Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Is William Hurt in tha House?

The Don Potter conference was a breath of fresh air to put it in understandable cliche terms. I felt refreshed with the joy of the Spirit for the better part of the weekend. Not the rolling on the floor the whole time incapacitated kind but alive and enjoying laughing at my own jokes kind! He had a way of getting straight to the point without a whole lot of irrelevant information. I find that being deep and being real are completely different things sometimes. You can be deep without ever addressing heart issues but Don seemed to cut straight to the heart. He never left you feeling hurt or sorry that you went there but always wanting more. I think that is the way of the Spirit's true counsel. I shan't make him out to be a god or suggest that everything he said was valid Truth...however for the most part I felt the Lord speaking again and the confidence to trust that I am hearing Him. If we lack confidence then we will certainly never hear from Him. We might experience Him or see His miracles but we might miss the day to day impartation of His voice to us. Something I felt further confirmed was a word I had received several years ago at Morningstar. They said that I had the eyes of a seer...to see the church's foundation for what it ought to be and how to get there and also that I would see into my peers' lives into the things that are hindering them. So oftentimes I feel these checks to put it in charasmatic terminology...like something just isn't right. Something that might seem like wisdom when in fact it is the wisdom of man and not the wisdom of God. The wisdom of God is foolishness to those who cannot discern spiritual matters...ie the cross. But the way of the Lord is through humility for He must receive all the glory and it is through the cross for nothing lives without first being subjected to His death and resurrection, and it is a holy way...must be set apart or else the tarnishment of this world will eventually snuff it out. The way of the Lord is love or else you are nothing but a clanging gong and the way of the Lord is through His Spirit for there is the strength and the peace to endure. So the other night I had a dream about jewels. Christine Potter mentioned a specific wisdom coming, a wisdom like jewels. And in my dream there was an ocean full of these jewels. Someone was standing at the edge of the sea looking out into the water. The sky was blood red and the jewels were on fire...submerged in the water. There is this part in Jason Upton's new song "The Way of the Lord" where he goes into the sort of exchange that Jesus gave us...gives us. He took our vain ambition and turned it into friendship. How many times did He turn the other cheek when He could have hit us with our own hate? To the world that is foolishness. And it's funny to say the "world" like we're never a part of it. We might be called to be holy but so often we still mingle in its mindsets. We might be called the sons and daughters of God but we still want sh*t from the pig trough if that means we don't have to really put the effort into a better way. We can have the title but not the character of what it means to be His child. And then we only reap judgment on ourselves because His house will be like a pure bride when He returns. It's not like well if ya feel like getting cleaned up. The Lord is coming with a sword in His mouth. Anyway...I'm going on ain't I? Time fa dinna.

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