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By Cam
My sister called me from the States last night. She lives in Oregon and she is a Christian in a mainstream church. She asked me if I had been praying, reading my Bible and going to church.
There it was, those old familiar words, the formula of being a Christian. I told her that I hadn't prayed, nor read my Bible in over a year and can't sit in a church. She said "that's not good".
Well, I know where she is coming from, been there, done that. I love her and didn't challenge her, but here's the thing. You mention that all God wants us to do is fellowship. Well, fellowship is very important but there is yet a higher place than that. A place where fellowship is the product of, not the ultimate goal.
It is "union". It is the place Paul spoke of when he said "It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me" That is not a place of bible studies, churches, agendas, mindsets, programs or anything peripheral. It is a place that God draws us into himself by degrees, very painful degrees, until we are stripped down to nought, barely able to utter a word or even a prayer.
The highest grade of gold has been tested under so much heat that it becomes soft and malable. I am convinced that this is what God desires. Christ Himself has the heart of a Lamb and will sit with the heart of a Lamb.
This is why we must allow our sufferings, under the mighty hand of God to soften us so that we can live by His life alone.
THEN, our very lives become a prayer, as we walk, the scriptures witness aloud and resonate, and "church" is the very outcome of our existence; ie "fellowship".
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I can't count the number of Godly men God is driving to the forefront to speak out the things HE has taught them by his indwelling spirit..............while IN the wilderness.
Among them I count Cam as one of the most rare I have ever come across, and Jack our Lord's battering ram. Both perfectly prepared for what our Father has them doing.
I was sharing with Jack this morning and mentioned what I saw..........concerning this voice that is everywhere I turn on the Internet comprised of Men. Men singing out the new truth, in concert.............one of the biggest miracles I have witnessed in my lifetime.
As they take the lead women can be women and come along side free to do what we do best...........nurture, encourage and speak from our God given intuition.
May we each function in our place in a new found freedom............where we don't compete.........we just "BE" as HE makes the crooked way straight and the yoke becomes lite.
What a wondrous time we live in................
Joian |
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| November 04, 2007 |
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As I was reading a posting the other day I did find myself wishing my harvest table was full of this company of people and that I could be serving up some bounty as I listened in on the conversation...I could almost smell the smells, and hear the laughter.. |
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| November 04, 2007 |
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I wonder if you realize how much you are part of those seated at the table.........your Lord is calling on you in these days to be that part called a great company of women, and it smells like fresh rain on a dry and dusty desert.
Love your heart my sister |
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| November 04, 2007 |
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I feel the same way. I wouldn't even really care if I sat on the floor if they would give me a pillow. Part of me wishes I were not so outspoken, and part of me wishes I were more outspoken. I do think the Bible is important for what it teaches me and the structure that the Church gives me, but oh......... what I would give... to be privy to those at the table, or on the floor.
Some part of me, some inner part me has always wanted to protest against the wrong that is being done. Do you ever have this conviction that something must be done and talking about it is not the answer? |
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| November 04, 2007 |
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Whew and whew, what a weekend and I felt the fire blaze my face as his spirt reached and grabbed hard on my heart.......it was the wind bloweth where it will, kind of preaching, thank God for that.........you can preach here any time my precious friend........
Joey,
Do you ever have this conviction that something must be done and talking about it is not the answer?
You'll be blessed if you deny that voice that tries to prematurely drive you into a ministry of works...........
that which I experienced and particpated in for years and years...........We taught a nd followed, whatever you hand finds to do, do it with all your might..........unwilling to wait, on him we dashed out moved by need...........and 20 years later I can only say that which in all the hubbub was directed by him still stands all the rest was a lesson in it's better to wait and let him grow you up before you try to DO.
There are links on our SonShine blog that will do you well to investigate. Let him do the work in you and learn to hear his voice........and move to the need at his beckon........much more will be done that way and the fruit will remain......because it was him moving in you...........how important this time of peace is, take it and learn..........it is the better part..............there are many Martha's and not enough Mary's.......He is fully capable of feeding the multitudes with just a little boys lunch, when the time comes. He will use us to carry the food to the multitudes but only because we are his servants now.
Love you,
Joian |  |
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| November 05, 2007 |
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This is such a timely truth! Thank you for sharing this. Blessings, Florian |
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| November 05, 2007 |
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Hi Joian
I was so blessed by this and was led to post what had to be in my blog as it would be lost here
Manifestation of Sons?
New look at Isaiah 11 and the prophesy of the coming of Jesus and all the wild animals living together, typically portrayed as the millennium prophesy but the Lord just revealed a whole new layer to me. |
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| November 05, 2007 |
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I saw it early this morning and took a break so I could read it..........
Got about half way through and had to put it away....and get to work....The whole time I was reading it was as if light kept flashing....taking this to lunch........
God keep you my brother.............you have the most incredible insights.. and can just flat put it together.........you are another example of what God is doing.......I pray we are all dead men, Bernie..........God is giving so much..........and it is accelerating...........may it be only Christ seen in us........ only and always..........
Joian
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| November 07, 2007 |
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| Joian, thank you for your words. I don't take action... I don't have that knowledge. My gift is not that. Encouragment, prayer, and mercy - that is where I am. I would like to be a Martin Luther King yet I am not. I would like to change the world for God, but I cannot do that. I can love, and pray with all that I am, and be true to God. I can learn and study and know that in the end my home will be with God and I will be whole and able to sing and dance for Him. |
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