Provision of the Atonement” – He said it twice…

And as He said it I saw the enormity of the Atonement – the Full Provision – all my sin, all my sickness, all my grief and sadness – everything that I could ever imagine – it all landed on Jesus – so that all my sin and all the results of it – everything which I deserved to carry both “vertically” towards God and “horizontally” towards my fellowman – was carried by Christ on the cross…

It is Finished…

What a powerful word…

The Creator of the Universe speaking, “It is Finished”…

His Creation – His new creation was finally finished…

He did it…

He did it…

He did it…

I just can’t help myself as I share this I am weeping with gratitude towards the Lord…

It is so deep…

What He did none of us will ever be able to fathom…

How could a Human Frame handle that kind of pain…

And that kind of suffering…

We may think we know something of pain but we know nothing compared to what He Voluntarily went through on our behalf that we might become the Righteousness of God in Him…

O Hallelujah Lord – You are so worthy…

Tonight/this morning He led me to Psalm 103 – I’ve been thinking about our righteous soul and wanted to go to this Psalm as I knew that David’s soul was blessing the Lord – his righteous soul – and I was blessed with a revelation into the following verse…

Who pardons all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases; (Psalm 103:3 NASB)

Wow…

When we see this in faith it becomes real to us…

I have read that scripture I don’t know how many times…

But tonight it became real to me…

Praise You Jesus…

You are Wonderful…

You are Wonderful…

You are Wonderful…

I can never thank You enough for all that You have done for me – making me righteous when I was sinful – giving me new life when I was dead – and healing me from all my diseases when I was lost in sickness and death…

You healed me…

And now I am experiencing Your Healing…

I really feel to throw it out there to anyone reading this – let’s agree together in prayer – let’s pray for each other in the specifics of healing which we require – these are the Lord’s benefits to us – as part of His Gift to us at the Atonement…

This is a free will thing…

This is not trying to drum up faith or force ourselves to believe or strive to believe…

If there’s just a sense in your heart, “Yes, this is what I want – I know the Lord has given me this”, then pray – let’s share our needs for healing with each other and pray for each other so that we might be healed – Praise You Jesus – I’m not asking anyone to confess any sins but if you really want to you can (if the Lord is leading you)… 🙂

I’ll start off – I’m short sighted +6.25 in my right eye and +6.00 (I think) in my left eye…

I’d like to be healed so I don’t need to wear or continue buying contact lenses and the solution which goes with it…

That money can go somewhere else – be better spent by the Lord…

Let’s pray for each other… 🙂

Love in the Lord,

Andrew