Csawyer's Weblog

hello

csawyer — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:48:38 +0000

how do we become a community that reaches the end of the earth. I don’t know and it is hard to see far enough ahead of me to understand anything thats in front of me.

entering in

csawyer — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:27:09 +0000

I have been really bothered lately about the idea of reaching lost people but not knowing exactly how to do it. Today I was listening to a podcast from Movements That Change The World, which I highly recommend. The speaker was talking about multiplying disciples and how he got them started. It was really cool, basically he went on prayer walks and then met people. He would ask them if God could do a miracle in your life today what would it be? Then prayed for the person. Of course God answered prayer and would give anything from a stove to groceries to deliverance from drug addiction. Their next step was to see if they could do a bible study in their home. Some said no but others said yes.

This just burned in me. I realized that if we want to see others come to the lord we must figure out the gifts we have that can get us into their house. Lets face it 90% of unchurched people will not go to some event put on by the church. They will however let you come in a teach the in their home.

What gifts do you have that can be used. I automatically think about my carpenter skills, and for my wife he landscaping passion would really help her get in the door. Maybe you’re an awesome cook, or you know how to fix a computer. Any of these can be used to get in the door of an unsaved persons house. We need to focus on this. Lord help us !

letting jesus lead

csawyer — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:52:18 +0000

I have really be having fun with letting the lord grow people instead of trying to Stuart everything for them. What we try to do with new believers is get them totally submerged in the word of god. Then start them into accountability with you and others then pray for each other and others that you want to see come to salvation. The cool thing about this is that the Lord with convict of sin and change Peoples hearts so that they want to live differently.

The last thing I want to do is give someone the do’s and don’ts.. You know what that is like. Christians don’t drink, christians don’t lie, so on so forth. What is so much easier is get them into the word so that they can see what the word says then. When these things start to sit in their heart they will be convicted and want to change these things. There does come a place where something needs to be said. The word says if you see a brother in sin go to them. Now the important thing is that he first has to be you brother. If there is no relationship it makes it very hard to correct. When you are confessing sin and being held accountable to each other, confrontation gets so much easier. Then you can come and correct in love.

It is also so important to let the lord lead you through this process. You are always looking to stay humble and listen to the holy spirit to work through the issue. I encourage everyone that knows the lord to get with people you know regularly and confess your sins to each other. In all reality your salvation is born out of that relationship.

hmmm

csawyer — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:02:38 +0000

MAWL

Model

Assist

Watch

Leave

d teams

csawyer — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:49:22 +0000

Its pretty fun watching someone new discover the desire to see the lord change there heart. I have had the priveledge to do this with a friend of mine and all I can say is that it gives you alot of hope and faith. I can see jesus doing his work in his heart. I really want to see us move into an apostolic group of people. I find myself always pushing to see if they can start stepping out into evangelizing to there co-workers and unsaved friends. I think this is partly because that is part of who I am, but also because I really want to see the harvest. What would it look like if everything we did was geared toward the lost. The body of christ has so much time and resources spent on making believers grow. What would happen if we spent that same energy on bringing in the harvest. I really think that we can be really effective by taking the people without out alot of theology and just get them on fire with one message, the gospel. Then we can send them out to preach that message alone. Everything else the holy spirit can build within loveing relationship, confession of sin, and digesting major ammounts of the word. I really believe that paul did not spend alot of time getting new believers ready to preach the gospel. I believe the power of the holy spirit made their salvation so real that they were absolutely on fire to tell others about how jesus forgave them of there sins and saved them from hell..

i’m back

csawyer — Fri, 27 May 2011 03:19:32 +0000

Well its official I am back to blogging after a three-year vacation. This time I Will hopefully be a little more consistent. Well here we go. I was reading luke today and the two things that I noticed was that Jesus really, really does not like religious people. Which I think is funny because a lot of people call me and others I know as religious. Nothing like throwing everyone in the same barrel. Now he had no problem asking them a question about religious law and then break it right in front of their face. I guess he was trying to make a point.. Also I really noticed how many parables were about him giving people something just to see what they would do with the responsibility they were given. It really made me realize that He does want to do his work through believers. So I guess whatever God Has given you to steward and take care of, better be top priority in your life.

crazy dream

csawyer — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:25:51 +0000

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

csawyer — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:40:01 +0000

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

csawyer — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:37:07 +0000

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

csawyer — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:02:21 +0000

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!