GOD IS SPEAKING

My pastor's message on Sunday, was about God's position, God's power, God's perfection.

Revelation 4:2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.

4:5a.. And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices

4:8 here we are told that the 4 living creatures were continually saying 

"Holy, holy holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.

4:11 here we see the 24 elders fall down before Him casting their crowns before the throne and saying: You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.

To see His position is to see Him as a Sovereign God on His throne in His power and His glory. He is still in control, and His power is witnessed in His glory and power, to see God's perfection is to see His holiness, for He is Holy, in His holiness He will reveal our sinfulness through conviction of the Holy Spirit. When we take our focus off of Who God Is, then we have placed it in and on the wrong place.

Now tie that to Hebrews 12:25-29 God has said "I will once more shake the heavens and the earth". Everything that God shakes will be removed, those things are the kingdom of the world but we are not of that kingdom we are of the kingdom of God that cannot be shaken. Our God is a consuming fire."

Consuming Fire, God will consume within us what is not of Him and with that same fire He will purify all that is in us that is of Him. Remember the refiner's fire! We are living sacrifices acceptable before God, not by our works but by the death, burial and resurrection of His Son. In the old testament when God was pleased with the sacrificial offering of the animal upon the altar. Here is what would happen:

2 Chronicles 7:1 When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.

What pleases God today that He would send His fire down and His glory fill the house? God is not asking us to give up living on the contrary He has given us life, an abundant life, God desires for us to live a surrendered life, a life that has set Him before anything or anyone. He desires for us to seek Him, to spend time in His presence, to love as He loves, showing grace and mercy, yet not compromising our faith. We often find ourselves praying for the rain of God to fall on us, on our churches, on our family, our city, our nation and we should, we call it the latter day rain. For a farmer he must have a early rain once he has planted his crop to begin the growth, he tends his crop but without the latter rain that comes at harvest time, the farmers crop will not produce a good harvest. Yet, could it be, that what His body of believers really need right now is His consuming fire to burn up our self motivation, and purify us to Himself. Could it be while we are spending time in our homes that perhaps we need to say: " Here I am O Lord, I lay myself down that You would consume all that is in me that is not of You, and with Your fire purify all that is in me that is of You.", And then His rain of revival and salvation will pour from heaven's throne onto this earth. Thy kingdom come thy will be done, is that not our prayer.

God is awakening His church that we will see, that even those things that were pleasurable, and good, even ministries we were involved in, were perhaps distractions that took our thoughts and focus away from God and onto ourselves, our pleasures, our desires.

 But isn't being involved in ministries a good thing? Yes, unless we have become more like Martha and have placed all of our focus on serving that we have forgotten just to sit in His presence.

Luke 10:38-42, Now Jesus was invited to eat at Martha's house. It says that Martha was busy serving, yet her sister Mary was at His feet worshipping. Martha complained about Mary to Jesus, here is how He replied.

Verses 41:42 And Jesus answered and said to her "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary had chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.

A lot can be said about these verses, but basically Jesus is saying don't get so distracted by doing and serving, which is good, that the good work is taking your focus off of Me, the best of the two is worshipping our Savior.

Do you see, everything is shut down even ministries! Why, because God is calling His bride to sit at His feet and focus on Him. Only then will we understand what God has placed in each of us, to be.

We are all called to be ambassadors, to be soldiers, to be a people of prayer, to be witnesses of His goodness and faithfulness. To share the good news, we have hope, no matter what is happening in this world, Jesus Christ is our hope. Do you know Him?

God is shaken His church to wake up and place our focus back on Him. Not on people, places, pleasures, positions, or possessions.

Be safe, Wake up, Keep praying and Be blessed.