More than simply doing

I have been recently struck by some thoughts. Bible reading, prayer, other book reading, and massive amounts of "God waving his arms at me" has given rise to the thoughts that are about to be written and penned. I pray you would consider them well and let the spirit do His work in you with the message below.

"Another type of religous leader must arise amoung us. He must be of the old prophet type, a man who has seen visions from the throne. When he comes( and I pray God there be not one but many,) he will stand in flat contradiction to everything our smirking, smooth generation holds dear. He will contradict, denounce, and protest in the name of God and will earn the hatred and opposition of a large segment of Christendom. Such a man is likely to be lean, rugged, blunt-spoken and a little bit angry with the world. He will love Christ and the souls of men to the point of willingness to die for the glory of the One and the salvation of the other. He will fear nothing that breathes with mortal breath. "
-Tozer

I said in my last blog "With events that are to happen that will showcase God's power over the next few years we need to stop... God will show himself to an unbelieving generation and for the first time in a long while they will begin to turn accepting the baptism and embracing belief. But it can't be anything we as christians piece together for them!" I still stand by that thought. We need to get out of the way and stop doing .We need to have everything be an overflow of the heart nothing less than that is God's design. I know all the ways a church could be "succesful" in the eyes of many in Christendom and I know what I could do to help a church achieve that. But I choose not to for a time because that is not the point. Perhaps in so doing I may be a catalyst for change? I certainly do hope so.Until the time I begin to once again overflow I am working on the foundation of all things that go big, the heart. The only thing that matters. "For who has despised the day of the small things"-Zechariah 4:10.As I write about over and over again it boils down to YOU AND JESUS. When we get that right we are given keys to the kingdom and step into something far greater than anything anyone has seen in this lifetime. . God delights when we simply delight in Him. We were foremost created to worship, we need always have that at the forefront of our mind. IT IS ALL ABOUT JESUS .

There are many tendencys within Christendom that I do in part despise. But one above all is that our days do not need the same old thing that we, christendom, have tried and failed at. We need to get to the heart of the issue, the heart. I know that when the God of the universe is aroused from his Holy habitation the flesh is silenced and wonderful things start to happen( Zecharaiah 2:13.) God is aroused by his servants being aroused there hearts longing for God himself this is often showcased by the doing but it is never about simply doing. God is on the move and is being aroused as we speak moving in huge ways in many areas of the world not by action but by heart. I want God to be aroused in our country, God does not have me here for some small thing. I will not let him do small things around me and as much as it is in my power to make sure of that I will influence things. He deserves all things all worship and all praise.

I read things like "Return to me...that I may return to you." ( Zechariah 1:3) and I read things like" He who has believed and been baptized...will lay hands on the sick and they will recover(Mark 16:16-18)." And I understand for once why I doubt and many doubt. It is because we as Christians are not doing all that God says for us to do . We are not taking the first step. He will not return, be aroused if you will, in our lives unless we take the first step. I beg I plead I pray for that to happen but ultimately it is up to the individual to open up the doors and say "my dearest Lord, come into my house lets fix what is broken between us."

Deal with it and fix it! It is most certainly worth fixing...

Until that though my heart will echo this song:

Don't try to wake me up
Even if the sun really does come out tomorrow
Don't believe anything you say anymore
In the morn, in the morning
Bricks to this old house are breaking
Steel would have weathered
But now forlorning
It's alarming how loud the silence screams
No warn, no warn, no warning

Addictions fill the table where the family used to sit
And conversate, conversate to the sounds
To the sounds of a record player
With it's jumping needle
And the lights that grow dim over time

With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive

Are you where you thought you'd be
So beautiful and only twenty-three
Opposition rests in the hearts
With no, with no, with no opportunity
It's not that we don't talk
I'ts just no one really listens

And honesty fades
Like a politician lost in the course
All smiles and no one remembers our names

With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive

Don't try to wake me up
Even if the sun really does come out tomorrow
Don't believe anything I say anymore
In the morn, in the morning

With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
-Anberlin



I love you all dearly,
JG