Archive for September, 2007
The Wind is Blowing Part 2
By Janee Hawks
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Click here to review “The Wind is Blowing Part 1″ to keep continuity.
There is most assuredly a divine wind blowing across the earth causing great transitions and repositioning in the lives of many. The "system" of this world is rapidly coming into the fullness of rebellion against God and its ruin will not be far away. Nations, governments, cities, and seas will see great shakings. "Through it all," as renovating storms come, I do believe America will change from its state of moral corruption into a people who know and love the God who graced them to be a great nation on the earth.
The churches of Jesus Christ will be shaken to expose their man-made traditions and its lack of Holy Spirit love and power. The Holy Spirit is God working on the earth today and He alone is the builder of the Kingdom of God within the church and through the church. The church is the salt of the earth and the light to this world. If what we are and what we build is not the Kingdom of God that Jesus and His apostles preached then it will not withstand the storms coming or the seducing spirits of deception. Only His kingdom will rise in His glory to see justice come and His will be done on the earth as it is in heaven.
God is preparing His church right now to become the laborers of the earths harvest. He is calling out the deep in His people shaking the lives, the leaders and the ministries to reveal what lies in the depth of their soul. As God’s word says deep is calling unto deep. He is working to bring to the surface out of our inner man what we are really made of, for He wants to fill His church with the holiness and character of His Son who will return for a victorious glorious bride who has been made ready. If we believe, we will see the glory of the Lord.
So church how do we conquer now in such a time as this in a day when we see that many are falling prey to the masked seducing spirits and many are failing to see they have a destiny God designed for them? "Not by might, not by power, but by My Spirit says the Lord." The most serious problem in the church is that many confessing believers today are forsaking the very fountain of living water, the supply of the Holy Spirit and have built themselves stale religious cisterns of water that leak and will not hold in the day of trouble. These that refuse the fresh river of Holy Spirit life will become swamps and marshes that will eventually be given over to salt or, in other words, hardness of heart. (Refer to Jeremiah 2:13, 2:19; Ezekiel 47:11)
The life-giving river flowing from the person of the Spirit of God is like unto a real living rushing river that is always moving and bringing change and fresh life within and without. Everywhere this river is allowed to flow it brings new life, fresh water, and healing streams. A cistern of water may seem good but it is not God given like the fountain of living water of His own Spirit. Cisterns of water are stationary and grow stale over time. They have a form of life and godliness but no power. Many religious cisterns have been made down through the church age in all cultures around the world. Religions have produced great wars in our world and have produced pride and division in the church. Religion has cast deadly judgments to many Holy Spirit revivals that are a mighty move of God. The spirit of religion blinds you from seeing Christ.
The devil himself loves religions. He formed them in a counterfeit disguise of God’s one real plan of salvation in order to deceive and destroy mankind. It was distorted religion without love that killed Christ. And it still is killing Christ in believers and churches that deny the move and power of the Spirit of God.
You cannot conquer the influence of the world system, the fallen nature within, and the forces of the devil’s kingdom today with a man made religious cistern of water. You cannot be the conqueror Jesus died to make you without the living waters of the Holy Spirit. Jesus came in the power of the Holy Spirit and left this world promising that same Holy Spirit to come to all who would believe and receive empowering them to continue His work on the earth until He returns. We are left here to learn to love and to be His body releasing His power to see His will done on the earth.
In the heart of Christianity there must come another "wind of regeneration" that rebirths the church back to its real head, the Lord Jesus Christ and into a lifestyle of knowing and communing with the Spirit of God. The Father in heaven is jealous to see everything His son died for become a supernatural reality in the lives of believers. It is not the "good things" that will withstand the storms coming but it is only the "God things" whether it is in a Christian’s life, a family, a ministry or a Christian business. If we cling to something that seems good like a nice comfortable, safe cistern of religion that is familiar and we can understand it; then we could totally miss the God things that will take us far beyond our own limitations into His fountain, His stream, His mighty river and out into a great sea of human impossibilities where His Kingdom comes.
Jesus looks at us still today, to every genuine believer and says,
"The kingdom of God is within you."
The Father God looks to each on of us today and says,
"Glorify Me on the earth, abide in the Son, produce the fruit of My Kingdom for I have sent you My promise. I sent you another, My own Spirit, who comes out from Me to be the source of power in you and with you forever. God is in us and with us. (Selah) He will keep you from deception for He is the spirit of truth that will teach you ALL things and lead you through all things. He will pour love into your heart as you obey My word and My voice. He will speak of Me and tell you things to come."
Church, how can we so easily quench the moving of God’s very own spirit for our own lifeless move? How can we resist Him choosing to make our own path some other way, and grieve His big heart of love with all our other loves? Lets fall down and be broken on the rock of Christ Jesus repenting before a mighty Father and call out again for an outpouring of God’s Spirit on our lives and our churches.
Scripture references: John 13-17; Luke 20:17-18; Luke 24:49; Acts 2:4, 2:38
To be continued in Part 3
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The Wind is Blowing Part 1
By Janee Hawks
Friday, September 7th, 2007
The wind begins to blow as a soft gentle breeze and gently picks up to a wind that rustles the trees, then it begins to blow with an audible noise moving things around a bit and finally it is a strong gale of wind changing everything in its path. The wind begins to blow with such intensity that it moves the dirt off the ground; it takes all humidity and debris out of the air. It topples what has been planted and even uproots them.
The winds of great change are blowing across the whole earth today. Our world is changing in the seas, the cities, the nations, and the governments. The winds of great transition are blowing on the earth and its intensity is increasing gradually. America is changing, our world is shifting, and there is coming an awakening to a new world order.
We live in a day of great deception for all mankind. We live in a day of great transition, both good and bad. While the deeds of darkness are increasing so also His glory is rising even more to its greatest heights of power. Where sin abounds His grace will much more. His mercy and justice will prevail. We are preparing for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The earth is being prepared for the curtain to open on the scene of Revelation Chapter five when the Lamb of God, the Lion of Judah steps up to the throne and opens the books of final judgment on the earth. These are the days that will answer the prayers of the saints down through all the ages of time and the Kingdom of God will come to fill the whole earth with the knowledge of the Lord. Jesus will reign visibly on the earth.
I thank God that He is the one who changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings Daniel 2:21. "For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand or say to Him, 'What have You done?'" Daniel 4:34b-35. Those who belong to the Lord have no fear for He holds the whole world all in His loving and most powerful hands.
The wind of God’s spirit is blowing in the very same way in the church of Jesus Christ. Changes are happening in the lives of believers today, among many families, individuals, jobs, locations, and destinies. The breath of God is blowing to uproot all that is not firmly planted in the Kingdom of God, yet with great mercy He gently brings freshness, rebirth and resurrection into what has died. It is blowing gently to redirect many lives into God given destinies. It is blowing with a great velocity against the presence of demonic strategies that hinder many from fulfilling their life calling.
We must be alert and awake to the days that are before us. We must watch and pray. Watch meaning you are always looking at more than the temporal busyness of this life. You are looking for the Lord. You are always seeking to be where the Lord is for you. You are looking at ways to increase the fruit your love to glorify the only one who deserves your worship. Only the Lord Jesus Christ has died for the sins of the whole world; for every person on the face of the earth He has taken the penalty of sin and exchanged it for peace with God. He alone deserves our whole heart and life.
I sense Holy Spirit is strongly encouraging us all to keep the focus on the eternal values of this life and the eternal perspectives that are shown through the natural things. We must alert our ears to hear the voice of God all around in the external events happening in this world today. We cannot afford to bury our heads in the sand and ignore the change that is happening. If we choose to do that we could be caught unaware and swept away in the very subtle deception of this day. We could be blinded to our own conditions and become hard of heart, growing deaf to the still small voice of our inner man that warns us of the storm clouds appearing on the horizon.
We have nothing to fear but "ourselves" The "God of Self" is ruling the world and dominating the church. But God is present in a mighty way in our world. He is in control. He is changing His people. He wants our whole life so He can save it in the days ahead wholly and forever. It is really quite simple. He first love you 100% with His whole life so you could love Him back with 100%, all your heart, all your mind, all your soul, and all your strength and your neighbor as yourself.
Click here to read “The Wind is Blowing Part 2.”
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