HEED MY VOICE, MY PEOPLE
Stop, take heed for I need to get your attention,
So many of you are in the small hours are awakening,
This is not only by an odd chance,
Nor is it because of some circumstance.
Can you hear my voice crying out to you?
Come hither my child I am beckoning to you,
Its time to come up higher, time for acceleration,
I need you to make your stand for me in this generation.
Your days of paying me lip service are behind you,
Draw close to me and I will make myself know to you,
Let me draw you near, so much closer to me,
Let me reveal to you so many of the things you have longed to see.
Its only here in my presence this revelation can be found,
Listen my child, can you hear my voice resound?
So when you awaken in the middle of the night,
Draw close to me for I want to reveal more to you tonight.
Irene McGough 2009
THE BODY OF CHRIST
We the redeemed are the body of Christ,
A people who should certainly put Jesus first,
Yet so often we are struggling in a place of defeat,
He will build his church and the gates of hell wont prevail against it.
For a body to function its members need to work together,
Yet in the church body we are often competing with one another,
And we give the enemy a place that is not rightfully his,
So the body of Christ become so weak and powerless.
Our eyes cannot hear, our ears cannot see,
The hand cannot tell the foot how to function,
Yet if all those members work together in unity,
We like a human body can learn to function.
We have yet to learn to function like the Lord intended,
Its time for us to realize that we should his kingdom extend,
He gave us a commission to go out into the world and reach out,
Our arms arent reaching properly for we have forgotten what its about.
For many of us want to be glued to our pews and there stay,
But he asks us to go beyond the walls to take the gospel to the nations,
So will we respond to his call and start reaching out today?
Will we finally take heed and obey the great commission?
People are going to a lost eternity because we have stayed quiet,
No-one has told them that God loves them and wants to save them,
Many have the wrong idea of God and who can blame them?
For they have looked at us his body who have not shown his light.
So we need to learn to function as his body and further his kingdom,
And let the world out there know what it is to have freedom,
For Christ died to set us free yet we behave like those in captivity,
Jesus sets captives free its true, he saves, heals restores and sets at liberty.
We are free to walk the walk of liberty and freedom,
Free to fulfil our purposes in his glorious kingdom,
Proclaiming the full gospel message to hungry people out there,
They need our Saviour and its time for us to show that we care.
Gods Word says we will lay hands on the sick and see them healed,
The Holy Spirit came at Pentecost to baptize us and empower us,
To do what we the body have been commissioned to do by the Lord Jesus,
So its our time to start functioning as a body and see many saved.
If we will listen to his voice and heed his message,
We will see many people reached for Jesus in this day and age,
The eyes will see, the deaf will hear, our arms will reach out,
Our feet will step out, the body in unity, living by faith and not doubts.
And we will be ignited by the fire of the Holy Spirit,
As we take our eyes of off self and focus upon Christ,
For our function as his body is to live for him alone,
And to reach out so that Jesus by others might be known.
Irene McGough 2009.
REACH UP
Jud 1:20 But you, beloved, build yourselves up [founded] on your most holy faith [ make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher], praying in the Holy Spirit;
Come up higher in your prayer life, come closer to Jesus. Our rightful place is seated in the heavenlies with Christ.
Col 3:2 And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth
Our minds should be set on higher things, we should live for Jesus 24/7
REACH OUT
Mat 28:18 Jesus approached and, breaking the silence, said to them, All authority (all power of rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
Mat 28:19 Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mat 28:20 Teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days perpetually, uniformly, and on every occasion), to the [very] close and consummation of the age. Amen (so let it be).
We have to reach out to the people out there with the gospel of Jesus Christ. All of us whether our mission field is at work, in our neighbourhood or whatever have been given this commission.
Joh 15:12 This is My commandment: that you love one another [just] as I have loved you.
Joh 15:13 No one has greater love [no one has shown stronger affection] than to lay down (give up) his own life for his friends.
Joh 15:14 You are My friends if you keep on doing the things which I command you to do.
Joh 15:15 I do not call you servants (slaves) any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing (working out). But I have called you My friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from My Father. [I have revealed to you everything that I have learned from Him.]
Joh 15:16 You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you [I have planted you], that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit may be lasting [that it may remain, abide], so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], He may give it to you.
Joh 15:17 This is what I command you: that you love one another.
We have been given a charge to love one another as He has loved us, and no greater love has any man ever had than demonstrated in the love of Christ Jesus for us.He wants us to love one another like He loves.
REACH DOWN
Mat 5:3 Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous--with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the poor in spirit (the humble, who rate themselves insignificant), for theirs is the kingdom of heaven!
We ought to humble ourselves, count ourselves insignificant is what Jesus said.
1Pe 5:6 Therefore humble yourselves [demote, lower yourselves in your own estimation] under the mighty hand of God, that in due time He may exalt you,
If we humble ourselves, lower ourselves in our own estimation God will in due time exalt us.
So may we reach up, reach out and reach down this year 2009.
( All scriptures from AMPLIFIED)