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I am suspecting the title might have pulled you in. Good. It did its job. Glad you could peek in. But I must warn you now, if you truly listen to what I am about to share, it will cause one of two reactions for most every reader.
One group will scoff and think me crazy at best, and at worst a false prophet, while the other will be intrigued by what is shared, an almost too-good-to-be-true but so wanting it to be scenario that I have seen is our future. Heck, some might even be excited by what is coming at us.
But know this. What is about to happen will.... WILL.... exceed the outpouring we see in the book of Acts. I am not sure what leaping like a hart will look like for a 70 year old man, lol, but when the "glorious liberty of the children of God" becomes more than just scripture on a page and instead swallows us up as we exchange "knowing about God" for knowing Him, you are about to find out.
But what has to happen before that? We have to get sick and tired of our religiousness. And our religious US.
Sick and tired of this world and its pull on us.
Sick and tired of one-sided prayer closets.
Sick and tired of endless Sundays hearing the preaching of the cross, but never the resurrection.
Sick and tired of sin tempting us, luring us, causing us to fall, leaving our faith to reside in its infantile stage.
Sick and tired of religious leaves, but no fruit.
Sick and tired of having a head knowledge of God and of His Word but with a heart still alive to self and dead to Him.
Whew! That, guys is a high bar. Not many fit that mold. Thank God for those who already do. But listen. Inside every true child of God...the sheep.... the wheat..... the true CHURCH.... an awakening is about to take place. His seed in you, long dormant, is about to sprout to new life and grow in you. You will develop a hunger for JESUS Himself, a union of Him in us and us in Him.... with 24 hour communion. Closer than a brother? Oh, yes! Impossible, you say? Oh, ye of little faith.
It does not take a theological degree to realize that church is not changing us into His likeness. All it it takes is a look in the mirror. Who do you see? Do you see the "old you", the one run by self, the one still liking the freedom to sin a bit, the one still bound by bad habits, because, after all, "No one is perfect and we don't want to get legalistic about it. We have grace!".
Or, I pray, do you see Christ in you, the resurrected you, the "being perfected" you, as you believe that the old you really is dead?
If not today, then soon we shall see that what we have hewn out, our Christian religion.... is not living water but 500+ religious cisterns that can hold no water, yet with each one convinced they possess the "real" truth. But there is a problem. The real truth does not possess them. Yet. We possess the skeleton of doctrinal truth that was new life in the book of Acts. But we are left trying to convince ourselves that this skeleton is the best life God could cook up for us.
Boy, are we about to be surprised.
More to come, but that our to get our blood pumping.
blessings,
Gideon
One group will scoff and think me crazy at best, and at worst a false prophet, while the other will be intrigued by what is shared, an almost too-good-to-be-true but so wanting it to be scenario that I have seen is our future. Heck, some might even be excited by what is coming at us.
But know this. What is about to happen will.... WILL.... exceed the outpouring we see in the book of Acts. I am not sure what leaping like a hart will look like for a 70 year old man, lol, but when the "glorious liberty of the children of God" becomes more than just scripture on a page and instead swallows us up as we exchange "knowing about God" for knowing Him, you are about to find out.
But what has to happen before that? We have to get sick and tired of our religiousness. And our religious US.
Sick and tired of this world and its pull on us.
Sick and tired of one-sided prayer closets.
Sick and tired of endless Sundays hearing the preaching of the cross, but never the resurrection.
Sick and tired of sin tempting us, luring us, causing us to fall, leaving our faith to reside in its infantile stage.
Sick and tired of religious leaves, but no fruit.
Sick and tired of having a head knowledge of God and of His Word but with a heart still alive to self and dead to Him.
Whew! That, guys is a high bar. Not many fit that mold. Thank God for those who already do. But listen. Inside every true child of God...the sheep.... the wheat..... the true CHURCH.... an awakening is about to take place. His seed in you, long dormant, is about to sprout to new life and grow in you. You will develop a hunger for JESUS Himself, a union of Him in us and us in Him.... with 24 hour communion. Closer than a brother? Oh, yes! Impossible, you say? Oh, ye of little faith.
It does not take a theological degree to realize that church is not changing us into His likeness. All it it takes is a look in the mirror. Who do you see? Do you see the "old you", the one run by self, the one still liking the freedom to sin a bit, the one still bound by bad habits, because, after all, "No one is perfect and we don't want to get legalistic about it. We have grace!".
Or, I pray, do you see Christ in you, the resurrected you, the "being perfected" you, as you believe that the old you really is dead?
If not today, then soon we shall see that what we have hewn out, our Christian religion.... is not living water but 500+ religious cisterns that can hold no water, yet with each one convinced they possess the "real" truth. But there is a problem. The real truth does not possess them. Yet. We possess the skeleton of doctrinal truth that was new life in the book of Acts. But we are left trying to convince ourselves that this skeleton is the best life God could cook up for us.
Boy, are we about to be surprised.
More to come, but that our to get our blood pumping.
blessings,
Gideon