Onething is necessary

I have been home since Wednesday evening. It has been a very pleasant time with family and friends. The Lord has been doing so much and opening my eyes to so much.

I want to encourage everyone to check out this years Onething conference in Kansas City. It is going to be a very powerful time. Mike Bickle out in IHOP-KC said that this is a conference that you want to be a part of. He has never encouraged anyone to attend a conference and this year he is encouraging people to change their plans if they have to in order to be there.

Here is the promo video.

Mike Bickle is encouraging everyone to be there, he is going to be going through the book of Revelation verse by verse and proposes that this book is the end time churches prayer manual and the battle plans of Jesus! Powerful!

I will put more cohesive thoughts about this later. But check out the onething conference and change your plans to be there if you have to!

Forerunners!

Here is Corey Russell again. If you have some time it would be good for your Spirit to listen to this. It is powerful.

…to the secret place

The Lord is showing me more and more every day the great necessity for messengers of the gospel to be formed in the secret place. It will be from years of gazing upon the Lord that forerunners will be raised up and emerge into the reality of preparing the way for the second coming of the Lord.
Here in the West we have been plagued with a “Fast food Mentality.” And we want our Christianity to be the exact same way. We have separated the reality of ministry to the Lord, and adopted the primary focus of ministering to man. We believe that primarily, we are called to minister to man.

I am so aching to see the Bride come into her identity as a kingdom of priests. A kingdom of those that are giving themselves to ministering to the Lord through prayer and intercession. We have forgotten that we are “partakers of a heavenly calling.” (Heb.3:1). We have forgotten that the Lord has zeal in His heart to release His kingdom, and that it will only be in the context of human agreement that this happens. He is hungry for human agreement with the divine will and has bound Himself to this reality; He will not do anything in the earth without first releasing the knowledge of what He is doing to His servants the prophets (Amos 3:7)! We have forgotten that He has betrothed Himself to a Bride that will partner with the Holy Spirit at the end of the age in crying “Come! Come Lord Jesus! Come! (Rev. 22:17). He will split the sky and come! He is coming soon! He is raising up a generation of lovers of God! He is raising up a hungry people; a lovesick people!

Life is not right until you split the sky
the Spirit and the Bride say “Come”
We long for the day when You make all things new
We want to be with You
-Tim Reimherr

Corey Russell

This is the man we saw all weekend! What a powerful minister of the gospel!

Immersed Consecration

We are longing to partner with the Lord in raising up a generation of young people that will first and foremost give themselves in this age to being lovers of God. We believe that above all else the pleasure and fascination birthed in the heart of man by way of encounter with Jesus in this age will satisfy the heart of the youth in America and this famished generation of young people seeking to fill the void in their souls. There is nothing else worthy of pursuit, there is nothing else worthy of affection, there is nothing else worthy of our lives, and there is nothing else that will quench the thirst and ache of the inner man of this generation. We believe that by giving ourselves to prayer and fasting and lifestyles of consecration to the Lord that the Spirit will form in us reality and begin to draw us into a place of partnership with His heart in birthing His purposes in the earth by way of prayer and intercession. We believe that the Lord is raising up a nonstop night and day prayer and worship reality across the nations to usher in the second coming of Jesus and help make His Bride pure and spotless, without blemish or wrinkle, ready and prepared for the return of her Bridegroom to the planet. We believe that there is zeal in the heart of the living God to call young people out of apathy and complacency and concept Christianity and into lifestyles of radical abandonment, consecration unto the Lord, and deep intimacy with God. We believe the Lord is setting watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem that will not hold their peace day or night, unwilling to give Him rest until Israel is established, made a praise in the earth, and brought into salvation. We believe that the wisest thing to do in this hour is to give ourselves to knowing Jesus and drawing into our end of the age identity as a Bride. Come join us this January as we embark upon a journey into the heart of God. Are you ready to be Immersed?

If you know anyone looking for a time of consecration unto the Lord and a time to separate themselves from the things of this age tell them about our Immersed Consecration starting January 12 2009 at IHOP-AC.

I am desperate…

The Lord certainly has me in a peculiar place. I want to love Him with all that I am. I want to draw closer to Him and closer to His heart. I want my Christianity to be more than just cliche and conceptual. I want to tarry with Him truly in the garden. I don’t want to be offended at people, I don’t want to be hurt and affected by the way I am treated, I don’t want to desire to be pedestaled and esteemed, I don’t want to hunger for the affection of fallen people, I don’t want to be lead around by my soul.

I don’t want to feel worthless when the things I say don’t have the effect I want them to. I don’t want to feel alone. I don’t want to feel empty. I don’t want to feel like I am wasting my time in a prayer room. I don’t want to feel like I only have concepts and really have no depth or reality. I don’t want to feel like I have nothing to offer.

What I do want is to encounter the Lord, and He is so faithful to draw me into that place of encounter every day, whether it is gazing upon His impossible to hide attributes of glory, or exploring the depths of my own depravity and brokenness. He is pouring out grace to tarry with Him in the garden. He is helping me draw out of that place of being offended (it is such a long road) and into a place of confidence in my identity because confidence in my identity is really trust in His identity. He is taking me to a place where I will not be hurt and affected by how I am treated, or appear to be treated; not like I am now, where I feel crushed when I seem to be less esteemed than I desire. He is taking me to higher plains and higher mountains of encounter, and in order to follow Him, I have to leave behind so much, and shed so many of my layers, and lay down so much of the things I think I need, and just surrender to His leading. And as elevation increases, so does the depth of my inner communion with Jesus, and Oh the glory of tasting of His beauty in a truly secret place; heights that He alone can lead me to, secret corners of the spiritual realm that are only possible to explore as I abide in His love. He has promised to finish the work that He has started! ARE YOU NOT FAITHFUL OH GOD! TO FINISH THE WORK YOU’VE BEGUN!? ARE YOU NOT ZEALOUS TO PURIFY ME BY YOUR SPIRIT, AND TRULY DRAW ME INTO REALITY AND CONFIDENCE IN LOVE, INTIMACY WITHOUT SHAME! INTIMACY WITHOUT SHAME OH GOD! INTIMACY WITHOUT SHAME! IT IS MY CRY! I AM DESPERATE!

Lord let me not esteem the eyes of men, the reactions of men, the interaction with men, the words of men, the attitudes of men, the estimations of men, the ponderings of men, the thoughts of men, the logic of men, the reasoning of men, the reality of men, the theology of men, the suggestions of men, the influence of men, the sway of men, the pressure of men….

Lord let me not find identity in light of what the temporal realm labels me, and produces in me.
Lord let my identity be found in light of your identity ALONE!

Lord let me not lay my cross down! Let me not fly from suffering! TEACH ME OH GOD! TO FELLOWSHIP IN THIS PLACE OF DESPERATION! TEACH ME TO FELLOWSHIP IN THIS PLACE OF BROKENNESS AND PAIN! THE PLACE OF DEATH AND DISAPPOINTMENT! LET ME FIND COMFORT IN THE SHADOW OF YOUR WING! LET ME FIND REST IN THE LOVE OF MY FATHER! TEACH ME TO REST!

The Lord is humbling me, more and more. I am finding I don’t always have the right words. I am finding I am not always the most radical. I am finding I am not always the best person to be around. I am finding I don’t always know the right spiritual response, or solution. I am finding I can’t always laugh people into happiness. I am finding that I am not as sincere as I think I am. I am finding that I am not always the best person for the job. TEACH ME TO GLORY IN MY WEAKNESS OH LORD! TEACH ME THAT YOU ARE NOT DISAPPOINTED THAT I AM A MERE JAR OF CLAY! TEACH ME THAT IT IS OKAY TO BE BROKEN AND EMPTY! I AM SPIRITUALLY POOR! I NEED YOU MORE TODAY THAN I DID YESTERDAY…..HELP! I am desperate….

I will not rest until You come and rest in me

You’re coming like the rains, of intimacy

Immersed

The Lord has been doing so much since I have been here in Alamance County. It has truly been a blessing to be able to follow where the Lord is leading me and partner with Him to release change into the temporal realm by way of communing with Him in the spiritual. He is so humble, to allow my weak intercessions to actually shift things in the atmosphere and birth His heart. It really is the foolishness of man, and that gives me liberty to glory in it. Hallelujah! The God of humility has called my name!

I am becoming eternal. Think about that for a second. It hit me when I was in 2 Corinthians 4 this week. The last verse says that my outer nature is fading away while my inner nature is being renewed day by day. As each day passes I become less and less physical and temporal and more and more in tune with eternity and reality. As each day passes my body fades and my inner man becomes more glorious! As each day passes I become more and more swallowed by that which is uncreated! What a powerful reality! I am becoming eternal.

Next weekend the Lord has provided for me an opportunity to visit IHOP-Atlanta for Corey Russell’s course “The Eternal Glory of an Intercessor.” This man is a powerful minister of the Word of God, a messenger with God birthed authority on his message, and a man of fiery passion that sets many aflame for Jesus. I am looking forward to the wisdom and revelation that will inevitably released in his class. I am very excited. The Eternal Glory of an Intercessor. I have no grid for what this class will really go into, but I am approaching it as a lover of Truth. I just want to say this quick, there is a problem in western Christianity, and even in my own heart. And it is a huge problem because of the caution encouraged in 2 Thessalonians 2. It is talking about the man of lawlessness being raised up (the Antichrist) at the end of the age. And it says that GOD will give many over to a spirit of delusion because they refused to be lovers of Truth! We have got to be a people that will embrace what is Truth and neglect what is not. However, the problem with many is that they believe they know the Truth, and have some corner of revelation on everything that no one else does, and therefore have they “say-so” in what is of the Lord and what is not. It is dangerous for us to be in such a place of arrogance not to weigh out anything claiming to be Truth before the Lord. We need to be spiritual poor and in recognition of our great neediness for the Spirit of Truth to reveal to us Truth, and not in a state of self righteous haughtiness, lacking all humility to really explore this thing out with spiritual discernment and not logical reasoning. The fact is, the Lord’s ways are not our ways. So if you find yourself in a place, or at a church, or in a service, and you are discerning that something that was just said is not of the Lord, then just let it go. Take what is good out of the message and let what was not of the Lord fall. We don’t need to be people that will discount the entire ministry because of something we disagree with. I have been convicted, that anything giving itself the lofty title of “Truth” is worth me weighing out before the Lord through prayer and fasting to see if that thing really is. Let’s be lovers of truth, fully hungering to know God, and to exalt God. He is worthy of our exploration. We’re all human, and we all embrace ignorances of God that we believe to be true. He is so humble to allow that.

Anyways, sorry for the rabbit trail, we need to hear these things sometimes.

Amanda and I will be leading the internship at IHOP-AC in January. We are praying that the Lord will send many to us to be taught about the prayer movement and certain biblical foundations for the hour in which we live and the attributes of God, not to mention the lifestyle of prayer and fasting. It is going to be wonderful. We are in the midst of right now preparing the material and really getting some teachings ready. It is going to be a grueling 4 months of pressing in to reckon truth in the hearts of the interns. Pray that the Lord would have His way. We are calling the internship, “Immersed Internship.” It should be awesome!

Bless you all, thanks for staying in touch with me. I am so blessed to have all of you behind me with your prayers and finances.

Grace is awaiting you

I feel reality being formed in my Spirit in deeper measures concerning some things. I feel the necessity to take captive all of my thoughts and to force them into obedience and alignment with the Truth of the Word of God. Patience is critical. I feel the grace for it being given. I am understanding that my militant approach to my killing my flesh and condemning intolerance of it’s fruit is me operating in human zeal to see these things dead. I can only operate in love. “Abide in my love,” He says. “Walk in genuine love,” He exhorts. So my maturity in dying to self is accessible in my submission to His perfect timing and outpour of grace. The grace comes as I fall in love with Jesus. I cannot die to self and then believe it will draw me into love. I must encounter Love and death to self will be reactionary, an effect, or a result of that encounter with Love. For so long I have been operating in zeal crucifying my flesh and not operating in grace poured out at the encounter with Love. So the reality is this, as I encounter Him in the secret place and true love is shed abroad in my heart, I will be compelled to lay all other things down. I must keep my eyes on His face, and the arrow of my hunger aimed at His beauty-and the revelation of that beauty- and in the revelation poured out by way of encounter, I will be given grace to “count all as loss.” Instead of all this striving, I will die to self in grace because I am in love not because I want to be in love. It makes death to self a reactionary byproduct of love, instead of my pathway to love. The goal in this age is love unto death and not death unto love. Love is the pathway to death, death is not the pathway to love. Love is always previous.

So I must fall in love, and in the process of that, I can lay hold of the grace available to put to death the flesh.

Keith Green

This is an awesome brother! So blessed by his music recently! Listen to these and ask the Lord to pierce you with tenderness and hunger and an ache for that which Jesus aches for! Oh how good He is!