Hello friends,Just a quick note to tell everyone hello and share the direction I feel like the Lord is leading me. I believe the Lord wants me to "Take over the world!" Okay maybe not, but He spoke some things to me this evening that nudge me in a new direction. I feel like this specific time is one of studying.
So that means I'm putting off working with webpages and doing an online church directory and such matters. It's not the right season for that in my life. I'm giving up some things to focus on Jesus and local evangelizing and being a church musican. I have felt, literally felt, the awesome power of God during praise and worship recently at the Eagle's Nest Church. It is changing me.
Have you noticed a complete change in the atmostphere at the Nest? It happened just as the Lord moves, suddenly. I have always known that the Lord is known for working quickly, time is His servant and He takes plenty of time to do stuff. So if any of you were expecting a quick work, you've had to wait quite a while for it, haven't you?
Pastor Beverly gave a timely word tonight and to wrap it all up, worship was tremendous. Did you ever realize just how hard it is to hold a bass guitar and remain standing when you struggle not to fall on your face? God is really opening up the heavens and spilling down on us. Don't bring your umbrella next Sunday, we're going to get soaked and love it!
A quick prayer:
Lord, thank you for obiediant leadership, continue to bless our pastors and ministry leaders. We invite more of Your glory to inhabit the Eagle's Nest. Lord Jesus, make this place a home, house Your people here, come dwell with us. Not one person that has ever visited has ever walked away into destruction's path, all are getting saved, now open our hearts to the abnormal, the strange, the peculiar, so much more than at present. You made a group of people, many people, and shaped them to fit in at the Eagle's Nest. You have made their square pegs round to fit snuggly into this place, our house. You don't look down on us like a warden, but you are Abba Father.
Lord, there is so much coming down the road, chaos and panic, hoplessness and people without vision. Draw your people close to your chest, a warm and caring embrace. Guide each step whether it be as a baby or a stride fit for a warrior, guide each leap of faith with assured promise. Lord, give us knowledge and a simple understanding of Your sovereign plan. Speak to Your people, allow us to plan ahead wisely. We are your watchmen on the wall in this place, if your judgments are plenty on this nation tell us. Lord you are sending more fire, consuming a greater amount of Your people, continue to get us out of the way so that you are the light others see.
Lord, I am unsure of many things and my head if full of many thoughts, many visions pass before me and I see much. Lord I ask for an increase of visions, you have anointed me to be a prophetic instrument, I pluck the strings as Your hand guides, let my tune reflect what You are speaking to Your people.
As You come, I cover the house of God where You have positioned me and cover it's door posts with the blood of your spotless Lamb. You promised many tribulations and vast trials, I wash myself in the blood of Jesus. You indeed are coming suddenly, and I personally believe soon. I cover my fellow herd with Your blood, the cure and the covering. The works of the enemy will not divide us, for in Christ we are always of a common bond wherever we are at. If seperated, we are still together in prayer and in praise, in hardship and struggle, we are of One Body and of a mind in one accord. Unity knows no walls, no barriers will contain it, no prison cells will defeat it.
Lord Jesus, You are our hope, our life, and the reason why we are blessed with life. There are no "without You's" because there is no turning back, only pressing in and moving forward. Lord as we grow, we grow in You, as the church expands we are builing for You. You are our everything, and You are much! Your gift of grace, which I nought deserve, is my abundant provision and a key to every right door.
Lord, I know that you are about to place a large sum of money in our hands, and a building which we will someday aquire fully. I claim it in faith, and I look for it in each new day. I interceed for that money, not for the priviledge of wealth but as a tool to be used for the sake of Your Kingdom. As You have given us much in the past and watched our faithfulness to bless those around us, You are glad. Thus saith the Lord our God to His people, "peering through a magnifying glass for a splinter of gold, you see what is much to you, and I am pleased. But greater is your reward for a vast treasure of eternal dynamics awaits you. I will unfold before you a promised land, a land which I have promised for many years, and in this season the grass will be much greener, and the soil will be fit for new planting. New seeds will sprout new trees, new trees will build new buildings and the city will grow. As you reach into your pockets, scrambling for what little you have, those few fishes will be plenty. Few coins are easily reproduced into large sums, for I am the God of creation. If I can make the wind and point it where it need be, surely I can take your lack and fill it. You have stepped out in faith, I won't leave you swimming in cold waters. The mist of my presence will spray you some, but a testimony of great proportion will come out of your house."
Amen. Wow, I didn't expect that...