Wake Up!
The last five to six months I have spent a lot of time before the Lord. By a lot of time, I mean day and night constantly
petitioning Him and reading/meditating on His word. Fasting for days at a time as an offering in hopes of receiving this
blessing……I
have been asking Him to show me His heart. What is it that is in His heart for
His people?
He has begun to reveal this to me little by little over time. First he had to prepare my heart to receive His. See, because of
various painful events I had built a wall over the years of my life time and had forgotten how to truly love or trust with my
whole heart. I had not cried in many many years. I couldn’t. No matter if my best friend just died, I simply didn’t have the
ability to cry. I always thought there was something wrong with me, or maybe it was just because I knew where they went
so
there was no need for tears. I thought I was strong.
Not being able to cry can actually cause you to become ill. God designed us to use tears as a form of release. A way to
grieve,
to express joy, to show how deeply touching something is.
This summer, my favorite dog in life, only two years old and truly my heart wrapped up in a fur ball, drowned in my pool
the day after I opened it. I can’t begin to explain the pain I felt when I found her laying there in the bottom of my pool. I
screamed, wailed and balled uncontrollably, inconsolably for over an hour while holding her lifeless body. I never slept for
one moment that night. I lay there in pain over this tragic happening that had just destroyed my life. For weeks I was walking
around
in a zombie like state. Walking about and doing my chores,
but not really alive.
I asked the Lord, why did you allow him to take her? (him being death, Satan.) Why now? Why when she was so young?
Why when He knew how much I loved her? He showed me that He allowed it because she was the one I loved the most.
(I praised Him it was not one of my children)
NOW I knew His heart. Now I could understand how He felt every single time one of His loved children turned their own
way and fell into death, hell. Forever removed from Him and His love for them. Never again would He be able to embrace
them
and take them home. He weeps, and His heart is torn from His chest.
He showed me, this is his heart for the lukewarm church as well. His heart is aching for the lukewarm who are content to
just do the bare minimum to get into heaven. The ones who don’t care about Him enough to have a personal one on one
relationship
with Him. Don’t they realize how He really feels about this? Rev. 3:15-22 I
know your deeds, that you
are neither cold
nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—
neither hot nor
cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say ‘I am rich; I have acquired
wealth and do not
need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind
and naked. I
counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich;
and white
clothes to wear, so
you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes so you
can see. Those
whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. Here I am! I
stand at
the door and
knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with
him,
and he with me.
To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just
as I
overcame and sat down
with my Father on his throne. He who has an ear, let
him hear what the Spirit
says to the
churches.”
He says, He loves us so deeply, He is the bride groom and wants to court His bride. When we are truly in love with
someone and plan to marry them, we can’t stand to spend even one moment of time away from them. We call them on
the phone and talk for hours, we go out to dinner together, movies, sit on the couch and talk the night away. Being apart
is
painful and causes us to feel sick and alone.
God wants that relationship with each and every believer. He wants to be the priority in our lives. He wants to be the first
one on your mind when you wake up, the one you talk to about your problems and your happy times. He wants to have
dinner
with you and to tuck you into your bed at night. To watch you
while you sleep and admire your beauty.
In order to overcome the lukewarm heart and become a heart that is hot for the Lord, we must have revival! We must be
revived in our spirit and set free from what binds. The way we are set free is through forgiveness, repentance and not judging
others.
Matt: 6:14-15 For
if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also
forgive
you. But if you
do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Cor.
Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Matt: 7:1-2 “Do not judge, or you too
will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will
be judged, and
with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Luke
sinner who repents.”
Acts
refreshing may come from
the Lord, and that he may send the Christ, who has been appointed for
you--- even
Jesus.
First, we must search ourselves. Our past all the way back to our birth and forgive EVERYONE who has ever hurt us in
anyway shape or form. Then forgive your ancestors to four generations back. For me, I forgave all the way back to Adam
and Eve. I asked the Lord to reveal in me any hidden hurts and then show me the line of sin that seemed “hereditary”
(seen in past generations) and asked for a release of those demons that caused discord and tempted me. Ask Him to bind
any demon that had any power over you and cast them away, then to surround you with his heavenly host for protection.
Ask Him to fill you with the
Holy Spirit to over flowing so that there is no room for darkness. We MUST
forgive everyone
or we will not be forgiven. I hope that really sinks in deep. We also must not judge lest we be judged and with the same
measure that we judge others….God will judge us!! This is life changing information He has given us. He wants us to have
such a
close relationship with Him that our hearts become one with His.
See, our hearts are like a garden. It will grow what is put into it. Weather it is put in there by you or by others. The seeds
that are planted will grow. We must consciously rid ourselves of the tares that have been planted in our hearts. Be it, anger,
hatred, jealousy, lust, covetousness, selfishness, pride, greed, unhealthy desires, past hurts, unforgivness, resentment and
the
list can go on and on.
Our hearts can become hardened over time. (like mine was before I lost my dog) when our heart garden has hard soil in it,
it can not accept the good seed and allow that seed to grow. The heart garden must be broken, the rocks must be removed
and the soil tilled, fertilized and watered so that it is soft and able to accept the seed and allow the roots to grow deep. The
old bad seeds that have already grown in the heart garden must be cut down, up rooted, not leaving any part of the tap root
to come back up again and smother the good seed and starve it of its light. The best way to rid ourselves of this bad seed it
through forgiveness, repentance and to stop judging others for their shortcomings. Loving them and knowing they too need
this forgiveness and told about Christ or if they already know of Him to learn how to really KNOW Him.
Once we fall in love with Christ and desire to know His heart….true healing will take place. Revival will come. He will do t
he work in you to chisel away the darkness and develop the facets of the gem that you will become so that His light may shine
forth through you to everyone you meet.
God Bless,
In sisterly love,
Lisa