When you get caught up chasing religion, philosophy, and relationships you will always end up empty, disappointed and angry. God hears the deepest cry of our heart and He desires to heal our past by offering us a future and a relationship with Him. When you come to the end of yourself , you will find the extended hands of Jesus offering you a new life.
When the Holy Spirit begins to reveal Jesus to us through the Word of God we will be set free. The Word of God breaks every bondage and stronghold. It is amazing when the Word of God and the Holy Spirit unite. It will create life in us and change us. We must be careful how we receive the Word when it is preached because the devil is right there to devour it. This message speaks about the parable of the sower and the Word and the different types of heart that receive it. When the truth of God's Word is fully embraced there is a mighty deliverance.
There is a great revelation of God coming to this generation. This revelation will not be given to the self indulgent and the self seeking. It will be given to the humble person who desires to live their life for the betterment of others. God will come in the midst of darkness and reveal Himself to the shepherds who are simply looking after their flock. Suddenly the heavens will be opened and by the grace of God we will begin to reach out to those who are hungry and hurting. Suddenly our ears will be opened to the worship of Heaven and we will sing a song of trust and confidence in God. A song that says, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and good will towards men." Our song is a living expression of trust in God.
This ministry will be a ministry delivered from the spirit of the age and the intoxication of this society. These are a people who are one with the purpose and ministry of Jesus Christ. It is a ministry that has a voice given to us by God to tell the lost there is an eternal kingdom and a sinless lamb who has power to take away the sin of the world. The purpose of the Elijah ministry is to lead the hearts of the father to the children and the hearts of the children to the father. A fire ignites in our heart to lead people back to the heart of God.
Success in ministry is a dangerous thing if you have an unsurrendered heart. When our sin nature is mixed with the revelation of Jesus Christ we will become "as God" to ourselves and others. When our will and affections are set upon our fallen nature we will become an offense to Christ and we will be tempted to pursue a coarse that will lead to ruin. To be a disciple of Jesus we must be totally abandoned to the Will and Purposes of God and follow the PATHWAY that He has chose for us. It is better to follow God and lose everything than to lose God and gain everything.
Believers need to realize it is not enough to say we will come to Christ. There has to be repentance and a divesting of self the outer garments of the world. We must deny self, turn loose from the world, pick up our cross and follow Jesus. We cannot live an immoral life. Jesus Christ has to become more important than fulfilling the desires of the flesh. When we are willing to go with Jesus all the way and put Him first! He will give us the power we need to walk in victory.
We are living in a time when men and women who say they know God are pushing themselves into places that God has not ordained for them. When human effort and human reasoning take us to the end of ourselves God will visit us by His Holy Spirit and the ordinary man will do extraordinary things. Uzziah had God's vision and could see what God saw and the Lord made him to prosper until he became wise in his own eyes and put himself in the place of God. Not soon after that he was moved out and became a leper.
Every true Christian desires the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but are we aware of where the baptism will lead us? When the Holy Spirit consumes our heart we will have a compassion that causes us to look away from self and look to the needs of others. When the Holy Spirit comes down a dedication comes to the House of God there is corporate worship and wholehearted fellowship with other believers. We will be totally abandoned to God and fellow man. Ask for the Holy Spirit to give you the testimony of Jesus Christ to be alive in your heart so Pentecost can move outside the church.
What happens when lust is not dealt with? Lust is something in our heart that is moving us towards something that God warns us will take away our spiritual life and light. There is lust for fame, lust for pleasure, lust for ease. If our heart is towards God, Satan may oppose us but he cannot stop God from speaking to us. If we play with sin there is a day when our sin will find us out. The devil will always go after the voice of God in our lives. The Bible says if you could hear His voice and harden not your heart. If you can hear His voice make the break TODAY. Now is the time to bend our knee to God and put to flight the harlot in your life!
Have you ever been in a situation that was so perplexing where you knew that God was able to deliver you but nothing happened? When we lose sight of the promises of God we can't see our way out of spiritual depression. There is a deep compassion that is worked in us when we experience the valley of the shadow of death. Until we suffer we can't hear the cry of the suffering. We need the old time compassion of Christ and the old time burden for the lost. If we begin to thank God in the midst of our struggle Jesus Christ will be glorified.