Let the fire burn...
Things are getting difficult. The fire is burning. But like my housemate said, 'Wild horses make the best racers once their raw power is honed.' I like that. I'm in the desert right now. I'm in the fire. I'm in the process of refining, of being honed. Hopefully I will emerge beautiful. Here is an excerpt from Tommy Tenny on www.godchasers.com:
Intimacy with God requires a certain level of brokenness. Purity comes from brokenness. The games are over, friend. He’s calling you because He is in love with you.
“…he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. He destined us in love to be his...(Ephesians 1:4-6).
Could it be that we don’t want to get into a close relationship with God because we know He’s going to look into our hearts, and we know what He will find there? We have to deal with more than our outward actions; we have to deal with our inward motives also. We must come clean,. God can’t reveal His face to a partially pure Church. It would be destroyed in an instant.
God is calling people who want serious revival into a place of transparent purity. It’s you He’s after. He wants you to draw near. At the same time, if you do come near, then your flesh must be dealt with. That can only mean one thing: You must die out to self. This is the same God who told Moses, “No man has seen My face and lived.” So remember to pass by the altar of forgiveness and sacrifice on your way into the Holy of Holies. It’s time for us to lay our egos on the cross, to crucify our will, to lay our own agendas aside.
God is calling you to a higher level of commitment. Forget the plans you’ve made for yourself -- lay on His altar and surrender. Pray, “God, what do You want me to do?” It’s time to lay everything aside and cover yourself in the blood of Christ. Nothing alive can stand in His presence. Did you get that? “Nothing alive” – so to experience the ultimate presence of God you must enter a walking dead man. Your lungs are breathing, but your agenda is dead. Before you can legitimately pray “Thy kingdom come” you must sincerely pray “My kingdom go”! And if you’re dead, then He will make you alive. All you need to do is die if you really want to get into His presence. When the apostle Paul wrote, “I die daily,” he was saying, “I enter into the presence of God every day” (see 1 Cor. 15:31b). Run in don’t run away! Risk your ego to experience His favor.
Intimacy with God requires a certain level of brokenness. Purity comes from brokenness. The games are over, friend. He’s calling you because He is in love with you.
“…he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. He destined us in love to be his...(Ephesians 1:4-6).
Could it be that we don’t want to get into a close relationship with God because we know He’s going to look into our hearts, and we know what He will find there? We have to deal with more than our outward actions; we have to deal with our inward motives also. We must come clean,. God can’t reveal His face to a partially pure Church. It would be destroyed in an instant.
God is calling people who want serious revival into a place of transparent purity. It’s you He’s after. He wants you to draw near. At the same time, if you do come near, then your flesh must be dealt with. That can only mean one thing: You must die out to self. This is the same God who told Moses, “No man has seen My face and lived.” So remember to pass by the altar of forgiveness and sacrifice on your way into the Holy of Holies. It’s time for us to lay our egos on the cross, to crucify our will, to lay our own agendas aside.
God is calling you to a higher level of commitment. Forget the plans you’ve made for yourself -- lay on His altar and surrender. Pray, “God, what do You want me to do?” It’s time to lay everything aside and cover yourself in the blood of Christ. Nothing alive can stand in His presence. Did you get that? “Nothing alive” – so to experience the ultimate presence of God you must enter a walking dead man. Your lungs are breathing, but your agenda is dead. Before you can legitimately pray “Thy kingdom come” you must sincerely pray “My kingdom go”! And if you’re dead, then He will make you alive. All you need to do is die if you really want to get into His presence. When the apostle Paul wrote, “I die daily,” he was saying, “I enter into the presence of God every day” (see 1 Cor. 15:31b). Run in don’t run away! Risk your ego to experience His favor.
posted by Soaring @ 10:55 am
3 Comments:
At 8:40 am,
Soaring said…
NO.
At 9:26 am,
Soaring said…
Enough with the Purpose Driven Life stuff... I don't care that the whole reason for exisiting is to be painfully moulded into the image of Christ! It can't be what its all about! Come on! I mean, I welcome it, but isn't there a reward on earth? Isn't there something we can posess NOW that is going to make it all better? In the midst of the pain and the strife and the death and the separation and all of that stuff? Yes, yes, I know the answer is God, the answer is always God, it is always the peace and grace and mercy and presence and glory and all of that... there is no other answer.
At 10:52 am,
Soaring said…
Didn't mean to have a go, its just that during this time of - growth, pain, whatever, how do we get through it? OK, one day at a time...
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