crazy dream

I had one of the most intense dreams last night that i think i have ever had I just wanted to share a little bit of it. The Lord showed me this beautiful women. All I could see was her face and her ahir she had shoulder lenghth hair and it was covered in oil. Her face was back lite by this extremly pure light so i could not actually make out her face. The most intense part whenever a drop of oil fell off of her head it would make this clear tone that rang right through you.  The smallest drop would almost melt you with the love of God.  I have never heard a the love of God but in this dream it was clear as a bell.

a wave of crisis….resting in his love

Everyone knows that there has been alot of crazy stuff going on this last few years in this country.  Whether you support the war or not, whether you have seen massive flooding, wildfires, hurricanes, or the price of gas run through the roof.  I just want to to say that God is bigger than all of that and we do not need to worry.  I come to realize that the nation is headed for a crisis.  The economy, gas, foreign affairs, natural disasters, they are all coming at a faster rate and i truely believe that even the midwest will see one of the greatest earthquakes in the history of the country.  Jesus reminded us of these things and said these would be birthing pains.  This really is the generation and this is the hour that we live in.

I believe that we are headed to a time where so much is going on in this country that the goverment and all it’s little agencies cannot keep up with what they will need to help the nation get through.  I believe that alot of people will be very hostile and that everything that they think is keeping them safe and stable will no longer be there.  When we went through this flood of 2008.  I realized actually how close we are as a city to being back in the 19th century.  When 33ft. of water came running down river.  WE were swept away displaced and some with out power, the city was one pump away from haveing no water.  Now the lord showed us grace and did not let us get to that point but we were really within mouments of being totally knocked off of our sand foundation.

If you can discern this hour then you hear the lord calling to the church rest in me.  I am the only thing worthy of being built on.  You really have to let him love you first then you can love others.  I tell you this, while the rest of the nation is being shaken and everything that we as americans call home is literally falling down around us we have to come to a place where jesus is everything and all that we need.  My heart cries out for him to come and dwell in me more and more.   Isaiah 58 says we will be call restorers of broken dwellings  and later calls us oaks of righteousness.  He means that our hearts will be restored for him to dwell in us but also we will be restoring dwellings for others, in there hearts and in the natural.  When everything else is crashing around us the church will be going forth rooted in is love like a giant oak.  Just like a real oak we will provide shade and comfort to people when the heat of day is pressing on them.  We will be a place for children to climb on and feel free from the turmoil of there lives.  The body of Christ will become alive with the goodness of God.  We will be givers of all we have, we will be the rich young ruler,  who says yes and gives it all away just to see the face of Christ.  My heart is burning with passion for the bridegroom I must have more of him.  Break me Lord.  Teach me to be fully rested in you.  I want to live in a place of unbroken fellowship with the lord.  He will make our wastelands a garden and our deserts like eden, so i say come.  The spirit and the bride say come.  Come Lord have your way in us.

being broken in his mercy

I have really come to realization that being broken is exactly were God wants us to be.  We really can do nothing without jesus.  Praise him for sustaining us when we think we are doing really good ourselves.  Now you can be in a place of brokenness and live a life of self pity and condemnation.  I would rather throw all that out with the bath water and sit in the mercy of God.  Lord use me even if i am sinful and fleshy.  I throw my self into your mercy seat change the things in me you want to change and release me to do your will.  If you really think about it God has no real good reason to even keep us around we are disobedient children and deserve death.  But because of his unfailing love and mercy he choses to refine us and  lets us be a place of rest for his  son.  I am amazed at who he is and  what he has done in my own heart.  So I say lord break me even more so your son can be revealed through me..

fear of man…and the evangelist

SO I haven’t blogged in awhile but the Lord has begun a real work in me the past few weeks.  I want to talk about the fear of man and how the enemy moves against evangelist.  I have been given grace and realized what comes against me to shut down what i am called to be in the body of christ.  I release this to everyone so they can examine there own hearts and recieve the same grace I have recieved.  First I want to talk about the spirit of intimidation.  THe enemy will use everything he can to shut down the evangelist from opening his mouth to preach the gospel.  One way he does that is to intimidate you and back you into a corner.  Being in the real world daily working and such you will constantly come across broken people.  The brokenness that these people carry will seem to much for you to ever deal with, drug addictions, alcohol addictions, bitterness, pride, on the outside it seems that they are too messed up for you to ever bring to salvation.  This is a lie.  The spirit of intimidation is telling you this.  He will come very softly a tell you that you will never be able to set this one free.   Jesus came for the broken and oppressed so you must realize the more broken and oppressed the closer this person is to salvation.  When those lies come to your mind you must identify them and rebuke that thing.  Our god is not intimidated by our brokenness.  At one time we were all broken and hiding from the beauty of our creator.

Now after you are able to identify that spirit and press through it you can wait for the Lord to give you the opportunity to speak into there lives.  When you do, the next battle you may come across is an antagonizing spirit.  This spirit may lash out at you directly or even before you speak into that persons lives.  Example, yesterday one of the guys i worked with was talking and joking and started to course joke about being saved. Screaming “hallelujah  I am saved woo woo!!” and then being very coarse in joking about jesus himself.  what happened was in the spirit intimidation was not working on me I had already shut that down.  So the enemy lashed out in an antagonizing way, the thought that went through my head was ” man this guy already hates me and i will never get him saved”  once again a lie.

Now all these spirits work out of one thing th fear of man.  If the enemy can get you out of the spirit of god and into  a spirit of fear he has you right where he wants you.  Once you enter in it shuts down all the gifting of the spirit.  Now if you can rest in god and identify these spirit.  He will give you grace to press through then and bring the gospel to that person.  I challenge you to open up your discernment for these things. Ask the Lord for these discernments and stay in the resting place of God’s unfailing love. Then wait for God to open that door which he loves to open.  Be bold and know who you are in christ and you will start breaking thing open over you life…

Lord I pray for everyone that reads this that you would give them the gift of disernment of spirits and also you would give them you perfect love that casts out all fear.  Open the doors to peoples hearts and let us walk in with your beautiful salvation in Jesus’s name

AMEN

GO and Be Bold!

Equiping the body

Hello everyone,  I have a great story for you all.  Tonight me and the family went to EGS.  We brought Isabella with us which was her first time old enough to really interact with what’s going on.  Shortly after we sat down she started to wonder around and ran into this other little girl named shawna.  While Isabella was being a little distant from her Shawna wanted to do nothing but give her a huge hug and invite her to play.  At first she was a little hesitant but after about the seventh hug she gave her one back.  Then I watched as Shawna decided to give Isabella all kinds of things to worship with, flags, drums, ribbons, it was entertaining.  I was watching this whole thing play out and the lord spoke to my heart and said ” Then is how I want my saints to equipt the body”.  I want then to first come with a heart of love, for real we could all do with seven hugs.  Once we have recieved those hugs eventually we just except that we are loved from this person.  Then we are to give those people the tools that they will need.  Weather it be flags, ribbon, or a prophesy or inner healing.  Epeshians 4:11 says that we should build the body of christ until it come to one in faith and to the fullnes of knowledge in christ jesus.  If we can start with these too basic concepts, we will begin to see the lord heart unfold onto others in our lives.

So I woke up today not having to go to work.  The babysitter had surgery yesterday and i am watching Isabella.  I love having a few random days off during the year that way i can just hang out and do something with just me and her.  I guess our Abba Father is the same way.  He loves it when we just take days off here and there and spend them with him.  Sometimes I find it hard to do.  Let’s be real for a second, it’s not easy spending a whole day in prayer or a whole day in the word.  What I really long for is more times like back in the garden where we would walk together.  I know he loves my company and I want my heart to be soft enough to enjoy his at all times..

here we go!

so we will see how this goes.  I figure it’s a great way to share my heart and inspire others too.

chris