Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Listening Close
I hear you calling my name
I hear it being carried over the wind
I hear it above the noisome pestilence
That potentially plagues my life
In the form of murmuring and complaining
I hear you saying what needs to be said
You satisfy my ears as Encourager
You tickle my my hearing as my personal Prophet
You fancy my listening as Provider
You excite my eardrums when you call me by name
Because you know who I am
You've sat with me before world foundations were set
You conversed with me in heaven before the earth was set spinning
You send me spinning into destiny
Every time I hear the clarity of your word
Revelation floods me when I hear you speak clearly
Your words destroy damned up potential in my heart
Where fear, doubt, and unbelief once cemented failure
The life you speak to me unlocks the harvest of my potential
I proudly place myself in a position of hearing
I want to hear what you have to say about me
Because nothing else matters
Than hearing the commanding presence in your voice
I move to your voice
I am but your servant ready to listen
Command my life so that it aligns with your will for me
No question
No hesitation
No second guessing
I am a servant of you
I will wast my life just to listen
I command silence
Because I know that you are speaking
Be More. Hear More. See More. Do More.
You can do anything [through Christ]
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Son of David, Don't Pass Me By!
Our day to day life is governed by opportunities. The opportunities for each day are endless! We can do as much or as little as we put our minds to or allow. The fact of the matter is there are plenty of things that we already discredit or cancel out before we even get out of the bed. One opportunity though that we should never pass up, but always go after, is the one to encounter Jesus. I know it sounds cliche but there is always an opportunity for us to encounter God. He simply is wherever we are. He is constantly walking by in our lives so that we might reach out, cry out, and encounter Him.
Take for instance the blind man in Luke 18:35-39:
"And it came to pass, that as he [Jesus] was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging: And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passed by. And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me."
This guy was blind, on the side of the road begging, and discerned something different about his surrounding. He heard a commotion that was not familiar. Who knows how often he heard multitudes coming down his familiar road, but he knew there was something that was not the same. When the people, who could see, told him it was Jesus of Nazareth something went off on the inside of him. Jesus' name had preceded Him so this blind man knew who He was. He may have even entertained the thought that if one day he met this Jesus that he would believe to receive his sight. He was in a position where his encounter with Jesus was passing him by and he cried, "Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me!" He literally said, "Don't pass me by!" He was at a point where he didn't want to continue the way he was. He knew that one encounter with Jesus would change his life.
So at the point of interception the blind man was ready. He had probably been meditating on this day since he first heard of a guy from Nazareth healing the sick and giving sight to the blind. He had been anticipating his encounter. Are we anticipating ours? When we have the opportunity to intercept Jesus are we ready to say, "Don't pass me by!" The blind man knew that he couldn't miss this opportunity because he didn't know when the next time, if ever, he would encounter one like Jesus again. He knew that the change he experiences this time may not be the same as the next time. He was so moved to inquire of Jesus that he didn't care who was around him. Those beggars close to him, with sight, were discouraging him from bothering Jesus, but they already had their sight. He wanted something miraculous.
So as the blind man cried louder, "Thou Son of David, have mercy on me," Jesus then told the people with Him to bring him closer. He asked him, "What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?" and the blind man answered, "Lord, that I may receive my sight." The blind man already had an expectation in the nature of the encounter he wanted and just told the Lord that he wanted to see. What Jesus said next was the breakthrough for the man's miracle. Jesus then said, "Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee." The man immediately "received his sight, and followed him." (Luke 18:39-43)
This is the thing, Jesus told him that "his faith hath saved" him or made him whole. It was his anticipation of the encounter that caused the change in his life. Are you anticipating an encounter or will you let Jesus pass you by? Is your need to intercept Jesus so great that you will cry out today, "Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me?" After the man received his sight he continued his encounter with God because he "followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God." (Luke 18:43) So not only did he have one encounter but he made it his priority to have continuous encounters with Jesus after he had his initial encounter that made him whole. He went out and affected so many because people knew who he was and they saw who he had became; all to the glory of God.
So today are we ready to cry out for our encounter? Wherever we may be in our lives we are never above the endeavor to encounter. We always need more of Him so why not let today be the day that you meet him in your bedroom, at your job, on the beltway, in the elevator, or even at the grocery store. I know that I want everything I need from Jesus on the occasions that I have the opportunity for an encounter. I don't want to stifle the next time or miss out on anything this time. I want the one encounter to help facilitate multiple, continuous encounters with His presence. Son of David, don't pass me by!
Be More. Hear More. See More. Do More.
You can do anything [through Christ]
Take for instance the blind man in Luke 18:35-39:
"And it came to pass, that as he [Jesus] was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging: And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passed by. And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me."
This guy was blind, on the side of the road begging, and discerned something different about his surrounding. He heard a commotion that was not familiar. Who knows how often he heard multitudes coming down his familiar road, but he knew there was something that was not the same. When the people, who could see, told him it was Jesus of Nazareth something went off on the inside of him. Jesus' name had preceded Him so this blind man knew who He was. He may have even entertained the thought that if one day he met this Jesus that he would believe to receive his sight. He was in a position where his encounter with Jesus was passing him by and he cried, "Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me!" He literally said, "Don't pass me by!" He was at a point where he didn't want to continue the way he was. He knew that one encounter with Jesus would change his life.
So at the point of interception the blind man was ready. He had probably been meditating on this day since he first heard of a guy from Nazareth healing the sick and giving sight to the blind. He had been anticipating his encounter. Are we anticipating ours? When we have the opportunity to intercept Jesus are we ready to say, "Don't pass me by!" The blind man knew that he couldn't miss this opportunity because he didn't know when the next time, if ever, he would encounter one like Jesus again. He knew that the change he experiences this time may not be the same as the next time. He was so moved to inquire of Jesus that he didn't care who was around him. Those beggars close to him, with sight, were discouraging him from bothering Jesus, but they already had their sight. He wanted something miraculous.
So as the blind man cried louder, "Thou Son of David, have mercy on me," Jesus then told the people with Him to bring him closer. He asked him, "What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?" and the blind man answered, "Lord, that I may receive my sight." The blind man already had an expectation in the nature of the encounter he wanted and just told the Lord that he wanted to see. What Jesus said next was the breakthrough for the man's miracle. Jesus then said, "Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee." The man immediately "received his sight, and followed him." (Luke 18:39-43)
This is the thing, Jesus told him that "his faith hath saved" him or made him whole. It was his anticipation of the encounter that caused the change in his life. Are you anticipating an encounter or will you let Jesus pass you by? Is your need to intercept Jesus so great that you will cry out today, "Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me?" After the man received his sight he continued his encounter with God because he "followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God." (Luke 18:43) So not only did he have one encounter but he made it his priority to have continuous encounters with Jesus after he had his initial encounter that made him whole. He went out and affected so many because people knew who he was and they saw who he had became; all to the glory of God.
So today are we ready to cry out for our encounter? Wherever we may be in our lives we are never above the endeavor to encounter. We always need more of Him so why not let today be the day that you meet him in your bedroom, at your job, on the beltway, in the elevator, or even at the grocery store. I know that I want everything I need from Jesus on the occasions that I have the opportunity for an encounter. I don't want to stifle the next time or miss out on anything this time. I want the one encounter to help facilitate multiple, continuous encounters with His presence. Son of David, don't pass me by!
Be More. Hear More. See More. Do More.
You can do anything [through Christ]
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Consider it Not
God created us to manifest His kingdom on the earth. When we became born-again we were endued with power from on high by Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross. With all of this power why is it that manifestation seems inconsistent? What is the missing link between God speaking and me obtaining? If God has called me to great things why can't I see beyond the end of my natural eyesight? I believe we put too much confidence in our flesh and not enough in God's ability to do. It is time out for us to be assured with what our flesh can do but with what God can do.
Because we exist in the natural it is normally our first instinct to react to what we see there. But being spiritual we have to reprogram our thinking to only receive and react to the things that are going on spiritually. If we constantly look at what we can do naturally then we will never be able to fully understand and what into what we can or are supposed to do spiritually. Take Abraham for instance. In Romans 4:17-21 it says:
"(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed even God who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able also to perform."
God called Abraham the father of many nations. Abraham didn't make it up or assume that it would be a good idea to father nations of people. God engrafted it with his name (Abraham=father of many nations) and he believed. There are many things that God tells us that we are; healed, prosperous, whole, set free, delivered and etc. A lot of times though our natural thinking takes over. Abraham had every opportunity to argue with the word of God for him to manifest a son. He was an hundred years old, his wife's womb was barren, and him having regular relations with his wife was something of a forgotten memory. He had tried to do something upon his own ability before and it resulted in Ishamael. Not what God wanted but what Abraham could do. But he finally did something courageous. "He considered not his own body now dead," "neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb," to be a determining factor in what he was able to receive. Abraham managed to discredit his ability or inability to do something in God's plan to manifest destiny.
How many times have we considered what we can or cannot do in order to qualify what God said? What can I contribute? What can't I contribute? In this mode of thinking we will miss every time. The only thing that we can offer is our obedience. Abraham was "fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able to perform." Not what Abraham could do or not do. Not what Abraham thought or didn't think but it was all determined by what God had said. It was in the word of God that Abraham saw the power for Him to manifest. He was reminded daily what he couldn't do and he didn't let it stop him from believing God. He had an encounter with God that called him out of the Ur of the Chaldees into his destiny. God wanted to do "exceeding abundantly above all that [he] could ask or think, according to the power that [worked] in [him]" (Ephesians 3:20). God put the power and ability there before the foundations of the world to work in our lives. He was calling out of Abraham what He had already put there. When Abraham moved himself out of the equation he allowed God to access what He had placed in him.
Today let us qualify the word that God has spoken simply because He said it. Let us move into a place of being "fully persuaded" and position ourselves to truly hear from God. When Abraham set aside what he thought he was able to truly receive the promise of God. When Abraham refused to look at himself, his situation, what he could or could not do, and eve his own body he allowed God to be God. Let us not get caught up in creating Ishmael's based on what we can do, but manifest the Isaac's that only God can do.
Be More. Hear More. See More. Do More.
You can do anything [through Christ]
Because we exist in the natural it is normally our first instinct to react to what we see there. But being spiritual we have to reprogram our thinking to only receive and react to the things that are going on spiritually. If we constantly look at what we can do naturally then we will never be able to fully understand and what into what we can or are supposed to do spiritually. Take Abraham for instance. In Romans 4:17-21 it says:
"(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed even God who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able also to perform."
God called Abraham the father of many nations. Abraham didn't make it up or assume that it would be a good idea to father nations of people. God engrafted it with his name (Abraham=father of many nations) and he believed. There are many things that God tells us that we are; healed, prosperous, whole, set free, delivered and etc. A lot of times though our natural thinking takes over. Abraham had every opportunity to argue with the word of God for him to manifest a son. He was an hundred years old, his wife's womb was barren, and him having regular relations with his wife was something of a forgotten memory. He had tried to do something upon his own ability before and it resulted in Ishamael. Not what God wanted but what Abraham could do. But he finally did something courageous. "He considered not his own body now dead," "neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb," to be a determining factor in what he was able to receive. Abraham managed to discredit his ability or inability to do something in God's plan to manifest destiny.
How many times have we considered what we can or cannot do in order to qualify what God said? What can I contribute? What can't I contribute? In this mode of thinking we will miss every time. The only thing that we can offer is our obedience. Abraham was "fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able to perform." Not what Abraham could do or not do. Not what Abraham thought or didn't think but it was all determined by what God had said. It was in the word of God that Abraham saw the power for Him to manifest. He was reminded daily what he couldn't do and he didn't let it stop him from believing God. He had an encounter with God that called him out of the Ur of the Chaldees into his destiny. God wanted to do "exceeding abundantly above all that [he] could ask or think, according to the power that [worked] in [him]" (Ephesians 3:20). God put the power and ability there before the foundations of the world to work in our lives. He was calling out of Abraham what He had already put there. When Abraham moved himself out of the equation he allowed God to access what He had placed in him.
Today let us qualify the word that God has spoken simply because He said it. Let us move into a place of being "fully persuaded" and position ourselves to truly hear from God. When Abraham set aside what he thought he was able to truly receive the promise of God. When Abraham refused to look at himself, his situation, what he could or could not do, and eve his own body he allowed God to be God. Let us not get caught up in creating Ishmael's based on what we can do, but manifest the Isaac's that only God can do.
Be More. Hear More. See More. Do More.
You can do anything [through Christ]
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