Glory

As I was praying the Lord anointed me to pray for His glory to fill the Earth. During these intercessions my I-Pod malfunctioned and began to play Psalms 97 vs 1-6, which is the scripture quoted in the middle of Michael W Smith’s song, Open the Floodgates of Heaven. The verses describe the power and might of the Lord, and the ensuing effects that His glory has on the observers! Right after these verses were quoted the man began to powerfully intercede for the Lord’s glory to come in power!

I was instantly reminded of how the Lord had shown me during a prior intercessory prayer time that His glory is going to pour out of His bride in the approaching days, where when Christians touch the ‘lost’ the lost come into contact with the King of kings. Rivers of Living Water will flow from each believer and will flood the world with Light. The world will see the manifest presence and glory of Jesus, and as a result many will believe!

While recollecting the above prophetic sense, I was filled with another awesome feeling. I think that there will be numerous times when the Glory of God will descend in power during times of worship. When I say power, I mean like we have not experienced before! Where He will cloak church services with such intense Glory that people will be healed, delivered, restored, and saved without even talking to another person! Where direct contact with the living God who created the cosmos is common!

The sense that He has given me is that He is coming back for His Earth. He is coming soon, and wants us to prepare like we have never prepared before. Time is short. The needed preparations are many. I believe He is looking for a people who will ‘house’ His glory. He is looking for a humble people who are lovesick for Him and for the lost in this world. He is looking for a people who will obey His calling regardless of the cost. He is looking for a people that won’t take control of their destinies but will rather die to themselves so that they can live in Him. He is looking for these people so that He can fashion an End Times army that will usher in His Glory like never before seen!

He is coming, but first He is calling. He is calling us to stand up as Samuel did, and to say, “Speak Lord for I am listening.”

A Heart Circumcised

The Father has been showing me, through experience, that our hearts can be tainted by ‘blackness’. What we may view as character flaws, or an unfortunate personality, rather may be connected to a damaged heart.

During this past week He has been connecting me to His pure love, and the effects of this experience have brought major amounts of restoration to an incomplete heart. After tasting a morsel of His true love I can literally feel His light flooding into the dark alleys of my soul. Where I have struggled with many sin issues, this heart refurbishing that He is putting me through is removing the very roots of sinful desire. Where in the past I had to wage fierce spiritual wars to abstain from dwelling in various transgressions, in His grace He has completely severed off the infectious parts of my heart. And instead of abandoning me as an incomplete person He is presently constructing a new creation!

He is showing me that our ability to live in ‘pure love’ is the very cornerstone of our lives (God is love). His unaltered love for us takes our ragged, beaten, and damaged hearts and molds, shapes, and loves them into perfection (I say this while understanding that sinfulness isn’t attainable on Earth). It is with a more complete heart that we view life with a sharpened clarity. Where we may have been caught up in a blanket of murk before, our eyes are now opened to the realities of evil and righteousness.

I believe that this all began with a simple prayer. The prayer was to possess His heart, and to know His love. And in order for this to happen, pray, ‘Lord, please ‘judge’ me. Please bring your righteous judgments on me while I’m still living on Your Earth.’ This prayer could potentially unleash an onslaught of the most terrible circumstances that will in turn lead to the most exhilarating and liberating outcomes, a heart that is truly circumcised from its wrongful passions. The Lord’s ‘judgments’ bring us to a place of meekness and humility that can’t help but attract the most wonderful thing that we can partake in, the transforming power of His grace. After He cleaves the sin from our lives He then places in our chests hearts that burn for purity and love.

It is by first tasting His pure love that makes true heart transformation possible. I believe that His eyes are roaming the Earth searching for those who will willingly, and even desire to go through His judgments (to be opened, filleted, and transparent before Him and man so that the sinful, hidden corners of our hearts can be repaired), because in this way we are then positioned to drink His pure love to the fullest. In this way He aligns us to conquer the principalities of darkness and to expand His holy kingdom!