My Heart's Cry

I feel a pulling from the Lord to repentance and to give myself to a time of "sackcloth and ashes". I am not reaching my potential in Christ with the way I am living now. It's not enough.

There is a time that is coming soon where I will be needed to do things that I cannot personally do without God's help. There is something great and terrible coming and I fear that I am not capable of ministering to people or representing Christ to the degree that I should. I must change. I feel as though God is granting His people a small window of time to repent and prepare for the coming storm. Most of us are so asleep that we cannot and will not wake up.
God says,

"Awake you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light!"
Ephesians 5:14

Can you not see that we are the light of the world? What good is that light if we hide it? Why would Jesus die for a group of people to calmly and quietly hide their flicker of a flame? A Christian you say? Bleh. We are no more worthy of the title "Christian" than Satan is "righteous"!

Jesus said that these signs shall follow them that believe;
1. In my name shall they cast out devils;
2. They shall speak with new tongues;
3. They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Mark 16:17-18

How many have you accomplished this week? We are so enamored with ourselves that we cannot even see the sinner! Forget Satan and his minions! We can't even conquer our own flesh! How are we supposed to have signs and wonders that lead to the glory of Christ if we can't stay saved for more than 5 hours?

Jesus also stated that, "Unless your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven"!

Matthew 5:20

God, please let me be better than the people who nailed your Son on the cross. Forgive me, oh God! Give me clean hands and a pure heart. Let there be a right spirit in me and create in me a clean heart. Let my focus be solely on you. You are the one true King, the only One Righteous Lord, the Lover of my soul, my Provider, my Comfort, you alone are worthy!

My Mirror

I've been praying about things lately and have found that we have so much more pride than we think. It has infiltrated our lives to the very core. We have become so much like our enemy that the Father no longer sees His son in our lives but the working of Satan! 

How often we think we are being abused or under appreciated! I deserve more! It is my right! So many preachers focus on "Our authority in Jesus" instead of "The lordship of Christ". We don't need a master, only a nanny. Someone who can watch out for us. Someone who can change us when we make a mess of things. Someone who can feed us what we want, when we want it. No more, no less.

We no longer have an all powerful God who reigns in majesty and unity, but have reduced Him to our slave! With what authority do we say or believe such things? You know what it is that gives us this belief. The church has focused so much on it that it has lost the sight of Jesus altogether. It is the spirit of anti-Christ. We can't see! If we would only look into the mirror, we would find our anti-Christ.
Can you not see? It is yourself! 

I have become like my enemy. God forbid that we become so blessed from Heaven and are bestowed with immense power from the Holy Spirit that we outshine Christ in this world!

Forgive us Lord.